skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, if you haven't heard of BitC, you most likely haven't studied enough cpunk literature to have a meaningful opinion on bitcoin.
The reason you should use a www.domain is because then you can serve static assets from a cookieless domain. If you don't use a www-domain, then you'll be setting cookies at root and they'll populate down to say static.example.com too.
Not because of that. iTunes exists to make Apple’s hardware attractive, not the other way around. (Same with the App Store.) It’s pocket change for Apple. Just look at their quarterly reports to see what they are actually making money with.

They might want to keep the box around for the same reason there is a Mac mini (or they are still selling the iPhone 3GS and the iPad 2): To offer a low-priced entry point. They might also kill it because it clutters their product line. Or because it would be too cheap compared to a full-blown TV and everyone might just go with it instead of the TV.
Expensive things seem less valuable when bundled with inexpensive items
How to Setup Gmail Account in Outlook Express
I would love to, but I don't know that material cold like I do the other stuff, and I don't currently have the time to do that kind of research.
Which finance companies are using ML languages?
I am getting that the GoFolk are building GOLANG with this problem firmly in mind, and may just be expecting to avoid it.
Thank you. As a transit rider, this is exactly what I wanted. The existing form is not so bad if you define those locations in contacts, the form will autocomplete, including "C" for current location, strangely. But this is just that much better.

I look forward to Apple stealing this. Charge money for it while you can.

I still don't have any good mobile integration between my Google Calendar and maps, though. The phone knows where I am, and with the calendar it knows where I'm supposed to be. Why doesn't it notify me at the right time to leave where ever I am, based on estimated travel time in my usual transport mode? Surely someone's done this already...
No, they can't kill off the AppleTV with it's current form factor. They can create a TV, but the current form factor (headless) will remain. If they did, the Apple TV initiative would fail.

And I'll explain why. Just like Apple had to support Windows with their product lines, an Apple TV has to support other TVs. People like to forget that the first iPod didn't support Windows. Also consider that AppleTVs do their part in helping to sell devices. Right now, it's $99 to buy a device to extend the usefulness of my other devices. If we turn that around and I had to spend $2000 for a full blown TV just to put pictures up there? Yeah, not going to happen.

Can they release a TV? Of course! Will they rid themselves of the Apple TV as it stands? No.

On a side note:
> Apple has said before that they break even from iTunes. iTunes exists as a low cost way for them to sell more devices.

Yes. And remove iTunes from the picture and the whole ecosystem there, and see how many iPhones or iPods they sell. People buy these devices because of iTunes.
Sequencing your DNA is of limited use since your phenotype is the expression of your genetic code. And your phenotype may be the direct opposite of what you are genetically predisposed to. Without knowledge of your phenotype the mapping of your genome is less useful, and possibly counter productive. (Better to eat methyl donors that toggle your genes, than to take DNA-tailored drugs...)

A not-quite-layman's look at epigenetics can be gotten from the book, Pottenger's Prophecy[1]. It has quite a lot of information and shouldn't be skimmed (as much to myself, as to any with leanings toward skimming everything). Those wanting more detail should check out the studies referenced by the book.

[1]:http://www.amazon.com/Pottengers-Prophecy-Resets-Wellness-Illness/dp/1935052330
The analogy was lexical, not semantic. So you’re absolutely right about the logic of it, but logic has little to do with it. And I’m not one for arguing about language. It’s easiest just to point out what people actually do—every day merging with everyday, for instance, or spelling you’re as your. Hell, a lot of people even spell comfortable as comfterble. Or is it alot?

There are people in every generation who bemoan the “downfall” of language, and yet somehow I feel our languages get better over time, not worse—whatever that might mean.
Clever app, nice job. Love the animation on the selection and how it just leaves you in google maps and doesn't try to re-invent the map interface. Might want to change

Swipe from one location to another

to

Drag from one location to another

Thanks for making it.
Supporting the GPL but not copyright in general is actually a completely valid stance. The GPL is the inverse of copyright--copyright normally protects the rights of distributors at the expense of customers; the GPL protects the rights of customers at the "expense" of distributors (this is why commercial companies don't like GPL software). The fact that the GPL is based on copyright is incidental. In fact, I suspect many people who support the GPL would be happy if the rights it protected could be given to customers without relying on copyright; unfortunately, that is not the case right now.
That is quite a blanket statement there, javert. Claims that are well researched with evidence to back them SHOULD be included in the conversation, why not?
AFAIK, sudo -s is only if you would like to open a shell as root, not when you would like to open a shell as another user. The original point of the post was about how to create a shell as another user, without needing any password.

