skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice to have some on-screen indicator that the app is capable of burning battery though. I wouldn't mind knowing, for example, to force-quit the Skype completely before leaving on holidays so I can have more battery life on the plane. Just a small badge would be nice.
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Faction warfare.

EDIT: I got downvoted, without a reply. So, explain how doing this sort of thing is not faction warfare?

The details of israeli credit is leaked by anons from the house of Saud. This is clearly a faction issue. It is not likely government sponsored (though likely condoned) and as a religious rift exists between jews and muslims, the word faction applies perfectly.

Jews, muslims, christians; all factions within religious zealotry.
If the tech is geared in that direction, you may want to reconsider the name of the service. I currently live in NYC, and I never really carpool because none of my friends need or have cars.

We do, however, meet up at bars, restaurants, and concerts, and this would be a cool way to get an accurate headcount for things like that. Very cool stuff, man!
Zero Day Reflected Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress 3.3
Agreed here. While it would satisfy the curiosity of people, it is not really all that relevant how he died, just that he is now dead.

There are rumors, but there's no point talking about them because there's no facts behind them. You may as well say he was killed fighting a dropbear.
This can also be found distributed with Emacs.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/JOKES?h=...

... Along with a bunch of other jokes, most of them making fun of Emacs. It's been there since ancient times.
The clip at 0:25 he's referring to is Senator Carl Levin (Democrat from Michigan and Chairman of the Armed Services Committee) speaking in front of the Senate, as broadcast by C-SPAN. So it seems to be quite credible.
What was your first computer and what were some of your favorite games?
That's just weird. There's no supported way to tell what apps are actually in memory. The list in the bottom when you double-click the home button just shows all recently used apps, even if they've been purged.
One example: the free software movement should lead to a better DNS system where governments and corporations will have no control over how and where we access information online. I continue to support the EFF and groups like it in order to have funds directed into research on critical issues like this. Would you prefer a GPL DNS or proprietary?
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Stallman has been talking about and focusing about a hell of a lot more than just free software for a long time.

Check out the short story, "The Right To Read" by Stallman. People used to think these sorts of warnings were crazy... now they are practically reality.
TIMGroup do, and we are a product company, not a consultancy. (We don't use it exclusively, but certainly pair very frequently.)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
The signing is pure politics. He has to pick his battles and by making a point on civil liberties and playing up to the libertarian crowd he is not going to win a vote. He is more likely going to "make a point" on social issues aka health care, welfare and so on - things that play well with his electorate.
Reboot your Mac into recovery mode (hold Cmd+R on bootup), its in one of the menus there.
Mixergy is awesome. The thing I love about it is that it gives you tons of things to try out.

No one single interview is going to give you the silver bullet for your business, though. In fact, many times you'll hear one interviewee say "Tactic X was wonderful" and then another say "Tactic X was worthless."

But there's so many good interviews and Andrew is great at extracting the core of the ideas that there's no reason you or I couldn't try the tactics and see how they work in our respective situations.
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Thanks Jeremy! You just made my day. :)
If something is leaky, it's worth force killing it then, right?
Is public school teacher a desireable profession in the US? Is it anywhere near the level of prestige associated with lawyers or doctors? How is the pay? This is one of they key differences that's repeated in nearly every one of the numerous articles I've read about the Finnish school system, and it's the one single thing US really could do a lot about.
1. Nothing much (you could bring up eLearning and multimedia learning aids, I guess), it was tangentially related to the meta-topic of articles which compare European successes and American failures (usually in the domain of 'social programs')

2. Yes, but America innovates far more. A huge part of Finland's economy is Nokia, which manufactures an American invention. Put bluntly, we all get a free ride off America's investment in R&D. Just something to keep in mind when you think about 'changing the system' or even just measuring it.
From $100 MIT handcrank laptops to a $25 Raspberry Pi
The gap you refer to, probably has more to do with Finish immigration policy than the ability of the Finish education system to adapt to the needs of immigrant children.

