skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Frenchman, a Russian, and an Israeli were taken captive by a group of terrorists. Before being executed, they were given one last wish. The Frenchman wanted a bottle of wine. The Russian asked for a bottle of Vodka. The Israeli asked that his hands be untied and that he be given a good kick in the behind.

All three wishes were granted. The Frenchman drank the wine, the Russian enjoyed his vodka and the Israeli had his hands untied and was given a good kick. As soon as the Israeli recovered, he grabbed a pistol from one of the terrorists and began shooting. He killed a few of the terrorists and the rest ran for their lives.

"That was great," said the Frenchman. "You saved our lives," exclaimed the Russian. "But we don't understand, why did you ask for the kick?

"I was afraid that if I wasn't kicked first, you would have called ME the aggressor," replied the Israeli.
It's just tough to spot because there were already so many players in that space.
Ooh, neat. What kind of hardware are you using? (And are you using gnuradio? Does the gr-smartnet module on CGRAN actually work?)
Google bases their actions on dry information harvested from people. Human science does not exist without statistics, and statistics requires you to make assumptions. Google can analyze me till kingdom come, it cannot correctly predict what I prefer at a certain moment in time. And as for big companies making documented assumptions, check what Facebook rolled out today in their news feed.

In situations where user preference is key, the only option is to leave the decision to the individual user. I don't mind if Google implements this and offers it as a service to their users, but deciding based on dry statistics is never good, it leaves people frustrated and makes it impossible for authors to properly implement a spec like this.
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To be honest, this doesn't look like much of a web framework. The examples show views being built up using string concatenation... reminds of my pre-templating days building snippets for jQuery.

Really though, everything shown can be easily replicated with a bit of Connect middleware, and it'd be cleaner. I don't see the point?
On Google+ I've got 100+ people who have me in circles, but they are all hardcore geek early adopter net-fiends like myself. Very little of my real friends and family social circle is on Google+... many were interested when I explained it but have since lost interest due to their initial inability to join when the service was the hot new thing.

This was exactly my experience with Google+.
Why would it mean that? People are going to quit a job and income for no income because of...potential tax breaks?
If you guys start using zsh, I would recommend oh-my-zsh https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.

There's also a Steve Losh blogpost about that's quite cool http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/my-extravagant-zsh-prompt/
Overzealous and yet incompetent. Yahoo mail became unusable to me due to spam very quickly (I have a 4-letter Yahoo handle), and I'm not sure it's much better now (I don't look at my account there often). Whereas Gmail blocked spam pretty efficiently from the beginning.
That's funny! In the German version the arrow points to "+Ich", meaning "+I" instead of "+You".
Plenty of iPhone 1 customers gave up 3G. The phone landscape has certainly changed, but I don't see it as that hard a sell.
>> Generally ordered sequences are designed to be read from the start

The spec makes no such claims, it just talks about sequences of documents in a very generic way. If the spec is not clear on this, it should be changed first.

And in a search context, I definitely don't agree with your interpretation of "sequence". The fact that my hit is part of a sequence is secondary to the fact that I just want to see a hit on my search query.

Mind you that I don't necessarily disagree with your nuances on the various use cases, but the current spec is clearly written to be very generic and should be interpreted as such.
Yeah, I've wanted to do a web-based UI for it for a long time, but it really doesn't make sense with a single physical channel. My implementation is a historical relic compared to this one! Right now it hands off control privileges every 15 minutes if there are multiple users logged on.

I do have a dedicated receiver for the control channel, at least.

Do you plan to make any hardware/HDL details available?
Where can I get dedicated or cloud servers with one or multiple 10GbE NICs?
All the session data is stored (and signed) in a cookie on the client side. Why would you need an external session store then? Isn't it more like the opposite; with this solution you never need an external session store, no matter how many instance you run?
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I get that Bing is no success, but how is it losing so much money? That can’t just be developer salaries can it?
> Re: versioning, you can dump the registry in text format with regedit /e and save it to a text file.

The idea of diffing a registry dump fills my heart with horror.

> First, all config formats are different - from the bizarre (Sendmail) to fairly sensible (Apache), but each one requires separate tools/scripts.

I am quite happy editing them with vi or emacs (when available). I also like joe a lot - it reminds me of WordStar.

> you need to learn the syntax and then write a complete program to parse the files.