Edit: just added the last phrase. "without needing a password".
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1520
On Android, you can just hold the search button to bring up voice search and say "navigate to $address" and google maps navigation will guide you to the address, no need to type anything. You can even say "navigate to $business_name" and it will lead you to the closest one.
DMCA is more than enough protection than the RIAA and MPAA should ever need. Instead they are going over board and trying to get more and more control.
That's possible using sudo -su user (which looks similar, but doesn't hand over to su).
I don't think I've seen an author in the past 10 years use lowercase-internet to mean interconnected networks that are not The Internet, though. I've seen it for some variants, like talking about "internetworking" or "internetworked" facilities, but it's just too confusing to refer to "an internet" when you mean 3 IBM sites networked together.

The term "intranet" is starting to become a common replacement, though; increasingly any network that is not The Internet is being described as such, even if consists of multiple internetworked physical networks. So in the IBM-sites example, I think it would be more common to talk about the "IBM intranet", even if it's global and encompasses multiple networks, than to talk about the "IBM internet".
Thanks a lot (and sorry for repeated post; there was something wrong with my browser)! I have also got my version of the plot: http://attractivechaos.github.com/votes.png
Oh well sure, more security is always better. :-)

I was just thinking that if they were able to reach email then the map app security isn't as much of a concern.
>Go is popular because of its association with the brand of Google and the brand of Pike and Thompson.

A (non factual) jump to conclusion.

For one, Go isn't that popular. From the latest TIOBE notes:

"Another interesting observation is that while big software-related companies such as Oracle, Microsoft and Apple all have one of their programming languages in the top 10, Google seems to be incapable to achieve the same.Google's Go language dropped out of the top 50 this month".

Second, Dart is also associated with the brand of Google and the brand of Lars Bak. Yet, it's totally unpopular.

Same goes for Unladden Swallow. Touted by Google, got nowhere, died. (Hell, even things Google spends ton of marketing money on go nowhere: Google Buzz, Google Wave, Google Wallet, ...).

>A lot of people like the language on its merits (although I disagree with pretty much every decision they made), but I believe the reason the language got traction is because of its brand association.

That might get some early interest in the language, but not continued traction (and not that it has much traction, anyway).

People like it because it's fast, the type system gets out of the way, it's not as weird as the lisp-like languages for those used to C syntax, has some cool modern features (from closures, to easy concurrency) and has a big and current standard library.

I also happen like the language on its merits. I also believe that most of those who disagree don't share the design goals of the language designers and wanted mostly just another derivative functional language or some fads-of-the-day-in-academia thing like Scala.
Again, AFAIK, that doesn't respect the NOPASSWD option in /etc/sudoers. That might just be the specific configuration I'm working with though.
Since Internet2 doesn't have different user-facing characteristics, I don't think most researchers distinguish, unless it's their area of research specifically. From a user perspective it just looks like another set of long-haul internet pipes, alongside both the commercial ones run by Level3/etc., and other educational networks like CalREN and NORDUnet. I don't even usually know when my data is being routed over Internet2 or some other network unless I make a point of tracerouting, and often it transparently takes some mixture of routes.
> In addition to BitC, there's also Cyclone, Rust, ATS, and Deca -- all of which are in various stages of development. ATS has a stable release, IIRC, Rust is in alpha, Cyclone has made a release but development stopped, and Deca is in active pre-alpha development.

There is also Clay (http://claylabs.com/clay/) which keeps a low profile, but there are a lot of work being done on it. What I like best there is that it has no complicated run-time system, which is an obvious plus if you want to supplant C, and that it does whole program optimization right out of the box, no old-fashioned notions about separate compilation units.
Oh god not this bitcoin crap again. If it's not simple enough to explain to someone's mom it's not going to flourish as a serious currency. There are so many things lined up against the success of bitcoin I can't believe we're still talking about it. And Forbes of all people.

- It's a pain in the ass to move money in and out of bitcoin.

- Constantly fluctuating prices means sellers have to constantly change their prices in bitcoins.

- Mistrust over bitcoin / mtgox sites like tradehill and the recent hacks.

- The threat of repeat crashes and rollbacks.

- A bad reputation due to the bitcoin crash a year ago.

- The ability to lose all your bitcoins if your computer crashes and you don't have your wallet backed up.

I think people keep talking about it in a desperate attempt to make the value go back up so they can get back the money they lost when the bitcoin bubble popped. Look I lost money in it to, time to move on from this crypto-currency crap and go back to the reality that we're stuck with Paypal, Credit Cards, and Dwolla.
I just had to double take - it's listed as free? Why?! This is a fantastic idea, and I feel many would gladly pay.
Right up there with fixing your "From" field is using spell check on your blog posts. :0)
Cost Savings in the Cloud
I'm just wondering what can be done to sort of capture that feeling of contributing to a community in places that already have large numbers of commenters. You're entirely right that it doesn't work at scale, but there's part of me saying it doesn't _have_ to work at scale. Maybe you can create dozens of tiny communities as part of one large one. I have no idea what that would look like, but it sounds intriguing, at least at this point.

