skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shocked? Really? We've been seeing the Reality Distortion Field in effect for years now.
A major difference is that an offline bookstore necessitates curation, due to limited physical space. Barring very extreme cases (such as trillions of books requiring petabytes of server space), an online bookstore doesn't require such curation. (An online bookstore could be selective about the titles it highlights in its front pages. But there is no need for making a book completely unavailable through restrictive policies such as these.)
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false

This is a terrible idea. If your browser, or anything else, is ever conned into downloading and opening a file, the quarantine is the difference between "what the fuck, why is an executable I've never launched before trying to launch?" and silently getting owned.
Minimalist server online status checker (HTML/JavaScript)
Seriously, this is atrocious. I've been trying to watch the Olympics all day and it's been one huge fail.
Unix sort is a merge sort, using fixed RAM
uniq -c is line by line
sed is line by line

A superior solution in every way

If you were going to do this in Python (or another similar language), you need to write a sort function that operates on a file, not a Python collection, as the collection is always bound by RAM, which would at best be re-implementing the sort command. Once you can sort a file, everything else is trivial, as counts can be done line by line, or more siply, via uniq -c.

Of course, if you only care about things that fit in memory, you can do it in Python, but it is still far easier to use command line for these type of problems.
Honestly, in wine a lot of their games already run fine on Linux. Then again I still play a lot of Brood War...
Amazon has gotten into hot water before for NOT censoring or blocking content.
fredsted's point is that it is not that. It's largely one person's personal preferences. I agree there's some good stuff in there, but there's also a lot I wouldn't like. I don't think it's a superset, just a set.
For a long time people would say, "I wish Google had Apple's design sense."

I long for the day when most start saying, "I wish Apple had Google's self-confidence."
To my knowledge, no. But the suggestions at http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17929/how-can-i-dis... help a little bit.
> Well, yes - it is a superset of all the little tweaks that experienced and demanding users have found useful at one time or another.

Eh, a lot of it is just some guy's arbitrary preferences, with little or nothing to do with "experienced or demanding users". Stuff like hiding the bookmarks bar in Safari or showing track notifications in the Dock is experience neutral.

Other than that, there's a few nice tweaks (like unhiding ~/Library), and the occasional disastrous idea (killing the executable quarantine).
> I believe you need to pay the licence fee to legally watch iPlayer

Not entirely true. If you only use iPlayer for catchup, you don't need a TV license. But if you use iPlayer to watch TV programmes as they are being broadcast on TV, you do.
Unless their logo is like cokes, there are plenty of beverages that are called such and such cola. I might be wrong, but I don't think just cola is a big deal to them.
Plenty of others working on this problem. These spring to mind as I've met founders:
http://www.moodscope.com/login
http://www.umotif.com/
http://moodpanda.com/

I've also used mappiness (mentioned below) and found that the best. But after 6 weeks I was not learning anything new so stopped using it. This is a common experience for people using these apps: As I've heard it at London QS meetups (I'm a founding member).

Still awaiting an app that nails it. I'm giving it whirl. Good luck!
I don't think you are factoring in the spin to be expected from any CEO, never mind the Director General of the BBC, who has to admit that his charge is less than innocent. The accusation of bias against the BBC is common enough, indeed it is a national joke amongst most people with a smidgen of political nouse.

To deny, via a second- to third-hand source that the BBC is currently a left-wing, propagandist instrument is to belittle everything George Orwell warned us about via 1984.

'... is now more technocratic' !? Does this not send a shiver down your spine? It should do. I suppose if you are a Blairite it could be a cosy affirmation of intention, so there would be no need for alarm.
It would make sense for the BBC to run their own VPN-like service so people outside the UK could view their content.
Good point. I meant "books you read in iBooks".
NBC is only broadcasting Olympic events on cable channels, not on the basic NBC OTA channels...
I could see this argument for a Tuesday, but who the Hell wants to watch TV on a Saturday night—especially when the events happened 5 hours (± whatever) earlier?
Again, where are you getting these numbers from? They do not sound reasonable to me. Millions of people playing a game at any given time? It's a really lucky game that even sells several million copies on the PC. The idea that hundreds of games have millions of different hardcore players simultaneously is really hard to swallow with no evidence presented.
I agree. It takes a second to read what you're opening and another second or less to click "Open". It should at least be commented out and if someone really needs it, they are doing it on their own accord.
For the edification of all the people in the USA regarding current events, this kind of a support system is what helps people who are having issues, and would likely have prevented the tragedies that happened in Aurora or Tucson.