In about 10 years of Unix, I never had to build anything like this. And, when I wanted to parse my own config files, I always had libraries to do it ready.

> For example, you need somewhat of a state machine to parse/edit Apache VirtualHost directives. You need to write a complete editor from scratch each time.

I think you may be approaching the problem from the wrong angle. Are you trying to build a GUI tool to edit Apache configuration files?
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no it's not mandatory. We use Play and it's super stateless. nothing more than client side cookies. forced us into scalable, share nothing design. love it!

http://playframework.org/

for java and scala
Kudos. We use this at work now and i was just lamenting that I need something like this for pysolr. (It may already otherwise exist so if someone knows of something, I'm all ears)

Very helpful plugin.
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I don't think G+ failing really damages Google's brand that much. It will just be another service people don't use on Google while they are searching.
What exactly feels wrong? Take a small step i.e. write something down, draw something, tell people about it. Just do something that get's you started.
I imagine they had a ton of employees, server costs, other executives that got paid well. They could have also given out lines of credit to some players and never collected the actual $, etc.
Whether on purpose or not, it's all very confusing: Google+, +1, Buzz, I still don't know which of those is supposed to do what and which of them is here to stay for the long term.

I was desperately looking for a way to add posts to my Google+ stream (like a tumble blog) from Firefox and I kept getting ways to +1 stuff, which does end up in Google +1, but hidden away and, grotesquely, with no way to even promote it to a full post.

And then there's these odd news feed like topics you can subscribe to in Plus -- which I guess might work if you're interested in sports or whatever, but I just keep wishing I could use it as a link to the similar-but-different Reader. Incidentally, what happens if you star something in Reader, does it +1 it, Buzz it, or is that another way of socially promoting it?
In the office, I'd be lucky to have a net work day of +1 hour.

Sometimes, friction and bad decisions can make you work -8 hours a day. Or worse.

Also, for some people, definition of "work" in a big company is "presence". So, that's obviously not fitting for a telecomuter.
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Funny article, but isn't creating one job a pretty good thing to do, anyway?
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I'm a very technology-focused individual, and yet, I only have a passing awareness of what LTE is or why I should care about it. I'm happy enough with 3G as-is, and I'd actually want faster mobile processors before I wanted more bandwidth.

If I'm unfamiliar and ambivalent, I really doubt the public at large is going to even notice.
For simple stuff using the built-in blocks, no; to really make use of it though, yes. It follows a (fairly common for visual-programming systems) two-tier programming approach where you do visual programming using units ("blocks"), but new blocks are defined non-visually, in this case in Common Lisp.

I'm no expert, though; I just recently ran across it.
Plenty of iPhone customers also give 3G by using the device on T-Mobile. There aren't that many of them though compared to the number of people who switched to AT&T (or Verizon) just as there weren't that many people who bought the iPhone 1.
On a list of customer wishes, I don't think that LTE is even in the top five. This doesn't necessarily mean that competitors are lacking in those areas compared to Apple. I could argue that iCloud, and the backing up of application data, is more important.

For all of what is being said, no one really knows anything which makes the point moot.
You mean like this: http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u94712/corequu_0.png

No.
gnuradio + gr-smartnet does actually work, and it will decode a control channel. I got it to give me usable data for both the city of Santa Clara system and Alameda County.

There are a lot of little bits and pieces you have to smash together to wind up with something like this, though. I wound up playing with a lot of programs in this field before deciding to build this. Discriminator taps are fun!
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...the organization's radical, pro-transparency agenda

This is an unsettling turn of phrase. I wonder what percentage of the population agrees with it?
Well, Bing always feels slow and 'baroque' in visual looks. Google always is fast and has a very clean visual look.
Duckduckgo is slow and has a clean visual look (and doesn't track me).

I use DDG. :-)
Does open source exclude high context cultures?
They are definitely better than Google Docs forms in several areas.

The main selling points of Wufoo over GForms in my organization were:

- Payment integration
- Branding
- Customizable notifications
- Form/Page/Field Rules
- API
- Ease of Use

We get all that, and the only difference in price is $29.95 a month. For a decent-sized organization, that is a paltry sum and it has helped us save time (probably over 100 hours) and improve our operations. It's been a fantastic value for us.
Yes, my thoughts too. The author pulled this quote from a Google document but is there any evidence The Google Search Engine is even implementing this behavior in a negative way?

