skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) There is no such as thing as "collective media".

b) That estimate was exactly that. An estimate. I never read any mainstream media site that took a strong position that Google was going to win.
except it doesn't, it's an optional extension
On an (un)related note, my google voice phone number is (xxx)-234-5678, and it is completely unusable. You should hear the kind of voice mails that I get. I have started archiving the most amusing ones in my account. I have been blocking the numbers from area code (xxx) since I registered that number (June/2009), but it is still not usable.
"That is why the TV prices are so high. They are now a status symbol."

The main point is that TV prices are so CHEAP, not high.

I could buy a plasma TV for $300 when it used to cost $3000 not so much time ago. Or a flat LCD for less, this is amazing for something that was impossible to manufacture(big HD TVs) just 5 years ago.

You don't need to buy 3D, or ambiance or whatever, you are free to buy them if you want. How is that bad?
> but his trail of activity as corporate consultant tells a different story.

So.. as I said, if he hadn't associated his blog with his corporate consultant activity, he would be doing just fine right? The pseudonym's trail would've simply not have his original identity in it.

>As far as I know pj has always let her research speak for itself.

Mueller could also have just let his research speak for itself while hiding behind a pseudonym.

If an anonymous blogger posts what Florian does, his named would be dragged through the mud by the same people who are commenting here who would be asking him to disclose who he is and who pays him. Yes or no?
Goodbye global lock - MongoDB 2.0 vs 2.2
While mostly agree with your criticism of NKS, in Wolfram's defense, I have personally found Mathematica to be a joy to use. Under its unfortunate syntax, there's a great functional programming language there. While you can do many of the same things in Matlab or Octave, I always prefer to use Mathematica.
You're taking this too far. I think Google and Oracle are about as good and as bad as each other for the world.
Simulation does not comprehension create;

Reason there is modeling an art be.

"new generation of hybrid symbolic-numeric methods,"

a sense of B.S., this does alerts strongly in me.

- yoda
Being non tech savvy does not make you a luddite.
I think the problem is: you used to think writing was only for the educated and articulate, but now everyone can write and the results ain't pretty.

(Reducing the effort involved in writing and publishing means that more trivial things are written about and widely distributed. You used to think that your friends weren't morons because they never said anything. But now that they can discuss any issue at any time, they don't come out looking so good.)
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If you'r really worried about code changes that might break your project, you're free to fork the library, e.g. if it's on GitHub. Even though that's not really a sophisticated way of versioning, it's quite convenient.
I believe it falls back to Flash if you don't have the appropriate browser audio API. It should still work but supposedly not as responsively/accurately. (I haven't tested this myself.)
"And there, over in a corner, is Bruce Sterling, blazing a lonely pioneering trail into the future. [...] He's currently about ten years ahead of the curve. "

Some time in the 90s, I saw Sterling at a sci fi convention. He was doing a Q&A session in some small hotel conference room. As he was answering questions, he did so with a sadness that hit me hard with one thought.

Up until that time, I'd thought it would be cool to always be the smartest person in the room. But watching him answer questions that obviously sparked no imagination in him, I suddenly thought, "My god, how truly terrible it would be to always be the smartest person in the room." I suddenly felt very sorry for him.

Who knows what he was really thinking or how he actually felt, but it was a revelation for me in any case.
Plone should do something for this, it sounds very well suited? Any plone people about? I guess moinmoin/trac too :) What about some Django or pyramid teams?

People from the PSF will probably also put in a proposal, since lots are web people. Which ones?

A top agency could probably charge at least $1 million for something like this. So I doubt there will be a top result... unless they do it pro bono. Which would let USA companies do it as a tax right off if I'm not mistaken? Maybe one of the sponsors will put in a bid: Facebook, Google, or Dropbox?

All very exciting.

Or perhaps some wunderkid-wizard-wonk will hack tirelessly on their keyboard+wacom - powered only by a will to provide pythonistas everywhere a great website. They will about face everything with a fresh open approach, that turns the ideas upside down and puts code and projects first, doing an edgy remix of pypi, that integrates an IDE console inside the website (or coming up with an actual good idea) that makes people think "why weren't all programming websites like this already?". They'll do all this before the submission period is even up, having gathered feedback and evolved their idea consulting tens of 1000s of pythonists, djangonaughts, and people from other communities. Time magazine will have a picture of them next to the new python.org with the headline in all caps... "EPIC".
RDBMSes still do not provide easy support for sharding. That alone makes MongoDB different.
This seems like (yet another) suit that never should have been filed to begin with. Everyone lost time, and everyone except the lawyers and the court (court fees) lost money.
That argument assumes that Google email is crap. It isn't, it is the best email client I've used (online or off), and they have every right to be proud of it.

Does it break sometimes? Sure. What doesn't?