Both Australia and Canada practise a Skills-based immigration policies. In Australia in paticular, the children of immigrants do better at school than native children. Teriary educated immigrantion applicants are far more likely to be accepted, and seems to have a large effect on PISA scores.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-EMpadQx4hM/TRKZ5kB-49I/AAAAAAAAAY...
Career Recruiting Goes Viral with Ongig
Well, if Buddy spent two years writing the algorithms to dynamically place the names on the on-line maps, how is that placement "happenstance"? Just as much effort went into it as went into the hand-drawn map...
The Hacks That Mattered in the Year of the Hack
If this applies as you say, what's the purpose of Obama's signing statement? It seems like it would be unnecessary.

(You're right that this is in the bill, as I just verified here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-11...)
Yep, appears to be down at the moment.
"If you are packaging ed for a distribution, please, try to use the lzipped source tarball, as this can improve the support for the lzip format in packaging systems. Thanks."

Great. Now we have .xz, .lzip (.lz) and .lzma. Not to mention .7z - all using basically the same compression engine, with just enough differences to make them incompatible with each other.
That would be a difficult law to enforce without declaring martial law. If smartphones are any indication, it's difficult to design a device that cannot be convinced to run unauthorized code.
Bad (my unfavorable review of Bob Martin’s Ruby keynote)
Many processors, computers and hard drives have dedicated AES encryption chips, the battery hit is pretty much nonexistent on these computers.
Good stuff Vincent! Wrote a similar piece a month ago:'Stop Launching Shitty MVP’s in Competitive Markets' http://bit.ly/vZXlN3
I would imagine the same people and groups that have problems with Politifact also have problems with NYT much like the other side has problems with the WSJ and Fox News.
Jumpman jr on C64: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7TUaDdJvQ

Oh, and Pogo Joe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zANCp41DEo0
I chose Cincinnati to match up with the examples in the Slate article.
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I can't argue with the theory presented in the article - and I read it very, very carefully. All I can do is present the reality, and demonstrate it conflicts with the theory.

The reality is that certain apps on IOS can continue to run in the background - whether that's because they are polling the GPS radio, waiting for a VOIP connection, or something else - I don't know. All I know, (And I'm speaking here as an owner of the Original iPhone, 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S who uses his iPhone multiple times, every waking hour) is that sometimes the iPhone gets hot, and the battery starts moving to 0 from a full charge in a matter of hours - when it does this, if I either (A) Reboot the iPhone or (B) shut down all of the apps listed in the "Recently used" task bar, then my iPhone is (1) No longer hot, and (2) experiences normal battery drain.

I reference the Android/ICS model because at least in _that_ world (and remember - I'm a dedicated apple users) I could tell you which of the Apps was actually sucking my battery dry.

If this were science, then it would be useful to collect a large number of observations that conflicted with accepted theory, to determine if (A) there was measurement error on the part of the observer - for example, perhaps I didn't wait 10 minutes after hitting the home button before waiting for the iPhone to cool down, or (B) There is a problem with the theory.

My belief is that it's (C) The theory is accurate, it just doesn't recognize that Apps will sometimes run in the background using more CPU than the user is aware they are, or wants them to. I just wish I had a tool to tell me _which_ app it was - then I could just shut down that _single_ app, instead of my existing reboot/shut-them-all-down approach.
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Curious to see how the general consensus of Anonymous falls in line with this. Lets not forget the long history of black hats in Israel.
Oh, youth!
Ok. I see now how this can be abused.
Is it saying:

(A) United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the US, or (any other persons who are caputred or arrested in the US)

OR

B) (United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the US, or any other persons) who are caputred or arrested in the US

If one reads this as B, then once a citizen accused of being a terrorist steps foot outside of the country, they are screwed.
Richard Stallman may have been right about the issue but that doesn't mean is approach to solving these issues nor his philosophy are in the same bucket.

I'd say he's always been right to a point since what he said years ago was true then and happens to be true now at a larger scale. It's not necessarily prophetic, just keenly observant. Likewise we have more free software options today than we did in the past.

