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I think these 2 older articles support that conclusion as well:

http://www.conceivablytech.com/8108/products/microsoft-may-a...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...

All of the sudden the outrageous $8.5 billion price Microsoft paid for Skype (and twice as much as any other competing bid) starts to make sense.
Some of the concepts they tried to shove into IPv6 were downright evil, and would have killed the internet as we know it

Oh? Got an example? I've never heard of this (but don't really follow IPv6 stuff).
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In a worst-case scenario, it would not be all to hard to write a script to extract the content of a debian package into a tarball.
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A bit off-topic, but I couldn't even get to the linked article, even after allowing all javascript I could find. Web really has gone to hell.
Browsers can do that now with cookies, by just clearing old cookies.
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Great idea, well executed with a very attractive pricing model. I do wonder though how I can get my crappy, classic ASP table-layout site tweaked for a fixed price of $25 for each change.
The chromium project releases their updates for Ubuntu users thru a PPA, but Canonical also distributes stable packages. A mix that is working really well.

God forbid #2, a system-wide system for downloading and updating applications is one of the zen-things about using the Linux-based OS's.

How it works on Mac OS X and is chaotical, and the way Microsoft does it, with countless messy installers and self-updating apps is hell to deal with.
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While I'm not Microsoft sympathizer; A side note, using "M$" really doesn't your argument. It looks childish
I am taking the udacity statistics 101 course and while I agree with the statement you make, if you visit the forums there are plenty of people having trouble with the current material itself. The last assignment had a fill in the blanks proof of the maximum likelihood estimator. Some people were complaining on the forum that it did not belong to a 101 course. Either ways I am glad that the course is being offered. It may not be the best introduction to statistics I get but it at least pushes me into starting to read about statistics.
Gay in Queensland is a tough ask, depending on how far north you are.

But I'm still not following.

How does substituting in "majority" for "minority" undermine the case for the minority?
The real debate starts when a few folks get killed with diy handguns.
> There is no indications that Mann was actively taking pictures of strangers.

Except for all the photos in the blog post.
Flash still has a future in gaming. They now have hardware accelerated 3D and with AIR you can bring your high quality 3D games to the browser, mobile and the desktop.

That said, the Unity Game Engine can do the same thing and will soon support a full featured flash export option, so most people wont develop their games in Flash directly but as a browser gaming deployment option it will be around until WebGL and HTML5 is mature enough.
There was an AMA thread on Reddit from a girl who couldn't feel physical pain. I can't find the link with (maybe she deleted it?) but I recall she did feel emotional pain.
must be really horrible agony. cant imagine how life would be without pain.
we always complain about our small pains. this should encourage us to brace ourselves and only complain if the hurt is serious.
same with painkillers. so many people take pills immediately when they feel something. lets be a lil bit tougher and think about what it would be like to feel no pain at all. pain is healthy (most of the time)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252955
Except as CEO she would probably make enough to buy a new Lamborghini every week. People rarely talk about opportunity costs but if you can make more than 10 million a year spending 5 years building a company from scratch to see a 30 million exit is a Failure. And doing better than that is ridiculously rare.
I live in the UK. People in the UK get fired with a pat in the back. People in the continent cost a small fortune to fire unless they're under temp contracts.
Wayland can't do anything about drivers. Gallium3D, and manufacturer support for it, might. Most of all, though, if Valve starts supporting Ubuntu as a first-class platform, they might be able to put pressure on GPU manufacturers to improve their drivers.
As an aside, just browsing through this huge collection of Java libraries actively used in Android somewhat vindicates Google's decision to go with Java.

The Objective-C open source world is maturing but it still only has a tiny fraction of the depth of what's on offer here.
Why not releasing it in the Ubuntu software store instead of making a new one?

It would be the sensible thing to do if they cared about gamers on Linux. But I guess Steam is more about owning and controlling the channels of software sales and distribution.
Honestly, I dislike the way Chrome works on Ubuntu. I don't like using PPAs and I'm never sure how/when Chrome gets updated. Sometimes it seems like the OS does it and sometimes it seems the Chrome updates itself (just like on other platforms). Maybe its just me.

