skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was proposed for a 'developed' country, there would rightly be uproar from civil liberties groups, citizens etc. But because it's happening in an 'underdeveloped' country, it's somehow acceptable. I understand the challenges faced by the Indian government in providing services to a such a huge population but this approach is open to rampant abuse by the 'middlemen' and by elements in the government itself. Any self-respecting 'security' agency would get their tentacles into something like this asap. Doubtless, they're already involved in the implementation on the quiet.

[edit: corrected typo]
70 Groups Tell Congress To Put The Brakes On Any Further Efforts To Expand IP
I'm holding out for Gnome3 to get good enough for day-to-day production use. In the meantime, I'm running 11.10 with gnome-session-fallback &c.
You can always replace the branches with tags (git tag failed-branch-mybranch mybranch && git branch -D mybranch). That way, you still will have access to the unmerged commits later, but your list of branches is clean. Your tags will bloat up, but I personally don't go through my tags nearly as often as my branches.
Breastfeeding women protest outside Facebook offices
I don't get it? Are you saying that Broadcom are paying rpi to have the chips?
The desktop is just there to launch and switch between applications. I want it to stay simple and to keep out of my way. I've not tried Xubuntu yet, but it sounds/looks like it will be better at satisfying these requirements for me.
Here is the PDF of the letter sent to congress, signed by all parties (inc Mozilla, Reddit & Amnesty):

http://www.publicknowledge.org/files/Public_Knowledge-Intern...
I for one will not miss the blatant pandering you espoused here, but wish you luck nonetheless. Hopefully your future contribution 'justifies' your remuneration in your next assignment.

Cheers
When I was younger, I worked at a navy base, and learned how to swear professionally. But it's a turn-off, and more importantly, it's just not that funny.

I've switched to animals. Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous coming from some giant leaps in profanity and the implied sexual/violent imagery. But, animals are funny, cute, and have a very large base of context to work with.

I can shove a panda image as a test anywhere, and if I screw up, hey, it's not so bad, it's a cute panda. Some people will ping you if you screw up, no matter how small; that can't be helped. But there's a large range of screw-ups that are recoverable, and a cute panda/kitten/monkey image really helps.
Is the coathanger antenna cut to a particular length?
Molten salt reactor
See Ken, I'm not the only one who thinks you're nuts! ;)

If anyone needs an awesome Unix Devops guy that is also a kickass backend Ruby engineer, hire Ken and let him work from home so he can have more time with his kids.
Having worked in a project where GWT was used it really makes it easier to work with.
I found it really easy to pick up and start doing some actual work, the only complaint I have so far was the need of everytime I wanted to expose a service from the server to call in the client I needed to edit around 4/5 files, but I'm not sure if it is really needed or if at least 2 of them could be avoided, since there was already a small codebase to follow.
Alternatively, you could go with XMonad! I made the jump after experiencing Canonical's Unity and proceeding to search for alternatives. Once you make the switch, you won't want to use anything else. :-)
Applying rocket-science on poor people who don't understand social-profiling issues and intense racial issues sounds like a potent mix to me. System would not work at all, is different from "system may not work fully accurate" because well - you should read the fluff in their tender documents before you lose more tax-payers money.
Google offers space for start-ups and events in London
Google have announced a campus in east London which will have desk space for start-ups alongside space for hosting events. There'll be pay for permanent desk space or free drop-in desk space available and allowing event organisers and start-ups to sign up for more information when it becomes available.
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No, and it's of no importance. It's just something that will make an electrical connection with the coil and stay there.

Edit: I answered the wrong question here, thought he was talking about the coat hanger I used in the crystal radio set. In the case of the WiFi antenna it matters a lot!
If you put a high-value resistor (between 220K-470K) in parallel across the crystal earpiece the audio will be much stronger/clearer.

OR you can use the high impedance earpiece form an old telephone instead of a crystal earpiece which will give a fantastic, clear and loud output.

My grandfather used to put his "cans" from his crystal set in a pudding bowl and it acted like a speaker -- several people gathered around could hear it at the same time.

A 300pf variable capacitor across the coil will also give you quite effective tuning.
My current approach is Android ICS on a Transformer Prime, with an Ubuntu chroot for running server-side apps when developing (with vim, git, etc), and VNC connection if I need to run full desktop apps.

If only Firefox Mobile included development tools I could mostly ditch the VNC part.
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What an interesting thing for a highly-regarded founder/angel to say in public. I hope to hear about this on his blog too!
A lot of time is spent before we realise that we are solving the wrong problem.
This is a lot less of a "secret project leak" than someone discussing the ideal/advanced fast track to really learning how to kick ass in his new job.

Q:"This new kid is bright; what should we give him to cut his teeth on the weird stuff?"

