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Skype To Buy GroupMe, A Year-Old Group Messaging Service
Skype To Buy GroupMe, A Year-Old Group Messaging Service
What is your site url.
Whoa. That's less interesting to people? Wikipedia is telling us it can think!
Finally! This is a really great write-up, had no idea it would be such a big issue to solve.
I've done similar: write method signatures, but implement the logic as pseudo-code or descriptions in comments, then go back and fill it in. e.g.:

function open_file_prompt()
--create prompt
--set file type filter
--display prompt
--verify that the file selected is of correct type; if not, return nil
--return selected path
end

This approach also helps ensure you leave good comments explaining what your code is doing - just fill in the code below the comments and leave them there!
Paragraph 3 of TFA: That story appears in Mitnick's new memoir, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker.
This is one of my favorite features of Chrome, but as i said in my comment below, that only works in chrome, it only works on the computer you visit those sites from, and DDG has a handful of hundred sites whereas chrome has only a few that you visit.

A good feature, but for my usage patterns it doesn't hold a candle to DDG !bang commands.
If you're using Chrome's omni bar to search, you can permanently append that query parameter in the search engine settings in the preferences to avoid having to specify it explicitly.
This paper uses cooperatively scheduled threads (i.e. no preemption or concurrent execution of threads), which means you don't have to deal with synchronization.
Google is at its effective best when you are searching for something for which you do not know the result page. You search for expected result page (that too not common), you would be disappointed.
I wonder if you could bundle an uninstaller into your package - just for them. They install some adware, you uninstall it right after.
it is only correct in its conclusion that I mistyped a word about 10% of the time

I'd love to see your statistics on that - you must use a lot of very unusual words. Google has published a paper about the algorithm they use.

There are two cases:

If Google thinks you might be wrong it will display "Did you mean..." with the possible correction.

If Google is pretty sure you are wrong, it will search for what it thinks is correct and show what you typed originally as an option.

If you are hitting the second case 90% of the time then you are a very, very special snowflake indeed!

I have to go back and explicitly tell it that I meant to tell it what I told it

You have to click on the link to say you really meant what you typed.
IOS 5 beta 6 gets a Sn0wbreeze jailbreak, iPad 2 still stuck behind bars
Really great post. I studied Arabic for 15 months at the British Military language school and after working as a "Terp" I went on to run the policy for language support to the British Military. I encourage you to continue with your studies as the more time you spend learning the language the more rewarding it becomes. Once you start to move away from MSA and learn dialects it becomes much easier to speak, but even harder to listen. Good luck and great post.
Context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907570
Harvey Golub's Response To Warren Buffett
I find F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby's placement on the list appropriate and Plato's to be suitably ironic. Gatsby had a library of uncut (i.e. never opened) books and Plato argued against placing too much importance on books themselves versus actually attaining knowledge.
prefixed by "zzzzZZZZZZZZZ                  "

That's a horrible way to go.
Urdu Translation Services in Pakistan
Urdu Translation Services in Pakistan
Does anyone have any opinions on web.py? I played around with this and it seemed pretty easy to use.
I'm a native arabic speaker too. I think I misunderstood your intention of using "dh" in "dhad", I would have used "thad." This misunderstanding stems from the fact that we're both trying to write a sound that cannot be expressed correctly in latin.
You could redirect (at the IP level or proxy) all traffic from your IP to the real blogger IP.

In fact maybe someone with bandwidth could do that for Argentina to help them out ;)
IPad3 Relese date and Lots more.
adlep pulls out his trusty anit-religion spray
Sprays generously in all directions, hoping to contain the odor that is trying to invade this race and religion free discussion board...

Seriously, dude what the heck would you submit this here?
Do you know what hacker news is all about?
Can you read?
Couldnt agree more about the screen reading. I wrote a frustrated post about it after i got the email: http://text.krona.tm/post/9155074593/linux-journal-goes-100-...

