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On Ubuntu 12.04, I get this, and then it seems to hang. Anyone have this working on Linux?

Welcome to Secure Shell version 0.7.9.
The list of Frequently Asked Questions is available here: http://goo.gl/m6Nj8
Connecting to wellsj@greensboro.timco.aero, port 22...
Loading NaCl plugin...
Nicely misleading and view-bait headline. Has nothing to do with Y-Combinators value but the total estimated value of the total of all their portfolio companies, not their share.
That _Chrome_. The questions is whether this app runs there, since it's using NaCl, which is not exactly portable across hardware architectures.
Software Defined Radio for $11

http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/03/31/1914217/software...

"DVB-T sticks based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a cheap SDR, since the chip allows transferring the raw I/Q samples to the host, which is officially used for DAB/DAB+/FM demodulation. The possibility of this has been discovered by the V4L/DVB kernel developer Antti Palosaari."
I guess (stressing 'guess') you could do wifi fine, if you can afford a lot of dropped packets. You would listen for some short while, and process that signal to look for packets sent your way. When you needed to send data back, you pre-process it one packet at a time, ('packets' at the wifi level, not necessarily TCP/IP) and when you hava packet you just fire it out the radio.

There's a fair bit of work going on behind the scenes there, and wifi is a pretty heavy protocol to work with like this. I would be very surprised if Per Vices doesn't move to a seperate wifi chip in a future version, if they stick to the 'universal bridge' product. For such a popular protocol, it would make much much more sense.
Battlestar Galactica Online approaches 10 million registered players
Yes - you need to work powers of 10 modulo the divisor as well.
Simple Startup Ideas
I'm totally in favor of unplugging for a bit, although I never seem to do it!
Looks like a good service. Looked at the API and they use SOAP. instant turn off. Also I did see anywhere if they also accepted credit cards. Do they?
Interesting - I can't tell by looking at it whether or not it supports same-sex weddings.

It'd also be cool to be able to tour the site without signing in through Facebook, especially if your SO is unaware that you're thinking of proposing :)
He said first comment, not first sentence.
I applied. I am not getting my hopes up for this, but the design makes it feel promising ;)
strcpy and stpcpy are functionally equivalent, but differ only in return value. stpcpy is superior because it points to the end of the string, thus letting the caller know how many bytes were copied.
And each union local (in this case, UFCW) has collective bargaining every couple years to set the rates at which health care contributions must be made on behalf of each employee.

(former actuarial consultant, worked on union health funds)
>> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability.

>I do not read something on the lines of "you can also use a comment as a property". I wonder how you read that in the first sentence?

lol, please re-read my comment. I said the first COMMENT, not sentence, had the same suggestion.

:)
Any time is a terrible time to have food as a large portion of your budget.
There's not much to elaborate on; the argument literally makes no sense as presented. You say "wealth is better thought-of as a measure of how many jobs the owner of a company could have created, but didn't." It isn't.

Apple has $100b in cash. Are you going to seriously tell me that if Apple gives $10b back to shareholders via a dividend that, regardless of what those shareholders do with the money, total employment for the economy as a whole will be lower? And that, further, if those shareholders had never invested in Apple at all total employment for the economy would be the same? In other words, that dividends from an alternate-world Apple would not both be a sign that the possessor had created jobs in the past, as well as a potent mechanism with which to create jobs in the future? Because, that's exactly what you're saying, and there isn't an iota of evidence in your favour.

Or to take another tack, the internet has been all atwitter about asteroid mining recently, funded by, among others, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt. You're going to sit here and say that it's clearly the case that, if we care about unemployment, the money they're sinking into the venture should have stayed with Google. That, somehow, if Google had decided to go into asteroid mining, rather than the founders of Google, it will magically create more jobs? Because...what? Again, there is no theoretical basis or empirical evidence for this notion.