A:"Break it at a low level and let him fix it."
Croatia also. Bunch of dimwits.
The timing of these posts amazes me sometimes.

I just turned down an opportunity to join an early stage startup (would've been employee #4, engineer #2, leading a team) that was uncommonly well backed, led by a seasoned founder, and tasked to build some truly bad-ass technology. I've always been drawn to startups, and this was indeed a rare one, unique in my experience so far, and particularly well suited to my sensibilities and to the direction I'd been wanting to go in my career. Closest thing to a perfect opportunity yet, to be sure. But it required some travel (half-dozen or so trips a year overseas, week or so each, give or take, probably more), and would've surely required longer hours than I work now (generally 40, sometimes less). We have two young boys (ages 1 and 2 1/2) and a third due in August. My wife, ever my champion, did nothing but encourage me to take it.

But I couldn't do it. My dad traveled constantly while my sisters and I were growing up (still does, actually -- very successful, but physically and often mentally absent), and I've always promised myself I'd never make that mistake. It was by far the toughest professional decision I've ever had to make, was emotionally and physically draining (I lost much sleep over it, spanning several days), but ultimately right -- for me, anyway. Much as it might restrict me career-wise, I work to live, don't live to work, and I'm not willing to risk regretting lost time with my boys because of work I chose for myself over them. I can't imagine a future in which any of us would look back and say that was worth it.

Many thanks indeed to you, Jeff -- you all did build something awesome. As my dad would say, Now go have fun.
But that is the deal with patents. You disclose what you have done, and in return, for X number of years, anyone who wants to use the method you have published pays you a fee. The alternative to patents is trade secrets.

If anyone could be bothered, you could read all the patents filed by Broadcom and find out anything you wanted to know. Really.
Thanks for the additional advice. I was planning to make a capacitor out of foil and newspaper interleaved. One day when I've finished all the other things I want to play around with...
Unlike centralized version control, DVC systems also have another available topology namely separate repositories. I guess some teams may rethink their branching strategy once they experiment with multiple repository topologies.
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"I guess this is a matter of opinion. Every time I am forced (read: paid) to use Xcode for some project, not only do I dislike the fact that I have to dig out my macbook because Apple's tools don't work on any other platform, but I find actually using them painful."

I think it all depends on what you compare XCode with, and what kind of applications you are developing.

Personally, I find all IDE's painful to use, compared to just editing with gvim and building/testing using command-line tools. The fundamental problem with IDE's is that they are supposed to integrate a complete development workflow, which is never the same workflow you are used to, and which adds layers of complexity that are usually completely unnecessary if you write your own build & test scripts, customized for each project.

That said, of all the IDE's I've used over time, XCode is easily the best. There has been a regression from XCode 3 to XCode 4 in some ways, but it's getting better. I'd say the quality of the total XCode package is on par with Visual Studio, which is saying a lot. Environments such as Netbeans or Eclipse don't even come close to XCode 4 in terms of user friendlyness, speed, and integration.

If it were even remotely possible, I'd develop iOS and OS X applications using just gvim and command-line tools, but it simply isn't possible to get all the UI work, storyboarding, CoreData model creation, etc. done without something like XCode.

Personally, I think it's very hard to maintain that XCode is not a great tool for the problems it is supposed to solve, especially if Apple gets around to fixing all the (minor) regressions they introduced with XCode 4.
> So for instance all calls to the server API have to be callback style; if you have to make serial calls, you can't avoid nested callbacks.

I hear this over and over again but I frankly do not get it. I write JavaScript every day and got over the nested callback problem ages ago. I don't say this to refute the point; I legitimately don't get it and feel like maybe I'm doing something wrong because I don't encounter the problem. Here's how I write stuff that requires several callbacks:

function TakesAWhile() {

}

TakesAWhile.prototype = {
start: function() {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'api/foo', true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = this.posted.bind(this);
xhr.send('bar');
},

posted: function(e) {
if(!(e.target.readyState !== 4)) {
this.complete('error :-(');
return;
}

db.saveSomething(someObject, this.saved.bind(this));
},

saved: function(e) {
db.getFreshCopy('foo', this.got.bind(this));
},

got: function(e) {
var foo = e.target.result;
this.complete(foo);
}
};

Then I consume it like this:

var stuff = new TakesAWhile();
stuff.complete = function(foo) {
console.log('All complete!');
};
stuff.start();
But there's no benefit from rushing ahead.
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UK: Talking CCTV cameras to be turned off
> there is some disinformation in this blog post. For instance Tcl has had this idea of an http server that is an event based library for at least 10 years.