Will definititely checko out Linux Pro Magazine, this will likely cause an effect on their subsriber rates.
I looked into it: it's expensive to redistribute market data (you have to register with the various exchanges to redistribute their data, and its not cheap). Though nasdaq did have some data available on their ftp site: ftp://emi.nasdaq.com/ITCH/
"You can be sure anyone who advertises his services in this way understands nothing of importance about marketing or business."

I think this statement is almost backwards. The reason "designers" use buzzwords is because it gets small business owners on board with them. Advertising your design services in a cookie cutter, predictable way is OK if you have the portfolio, skills, and actual marketing knowledge to provide business value. I don't care how great your copy or copywriter is, the text and UI has to be seamlessly integrated into the experience so there is NO distraction and the message can be properly conveyed. This takes an artist...

Bottom line- this guys is missing it
but it can be beneficial for those non-native English speakers like me. sometimes, when composing email, i googled for some word to know its meaning and its correct spelling.
I wonder how the awesome sword and spade symbol on this website help him sell whatever he's selling.
German 'like' flap presages data privacy chaos
Right, before Google.. but maybe that's the point: they never became as ubiquitous as Google.
May as well plug my game too:

Escape Artist: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview...

Right now the only way to run it is to run main.py through python. I'm working on standalones.
[Latest News] Groupon major fail in China
News has exploded on China's Twitter (http://weibo.com/n/%E9%AB%98%E6%9C%8B%E5%9B%A2%E8%B4%AD%E5%A4%A7%E8%A3%81%E5%91%98) that this morning Gaopeng's Shanghai offices has cut jobs at most 50% in some departments. Doors were guarded and employees were ordered to format their hard drives and leave within an hour. Network and telephone connections was also cut, and the doors were strictly guarded. Press was not allowed to enter either. Employees are crying and tweeting that Groupon is a ponzi scheme. Employees were baited in by promises of incomes 2-3 times higher than other native clones, but in fact they were given only a marginal increase. Offices in other provinces are on strike and a document on how many jobs will be cut was leaked on the internet.
One obvious example is manufacturing in zero g. parts can be thrown from operation to operation, rather than having to trundle along on a conveyor. launch would have to get pretty damn cheap to make assembling cars in space worthwile

A better example might be fancy chemicals. Rather than purchasing a "very expensive machine" to ensure a specific environment for reaction, it might be cheaper to send the materials to zero g for processing. I'm not a chemist, but watching astronauts play with bubbles and flames in space makes me think you could get a lot of precision by modeling everything as perfect spheres. So, the reactions are simper to model, easier to get accurate and precise outcomes.
Congrats to the GroupMe team. I had a chance to meet a couple of them a while ago and they were really nice guys. Well-deserved.
Some useful facts about it about kratom
There are many uses of kratom, if taken in lesser amounts it acts as antidepressant and if taken in large amount it acts as pain-killer for human beings. The kratom capsules are also taken and acts as stimulant and boosts our physical abilities. Kratom tree is found in south-east Asian countries and it grows in hot and humid conditions.
Awhile back I looked into Mongo for sessions, but it isn't really designed to do this. Sessions are temporal, and AFAIK Mongo doesn't have a built in mechanism for expiring them, plus session data is usually small -- there are other datastores better suited for this type of data.
The whole point of a weapon system like this is to develop the capability to project sufficient force to anywhere it's needed. In geopolitical terms it's more of a scalpel than a hammer. This is for taking out an emerging threat at short notice based on intelligence developed in the field, not for going up against a prepared opponent with an established ability to respond in kind or worse.
Analysis: HP - Dial "M" for mayhem
Leo Apotheker's credibility as a CEO is falling along with Hewlett-Packard's stock price.
I ran out of time to do my game this weekend (Other insanities were going on, unfortunately. I managed to only spend about 5-6 hours on it all in all), but I might as well show what I did make for those curious. It's more of a concept than anything else, but I did make a couple of things that I can carry on to my other FlashPunk project, so it's all good in the end! It was a lot of fun and I wish I could have done something more, or at least relinquish myself to a simpler idea.

http://crowbar.ripsystem.com/projects/ld21/ - Arrows Move, A shoots.
there is one I know of[1] though I'm not sure they got out of the beta.