So, I think my vote for how Valve updates would be (2). Give the Linux vendors something to package but since they move very slowly you need to be able to fix bugs in a timely manor.
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Or courtesy of being able to quickly scan and skim the pages. And that's the same reason why videoutorials are inferior to traditional, text-and-screeshots-based tutorials. A point worth keeping in mind IMO.
That wasn't supposed to be a comment on the material, simply the way it's being presented. This was a discrete mathematics course, don't have time to look it up right now. (edit: Relatives are faffing - here it is: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs221/CourseRev/1)

I personally think there's room for many services like coursera and udacity to serve different levels of academic experience and expectations.
There is something amusing about a young company making over 1 BILLION dollars a year in PROFIT being seen as such a failure.
This is really simple: don't eat at McDonald's. If you don't want a hysterical society where people get beaten up while minding their own business, then please do not reward them with your money.
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So all of Apple's success is due to patent litigation? Really? They're just doing that instead of competing?
We had a slide in our pitch deck from Joshua Schachter where he was trying to find someone for a similar problem.

@joshu: "Business idea: CSS helpdesk. Because I am about to rip my hair out"

@joshu: "i'm serious. Pay $10 for css help RIGHT NOW. Operators are standing by?"
Prof. Ng's ML course was a real eye opener. It wasn't hard but was very practical. Then when you need more theoretical background you can watch recordings of his stanford ML class.
I got something like this
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_intelligence_projects

this is a very informative page, and almost all cognitive projects are lisp based....(others have not mentioned anything)
The problem is, almost started in the 80s (still mantained).
The bigger problem is, there are just handfull of projects which started in the 21st century (and they are not clear)...
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There should be a way to "identify" yourself agains sites you are visiting. Which do not left tracks in you computer, so when you visit another site with a Facebook/Google "goodie" they cannot identify you again.

The problem is that cookies are in you computer, they should be ephemeral (you can do it, but is not standard).

But then, yes, Facebook and Google and even Governments will try to know everything about you.
> were so different in France

Different as compared to what? Google “right to bear camera” and you will find many documented cases of policepersons, people in charge, and passersby harassing photographers, in cases photographers that were not using their equipment. These take place in countries that are otherwise considered civilized, all over the world.

Do you mean “different” as in “elsewhere, terrorism would have been invoked at some point”? http://photographernotaterrorist.org/
Just thinking out loud, but wouldn't it be possible to build a simple skype-addon that would look at your network traffic and be able to tell if your voice conversations were going through a supernode and not p2p.

This way you would get a quick indicator of whether or not you were likely being monitored.
This means new opportunities in the VoIP market. Than you Microsoft
Indeed, but the nitty gritty of frameworks can months/years.
"Microsoft has replaced P2P Skype supernodes with thousands of Linux boxes"
from http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...

Wow. Does it make it the first, large scale, internal(¹) deployment of non-Windows infrastructure by Microsoft? The question is: why? Do their engineers managed to convince the company that Windows is ill-suited to the task? I am quite stupefied.

(¹) "Internal" as opposed to situations where Microsoft inherited non-Windows infrastructure from external acquisitions, such as when they acquired Hotmail in 1997 and their 5000 FreeBSD servers (eventually migrated to Windows.)
When the government regulates vice, the criminals go legitimate or get caught/killed doing more outlandish stuff.

Look at California for just a taste of how it could be. Cartels can't push their outdoor mass produced garbage marijuana in Cali when anyone over 18 can walk into a Doctor's office, get a recommendation card, walk a few feet to the dispensary next door, and receive the most quality indoor, top-shelf, out of bounds Cannabis you could buy. This is decidedly not your father's lid of smoke in a sandwich baggie licked shut. The Cannabis has often been tested for anything from potency (THC and cannabinoid or CBD count) to contaminants. Some 3rd parties are actually certifying Organic Cannabis.

Most of that top-shelf Cannabis comes from multi-generational farms in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California (Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity). They have farmers who have passed down seed and clones from generation to generation, along with their breeding, growing, and flowering trade secrets.

