skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android is a good reason to not use HTML5, to be honest. It confuses me deeply that Apple has provided far more HTML5 webapp functionality that Google has- Google ought to be encouraging webapps whenever possible.
> Preditory pricing is bad for consumers in the long run, and in every industry outside of software is seen as a bad thing.

Not so fast. "Agency model", which is what the publishers want to mandate, is "retailers have to sell at MSRP". There may be nothing stopping them from refusing to sell through Amazon unless Amazon agrees to MSRP.

That said, lots of industries do work on "retailers pick the pricing", which is the deal that Amazon likes. (Either way, the publishers get to decide how much they charge distributors.)

The "predation" here is that Amazon is willing to take a smaller cut than Apple. That's not predatory. If anything, that's a competitive response to Apple's favored status on a dominant hardware platform.
I agree with the trust aspect, even if most consumers wouldn't recognize the RackSpace brand.

Another explanation could be: it's an easy way to fill up some whitespace in the footer.
This. I also will again remind people that the yield on Bitcoin blocks halves this December, thereby cutting the supply in half.

Demand is way up and supply must half. What do you think will happen to prices?
The study results are not very accurate. They made it with only 1000 US random users, and ~60% chose Bing more often, ~30% chose Google more often (on 10 queries).

See the following fictive example:

1000 people, 600 have the following score: 4 Bing, 3 Google, 3 Draw; 400 have the following score: 10 Google.
So, in my example, 60% of the people chose Bing more often and 40% chose Google more often. But, if you look at queries numbers, Google was chosen for 3600+10400=5800 queries, and Bing for 4*600=2400 queries, that's a 2:1 ratio, but in favor of Google.
Google 4, Draw 1. Did not pick Bing results once. Methinks their "blind trial" only applies to queries Microsoft specifically gave the testers to make Bing results shine.
Because you still don't know if StackOverflow will have the result you're looking for
Perhaps it's a stupid question, but... if something's catching a crash and logging it, can't the same something ensure that everything is written to disk?
We have a staggering number of customer who pay us through PayPal because they don't have a credit card or a debit card which clears through Mastercard/Visa (which is the standard in most countries).
I went 4 to 1 google as well. My searches weren't technical, my name, my job, my hobbies, etc.
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That's not a problem, if you drive on it at 2am.
I always use a VPN when on an un-trusted network, even if it's secured (someone could always be listening on the wired portion of the network).

Personally, I find "Cloak" (https://www.getcloak.com/) to be a fantastic app that works on my Mac and iOS devices. It's super-simple to get setup and running, and very cheap, too.
Deutsche Telekom blocks WhatsApp, Skype, Google Talk, …
At least one of his colleagues claims to have had their luggage tampered with as well, so this might have been done in conjunction with someone tipping off the TSA about planted items.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TsFVmZBAWI
Requested it as part of the application. Perhaps I could have avoided the disclosure, but since a merchant account is effectively offering you credit (think about it) leveraging my personal rating yet incurring no liability was a pragmatic win.

The issue is that fraud prevention--like terrorism prevention--means the side that's doing the groping isn't going to tell you exactly what they're doing and why. This leads to a lot of confusion.
The linked article is written in German.

According to the article, Deutsche Telekom – Germany's major mobile phone operator – has been blocking instant messaging services like WhatsApp, Skype and Google Talk for some mobile subscription plans since yesterday. There are now two explanations by Deutsche Telekom:

1. A software update is to blame.

2. The affected subscription plans are not optimized for instant messaging.

The first explanation is probablaby correct, i.e., Deutsche Telekom wanted to block instant messaging and updated its filters accordingly. The second explanation is of course nonsense.

Google translation:

Software update is to blame for failure Whatsapp

A software update for the Deutsche Telekom changed parameters, which no longer allows the use of Whatsapp. When the issue will be resolved is unclear.

The German Telekom has denied reports that Whatsapp, the cross-platform instant messaging app for smartphones would be blocked. Telekom spokesman Dirk turning Golem.de declared: "The telecom prohibits not the use of Whatsapp We recorded an update, there are parameters have changed, which would impact on product performance.."

