skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankfully there is an alternative now (that wasn't nearly as good 5 years ago): OpenStreetMap.

Their main *.openstreetmap.org has Tile Usage Policies, but there are other companies that provide free serives, and you can also host it yourself, render your own map, and pay your own bills. The data & tool chain is entirely Open, so you are not at the mercy of anyone.
And ESX with VMotion & DRS can make sure you still get good I/O even when parts of the hardware get congested or even offline.
The tool isn't so much for the individual user but for the marketers and content creators that are on the platform and will join in the future.

Hopefully people start to realize that Google+ isn't about Facebook....it continues to be a great social layer over everything Google does.

If the "point" of social networks was simply viewed in the narrow sense of Facebook, then Twitter wouldn't be around either.
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If you've had good class participation and you can provide your resume in condensed, bullet-point form, you should be able to get decent or good (but not great) recommendations.
Stallman's in favor of software users having the right to modify their software and redistribute it. He's not some kind of "information wants to be free" cyberpunk, and doesn't have similar opinions in general. For example, he thinks it's perfectly fine for books to be copyrighted.
Yeah, WTF?
Outside of those of us that love Google Reader, I have to imagine that Search Engines and numerous content aggregators are ingesting RSS feeds. Removing them is going to degrade your distribution immensely and likely affect your SEO.
They have driven cars around nearly all the roads in several countries taking photos of everything... They could use that to make better maps.
Meh.

Google maps UI is by far better than Yahoo maps. That and the street view/bike maps/etc. are features that give it a nice edge over alternatives.
Technically not all - Toronto-Dominion (TD) dumped all subprime in 2005 and weathered the storm considerably better than the rest of the big 5. Much kudos was given to Edmund Clark at the time for driving a fundamental change based on his view that "I don't think you should do something you don't understand, hoping there's somebody at the bottom of the organization who does."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
Easier meaning more simple not easier in terms of effort. Dealing with the complexities and ambiguities of human behavior is more difficult in terms of the processing, both mental and emotional, that must happen. It's easier to say "it's always wrong to lie" then to consider all the situations that might come up in which it may be better to lie.
No they didnt. I have seen many Mitsubishi Pajero in Spain and its so funny haha
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I have not encountered this definition of "realtime" before; what does it mean in the context of web applications?

(I expected something closer to what is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing - RTOS and similar topics.)
> At what point does pollution or energy usage become criminal?

At the point it harms society as a whole.
One advantage of Google releasing Google Maps for free was that now everyone & companies got used to having web maps, and hence places started to put their locations on the map (so it'll show up in google maps). There is now a lot more geographical data out there on the web.
"For example, why not run the disk performance sensitive DB server on a dedicated machine, while fronting the whole arrangement with proxies and app-servers hosted in the cloud?"

That's actually exactly what we do:

"We’ve moved 100% of our machines that rely upon performant disks to dedicated servers hosted at Softlayer. Roughly speaking, this corresponds to about 80% of our hosting costs."
Y'know, I think most roguelikes are a bit more respectable than the pure super-optimized Skinner boxes that Zynga and Blizzard produce.

Why? Because you die. A lot. And when you die, you need to start all over again. And you make progress further and further into the dungeon on successive games, by learning from your mistakes and honing your strategy. And if you don't learn, you don't progress.

Contrast to WoW, where (as I understand it without having ever played it) death is merely a mild inconvenience, and you forever level up and up and up just by grinding away at it -- getting to the highest level is largely just a matter of being patient.
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ah, you are conflating two things. the hacker scene is full of assholes, but they are not the batshit crazy people. so all the fucked up people you're thinking of? no, i'm saying there are other people, and they are /much much/ worse because they dont even have a 'scene' with basic social pressures and 'outing' them has no effect
I got what the problem is. Stallman does not try to protect anybody's freedom. The freedom he fights for is a product of his imagination and has very little to do with actually users and their freedom.
The days when every software users was if not programmer then at least IT guy in some sense are long gone. That model no longer fits the world.
Some say they admire the man who stoics to principles, but I think stubborn refusal to notice that the world has changed is just a sign of stupidity and nothing to brag about.
10 years ahead on debit cards, 70 years ahead on medical coverage.
I guess I don't understand the full extent of Twitter's client crackdown. It's certainly a big problem with my line of thinking in this little thread. If Twitter clients can't innovate than Twitter is a dead end.
> She started a "geek feminist" website, so that didn't help...

This comes across similar to the excuse: "well of course she got raped - look at how she was dressed".

Feminism only became a "dirty word" during President Reagan's term. Susan Faludi wrote a very good book titled Backlash explaining how the backlash against feminism started, who did it and what motivated them.

http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Undeclared-Against-American-W...

