skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not spare, probably just running spot instances at a lower bid price. You would assume that these guys paid a little bit of a premium to jump over everyone else.
For Mac OS X apps: over the intertubes, of course. In fact, there's lots of awesome things (Sparkle auto-updater framework) that make this easy.

For iOS apps: Most of the time you don't. You could write your app as a mobile web app, but that doesn't cut it for a lot of apps. If you're determined to have a legit iOS app, you're playing Apple's game.

For Android apps: You can distribute on a number of app stores, in addition to or instead of the official Android Market. You can also offer downloads that can be installed manually, although this requires users to change a setting to allow so-called "sideloading" of apps.
I didn't even notice those. Fortunately, I've worked with systems like S5 slideshows, and this looked a lot like a slideshow (no scroll bar, large text, numeric fragment in the URL).

Usability could definitely be better, but I will admit to writing up similarly boring slides in the past.
Just because select bits of information are altered or omitted does not mean they do not carry other valuable information. Al Jazeera had excellent coverage of the recent uprisings, in none of which was the USA involved.

Also I would argue this does not make them a shill. A shill has a very close association with the other entity, and the shill's number one purpose is promoting the other entity. It hardly sounds like that is the case here.
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> I have a feeling that the marketing push is very much still to come.

sign out of google services and go to google.com
If everyone gets that little arrow, that's a pretty big marketing push...
"Functional Systems in Haskell". I think it's still based on systems programming.
You respect Al Jazeera because of the differences between it and nearly all (if not all) American media. I don't understand how you could support the erosion of those differences and still expect to have in the end a media organization that you respected.

Or, to put it another way: by the time Al Jazeera became a popular source for news in the USA, it would no longer be Al Jazeera.
Breaking news. Working in a factory sucks.
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Maybe Bezos should spend less time fiddling with 10,000 year clock and more time caring about employees ?
Nice! I put together a similar stack for a client last fall.

Did you consider skipping Nodejs and just rigging up a way for the browsers to subscribe directly to RabbitMQ over HTTP? We looked at that possibility but went with node (a) to make authorization code easier to write and (b) because of the availability socket.io as an easy abstraction over different socket-like techniques in the browser.

Also, are you worried that the node instances will get overwhelmed if they're receiving all activity through a fanout exchange? It sounds like each node instance will be responsible for figuring out how to route each piece of information coming through the system, instead of leaving this up to the RabbitMQ cluster.

Cheers though, looks like a fun project!
Just bought that exact monitor about 2 weeks ago and I'm loving it. Was ~$400 from amazon and it arrived the next day.
This is the biggest nonsense ever. I don't know of anyone who has ever been denied withdrawals by Fulltilt, Pokerstars or any other poker sites. And I am well connected within the poker world. I personally know some of the most top-rated and winningest players in the world. I also know a bunch who are far lowed in the rungs - myself included. Aside from cases I've heard about where a player attempted to defraud another player on the site, or to defraud the site itself, I've never heard of a case where the site withheld funds. This posturing by the DOJ makes me furious.

It's as if the sites are being held to a double standard. Has anyone in the poker community forgotten the absolutely illegal seizure of player funds? Has anyone in the poker community forgotten that infamous event known as Black Friday? I certainly have not. It's the DOJ that needs to be brought to court for vast infringements on the rights of players and sites to conduct business freely, based on their own risk assessments and their own decisions to do so.
So the took down the head of Al Jazeera who censored articles from it's own journalists to placate the US government?

Another way of looking at this: perhaps it's not that Wikileaks is going against Al Jazeera, but saving it from internal corruption.
So this is just going to filter out all the candidates with real experience. Is this aimed at body shops or something?

Or put another way, this only measures quantitate skill. Which ramps up quirky at a young age. Qualitative skill builds over time.
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I'm saying that a person taking the same risk to save just 2 people is more heroic, even though peoples' intuition is the opposite. Risking yourself to save 2 people takes guts and a serious commitment to the greater good. Doing the same for 100 people takes guts, but is kind of a no-brainer.
It's more about defeating dishonesty actually.

You can download full version of apps for free very easily with a Jailbroken phone.

As a developer, by using in-app purchase you have a very good chance of defeating that loophole.
If you are seriously interested in the ethics of lying, I recommend Sissela Bok's Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. It is one of the few books I gave 5 stars to on Amazon.
It's useful not only to test speed but also to see the rendered page in different browsers.
Correct. This is intended more for daemons with one or two processes per server, or for handy debugging of a single instance on a development machine. In order to monitor something like preforking uwsgi, you would need a way to aggregate stats from all the processes, which this library doesn't do.