I think it was quite clear that he spoke of his personal change in thinking about what a web server was.
CoffeeScript is Afrikaans JavaScript
Signing a treaty is not the same as ratifying it. Ratification is necessary for it to go into force, and that hasn't happened yet. Countries fail to ratify treaties all the time.
You can namespace your branches. Once you're done with one, you can rename it to merged/essential-dingbats-feature or discarded/dingbats-are-in-fact-useless.
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Czech republic sometimes does things its own way and it's even worse...
Finland. Whatever is penned down in Brussels is followed to the letter. Before EU, the prevailing thought was that anything that worked for the Swedes would work for us as well.
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How much content and how much cheaper? And what about access via rsync instead of "tape based"?
Check warranty status and information of any device
Amazon started cutting prices long before there was any competition. I dont think this is due to Google, as for most people the difference in network costs depending if you use EC2 matters more. It is probably more to do with hard drive prices renormalizing after the flooding...
The Art of user engagement
Some, like the authors of Continuous Delivery (http://continuousdelivery.com/) seem to be arguing against branches, and for a single codebase that is continuously tested, integrated, and releasable.

That said, private branches can make it easier for people to commit early and often, as all changes can easily be squished together so others don't have to see every "embarrassing" iteration.
Now this is amazing. Not because of the issue itself (both sides seem pretty idiotic), but because Facebook has become like a government with embassies that people protest against over social rights.

Think about it: people are now protesting a (non-democratic) corporation for their social rights.

And another thing. This is the internet age, and people insisting on posting their photos in whatever compromising positions for the world to see should be at least somewhat technologically savvy. Why don't they just post their photos on tumblr (with a link on facebook) where they can even post photos of them having sex with their (non-minor) children?

When governments ruled the world it was hard to pick up your things and leave. But in the age of the nanny-conglomerates, why not just go to a competitor? I guess the answer is that the market isn't really competitive any more. Rather, it's become (just like in the archaic state-ruled world) segmented into influence blocs. You got a few superpowers, and lots of satellite "states".
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As far as I can see, the main case this covers is, for instance, say Apple adopts GPLv3 Bash. IBM decided to sue over their patent on causing the letter 'w' to be displayed on a computer screen (or whatever). Currently, Apple can do three things; fight it, settle, or stop using bash (the last is impractical, of course). This clause of GPLv3 almost removes the settlement option; IBM would be highly unlikely to license the patent to, not only Apple, but anyone redistributing the redistributable source from MacOS.

For a slightly more realistic example (most of the GPL stuff Apple uses, except for GCC, is not really all that vulnerable to patents), take the bluez Bluetooth stack, used by Android. There's a very real risk that one of the many holders of Bluetooth related patents may assert one against Google or against an OEM over bluez, and in that case, if the patent was valid, licensing it would be the obvious solution. This would work, because bluez is GPLv2; it wouldn't necessarily work if it were GPLv3.

I can see what the FSF was going for with this clause, but it does make it substantially riskier for companies to depend upon GPL(v3) components.
Mapping an update function over a list of entities is a form of concurrency (note: not parallelism)... If you ever write a game engine from scratch, there are several tricky issues you must deal with because of this -- for example, the death and birth of new entities caused by traversing the list.

Consider what happens if your game character's arrow kills a monster while you are iterating over the list of entities. Do you remove it from the list right then? If other objects are depending on e.g. the number of monsters present, then you have a race condition where some objects will be updated before the monster was removed and some objects will be updated after the monster was removed and will thus see inconsistent views of the current state of the world... this can cause all kinds of fun, intermittent bugs!
Webkit is mostly LGPL. This is a bad example, because the codebase is derived from KDE.

mDNSResponder is Apache. This was released to drive industry acceptance of Bonjour/Zeroconf.

Darwin Streaming Server is APSL (the Darwin license) and patent encumbered. IIRC, there was talk of it being open sourced to drive H264 acceptance.

Darwin mostly does count as sharing code for the sake of being open, and to their credit Apple does keep updating it, but I struggle to think of other Apple releases for which this appears to be the most important consideration.
I'm not sure why your comment was downvoted, as it's pretty much spot on. I'm Hungarian.
Forget the clerks and USB. Get the very cheapest USB to ethernet chipset you can, on 100 mb ethernet, and only power it up when you need drive access. You should be able to do that at $10-20 a disk. No moving parts to maintain.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/appoxee-raises-funding-h...
There's lots of entry-level jobs, they just require a bachelor's degree + 5-8 years of experience and pay 50-60k a year.

On a serious note, I read somewhere that the shortage of entry level jobs is due to the expansion of unpaid/poorly paid internships.
Dilbert strip contains only-vowel word challenge
Had exactly the same idea a few months ago, which resulted in 'Schirm': https://bitbucket.org/hoeck/schirm, screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/N84aw.