I could go on forever. Your argument is lunacy on its face, and when we unpack it, it is based on levels of misunderstanding and mistakes all the way down. I'm sorry, but if you want more than a contemptuous flame, you're going to need to do better.
If you only buy it when you need it, it's not "insurance".
Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?
Multitaskers: emotional benefits despite decreased productivity
I believe they don't ask for SSN so it may be the only choice for KaanSoral.
Info Lengkap Harga HP Nokia Terbaru April 2012 
Mari kita mau lihat bersama-sama harga Nokia terbaru baik kondisi baru maupun bekas. Walaupun kini sudah banyak merk HP baru yang bermunculan, namun sepertinya Nokia masih mendominasi di pasaran.
Namedropping is no evidence whatsoever.

Furthermore, the namedropping of someone you share a corporate interest with is generally an admission of probable bias and using it as an argument in favour of your position isn't particularly convincing.
Remember this is the same person that created a video explaining how to cut two $60 Apple power cables to make an extremely dangerous, electrically unsafe $120 jump rope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9e1uWg8fM
Nvidia will optimize your game's graphics settings with a supercomputer
I was not commenting about the cash flow from producer to customer when I posted. I wanted to highlight that there are a lot of intermediates who bring no value (or little) whatsoever to the end user. Supermarkets basically charge 30% of the full price or more just to have your CD/DVD/Video Game in their shelves. Do they deserve that much of YOUR money ? They usually make more money than the artists/creators in the first place.

Of course, you can say the value of a supermarket is to bring your product's awareness to the mass market. Which is very true, because it gains a lot of visibility.

And that's exactly what something like TPB does: it gives visibility to the different creations. It's just like radio: you get to enjoy free music, with ads. Only a small minority will actually buy the CD and go to the concert, but this is still worth it. TPB a radio for files. Whether they pay the creators or not is irrelevant. It still provides "value" to the creators in the first place by spreading their creations in the Netspace.
Well noted, though it doesn't seem malicious unless the url http://pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/46 casts a vote directly (can't check since it's offline).
Failing to inform can be as deceptive as misinforming.
I recommend using rEFIt:
http://refit.sourceforge.net/

It can help with some of the multi-boot problems people tend to have with Ubuntu on MBP.
It is pretty interesting to list everything internet-related (from VOIP to bill payments to search) and realize that we're in a period similar to the era in which electricity became a utility. In the early 20th century, electricity was still uncommon in many places; Lenin's slogan[1] in the 1920s was that "Communism = Soviet Power + Electrification of the whole country".

Paul David[2] is an economic historian who pointed out that factories were completely redesigned once people realized they didn't need to be centered on a steam engine:

Electric light bulbs were available by 1879, and there
were generating stations in New York and London by 1881.
Yet a thoughtful observer in 1900 would have found little
evidence that the "electricity revolution" was making
business more efficient.

Steam-powered manufacturing had linked an entire
production line to a single huge steam engine. As a
result, factories were stacked on many floors around the
central engine, with drive belts all running at the same
speed. The flow of work around the factory was governed by
the need to put certain machines close to the steam
engine, rather than the logic of moving the product from
one machine to the next. When electric dynamos were first
introduced, the steam engine would be ripped out and the
dynamo would replace it. Productivity barely improved.

Eventually, businesses figured out that factories could be
completely redesigned on a single floor. Production lines
were arranged to enable the smooth flow of materials
around the factory. Most importantly, each worker could
have his or her own little electric motor, starting it or
stopping it at will. The improvements weren't just
architectural but social: Once the technology allowed
workers to make more decisions, they needed more training
and different contracts to encourage them to take
responsibility.

We can probably do yet another iteration on factories once the existence of ubiquitous data fully sinks in. For one thing, machines can now know the states of other machines in the factory and optimize their production accordingly. I guess Honda's dark factories are the first version of this.

