skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possible topic: bogus take-down requests from the entertainment industry. Some examples:

* Phony copyright claim suppressing a news report (about this very issue): http://boingboing.net/2011/12/15/universal-music-uses-false-...

* A blog that got seized for a year (under the current DHS program) for putting up four clips that had been given to it _by the record company_ for promotional purposes: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57339569-281/dhs-abruptly-...

There's plenty more; EFF probably has a more complete list on file someplace...
It's weird it says "create a new branch named "feature_x" and switch to it using ..." but it doesn't give you the command to create the branch.

Is that a "bug"?
Democracy at Dixville Notch: Early NH voting puts Romney on top
WVIL unbelievable new camera at CES 2011 [video]
Isn't pull bad for some reason? I thought you were supposed to use fetch and merge separately. I can't remember why though.
Fully agree. I have not trieded this but I think the typesystem features dylan has should work too (limit and unions).

The most importend methods to expand are element (getting the n's object), forward-iteration-protocol and add. For a immutable collection that all you really need.
Optimize Rendering for Large Reports, Workbook/Worksheet Protection
The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 1.8.0 has been released. It included some general features such as workbook and worksheet protection. The Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services client component now supports Office 2010 x64. We have also carried out optimization work to improve the overall performance of Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services and its modules. In this version we have also fixed a number of internal bugs and included several new enhancements, for example, the Herder background color bug, a hide column issue, the row merged algorithm module, a page break issue, hyperlink and bookmark links bugs, the row algorithm module, the Excel 2007 (data only) output bug and more.
It may be old but it still has about 34% market share. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-weekly-201148-201201
You got to be kidding me! :O Really you can't download anything over 20mb! I can run a torrent and download anything i like on my android!
Not legally. But with SOPA, Gucci could certainly get a website selling such handbags shut down for a long time, with a minimum of fuss or risk.
Javascript Security with Untrusted Code
You're welcome. Good luck and maybe post back with any updates.
Microsoft have an office in Ireland, so it may actually be Irish.
Not at all surprised if we're both right.
> What are some of the "other incentive systems" that would allow you to sink 100 million dollars into a film and hope to recover them?

Maybe we are approaching the end of the $100M movie era. Maybe they will no longer be able to spend $100M in special effects and famous faces and be required (gulp) to deliver compelling stories.
Apple, for all the shit they get for being "closed" and "evil", has actually done far more to wrestle control back from the carriers and put it into the hands of consumers.

/s/consumers/Apple/
Manipulating Objects - Pharo Smalltalk screencast
Thomas, you are free to attempt to put this genie back inside its bottle. I, however, won't hold my breath.
> The real issue is that NULL pointers are the most dangerous thing invented in the 20th century

Not sure if serious
Are there statistics that show us how hazardous such products were? I doubt that many were injured by them.

We had chemistry sets and carbide cannons, played with mercury, painted with red lead, and cleaned spots off clothing with benzene. I have inadvertently taken a swig of gasoline. We played with firecrackers, cherry bombs, roman candles and rockets. We were always lectured on safety first and took those lessons to heart.

I honestly can't say that I learned anything useful from the chemistry set (although at the time I believed it was an absolute necessity, something I regret putting my parents through). OTOH work in chemistry labs as an adult confirmed that I was not inclined to that profession.

But from each particular encounter I learned interesting and useful facts which could later be tied into the theoretical frameworks of formal physics and chemistry.

Odd thing is I wasn't allowed a BB gun until I was 16! I never shot a living thing with it - it was simply fun to hit something at a distance. Anyway I'm still alive and doing better than ever.
Put yourself in the shoes of a politician. You're an elderly alpha male; you don't understand the internet but you feel vaguely threatened by it.

Now, the internet attacks you. You personally. It shuts down some "profile" thing your staffers set up.

How do you react?
Link to the crowdfunding page:
http://www.indiegogo.com/firstorbit
Git for ages 4 and up
Can you only do the usual teaching-English gig or can you actually get decent and well-paying IT or managing jobs? How open are people to foreigners? Are you actually considered about "equivalent"? What about health care, social insurance, safety? What about finding a partner there? I know a lot of Chinese girls, especially here in EU, have to obey their families telling them to NOT be with a local European.
Pull is the same as doing fetch and merge individually. It's only "bad" in the sense that it might do something you're not ready to do yet. If you fetch first, you can inspect the changes before you merge them.
IEDR requires a "real and substantive connection to Ireland" although I'd guess Microsoft could get any domain they want. I'm no fan of the IEDR but it's a shame to Microsoft polluting the domain space.
Scientists, Share Secrets or Lose Funding
There's no such thing as an unlocked iphone. I get what you mean, carrier unlocked, but the implication you can get one that is unlocked in the same way as an android phone can be unlocked is not true. And you're right, even in Australia if you absolutely positively insist on dealing with the carriers at retail, they will try to screw you almost as hard as the people in the US get screwed.
You don't have to put up with it though, just buy online.
The Audio Data API is terribly low level, and the current implementation in Firefox is so laggy that it's not an option for real-time game audio. Chrome's Web Audio should win this battle without a sweat.
Chinese people often refer to those like the author as "Losers Back Home." It is exceedingly common to run into Westerners who couldn't hack it in the West that think they are minor gods in Asia because of their native English speaking ability and sudden attractiveness to large throngs of females.

