skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple to pay millions for 'misleading' iPad branding Down Under
It's actually 1,750 mAh HSPA+ compared to 1,850 mAh for LTE - but yes the HSPA+ will last longer due to drain from LTE.
Microsoft seems to think that Node is a general purpose web application platform. It would be cooler if they recognised its values (real-time applications) and promoted it on that basis.
I've done this for a few years, but the one use case it's worse is when you are in a slow/stopped lane and want/need to switch to a lane that's moving faster, and you need to see far back in that adjacent lane to see approaching cars. In those cases I'll actually move my mirror in, then readjust it out later.
Help Fund Stalltalk: A Toilet Based Social Network
Microsoft has made various token attempts at being open source friendly in the past. Thing is, Microsoft has a lot to live down from the OSS perspective. I wont begin to consider Microsoft for anything serious until it "makes good" within an order of magnitude of the harm it has tried to do to the open source community.
Yes I'm loathe to change this. Some have even suggested removing a prefix altogether since underscores are 'not ruby-like'.

Hopefully it holds up even though this choice might not be to everyone's taste?
I'm a pretty big fan of Android but I would totally understand Apple going after Samsung for S-Voice - it's quite blatant in its copying of Siri's design.
It never ceases to amaze me how fast microsoft has been iterating with Azure, With Scott Gu running the team things have gotten even better.

As for the latest release just the change from that hideous Sliverlight management console is reason enough to be excited. The really interesting announcements should be coming in a few months when the different component providers (CloudDB, MongoDB, etc) start offering Azure based offerings.
Delhi to chandigarh taxi service
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I'm being perfectly honest here - I don't own other clothes. This way I can fit all of them in a tiny closet and it makes life easier when moving.

We don't do baseball in the UK but I get your meaning. You can always take the tie off - instant casual. With the local climate there's little chance of getting too hot but I don't wear a sweatshirt underneath the shirt so all I need to do is take the jacket off and unbutton the collar in case the sun makes an appearance in between the fog and the drizzle.

Actually, I did have a problem once, something mentioned here a couple of times. Riding a bicycle would snag the trouser leg occasionally. Fixed that with a safety pin.
On the original post, there's a comment that links to this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/594084262/pants-by-bluff...

Sounds right up your alley.
I don't consider myself a huge wuss but I'm still only about half way through Amnesia -- make sure you play late at night with the lights off and good headphones on.
Looks like she's in SF. There's no Muji store there.
Google OAuth 2.0 Playground
Full Show 6/6/12: Walker Wins. Democracy Loses.
only weirdos love programming

That's overstating it a bit. Despite the fact that I like food, music, art, sex, sports, and adventure more than I like programming, programming would still be one of my favorite hobbies.

I say would be because now it is a profession and when I leave work I don't want to touch a computer.

But the programming I like is the open source work I do between jobs, that kind of beautiful code I create for free. And in small doses. The large code bases that must ship on time, that's work that I would not do unless I get paid.

Now people that code all day at work, and then code a lot more at home and over the weekend, almost every weekend, purely for the love of coding, those might be a bit odd.

But not odder than any obsessive hobby, which can just as easily be sports or food. I think the oddness here is just the obsessiveness.
This doesn't replace shoulder checks, so as long as you keep doing that, you should get used to it with a couple hours of drive time.
I have an iPhone and an Android phone, and I'm probably going to upgrade the Android to an S3. I'm not a diehard fan of either platform, and without knowing anything about the patents, as a consumer I'm getting pretty sick of what appears to be sour grapes on Apple's part. I guess I would get desperate too if I saw my main rival rack up preorders of 9 million units...
Well, one thought that comes to mind is that the topic is essentially a subset of ergonomics, so perhaps experimental protocols should take a few more cues from ergonomics research.

For example, controlling variables has to be done by constructing artificial systems from the ground up. You can't just pull two commercial products off the shelf and then pretend you're examining the impact of only one of the hundered different things that differs between the two.

Similarly, if we wanted to compare the impact of dynamic vs. static typing, we'd have to make sure that that is the only variable. Which means you basically have to construct a new programming language from the ground up, so that you can easily create new dialects of it that differ in only one very specific characteristic.
TrueCaller Vulnerbility allows changing users details
Need For Speed:Most Wanted Coming To Android On October 30th
What I find most interesting here is not the customer service story. That's interesting and inspiring, but what really amazes me is that Bob didn't know how to use a computer, he spent a couple hours on the phone, and then never had to call back again.

If that's true, you know what it tells me? This was incredibly well designed software. The reason Ron got $4 million dollars wasn't because he spent time on the phone with Bob. It's because he had great software that worked and that a complete novice, with a little help, could configure and run. What large company wouldn't want software like that?