A forum post was posted on the Internet: "I had just told a meeting with the T-Mobile hotline and I realized that for all those who have the data flat rate, the Messenger ports are closed According to the hotline of the reason is yet. obvious, the flat was only there to surf there and not to be notified, and that it has worked so far only because of a loophole in the system that it has now closed My conclusion:. If this is in the next telecom days not reverse it, a provider change is called for. "

In the official telecom Feedback community we find the following post: "You have been waiting for a reply from us to use problems with Whatsapp now we have an explanation for you why instant messaging services such as Whatsapp, Skype. and Google Talk, partly since yesterday no longer work. Options Web'n'Walk Handyflat and web'n'walk mobile phone Dayflat are not optimized for the use of instant messaging services such as WhatsApp. By therefore it is a software update to current impairments just these services. " If there other than those referred tariffs come to problems with the instant messaging usage, it had other reasons, the company said.

The group working on it, the use of instant messaging services again to enable all customers. A date for the fix can not be named.
Wunderkit is shutting down.
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_Why Documentary at Rubyconf 2012, Denver
Rails logging has been a trainwreck from the start but this is not even scratching the surface (in deployments where logging matters it normally goes to syslog anyways).

The bigger issue is the complete absence structure.

We shouldn't have to resort to addons like lograge[1] to turn that stream of poo into something human- and machine-readable.

[1] https://github.com/roidrage/lograge
No merchant account provider will open a new account without the personal social security numbers of the principals. Otherwise you could defraud one bank then the next your whole life by simply forming a new LLC/corp each time for $100 a pop.

When a merchant is terminated for fraud, breach of contract or excessive chargebacks, they can be placed on the TMF (Terminated Merchant File) and MATCH (Member Alert to High-Risk Merchants) lists which all Visa/MC member banks have access to. The social security numbers of all the principals are added to that list, so that if they apply with a new business somewhere else, the bank knows they've previously been a principal of a business some other bank terminated, and the reason.
5-0 for Google.

This was made by Microsoft??
I am often inspired by the Voyager program because I see it as one where the program planners did not put limits on themselves. And the fact that it would be 40,000 years before the problem came close to another star was also fascinating.

And then I consider that its only been in the last decade were we've been looking at asteroids in an effort to identify potential disasters before they happen. If some alien probe went through our solar system, it is only just now that we would notice it at the size of Voyager, and then we wouldn't pay attention because if it re-entered the atmosphere it wouldn't do significant damage. Doesn't bode well for the aliens seeing it unless they are looking for it.
I dislike the TSA as much as the next guy but some of their employees are good people. My father-in-law commutes weekly from Austin. Once he left his laptop at the screening and remembered it the next day. He called and they had it waiting for him when he flew back through a couple of days later.
The TSA can't arrest or detain anyone (let's hope this stays this way - http://www.popehat.com/2012/01/03/my-theory-of-tsa-arrest-po...); they have to call the police for that. And then, yes, the police could arrest or detain you for breaking the law.
Here's the thing: this affects non-citizens too who have had no part in the voting process, particularly tourists and business travelers who have to endure this absurdity. These ridiculous practices spread to other countries too; it's a global issue.
Look interesting. I will definitely buy one to try out and pass around the office. Let's hope the battery life makes sense.
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Most people put up with this fucktardery only because they have somewhere to be and don't want to miss their flight.

I wish this were true, but it isn't. I know a number of people who genuinely believe that the TSA procedures are necessary to make sure a terrorist is not going to blow up the plane they are boarding.
It was intended as a legit question. With such a descriptive title as "Grunt.js" on the submission.. it was kinda hard to tell.

Had it been "Grunt.js has a new website" I would have kept my fat mouth shut.
Linkedin Updates Company Pages with New Design
I think there has been a general recognition that rebuilding local supply chain in manufacturing is essential. Especially in the industries where this is still possible.

Cheap labour only helps if two years of labour is cheaper than a machine that can do the work. The machines get cheaper and labour gets more expensive. It obviously doesn't mean a lot of the low skilled jobs are ever going to return to the countries they have left, but at least it creates opportunity for an ecosystem of local suppliers and innovation.
I doubt it. Money launderers never do chargebacks and never make complaints. They are _the_ ideal banking customer, which is why the tax man hates on them.
What's the best actual VC pitch deck or video that I can see online?
>Bing services aren't available right now

After 5 searches the screen greyed out and was unresponsive.

