skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea but there is just so much text in there. It makes it seem too complex.

Just have a look at the "getting started page" http://www.macincloud.com/getting-started
Brute force I'd assume...?
I think from what I have followed of this, there have been some pretty lewd and targeted comments made, not only on blog comments but via direct email.

While I dont know Bayley at all, from what I can gather she is highlighting the fact that people have to put up with such harassment due to the fact that ISP's or Police will not act on it.

Being that the comments were made via direct email, I guess you could liken it to someone calling you at home and telling you to "F!?K off out of your house", I think anyone would be creeped out at that. But as there are no actual threats of harm made, the law is useless to do anything.
Apparently the abuse in question included creation of throwaway email accounts. That makes email filtering harder, at a minimum.
What an exotic way to say "northern Sweden". These marketing people, sheesh!
I'm sorry, where does relatively small come in here? We are talking about companies like Fox (I'm sorry, what was the parent company?) and the entire music/film industry. Google/Facebook pale in comparison.

The dying industries are the middle-men. They are fighting back.
When do we start calling it the "Great Firewall of the US of A." ?

Just a joke with some attitude. I love how moral gets dictated by those with money in the US. Not that that isn't the case in most of the world. I just love how terrible a job they do of hiding it in the US.
Google receives requests to remove videos of police brutality
Testing JavaScript With Jasmine
If I were Motorola or Samsung, though, there's no way I'd do that. Without differentiation, you're selling a commodity product. If you're selling a commodity, there are no margins.

I agree with you that it would be better for the Android ecosystem if they would, though.
Wire cutters cost a couple bucks. A decent Mac you could use for development is a bit more expensive.
These guys can own the App Store if they just suck it up and start offering their old titles on iOS. Unfortunately Japan's corporate culture doesn't take well to being a purely software company.
I would argue that it (sort of) is because most people tend to stay at the socioeconomic level they were raised in. In other words, the mechanism for carrying this forward is not in the DNA but the culture.
Greenpeace Reaction On Facebook's First Non-US Data Centre in Sweden
This conflation is happening all over the place .. people don't understand that iOS and OSX are different, it seems. I wonder if this is going to, at some point, work in Apples favour .. ?
Thanks! I'll check in to the duplicate message thing. I'm glad that it was pretty clear what it does. The red text was to guide you through the process of setting up your first notification but obviously it needs some work. The reason it asked for your email address a second time was that you can receive notifications on other email addresses, not just the one you sign up with - but now that you point it out it does seem dumb that you have to add it a second time and makes more sense for me to automatically add your primary address.
I'm being downvoted for supporting woman's rights and publicly stating so.

Welp, I have karma to burn, I'm not going anywhere.
Really nice design. I like the fact that they're using Twitter's Bootstrap UI toolkit;

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Candidiasis Bucal
The problem is that some of the 'bad apples' are senior members of the community who are or were respected and widely listened to. The fact that Eric Raymond is/was taken seriously ought to be hugely embarrassing to the open source community.

EDIT: since I got downvoted already I may as well add: ESR is a vile pathetic excuse for a human being. I don't say that lightly, he really is obnoxious. I know he has a big fanbase among the libertarians here but at some point people are going to have to face up to how unacceptable his views are to most people.
"I am honestly surprised that she let her real email address be publicly available anyway"

This is called "blaming the victim". It is bad, and you should consider researching it.
One thing you forgot to mention: the Kindle. Devices like the Kindle embody a set of restrictions that make The Right To Read [1] seem eerily prescient.

1. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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You should read her blog post on the issue - http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/13/on-being-harassed-a-littl...

It's a lot more than one email. It's a pattern of harassment by multiple people that's gone on for years.
Someone porting their software to OSX/iOS, who doesn't need another computer in the house? In other words: plenty of people will find this useful.
Note the parent said 'true linux based', probably referring to Maemo running a full Linux stack, instead of a non-standard kernel and a non-X, JVM-based environment.
It's a good move. I remember joking with a colleague once about submerging a datacenter in a lake for the same reason.
They might save a small portion of their cooling costs. They won't go even by a long stretch. Keep in mind that in Luleå the summers reach 22-23 degrees Celsius easily. People are tanned and wear t-shirts, shorts and skirts up there during the summer just like anywhere else down south.
>If there are a number of potential girlfriends, using the letter ‘n’ to represent the number, then he should reject the first n divided by ‘e’ (e is a key number in mathematics and has a value of about 2.72). He should then accept the next girlfriend after that who is better than all the preceding ones. If none of them are better than all the earlier ones then he ends up with the last girlfriend.

This doesn't explain why this formula should be used. It explains how to apply the formula given the figures.

