skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And of course, the problem with Rand's philosophy is exactly the same as that of Communism, altruism, and religion. Both could work perfectly well, were human nature different.
Like all other "breakthroughs": it sounds great but I'll only get excited when/if it's actually been commercialized and available for purchase.
Love the idea, very simple and quite fresh. Though I agree with others that the service will require awareness. I doubt people will want to provide personal information without knowing the source. Still I can't help but think that an idea like this will quickly spread. Good job!
It seems like this guy violated Facebook's Terms of Service, so they shut down his account. I don't understand how violating Facebook's ToS gives Facebook the right to sue. I was asking about that legal detail.

If a business were to pay 5000 third-party individuals to "Like" a page, that business might not have a Facebook page and may have never agreed to the Facebook ToS. In such a case it seems to me that Facebook's only option would be to shut down the 5000 accounts who posted fraudulent Likes.

How does one distinguish a fraudulent Like from a true Like? If someone gave me money to Like something, I might go check it out, and actually, truly, like it. Then what? What if I Liked the thing but gave the money back? It seems to me that a judge or jury would have to decide these things, after gathering evidence and testimony, and there's no way to scale that.

Obviously Facebook will be able to find the businesses offering to pay for Likes, but I don't see how they can go after them (legally) if they have no direct connection to Facebook.

(The 'Like Store' in this story did have a direct connection to Facebook, so Facebook was able to shut that down and able to invoke the Facebook ToS.)
Wow.

I understood the argument that the speed of the Earth's orbit dominated the Moon's, but I was having a really tough time visualizing it. The wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Path_of_Earth...) has a diagram that explains it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_trajectory1.svg)
I sold my startup. Here's my story.
digitally imported or something...
I don't need convincing. I am aware that it is a bad thing. I am also aware that Google getting involved is a bad thing. I am also aware that the people on the other side of the argument aren't necessarily bad or uneducated people like the person I was replying to claimed.
JQTouch Upcoming Features: Zepto, SASS, Compass
Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears
Heh, another thing that the mass media tries to get me excited with, and just baits and switches with more of that good ole coal and oil.

Who cares if they discovered it if I can never buy it.
Would it matter if their contract stated that a "takedown" issued by UMG constitutes an implicit DMCA request? It seems plausible that Google could have worded it in that way.
Optimizing a gaussian blur on the GPU
First constructive comment I read.
Hi, thanks - that's definitely a bug I need to fix.
There are certain skills that are considered to be necessary over others. Literacy is a good example. Math is another.

There are other skills that might have less of an impact than literacy, but have a direct impact on society and the quality of life for everyone. History and science are good examples here. History because being knowledgeable about the politics of yesterday helps in framing political decisions today. Science because our lives have been affected by (and improved by) science for the past few hundred years.

Having a populous that's informed about the benefits of science and technology and how they affect all of our lives should help everyone make better decisions regarding the two -- from a mom who mixes ammonia and bleach to clean her floor to the congressman who brushed off Vint Cerf's testimony during the SOPA hearing with a comment about nerds.

So, while we should encourage people to follow their passions and explore interesting topics, I'm comfortable saying that we should encourage certain things like math, reading, science, and history over game design, running a business, or basket weaving.
I would like to see congress men get fired if SOPA incident is over.
There's an Arch Linux dev that maintains a custom repo with Aurora builds and matching Aurora Pentadactyl packages in the AUR, for those on the distro.

A quick search on "Heftig Repo" should bring up the correct results, and the BBS thread is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157
emacs --daemon/emacsclient is pretty awesome for remote work, and it cuts down on startup performance issues when emacs is configured to interpret .el files via NFS.
I agree and I'd support Google putting a message about SOPA on their homepage. However, the commenter above also has a point in that corporations shouldn't be involved in politics.

I'd go a step further and advocate pushing to get ALL the money out of politics. That said, with the way things work at this very moment, anti-SOPA needs all the corporate sponsorship it can get.

My hope is that people will once again be the biggest voice in government instead of corporations.
Wow this is a great hackathon project. It's simple, but something that people will actually want to use after the hackathon. I do agree that the message may need some tuning up though. Maybe say "John is using anonysize.me to ask you for your size" etc. It adds some credibility even though no one has heard of you, and it leads to brand awareness, advertising, and hopefully more users (this is just based on the text message on your homepage, however).
I like how it can be configured to not completely take over your desktop; remote windows and local windows can coexist, like Xsession forwarding but much more performant.
Well, you see I specified "opposite sex".
I have to open up documentation all the time when I'm working, hes just hacking away... its beautiful.
Windows NX client treats me well. The lack of free resize hasn't bothered me yet as my workstation is really just a thin client with Outlook, so I just maximize the NX session.
The hosting agreement for the video is purely between YouTube and the uploaders, though. Both YouTube and the uploaders can make a case for tortious interference.
Responding to spam at all lets the spammer know that they've got a "live one" on the other end of the email/phone.
Side note: Not even WaPo can seem to get it right. The unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil" not "Do no evil", which is what they have as one of their photo captions.
So, use the web's strengths and create a dynamic layout manager in javascript, that can be defined through some superset of html and css?
They described the plastic as 'organic', hopefully this means it comes from somewhere other than from petroleum - does anyone know enough to comment?