Guess Google wins by disqualification?
As you probably know, the "speed of sound" in an arbitrary medium is just the speed at which disturbances in pressure propagate. For this to be well-defined, the particles have to collide with each other often enough for there to be collective disturbances (rather than just individual fast moving particles). I would have thought that there was so much distance between particles in interstellar space that they never collided, but apparently there are often enough collisions to define a notion of sound. Here's wikipedia:

> The shock arises because solar wind particles are emitted from stars at about 400 km/s, while the speed of sound (in the interstellar medium) is about 100 km/s. (The exact speed depends on the density, which fluctuates considerably.) The interstellar medium, although very low in density, nonetheless has a constant pressure associated with it; the pressure from the solar wind decreases with the square of the distance from the star. As one moves far enough away from the star, the pressure from the interstellar medium becomes sufficient to slow the solar wind down to below its speed of sound; this causes a shock wave.
One thing that really stuck in my mind when I heard the story was that, even 35 years later, "we're now a substantial fraction of a 'light-day' from the Earth..."

With the term "light-years" most commonly mentioned (eg, from a few days ago: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/astronomers-find-su... ) I think hearing about light-hours and light-days helps to put things a little more into perspective (though it's all still mind-boggling).
It is the comment spam mechanism on Flickr.
Excellent points. As developers, we're used to just plugging in an API and have it "just work".

Money transfer systems are different. They draw a lot of dark, evil forces that try not just to hack their systems, but to game and abuse it through normal operations.

It's unfortunate that legitimate businesses get caught in the crossfire sometimes, but we rarely hear about how many credit card thieves PayPal's system rightful stops. (Answer: It's a lot.)
They won't even give you a secured credit card, one backed by a cash deposit?
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There are ways to reduce the redundancy, like using LinkedIn as the primary data store and then setting up a macro to generate your resume from that data store. This way the CV reflects all of the updated made to the single authoritative source, yet can be formatted into a more traditional CV.
I was Google 5-0 but with technical queries whose results i did not know for either bing or google but knew what pages should be on top. I think it is actually deceiving. While choosing I was pretty sure two of them were bing. Because one's default address for movie timings was Redmond and in other the video results were all non-youtube. Something does not make sense. Either google is ignoring youtube results and moved to Redmond or they (MSFT) changed it so that people choose other result. (not many people would get the Redmond reference though)
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This is great advice 0 I'm an introvert that has had to learn to go to networking events - in addition to what the OP describes, one thing I have learned is that a good way to make small talk with someone is to show a genuine interest in something they do. People like to talk about themselves and the things they are passionate about, and it's a good way to connect with them (you may find that you share an interest). Those are the conversations people remember positively. Conversely, people don't usually like listening to you talk about yourself, so keep the discussion about yourself to a minimum unless asked. Better to be the asker than the teller - you'll make a much better impression.
Open the page...

http://www.rackspacestartups.com/

Click on any one of the links, say "500 Startups". Fill out
the application form, and you're off to the races.

Good luck!
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I wish that unoccluded or maybe just the frontmost window could be unredirected too, even if it's not fullscreen. The decorations and shadow could still be drawn in the Compositor Overlay Window.

I work on Linux on a program which is entirely drawn by OpenGL (I target ARM devices, but I test on the desktop before doing an ARM build). Application GL performance suffers immensely under a compositor, so on most machines I can't use GNOME3 (though I would like to). On machines where I get acceptable GL performance in my app, vsync is broken so there is constant tearing.

I'm sure there are some caveats with unredirecting the frontmost window -- like when it becomes occluded it would have to be redirected and that requires a round trip to the client (which might hang, etc), but there are probably other situations like this which the window manager has to deal with already (resize timers?) so maybe there is a way to implement it...
Google 3:2, although the problem with this is that I can always tell which one was google and which was bing based on the formatting.
Broken for me, after choosing first round winner both panels get darker and nothing happens...