Surely the "better" part is the most complicated part to analyse. Also, to what end, you shouldn’t marry before you're 27 to ... what? Have the longest marriage, be most fulfilled, parent the best children, make the most money?

The assumption of availability makes the whole thing pointless IMO.
Yes, it is just too high. I use a v3 styled map that logs about 15K map loads per day (there is a map on just about every page). That means my total cost per day would be $52, just for maps. I would have to make about $3.5 CPM via adsense to break even on map payments (that doesn't even include my hosting costs and other business expenses).

This change is going to force me to revert back to un-styled maps and just hope my traffic doesn't grow above 25K. If that happens, I'd definitely switch to another map provider.

I think the key thing here is that the google map is a backdrop for my website/app, it is not the main feature. I am happy to pay a reasonable price for my usage, but I am not going to be forced to pay an unreasonably high price for it.
> Bottom line : people should stop trying to impose price controls on things, including labor. It has never worked, will never work and it frustrates me to see it being discussed.

You're right, this whole weekend thing sucks. Let's go back to the industrial revolution era and work 6-day 80-hour workweeks because that's what the market decides is the most productive. People who don't want to lose their free time can opt to work less and... oh wait, they'd be fired and be out of work. /sarcasm

This is why people organize... the labor movement is a natural product of a laissez-faire economy. Government exists to serve the people; i.e. the laborers. Hence, it makes sense for government to enforce labor policies.
I don't know about you, but that's a poor and weak excuse. Would your be offended If I said that to your wife, daughter, mother in person.

If someone said that to my wife in person I would break their nose, so why should online be any different.
"Put the Image in an HTML email and know exactly when the Email is opened."

Do most eMail clients not block images because of this client tracking, gMail and Outlook spring to mind.
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I have a severe case of this too. I always get caught up in the thrill of a new idea.

I've been getting better at finishing things since I wrote all of my 'in progress' projects down and noted what stage they were at and what I need to do to move them on.

I found that my projects got shelved once they needed outside help to continue. So in effect I had taken them to the limit of my own skills, which was more finished than I originally thought.

Now I've got a list of where I'm at with them all and what extra resource they need to progress.

So for example one project will be finished when I've got a spare $300 to put towards it.

Another will be put into production if I find a manufacturer that meets a certain price and spec.

Others are just beyond my technical level currently so I might release them as open source projects that people might make use of.

Knowing what 'finished' looks like and what is needed next will remind you to keep contributing to the projects you've started.
Hypercard for iPad? Brilliant!
Maiden, North Carolina is temperate, not warm.

December 2010 data for Ashville, NC:

Average Daily High = 38.4F
Average Daily Low = 22.8F
High = 50F
Low = 11F
1087 degree days of heating
10.8" of snow, 7" maximum depth.

Source: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=gsp

Data for Greenville Spartenburg for December 2010 is similar but with less snowfall locally.
There was that four hour period earlier this year in which their authentication system defaulted to "allow" for incorrect passwords.
Firefox partners with The Evil Empire
Sure; but if you are presenting in public, it isn't your own 'offended' threshold that should be operative, it is that of your audience. And, even there, you probably don't want to shoot for the middle of the pack there-- offending, say, half of your audience wouldn't be much of a success in most contexts. So, while you might not want to scrub down your presentation to a point where no one is offended, you still probably want to stay away from sexual images involving farm animals. Just sayin'.
Why We Do Start-ups
The obvious solution is to stop taking crap jobs. There are places which do things well, though, admittedly, they are in the minority.
Black Friday Laptop
Of course, performing more square roots than necessary won't hurt.
Good point. I'd be very surprised if they managed to do anything to really stand out from the crowd. Most likely they'll continue the PS integration, but as you say it's not really interesting. And with more and more games coming to standard Android phones it's not that big a differentiator.

I see the deal more as Ericsson selling since they don't need Sony Ericsson than Sony buying.
Maybe it doesn't help first time convertion, but I can easily see how it can make it easier for a lost customer to return. A hard to cancel service means burning all bridges with leaving customers.
Just signed up too, and I agree that it looks very good! I'll test drive it for a couple of days to see how it works. I can imagine it's very cool to get notified whenever a new user signs up, but once you get to the point where you have 1000s users every day it could get annoying... I'm not at that point though so I want to know!
I think you should read the full post: http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/13/on-being-harassed-a-littl...

It wasn't just emails, it was a sustain campaign of public comments on blogs and videos. Other colleagues received phonecalls to their workplaces making accusations about child pornography. The harassment was affecting her ability to do her day job.
nice work but pity about the caveat "That leaves the door open to solutions with less than 5 initial numbers. I would bet that there aren't any..."
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Neat. This will allow my team in India to develop without using logmein.
Awesome service. Way to complex pricing. Make the user choose between two choices. Plan A: limited to X hours/day, Plan B: unlimited usage.