If it means organic as in 'carbon-based compound' then it's just redundant.
AdBlock.
Link to source, which includes slides and examples:
http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~fpereira/classes/gpuOpt/

You might also be interested in the work of a prof at the University of Alberta, Jose Nelson Amaral.

A Complete Descritpion of the UnPython and Jit4GPU Framework
https://www.cs.ualberta.ca/system/files/tech_report/2011/Gar...

Jit4OpenCL: A Compiler from Python to OpenCL
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~amaral/thesis/XunhaoLiMSc.pdf
Lynx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) This is the most minimal browser I've ever used. It doesn't even have javascript. A lot of the web isn't supported on it due to the lack of javascript support.
My question is how could they filter further down than we are able to work with? Wouldn't it get to the point where they would just have to say "Unplug the servers or else?"

I am the first to admit I don't know much about the stack here, I haven't looked much into anything deeper than DNS resolving the IP's with http. What would the next level of filtering be?
I have a SGSII in my hand right now and I can reach every part of the screen with my thumb. Either I have huge hands (I dont't) or the OP has really tiny hands.
Android fragmentation is not the same matter that was being referred to here. A better analogy might be Android and MeeGo or OpenMoko.

Having a real choice is great in my opinion, and having three mainstream browsers (one open, one mostly open, and one totally closed) to choose between is awesome.
Men are a significant minority of rape victims (5 to 10%). However more than 99% of perpetrators are males.
What if we make requests to have all UMG material removed, even if we don't own it? It sounds like the DMCA would protect us according to UMG.
I'm also not willing to use it until I can authenticate without giving this information:

Your profile info: birthday, hometown and location
Friends' hometowns
Friends' locations

I'm taking a year off work and traveling across the world for 2012 and would love to use the app but I see no reason for it to want that information.

My friends are already my friends on facebook, so I don't need them on the site, I need to find new people.
what i don't understand about this is that clearly UMG has some special access or privileges with youtube. why hasn't youtube taken that access away?

if i file a DMCA complaint as a random nobody, google reviews it at their convenience before acting, right? and if google catches me abusing the system, they're going to take some action against me. imho, if UMG is going to abuse the process youtube should treat them like any other random dude. their takedown requests can go into a queue and get reviewed by google rather than being processed automatically, say at a rate of about one per day.
Can someone extract and de-obfuscate (or de-compress) the snow JS here so other people can use this on their sites?
Bringing H.P. Lovecraft's Tales to Life
Groubids: a new concept of auctions.
Wow, that was an obscure and surprisingly entertaining analogy. How'd you learn of that?
Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible
There is also JRebel, which goes beyond hot code replacement:

http://zeroturnaround.com/jrebel/

Works with pretty much anything JVM.
Too Busy To Think About Life
Sometimes I get the feeling that when we had less data, we were forced to think harder and more daringly.
I feel we lack new groundbreaking theoretical framework because of this.

I don't know if Newton's law's would jump out of the paper if you simply threw a ball at one million different vectors.
What I find most interesting is that despite seeing this video linked here at least five times, I still haven't watched it, because it's an ad and I hate ads. Viral marketing fail.
If I have a cell phone number in Toronto, move to Montreal, and call somebody across the street in Montreal... I pay the rate from Toronto to Montreal.

I know because I was surprised with $400 cell phone bills maxing out my credit cards after a few months over there, thinking the exact same thing, that I paid "the rate from their location to the destination area code" - which we do not.
I would be very concerned if the solar energy output doubled. I don't have nearly enough insulation in my house, and I'm rather fond of the oceans.
He didn't say uneducated, just uninformed.
Same here. At first, I thought "Like This" was the same thing for me to like it on Facebook. You may want to phrase that somewhat differently.

Love the concept! Good luck!
Dammit, I found about it just now, does anybody know if there's going to be a recording of the stream on youtube or elsewhere?
This is awesome. Now if only Zappos had an affiliate program so you could make some money off of these clicks too.... Oh wait! We do!
Hrm. Xsnow did that back in the 90ies. Wonder if they'll do an xroach thing where you click on results and the roaches scurry out from under them to other result blocks...
> Rape makes up only 6% of violent crimes, and men are much more commonly the victim of violent crimes than women.