Yes, customer service is important, but having a great product that's easy to use is the really big lesson here.
Yeah, I wear jeans, sneakers, a tshirt, and an optional hoodie every day and hadn't considered that wearing the same thing every day. I expected this to be more like a uniform.
I am the article author.

Thank you to the numerous people who took to time to email me and correct me about a definition. In this article, I refer to the entire root of a domain name e.g. Amazon.com as the TLD. I made a mistake, it is just the .com component of this name that is the TLD. I hope this error didn’t mask the enjoyment of the article for you. I appreciate all the feedback I receive.
Cloud Link Roundup, 6//12 - Gartner Trends, Intel & Open Source, DevOps
It is great to see Cleve stepping out in the blogging world!
I'm reminded of guitarist Pat Metheny's horizontally-striped shirts. I have albums from him that span decades and he seems to be wearing the same shirt in all of the liner notes.

I've never heard an explanation for this but have always assumed that he's so single-mindedly focused on musicianship that he doesn't want to have to think about getting dressed.
Can you really trust what other cars are telling yours? This sounds like an interesting security problem.
Turn.js 4th Release is out and amazing
Question: given that Heroku involves a certain amount of platform lock-in, how do you write a Heroku app that runs on another service provider?

It hardly makes sense if Heroku says "well, it's your fault for trusting us."
I agree with this personally, because this spec is adding meta-data to the body, and headers are pretty much made for that.

The practical problem is that you have to parse the link header, and it's not simple enough for common use. I think, if we want to use headers, we need to build some JS utilities for the different specs that abstract away any parsing.
That's great. I am going to use that instead of bootstrapped from now. It also fits the kind of music we listen to.
The space of the output of the hash as at most as big as the space of the input.
Just lean to the side a little and the rear of the car will be brought back into the view of the mirror.
Suing over "auto-correcting typed text" features, come on. I think they are the only ones doing this sort of thing at the moment, it is patent trolling at its worst with entry level features. We are not talking about defending any sort of innovation here, it is simply gaming a flawed system to hold on to sales while keeping direct competition down.
You can host node apps on lots of platforms - Heroku, OpenShift, DotCloud, Cloud Foundry, Rackspace Cloud - the list goes on...

When you have so much competition, and you aren't the first in the game, you have to change ;)
well..hopefully it's not in public..
Ever notice how when a female politician wears an outfit a second time, it results in a great deal of criticism from tabloid media? I male politician could wear the same suit every day, varying the tie (or even keeping that the same) and no one would notice. I always thought that was an insane demand.
To some, I think it's like getting into an elite school - with similar effect.

You're paying out quite a bit of your company, in most cases, and getting some capital in return. But what you're also buying into with your equity is a large network of alumni and connections.

In addition, just like how some (silly, IMO) companies hire Ivy League grads because they've passed someone else's rigorous selection process, getting funded by an A-list VC proves to some that your company has chops. So for many founders, trading equity for VC investment is also a hedge for the future - a glowing resume item useful for driving business or acquisition at this or the next venture.

Personally, I think the more early-stage-successful companies stand on their own merit rather than buying into the "old boy's" VC club, the better. I think more weight has been placed on VC selection than is reasonable of late, both in M+A and the tech media. The more successful companies buck this trend, the more likely non-VC companies are to get considered for acquisition down the road, and the more likely said companies are to be able to drum up press for an IPO, as well.
Really? I quite like the camera on my nexus. It doesn't do well in low lighting situations, but that's about it. What don't you like about it?
Comparing Fosamax Class Actions and Mass Tort
From the other articles I've read, its my understanding that they're basically saying Flame is so sophisticated, it was probably developed by a team of really, really smart people with time and resources at their disposal.

It doesn't necessarily rule out criminals, but its much more likely that its state-sponsored.
Java lightweight framework - jodd
Fosamax Linked to Low-Impact Femur Fractures
I feel the same. I'd even argue that they continue to do more harm than good. So they aren't even moving in the right direction.

For me, telling their employees that patents would only be used defensively, then using them offensively (against Android) is as bad as anything they've ever done.
For their purposes (Node = another thing running on Azure), it is just another platform. It's not their job to sell the platforms, just host them.
Groovy as "Better Java"
I just downloaded an app[1] that measures heartbeat rate by taking video of a fingertip.

I was stunned by the brilliance of the application, how ubiquitous video sensors can replace other senses.

There's something else to discuss here: We have a recently published paper from MIT, including mathematical details of the process; and at the same time a stack of closed-source commercial applications already in the market with slick interfaces. Are they using the same technique? Is one app-maker trawling preprints for app ideas? Are many app-makers copying one pioneering app-maker?

