skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please note: this is not some kind of high-level EU agenda. It is a project put together by a couple of research groups to grab money from EU research grants. My personal experience with those grants (with several 'partners') is that the results are reviewed by friends&family.

Implement and deploy such a system in time for EURO 2012? Riiight. But I guess it looked good on the grant application.
Well, in general, I'd suggest something related to the service rather than the service itself. Computer algorithms generally aren't intuitive in the same way computers are.

Paypal -> $pr3f1x29# elh oh el I liek money u gieve
firebug > inspector
Painful MLM Truth
Not just a test field, some of our best and brightest run the project -- it's coordinated by AGH:
http://www.indect-project.eu/indect-partners

Neophytes are always the worst.
The problem is so multi-faceted. Where I live it's not biker-friendly, so the bikers have to make do with narrow roads and insensitive, carless, and ignorant drivers.

OTOH, they are almost universally indignant themselves, routinely disobeying traffic laws, not signalling, making no attempt to give cars room when they can. I don't know how it is in the rest of the country, but around here both sides are adversarial toward each other. It's just an ugly situation, and neither side is right.
XML Video Sitemap
Why is there still a need to deal with UAC? Why does it need admin rights in the first place? Sounds entirely avoidable (see: Chrome).
>What if she is wrong?

And what if she is? Debating the correctness of her interpretation only distracts from her point that If you act in the way described towards an engineer you could make her feel like the author.

>I dislike your insinuation that someone who claims sexism can't be wrong.

The comments here focus on the event itself rather than dealing with the actual topic of the blog post. People care more about inconsequential details than the social and professional implications the author describes.
Mario and Zelda: My 25-year love affair
It's a particularly horrible solution when your bank decides to replace their existing clever nigh-impossible-to-sniff multi-factor authentication system with a little dongle sent to your home address whist you overseas. Specifically, I need it to pay off my credit card bill with the same bank; I can still log in and shift money between savings accounts at will.

Ah, but I can still pay my bill by telephone and all I need is to dial in the card number when prompted...
Can you explain the semantics of that notation? I can glean some of its meaning, but I'd like to understand it in full.
That's an interesting idea, why don't you buy me lunch and we could talk about it some more? :)
Semi-related: PowerShell Server, a commercial Windows SSH server with a free restricted license (notably a single connection and only password authentication):

http://www.powershellinside.com/powershell/ssh/
Hunch has the "Taste Graph", Varonis has the "Access Graph"
The thing is, most fields that apply math do not need to "deeply understand" math. I think it is highly arrogant to imply that everyone needs a deep understanding of math to use the tools it provides. For most people which aren't mathematicians, it's perfectly fine to just be able to apply formula. They don't gain anything from a deep understanding of the matter.

It's the same as libraries in programming, really. You don't need to understand how a library works, you need to know what it does and how to use it. And in many cases, that's perfectly fine. After all, who would have the time to study the source code[1] of all libraries they use? You'd study that if you are interested, noticed a bug or need to know some specific detail of the implementation, not just because you need to use it.

[1] Not to mention those unfree binary libraries which you couldn't inspect even if you wanted.
On detailing the contents of the test to his business peers: "Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession."

Close to none of the history, RE, French, geography, music, phys ed, or even science (heck, nearly every subject) I took in high school has proven directly necessary for my profession. But the standardized tests aren't for adults, they're for students. (Should we expect to pass their agility/phys-ed tests too? :-))

Being able to learn these things, and developing the skills necessary to learn them, is a worthwhile experience and hopefully provides a lot of the inspiration, brain-shaping, and knowledge exposure necessary to get by as an educated adult, even if you can't pass the tests to some arbitrary standard.

I barely remember any of the French I learnt, but I can't help but feel the exposure has given me a better insight into, and a better ear for, my own language. It's a similar story for most of those other subjects.
i'm on the same boat as you. we've been proftaible for over a year and a half now with revenue doubling each year. we actually just went #3 on google for a very high keyword so it's going to move up even more.

Everyone always told me your business is worth how much smoeone is willing to pay for it!!

from a formula perspective, personally i would take my annual revenue and multiple it by 2.5-3. and that's how much a typical investor may pay. However this depends on many factors. If the business stays stale, they'll make their money back within 2 years but if the business is growing (doubling in my case) then they would make it back a lot faster so i might shoot for 4 or 5!

my main problem is actually FINDING people who are interested!
Well the problem is not about outsourcing to India, but outsourcing to people who are not really programmers to begin with. Almost 80% of my classmates ended up in software outsourcing companies like this. Guess what? We didn't learn computer science or any meaningful programming in our classes, ever (we actually studied biotech). Almost none of those guys have probably ever typed a single line of code until they were hired. They're just put through some intensive 2 month training where they suddenly magically learn programming (most of these people barely passed every exam they've ever encountered in their life, btw). I'd say 1 in 10 of those people actually cared to learn stuff as opposed to just currying favor with the TLs and being dead-weight in the groups. But the ones who do the work seem to be universally unappreciated thanks to rotten corporate politics. I've seen meetings progress in these teams and a bunch of stoned school kids have probably had much better luck deciding on their agenda than these people.