The overall phenomenon is really just Marc Andreessen's thesis[3] in another guise. Today, "Software is Eating the World", and software engineers + the internet are automating processes and arguably obsolescing many jobs. But if we warped back 80-90 years or so, we'd say that "Electricity is Eating the World", and electrical and mechanical engineers were the ones automating processes and obsolescing jobs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOELRO_plan

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_undercover_economist/...

[3] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...
I have been wanting something like this for a while. It's even on my todo list. Thanks for saving me the work. I'll be using it all the time!
So it doesn't work? Maybe Google didn't enable NaCl by default in Linux. You can enable it yourself.
Shareholder value maximization is a good thing.

Shareholder short-term value maximization is a bad thing.
Quote: Seeds you Plant
Two I particularly like:

- CREATE DOMAIN

- ON UPDATE CASCADE

Oh, and yeah, a BOOLEAN datatype. That's one in the eye to Larry Ellison.

What would make it absolutely the bee's knees would be a decent data language on top of that lovely data engine. Something closed over composition, with a simple, orthogonal syntax. NoSQL in the truest form — not a blind rejection of Codd's algebra, but something LESS DUMB STUPID THAN THE WRETCHEDNESS THAT IS SQL.
Almost: except that he actually has revenue.
Not sure if blacklight in a dorm is a good idea....
On 12.04 here 64 bit kernel and Chrome v. 18.0.1025.162.

Everything works perfectly both to localhost and across the lan.
Oh that's very cool, I din't know about that one. I guess this item can be removed from my list.
No that link wouldn't have voted directly. It would have been the index link for that particular award category. I agree it doesn't appear malicious, just odd.
Still doesn't give you the right to steal my tv.
They make $2 million from entries only?
Linus Torvalds on new Chromebook Aura UI
If you are already in Normal mode there's nothing to escape from, thus it's entirely possible to navigate down two lines. I find myself typing q quite often in day to day programming (it appears in 'frequency', 'query', 'quote', all important in my application), whereas jj is a sequence that appears in ~four words in English %w{hajj hajjes hajji hajjis}
Eh, so did Groupon.
I would guess that #1 is caused by #2... does #2 mean that Oracle+DBA (or MSSQL+DBA) is cheaper than a Postgres DBA, or just that the database and the DBA are generally paid for out of different department's budgets?
But the point is that if you have comments in your JSON, the first time you do some sort of "for key in data" to transform the data and spit it back out, the comments are gone; you may never even realize they were there to start with.

If you do that with the metadata explicitly stored as a separate key-value pair in your blob, then this doesn't happen; the meta data is never silently discarded when you, say, take all the key value pairs in the JSON blob and send them out down the wire to a client. If you want to strip the meta-data, you have to do that.

I know this isn't Python, but I think the Zen of Python is on point here: "Explicit is better than implicit."
The irony that this hit the front page of Hacker News before the front page of Digg isn't lost on me. As a Digg member since May 11th, 2006 my heart is broken...
It got Slashdot-y real quick up in here.
This person loves the limelight so much that staying away from the Internet for a year will be a tremendous challenge for him.
Problem at line 1 character 39: Cannot read property 'disrupt' of undefined

Huh?
If you use Command-T it has a mode to search buffers as well. I think its mapped to <Leader>b by default.
If anyone is interested, I built a vaguely similar thing a few years ago [1]. The major difference is that it's restricted to the 2.4GHz bands, though the transceivers are modular and can be swapped out for broadband units. It's also MIMO capable, accepting up to 6 transceivers on a single PCI card. Being a little dated, the interface is PCI and size/speed of the FPGA is limited. Software is rudimentary, my ambition being to one day port GNUradio onto it. I've always intended to continue the development, but, so far, other things have intervened.

Full design details are released under the GPL and contained in the downloadable thesis [2].