Most victims of violent crimes are known offenders or their relatives. An overwhelming majority of offenders are male (see the proportion of male vs female in jail).

> Nice ad hominem.

It's ad personam if you want. You go straight to the usual tactic of pretending that it's the victim fault. Take some time to imagine yourself in the situations represented before being a judgemental jerk.

See this post for a good explanation:
http://hugoboy.typepad.com/hugo_schwyzer/2004/09/guilty_unti...
xsnow anyone, like 20 years ago? Awesome!
Let's put the "interview" part of this aside. I think the biggest problem here is anxiety. There's a lot riding on the outcome of this conversation and that makes you choke. I suffer similarly and, agreeing with the other reply, practice is what it takes! There's a particular frame of mind that you can develop which turns these "interviews" into just another conversation. For me, the easiest way I was able to achieve this was by doing a lot of interviews.

Go to college job boards and blanket apply to everything. Learn what they are looking for in their hire and try your hardest to come across as that person. You don't have to lie. But applying for a job which you're not qualified (even remotely) will do a few things for you:

a) Most importantly, you don't care if you fumble. Enough rounds of not caring will become habit-forming after some time. The goal of these interviews is not to get the job. (A job offer will always help your ego, but you'll also learn how to say "no" and politely decline opportunities which aren't inline with your goals....another really helpful skill.) The primary goal is to help you stop caring about the outcome and focusing more about the conversation and providing value to the interviewer. They could be asking you about programming languages which you're not familiar with, but what's to stop you from sharing your interest in learning new languages and offering relevant anecdotes that communicate the value that you suspect the interviewer is looking for. (The skill here is reading people and understanding conversation flow.)

b) You'll improve your awareness of what companies are actually looking for in a developer. You'll learn where to best focus your time... what technologies, what tools are they using, what algorithms they are interested in, etc... Job descriptions aren't always reflective of what they are really looking for and talking with companies directly will help flesh these details out for you and give you a better professional roadmap than any university could give you.

c) You'll also learn that being a good developer isn't just about knowing algorithms and tools. Really good software engineers know how to put systems together in non-obvious ways. Being able to design solutions around impossible problems is a skill EVERYONE needs. Interviewers will constantly try to challenge you to understand your methodology and approach to solving these problems. "How many gas stations are optimal in a city?" "What is the optimal placement of a parked elevator in a 10-story building?" "What if there are two elevators? How does your algorithm change?" These questions can be tough, but practice will be the equalizer you need to really do well.

Some people might feel like this creates a lot of overhead for interviewers and is bad form. I completely disagree. But that's another conversation altogether. Hope this gives you some food for thought. Follow questions are welcome.
Sprinkle - Asset management library for CodeIgniter
Sprinkle is an asset management library for CodeIgniter which seeks to simplify the process of loading assets on the page. The library includes key features such as auto-loading, combining, minifying CSS or JS files, caching, and much more.
I'll believe it when the headline reads "Breakthrough doubles solar energy..." not "could".
The topic in question is not so far removed from the site's purpose to deem that it's "whatever the most people feel like discussing".

You are correct in that somebody must draw some kind of line somewhere in the sand... but I believe that Somebody jumped the gun on this one, as they have on many of my questions to similar websites in the past.

I think it's more of an elitist thing. "I know the exact rules better than you know the exact rules."

When a user needs to know and abide by every rule of every website on the net, the internet is immediately less interesting.
I read the "GOOG's dearly" part as "dear to Google" not "developed by Google". Google did use Perforce in the past and they still do, probably.

I think that the GP used the phrase correctly, but not being a native English speaker myself, I'm not entirely sure.
This article isn't meant to be a comprehensive list of all SCM systems or even all of the important ones. It's just a list of all of the big technological advancements. Perforce is a good system but it was never revolutionary.
You could search on Altavista for nice Javascript snow effects.
I'm looking at this from a developer's point of view too. I agree with Stallman on a lot of points. I dislike some of the malicious code he talks about and I also believe it is important to be able to view source. But we already have that without the FSF. This belief that all software should be free (as in liberty free) is unacceptable. We should be able to choose what happens to our work. There is a place in this world for both types of software. I love OS X. Now, it doesn't matter whether you like it or not too, what matters here is that I really don't think that the FOSS community could have built something as wonderful as that OS without the resources of a large company. Ubuntu is great and comes closest to being a real replacement for proprietary OSes but the design of the Mac and the whole ecosystem that Stallman hates is actually an incentive to choose it! I love the walled garden of the iTunes, app store, and Mac platform in general because it gives me everything I need. I don't cry about not being able to modify or see the code and Im happy to pay because I get a ton of value from it.

On the other hand I also have a Linux machine. I love switching distros frequently, using the free software that comes with it and being able to mod my system however I want.