Cartels only know bulk pricing and murder. More legitimized drug trade will not only lower cost and increase quality, but would make Cartels seek other forms as their profit margins evaporate. I'd love to see even the biggest cartels try to compete with Anheuser-Busch InBev, Pfizer, or Altria group once Marijuana is legal in the US.
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Um that clearly isn't true. Temporary contracts may be less secure, but employees have considerable protections in the UK.
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Whereas in reality those products they have managed to get rulings against were basically already dead anyway. Apple is using the patent system to kick people when they're already down, that's why it seems so unnecessary, but in reality their legal successes have had insignificant impact on the overall market.
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I find it fascinating that an earlier version of this story -- which did not namecheck 99designs -- has basically languished in the doldrums.
It feels like the only way to fix this is to tweak the "demand" variable, perhaps through legalization.

I wonder what the cartels' reaction would be to legalization? Would they willingly give up their massive amounts of wealth to become part of a regulated system?

Edit: Removed HTML tags. Duh.
> Seems a bit of an oversight that he doesn’t have his own Wikipedia page – any enterprising soul care to rectify this?

Well someone tried and it get deleted because Wikipedia :)
I thought (correct me if I am wrong), that part of the reason that graphics drivers were so messy was that they had to integrate with X which is archaic and not really designed with hardware acceleration in mind.

IIRC the nvidia Linux drivers actually replace parts of X with their own proprietary stuff which makes things hairy when integrating with software designed around "standard" X.

For example nvidia "twinview" seems to make many applications believe that my two 1920x1080 monitors are actually a single 3840x1080 monitor. I can correct this by using a seperate X session for each monitor but then this stops compiz from working.
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I'm not being cynical, but are they purposefully holding back some of the more important details on the "How it works" on http://www.tweaky.com/

I can't actually find the details on this. Is this an offline service, or are you expected to provide access to your development server?

This is what I think it would say (which would scare the hell out of me)...

1. Submit your brief

2. We assign each task a $25 charge.

3. You pick a developer.

4. You provide FTP details to your live production server
Isn't M.J. effect about the Internet slowing down (like HN/Reddit/Slashdot effect, but on a cross-website scale)?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Michael%20Jac...
Can either of you explain why the French police does not get involved? It seems like vigilante justice would be something they'd want to stamp out.
I've posted this to HN for the discussion more than anything else.

What are your top shell commands for working with data files?
The implication with wiretapping (and the NSA acronym) is that it is about security and safety against criminals and terrorists. I've always wondered how much of a business advantage it is to be able to tap into the world's biggest VoIP network?

I've seen Skype being used a lot in businesses both centralized and decentralized.
There seems to be some encoding issues.
Ex.
I didnâ€™t study my competition.

Very interesting concept.
The online course doesn't take months/years, so the nitty gritty of Rails is neither taught, nor is it a requisite for the course: in complete agreement with my position.
It's a bit of a political minefield to start saying "X isn't a real country". It's easy to come up with subjective rules about why X and Y are the same country but A and B aren't. E.g. is Australia a different country from UK (same queen, based on english law, queens appointee can dissolve parliament, etc.)? Is USA and UK same country (same language, legal system similar (but diverged earlier), similar measuring system (inches and miles!), militaristically have been working together). Is UK and France same country? Both in EU, different currency, but EU law taking precendence? Is France and Germany same country? Same currency, similar (civil) legal system, EU law.

These rules about what makes a country are mostly arbitrary and are often made for political reasons to either give power or take power from certain people.
Is Facebook censoring "McDonald's assault" post?
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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...

14:21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne
of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause
rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our
God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these
things.

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me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my
sight, and let them go forth.

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captivity, to the captivity.
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Yeah. It's a cache, it says so in the name. Why would you make not-a-cache on a cache protocol and library? In-sane.
What about the contrast of "sign in" and "join"?
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That explains why they still support IE6, but not why they developed IE7 through 9.
I allways think that Yahoo should split in two, a media/content company and a tech one.

Why? Because now it's a two head horse, and each head wants to go it's way but the other head goes opposite.

What do you guys think?
Well thats one really bad spelling mistake on my behalf. I can't even change it at this point. I meant now.
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If you actually read the post, you would see that the device would normally purge its buffer after it finished augmenting / vision processing those frames. Only because it was forcefully shut off was the data retained.
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Scrolling through the list of most active libraries, many either have iOS versions/alternatives or duplicate things that iOS has built-in by default.