Its a VT100 (+colors) compatible terminal emulator (pyte) hacked to render into an HTML document, displayed using Webkit (pywebkitgtk). Currently requires python2.7, gtk, webkitgtk (only tested on Ubuntu 11.04 so far). Html output is done by using escape sequences to mark beginning and end of html strings or base64 encoded resources (js, images ...). You can even use js frameworks (used jQuery + d3.js to generate the circular tree in the 2nd screenshot). Communication between the terminal emulator and the client can be achieved by using console.log messages or some kind of HTTP (over stdin/stdout). Would love to get some feedback.
I decided to send my Tube to the edge of space
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You can have all pictures of violence you want in America but absolutely no pictures of women taking care of their babies. Society must be held back firmly in the 19th century or the religious right might explode.
What about it? It was more expensive, and now looks worse. If you host at rackspace though the network costs will make it cheaper.
Frankly, some of this "family time" stuff can be taken too far by fathers. What are you going to do, sit around the house reading Dr. Seuss and playing Lego? That's fine to a point, but you also need to be setting an example as a provider and you do that by spending a reasonable amount of time at work. Kids absorb and internalize their experiences as they grow, and when they are adults (past the turbulence of adolescence) those internalized behaviors are how they live. If they have not had the experience of growing up with a parent who displays the discipline to sacrifice, work hard, and succeed, they won't tend to have that either.

This is NOT a critique of Atwood's (or anyone else's) decision specifically; he has clearly been a success and maybe the work/home ratio in his life was out of balance. Like many good things, time spent at work can become a negative. But on the whole I don't think a parent, particularly a father, needs to feel guilty about spending a reasonable amount of time at work. You are teaching your kids how to be a provider, even if you are not physically "there" 24/7.
blatant pandering

Wow. Really? If you received as much benefit from this community as what I do, you'd pander too.
So far, my friend and think that the last two phrases are "through my email" (my has no vowels). Other finds:

- "aoe" could be "anyone" or "randomness"

- "uie" could be "quite", "quiet", or "business"
Python NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo
Indeed it does, thanks!
> CoffeeScript was a godsend here, simply as an explicit compile and validation step.
> Automatic local scoping (no var necessary) is a sane choice, and safe loop scoping with for x in y do (x) -> erases a whole category of errors.
> indentation

Thought it might be useful to others seeking these advantages that passing your JS through JSHint in the build process could provide these benefits. It's not a cure-all, of course--the author cites other benefits that linting can't achieve. But if you're a like-minded developer looking for assurances along these lines in JavaScript, check out http://jshint.com and https://github.com/jshint/jshint/
The Blue Man Group at the Tokyo International School
Romania has lobbyists, and i'm sure that RIAA or some Motion Picture association paid for someone's car or vacation or something. Of course, they didn't have to work as hard as in the US for SOPA, because as it was said before, our politicians are little copying puppets.
Apple's kernel code is largely _available_, even in other BSDs do not necessarily want to take it. In practice, it's very common for companies who use permissive licensed software to contribute back to it.
Thats exactly why I personally was so surprised by the uproar about ACTA.

Because it appears that privacy and opposition to censorship are at the core of opposition not "right to pirate stuff".
OCSP stapling is good for privacy and latency, but it requires every server to upgrade to provide any increased security. Until then it is as insecure as OCSP: it can just be stripped.
Where are the leaked e-mails, has someone translated them?
It is tested in Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Should work in IE9 but not tested yet.

Which browsers do you want? :p
Is social security number in US being misused? Developed countries would already have a unique ID in place.

Also, middlemen will not be able to take advantage of this. They will be cut out completely when the person has to avail the benefits after identifying himself/herself.
Wait, SO is all on one single node? Or are there reverse proxies?

I guess the static content is CDN but all dynamic is coming from one machine?

Oh wait, nevermind (10 Dell R610 IIS web servers)

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...
> And there are business models that could rely on GPL to make them viable (offer custom licensing for a fee for eg.)

This seems to be the most common GPL-based business model; particularly popular with Oracle, whose newest open-source/commercial license product (confusingly called Oracle NoSQL; it's more or less an autosharding network available BDB JE) is actually AGPL.
Appharbor co-founder suggests using monitoring to implement background workers
The other method is using a variometer (inductive), which is easier than making a variable capacitor:

http://www.crystalradio.net/crystalsets/hassell/index.shtml

Newpaper will be 'fun' to work with as its moisture content will vary with environmental conditions, making its dielectric constant not very..erm..constant - unless you impregnate it with wax or a lacquer.

(Made plenty of crystal sets during my teen years in the mid 70s-80s)
I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?
I would like to see them too.