skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would certainly help though. The statistics I've seen suggest that Apple has been pretty successful at getting users to upgrade and that's with a relatively manual upgrade process too:

http://blog.jcmultimedia.com.au/2011/03/is-it-worth-supporti...
The WSJ's article is like all "I have a friend who thinks she might be a teensey weeensey little bit pregnant...".

Tomorrow, the markets make an example out of Greece in order to send a message to the US. But they'd better watch out, it could backfire. Congress now has a taste of the thrill of writing a (raise pinky) one trillion dollar check. If another AIG starts to look shaky...
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I'd be happy if they returned the money they patent-extorted Tom Tom, Samsung and HTC ;-)
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Nobody running Linux would be able to see it.
I just want to give a plug here for a very underrated & unknown newspaper; the Saint Petersburg Times. They did tests like this about 5 years ago with similar results, and I believe they were the first investigative reporters who looked into this issue.
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Nintendo "Wario mainland" series new work of family version will adopt similar game style with the GB and GBA version. The game will use the Wii Remote controller and motion-sensing capabilities, players have to keep shaking the handle to attack the enemy, get special props or complete certain actions. Game developer is a little-known small company named Good-feel, while the animation part of the story is by the famous Production IG produced.
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This was badly written. But I hope I incepted the idea into your head that when you were a kid you tinkered and that was fun, fun means feeling alive. Don't train yourself out of having fun.
I think there are two main reasons.

The first is that Goldman has two types of clients: banking and trading. Banking clients are generally unaffected by Goldman's trading misdeeds. These are very different businesses. Investment banking does not happen on a trading floor, very different services, very different people etc. Everything is different.

The second is that professional trading clients understand that Goldman is not there to look out for them in deals. Goldman acts as a counterparty, not as a fiduciary advisor who is obligated to fight for the clients' best interest.

I think there is a common misconception that Goldman acts sort of like a manufacturer of widgets, that these widgets turned out to be broken, and that Goldman should now be held responsible sort of like a Chinese manufacturer of poison-laced toys. The Goldman-counterparty relationship is very different.
As far as I can see in other reporting, it's something of the order of a 20% write down (at least for the German Banks) with the EU buying up some of the bonds and the terms being extended to 15 and 30 years. In other words, it is not clear that how this is a default. In fact The Guardian says:

German government sources said they had received assurances from the international ratings agencies that they would not rush to judgment in declaring a Greek default but would take their time in studying the deal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/22/bailed-out-eu...

Which implies to me that "default" is in the eye of the beholder.

Finance is not my kink, but my understanding is the nature of the "write down" is generally that as a bank you cannot borrow against the money that is owed to you, rather than actually giving up on collecting it entirely.

In other words, the OP headline sees a bit dramatic.
True. Thanks for the correction.
With small mirrorless cameras with APS-C sized sensors on the market now, I really don't see this breaking through very well. The compact market is addicted to pixel count anyway...

Having said that, the real driver could be quality optics at a reasonable price. Right now the interchangeable lenses for smaller sensors is filled with a lot of so-so optics. This, not the sensor, is something Nikon could very well do better than most.

Caveat: I still happily use 120 roll film in my Mamiya when I want top quality results so I doubt my point of view really represents their possible market.
Not true. Technical people can do it too. Its a learned skill like everything else
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Nah, it's gentoo that sucks. I don't see anything like that happening in binary distributions, or assembling anything from ports in FreeBSD.

I've administered a few gentoo machines a few years ago and can attest that it's a major PIA. Or let me elaborate a bit, system failures that happened on gentoo didn't seem to happen on other systems, system failures that also happened on other system took significantly more time to resolve and required much deeper knowledge of system internals than debian, centos or whatnot.

When I finally moved everything to debian and my time spent on system administration tasks went down dramatically.
It hasn't been unproven either. At least the antisec keeps up posted with full transparency as they go.
OSS aims for pragmatism

Science aims for truth

While there's a lot of overlap, there's a fundamental difference between the two, and methods to pursue pragmatism are not necessarily the right methods to pursue truth
Exactly. One problem that they need to solve before leaving the gravity well again is creating sustainable biospheres - capable of recycling all CO2, waste and water, producing food and, most importantly, keeping the people inside happy, healthy and sane. To my knowledge this has never[1] been achieved, and we need to work out how to do it before setting up any kind of "off world colony".