(You can change the port the HTTP server listens on, though. If you have ten workers, you can have them listen on ten different ports.)
My hope would be that with small compromises made in key areas, it could be widely accepted otherwise unaltered.

It is a common enough occurrence in plenty of industries. Japanese auto makers are heavily shaped by the demands of the American car industry- but did they wind up just another GM, another Chrysler? No, they retained many of the vital qualities that differentiated them and made them worth importing.
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I've also experienced Windows / DirectX API's use MMX, hence the floating point code I was using (x87 FPU) required a femms instruction before it to change back from MMX state.

This just goes to show that if you need a particular state on a processor (CPU, FPU, GFX, etc) you need to set it explicitly before use.
Yeah it reminds me of the Google ScanOps story a while back: http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411-workers-l...

And Ikea opening a plant in North Carolina for the cheap labor: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/10/business/la-fi-ikea-...
Very few care anyway and those that know will forget. There's no such as independent back there to begin with. Even here NBC will probably back down on a story after a call from GE that may have a pending deal with X corp.
> How wide would that adoption be if not for bundled sales?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/21/windows-7-l... - Windows 7 broke Amazon's record for being the most pre-ordered product, overtaking Harry Potter (!) and other products.

Win7 is doing incredibly well at retail sales and enthusiasts who build their own computers and buy OEM copies.

Besides, if people wanted something else, they would get that. Every year Linux is ready for the desktop yet isn't and for many people Macs are too expensive for their budget. Both also have the associated learning cost which for many consumers who are not enthusiasts can't afford. It's up to ? to get Linux recognised and lamenting about how mean Microsoft is won't get ? anywhere. It's only for so long ? can blame others.
Yes, exactly, for example if you use 1680x1050 on a MBP 1920x1200 screen, the text takes on a really nice look, similar to using a soft pencil.

I was totally stoked to find the HP can simulate that really nicely by turning the sharpness adjustment down, without needing to back down the displayed resolution.

Definitely interesting to wonder exactly how you defocus an LCD though.
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Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani is the chairman of the board.

Sheikh Ahmad bin Jassim bin Mohammad Al Thani has been appointed as new director general.

Also[1] :
The U.S. State Department clearly views Al Jazeera as a tool of Qatar's foreign policy; one cable from November 2009 claims that the Persian Gulf state uses the channel "as a bargaining tool to repair relationships with other countries, particularly those soured by al-Jazeera's broadcasts, including the United States." Al Jazeera devotes suspiciously little time to covering the politics of the Gulf; for instance, after Qatar's rapprochement with Saudi Arabia, criticism of the Saudi royal family dropped dramatically.

[1] http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/20/the_end_of_th...
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I'm avoiding web-sites that do this. Some of them actually exactly reenact this cartoon:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/server_attention_span.png
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(I guess I should clarify that this is an analogy, and that the same applies for desktop software. Dial home = one extra layer against piracy if someone pirated the app.)
Definitely, and agreeing with ajdecon.

There are a lot more to supercomputing than just having lots of machines in a cluster. Special network connection, network topology, routing techniques, specialized CPU/GPU, specialized storage, all these can make a difference.

I'm sure you can build a special "Amazon for Supercomputing" infrastructure, rent it out to clients, and beat AWS on price/performance. Just add fast network, mix of CPU/GPU, SSD, large RAM and distributed RAM disk. Have some standard network topologies for easy configuration. Have some standard cluster layouts for different computing needs. May be having the software in place for the typical supercomputing needs. The clients just need to provide the data to a cluster and the answer will be spitted out.
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It's actually pretty clear, Microsoft is extorting small players. If Microsoft had patents that were actually valid it would go after IBM, Intel, Google or Red Hat. They all have more money and use Linux far more widely and deeply. But Microsoft doesn't go after those companies because it would lose those cases. Microsoft is targeting companies without the power or will (it isn't their core business at stake) to make a buck off other people's innovations. I think someone should call Microsoft's bluff already.
Parse (S11) is hiring engineers.
Parse provides cloud services for mobile developers. Some have called us "Heroku for Mobile." We believe mobile developers shouldn't be writing server code or worrying about servers at all.

About Parse:

- We move fast. We launched our private beta a little over two months after starting the company. Since then we've signed up over 3000 developers and have dozens of production apps in the store.

