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Further evidence that this person is not a native English speaker! ;)
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That's not really true - John Resig hooked Rhino up to a good-enough DOM model in a weekend:

http://ejohn.org/blog/bringing-the-browser-to-the-server/

No, you're not going to match Google's crawling infrastructure or data extraction libraries. But if you just want to grab pages off the web, parse them, and handle JavaScript from those pages correctly, you can easily rig something up between Mechanize/html5lib/V8 or Nutch/Tika/Rhino.
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Is it really a semi finals when it's 300 / 1600 applicants?

Her situation is sad and unfortunate, but her circumstances shouldn't be used to advertise in her favour. Her work should stand on its own.
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Thanks WA and kayoone.

So, let me get this straight:

- Health insurance can be considered as a fixed 500 monthly ammount. Question: Can it be higher?

- You are not obliged to pay for pension. Here I doubt a bit. Independent workers pay 26% of their income for pension in Italy...

Which means (in thousands):

=======

+50

-8 - no tax income

-6 - health insurance

----

36

-0.7 * 36 - income taxes

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25.2

+ 8

----

33.2

33.2/12 = estimated monthly 2760 euro

=======

If that were true, that is really good.
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Thanks, and yes, I can now see New is absolutely full of the same story.
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Was hoping for something less bikeshed-y. What about, say, adherence to all-streaming APIs? What granularity of stream fragment? At what complexity do they switch from callbacks to EventEmitters? Keeping view partials ordered?
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Clearly a measuring error.

Clicking through their site it is obvious that the 20% 'global packet loss' number is almost wholly created by the large number of sites they are 'testing' that are down and showing 100% packet loss. Of the sites that arent showing 100% loss, most of them are on 0% loss - nothing close to an average of 20%.
Exit row seats are special in that the ground crew need to see that you are physically capable of operating the door. If you were handicapped in anyway, and I've seen people request so they have more space for their oxygen bottle, the cabin crew would have to move you to a different seat. On a full flight it can be tough to play musical chairs.
I left this comment on the original post, but it's been caught by the spam filter there:

Hi Stefan – apologies if I’ve missed something, but the only solid proof I can see that this is actually run by Google is that the IP address some calls came from was assigned to Google.

Last year Mark Turner was concerned that the Department of Defense was listening in on his phone calls because of an IP address that later turned out to not belong to them at all, but (I believe) was being squatted on by Sprint. Couldn’t the same thing be happening here? http://www.markturner.net/2011/11/08/why-is-the-defense-depa...

I wonder whether the scammers aren’t actually employed by Google and are simply out to make a quick buck by pretending they are.

Can anyone speak to the technical aspects of his analysis? I'm not seeing any truly compelling proof that this is run by Google. Just the one IP address that's registered to Mountain View.
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Yes it's already a crime and personally I wish people would just use gimp which is free. People behave in a certain way and changes to law won't really change that - given that these activities are already against the law.
Maybe I am a little bit paranoid but I have a weird idea at least for Asia. Most of the countries in Asia is blocking VoIP traffic.
I am working on a VoIP tunneling software (http://www.mizu-voip.com/Products/VoIPTunnel.aspx) used by many telecom companies in Asia.
In the last 3 years we have continuously evolved the built-in encryption algorithms but it was always cracked by the local authorities (yes, they are employing high qualified personnel for this). Last summer we decided to integrate much stronger encryption (at the cost of lower server performance) and since then the protocol was not cracked anymore.
I think that since they cannot easily crack new VoIP encryption anymore, they have decided to lower the quality for all links to keep the VoIP quality low so people have to use their national telecom service at high cost.
What do you think?

Note:
The measurement method can be very important for this (for example whether you check UDP or TCP packet loss/retransmissions)
Possible easy way to fix this:

Include a QR code on the printed boarding pass that holds the details of the passenger and flight along with a hash of the data, the hash being salted with a secret known only to TSA. The TSA agent then scans the QR code, computer verifies the hash and displays the data on screen for the agent to check against the printed boarding pass and ID. No database look up is needed, just a PC and webcam.