Price each accordingly to achieve the desired outcome. My bet is, the actual usage of "unlimited" users will be similar to users of the limited plan, with a few outliers.
This is an extended version of the numbers game on the UK TV gameshow Countdown, which is itself based off of a French gameshow (I don't know the details of it, though).

I had to solve this version of the problem once upon a time in a programming competition. I approached it slightly differently than this article; I implemented a RPN stack machine evaluator, and a recursive routine which permuted first over operators, then operands; the core routine looked like this:

static int FindSolutions(int[] numbers, int numberIndex, int stackDepth)
{
int result = 0;
if (stackDepth == 1)
if (Evaluate(g_program.Program) == g_target)
++result;
// Try the operators (all are binary here)
if (stackDepth > 1)
{
for (OpCode opCode = OpCode.Add; opCode <= OpCode.Div; ++opCode)
{
g_program.Push(opCode);
result += FindSolutions(numbers, numberIndex, stackDepth - 1);
g_program.Pop();
}
}

if (numberIndex < numbers.Length)
{
// Try each number
for (int i = numberIndex; i < numbers.Length; ++i)
{
Swap(numbers, numberIndex, i);
g_program.Push(numbers[numberIndex]);
result += FindSolutions(numbers, numberIndex + 1, stackDepth + 1);
g_program.Pop();
Swap(numbers, numberIndex, i);
}
// Try without the number
result += FindSolutions(numbers, numberIndex + 1, stackDepth);
}
return result;
}

If you know that g_program is writing the RPN program as a stack itself (so it can easily push and pop the last instruction), I think it's reasonably easy to follow.
If you said things to me / my family in person, there is the added threat of violence.

Online, there is no such threat. You could just as easily be a bot spewing hate, as a real human being. And being offended by a bot is pretty irrational.

Online, there is "data". If I know you, or have formed attachment to you via ongoing conversations etc or divulging details about myself, then the data becomes more meaningful and has emotion attached to it. But random data? No point being offended by that.

FWIW If someone I didn't know said that to my wife/mother/etc we'd just ignore them and walk away.
Yup, you've got it exactly. You probably wouldn't want to put it on a page that got 1000's of visits a day. Thanks.
I've heard good things about the Papilio: http://papilio.cc/
Wow best research project ever!
>But the test is user wants, not code functionality.

I often advocate functional and integration tests over unit tests for this very reason. A good functional test is testing use cases, which is exactly what the customer wants! Unit tests exist primarily to improve code quality and aren't very useful for anything else.
Ship to a USA service that ships to your country. Apple has free US shipping, and DHL costs around $120 from US to Africa (Tunisia, I think EU will have the same price).
In theory it's true, in practice it rarely is, since taking over a code base of any significant size is a very hard challenge. I've yet to encounter a situation like you describe, or even hear about one. When the software doesn't work, you replace it, source available or not.

Even if you're replacing the software, having the source allows you to ensure that your replacement is fully backwards compatible with the original, and, if it is not, enables you to implement a compatibility shim that fixes those issues.

That said, OS X being exactly what Linux dreams to be (Unix with a beautiful and useable UI, scriptable apps, reusable components, and a modern development platform), I know I'm not the only one to whom it provided a haven after years of Linux-induced frustration.

You can't just blame the Linux community, though. I agree that the community could do a lot of things better (especially with regards to UI development). However, one big obstacle the Linux community has to work against is hardware support. Windows is the dominant OS - manufacturers essentially subsidize Microsoft by providing Windows drivers for their product. Apple, by choice, writes OSX to only work on a very limited subset of devices that have been approved by Apple. Linux has neither of those advantages.

In theory, the fact that Linux is open should make it easier for programmers to make their own drivers and release those drivers to the community at large. In practice, because of many of the concerns that you've cited, proprietary drivers still outclass Linux drivers for a number of components, including WiFi, ACPI power management, and graphics.
From Rejected to TechStars Demo Day to Funded: You’ll Get More No’s Than Yes’s
The string is split in half. It only takes a couple of seconds to brute-force each part.
omg, this is bad add placement by Comcast on this article: http://www.4freeimagehost.com/show.php?i=32dd50b2da94.jpg

The ad has an attractive woman in classes standing next to a laptop at a hosting facility with the title "The Solution: Comcast Metro Ethernet."
The chart cuts off after 3 years - the point is that the original iPhone was supported with the current version of iOS for 2 years after the last one was sold (minus two days - iOS 4, the first version to drop support, came out June 21, 2010).

On AT&T, at least, most iPhone customers are eligible for an upgrade after 18 months because of the cost of their plan, so everyone was eligible, by a significant margin, for an upgrade before their phone was droppped.
It's unclear if that local space is shared with others that might be logging in after you though.