Does it mean Indians are not smart? Of course it doesn't! It's just that most Indians who actually are smart either transport themselves to the States or end up in the Indian branches of companies like Microsoft or Oracle. Only the absolute bottom rung of barely-competent people end up in software outsourcing companies and that is why you get such POSes out of them. And don't even get me started on the call-center recruits!
Your Firefox profile is broken. If you do decide to give it another try make sure you delete it and start afresh. A stock Firefox is not sluggish or crashy.
You may want to chat with your corporate masters at AOL before you keep talking. I doubt they'll be pleased with one of their staffers going around publicly saying it's OK to lie.
TechCrunch is a rag and everybody knows it. It's the TMZ of the tech world. The response to this blog post by TC is even more indicative of the journalistic rot going on over there than this blog post.
There's an RSA app that you can download for your phone.
Here's how to make Firefox fast: uninstall Firebug.

A clean modern Firefox install is about as fast as Chrome and probably uses less memory per tab.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no reason to use Chrome. Firefox is about as fast, with similar memory usage. But Firefox has two major advantages.

The first is that Firefox has a lot more useful extensions available. You have to be careful because a lot of Firefox extensions suck, but Firefox extensions can do things that they aren't allowed to do on Chrome.

The second advantage is that Firefox is open source and it's easier to feel that it won't be tracking you. Yes, Chromium is open, but Chrome isn't Chromium.
German sources with further links and discussions:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/europaeische-ueberwachungs...

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kritik-an-geplanter-U...

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Fahndung-im-Datenraum-1074205...
Sean Parker’s $150,000 Drug-Fueled Halloween Party
Take a look at WebID which uses client certificates to give you that SSH-like convenience for identifying with sites

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/
No they don't. I bought one for $10
The Urbanite  Hertford
Hopefully the depopulation of the dolphin species (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting) has not caused significant loss of any complex language developed over time.

[In response to responder: Actually I think developing complex language with something like this would be relatively easy. With human language we can't just show a series of events with our words, people need to experience the things with us and then we develop common words to describe them again later. With their system of communication it seems that they could describe pretty much anything they'd find notable and also easily abstract things by just making their clicks less specific or by blending a few specific examples as a form of abstraction. Actually I'd bet on blending first, maybe even a literal superposition of all the possibilities or several of them. Also they might be able to communicate by acting things out physically while they are sounding things out. The combination could be pretty powerful for expression.]
Using jQuery Deferreds with Animations
The combination of the two would probably work even better. Carrot & stick. But if I had to choose one, I believe that the carrot would work better than the stick.
This is good news, and I'm a Kaspersky user.

However, I'm a little dubious, given his previous comments against anonymity on the Internet:

- - QUOTE - -

"Everyone should and must have an identification, or internet passport," he was quoted as saying. "The internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the US military. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong...to introduce it in the same way."

Kaspersky, whose comments are raising the eyebrows of some civil liberties advocates, went on to say such a system shouldn't be voluntary.

"I'd like to change the design of the internet by introducing regulation - internet passports, internet police and international agreement - about following internet standards," he continued. "And if some countries don't agree with or don't pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/kaspersky_rebukes_ne...
Not sure what you're referring to about the commercials and Apple's "presentation of [Siri] as strong AI" - every commercial I've seen has been of people issuing fairly simple queries that would be likely to succeed in the real world.
Cognitex Will Make You Smarter
This is fairly true, but it's still a potential factor depending on your SaaS setup.
I think there is a market for it, The other poster does have a point though, it is a single point of failure, from your site being compromised, point of view. You would have to think very hard about security, like a 2 phased strategy or something like that, where all the passwords are stored encrypted and your services does not have the key, the lock-down code, could be the key that the user provides, to unencrypted the passwords and site url's they go to.

The other option would be to make it a client side app, where they store the passwords locally and are responsible for their own security.