The success
This seems a bit deceptive since you can already get 100GB to your house (in certain areas) from their cable competitor VirginMedia and this appears to be talking about Sky's backhaul rather than customer delivered speed.
In any discussion of this sort, I am reminded of an essay by Stephen Jay Gould on baseball. His question, in essence, was "Where Have the Great Players Gone?"

His answer was that in the beginning there was a huge range of skills between players, so those with the best skill easily stood out. But over time, as the game matured, the variation diminished. There were more and more really good people, so the difference between them and the best in the field diminished.

Gould's explanation can be applied to any complex new field which undergoes maturation. For example, it also answers the question "Who is the Einstein of our time", by saying there are many people who are better at physics than Einstein; so many that they don't stand out.

The author of this essay conjectures "the current educational environment militates against the discovery and nurturing of programming talent." I disagree. The 'current educational environment' means there are so many well-trained people that the exceptional and self-taught people do not stand out so much.

As supporting evidence, the teaching of mathematical physics and of baseball have not seriously changed in the last 50 years, so the author's hypothesis cannot apply to those fields, while Gould's hypothesis does. Hence Gould's has more explanatory power.

It may be that the 'current educational environment' is at fault, but there is insufficient evidence for that hypothesis in the essay.
Ballmer Exits the CES Stage Without a Bang
I can see where you're coming from, but meta discussions about the use of metaphors aren't going help. As I see it, you have obscured my actual point by starting a debate about the wording.

Apple's narrow minded content restrictions are a real and serious limitation of what I can do professionally as a developer. Carriers overcharging for some services is not, so the choice is very clear to me and it's the choice between less freedom and more freedom.

I do not insist on using the "prison" metaphor for that and I didn't invent it either. I merely responded to someone who did use it and he even criticised people for continuing to work on Android. If that is not over the top I don't know what is.
Previous discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1228779
It's something they borrowed from Windows Phone 7, which has allowed you instant access to the camera (albeit via a mandated hardware button) while the phone is locked.
All known species share their ecological niche with the rest of their members. They are also social to the extent that they court and reproduce.

In your example, what stops the genes from spreading is that the entire village dies of starvation or competition with other tribes that have younger, fitter members.

Its a matter of degree. Humans are social to a high degree, but possibly not as high as ants for instance. Ants eat members of the tribe that are injured, an extreme example of group-efficiency taking priority over the individual.
While I think the metaphor needs a lot of work, I'd actually prefer the first guy to the second. The first guy I know where my limits are. I'm not letting him in on my alarm password, and I'm not loaning him my car for fear that he's going to take it.

Aside from that, I know exactly where the boundaries are, and I can meet him at a bar, have some drinks and have a generally good time.
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In a couple of years, all phones out there will be Apple, Microsoft or Google (not just the hardware). Pretty interesting, fast moving industry, if you remember 2-5 years ago, when the big names were Siemens, Ericsson and Nokia.

Now all we need is Facebook to buy a cellphone company too... RIM, perhaps?

Software (companies) are eating the world indeed...
I would gladly crowdsource this task...
In both sentences Hiroshima is the object. The subject in the original sentence is the bomb but in my edited sentence the subject is the U.S. Army.

Talking of partiality (and the sentences use of passive voice)

"Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1994) recommends the passive voice when identifying the object (receiver) of the action is more important than the subject (agent), and when the agent is unknown, unimportant, or not worth mentioning"
I agree. At least an optimal extended battery would be nice.

Nevertheless, I think that the problem with current smartphone batteries is that the leap from a day of use to a little more than one day loses the convenience of charging it at home at night.

For example, I'm used to charge my iPhone at night in my bedside, and the iPhone lasts about a working-day of charge.

A battery that lasted 1.5 days would not be as useful, because the battery would probably drain somewhere where having access to the battery charger is not as convenient as the one plugged at your bedside.
I did not notice the quotes when I read your comment the first time. Did you add them afterwards? Of course that changes the meaning of your post.
> Perhaps he's talking about something in a theoretic context, as opposed to practice?