- We have difficult and interesting engineering problems.

- We build products for other developers. You'll be your own customer.

- We are four very technical cofounders who have been early employees or founders at successful startups.

About you:

- You'll be employee #1.

- You'll be responsible for architecting and implementing features in their entirety.

- You'll write code in Ruby, Objective-C, and Java (so far). You don't need to know these coming in -- we like generalists who can pick up anything.

- You'll have the opportunity to grow into a large leadership role.

We offer significant equity, market salary, health insurance, your choice of equipment, etc. We're based in San Francisco and at the moment we'd like people who can hack in the office with us.

Please get in touch -- email Ilya at ilya@parse.com
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We expect the trend in favor of using Al Jazeera as an informal tool of GOQ foreign policy to continue undiminished.[1]

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/...
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Not really, as long as they don't use Windows API directly and rely on .NET Framework they should be able to run it on MONO.
There is an inapp purchase cracker on cydia now... Most apps dont actually check to make sure you purchased the content.
For Ruby: http://rushcheck.rubyforge.org/about.html

Check out the citations on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck for QuickChecks in other languages.
An anti-pattern I've noticed recently for "mobile aware" sites is this: on your mobile device you visit a URL for some page on a site, that site recognizes you are using a mobile browser and then completely unhelpfully redirects you to the main-page of the mobile version of the site. Considering that most mobile devices made in the last 3 years or so are fairly capable of producing a decent experience rendering a "desktop" version of a web-page this behavior is decidedly annoying and generally worse than just doing nothing.
In the 1990s it seemed like every day there was some new Virtual Reality device or at least talk of it, people were waiting for their own holodeck but it never arrived VR faded away.
I'm guessing this is the video you were talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7iBTk_WMAw
"For your comfort, safety and security, OnStar technologies are now being directly integrated into your engine management unit. To ensure your safety even further, all protocols, wiring diagrams, instruction manuals and other materials are encrypted, obfuscated, and welded shut. Thank you for enjoying your OnStar Service!"
agreed. heart-broken when i realized the next slide wasn't a continuation of that one.
I've used the goLITE BLU device for just over a year now and have found it to be really effective for giving me more energy. Use cases: full blast soon after waking up to reset my circadian rhythms and then on a lower setting later in the day. (You obviously need to be careful not to use it too late in the day as it will inhibit the synthesis of serotonin into melatonin.) I would describe the energy boost as subtle, but effective and long-lasting.

That said, it's way overpriced. You could make your own device for MUCH less. Basically, any blue leds operating around 470 nm, which are pennies apiece on digi-key, would work. Wire up a whole bunch in parallel, put them behind a diffuser and you're good to go!
I love that you're working on the TC competitor. Strangely I've found that I just don't read the LAUNCH stories very often.

I know it may sound trivial, but I suspect it's partly because of the grey on grey text and inline formatting of the topic headers.

The format of "WHEN/WHERE", etc also seems pretty boring. It's like I'm reading a LAUNCH application for a company. The reason people used to love TechCrunch was because Arrington would take all that detail then condense it down, add perspective, and make it interesting to read.

It also doesn't seem like you're really keeping up to your mission of quality over quantity. Tons of the stuff on LAUNCH is news-of-the-day linkbait. It looks like there are 10+ articles per day now, most of which are covering the same kind of crap that TechCruch does.

And the company profiles don't seem particularly great all the time. Look how sparse this one is: http://www.launch.is/blog/hottest-techstars-company-debuting...

Just some feedback. I think you're on to something pretty cool with LAUNCH. I just don't feel it's up to snuff quite yet.
Funny, someone took a point. Must be a new Googler still going through their employee manual:)

From Eric Schmidt:
"
And the notion of strong identity was never invented in the Internet. Many people
worked on it - I worked on it as a scientist 20 years ago, and it’s a hard
problem. So if we knew that it was a real person, then we could sort of hold
them accountable, we could check them, we could give them things, we could you
know bill them, you know we could have credit cards and so forth and so on,
there are all sorts of reasons....
So the solution of course that we’ve come up with is called Google+, which is in
essentially early beta, and it looks like it’s doing very well so far. It
essentially provides an identity service with a link structure around your
friends, similar to what I just described...."
I assume you mean that it will filter out people who have real skills because they won't bother with such a test.

I think only the rockstars are going to do that. They're the only ones who think their name means enough that they don't have to prove they can code.
I disagree I think a unified queue is where it is at. I want to keep my ratings linked with my queue and have social engagement around my queue also.