[1]http://www.iubenda.com/
How wireless devices are being used to fight traffic 
A massive wall of video screens displays real-time images from a network of cameras, while employees look at a million points of data on their own computers. It's Houston's other mission control, and they've now got a new tool to combat congestion: your Bluetooth device.
Here's a cool article on how to actually choose a web host. http://www.ehow.com/how_4449124_choose-website-host.html

Great website copy, great website designers... they mean jack if your website doesn't handle the traffic it receives. http://cl.ly/3t2D1E2c3H3A2d1I433W
No one really gets it, and that's why Socrates was the smartest man in Greece. He knew that he didn't know anything.

Cynics like Diogenes are just as dogmatic as anyone, but the truth they are dogmatic about is that there is no truth. It's still a conviction. Be cynical about cynicism and Diogenes looks just as dumb as Socrates, or anyone for that matter.

We all look dumb when we answer questions. This is why Socrates preferred to be the asker.
Please read what I wrote more carefully. I didn't say that the the Fulcrum developers were stealing. I said that I would feel like I was stealing from the Pivotal developers by using a free clone instead of paying for the original. Since Fulcrum os (or appears to be) so similar to Pivotal I'd feel as if I was choosing it simply to avoid paying, and that isn't a feeling I'd like to have.
$99 Android Tablet Launched
The Indian market is lately buzzing with affordably priced Android tablets. Just this month Bharti Enterprises unveiled its Beetel Magiq and Reliance unveiled its Reliance Tab 3G. Now, there is a Bangalore based company called Lakshmi Access Communication Systems (LACS) which have launched yet another Android based tablet in the Indian market. The great news is that this particular device is priced as low as $99 (around 5,000 INR).

>>Features of Magnum Pepper Tablet PC:

- 7 inch LCD sensitive touch display (800*480)
- WIFI enabled
- Supports 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ45)
- Support USB 2.0
- Support Micro SD card (maximum 32 GB)
- 3G compatible dongle
- 3.5 mm stereo headset jack
- G - sensors 360 degree
- Front camera
- Built in 2GB memory
- Android 2.2 version
- Supported audio formats eg: MP3,AAC,WMA,AAC+
- Supported Video formats eg: 3GP, AVI, MP4, H.264,720P

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/08/99-android-tablet-launched-in-india.html
This conversation would be much more productive if you both used IPA rather than trying to write sounds that don't exist in English :P
HP's New Strategy and Firesale Fiasco
Just one guy has to do this, i am sure there is a xkcd reader who has access to a football field.
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Sadly, this is because about 80% of programmers think they are "10 to 1".
Google results for "cheap car rental europe 3 month" appear pretty reasonable, and (on casual examination) (slightly) better than results from DDG.

What was the "cheaper by 20%" solution?
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I don't think it's clear, but it seems like the person who wrote the article is a QA tester and the developer who suggested the fix was another person.

I doubt they would fire a QA tester just for finding a bug. He might have been laid off with a bunch of other people or he might have been getting a big head about his prize defect. Granted, it is kind of a big defect. But some people can be sore winners.
felt inevitable.

though I have fondness for and respect for the magazine and it's creators, I've increasingly felt in recent years I could get pretty much the same kind of content on the web "for free" and digitally. I think the bar has been raised in terms of how a magazine can justify being a printed magazine. it needs more strengths and ideally takes better advantage of the physical possibilities and experience of the medium. LJ just wasn't doing that. Going all-digital feels like a smart move, because they can get rid of the bathwater (the costs and limiting factors of the printed magazine medium), but keep the baby (what's good about their content and style, and their fanbase.), and, kick it up a notch (take advantage of all the cool things you can do on the web.) I wish them luck.