My point is that eradicating proprietary software hurts people just as much as if we were to eradicate the FOSS movement. People choose their platform based on what they're able to do. Most users aren't programmers and prefer Windows or Mac over Linux because it's well known, easy, and gets the job done. I'm glad we have FOSS too though. Why can't the two coexist? Why is proprietary always evil? What's wrong with making money? As it stands we're living in an amazing time where we have the best of both worlds and both sides are playing to their strengths in the greatest of ways.
Sent you an email. :)
I think it's a combination of UMG having a massive army of lawyers and youtube/google not wanting to have to fight them.

However instances like this abuse of the DMCA might be grounds for youtube/google to have a form of restraining order placed on UMG. It would seriously hamper UMG's efforts if they had to prove conclusively that a file was infringing. That would quickly put them to a one-a-day rate if they had to give proof that the file in question wasn't under fair use/review/parody etc.
Great idea. Very interested to see the follow through on this and to see if there are any connections to be made in my area.
It's easy to forget that we are living in a golden age of version control systems. The market is rife with many fairly decent commercial systems and some of the best, state-of-the-art systems are completely free.
OT, I was surprised to learn the other day that Franken is one of the sponsors of PIPA, the Senate's counter-part to SOPA.

One of a few things I've noticed over the last year-plus that make it pretty clear that (even) Franken is a mixed bag and not entirely the/a "technologist's" friend.

Let me see... reference:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111203/00494716961/some-d...

Over the years, I've learned to "idolize" very few people, and only with a lot of consideration. My immediate example aside, Franken's political/Senate career is simply too short to be the basis for such strong feeling.

Look at Obama. Many people "idolized" him (including, apparently, "a bunch of Norwegians") and are feeling a keen disappointment.

P.S. I wasn't too surprised, though. Continuing into his Senate career, Franken's had strong ties with the entertainment industry.
There's a great open source snow JavaScript available here: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/
Dell quits netbooks, says 'thin and powerful is where it's at'
Lawsuits mounting against Grooveshark
I think there is an essay in there somewhere. The tools for looking for and correlating data are getting better faster than we can respond intelligently to them. I recall how silly I felt the government's TIA (total information awareness) plan was but its less silly now. But governments aside, what happens when person A takes a picture of person B who is sharing lunch with them, and behind them at a booth is Person C having a lunch with person D who should not be associating with person C. The tool picks up both person C and D's face and tags three recognizable people, B, C, and D in the photo. And person E, perhaps the spouse of person C, gets 'C was tagged in a photo' showing up in C's stream and it comes as a rude surprised to person E.

Kinda creepy.
Did you do all the design and development yourself?
And just wait until you have to internationalise it...
A Universal Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life
what a fucking shitty article
I think your solution is perfect for problem. The biggest gripe I have with PHP is the mail interface. When you outgrow your currently solution, the next step I'd take is use your PHP solution to pass the mail request to a mail service provider. That will give you the most bang for your buck without added complexity.

If you're feeling really brave and really want to roll your own solution, try to find a way to cheaply create a HTTP POST interface that you could point your form at to process your request. A python/django instance could do this but might be a lot of overhead for just a mail processor, for example.

Just don't try to over engineer it. :)
It's a very bad habit to use -p for every invocation of mkdir, and it's not appropriate in any of the examples where it's used. For one thing, it will never complain if you get the path wrong (provided you have the necessary permissions) which is particularly undesirable when doing remote work.
Zynga shares sink in morning trade on Nasdaq
Doesn't seem to work on ipad
I tried to type in Maui as a trip i'm planning and it doesn't find it?
Nodester's open source Node.JS PaaS adds its REST API to Apigee's API Explorer
Wait a minute now. Are those really a user's basic rights? Who is Stallmam to decide for both users and developers what our rights are? If users get those rights then developers have theirs taken from them.

This is unique to software and it isn't right. There's an underlying sense of entitlement to this that I don't agree with. No one is entitled to the right to modify my work and redistribute it. That completely undermines the developer and there's no incentive for people to innovate. It's a free for all where everyone rips everyone else off. This only works if everyone holds firm to Stallmam's beliefs.

If we want to talk about rights and freedom, how about the right for everyone to choose. As it stands now we all can choose to make or use software that allows us to modify, extend, or distribute or we can choose to go proprietary. Both have their merits for both users and developers. These aren't really rights at all. Anything that takes freedom from one group and shifts it to another isn't freedom at all.

Stallman's entire ideology is built around a false choice. This shouldn't be free or proprietary, it should be free and proprietary.
I hear the world's tiniest violin playing for a country that consistently attracts the world's brightest and most entrepreneurial people from other countries. With a population density that starts off small before you even consider that almost all of the entire country is habitable...

You're right. It's just math. You just don't understand that math.