Services like goodfil.ms (http://goodfil.ms.) and GetGlue (http://getglue.com) are good at helping people discover and find films within their own networks.

Eventually streaming of films will become a commodity; Netflix, Apple, Hulu and the cable networks will all vie for market leadership of streaming; and IMHO whoever creates the best social queue is where the long term value is.

Facebook are clearly going to make a play at this with their Watch button - it'll be interesting to see how exactly, but it's not difficult to imagine them serving up "8 of your friends have watched Scarface" in place of their ads - then directing you through to Netflix for viewing.
I didn't really get into computers until after BBSes were already dead. My dad used to run a BBS, and he had a book called "Running a Perfect BBS" that I read all the way through. I thought that BBSes were the greatest thing ever, and wanted to run my own. Unfortunately, by then most of the BBS software packages were dead and no one knew how to connect to them anyway.
At which point you're entering the realms of perjury, and probably several flavours of fraud, contempt, and other things that judges tend to dislike.

You're probably better off just paying the ticket.
A related talk: http://vimeo.com/27192476 (video)
Nobody ever called me a monkey to my face, and I have several JS projects up on Github. I have trouble believing thismismamterm of endearment or respect, especially as it was used here.
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What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas ?
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You're simple reasoning seems to be: "I don't know if the costs for handling physical media are cheaper than streaming low-latency high-bandwidth video over the internet, but I imagine that it is." I'm failing to see how "I imagine" == "simple reasoning." Just sayin'.

You're also making the assumption that aside from the distribution mechanisms, everything else is the same. That's far from the truth. Netflix most likely has to do separate deals with the content owners for DVD and for streaming that likely have vastly different terms.

You're also ignoring the possibility that Netflix views the DVD side of the business as a noose around their neck in negotiating deals for streaming content with the content providers, and the separation is an attempt to free up their hands.
That's strikes me as being a bit naïve. Speaking truth to power has always been dangerous.
If you think that using Java by itself standardizes programmers you quite simply don't understand the craft at all.

Literally: Not at all.
I guess their credibility is now completely out the window

and from a reply to this post:

There's no such as independent back there to begin with.

I find this to be incredibly annoying. Asimov's essay on relativity of wrong should be mandatory reading for people engaging in debates. People forget that even if people make mistakes the world is not black-and-white, not 0 or 1. There's a whole infinity inbetween. People often don't look beyond the fact that no one scores a 1 to see that there are some that are teetering terribly close to 0, a 0.1 maybe, while a few put in a lot of effort to be at a 0.9. This comes up so many times in debates it is not even funny anymore.

* When talking about both the left and the right, in American politics, having radical ideas. They completely overlook how radical these ideas are, and the amount of airtime given to them.

* When talking about bias in media. Sure Fox, MSNBC, CNN, Comedy Central (if you view the Daily show as a news source) are biased in their own ways, but they're not equal.

* When talking about a few false steps in various scientific theories (which is what prompted Asimov to write his essay). Sure there are some unknown and possibly sticky problems with evolution, but that doesn't equate its incorrectness to the incorrectness of creationism (young-earth and otherwise) or intelligent design.

* When talking about anti-consumerist behavior. Sure Netflix, Apple, MSFT, and AT&T engage in anti-consumerist (or unpopular) behavior. That doesn't mean that they're all equally wrong, or equally short-sighted.

* When talking about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Sure both sides are wrong, but that doesn't absolve either side of their respective faults.

/end rant

Edit: To make it more informative.

* https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Relativit...

* http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
If that's all for the good, what is wrong with being transparent about it? If you respected Al Jazeera before and they are still worthy of respect, no harm has been done.
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I don't understand why people think "objective news reporting" is possible within this universe.

Anyone trying to sell you that line is lying to you; much better to at least have theses bias' be overt.
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Probably you and I just have different ideas of what an acceptable compromise is. If the request were to use news paper instead of parchment, or to bleep out profanity on basic cable channels while on primetime (which I personally think is stupid, but I might as well start suggesting that people raise their own children), or if the request were to blur graphic images of mutilated bodies under the same circumstances -- I might, after a bit of thought, decide that those were reasonable compromises.

But that's not what this was.

This was the U.S. "asking" a foreign journalistic organization to be less critical of U.S. activities -- and that organization agreeing. This really should be bone-chilling, not just a reasonable compromise.
How it will be your ideal social network? Maybe there are a lot of people like you that need another kind of network