Danger is someone works out or leaks the hash secret.
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The thing about the programming language shootout is that the benchmarks are optimized to within an inch of their life, and in particular don't generate much garbage. This may have changed, but last time I checked (MRI) Ruby's garbage collector was _stunningly_ slow.
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Same here... then I saw this in the new list!
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I was wondering if anyone knew of a place where I could learn about this stuff in general.
I know nothing about unigrams, bigrams, trigrams, tf-idf, Bayesian filtering, etc. Maths - while not awful - is not my strongest point, but I think I could grok a well-written tutorial to this stuff (with code examples!).

I was hoping/wondering if anyone knew of sites I could start learning about this from? I find this very interesting, and I'm sure it could be highly useful and applicable to many different types of problems...
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It's a list of books you should read, not a list of books you should have already read, so you've still got time to qualify. :-)
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The Green Revolution was a one-time technology transfer. We didn't hold further advances in reserve which could spur another radical increase in worldwide food production, nor do we have an ever-expanding supply of petroleum-based fertilizers. Those articles assert that the free market will somehow provide enough food to meet any demand, but unless there's immediate and unprecedented progress in both cold fusion and nanotechnology, I don't see how we can expect that to happen.
Not in all cases, some IDE's or text editors have more space for a tab.
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It's difficult to take this article seriously given the terrible grammar and obvious technical errors, often in the same sentence, e.g. "The researchers then combined 96 bits make [sic] one byte of data..."; presumably "bits" should be "atoms". Such errors make me question whether anything in the article is accurate or being interpreted correctly.
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Is there any actual proof that it was google? It sounds to me like someone is borrowing their name for legitimacy.
I'm assuming it was flagged because the headline was in ALL CAPS.
(as the author of the original post)

In theory, yes. And I never used to worry about this. But over time, in practice, it's been a bigger problem than I think you're giving credit to.

e.g. ...

"Even if you have 200 people submitting patches, the odds are that most of them fall into two categories: people fixing the same bug, and people working on completely different sections of code. Neither is a substantial problem to merge."

IME ... in practice, this is a HUGE problem. Because every one of those developers fixes the bug in a slightly different way.

The longer time goes on without the original Author fixing it, the worse it gets. And the cost to them - or anyone! - of sifting through the "100 variations on bug fix #123" becomes greater and greater.

Usually, you want to cherrypick individual lines and characters from 5-10 of the best "solutions" to the bug.

If you'd avoided the "100 alternative fixes", then those "improved" solutions would have been built on the "basic" solutions - and merging would be easy.

But because you've got to this massively-forked scenario, all of the patches have been written independently and incompatibly.
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I was cooperatively-schooled (i.e. a small group of parents getting together and taking turns to home-school their children) in England. It was ensured that what we were taught complied with the essentials of the national curriculum (which gave a surprising amount of leeway - I was taught creationist science!) and the authorities were notified of what we were doing. It was very successful.

I don't know about Germany but it's possible that it may be similarly easy to tick the right boxes for the local authorities there too.
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> but one thing why I started my own business was because I did not want to mess around arguing.

To me, this is the key thing he did that enabled everything else. That, and observing actual appreciation in real life (those kids).
Furthermore, "While she was working on her project, the family had a roof over its head. But financial reversals following a car accident last year led them this month to a Bay Shore shelter" (from http://www.newsday.com/opinion/samantha-garvey-s-amazing-gri...)

And even were this not true, I'd have questions about how she got the resources, equipment and expertise to pull this off. Its an interesting story but a lot missing for me to have any take-away from it. And feels too much like the typical throwaway feel-good story.
The link was probably nuked because of it's all caps headline, try resubmitting it now using a headline with less caps.
Consider your 'answer' - 'accepted'.

No other data confirms this supposed packet loss, and this clearly looks like an incorrect measurement.

False alarm.
Scroll down a bit to "Results (2)": These new accesses were coming directly from Google’s network. The IP address 74.125.63.33 made 17,645 requests (15,554 to BusinessProfile.aspx)
Benifit from clicks on a game like this? My guess is none. They don't know it happens because the ads are not being targeted, or if they are, they're targeted at the parents who own the device and browse the web using it etc.

The kids will give a very high accidental click rate, but need to call mommy to hit the back button/close safari, which is enough time for the click to register as legitimate and not accidental.