Really cool concept overall, but there's a good amount of uncertainty in there. There's a handful of gramatical errors too, so maybe they aren't really ready to launch?
Logemin is free though, isn't it?
Free plugins for Wordpress weblogs.
So perhaps it would be generally beneficial to simply oppose online "dickery" and bullying across the board, particularly in cases where there's a component of implied threat beyond the virtual world. "Men are treated unfairly" is an unsympathetic point, even when true.
Noticed that as well - most international maps leave out PoK when showing India, but taking away J&K in its entirety was a bit much!
"earth can only sustain so many people" is conventional wisdom. It's also unprovable. If it were true, we'd know how many people earth could support.
Guess so... most funny birthday cards etc feature "worse" images.

It depends what context the images were used in the talk, and if they made sense being there IMHO.
“Should he be beaten with in an inch of his life? Yes.”

No. No. Definitly not. Are you crazy?
That's how I feel too. I saw the title, and I thought: "Wow, I could really use this". Looked at the pricing, and was too confused to continue any further..
Start researching the art of negotiation. Buy no less than 3 books on the subject and read them cover-to-cover. You will then be prepared to sell your business at a good price.
Are there any guards against using the cheaper "early morning" plan against a fake timezone to make it a "daytime" plan?
You gave two working-class examples. When the corporation is a REIT with milions of dollars in invested assets, or an independent contractor consulting firm, that is a different story.
This does not look like a discontinued project:

https://gitorious.org/~qtbynokia
With your iOS photostream showing up automatically in iPhoto and Aperture, Adobe needed to fast follow. Adding the group sharing feature is a nice plus.
Differences in early childhood diet (and also in patterns of early childhood exercise and sunlight exposure) bring about substantial differences in appearance among cousins or even siblings in the same family lineage among persons of recent east Asian genetic heritage too. I can observe some of those differences in my own extended family. I have seen many other examples over the years of "Asian" people having different growth patterns depending on whether they spent early childhood in Taiwan or in the United States.
Its hardly surprising really. Everything Ninty have come up with in recent years is cheap and gimmicky or Pokemon (which I love but you can have too much of a good thing!!)

The DS was pretty awesome but is slowly being replaced with the iphone. I refuse to buy a 3DS purely on the basis that its horrible and gives me migraines - imagine what its going to do to a new generation of young eyeballs!
Thanks, we'll definitely check it out!
Android fragmentation gets visualized [infographic]
isn't this what SAT solvers are for?
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+ The CSS Bug at the end of the Page :-/
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You're entirely missing my point - for 99% of the population of this planet, producing software is going to forever remain beyond their reach. You can give them all the freedom to do so that you wish, they are still going to remain incapable of actually doing so. The GPL is not un unmitigated good for the vast majority of users.
It's very sad that I wrote that entire comment and didn't think of Hypercard. I agree, it would be interesting to have Hypercard "The Next Gen" on iOS devices... it did have a very good approach to solving what I mentioned above.
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You can find the breakdown here.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

Currently 45% are on 2.2 with 2.3 approaching around 39%.
I think you're being downvoted for poor reading comprehension and for the entirely unnecessary and contextually-inappropriate use of the term "bitching".
The pricing isn't just confusing, but (unless I'm misunderstanding it...) also plain stupid.

For example, as a monthly plan it's $30/month for anytime access up to 5 hours a day; but also $30/month for evening access up to 3 hours a day!? Who is the later plan targeted at, exactly?
One of my father's best friends was a jeweler. He was struggling with what to charge, and how to increase his business. My father told him to double or triple it. At first he was very hesitant. This seemed nuts.

Yet, my father asked him how much a $500 ring was worth to a consumer? Then if you put a $2000 price tag on a ring how much it was worth?

When it comes to some things, the price equals the quality. For jeweler this is especially true. Jewelry is something you're trying to impress with, and a $2000 ring is a lot more impressive than a $500 ring.

In a certain way, its an intangible, just like programming. A $25/hr programmer sounds probably pretty green to me and not that great. Yet, someone who is charging $150/hr must be pretty damn good.

Of course, if you can't deliver the goods, none of this works, but assuming that you can competently deliver, raise the prices. You'll compete more that way than trying to lower yourself to beat the lowest guy on eLance.
Trolls exist on the internet. Bayley is just supporting negative stereotypes about how women can't handle the pressure when she lets a troll get the best of her and changes her whole life because of him.
You'd be likely to hit import taxes on that.
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A late paying client got me to thinking, are we too generous to clients?
If that person kept coming back again and again with the same or similar comments, would you see the threat, this is what is happening here if you care to actually read the articles
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