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.macropinch... but there are many similar apps.
> I've heard of big Ruby projects with test suites that take 20+ hours to run.

I'd assume those tests go well beyond type checking.
I just finished a year of living out of a suitcase. I was pretty careful in choosing what clothing to bring, but even still, there were lots of things I barely used.

Minimalism takes time to perfect.

And for those who are wondering: nobody commented on my wardrobe.
And that's why you should still do shoulder checks.
Counterexample: JavaScript. It is the best demonstration I know of that our choice of languages and tools is mostly based on historical accident rather than any technical criteria.
The Gallup survey mentioned in the article had three choices:

- Humans evolved, with God guiding
- Humans evolved, but God had no part in process
- God created humans in present form

These choices pretty effectively cover the main views: non-theistic, rejection of science, and acceptance of parts of both.
I love the idea of this being standardized and am immediately thinking that a generic browser of application/hal+json resources would be a great developer tool.

I tend to agree with the idea that self should be top-level, but the other thing I'd like to have in the specification is versioning for both the specification itself and the API. How about something like:

{
...
"_version": {
"hal": <some HAL version string>,
"api": <some API version string>
},
...
}

Thanks for the thought you've obviously put into this ... we'll all benefit eventually!
But also IE/Windows. And at the bottom of the article, there are links for additional resources in Windows and UNIX-like flavours.
Available on Project Gutenberg here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
Ship Streak Ends: Lessons From Spottah's Thrash
Skeuomorphisms
Leave it to paying customers to decide what they care about, and leave it to Heroku's paying customers to decide whether they care about the content of the error page.
10 i = i + 1
20 PRINT i
30 IF i > 100000 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10
40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

God says...

reprobates.

13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this
also we wish, even your perfection.

13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present
I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath
given me to edification, and not to destruction.

13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be
of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be
with you.

13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.

13:13 All the saints salute you.
The hardest race on earth: A look inside the 2,700-mike Tour Divide
Am I the only one who finds statements like this to be somewhat fanatical? Companies compete in all sorts of ways, but I find it hard to believe that Microsoft is some malevolent (thanks) empire trying to crush every OSS entity that they see.

Perhaps I just am not familiar enough with what they've done to harm OSS.
Video of the Day – Pilot of “The Broken”
>In Math You Have to Remember, In Other Subjects You Can Think About It

This title/quotation is quite depressing, since the student has it totally backwards. Math and any field with mathematical roots are the only things you can think about and figure out. I can't count the number of times I walked into an EE test unprepared and was able to work out some formula, which I hadn't memorized, from other principles.

Most of my history/english/social studies consisted of rote memorization of facts, dates, and obscure words. I'm still flabbergasted on why the SAT has middle school level math problems while also testing you on an intractable memorization problem: vocabulary.

[update: apparently, analogies have been removed from the SAT. thanks, nickbarnwell]
This is a really interesting point. To give an example, one of my friends in that scene thinks that 37signals is probably "not doing that well." I can only guess this is because they aren't raising tons of VC and having their name plastered all over TC.
YouTube is of a different class of complexity as faced by enterprise developers integrating millions of lines of code across disparate systems.
Upvote it on Reddit too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/urn86/stalltalk_a_toi...
Aha ... in the other (longer) linked document, the T-word is mentioned:

National authorities are free to impose taxes on all telecommunications traffic, whether incoming or outgoing.

I don't know how to interpret this document, particularly as it's a work in progress, and looks like the output of a human-powered diff process. But it's hard to conclude that it specifically targets Google or Apple, or the U.S., or even just websites. It's about telecommunications.
The parallels with Windows and the Mac don't stand up.

Standards, largely around the internet, mean that there is no real drive for there to be a single winner the way there was on the desktop at that time.

I have an iPhone, you have an Android phone and we can both text each other, mail each other, tweet each other, share photos, contact each other via Facebook, share links and documents, IM and the rest.

That wasn't true back in the days of Windows vs. the Mac and that was why Windows won out - if you were in the minority camp back then you were genuinely being excluded.

But now users can work together regardless of platform, Apple make money, Samsung make money, Google make money. There really is no drive towards a single platform. Sure those companies all want market share but there's no reason to believe that it has to end up with a single dominant MS-style player.

And in terms of market share numbers it's not clearly trending in that direction. Until very recently both iOS and Android were gaining market share (squeezing Windows Mobile and BlackBerry). Google has a larger market share yes but it's not winning at the expense of Apple, they're both winning at the expense of others and grabbing more of the first time smartphone customers.

As regards the most recent market share figures [1], if anything the momentum is moving away from Android. Android market share actually dropped while iOS continues to grow.