> Stop trying to 'get more women in technology'. Why is this seen as a serious problem that needs fixing?

I used to be a member of SWE (society of women engineers) back in college. One of their large studies (done in the mid 90s, which I think was jointly done with NSBE - national society of black engineers) revealed 3 important things about engineering education in the US:

1. It appears that high school guidance councillors were discouraging women from enrolling in engineering programs. It might have alternatively been that they were encouraging men to enroll in engineering and just not encouraging women. There wasn't enough data to support either conclusion. The M/F ratio among the population is very close to 0.5. The M/F ratio among engineers is well over 10. That there is such a difference points out that there is a problem. We don't run around with guns and blow stuff up - we sit in chairs all day - so the arguments that people use to justify excluding women from combat are worse than useless when you're considering technology.

2. That women in engineering drop out of engineering at twice the rate that men drop out of engineering. The folks doing the study didn't have an answer for that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was because so many of us are jerks.

3. Engineering is seen as "uncool". Movies and TV shows portray engineers as nerds - and that nerds are uncool and unpopular.
The default client for email and web is the one that comes with your computer. The default client for SMS is your phone. The default client for TV is to turn it on and flip through channels.

The point of the OP was not about having a single standardized client, but rather having the functionality baked into product(s) without the user having to seek it out on their own, or even learn what "RSS" means. The feeble attempts from Safari and Firefox are the closest we've come, but ideally this was a push that should have happened at the OS level, both on desktop and mobile.
… or copy it to her personal Dropbox, then share that folder with Bob. It would probably be superfast because of Dropbox’s deduplication.
For sure, but saying you never lie is much easier than not ever lying, and I think that's what's at issue here. Stallman lives what he preaches, to the point he can be a major PITA (witness the rider thread on HN earlier). That's more than just parroting some principles.
What's this supposed to achieve?

Just as with regular captchas, computers will be able to solve this just as soon as there's a financial incentive to program them to do so: that is to say, just as soon as it's at all widely deployed.
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What do you mean by "game loop"?

Surely something like Farmville has some gameplay elements, right? I've never played it, but there are some choices to be made (shall I get chickens or cows), right?
You are mistaken. Atom does translate x86 instructions into micro-operations, but those are not particularly ARM-like.
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We're working on it! :)
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Nice catch.

"Random Reward Schedule" and "variable interval reinforcement schedule" look like different names for the same concept, but looking closer the former seems to cover both time and reward, and the latter focuses on the time component. Am I reading this correctly?
I do not agree with this. Cloud is often a confusing term but it is not strictly bound to virtualization. One can imagine a cloud offer with dedicated hardware.
Vimeo's guidelines on commercial and gaming videos are clear. The rules have always been enforced, regardless of impressions people may be trying to give that this is a recent decision. Every user who has uploaded a video has seen the guidelines and agreed to them.

The focus at Vimeo on creator-contributed content and community are what has likely kept it from becoming the YouTube comment and content cesspool that is mocked the world over.
I too have a list of a number of site that I don't read as I wish I could because of their lack of RSS.

Yahoo! Pipes has helped me with that (it can fetch pages and turn them into RSS feeds), although it requires some knowledge of HTML and possibly regexes.
> Very common problem: interviewers asking questions about who was going to take care of the kids.

Not to excuse this, but it made me think of a rather terrible mistake I recently made, which I am glad has not come back to bite me. I was the last interviewer for a guy who was Jewish and didn't use technology on the Sabbath. As I was walking him back to the lobby I mused out loud that that was interesting since we have pager duty and I wonder what other teams do in that situation, since surely we wouldn't be the only team at the company who employed someone with that or similar restrictions. It wasn't until my wife pointed out to me that that was probably completely illegal and could have had serious repercussions for me that I thought I had done anything but muse about something meaningless out loud.

Sometimes people just don't think, I guess is my point.
While I agree with you providers obviously have been unable to avoid "long-tail black swan events" (awesome phrase!), and that too many businesses and users jump to the cloud without actually understanding their architecture, availability does not mean what you are implying.

99.95% availability means your site should be "available" 99.95% of the time. It does not mean you have a 0.05% chance of a disaster, it means you will not have more then 21.5 minutes per month of outages. Those 21.5 minutes might be during your most critical time. They might even all be added together for one 4 hour downtime before you're demoing to VCs and still not violate your SLA for the year.
Just finished porting a javascript fractal tree generator, the javascript version is at

http://www.mcdaid.eu/labs/codify1

and the code to run in codify is in the textarea (small)
Yes. Translation layers typically have horrible performance, unless the target is designed with the translation in mind.
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I think the OP just meant that once someone like reddit moves into your cloud, your performance goes down. Meaning, the hardware that my little blog is on works great until that hardware also hosting reddit, and then my blog takes a beating because reddit is thrashing away with actual activity.
Not bad, I was working on something similar a while back, but didn't really push through with it since I know pretty much everything that is in my fridge(I am very serious about food and spend a lot of time picking out ingredients).