I don't know what your market looks like in terms of pay or free, I know I would not pay for it, but I am not many peoples target market. I usually an outlier when it comes to user demographics.
I am more pleased with Firefox8 than I ever was with Firefox3

But I have to use several more extensions to get back some features that were taken out.
I know this will come off as critical of the test, but maybe the real criticism should be directed at the institutions where this particular adult received his degrees. Maybe both systems are flawed.
Mischa barton bags
Chrome avoids it by installing into the User's own folder. Firefox is installed in Program Files, which requires user authorisation.

Arguably, this is the correct place to install, as it means that the application is usable by anyone on the PC, rather than having to be installed for each user individually.

You can find more information here: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/
I wouldn't worry about it. Knowing how science funding works in Poland, this grant was appropriated in order to buy some new hardware or renovate an old elevator.

:)
I use a good number of extensions, and the upgrade from 7 to 8 went cleanly. I think they've started to get a handle on it.
If the kernel is going to sleep when it shouldn't, that's a bug. I'd report it.
"Not a single one of them said that the math I described was necessary in their profession."

I know I'm biased. Geek is as geek does, but $deity almighty am I tired of that line. If simple math isn't valuable to your profession, it might at least be worth a think about how valuable your "profession" might be in the first place.

Some of the huge systemic problems we are facing right now may have something to do with the fact that we have entirely too many professions where it really doesn't matter if one could master simple math.
here's one in c++ : https://github.com/sholiday/cppBKTree
For me #1 is easy. Screw writing and reading, instead travel around the word, jump from planes, swim with sharks and die in months. 100% better then daily visits to a hospital for a handful of years.

What I, and a lot of people like me, are doing now by not doing #1 is gambling we'll get to do it in the future. This is an easily lost gamble, but oh well.
for the Ctrl-F: mirror
Sure, and any project manager worth his salt will ensure that the vendor does the minimum amount of work possible to fulfill the contract.
Yes, the copying was primarily of visual design. Of course, in our opinion, it's a poor copy, but they got acquired and we didn't, so who's to say? I just don't see how it's unethical to try to improve on what someone else has done, which I'm sure is how companies in these situations think of themselves.
A debate about html5
Just a heads up for those who use Vundle (and probably Pathogen, though I'm not familiar with it): I carelessly used the master branch instead of the 0.5 tag, and instructions for setting it up using master are VASTLY different from the 0.5 tag. Make sure to read the master branch README for installation rather than the 0.5 tag.
Use the diff renderer here to check:
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php
False. Most of computers don't calculate every digit separately but they start to test most used words then other variables. This means, Igotoschool is much easier to guess than 8h9. Hacking programs have dictionaries and most of passwords are plain words.
Eh, I appreciate the link, but I don't really see the connection. Aside from the common theme of radiation exposure, what you posted involves a medical technician performing unnecessary procedures on people. This makes it easy to demonstrate a) that the exposure occurred, b) that the tech knew the effect of the machine and that the procedure was unwarranted, and subsequently c)that his intention in doing this was to harm the victims, or something similarly sinister. It wasn't part of that appeal, but there's also the issue that he did this by taking x-ray images of women's bodies, and I'd imagine a large part of the conviction came from we really don't want a weirdo in the hospital getting off on x-raying female patients.

Never mind that it was a court-martial, and that he was convicted of multiple counts of drug use and dereliction of duty at the same time.

All in all, it has very little in common with our hypothetical, in which one invisibly, untraceably exposes members of the public at large to some unknown dose of ionizing radiation over a period of time. And you've really done nothing to address my observation that, in reality, people get away with that all the time in the form of environmental contamination. We can prove he ate the fish, we can prove he died of cancer, we can prove you're putting cancer in the water. That's just not enough to convict you for his death-- the worst you'll face is a stiff fine under a law that exists only to impose a stiff fine if you put cancer in the water and somebody dies.
Is Design outdoing Engineering?
I mostly use Org for taking notes on classes and projects. I don't (yet) use Org for events.

Does this answer your question: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/282143/org.png

(That is a fullscreen Emacs with 3 Org buffers and a Deft search.)
ECommerce Goes Personal [Infographic]
Infographic that summarizes the effect of personalization techniques in ECommerce websites.
What's the purpose of using Firefox if you lose all your customizations? Just like Emacs, Firefox rules because it's customizable. On my Linux box, Firefox crashes tens of times a day. I've not dumped it yet because it's the only browser which allows me to customize pages' colors in a reliable way.
Since I had a glancing collision on a single track road last year (UK greenbelt outside London), I've been much more cautious to the point of avoiding them sometimes.
For the ones that aren't formatted randomly in Excel:

library(RODBC)

channel <- odbcConnectExcel("myExcelFile.xls")

myDataFrame <- sqlFetch(channel, "Sheet1")

odbcCloseAll()

write.csv(

file = paste("myExcelFile", "Sheet1.csv"),

myDataFrame,

row.names = F

)
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Startups, like TechCrunch, are free to refuse to embargoes or even break them altogether if they think the extra publicity is worth more than building bridges with one media organisation.
Yup, I think what is novel here and led to these results is that the dolphin researchers invented a device for generically converting audio into pictures.
pay once, use forever