Does that make it a smelly pile of crap? I don't think it does, and I don't think most people would agree that it is.

Gmail is a really awesome service that doesn't have the best support. Period. If people can't be bothered to look at the terms, or if they have greater expectations of the service than they should well, that's on them. I don't think circumstances are so dire that they should plaster "Really, we suck" on their homepage, especially as they're better than all their competition that I've seen.
Well played. Although my real status symbol is going without cable for the last 12 years.
TACK is not competing with Chrome, but with the Public Key Pinning Extension, currently in draft (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-01). As the name says, they too are proposing to pin public keys, not certificates. I prefer TACK, because it makes sense to solve this problem on the TLS level, rather than on the HTTP level.

EDIT: It's difficult to find a confirmation online, but I recall that Public Key Pinning is already live in Chrome, starting with version 18.
Arguably, that's the whole point in owning stock in the company you own, control, and oversee. You can help make it go up and it's in your complete interest to help it become successful. You have no such control or incentive with other companies.
And the makers believe the olympics=popular=worth sponsoring message.

If someone like Cisco got the message that Olympics = expensive / anti-social / corrupt, then they might not be rushing to sponsor it. That's why `cool` web companies don't sponsor golf or yachting
"Oracle CEO kills kittens" also. It's equally as accurate and makes just as much sense.
My point is even deeper:

People think "wow, options for 1% of the company. If the whole company is worth $1B, that's $10M!" but that's wrong - the options have an exercise price, which must be realistic at the time of grant. So if the company is already worth $100M, and at the time you can exercise is worth $110M, your 1% options are worth exactly $100K.

And about 83b: it doesn't protect you from tax. It just locks in a specific value for tax purposes (but you have to pay the tax at that second). It's an artificial tax event, which may be in your favor if things work out well, but has immediate costs regardless.
Finally the why and not the how
It looks a good deal like MapleSim (http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maplesim/). Hopefully it's less unpleasant to use.
It was only in Postgres 9.0, released in Septermber 2010, that support for a "hot standby" (e.g. master/slave replication where you can run read-only queries on the slave) was added.

MySQL has supported this since at least version 3.2.3, released in January 2001.

MySQL supports

• Single master to one slave
• Single master to multiple slaves
• Single master to one slave to one or more slaves
• Circular replication (A to B to C and back to A)
• Master to master

Postgres supports

• Single master to one slave
• Single master to multiple slaves

(lists from http://www.theserverside.com/feature/Comparing-MySQL-and-Pos...)
They don't, there are chinese walls in between the analysis and trading groups. Research is a product most banks sell, if you don't purchase it, you don't get it.
That is, in my most civil interpretation, knee-jerk hyperbole.

You're certainly within your rights to feel that way, and if you do, I certainly encourage you to migrate to something else. If that's really how you feel though, I'm guessing you already would have unless... just maybe, the service is better than you admit.
Yes that's true - I was thinking of people who complain they don't have details for some deep detail of the GPU shader cores to write an opensource driver for their NVidia card.
Something to suffice what can be done with ISO-BLOCKS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkDwYPi2tQ
No, but it's getting pretty hard to argue that a randomly selected jury of Northern California citizens should be completely devoid of smartphone owners.
Simulink was the major reason for choosing Matlab for a current project. Hope this move by Wolfram also results in improves for Simulink or in a lower price. It currently sells for around 6k.

Matlab+Simulink had no competing alternative until this.
I know this is more like a sub point of the article, but I'm amazed at how poorly people deal with spam.
What kind of reasoning is that? They are not breaking privacy of others.
At the risk of feeding a silly discussion, I'd cast my vote to Elon Musk
Ironic that this article is in itself linked..
Great question. I limit my use of the internet for work. That includes networking with other people on hacker news. I actualy sit outside my home office to get some open WIFI signal in order to connect.

This has greatly allowed me to focus. Because I can only connect to the Internet when I have to. It also allows me to really plan my day ahead. I can say "from 10am to 11am I will surf Hacker News for ideas, people, and new data points." Instead of just browsing relentelssly all day.
It also allows me to label things as they appear in terms of importance.

I'm actually writing a short article about it. Will release it soon. Keep posted.
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I checked recently, as I've got a family of four with two kids under 4 that need daycare.

Basically I'd be spending more in daycare costs than rent for a 2-3 bedroom house. I spend about $700/month per kid here in Texas. Out there it's about $1500/month per kid.
It is indeed the IE9 window chrome, my mistake - those back/forward buttons threw me for a second.
"And you can't be both ?"

His "FOSS advocacy" for the last few years has consistently been solely cheering for every patent and copyright suit against open source software.

"Or does that mean that I should ignore anyone who is being paid by a company."