My personal opinion is that it'd be wrong to get rid of either end. Eliminating freedom from software ecosystems would be disastrous. Likewise, I don't think free solves all of our software problems either (one could possibly abstain from many things but that's avoiding not solving the problem). SOPA needs to be stopped but lets not assume that non-free software needs to be limited because of this. Live and let live (and never let your guard down).
Wow. Just two days ago I wondered how the world would look like without being plastered with every kind of advertisment. I have to say I am so sick of going through my city and being bombarded with attention suckers from every direction. Same thing on the internet when I'm trying to read an article that is left aligned, makes up 20% of my monitor width and has blinking ads all around it.

I AM SICK OF IT. I would love to see a new movement to lower the amount of ads we are faced with each day and give us back our ability to concentrate on what's really important.
You're saying something different. "can run unauthorized code" is different from "must run this closed-source software". Both could be true at the same time.

What good is your free, open, secure channel if your phone is also a running mandatory rootkit, containing a GPS tracker and keylogger? See also: Carrier IQ.
The goal is not to create any type of job. You want jobs to be useful and create value for people. Otherwise you end up doing absurd things like hiring window breakers to create more window repair work.

Increasing the amount of advertising redistributes value instead of creating new value. It's a classic example of a prisoner's dilemma. Everyone does better individually by advertising more, but when everyone advertises more they do worse.

From the perspective of society, money spent on advertising is almost entirely wasted. It could be better spent on other things, like making air travel cheaper.

I know advertising does have a useful purpose: a mechanism to inform people about things they didn't know. But the amount of advertising necessary to achieve that purpose is minimal. Creating laws that limit advertising to that minimal amount is a net benefit to society.
I've heard that North Korea does something similar. People can buy software at Universities, etc. without question, but to get a computer they must go through the government.
The Finnish schools are equal in the sense that socio-economic background has a smaller effect on study outcomes than elsewhere (and the difference between worst and best performers is small). If the US schools would pay more attention to this, it would be one significant attempt to improve their study outcomes. This could affect both the immigrant and the non-immigrant lower social classes (as well as "underachievers").

As to immigrants causing non-immigrants to perform badly, that's how I understand the arguments that concentrate on the immigration differences while that's hardly the only difference between the two countries (as if the poor in the US didn't lower the average as well, and as if the scores of the Caucasian students weren't below Finland as well).

As to the proposed mechanism, I could imagine school funds and teacher resources being directed towards integrating the immigrants in the school. At least in Finland it is a concern, as the schools have less funds than the US ones.
I've used Sozi once before and it's pretty impressive for what it is and far easier to use than the tool we're discussing here - mainly because Inkscape is so cool.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not talking about how to design a society, I'm talking about a necessary aspect of the relationship between government and the governed. Simply, the government cannot force you to do what it wants all the time. It's impossible, even for brutal totalitarian governments. A few slip through the nets.

For a light example, think about speeding, or carpool lane compliance. Most of the time, there is actually no one to stop or punish you for speeding or driving in the carpool lane with the wrong number of people. Most people do the right thing anyway. This is good.

So any compliance with its laws is largely voluntary, based on, among other things, the value provided by the government and the obvious benefits to everyone if everyone follows the law.
The current DNS system is based almost entirely on GPL software...
The key bit of information that was missed from the piece is that, I'm guessing, the iMac is linked up in mirror mode to the Thunderbolt display on the other person's desk... so they are each seeing the same thing on their own computer.

From the photo it wasn't clear if one person had the iMac and the other had a MacBook plugged into the Thunderbolt display -- which left me wondering how they were actually pair-programming.
Quite a lot of published maps pass through Illustrator or similar at some stage for careful human retouching and intervention. For larger scale (quantity, not map scale) stuff then you tend to have a source data set containing the raw geospatial data and feed that through a series of processes to handle styling, annotation placement and white space management, and even division into map sheets.