Then he's still wrong. A standardized part of the language is a part of the language.
That's taking it a step further. Aging people have other reasons for being unadaptive.
Also, the government does totally not fake numbers, does not actively buy cars and other products to create temporary, fake demand spikes to attract western companies to produce in China but only under license in a Chinese owned and -run factory oh and personally I am totally not convinced that they just downright play with the global economy and bend our own Western capitalism to their advantage in very questionable ways.
SOPA must be stopped
Again, cognitive decline in the aged is taking it a step further.

Young people (< 20yrs?) are purportedly more adaptable than older folks, say 20-50. I maintain they aren't really adaptive, they simply have more choices when they learn their first pattern. And they have many patterns to learn, which takes years, perpetuating the myth that they are adaptable.
Advice From the Elderly on Finishing Life With No Regrets
Seeking Female Founders in the Tech Startup Scene
>The options for Google seem to be a hardline tactic to get exactly what they envisioned and subsequently have a dead on arrival Android OS, or work within the system.

The problem is that Google hasn't been working within the system to change anything. Android gave back the power back to the US carriers and the OEMs have skinned the OS which brings us back to the old days where you would never get an OS update after you purchase the device.

The top selling Android phone in the US is the Galaxy S and their owners will never see an update for the life of their device and contract unless they are willing to jump through hoops and install custom ROMs.
Sure. But rats quickly die when they become less mobile or arthritic.

Humans can live for decades beyond their most-productive years. Their has to be a Darwinist reason for this.
The elusive goal of lasting beauty in web design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

An early experiment reported not the "slightest difference" in taste between ordinary and heavy water; on the other hand, rats given a choice between distilled normal water and heavy water were able to avoid the heavy water based on smell, and it may be possible that it has a different taste.
You could use ender.js (http://ender.no.de/), it's completely modular.

It is not, however, ready for production use. At all. I had the following blocking internet explorer 7 for ten seconds each page load:

if ($('input[name=firstname]').length) {
// stuff
}

The bit it was choking on was the selector. Oh and there's the 2+ second processing time each page load on any browser when you've got more than about three modules loaded in.
The only thing that is required for the contract to be valid is the agreement of both parties. Even if you agree verbally over the phone the deal is "theoretically" valid.

The only problem with verbal agreement is that you will have a problem to prove in court that you really agreed to anything.

Almost any impartial third party confirmation will make proof simple.

So even simple email confirmation is "legal" and should be enough.
And you should checkout the competition in Europe

"Europe" is a big place, but here at least regulation is aplenty, to promote competition. An example is the law that forces carriers to unlock phones of SIM restrictions for free if the contract has already ended.
I'm sure there are folks like those you describe. There are also many addictive personalities in the world, spending the grocery money on a farmville threshing machine.

I aslso suspect Zinga isn't at all concerned with the difference, makes no effort to distinguish, and for the larger part is preying on the sick and weak.
On your GitHub readme, the link to the paper is broken : http://www.math.admu.edu.ph/~raf/pcsc05/proceedings/AI4.pdf

Is the paper still available online ? Do you have an alternate URL ? Thanks :)
Big data: Oracle, Cloudera about to make it rain
Previous HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1926752
I think the author has totally missed the point of jQuery which is why he's probably so frustrated. It's not meant to be used to build massive client-side applications, instead it's a tool to make dealing with the (terrible) DOM and AJAX APIs a bit more bearable and abstract away any cross-browser nuances.

Instead I'd recommend something like backbone.js or ember.js, they are both designed for building client-side apps.

He suggests using Prototype instead. Don't do this. In my last job we built a complex CMS on Prototype; it was horrible. Prototype's DOM API is verbose and unpredictable and the classical inheritance model it supplies isn't worth switching. Also development is pretty much dead, the last release was November 2010.
> how could dare a self-proclaimed communist country build the biggest capitalist market in the world?

Capitalist markets are susceptible to bubbles, panics, crashes and recessions.
I was surprised too, I'd expect those numbers to be roughly equal. The only thing I can think of is that they're using Flash for audio. The Flash runtime has run better on Windows than other platforms for a while. Would be curious to see those numbers with the HTML-5 audio forced to true to see if they stay the same.
The big problem for streaming music services: they're a hit
Same here in Portugal since 2010.
@StavrosK, sorry if you felt that was silly and of no value, if I'd have known I'd have been wasting _your_ precious time I'd have put more thought into what I posted on MY website.

Snide sarcasm aside (sorry couldn't resist :P), I don't agree that just because Android is open source it has to put up with being tainted by poor implementations, especially by such large, visible corporations. Certainly it makes it an easier target for such but just because it's open source doesn't mean there are no restrictions or controls and no concerns about the platform perception.

To be clear, I think Android is a great platform, I just feel that it's severely let down by those scheming to make a fast buck out of it to the detriment of it's users and genuine supporters.