So yeah, pretty spammy, but money is money.
That Sprint problem was caused by Sprint "borrowing" DoD addresses to use in their internal NATed mobile network. This wouldn't be an issue with a standard web site like Mocality which is directly connected to the Internet, instead of via NAT.

I trust Mocality's technical chops enough to believe that the IP traffic is coming from where they say it's coming from.

As additional proof, the callers claim to be from Google, and Getting Kenyan Businesses Online is a genuine Google initiative. So a lot of things wouldn't add up if it turned out not to be Google behind it.
1. It sounds like you are talking about two different companies/start-ups. If they are not truly linked, than treat them as two different companies.

2. To use "endorsement branding" like "XYZ - a service from ABC company" is for many reasons not viable for a start-up. Take the user/buyer perspective: Why are they telling me this if the two services are not related? What brand should I remember?

3. If you use a generic describing name on your company that is to narrow to be an umbrella for all related services, then you have a real problem. The company "BestNewYorkTaxis" will have a problem expanding into Boston...

4. Always check that your new business name is not confusingly similar to an existing trademark. You can do that comprehensive trademark search for free at our site http://www.markify.com/

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> For every contributor to an open source project in the old days, there might be fifty failed forks on github, sure. But for every five failed forks, there will be one that thrives and which commits get accepted back.

Define "failed fork". GitHub&al, propelled by decentralized VCSs, definitely changed the meaning of 'fork'. Previously, creating a fork was a serious act, taken only when you did not have access to the central repository and had to do modifications, or when a given project was going nowhere anymore, or not where or how you wanted. A fork was either a rebirth or a schism.

But that changed.

A fork is now part of the global workflow. One forks and submits a pull request almost like one would checkout, diff and mail a patch previously. The definition of a 'failed fork' is therefore wildly different since the very notion of fork evolved dramatically. Forks never submitting pull requests have their own use so you can't even qualify a fork based on that.
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GKBO appears to be a genuine Google initiative - its domain is registered to Google and served from their nameservers: http://www.kbo.co.ke/
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maybe for mobile web, not on desktop. it doesn't really make sense for big screen.
I don't get it either. If Google turns evil, everyone can switch search engines immediately. There's no lock-in. We're free. Gmail? You can download everything. Using Windows was never like that. There was always something making it hard to switch.

If the "Google monoculture" becomes a problem for average web users, they'll change. Right now, almost nobody wants to.
You raise some interesting points. 1) What makes it look like the project is no longer maintained? The latest patch release on the website is for 5.8p1 -- this is just 1 point beneath current (http://openbsd.org.ar/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/). 2) Great question. I would be interested in seeing the response this gets from the FBSD mailing list. 3) It is true that it is challenging (or rare) to get public internet speeds that will make HPN worthwhile, however I find HPN most useful on a LAN (typically within the same datacenter). I perform most of my data replication with rsync over HPN-SSH. It's multi-threaded and generally cuts CPU load over time. Thanks for linking to that thread over on LWN -- that was an interesting read.
My understanding was that Moore's law states that the number of transistors that you get for a given cost doubles every 18 months. Hence I don't think any result shown by researchers in a lab can be said to "smash" it until a similar technique is used in production for chips you can actually buy.
I trust Mocality's technical chops enough to believe that the IP traffic is coming from where they say it's coming from.

I agree with this.

the callers claim to be from Google, and Getting Kenyan Businesses Online is a genuine Google initiative

Claiming to be a member of something legitimate on a phonecall is scamming 101 - it's usually very hard for the person on the other end of the line to verify it immediately.
But copyright laws expire after a certain number of years after the creator's death

I'd argue that this(1) is(2) not(3) true(4).

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1831

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1909

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976

(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Moore's Law says we should be able to fit transistors into a certain amount of space at a certain time. Getting well ahead of the curve would count as breaking Moor's Law, I'd have thought.
"Never going to happen. How much money has been spent for how long to get people to care about the millions of things they should care about and they just don't."