[1] http://home.exetel.com.au/dalton/testbed/

[2] http://home.exetel.com.au/dalton/thesis_jd_toplevel_2009_11_...
It's a bit improper to mix results from observational studies and controlled studies together to show a reduction of cancer rate and so on. Such studies are made in completely different conditions, it's like mixing apples and oranges and telling you the total in bananas.

Plus, we'd need to seriously look at how patients were sampled and all in both arms of the control study. This kind of article is obviously written by someone who knows nothing about the science of clinical trials, which is a bit of a shame. Tabloid level, really.
> please don't scrape us, we don't want that

Those are still murky waters. Copyright law allows the compilation of a third-party's data as long as you are creating something original with it.
Gmail for Business: Automatically Forward Email Faxes To The Correct Department
I disagree. Their point is that the user should always be able to share, modify and run the software they have, not that they should have access to every line of code written. Again, from the GNU project:

In general we do not believe it is wrong to develop a program and not release
it. There are occasions when a program is so useful that withholding it from
release is treating humanity badly. However, most programs are not that important,
so not releasing them is not particularly harmful. Thus, there is no conflict
between the development of private or custom software and the principles of the
free software movement.

Nearly all employment for programmers is in development of custom software;
therefore most programming jobs are, or could be, done in a way compatible
with the free software movement.

I doubt their modifications to the kernel (remember we're not talking about userspace stuff here) are "so useful that not releasing them is treating humanity badly".
Why? Most of the sorting process was about the founder, not the idea, and according to pg a lot of people changed their original idea anyway.
If the last 5 years have taught us any lessons at all, it's that assuming traditional asset managers know anything--no matter how obvious--can get everyone in a terrible amount of trouble.

Assume, but verify.
I think Nacl is portable. But it wouldn't run on Android right now anyway since the Chrome browser on Android doesn't have access to the Chrome webstore and extensions.
Here's a well-documented, unofficial one: http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI
"healthcare costs companies alot of money, and it may be something that a large percentage of them would like to avoid"

They are reducing it, by putting a larger share of the cost on to the employee.

The key here is not that health insurance becomes affordable via an employer, it's that it becomes at all possible via an employer for many employees.

Recognizing that, it just becomes an exercise in how large a share of the cost employers can shift to their employees, factoring in their ratio of young/healthy/mobile workers to old/needy/trapped workers.
It does. You can be groom and groom as far as I can see.
They really aren't that bad, definitely very handy for injecting IE specific stylesheets, without having to rely on javascript.
reminds me of &lt;blink&gt;

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

I would like to see 3 boxes,... hours, minutes, secounds by RGB
Is it accessible to developers? Really want to hack with this stuff.
I just browsed the "Trending" category on Digg for all topics. Most stories have single digit comments. Ouch. Amazing how far the site has fallen since its glory days.
Convenient, too for AL.
They let him keep the money he'd made so far. Obviously he didn't do anything wrong, but he clearly wasn't going to be able to take on Apple in court. (Yes, this is stupid.)
I'm interested in your thoughts here.

Concerning a):
I think there are very very few cases where calling someone a "loser" is a good choice of words -- I agree that Hawking's comment is most likely one of the cases where it is not a good choice of words. I would say that Hawking is most well known for things other than his speaking abilities ;).

Concerning b):
Could you mention what some legitimate reasons would be? For bragging purposes I find it nearly entirely pointless in most cases, mostly due to the fact that there's a very good chance the person doesn't know what they are actually saying by referring to their IQ. The fact that the questions, "what is intelligence?" and "what does it consist of?" are such highly researched and debated topics with many established (and sometimes conflicting) viewpoints brings me to this particular viewpoint.