1. Biosphere 2 was a high profile, but ultimately unsuccessful example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Even if it does get repaid over a longer period, this more or less means those bonds are shot as an investment. Moreover, this means that no one is going to lend the Greek gov't any more money. I didn't see any terms in the agreement where they said they'd be lending the Greeks more money. That means the government is going to stop working. Or Greece will exit the Eurozone. The Greek gov't could of course cut all the way back, but that means a depression, which also means the money won't be paid back.
I can certainly see why NYU wouldn't want to defend a professor who quoted a student's email without permission.
That doesn't answer the question, though. You have to explain why that means my right hand appears to be on my left side.
Thanks plasma, but I'm not really looking for a framework to build a plugin at the moment, just what browser I should target first (I'm hoping I can use HTML & Javascript to build it.)
It's sobering to think, nothing the entire private space industry put together has proposed comes close to what NASA was sitting on in the 1960's, with nuclear pulse propulsion. Now it's unthinkable. But with a slightly different historical path, we could today be launching thousands of tons at a time into orbit, on a trail of small atomic bombs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...
There is no such proposal to "practically indefinitely extend the terms". Do you actually know anything about this or are you making all this up?
More power to the guy for doing something interesting, but I can't help but think this would be weird, painful & impractical to use. Still, why not?
"Most of the debt is from war" is not true. This site has some good information:

http://usgovernmentspending.com/
How long did it take to get those 10 users?
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That remains to be seen; they aren't going to access the global credit market for at least few years anyway because they have too much debt to begin with.

But the existing bonds still have value and they'll still be held as investments. It's not like the whole country has collapsed and the value of its debt is worthless. A haircut is just that, a downward adjustment in the value of the debt.

It's inane to think that Greece will exit the Euro zone because of this. The Euro zone is the only thing keeping them going at this point.
It's completely supported by Linux, but you need appropriate font coverage.
Python (though not by any means a functional language), offers many functional programming constructs like map, filter, zip etc. If you want to transition slowly into "thinking" in a functional language, I suggest you can get started on that path with Python.

If you want to take the jump straightaway - I will suggest going for Erlang. Erlang has plenty of nice web libraries like mochiweb, nitrogen etc. using which you can actually write a web based product.
You know, that was exactly my answer as a teenager as well, and the answer I thought I knew when I clicked on this thread, but I don't think it's a sufficient explanation. Even if you assigned up and down as relative, no vertical flipping appears to take place.

I believe InclinedPlane's answer [1] is much better. We implicitly perceive the reflection as having rotated as a human would, by turning around on his or her feet.

However, if instead the reflection is perceived as having rotated vertically, with the human flipping over onto his or her head, the image is actually flipped vertically.

So the answer is actually that the image in the mirror is either flipped horizontally or vertically, depending on one's perception of how the mirror image got there in the first place.

While the local/global orientation explanation does show that there are no inconsistencies, and the lack of a relative orientation for 'up' clouds things a bit, it doesn't actually explain at all why we naturally look at the image and decide it's flipped horizontally.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790792
"At the very least, a flotilla of unmanned spacecraft could be headed Moonward within the next few years, with goals that range from lofty to goofy." Really the one sentence that stuck out for me, before what I thought were a disappointing list of overly optimistic ideas. While it's good to hear teams getting inspired by Google's challenge, there's plenty of money to be made by carrying payloads to orbit or further for various governments. Why do we need to dream up these grand entrepreneurial ideas before it's clear these companies can even make it into space?

Maybe I'm just disappointed after reading the title because companies I see as more invested and practical - SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, or Blue Origin, for example - weren't mentioned.
I guess I was railing more against "your failed business model", when both a) clearly it's working for them; and b) that slogan is the mantra of folks who want everything for free or peanuts.
"30 years, and accept a modest coupon of 4.5%", I rest my case. This is comical.
Well, sure. Greece is a third-world country. And when you owe more than you can pay you have to cough up some assets.
I am not arguing for a lynch mob but describing what a rational actor might do in a serious dispute with Cisco. In such a dispute there is no civil government to appeal to. Cisco has decided they wish to be treated as a sovereign power. So be it. That has great benefits, but also great risks: to paraphrase von Clausewitz, war is a mere continuation of litigation by other means.

And you would, validly, be deserving of the same retaliation by any children of the exec ...

And how would they do that, given that a rational actor would use difficult-to-trace asymmetrical warfare techniques?

... unconcerned with accuracy or the case of false positives ...

Collateral damage is one of the main considerations of the rational opponent theory. His rational counterparts in Cisco will understand that the corporate sovereign strategy has a ghastly risk of blowback and therefore act to stop it. Very few VPs are willing to be gunned down in front of their grandkids so that some dickhead in legal can get a bonus. Likewise for the neighbors, the company that supplies electricity to the corporate headquarters, the banks that settle their financial transactions, the garbage men, and so on. Nobody wants to be on the Death Star unless it is certified rebel proof.