Being paid for PR that borders astroturfing and refusing to disclose that is over the line for me.
This very much applies to housing as well. The number of people whose houses are listed for more than 6 months has to be a record high.
If int means int64 on one platform and int32 on another platform, one should expect that some things might require care to port correctly.

That's just the way things have been. It's not a particularly good or pleasant situation. If the Go team wants to make this better, all the power to them. (And I know for a fact that it doesn't have to be this way. It's just the expectation we've come to accept as normal. Squeak runs bit-identically on over 50 combinations of OS and processor.)

A compile-time error because an automatic cast can't be performed on the new platform is infinitely better than a forced cast that silently introduces run-time errors

"Silently" here being that the programmer mindlessly puts in the cast because the compiler "forces" her to? I don't think the compiler is at fault here.
I thought not having a TV at all was the new status symbol. Mine isn't plugged into an aerial (just an HTPC) so I guess I'm half-hipster.
The IBM quote is from their Bilski brief.
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I am not convinced the current spec addresses that particular attack well. The second visit could happen while the victim is still in the coffee shop. Perhaps a 24 hour delay on the pin activation would be more appropriate.

On the other end, it concerns me that the upper limit is set to 30 days. I understand it is all about damage control, but it also means that the pinning is not going to protect me when visiting web sites only once in a while. For example, I am an infrequent PayPal user. I will log into their web site once every couple of months. TACK wouldn't work for for my use case.
Report: Facebook considering NYSE proposal for stock listing, source says
FCC considers backdoor rule change, jumpstarting an era of Internet television
God this guys got a downer on all things scifi.

Get a life, sci-fi is just entertainment and a little escapeisn, not everyone wants to read through 500 pages of math and physics to find some underlying revelation about the universe.
The way I understand it, it means missed days, opportunities and chances. Every day you try to trick the system (meaning life), it teaches you by taking away a day from you. Now it can take that day in a good way (you learnt something) or it can take that day in a bad way (you wasted a valuable 24 hours of your life that you'll never get back).
Not that it's a very strong excuse, but it -can- be fairly annoying if the prompt appears and your phone is dead (or not nearby, or lost).
You should possibly recognise that being paid to hold an opinion is very different from being paid for an opinion.
The low end TVs are cheap. But the big ones that most people want to produly display on their living rooms are expensive. That is the root of the problem. Keeping up with the TV Johnesses.
You're not serious ? This is EXACTLY the type of suits that should be filed.

There were legitimate issues to be discussed and it made the entire software industry think about what it means for an API to be copyrighted, defense of software patents etc. This decision has set a precedent that we may not see repeated again.

I say it was absolutely worth it.
"This guy" is one of the best Sci-Fi authors currently writing.
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Heh, last week I couldn't book a ticket for two days, as the fare box would come up empty. Tried different browsers/computers: no dice. Maybe this is related to United+Continental's integration?

I wonder: When he selected the other passengers, did their information populate? Telephone/address/etc.?
Do share. That sounds like a blog post waiting to happen.
"The Global Square", "WLFriends" are possible candidates along with Diaspora.
Chrome blacklists most opengl drivers on linux (except the proprietary nvidia one) since old mesa based drivers don't work too well with webgl. You can change this in about:flags, "override software rendering list" (and restart)
Ahh, you're right. I get a little paranoid when dealing with user-supplied strings, but usually that's a good thing :)
Assuming you can find somewhere that sells the parts.
Which doesn't change the fact that his blogging is incurably pessimistic.
No, the trend (and I'm generalizing from a small number of examples) is in the opposite direction; it's the small businesses or startups that use MySQL and produce better systems. Slightly bigger companies use Postgres and produce worse systems. Actually big companies use Oracle and produce terrible systems.
Apple does not inspect your source code when an App is submitted. They only inspect the binary and the metadata of an App.
ya see, this is what I don't get about capitalism sometimes.

I mean what do you do with such an astronomical figure of money like that as an individual ?
That's not Google's choice. Sun and Oracle are the ones refusing to allow the Java trademark to be used by an open-source implementation for a mobile platform.
http://www.scicos.org/

http://www.scilab.org/products/xcos
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This is simply a different view to model systems such as can be done in Simulink. Simulink has a (differential) equation-centric view whereas Modelica (of which SystemModeller is an implementation using the mathematical capabilities of Mathematica) has more an object-oriented view where external interfaces are exposed and connected and the behaviour as expressed by the differential equations is hidden. Modelica is a standardized language, see e.g. http://openmodelica.org for an open source implementation.

It is simply not true that there wasn't a Simulink alternative until now. Modelica exists since 1997 (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelica) and there are several commercial implementations of it: Dymola, MapleSim, MathModelica (which now in v3 has been purchased by Wolfram and has been rebranded as SystemModeller), CATIA Sytems and probably some more.