@DrinkWater, to think just because someone is not a geek means they do not care if they have to suffer a bad experience is a depressing thought indeed.
According to the Whois info it is registered to ZeptoLab UK Limited as a Registered Trademark. Not much of a link to Ireland there!
http://www.weekendhacker.net/ might be what you're looking for. I think I learnt about it on HN, too.
Configuration Management Software Sucks
Here's Gould describing "The Disappearance of 0.400 Hitting" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBh2ZbEo0I
One of the most brilliant articles I've read in a long time.
New GHD IV Purple Sale at $98
>A battery that lasted 1.5 day would not be as useful, because the battery would probably drain somewhere where having access to the battery charger is not as convenient as the one plugged at your bedside.

A battery that lasted "1.5 days" might actually last a full day of heavy use, such as during travel. That's my biggest complaint about battery life with smartphones. They will generally last a full day on a charge, as long as you aren't using it often.
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>Does he honestly think that Google was the deciding factor for the FCC? Does he think that the FCC was going to say no to Verizon, but since Google said that it was OK, they decided to skip on Wireless Net Neutrality?

Genachowski used Android as part of the reason for killing net neutrality.

Genachowski: "We recognize that there have been meaningful recent moves toward openness, including the introduction of open operating systems like Android"

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/21/fcc.says.andro...
I remember one of the PLT Scheme guys talking about how without TCO in OO languages you can't even express state machines without creating new state holder objects.

In a way, without TCO you must manually abstract each step and the next one and drive the stepping from outside. Not too unlike using an iterator instead of asking a collection to call f() for each entry.

Having read what he said I too feel that TCO is a very nice addition to other language features.
Penny Stock Prophet Review
Investing in a company shares is one of the biggest business out there at this moment. People from all over the planet use the system of investing in shares to gain more money. This is so popular that even teenagers who are not past the age of 18 are investing.
Interview with Esther Duflo (known for, e.g., randomized control experiments)
Really enjoyed the first chapter. Quick question: how do you deal with filtering out duplicate records (e.g. blog posts/comments) when saving to the batch layer ?
I don't remember C# extension methods being particularly prone to incur instanceOf checks, but I could be missing something; can you expand on this?
Oh my god, it's a girl -- thoughts on gender imbalance on HN
This is the paper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47871173/An-Algorithm-for-Nudity-D...
Reimagining the future: New York City
This is what I end up seeing, chrome 16:

http://imgur.com/oNgoZ
Relevant LtU thread: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3702
Official press releases from competitor Orange says (paraphrasing): "Dear customers, we will let Free celebrate their D-Day, but stay assured we will make sure to come back to you later."

All online & phone services for ending or transferring mobile contracts are of course overloaded and currently unavailable in France. FreeMobile's registration webpage (http://mobile.free.fr) has been unavailable for the past 5 hours. Figures fly on twitter, as apparently about 1.5 million people tried to access it this morning.

Streaming figures for the live keynote amount to 80Gb/seconds over 300 servers, Online.net representative @Online_fr said on twitter.
Apparently 600,000 people watched the keynote live, Online.net even claimed it's a world record. (Online.net = Iliad/Free subsidiary dedicated to hosting services)

You are indeed witnessing Market Disruption - that or a highly successful launch, maybe a bit too successful :)
This makes me cringe. Online services might work for a single person, but as soon as you involve multiple people you really should get a lawyer. Everybody should meet with the lawyer and everybody should contribute to the lawyer's fees. Or if that is not feasible, everybody needs their own lawyer to look over the paperwork. This is especially true if you are incorporating as a C-corp versus an LLC.
I think this is a really small nitpick which does not change the partiality of the sentence. Both phrases attribute the ultimate responsibility to the US Army Air Force (not 'US Army', which is incorrect) and it could be argued that as it was the bomb itself which did the actual destroying it should be the primary subject.
Indeed. We just have to figure out how to earn living from things we are passionate about. Sadly, this is not how mainstream economy works at the moment.
If "cronyism" wants to come out of the closet and admit who he or she is then we might know how much weight to give these unsubstantiated accusations. I have received similar representations privately as PSF chairman, have asked for evidence, and have not received any.

For the record, I have the utmost faith in Jesse's integrity as PyCon chair. I have not bothered to canvass my fellow directors, but I doubt any of them feel any different. The Foundation owes him a huge debt of gratitude for the immense amount of work he continues to put into this role while holding down a full-time job and being an active parent. It is obnoxious in the extreme to slur him in this way.

So let's see "the money trail," and let's have these accusations in the open so we can see that they are, in fact, simply unsubstantiated waffle.
He expected them to fail in some way, and when they instead succeeded by using MS tools, he made up some fault to complain about.

Microsoft bashing is getting old.

My suggestion for the like-minded is to either try MS tools for yourself, pick a new target, or modify own identity to not require for self to be the victim oppressed by an evil giant.
It's only 2x battery life but it seems someone is listening:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/motorola-release...
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