On my blog, someone said they were considering assigning some heavily-moderated "contributor" slots to each post, where each would sort of be treated as an addendum to the post itself. That definitely strikes me as an interesting way to focus discussion to small groups, but also very difficult to handle in any kind of automated way. There's also the concept of focusing discussions into communities with similar topics, but I don't think you'd get the breadth of commentary that you would with other systems through that.

You're right though; the average comment is trash. The question I want to ask people is how they can motivate commenters to realize that what they're posting is trash and either just not post it or refine it.
Calibre and Project Gutenberg: Liberate Your eReader.
Suggestion: make them circles instead of squares for easier diagonal moves.
No love for Ladder Logic? sniff
I don't know, I know a ton of people who don't like Python. The difference is that unlike C or C++ or even Java, if you don't like the language itself there is no compelling reason to use Python, and so those people don't.

That said, when people do have to use Python, like in my compilers class right now, quite a lot are not happy with it. (Even the professor gets annoyed with it; I really don't know why we're using it.) So I think there is just much more selection bias in the land of Python than in C++ or Java.
A clickable link.

(http://imgur.com/pwzgA)
A Tale of Two Cities. Part 1: Appetite for risk
The problem is that these costs actually add to the GDP, which makes them look like a good thing, because they "make the economy grow".
The Motion-X suite of products are a little bit hardcore geo-nerd, but they work for me.
Bruce Schneier in a current Economist.com debate over airport security
A Conversation with Guido about Callbacks
Why Iced Coffee Costs More than Hot
I also wish that startups would use a bit more "personable" email address. Emails from donotreply@what.ever or invalid@examp.le just look odd. Instead, the reply-to email should alias to your help email address, to simplify sending requests for help, or just sending comments and feedback.
The basic question is whether or not the word "Internet" is a proper noun (i.e. a specific named entity like the "Interstate Highway System") or just a regular noun like "public highways".
The Black Code
Whether currency-based investments have historically provided positive real returns is an entirely separate matter from whether it is possible to time investment in currency-based investments based on expected future inflation rates.
> then they should send an informative email to every user, say once every week about spamming, phising, passwords, etc.

Which would be annoying. Users would either block it or ignore it.

> Of course, it should be easy opt out.

If it was easy enough, everyone would, rendering it useless.
I agree. I admit I'm a terrible speller. Perhaps you could tell me what I misspelled?
The reason people don't complain about Python is because if you don't like the language, there is no reason to use it, so they don't. When people are forced to use it, they do complain--stupid scoping, horrible lambdas, no pattern-matching, weird desugaring, idiotic default argument semantics and so on. (These are all the things I've heard about it from other students in my compilers course.)

People use C and C++ when they need fast code close to the machine. People use Java when they need more portability but can't sacrifice performance completely. People only use Python because they like it.
In some cases it may be intentional. I am unlikely to open an email from startup X if months ago I reached a negative judgement about startup X.

On the other hand, if the From field only says "John" or "notification", I may open the email even if just for a second.

Also, note the branding value of having your company name in the from field. I receive emails from some sites that I no longer visit. Yet, just seeing their name day in and day out in my email makes me remember their name/brand.
I think I've clicked that re-submit button more times than I have clicked a "like" button on Facebook!
I've just done some testing, and my sudo (1.7.4p6) does honour NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers, when I sudo -su to any user. Are you sure your configuration is correct?
I love Perl (worked with it for 10 years) but we decided early on that finding enough good Perl devs would be too hard. There are still a few Perl parts of the rewrite, you need to use the right tool for the job.
This is immaterial to the "use keys" suggestion. I realize that you mentioned the key+password case, but I can't help but think that the solution to that is simply to go with a key without a password, limit the account on the other end as much as possible and swallow the bitter pill that if they have access to your passwordless private key, they probably have access to far more dangerous things.

In short, this can be solved with proper access restrictions and full key-based authentication, and nothing but bash and scp/sftp.
I've added an edit as of 2:45 PST. Thanks for reading and I appreciate the dialogue.
The Dead (approach for identifying unused functions in a large codebase)
Sometimes GPS isn't working. What if you're in an underground parking lot?

I do agree though, it seems like a bit of a fail if the OS knows that it has a good fix on GPS, you shouldn't even need a "current location". Just tap the location you want and go. If you want to do a route from A to B, then do the swipe. But I expect the difficulty there is that getting a GPS fix takes time, and mobile apps in 2012 can't do it in the background.
middle aged? You may be thinking of zynga. Pinterest appeals to the 18-35 female demo
I really like the new design, but I want folders so I can put all the sports junk that I don't subscribe to away in a corner.
Ha, sorry. I was just nitpicking to nitpick.