Not to say that other solutions could contribute to a more whole solution, but fundamentally it's people with problems either becoming a danger to themselves and others. And we have no support system for this.
Worth noting that you can legally watch any recorded show online without a licence
Well, it's not like I own a television set anyway.
Amazing video. Dystopian, yes, but dystopian visions are a useful counterbalance to the optimism and short-term thinking of most day-to-day tech news and discussion. It outlines the negatives of what could develop in the future, and it gives us all a jolt - shit, we realise, this stuff needs to be taken seriously. The imperative now is for us to monitor the development of these technologies and see that the negatives are minimised and the positives optimised. Because of course there are plenty of positives. This technology could have absolutely amazing applications - just like all of the technologies we are haphazardly developing, there is awesome potential for both good and bad. The difference in outcomes will derive from the choices we all make as they emerge and mature.

Summary: a bit of fear is healthy here. Now it's time to start imagining the opposite of this video: how could such technologies make our lives and planet amazing?
It's probably calculating a checksum of the file to check for corruption.
AFAIK, NBC/Telemundo doesn't own any radio stations. And since NBC isn't broadcasting live, even if someone was running a radio broadcast it's highly unlikely they'd be in sync.
This is a similar tool as http://httpbin.org/ which was written by Kenneth Reitz to test python request http://python-requests.org/. I like that this is written in tornado thanks for sharing.
he sure sounds like someone destined to do great things, ahem, ahem.
Debugging in Appcelerator Titanium
It's taking a CRC32 of the contents of the image and comparing it to the expected value stored in the image.

I've very occasionally run across corrupted disk images, which is what this catches.
It's easy to wake people up without explaining to them that they're asleep! Make a loud noise or throw water on them or just yank the covers off of the bed. They'll wake up first, and learn that they were asleep afterwards.
Does it work differently for you?
bane is a similar tool that pathod-interested users might be interested in.

https://github.com/danielwellman/bane

From the readme:
"If you are building an application, you may depend on third-party servers or web services for your data. Most of the time these services are reliable, but at some point they will behave in an unusual manner - such as connecting but never respond, sending data very slowly, or sending an unexpected response. To ensure your application survives these scenarios, you should test your application against these bad behaviors. Bane helps you recreate these scenarios by standing in for your third-party servers and responding in several nefarious ways."
Canadian here too.

I also tend to do the same I can use a VPN or figure out some way to get around restrictions but then I think why?

If I'm blocked I'm not going out of my way to generate ad revenue or support such behaviour, it's called the World Wide Web for a reason.
I'm watching women's beach volleyball on NBC (Channel 4 in the NYC metro area) as I type this (8:12pm on Sat 28 July)
illumin8 don't make a habit of presuming this and that in life or asking others to do so, you should only work with facts. Check out propositional calculus (just the basics some evening via wikipedia etcetera) it will mature your mindset a little - because here you just come across as a terminal. Just friendly advice!
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They live-tweeted the opening ceremonies, and today live tweeted events including that one.

I'm quite happy to see angry @replies. I don't anticipate them changing how they're doing things mid-games, but maybe they'll realize they made a mistake if every "Such and such just won the blank event!" gets multiple angry responses.
Nevertheless, an increasing number of large companies are switching.

There are various methods they use to work around the issues, but the point is that Gmail is eroding Exchange use.
Node.js, Doctor’s Offices and Fast Food Restaurants
Excellent instructions for doing this on a mac with http://www.mikeash.com/ssh_socks.html

I am an Englishman sheltering from the Olympics in NYC (public transport in London was always going to be a mess) and even though I possess a UK TV license I had to tunnel through my machine at home to watch the opening ceremony.

It's a shame the BBC can't just sell a stream to people elsewhere in the world but the licenses under which they get the content will prevent it. Otherwise people could get content from the lowest bidder in the world, meaning commoditisation and a massive hit to the content owners who wouldn't get to sell the rights over and over again in different countries.
This Olympics insanity (needing to subscribe to cable TV to watch a over the air broadcast; Comcasts owns NBC Universal) is a great reason why services like http://Aereo.com need to thrive!

Does anyone here have Aereo and are using it to watch the Olympics?
Quick doesn't have to mean dirty
But how else would you describe a superset? I hate the glass dock and have hated it since 10.5 when it was introduced. You might like it and you'll stick with the default behaviour. For me it's a useful tweak. For you, you can live without it. It's not a superset of preferences - it's a superset of tweaks. Some of them you won't like, some of them are quite nice and this is a good place to find them all.

Or did you mean that you know of a whole bunch of other tweaks that should be on the list? If so, add them and send a pull-request.
???

If they wanted to unblock the world they could just do that without a VPN.

Their license from the IOC will require them to take measures keep their services to the territory they have rights to (the UK). If they allowed their services to be accessed globally they would only get the rights that they bought globally.

If any VPN gets too popular you can expect them to block it too. You may need to factor this into how much you pay for a VPN.
> We're in 2012 people!