... just as lame-brained as every single idiot that hit a car in the Vancouver riots.

Random violence is illegitimate, a synonym for saying it does not work. It has to be tit-for-tat. Talking about bombing some deli does not keep corporate states in line. What does work is talking about an exec's kids coming home from school to find daddy hanged from the ceiling by his own guts. And if talking does not do the trick, they will eventually victimize someone who strikes back.
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Comments from someone claiming to be Prof. Panos Ipeirotis and attempting to clarify some points.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nyu-professor-class-cheating-...
How do you handle file locks? If A locks main.c and B pushes seven commits from his local repo with the oldest modifying main.c what is the end result?
So my question is, what if TurnItIn quoted a student's paper instead of the teacher quoting an email?

I ask because these university's are effectively giving these student's papers to TurnItIn to use and make a profit on however they please. The students have no say in the matter, and that doesn't seem to be very protective of their privacy.
The title (here "It appears Google will amost certainly have to pay something to Oracle") is totally wrong.

This is about the parties disagreeing what damages might apply if Google is found guilty. That is by no means certain, and this article doesn't address that issue at all.

It would be extremely unusual if the amount to come out of this phase of the case was $0, but Google is using that to put an argument for a low figure.
From my point of view, that's a bizarre depiction of history.

Tux started the discord, by throwing a rock at Windows? What's that supposed to represent?

I understand about the Halloween memo, though it wasn't Linux that Microsoft was trying to frighten.

And what's with Tux jacking up a penguin to try to make it as tall as Bill? What's that supposed to represent?

Microsoft is always shown as the innocent bystander. Weird.
My impression is that the judge is determining the hypothetical damages if Android is found to infringe on Oracle's patents. Of course Google will say that's zero and Oracle will say it's eleventy billion.
You can bet there are a lot of people making phone calls right now trying to figure this out. My guess is that nobody knows at this point.

If this so-called "selective default" does end up being "structured" such that markets are surprised when CDSs cannot actually be invoked, then that erosion of confidence in the system itself might end up fueling a cascade failure even worse than simple direct failure of some insurers.
Feynman was a bit of a womanizer, for those who don't know.

http://xkcd.com/182/
These prizes are a cost effective way to get people and companies to solve difficult problems. The idea goes back hundreds of years. Take the Longitude Prize, as an example. It was won by a clock maker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
This is exactly the problem - why should the government decide what is useful research? When you let the government do anything, it instantly becomes political. Nowadays professors have to constantly jockey for research dollars.

I say that private markets/individuals do a pretty good job deciding what technologies are worth long term investment dollars/charitable donations. Let them figure out what research programs they should be funding.
Total Federal spending is around $3.5 trillion a year these days. This and lots of other useful information can be found here:

http://usgovernmentspending.com/
Universities typically have all rights to their students' papers. I'm not sure that I'd expect privacy for college essays either, although it's a bit odd that you are technically not usually allowed to, say, post them to your blog.
Translation...Greece gets a bailout for itself, bondholders offered bailout if they commit to increase time-periods of loans, Greece bond rating gets clobbered to default rating....
Gotta love the cool stop animated models they used for the sprites in the games, but here's the best bit that I didn't know:

(about the sources for some of the textures)"Among the more unusual sources, one texture was based on Adrian's snakeskin boots, and a bloody texture for the hell levels was created from a photograph of a wound on Cloud's knee"

Awesome. I thought the skin-wall textures in ep.3 were pretty gross. Eww! nerdscabs!
Except that many Google Apps customers pay real money to Google. Granted, what services they're paying for is likely explicitly defined and doesn't include a clause like "immediate access to new Google products". However, there's a lot to be said for doing nice things for your best customers. You know, the ones willing to pay for stuff.
And takes 550MB of hard drive space, unpacked.
On our iOS camera app, owners of early iPod Touch devices leave 1-star reviews because our app doesn't add a hardware camera to their device.