However, for me personally at least, I have so much free high-quality (enough) web/digital content available I'm confident I won't subscribe to digital LJ anymore either. Too much geektastic info out there already, not enough free time, not enough spare money.

(long-time on/off subscriber probably since they started)
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autocmd BufLeave,FocusLost silent! wall

" Highlight whitespace at the end of a line
highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=Black guibg=Black
match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
autocmd BufWinEnter * match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
autocmd InsertEnter * match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+\%#\@<!$/
autocmd InsertLeave * match ExtraWhitespace /\s\+$/
autocmd BufWinLeave * call clearmatches()

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Save your time and effort by opting for online bachelor degreez
Almost every task of purchasing products and services has become easier with the development of internet technology. Humans are able to lead a happy and peaceful life due to this development.
Using node.js as my Microsoft Word (+Bonjour)
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We find that our users really like disambiguation. I find it most useful on searches for people (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Doug+smith) or places (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Deerfield).

Re: local search, we're bringing in datasets from services like Yelp. For an example see: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Wood+tavern. We're always looking to improve, so if you've got interesting local data, please reach out.
Tornado has a very similar feel to web.py, yet can do much more when you are ready for it. If you like web.py you might as well use tornado.
Agreed. He has a short URL but I'll be darned if I can remember it. Something like ddggg?

Edit: Right, ddg.gg. I guess I had it. But don't tell me it's memorable (I only recalled increasing character repetition). How do others remember it? "Duck Duck G-G-Go"? He definitely needs a short, pronounceable name.
Thanks. I think it's a matter of getting out more. You're right, we can choose what we want to be. It may just take some time to get there. :)
The top 250,000 people basically run the government, so his polemic needs to be addressed at them.

All the special interests he talks about are from his cohort of the top .1%

Basically, this article amounts to "Let Them Eat Cake"
I don't have downvoting capability, otherwise I'd downvote you for condescension.

Gruber's a great writer for the most part, but this particular instance of his work is pretty trite and hardly a unique observation. His lack of knowledge about the players in the space should give a clue to readers about how much weight to give the rest of his insights about this subject.
DuckDuckGo is a good enough name. Penetrating market share is incredibly difficult in the search market. Microsoft is spending billions of dollars each year marketing Bing to the masses and it still only has about 14% market share. It takes time, technology, and money to break the mindshare of users away from Google Search. DuckDuckGo has the name, they just need the time, technology, and money to market to the mainstream.
Buy the HP TouchPad Tablet for $101.95 on Barnes&Noble
"Of my current income this year, I expect to pay 80%-90% in federal income taxes, state income taxes, Social Security and Medicare taxes, and federal and state estate taxes."

Huh? What is he possibly doing that warrants this high of a tax on his income?
I don't understand the often-repeated conservative talking point that "almost half of all filers pay no income taxes at all". There are only two kinds of people who pay no income taxes at all: the desperately poor and the super-rich (who are taxed on investments at the 15% long-term capital gains rate). Is the conservative proposal really that we should tax the desperately poor? Because that seems not only a terrible public policy choice, but an extremely inefficient way to close our budget gap.
He sounds like an amateur rent-seeker.
Sure, but as Mark Twain once said, one of the best ways to lie is to tell just part of the truth.

Things I'd like to know: When did they find out? Why didn't they detect this before the general public? Are they clawing back every dollar they ever paid this and all intermediate vendors? Will they sue for reputational damage and the penalties allowed under their affiliate program terms?

If they didn't know about this, they certainly should have expected it.
It's particularly odd that he's planning on paying estate taxes (unless he plans to die this year). Estate taxes are paid by the estates of decedents, not by living people.
Tax rates were higher under Clinton and the economy was booming. Oh, and there was a budget surplus.

Along comes W, we end up in multiple confrontations over seas, cut incoming revenues (of which I will admit to benefiting), and end up with huge deficits?

Clearly going back to anything in the Clinton era would tank the economy. The particular article is particularly fluffy in the "private enterprise will solve all problems" with comments about infrastructure programs like trains, etc. The fact that we are spending less on infrastructure (roads, rail, fiber, etc) is one reason we are seeing an overall quality of service decline.