"Here is an exmaple from a new startup whose website I joined yesterday:"
It's not a reasonable comparison. Go lacks any features that haven't already been thoroughly explored in other languages. BitC was an attempt to do something that had never really been done before.
The video should on Youtube next week, It contains a lot more information. The slides are just bullet points.
Genuine question: what's on the magstrip of a US credit card that's not printed on its front? Could a camera with good OCR replace the dongle?
The unusual part of nasa.gov is that all pages and assets are served by Akamai.. www.nasa.gov CNAMEs to Akamai. I'm sure that's not unheard of, though I've never noticed anyone else doing it.

So for nasa.gov to go to the same servers without the ugly redirect hack, you'd have to set nasa.gov A records to Akamai addresses. That would probably require a bunch of their servers in Anycast'ed address space, syncing content, etc. Non-traditional for Akamai, but not impossible.

I wonder if NASA gets a special deal from Akamai. No one else seems to have this problem, and most people who can afford to pay Akamai can certainly afford the hardware and admin costs to run their own primary web infrastructure.
> If it's not simple enough to explain to someone's mom it's not going to flourish as a serious currency.

Do you think that the way the Visa/MC network is implemented is simple enough to explain to someone who does not understand computers? No? Hm, I wonder how people use it...

The point of articles like this is usually to highlight usability improvements for a particular solution, and in this case, to highlight the fact that their is no hardware requirement for bitcoin.

Also, re: the difficulty of acquiring bitcoin: mobile apps like this mean that if one party in a transaction has bitcoin, the other party can go from 0 to 60 on accepting bitcoin in the time it takes to download the app from their app store.

By almost any metric (including value) bitcoin is healthy, and slowly growing: http://blockchain.info/charts

And in the interest of full disclosure: yes, I have an investment in bitcoin, because I truly believe in the strength of the concept.
i'm trying on chrome and not getting points for words (are those tallied at the end of a session)...it's not clear and at least in my browser it shows 0 points. great job
Thank you, Microsoft for promoting endpoint to endpoint encryption.
I stopped reading when she mentioned "the great man" Chomsky.
It's funny seeing the programme title of "Total Information Awareness". That was the title of pretty much the same system in a British TV drama. The show was about an Orwellian dystopia, where the government is on the verge of introducing this program that can monitor and control every point of human interaction - quite foreboding. The show was called "The Last Enemy": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0966151/
Moderation is just a target for trolls. Meta-moderation-threads can generate huge angry threads of hate. Meta is death, but meta-moderation is evil slow death.

Highlighting comments from established contributors is a problem if some of them are dicks, or some of them occasionally make awful comments. You also have a problem with "vested contributors" - 'I broke the rules, but I've been here so long and do so much good that it's okay because you know that really I'm alright' whereas the newbie just gets banned.
Agreed. You just touched on one of the oddest quirks in psychology as well. People don't like to have their options taken away. But at the same time they don't want to think about the options they have.

So even though only having two weapons at a time is arguably a killer feature, it would be almost impossible to convince someone that this is true. Another example might be Apple, every time they take away an option and people complain they are arguably making their product better, but theres no way they can convince people that's true.

If people don't know they have an option they usually don't care about it or put up with any inconvenience.
I like the sentiment, and I would extend it to websites for just about anything. Often I'll use Wikipedia to learn about X instead of going to X's own website because Wikipedia will at least say what it is instead of blowing a bunch of marketing-speak at me and asking me to download a PDF whitepaper.
Goods points covered there. David S. Rose sums it up nicely here on a TED talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/david_s_rose_on_pitching_to...
Question:

Does treating the Internet as a proper noun legitimize it relative to nation states? How about the opposite, i.e. does treating it a a regular noun delegitimize it relative to nation states?
Adobe releases public beta of Photoshop CS6
Let's define success as new + useful. You can build something new then make it useful, or you can start with useful and add something new.

I suggest that the second approach is better, because we already have a good sense of how to measure useful, so you will always know where you are. Keep your eyes on the prize, as they say.
As much as I might like to think so, they are several orders of magnitude beyond us.
I'm not a sudoer on any box i administrate, and i've apt-get remove'd it from my personal VPSes. It's a little worrying, occasionally you'll run across a shell script that runs sudo for half it's lines and you're not entirely sure why.

Using plain su instead of sudo <command> forces me to enter my password, thereby encouraging a concious decision about whether a command needs to be run as root, and the change in prompt is another reminder to be careful.
The Plight of the Introvert [A Rant]
What Highlight is like in the real world
The products of the RIAA and MPAA generally undermine property rights (viz. "F the Police"). Now that they are the ones being f'd, they turn to the people who respect property rights to protect them. No sale, they deserve to pass into the ash heap of history.
It's a funny world where selling porn is considered less honorable that selling your user's information to advertisers.