Don't hesitate to charge a reasonable monthly fee. There's a lot of room to undercut the existing players (newrelic et al) and still make it a sustainable business.
There is a wide continuum between what the Googles of the world hires and 'scraps.'[1] You're also falling into the all developers are on HN and live in SV trap. What most businesses would do best with is to hire a small team of good devs who can learn the business and do more than just development. This will require more up front work from the business, but will get the project (and others) complete much easier in the long run.

[1] I've never interviewed at any of those so maybe I'm scraps. Every company I've worked for though is still using my software internally to make them better than their competitors.
This may sound weird, but after using the bathroom some people wipe while standing up and some wipe while sitting down. And each group (in general) is shocked to find out that there is another way to do it.

Not computer related but i find it fascinating that so many people do something one way, and are totally shocked, mind-blown to find out that it can be done another way too.
I'm still quite skeptical that the dolphins have complex shared language with features like recursion, but it's possible that the storytelling via pictures could get complex... I guess we'll see.
Honestly I think this is a good thing.
Yep. (I don't recall whether Verizon charges me 10 or 20 cents per text, but it's one of the two.)
Wow. I really tried to listen to her. Unbearable.

Skip to 37:50. "the project is not planned/scheduled to be a real life product". Really, this is about money for the researchers.
Real life projects like this? I guess goverments have been working on those for some time now.
I linked to the original source below, which is a little woo-ey in spirit, but seems sincere, at least. I agree it's unfortunate that this isn't already wrapped in the language of science and academia, but if these results are true that should happen well within the next decade. I think the point of skepticism or thing to investigate is the CymaScope -- where there is room to falsify these results, it is via that device. http://www.cymascope.com/cetacean.html
Is the author really wasting time worrying about this? TechCrunch's market power seems a lot less permanent to me than the existence of cliques in high school. Enough negative stories like this one can cost TC enough readers and enough influence that it is no longer the dominant source of news about the startup community, and can't push around young companies any more. That sounds like a real change in the world that would be great for startups, and not a waste of time ta all.
This makes me angry. How did this man get to his current position? I can't possibly understand how he did not know any of the math questions. I'm sure even I would have forgotten some of the trig, but to not know ANY? But I hear people saying, "his job didn't require much in the way of math." Granted, but I'm sure his job requires lots of reading, and he got a 62%?

The real tragedy is that this man was able to rise as high as he did, and our current system supports it.
E.E.

mag1@ang1 * mag2@ang2 = (mag1*mag2)@(ang1+ang2)

Do circle arc with start point and length. Cannot use x^2+y^2=r^2, but can use rotation formula I just posted.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\PILGRIM.TXT

ssed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life;
but as God would have it, while Apollyon was fetching of his
last blow, thereby to make a full end of this good man, Christian
nimbly stretched out his hand for his sword, and caught it, saying,
"Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fall I shall arise"
[Micah 7:8];

Christian's victory over Apollyon

and with that gave him a deadly thrust, which made him give back,
as one that had received his mortal wound. Christian perceivi

----

http://www.losethos.com/files/SimStrSetup.exe Key:A18-W50-U50

Die Satan!

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\2CITIES.TXT

I am not fit to

be pitted against you to-night. Is the teaboard still there, Lucie?
I can't see."

"Of course, it has been kept for you."

"Thank ye, my dear. The precious child is safe in bed?"

"And sleeping soundly."

"That's right; all safe and well! I don't know why anything should
be otherwise than safe and well here, thank God; but I have been so
put out all day, and I am not as young as I was! My tea, my dear!
Thank ye. Now, come and take your place in the circle, and let us
si
It is easy to say that pain would be worth dealing with but in reality the majority of the healthy public has no understanding of what true chronic pain entails. Ask anyone who has worked in long term or hospice care this question and you will likely find an overwhelming majority choosing option 1. The reality is that in the US death and dying are still anathema.
This is why I always roll my eyes when people analyze passwords that have been exposed from consumer sites. Is it really meaningful that XYZ news/gaming site has 10% usage of the word 'password' as a password?
No, the individual developers from Gowalla were involved in the Rails community. Gowalla, as a company, was not.
Exactly. "We need a new camera-equipped elevator for the project".