I doubt there’s a company in the world that doesn’t say it does X in some document but do Y in reality. That’s the problem with documentation: it rots.
I like the way $500 billion in losses to others translates to $7.6 billion in revenue to the trolls and far less than that to the hapless inventors they claim to represent.

Similarly, five hundred dollars in losses to the power company translates into fifty bucks at the recycling center for stolen wire. I see no moral difference.
Controversial BPA found in canned kids' foods
Don't forget System Shock 1 and 2. It's not a stealth based game, but it's made by the same people by as Thief and even System Shock 2 even uses Thief's engine.

System Shock 2 is still one of the scariest games around.
The terms of the deal are $35 million in cash and SurveyMonkey stock (which is privately-held). The article doesn't give the split between them. It's premature to declare this a success. It's not like they were bought in an all-cash deal or bought with Google stock.
No one can downvote stories. You can only flag them, which isn't really the same thing.
Nice productive business you got here; it'd be a shame if something should happen to it.
MS fires exec for giving Nokia WP7 prototype an "8"
Pandora Launches HTML5 Radio App
The new design replaces the Flash App with an HTML5 app that has a focus on increased speed and usability.
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It's not outside the realm of possibility that by the time we have done the study of the plans followed by a computer simulation that the construction of the machine may be simply File -> Print...

On the other hand, we probably want to hand build it for historical reasons.
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Here's a link to the press release:

http://blog.pandora.com/archives/press/2011/09/pandora_unvei...
When Inheriting a Codebase, there are more questions than answers...
I'll tell you one right now -

HIPAA compliant Wufoo. I've got a lot of medical clients who want to have patients filling out input forms before they arrive, but storing medical data is something I won't touch with a ten foot poll.

We use and recommend Wufoo anywhere we can. If I never have to code another form it'll be too soon.
Recycle or not to go for cell phone recycling? It is your take
Money has always been a great source of motivation. Incentives, perks, sty funds are some of the examples. Many a times when my used news paper collectors comes and weighs my used news paper and give me some cash I am always happy about it. The fact is that he takes away the unnecessary stuff of paper and instead gives me money for it.
Someone blogged about the first meetup here: http://blog.medusis.com/first-paris-hackers-meetup
Rails authentication today: Options for 3.0 and 3.1
Yeah, the same that Wave damaged Google reputation.

/sarcasm
I submitted a bug report/feature suggestion for squelching my acquaintances. I want to be able to keep track of these people but I don't want them polluting my stream. Google seems to be of the opinion you either see them, or you don't know them.
If the UEFI could be made to handle multiple keys, and allow the owner to enter them into the firmware, then this could work. One more step in the setup but a more secure system overall.
The point of this article seems to be that, since Android users are much less likely to submit to price gouging for wifi in airports and on planes, the platform is ultimately doomed. This seems highly suspect to me. The platform has a different monetization strategy for devs, to be sure, and this is even hinted at, but the logical contortions needed to correlate willingness to buy non-premium products at very high prices due to local monopoly with viability of the system as a whole boggle my mind.
What is Reshaper in slide 35? Google suggests ReSharper, which seems more likely, since searching just for reshaper finds a pretty goofy product.
I'm probably only slightly more informed than you since I live here.

However, that's not indicative of a well functioning system. I can't find a nice pie chart for you, but it's about 20% of costs. It is the largest single cost.

And it is kept high by absurd education requirements in many cases. If you read a few healthcare books about the American system, you will probably find similar criticisms. There are so many government sanctioned monopolies in the healthcare system that it's impossible to change it.

In Canada, the healthcare system is basically a non-competitive rationed care system. If you know someone who personally knows the surgeon you need, you will get the care you need. However, if you do not good luck to you. I've had personal experience with this in my family (on the good side, prognosis was a minimum of x months to live without surgery, surgery was scheduled for x + y months(!) and we had to use our considerable network to get the surgery faster.)

But it was free, right?

Trust me when I tell you that the reason people are living longer is not because of the Canadian government's healthcare. In fact, the quality of life of many people is severely diminished because of the cost spiral.

But in general, it works very well for I-impaled-myself-in-my-crotch emergency care.