Few points:

-I dunno who you are marketing to with the red and black color choice. You should pick a layout and color scheme that your intended users are most comfortable with.

-When I add apples, I should be given the option to drill down into the types of apples.

-I haven't poked around enough, but I can't find the button to add more items using the list format.

-Since people generally share a fridge, you should allow multiple logins that can access the same list.

-Maybe an alert when the produce is about to spoil?

-I like the recipe integration. You should add a sort filter to look for recipes that use item(s) X, show the recipes with the least amount of ingredients needed, add recipes of foods about to spoil, add diet restrictions and regional recipe preferences, make sure you have the appropriate quantities of food for the recipe.

-recommend foods and recipes based on what they have liked so far

-for the shop locally, add a feature to order groceries online. It is not very common now (I am in Austin near the WholeFoods flagship store, so its normal for me), but amazon has been testing their own service and are doing well.

-for in store purchases, you should group items by location and should tell what aisle it should be on(easier yet, just add the row description that it would be on).

-advertise certain brands that work best in a recipe, etc.

-advertise kitchen appliances/knives/etc. for sale based on their eating habits. If they go through a loaf of bread in 4 days, recommend a bread machine and bread knife.

-If someone has a food that is always purchased as soon as it runs out, have it auto fed-back to the shopping list when it is deleted from the pantry.

-Have people post their own recipes for sharing, and give them a cut of whatever products sell based on their recommendation.

Well, I didn't mean to make this many feature requests, but I did stop myself from continuing to append. If you want to spitball more stuff, just lemme know and I would be happy to help. At this point I don't have the bandwidth to pick up my project again and the next best thing is helping someone else build it and have them scratch my itch for me. ;)
Kinda makes me like Whitman more, though. Wish she'd been around before the WebOS disaster.
In MMORPG's the rewards are a big motivating factor for playing, but they're not the only factor.

WoW still has very well designed game mechanics that are fun on their own. Learning (ie advancing up the learning curve) and decision making play a big role in having fun in RPG's. These are also true game mechanics (meaning they're fun without reward mechanisms).

On one end of the spectrum would be a game like Team Fortress 2, which is fun because of it's mechanics; on the other end of the spectrum is a Zynga game that is fun for the reward mechanisms. WoW, and other RPG's would be somewhere in the middle.
True enough, but it seemed to be in the context of the thread when I first read it.

I don't think of what RMS does as oppression, but more as 'toughlove'. Not for everyone, sure, but I think it's mischaracterised as oppression. He's more interested in having you be principled than using his products, and only his products.
I scanned some photos last night, actually. I thought for a few moments about how many years I've had the scanner and how nothing has replaced it yet.
That's about as precise as most dictionary definitions. It doesn't mean the actual meaning of the word is that broad, just that dictionaries don't go into excessive detail.
They have an iPhone app. If that can pull GPS coordinates then they can know where at least one person is.
This is why I hate the term "the cloud" -- because it is too nebulous and non-descriptive.

Actually, nebulous means cloud-like.

Would you prefer the older term "the grid"? They're all just items for buzzword bingo.
Sorry to hear. Opera has an RSS icon in address bar and a built-in RSS reader. Subscribing to a feed is three clicks: first on the icon, second on the feed to use (admittedly problematic), third on Subscribe button on feed preview page.
Rackspace's primary business is dedicated hosting. In fact they let you have both dedicated hosts and cloud hosts and allow dedicated and cloud hosts to talk to each other.

I'm curious why they didn't just switch to Rackspace's dedicated hosting. It would have given them the performance they needed while retaining the flexibility of being able to quickly spin up cloud machines in the same datacenter as the dedicated machines.
"informed choice"

No, no. It's about price.

Most small business buying subscribing to these services aren't tech. In the phone market (as an example), carriers are selling hosted "solutions" for less then $75 a month. Comcast is too. I like Comcast. But you can't run an office with 25 phones and pc's and other devices on Comcast. At least not in Florida.

The other problem, is most IT firms down here are pushing they own "hosted solutions". Everything from email to accounting services. For cheap.

Now let me be clear some services I think make perfect sense in the cloud. Even with unreliable connectivity. Like email, storage, messaging, But your core business, services you must have to run your business need to remain under your control. Period.