There are some stunningly idiotic users out there.
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Disappointing, it's mostly a recap of the original post. I can understand NYU being worried about the unauthorized quoting of a student's email, but the entire blog post? Surely, I/we are not the only ones finding it ironic, not just that he was negatively impacted (intentionally or not) by doing his job and pursuing the cheaters... but is now at some sort of risk for talking about the problem? Are we going to get into trouble for discussing this case. Jeesh.
Bill Gates sure does with his Global Health Program.
This reminds me of a case in Europe, where a PhD chemist was found to have faked/fabricated large parts of his graduate work, including his thesis. (It was on Derek Lowe's blog, pipeline.corante.com, and other places). He used Switzerland's ridiculous privacy laws to C&D journals, papers not to disclose his name in connection with the university investigation. (Or something like that, I'm not a lawyer). So he got off scot-free, and now he works in investment banking.

edit: Here's the story

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/25/faked_data_a...

primaries,

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i39/8739news4.html

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/fake-data-...
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This is still pretty misleading. TPB only hosts the .torrent file, they don't have any of the contents of the files being shared. They don't even run a tracker anymore! Any method of distributing a small file to a large number of people would have worked in the exact same way. The only thing TPB has that (e.g.) Google Docs doesn't is mindshare.
Doesn't this all end when Google decides they have a patent on something related to Oracle's products? It's like mutually assured destruction, except the losers are the small countries without any nuclear weapons.
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Wow, 11% still on iOS 3? That compares to less than 4% still on Android 1.x http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
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Not terribly interesting.
Although it is one of the oldest ( if not the oldest ) journals around, it is simply not widely read or terribly important.
In addition, from the journal's web site.
"All issues back to 2001 are free to access two years after publication."

Now, a collection of all of Nature's issues would have been fascinating.
There was a bit of backlash when the Australian university I attended started using TurnItIn for this very reason.

There was also a dubious clause in the T&C that stated something along the lines of "Copyright protection for Australian documents does not apply as TurnItIn stores all of the documents on servers in the U.S"
"and now he works in investment banking."

That's one hell of a punchline. Is that serious, or is that just a grim joke? Because sadly it's right smack in the middle of Poe's Law territory.
Anyone actually using SproutCore for anything? Care to comment on your experience?
Again, instead of trying to some how address the genuine issues raised by the original blog post, people are going to create unnecessary controversy around it till the issue is forgotten. People can't see the forest for the trees.
The main issue is that there is rampant cheating going on in the educational institutions. That's where the focus of the universities should be not on issuing these cease and desist letters.
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Greece has been in fiscal deficit for so long, a loan which stays on the books but never gets paid off reminds me of CPS where functions never return.
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Worth reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
I'm loving this judge.
Yes! I've been trying to tell people this since high school almost 10 years ago. Many educators force students to submit their papres to Turnitin or else take a failing grade on the assignment (which is often a final project which can cause you to fail the course).

1. Turnitin cites fair use ("it's educational"), but one of the metrics of fair use is the extent of use (they use the whole thing), if it's used for profit (they are), and the affect of merchantability. As shady as it sounds, paper mills are not illegal, copyright infringement is. If a paper mill rejects your paper because it's been through turnitin, that hurts me as an author.

2. Another aspect of the monetization that really grinds my gears is that every paper I am forced to submit benefits turnitin by making their database larger and thus helping grant them a monopoly in this market. I am being forced to write articles for the monetary benefit of a company. If they're making money off my paper I want a cut.

3. Turnitin does not offer any way to remove one's documents from their database. If it was merely being used temporarily to compare for plagiarism against internet or book sources then that'd be reasonable. But they keep my papers forever and will continue to monetize them for years after the fact.

I understand the plight of educators that want to stop plagiarism, but forcing me to irrevocably offer royalty-free licenses for my work to a for-profit company that is then charging the school (which if it is public is being funded by my tax dollars) is just insane any way you slice it.

Unfortunately the courts sided with Turnitin on this issue back in 2007 and 2009 and somehow ruled that their for-profit use was fair use.
Quite ironic since Fridge markets itself on not sharing your data with Google:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/TRYntzWLJ7Q?iframe=true&wid...
Having looked back, it seems the Instapaper blog has been redacted. But I ask the questions:

Has it been proved the equipment was fairly taken?

I thought over the Atlantic pond it was "Innocent until proven guilty." It seems guilt was assumed and equipment taken.

No trial.
No, it's extremely funny but it's true.

The Ph.D. student at the time left research after receiving his degree and now works as an analyst for an international bank.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/fake-data-...

The Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger reports that the doctoral student has left chemical research to become a financial analyst with the bank UBS. C&EN was unable to reach the former student at press time.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i39/8739news4.html
Actually creative and engaging marketing idea from Microsoft.
If your eyes were stacked one above the other, then the mirror would flip up and down.
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but Google is using that to put an argument for a low figure.

And pissing off the judge by making stupid claims. Negotiating isn't about starting at the lowest number, it's about starting at the lowest _reasonable_ number. Anything else and you just antagonize people (which Google apparently did)
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