Edit: I should add that I have physicians in my family and they are very happy with the current system. In particular, compensation. I completely agree with their viewpoint: it's fair pay for the level of education they've had to receive. However, 90% of the work is routine and could be carried out by people who have less education. From my discussions with people in the healthcare system, this would reduce costs dramatically and potentially improve outcomes as well.
If you're coming from a technical background, as part of the Be active in social media I'd add Have some code of yours in an open repository. Be it some weekend-hacked project, or a contribution to an open source project, or a well-written lab exercise. That gives an edge.
Unfortunately, this is how business works. If they can hire an operations team full of Windows lusers and pay them $30K a year instead of Linux admins that cost $60K a year, they usually do that.

The thought never crosses their mind that you get what you pay for, and 1 qualified Linux admin can replace an entire team of Windows admins due to automation, scripting, and superior manageability of Linux.
Why is this being written like it is solely a "linux" problem? It seems to me that it effects every non-Windows operating system.
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What I meant by "notes" was just scribbling down your thoughts as you go along - things like "$property modified between file.php:500 and :600? WTF". Enough data to jog your memory when you get back to your desk and then throw away once you solve the bug and document the fix in a real fashion.
The Lift web framework does this too, as does Apple's Web Objects. David Pollack, creator of Lift, wrote a good explanation of the benefits on Quora, will post it shortly.
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Part of the reason I would imagine is the SLA they have with paying customers:

> 99.9% uptime guarantee SLA and 24x7 support"

I would imagine they will only open up new services once they believe they can meet the SLA on them. As a paying apps customer I am miffed on how long this takes though.
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It gets them backlinks.
False dilemma. It's possible that they are working on both.
So what do you recommend for reliable news from India?
Been looking forward for this book for a while. Exciting stuff. Thanks
Google+ opens up to public and expands features
Yup. Spend any amount of time working inside a Fortune 500 and you see pain and opportunity everywhere.
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I had a Droid on Verizon for about a year and a half, and I definitely wouldn't call it "direly slow". I'm now on AT&T with an iPhone, and it feels to be about the same speed as Verizon was.
I don't visit the front page of google.com often anymore, but I happened to arrive there the other day and I saw that big blue arrow animation.

I thought it was an obnoxious, pitiful advertisement, another reminder to me that Google is just a corporation.

PS: It's purely an opinion!
Those conspiracy theories are actually hurting the credibility of the movement. Right now the protest simply does not have the critical mass to threaten anyone.
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My example wasn't clearing the list, it's a filter. And depending on what language and library you're talking about, it's very clear where the cursor will point to after a delete. There's nothing crazy about it with an even halfway sane collection framework.
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interesting, but this kind of thing is bound to take years... would the player eventually have to wear a full body suit to achieve the effect? or could a hand system stimulate effects that could effect sensation elsewhere in the body?
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Is anybody using this DBMS for anything?
I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.

- Jake Nickell (@skaw)

http://startupquote.com/post/10480257307
This project is still up-and-running: http://www.android-x86.org/ and it works just as well in VirtualBox and adb works fine.
For Perl it's a module called Test::LectroTest

* https://metacpan.org/module/Test::LectroTest

* http://community.moertel.com/ss/space/LectroTest
Is it just me or is this a really poorly written article with questionable analysis?

For one, the graphs strike me as confusing. There's too much information trying to be packed into the graphs. It also appears that the various "utilization" measurements are the same on each graph. Furthermore, two completely different types of measurements are used for the "possession" metric, installed base for the U.S. market and quarterly sales for the global market.

Then, there is the questionable "utilization" metrics.

1. Browsing market share: Now, I don't know much about iOs, but on Android there are several different competitive browsers (Opera, Firefox, Dolphin) in addition to the stock browser. Could counting only the stock browser undercount the Android share?

2. Airport/in-flight market share: This is really a measure of what types of phones are used by people who do a lot of flying. Can any conclusions about general smartphone users be drawn from this data? If anything, it just shows that if you are trying to market to the jet-set, iOs is the way to go.

All-in-all it just strikes me a hand-wavy argument that iOs is superior to Android for development. I think there may be a way to make the case, but this certainly isn't it.
pysolr is on the wishlist... we use Solr at work so it shouldn't be too long a wait :)
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There are most of things we choose primary and secondary in the order of importance. But unknowingly sometimes we make a mistake by giving a secondary importance to one which requires primary attention. Sometimes it’s too late to get back and correct it. what I want to convey here is our mother nature has given us so many things without which we can’t survive.
Can you torrent a full-auto sear for them?
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