Also, let's not forget that you can also use any C or C++ library on iOS as long as it has a permissive license.
The change is interesting (though not that new it seems), but Microsoft flatly state that calls do not go over supernodes [1]:

"This has not changed the underlying nature of Skype’s peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, in which supernodes simply allow users to find one another (calls do not pass through supernodes)."

Now obviously this could be a lie, but it should be fairly simple to prove one way or another - simply force a call between 2 NAT'd clients, and trace where the voice packets go, it'll either be to one of these newly centralised supernodes, or somewhere else?

1 - http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
You'd be surprised:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/07/the-un...
I also regularly use tee to take copies of data from the middle of a complex pipeline, and I regularly pipe results into a a file, background the task, and then monitor with tail or tail -f.

# complex_command > output_file &
# tail -f output_file

This allows me to leave the ask running while I do other things, then come back and check on it latter. It also lets me use ETA to estimate when tasks will finish.

Typos:

"Here's my top 5 ..." should be "Here are my top 5 ..."

"At it's simplest ..." should be "At its simplest ..."

"... a single file in to many." should be "... a single file into many." Same error occurs shortly after.

"...a work on Awk ..." should be "...a word on AWK ..."
It happened at few times too me that I experienced quite a 'macho' or aggressive behaviour 'from people of those cultures'. What would you expect, just be quiet?
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True but you know Matt is anothger posibly trophy hire at soem stage he is acting way above his pay grade if my company asked me to represnt them to congress etc I would say "cool" but I want a board seat first :-)
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Glad you enjoyed it :) I was actually looking for this video back when I posted this reply but couldn't find it. Just found it though ... this is a great talk at Google by Chade-Meng Tan, I highly encourage you to give it a watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8fcqrNO7so

In particular, the part about training for mindfulness has also been extremely helpful for me. I'm really starting to believe his assertion that learning to calm your mind can be trained. I tend to close my eyes and focus on breathing while I'm on the train after I finish the stream-of-consciousness exercise from above; this might sound silly, but I even notice that the muscles in my face are more relaxed after I do these things :)
I was under the impression that they've used Linux in the past effectively as a firewall for their internet sites. Whether this was a temporary response to a specific situation or a semi-permanent thing I don't know but I recall reading that there was a period where Microsoft.com was returning non-Windows header information.

While they obviously don't publicise it I think they've probably used Linux where it's appropriate for some time now.
Yes, `tee` `tail` `head` `watch` et. al. are routinely useful.

Thanks for pointing out the typos too. :)
Considerable being a lot less still than the standard in the continent.

I prefer it here, by the way. I think the UK system is rather balanced.
Albert Einstien was always downvoted for not being apt in acedemics :)
I would thank my downvoter (and ask him to correct me), man,thats how you learn.
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I think this sentence is key:

> The funny thing with these kinds of "rules" / customs is that you internalize them; I can't even imagine myself taking pictures in the subway...

I've lived in several countries, and have inadvertently offended people in all of them. Well-travelled, educated people, who don't realise that some specific cultural norms are just that - cultural.
Certainly they prefer to be friendly accommodated guests in a Parisian McDonalds...
(not that I find it a good idea to eat in McDonalds at all, especially when having the option of French cuisine..;)
I don't think that's strictly true.

With cassandra you choose where the extra reads (or writes) to ensure consistency occur as best suits your use case:

* At write time (write quorum) like a traditional replicated datastore

* At read time (read quorum)

* In the background (read one, with a non-zero chance of read repair)

This is quite nice to be able to bend Cassandra on a use case by use case basis (NB: these are not cluster wide approaches, for different columns / circumstances i can choose different patterns).
In the short term, I'm hoping Google Hangouts will be a viable alternative for both normal users and enterprise users.

In the long term, I hope the WebRTC protocol will disrupt both of them.
> Every rose has its thorns.

Every rose has to have thorns. Especially in a Mutually Assured Litigation game.
(3) is much easier to implement for Ubuntu due to PPAs. It's also the most convenient for the users, although trusting a wide range of PPAs is somewhat of a security issue.