Are you saying, categorically, that it's impossible to get people to care about things? With all due respect, I'm a bit confused by this statement. I agree with you that most people tend to be apathetic, and that it's hard to reach them. But I can name dozens, possibly hundreds, of examples of successful cause-based campaigns that relied on generating positive solidarity with, or good will toward the campaigner; I can name precisely zero successful campaigns that relied on deliberately pissing people off at the campaigner.

"The rage keeps moving further up the tree of effects until something happens."

I just don't see that happening. People don't connect dots as readily as you might assume. Again, see my PETA example. It's not a perfect analogy -- but it gives an indication of how attempts to generate and redirect rage usually just result in the generation of rage, without the redirection.
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Google systematically accessing Mocality’s DB and selling competing product
I think the best of both worlds is to have whatever your giant designer brain thinks is best be the default, and include options to change whatever you want. So if you don't care, you get a good preset, and don't have to make any decisions, and if you do care you aren't restricted.
Based on the transcripts, sounded like the Feds have never heard of mortgage-backed securities! It might not be their official job to know, but one would figure, being in their position, that they would know how prevalent it was. How could any of them expect no collateral damage in the event of a housing market implosion when a lot the growth of the big banks in the previous decade was fueled by the housing market?
This was certainly the case for Etihad when I flew from Dublin => Sydney last year. Of course, the airline managed to not notice the problem with my passport/visa until I was Abu Dhabi and Sydney said "Do not let him on the plane". The airline security representative told me if I had managed to get to Australia, the Sydney visa office would have forced the airline to return me to Ireland on the next flight.

This triggered 3 days of dealing with the US embassy in Abu Dhabi, but that's another story. :)
For more details, click on the links

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/europe.htm
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

To see an outdated list of mail servers and routers.

For example, in Europe core1-gig2-0.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net is down. Sounds pretty "core routing" doesn't it? Shame that the DNS name doesn't resolve, so lets mark it as 100% packet loss shall we?

Hmm, maybe it's not packet loss at all...

The Asia link is reporting 2 routers in Iran down, and a name server down in India for an ISP which has 5 other name servers (which are not monitored by ITR), which are all up. Perhaps Iranian internet traffic is being filtered? I know there are a number of blockades around Iran at the moment.

Basically the source list is very poor and outdated, and the site itself should not be trusted.
Public and school libraries have access. She is running this race with weights tied around her ankles (compared to the average high schooler). Homeless or not, financial distress in families have very negative effects on kids her age.
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Similar example: young professor Erik Demaine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine

You also might remember him in Introduction to Algorithms video lectures, by MIT.
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I hope its just a random error that keeps getting the discussions and links to this article killed and not something a bit more systematic... or "evil"....
Erm, the new bsdinstall menu is about as simple as they could get. You have the option how to use your disk, with an "Automate" option to let the installer do it for you.
Then there are four sets of "packages" that you may want to have installed, and then some options to define the configuration of your keyboard, location, timezone, et cetera.

In all, I think the bsdinstall is really a big step forward for FreeBSD.
Not poor enough, or enough hardship for you I guess...

Have some sympathy
Clicky: http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-t...

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460033
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There's been lots of submissions with different headlines, it seems any submission to the URL gets killed immediately. I assume it's a spam filter in action (and it's actually doing it's own job of keeping 50 copies of the same story from appearing).
I haven't looked at every comment to see if anyone has stated the obvious: search is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more data you have, the better your results. The better your results, the more data you get.

No one will make up ground on Google until a radical new algorithm is invented, and Google doesn't buy it :)
Are those known Google IPs? Otherwise I suppose anybody could just register something as "Google"? Just saying, WHOIS might not be very reliable.
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The commit graph (gitk --all if you are using plain decentralised git, GiHub's network graph for the convenient everyone-github-knows online version) makes it quite obvious which author is good at reviewing and integrating patches. With a little bit of side-channel communication, a deficient maintainer is easy to replace.

Also, someone who is late at merging patches won't have a lot of difficulty catching up. If they did no divergent work at all, it's just a matter of picking the best integrator and fast-forwarding.
It's scary how close to the edge so many families are.
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The production, the marketing the, distribution... EVERYTHING has changed for the music industry in about 15 years. They have no future unless the Internet is tightly controlled (which it cannot be.)
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Why is eval evil? Because it's insecure? Inefficient?