And the last thing; many small business don't really understand just how important IT is to their business.
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Yeah, of course, but the gameplay is largely cyclical and repeated
Wow. What is going on there? At first I thought Apotheker was hired to complete some "unpopular" tasks, and then a new CEO could start over. But it seems like the board was completely asleep while Apotheker made his decisions. I am looking forward to some massive lawsuits brought against these people. Apotheker probably was the most clever guy in this, and knew that he could make a quick 20 million even though he would be fired. Would be interested in insights from HP employees.
The short answer is yes, you need to do this to get great letters.

Strong and frequent participation, interaction and enthusiasm for the subject in class should get you a "good" letter--or at least more than the "She got an A in my compilers class" letter.

You need to do this because you are competing with other students that do this.

What I find upsetting is that so many students have no idea what their competition is up to. And, by the time they find out, it's way too late.

When I read grad school admissions packets, I'm blown away by
what some undergraduates have done.

That's one of the reasons I wrote this blog post -- to take the blinders off. Hopefully it reaches some freshman, sophomores and juniors in college and a few high school students too.
You're still equating OSS with RMS when OSS was the enemy of RMS.
Is it copyright issues? Is this video game trailers or runthroughs or commentators on play?
My first thought was 25%. Four options, only one is right. Then I saw that 25% appears twice, which reduces the available answers to three. But I have to randomly pick an answer, so there is a 50% chance I will pick 25%, a 25% chance I will pick 50%, and a 25% chance I will pick 60%. So isn't it depended on WHAT the right answer is?
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OT but I am seeing meme language in headlines all over the place these days. It's only one step below texting language on the pisses-me-off scale.

/get off my lawn!
You can use their CDN (CloudFront) without moving your origin to EC2/S3.

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/De...
Well look at both Zynga and Blizzard games. They are super accessible and casual friendly. Dying is an inconvenience in Blizzard games, as you said, or isn't even possible in Zynga's games (even the competitive ones like Empires & Allies)
I hate all the terms because they are all buzzword lingo. :)
And RSS is a poor reinvention of Usenet. (But I support it.)
lol.. that is funny.. So true though..
I realize that, just wasn't sure of how to describe it which is why I tacked on "effect" (might not be the actual type of distortion, but to a user the appearance is similar). From a user's perspective it most definitely does look wrong even though there is technically no "correct" way. Thanks for the link!
I'm not going to repeat them here. They are the same class of statements that Skud got. Plus, among other things, they aren't SFW to type, and if an HR person saw them, I'd be yanked into the HR office.

If you spend a little time looking around comment threads on unmoderated forums, you can see the behavior, unironically acted out.
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An app that charts what you’re friends are listening to, watching or reading.
Would you use an app that aggregates what your're friends are listening to, watching or reading on iTunes? It Would show the top rated songs, movies and books as voted by friends and put them into a leader board format, like a top 40 singles chart etc.

Would you personally use it?
There's even a range within RPGs itself. E.g. I would say that Diablo is about at the same spot in that scale as Zynga games are.
First good decision they've made in a while. Too bad they are unlikely to reverse the WebOS decision.

I have to wonder how much this had to do with not finding anyone to buy it at a price they were willing to take.
Because you're doing so under the assumption that your lifestyle is something that other people would desire.

>This implies inferiority or defectiveness and could be considered condescending.

That's the point.
this is what I meant by game loop: http://whatgamesare.com/2010/12/functions-vs-loops-finding-f...

'strong game loop' was vague, what I meant was what I said in the last sentence, that you can enjoy playing a traditional game without rewards. It is fun to play on its own merit. If you take away the rewards from a social game, it can't stand up on it's own as a 'fun game'.

In Farmville, there are gameplay elements, but its very minimal. In Cow Clicker, another social game, there are no game mechanics at all. There are some 'hardcore' social game companies, like Kabam, but they end up just having more elaborate reward feedback mechanisms.
How so? From what I've seen the prices on the iTunes Store for books, movies and music are higher than Amazon.
your ignorance is astounding!...your statement is equivalent to saying I want to live in a world with ice cream sandwiches and tasty doughnuts but not in a world with glucose or sugar molecules of any kind!
WebOS has suffered from severe performance and stability problems for three years, with no solution in sight.

This was demonstrated both when the WebOS application layer received a 2X performance boost when ported to WebKit on iOS, and again when Android was ported to the TouchPad hardware and was found to be quite a lot faster than WebOS.

It's quite clear that it is a fundamentally flawed architecture without a future. It's too bad; there's some interesting stuff going on in the application layer, but the underlying OS is a complete turkey.
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IMO, this feature should not be part of core G+ experience.
It might be useful for top 1% of users to see how influential they are.

Instead, empower the App developers do such awesme innovation with your data. <yegge_repeat> Learn to think like a PLATFORM! </yegge_repeat>