In actuality, personally I find it more than worthless in most cases -- and perhaps damaging -- which is what Hawking may have been referring to as well. Carol Dweck's research shows that a belief in a fixed intelligence has massive negative repercussions in many parts of life. One's IQ is often seen as a "fixed" number in the mind of a person and hence feels that it destines them to a state of inferiority to the individuals with higher IQs. Firstly it is just not true that "intelligence" (in most definitions) is fixed, and secondly, empirically it is just not true that a person with a lower IQ is capable of less (ie. is inferior, or practically is destined to accomplish less) to a person with a higher IQ.
For what it's worth, I created a mindcast of the 15 accelerators/incubators listed in the article, so that I could perform my own research and rank them accordingly. (I'm more interested in suitability for my startup rather than valuations.) http://beta.mindcast.com/ui/roeuyyxq6dpc
Soooo... How much income did you have from all that?
I listen to WREK from Japan via iTunes Radio– in fact WREK, WUSC, and KCRW are the only reason I have to still listen to radio. I can understand not liking it though, I was pretty surprised the first time I was on campus and heard music I liked.
Looks like find is piped into head, though. So it would only index the first ten?
The answer is not to ask workers what they want, but rather examine how workers actually behave under the different circumstances.
Slate thinks so, as of 2008:

Even after allowing for discounted entry fees, the back of
the envelope says the Webbys could be taking in more than
$2 million from its contestants.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/20...
Edmodo Now Serving 7M Users, 80K Schools
Google Stockholder Sues to Prevent Stock Split
There might be sponsorships, and I think they also sell additional merch, and maybe tickets to the awards event. It's probably not cheap to organize.
Internally there is also an interesting mechanism: when one connects, the backend hands you a "backend key", which is a 64 bit number. The client is intended to remember that number. Cancellations are processed by sending a cancel request to the server -- which involves a special new connection and a different first packet -- including that secret number. As an interesting security precaution, absolutely no acknowledgement or response is made to the cancellation request.

libpq knows how to do all this.

The reason for this is that to avoid inspecting the connection for new instructions during query processing, acting under the assumption that cancellations will be rare.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/protocol-flow...
Not all robots will be our equals. It's possible that we could devise robots who are smarter than us, but also possible that we could devise machines who are only half as intelligent as a human being, and slavishly devoted to serving the human race.
That's a great story. I went to Nairobi in 2004 and had the opportunity to stay with host families for three months. In 2004 there, slow Internet was available in Internet cafes for about $1/hr and some people had cell phones but mostly a family would have one and share it amongst them.

Because the landline phones were so poor due to government monopoly, many people didn't even bother using them. It was common for friends to just suddenly show up at your home. It would have been the same way in the Western world before telephones. For me, it was pretty nice. Everything seemed much more social and there was much more spontaneity on a daily basis instead of everything requiring planning.

Now that cell phones are more common there, I have no idea if people still just show up at friend's homes. Unfortunately, I would assume it would be something that will die away.
I do not have evidence of your consciousness. As far as I'm concerned you're a biological robot.
SPDY Performance on Mobile Networks (23% improvement over HTTP)
@ktizo: I'm not name dropping, I'm presenting evidence that they were not "built to flip".

What evidence do you have to the contrary?
There are many good reasons not to add documentation as properties. For starters, it is a very US-centric approach to things. I would probably be annoyed if I was using a foreign language library that had random strings which contained text I did not understand in my objects.

Secondly, the second you start putting documentation in your JSON, be prepared for services to break if you ever change that documentation. It may be silly to do "if (json._doc_.indexOf...)", but stranger things have happened and if you are making an API it is generally a bad tactic to require your clients not to be silly.

"But I intend to have it in there solely because I can't use real comments -- I don't plan on shipping these". OK then probably no problem -- but at this point they're really no better than normal comments (with respect to the issue that Crockford brings up) since theres no reason you can't put compiler directives in the "comment" properties:

{
/* do something special mr. proprietary compiler */
"compiled_property": "magic"
}

vs.

{
"//" : "do something special mr. proprietary compiler"
"compiled_property": "magic"
}

So the possibility of diverging incompatible implementations remains -- however I think the real reason this didn't happen wasn't the lack of comments but rather that JSON's biggest selling point is almost universal compatibility.