Engineering maps tend to be generated far more directly from the source data, and as the quality of things like Google maps improves it gets harder and harder to meet people's cartographic expectations without human intervention.
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Interesting. I wonder, have there been other examples of religiously-motivated hacks on this scale?
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Its a lot less common to see someone set up shop for a full-blown workstation with their iPad. Sure, you can sit down and work for hours on an iPad (especially if you bring a separate keyboard) but I doubt many people would do this without some other circumstance that prevents them from bringing a laptop. I doubt that's going to change for a while.
I don't think it's a matter of where it went and more a matter that we never attained it, we used to call it the software crisis, but the point is that quality or lack there of has always been an issue with software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis
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It doesn't matter.
What matters is that KGB is still called KGB.
Our western friends no doubt are going to setup colorful clusterfuck like they did it in Georgia/Ukraine/Egypt/Tunis.
Without doubt it will happen if it will pass in Russia.
It's unplausible for unused space on the harddisk to be random due to the way filesystems work. Random data is likely to be encrypted data.
At the risk of adding very little, I'll say that I just got that same 3.4GHz iMac at work (with just the SSD) and it has RUINED me on everything else. It's the best computer I've ever used, including and since my Commodore 64.
You have to understand that the system isn't that simple. Bills do not exist in a vacuum. You cannot view these things as independent and completely unrelated to everything else going around it.

Yes, the President could veto the bill but then the next few months becomes about him veto-ing a military appropriations bill. He would then need to explain to the American public why the freedoms it eroded were unacceptable and that their loved ones serving this country couldn't buy milk for a month. It would consume a significant amount of time and resources.

Like shadowfiend, I'm not defending the decision to make civil liberties a lower priority than other issues (I am vehemently against that), but if you want to be someone that is more than a whiner then you need to first understand and then work to change it.
>They're putting their collective time, effort, and (most importantly) money into something

The Occupy protesters put their BODIES into something. Both approaches are important.
I'd say that his examples did a per capita output of significant innovations was perfectly respectable per capita, unless you can list a comparatively impressive list of achievements for Minnesota, which certainly benefits more from national network effects like a large domestic market than Finland.

China being less innovative than the US over the last 20 years might owe much to their population starting the era in absolute poverty, and is largely irrelevant to whether a linguistically isolated small country ought to be leading the world in more fields of R&D other than telephony.

A little further research suggests that Finland also invented IRC and one of the first graphical web browsers. If you were going to draw any conclusions about the impact on educational emphasis on equality on Finnish inventiveness it would surely be that their software engineers weren't as focused on monetising as their US counterparts.
Stay classy...
I completely adore breads, (more than any other food) so for me giving them up isn't an acceptable option. The question becomes, what breads are best? (Or least bad, depending on your outlook)

Somewhat tempering my approach is the fact that I don't really believe they can be 100% evil. Like alcohol, we've been consuming bread for thousands of years. Like alcohol, I bet you can consume a certain amount of the right types without a significant penalty.
Some of the drop-off in use is due to Christmas, possibly all of it. The reduced use only started two weeks ago, but is more marked than the previous year. We won't know for sure for another week or two.
Is this now state-wide or still only within the "Constitution-Free Zone" within 200 miles of Mexico's border?

I was in Nogales looking for property in winter of '04, and I noted how many of the law enforcement were all dolled up in their military-like gear. This was before the checkpoints, so I never got too close. Still... if I wasn't white and driving a giant, made-in-America pickup truck, I certainly would not have felt too welcome in the area.
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Chrome Is Edging Out Firefox
I guess I would really like the writer of an article to actually read the only piece of source material. Yeah, I would love quality, but the current advertising metrics seem to work against quality in a big way.
The secret sauce was the cheap oil and natural gas from Russia which had been effectively subsidizing Belorussian economy in exchange for the anti-western rhetoric of its president.
I have an israeli credit card. I'd have liked to understand where this was leaked from. And - well - make sure that mine is not among them.

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the file isn't available any more.
Android has applications and services, services are application dedicated to running in the background. Android also provides a list of these services (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services). Normal applications, in regards to background computation, are handled in a similar way to iOS.
Of course he was right all along. As we will all soon discover to our enormous cost.