Adaption of Modelica has been slow since engineers are more exposed to Matlab/Simulink during their education and this base is slow to change. Considering license, training and experience costs this is certainly understandable. However, I know that several German car makers are gradually changing over to Modelica since the models are easier to understand for new people joining the projects (and to escape the vendor lock-in of Simulink).
Very interesting, and not too hard to follow with little knowledge of statistics. I might even start taking an interest in the contest, despite the Netherlands coming up with terrible songs to enter every year.
> how about merely big (but society-changing) ideas in the near future

Isn't that the definition of a techno-thriller? You don't need e-books to be relatively successful in that. You don't even have to go the quasi-military route of Tom Clancy - how about Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez, or Crichton's Next?
If it weren't for you meddling kids...
That's not true. Almost all decisions in court are made in light of similar cases that had been tried in the past.

Therefore, it stands to reason that any decision made, whether for or against Google, could effect future decisions for companies involved in similar suits.

I think, in this particular instance, a decision against Google could have set a terrible precedent.
Because the stock price people are asked to pay at an IPO (or at any time) is based primarily on projections.

So, 'Mom and Pop' got projections A which made $38 sound like a reasonable price, whereas the big boys got projections B which told them to wait till the price settles on $10.
Since you've attempted to deflect instead of disclose, I now assume you are a hypocrite in Oracle's employ.
…15% cap gains rate which is not too bad for him; I pay a lot more on my labor gains

For people that feel that the capital gains crowd gets special treatment…

How would you be with waiting 8 years for each paycheck, or being paid now in 2004 dollars ( paid 82 cents for each dollar you earn)?

Part of the long term capital gains reduction is a crude compensation for inflation. In this case it fails miserably because of the ludicrous ratio between profit and investment, but in the more normal case where you might make 40% while inflation came up 25% it achieves a sort of balance between tax and inflation's erosion of capital.
Oracle is so weird. On the one hand VirtualBox and btrfs. On the the other, this and the openoffice mess.
And they've indicated that in the next stable release they will have collection level locking. All moving towards sub collection locking.

It is a relatively new database and they trying to make changes in small increments to ensure they don't break anything.

Seems prudent to me.
I badly want this particular solution. But the only way to create this startup would be to have good contacts with people in Google who have the authority to experiment with such a setup (because clearly Google WOULD need to experiment to find out whether it worked). I really DO think that someone ELSE, with a corporate structure that better supported the skillset of providing excellent customer support, could make an excellent living providing "customer service" for Google. 90% of issues could be handled just by hand-holding the customers without bothering Google at all. And the other 10% could be bundled up nicely (here's a repeatable bug report; I have 20 lockouts that appear to pass the first screening; etc.). But there would HAVE to be some way for people INSIDE Google to receive these nicely bundled reports and to respond to them.
NKS is BS, I fully agree. And Mathematica borrowed a lot from Macsyma, to put it mildly.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
PJ isn't a pseudonym, it is her initials. Also, we have known that Pamela Jones was PJ since 2005, long before Oracle even bought Sun, let alone sued Google.

So basically, and please excuse the language, you appear to be talking complete and utter shit.
Interesting part: "In 2009, it was reported that the 43 Azerbaijanis who texted in votes for Armenia in that year’s contest were summoned to the National Security Ministry to explain their actions".

I'm surprised that this country was allowed to stay in the EBU after such a behavior. Really shocking.

Lebanon was more or less thrown out of the competition for not playing by the rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_in_the_Eurovision_Song...), so I'm surprised the EBU did not do the same here.
Hm, it's not a new problem to them... Mathematica has a hobbyist license called "Home Edition" at u$d 295. Maybe if many people show interest in the same kind of licensing for this new product they'll think about it.
True. But in this analogy, I hardly think you can claim "everyone loses".
The editorializing gets tiresome when I just want to find out what happened during the trial. It feels like reading the Daily Mail; you can get actual news from there, but you have to be constantly on your guard against osmosing their opinions.
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Not an uncommon reaction, same holds for lots of stuff like celebrity, wealth, and beauty. Being modestly above average can be so much better for many things. Maybe one but rarely two standard deviations to the right.
Opened with the newest version of Chrome on MacOS Lion 10.7.4 and it loaded without crashing.
Well, since both are implementations of the Modelica standard I would guess they are pretty much the same, though I do not know MapleSim or your problems with it.
Because MongoDB is a fantastic database for developers whilst RDBMS can suck big time.

In this age of agile development requirements and schemas change very, very rapidly and MongoDB excels at being able to support that.
Previous discussion with links to audio, books, and more.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909239
By that same argument, you'd think that companies providing a gmail-like service + support would be making piles and piles of money.

Are there any? (Not snark, I genuinely don't know of any.)
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Why can't he be both? A visionary lunatic.