Exactly, everyone is now able to find a quick and easy to use VPN. Wasn't that easy few years ago.
2nd hand sales values do appear to be higher for iOS devices. And in my mind they are usually better built. So I agree the average lifespan may be longer.

But this doesn't mean that good 2nd hand Android devices don't get passed on to family or friends. All the devices in my family whether iOS or Android get passed along. The Android handsets are perfectly fine.
You don't have to wade through fisherman's wharf to get in-and-out. You have no right to complain.
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Your main site is down but I'd like to send you a (nice!) email. How?
People think other people have gambling problems. People want to protect other people from themselves. I really wish people would leave me alone.
One difference is that pathod (and pathoc, the client-side equivalent) works hard to make it possible to violate the HTTP protocol specs at will, in pretty much arbitrary ways. The next version of pathod also moves away from Tornado to let it take more direct control of comms.
There's a company in Brighton (England) called "dinner2go" (http://dinner2go.co.uk) that offer this sort of service (a "food taxi") and it's absolutely fantastic. They've been around for a few years now but they don't seem to have expanded beyond Brighton which would indicate to me that it's not a particularly lucrative business.

They charge pretty ridiculous delivery prices, on a $15 meal I pay $15 delivery, and I assume the time that it takes to place the order, collect the order and deliver the order mean they're not making great amounts of money on that $15. They do deliver well though, when my food arrives it's been <15 minutes from McDonalds to me so it's always delicious.

Something I've been wondering for a while is why don't places like McDonalds, Burger King and In-N-Out do delivery? The only conclusions I can come to are that either they make money by upselling extras in the restaurant and someone ordering from home exercises greater constraint (eg: just ordering 1 burger and fries) OR that delivery isn't as profitable. Does anyone here have any experience in fast-food and know why?
Eh, a lot of it is just some guy's arbitrary preferences, with little or nothing to do with "experienced or demanding users". Stuff like hiding the bookmarks bar in Safari or showing track notifications in the Dock is experience neutral.

Completely agree - but someone has to keep this compendium somewhere, and why not keep it as a piece of working code, rather than as a web page or something? If you end up having to use a lot of different Macs and have to set up new accounts for yourself on a regular basis, what you'd probably do is fork the project here, eliminate the stuff you hate, and then that's your acceptable-mac-environment-maker script.

occasional disastrous idea (killing the executable quarantine).

Out of curiosity, why is this disastrous? I'm not a fan of the idea, but I can imagine how someone might come to hate com.apple.finder.quarantine badly enough to do this? Maybe this particular tweak should be commented out by default, though.
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On Mac OS X, you can use them just for specific domains. For example, create:

/etc/resolver/bbc.co.uk

with the contents:

nameserver 208.122.23.22
nameserver 208.122.23.23

And now you'll be using unblock-us's name servers for just bbc.co.uk and its subdomains. You could do something similar for your entire network with dnsmasq.
If you believe, clap your hands and say, "I believe in the market economics fairy!"
Hearing these terms used in the ads... are people supposed to know beforehand what they are talking about?
Why doesn't he just go to the local sports bar?
A 3% fee for credit probably won't stop most people from using their cards, but it will kill rewards programs.
They don't have to. They can keep using an old phone.
Is it purely NBC's fault or the notoriously corrupt IOC's fault?
See also http://secrets.blacktree.com , a database of known hidden settings that can be changed. There is also a Preference Pane available there that makes it really easy to adjust them form System Preferences.
FYI. It works in some localities. Many of the New York City McDonalds have delivery offered by the restaurant itself.
Thank you for the offer, I'll email you tomorrow, It's late here at the moment and I really need sleep :(
Despite how many people on this site and sites like it don't have some kind of cable or satellite service... we're a pretty small minority. Especially when it comes to the group of people interested in watching sports, where live is king, and the online options suck unless you live out of your teams' TV markets. I'm not surprised they're not going out of their way to cater to us.

For all the "the model no longer works" comments: what's the proof? The number of people I know complaining about the model is dwarfed by the number of people I know who have cable and have been watching stuff on both TV and online all day long.

I've seen a lot of legitimate complaints about how they're handling the time shifting stuff (which, surprisingly to me, has mostly been along the lines of "it's too easy to find out what happened" instead of complaining about the time shifting in the first place), but I don't see a big hole in their delivery system. They don't want to give people less reason to have cable -- and for all the money they could possibly make broadcasting the Olympics for-pay to non-cable subscribers, that's just a couple weeks every couple of years. The real win for them is if you still want to maintain a cable subscription.
Regarding git vs af, if I could use the git already installed in my computer, and by simply adding my SSH key into AppFog system, I could avoid using `af` gem and Ruby altogether. Otherwise, I would have to install Ruby just for this purpose. But this is just personal taste.