I will certainly admit there are issues with the US tax code and there needs to be more efficiency in the system. It is pretty clear that relying on private industry for infrastructure (especially where there is a (or near) monopoly, the companies do NOT do what's write for the country. Another local to California example PG&E and the gas pipeline debacle.
irc guidelines enlighten our daily speech too ;)
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Website Defaced by Egyptian Hacker
Sorry, what did you mean by "neglect aesthetics"?

Regarding projection: where did I talk about my own personal issues?
One of the best: The null !bang, if you will, is the equivalent of "I'm Feeling Lucky."

Hacker News !
Did he actually read Buffett's article? Warren Buffett points out that while the rich do pay quite a bit of income tax, they often don't pay the same share of other taxes.

Then he claims he pay's 80%+ tax. Um, really? I guess if you had massive losses of lowly taxed income, and a really high salary, they could balance each other out and you could pay unbounded taxes. But over 80% does not seem typical.
The problem isn't taxation, it's spending. If we went back to Clinton levels of spending we'd have a massive surplus. The big cuts that are coming due to the debt ceiling negotiations aren't actually cuts, they're decreases in predicted spending increases -- we can't even hold the budget steady. This is complete madness.
This response is nothing more than political talking points, whereas Warren Buffett's article was a thoughtful and meaningful piece about a simple positive change the country could make to help control the deficit. I'm not saying some of his points aren't possibly valid, but nothing as written in this article is deep enough to be meaningful.
Or it, as other articles have said, says that talk is cheap and if Buffet really thinks he should pay more taxes, stop trying so hard not to pay taxes.

The rest of the article says that the government is wasting his money. He lists a few good examples.
But he provides no evidence for the hypothesis that '"10x" programmers typically do not work for salaries, but end up leaving companies and starting their own (or joining as very early key employees)'. I think there's little connection between being a "10x" programmer and being entrepeneurial.
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I'd think directed energy weapons (e.g.: lasers) would probably be effective here.

Any Mach-20 vehicle is going to have an extremely limited thermal tolerance, and thermal shielding is likely to be applied specifically to those elements of the vehicle which require it for aerodynamic reasons.

Lasers could acquire and track with the target despite evasive maneuvers better than any kinetic weapon. Though a large-dispersion scatter weapon (ball bearings) would probably be sufficient. Each bb impact would be about the equivalent of a gram or two of TNT.
I did a little googling for you, from 2009:

"About 47 percent will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That's according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research organization."

...

"In recent years, credits for low- and middle-income families have grown so much that a family of four making as much as $50,000 will owe no federal income tax for 2009, as long as there are two children younger than 17, according to a separate analysis by the consulting firm Deloitte Tax."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-a...
There are a number of huge problems with this argument, but the most important problems are the common ones:

1. There's just so much waste!

The byline reads: "Before you ask for more tax money from me, raise the $2.2 trillion you already collect each year more fairly and spend it more wisely." This is then supported by a few examples which don't address any of the big entitlement programs necessary for nontrivial tax-reform.

2. I pay such a large percent of the taxes!

He draws authority from the fact that "Today, top earners—the 250,000 people who earn $1 million or more—pay 20% of all income taxes, and the 3% who earn more than $200,000 pay almost half. Almost half of all filers pay no income taxes at all. Clearly they earn less and should pay less. But they should pay something and have a stake in our government spending their money too."

This is clearly a less meaningful statistic than percentage of income paid, which was the crux of Buffett's argument. If I posses say, 90% of the assets in some country X, certainly it doesn't make sense for me to yell, 'hey, I pay like, 60% of the taxes in this place, and all of you Xonian slackers in the bottom 5% are skating by on a free ride.' It particularly doesn't make sense if, as he proposes, there is no tax on gifting money to your (grand)children, and so perhaps I just inherited the wealth.
Sony Offering Free Vita Development Kits to Some Indie Developers