It's still around 50% and I don't think anyone is suggesting it's in any sort of trouble (Horace's headline is a little mischievous), but the narrative that you're suggesting isn't really supported by what's happening.

What really looks like it's happening is a market dominated by two players with everyone else fighting for scraps.

[1] http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/04/trouble-with-the-robot/
Already exists: https://github.com/s3u/headers.js

There are problems with using Link headers, I think you will find less friction in practice by treating links as 'proper data' and putting them in the content body using a media type like this.
I feel like a creep digging through her flickr to find a picture, but I honestly was just curious about the clothes. This one seems most like what was described in the post.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meatstravaganza/5793064302/in/g...
another useful info for RAID0 is the disk strorage number:

2 disk: m2.4xlarge : 1680 GiB instance storage (2 x 840 GiB)

4 disk: c1.xlarge : 1680 GiB instance storage (4 x 420 GiB)

more info:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/in...

and a quick start: "RAID0 ephemeral storage on AWS EC2"

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/05/raid0-ephemeral-...
No, there really isn't anything cool about Microsoft; and I can't really see why anybody would use their inferior, proprietary, locked-down crap instead of F/OSS solutions.

Besides, I think they murder programmers for code or something...

OK, maybe they're not as evil as the fictional Microsoft-a-like in Antitrust[1] but still, cmon, this is Microsoft we're talking about. "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"[2], anybody?

And aren't these guys still trying to prohibit dual booting of Windows alongside Linux/Android on some devices or something? Yeah, that's cool behavior.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_%28film%29

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Microsoft is a behemoth of a company with presumably layers of bureaucratic and historical debris all over the place. Short of a very profound, top-down remodelling of the company, it's actually refreshing to see that new voices are popping up inside of MS and being allowed to advance this quickly.

That is not to say they don't have a lot to make up for, just that there might still be hope for Microsoft.
I'll admit, I must be the only one that doesn't quite get the jump from step 4 to step 5.

In step 4, we make the assumption that their API is out in the wild, in use, and sends the md5(s, p) in the request. I get that we take that value, run it through scrypt and match against our stored value to authenticate. So the database has:

scrypt(s', md5(s, p))

No problem authenticating the API requests with that.

Step 5 says once the user logs in with their actual password, we update entirely to the new scheme of scrypt(s'', p) and store just that. Now the database only has:

scrypt(s'', p)

But the API user still sends md5(s, p) to authenticate, right?

So then what happens when that same user goes back to the API-using app? It's still uses the API so it'll send the MD5(s, p) and fail since we've discarded the transitional scrypt value when they logged in via the web interface.

Is there a deprecation period that supports both types while API using apps updated to a new API for the new scheme?
Was the first thing I noticed.
I copied all text from the page, cleaned it up and bit and converted it to ascii. It is a mess because I did not care about the order, still mostly readable german.

You are gratulated for deciphering and can win something if you send a mail (probably swiss only). Nice gesture. :)

https://pastee.org/gppmg

edit: The bottom parts are about sending a mail to win a visit in their office.
I appreciate her effort to find a look not subject to the whims of fashion. However, she will have to adapt her look in a few years when the leggings under a skirt look goes out of style. I'm sure she'll adapt, perhaps switching back to tights.

It's also a look that will be difficult to pull off when she's 20 years older. For some reason, women have to dress their age. My guess is because there is so much societal pressure for women to look younger that there is significant backlash when the effort becomes too transparent.

Men have it easy. A well fitted Saville Row cut suit has been relatively fashionable for at least a century. The only thing you'd have had to change would have been the tie, and you would have had to lose the hat about 50 years ago.
The google map on the venue page is a bit too large for mobile browsers. Once you scroll down too far, the map takes over the screen and it's no longer possible to navigate the page.
:)

already working on a browser: https://github.com/mikekelly/hal-browser

very rough demo here:
http://hal-shop.heroku.com/hal_browser.html
Should have made clear that you can't do 5 if you need 4.
> of the harm it has tried to do to the open source community.

Had they stopped extorting Linux and Android OEMs? Will ARM-based Win8 tablet makers be allowed to ship unlocked bootloaders?

I don't think they "tried to do". I think they actively do it.
This seems to be covered by json schema already does it not?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03
see section 6 - Hyperschema, which lays out a way of describing which parts of a JSON object contains href links. This seems more elegant to me.
ZOMG My Passwords are Insecure, now What? How to Change Auth Backends
> At worst, it's not provable, but it's not disprovable.

And the next step is to realize that things that are neither provable nor disprovable do not have any effect on the universe we live in, and thus can safely be ignored and forgotten.