Other PaaS such as Heroku or OpenShift allows you to set up a custom app. For example, you can create your own app type in Heroku's cedar stack with buildpacks, or the DIY app in OpenShift with supports for hooks.

Erlang probably isn't on the top of the priorities list, but I'm looking forwards to it.
I would love to not have to disable this, but it's buggy and I've had it up to here with pointless confirmations like "README.txt is an application downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open this file in TextEdit?"
"What do you think would be the best way to display the emotions?"

Why don't you just list them in a dropdown? I usually dont understand emoticons unless they have description etc. But thats just me :)
> They’re doing this for a reason: m-o-n-e-y.

Uh, yeah. It's something you need in order to run a company. A company that employs people and gives them, guess what? m-o-n-e-y. And how does it do that, and how does it continue doing that? By being profitable, which it does by having (among other things) exclusive content and advertisers who want to be seen alongside that content.

But no, NBC should just put all their stuff online, where it's less clear what kind of profit they would make, because fuck them, this is the internet, and money is bad. We internet people can work at companies that don't have a business model or make a profit, so why can't everyone else?
The agreement didn't just expire, Samsung terminated it with the express purpose of counter-suing Apple. Note that Samsung to date has not gone after any other Qualcomm customers for increased patent license fees they can hardly claim they are being non-discriminatory.

Not sticking to the FRAND terms it agreed to is a pretty bad move on Samsung's part. I believe the EU not happy about this development and is already looking into this so the move could blow up in Samsung's face.
I'm not sure why people don't get this. It's pretty obvious that companies need to make money, and that it's big business.

I haven't had a TV for almost 3 years and I suffer through missing out on lots of stuff. However, until the economics change (e.g. cable companies die) it's going to be like this for several more years. At least I got a real streaming Superbowl this year.

Rather than complain, let's change the economics and help to make the transition faster. Btw, http://justin.tv is a going place to start in a pinch. :-)
Fortunately you can use firefox portable to test older versions if needed.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/local...
Great post. FWIW, the mobile app that NBC has is 10000x better than their website, and sometimes is even faster and better quality (iPhone). This is a good example of developing for mobile first... The mobile experience strips down all the unnecessary cruft and gets you to what you want immediately. As soon as I logged on to the app, I was able to see all live streaming videos in a nice interface and get to what I wanted. Can't say the same about the wesite.
Considering I've frequently encountered this with botched downloads of disk images from the Apple servers, this seems like something that shouldn't be disabled.

And no, it isn't my system, it's Apple's servers; only have the problem with downloads from them.
You will not be able to install multiple versions of Firefox side by side. You'll need to use Firefox Portable Edition if you intend to have multiple instances.
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Unfortunately you just don't get it.

I and many others DON'T LIKE BEING RECORDED.

It is a gross invasion of our privacy, illegal without our permission and opens up innumerable issues should I do something that could be classed a crime. And absolutely no amount of "getting used to it" is going to change that.
I can understand a tape delay during the weekdays - hell, I'd even prefer being able to watch at night instead of at 2:30pm EST. But for weekends, it is so stupid.

I saw the 400 IM was on at 2:30pm today, so I turned on the tv to NBC - only to see yet another pointless interview with Ryan Seacrest (why is he doing sports coverage??). Had to watch a stream of the race live even though NBC was airing Olypmics coverage at the same time!
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He didn't misunderstand the concept. He emphasized the needs for source access to libraries
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Wireless regulation: It's not about Free Market vs. Big Government
That was excellent. I despise NERD tree but I also had no clue how to use netrw. Instead, my habit is to use the console to touch files I want created, or to create or remove directories, etc. This little screencast was quite enlightening and I'll be dropping that habit!
I don't think it's as clear cut as all the armchair CEOs on the internet say.

By making this stuff available online, the amount of money they can get for the primetime TV spots is reduced, because fewer people will watch the primetime stuff, and it has less cachet because it's no longer exclusive. They will recoup some of that loss by charging money for internet access and having ads on the internet stream, but the ads online will be even cheaper, because that's just how internet ads work. Not only that, but they have to have a platform that they can use to deliver and charge for this content at scale (they might already have such a platform, but it may not be up to this kind of scale, I'm honestly not sure.) So that costs money, too. It's likely the folks at NBC did this analysis and found that it didn't work out in their favor, or there was too much uncertainty.

Meanwhile, most people will be at worst annoyed by the lack of internet coverage, but they'll just record it on their DVRs, or miss out on an event here or there. A very small number of people will go the trouble of pirating it, but those people are likely a margin of error in the grand scheme of things.
I think it's great that you are helping people (startup founders). It's good to hear the many reasons and benefits for doing so.

As a startup founder, I am curious as to how you are helping people like myself, both as a model to follow and to see if I might actually hit you up for some. How are you helping, specifically?