FF15
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His request: please add copyright johaee (at) gmail.com. Don't remove the watermark in the image.
So they are selling real flakes and a fraudulent crunch. Still fraud.
Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?
And this is why I use Google. I rarely need to search for "facebook"; I do have a brain. When I'm searching, its more often than not for something I can describe but don't know the name of, and Google blows Bing out of the water on these. Try describing a movie to see what I'm talking about.
"more than 20 engineers" on a to-do list app? Isn't that quite an overhead? I mean 37signals have 9 developers and they successfully run several products (even with their easy-going lifestyle).
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Evolution is an independent process from the origin of life. The origin of life could be Jesus or aliens and that would not affect the validity of evolution.
It's a matter of convenience for me, substituting both (partially) OpenVPN and 'ssh -D'. I use 7 browsers (incl. 4 Firefox profiles) and a number of terminal tools that I often want to be seen coming from a specific server IP address from my /24 block - saves time configuring all of them individually to use SOCKS proxy or setting up OpenVPN on individual servers.
Terrafugia or Icon A5? The sport flying revolution is here.
> My company empties our PayPal account 2x a month, at which point it's well into 5 digits, and we've been doing this for ~5 years.

Right, but you've been doing that with regularity. It's all about patterns. In addition to that, you are not doing this a day or two after having a probing conversation with a Paypal representative who obviously called with concerns about your account. Huge difference.

I can take almost any amount I want out of our Paypal accounts and it has never triggered so much as a warning email. Our track record (~10 years) is pretty solid.
Thanks for the responses folks.
That video was hilarious. This is why false advertising shouldn't exist especially when it's about showing how your product works. You can't just show people in ads how the product works drastically better than it actually does in reality. A lot of people would buy it thinking it actually works like advertised. That's just wrong.
Interesting. The privacy implications are disturbing if true. I'm neither an IE nor windows user but I suspect most users wouldn't opt-in if given that choice. Any refs to research/evidence about the topic would be appreciated.
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Only iOS? If so, you may want to say that someplace.
Whatever that is, a debit card by MasterCard or VISA..

Me? Got my first credit card with 30, when I moved to Israel. That thing's invalid by now. Here in Germany I have a direct debit card (likely ~everyone~ has one, it's the one you use for the ATM as well), issued by my bank.

Now, I can use Paypal. In Germany (and probably more places) they offer to connect a regular bank account. So - Paypal can withdraw from my bank account, I can pay with Paypal where people otherwise insist on a type of payment that I don't like (Paypal's not the nicest thing ever by itself, but 'it works').

In my circle, credit cards are still mistrusted, ~rare~ (as in at least 2 out of 3 won't have one) and really just for collecting debt or buying stuff on your company's name. People around me are waiting for Google Play (oh I HATE that name) gift cards, because they'd really like to buy apps some time..
Eventually we won't have either of those.
I'd give Nokia a pass if they took pictures in a very optimal conditions to show their products in the best possible light. Heck, I'd be probably ok if they didn't even use a real phone but some sort of prototype that was very, very similar. But using a completely different camera to show "this is what it could look like, maybe" seems like just outright lying.

The unfortunate thing for Nokia is that unless their product actually can perform like this they are going to have many disappointed customers.

For all we know, the new Nokia phone is actually a potato.
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No, even "satisfactory" languages can suffer problems. For example a couple of days ago I discovered a nice exploit in the qemu-img program, and using any language to parse the output wouldn't help you:

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg128802....
I was very happy when I finally completed it :) Excited to get my shirt.
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Yes, Bourne Shell's variable access scheme is a bit ghetto, but to me the problem is that the shell is doing globbing at all. Why not have the shell pass "*" through to the program, and have the program itself perform globbing? Then filenames would have no impact on how the command-line is parsed.
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"Tampon means Buffer in French :)"

I guess the logo transfers as well.
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With all of the manufacturing issues the RPi team has had, I can't help but think what a tremendous PIA building something reasonably sophisticated is.

Kudos to the team for taking on such a difficult and worthwhile project and putting up with all of the issues. Even if the RPi in and of itself isn't successful, it's definitely brought these kinds of small, cheap simply computers to the forefront of many minds and that's a good thing.
So now that you obliviously recieved your own spec from some HN commenters.. (I wanted at least screenshots man!)

What would be an example of current tools people are using for drafting tech specs beyond a word processor? What software is similar to yours / competition / etc?
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However in this case "the website" is just one of dozens of tools out in the world. 50-character summary messages are incredibly awesome across the board, and everyone should learn to write them.
I've actually wondered about this for a long time: why is it legal for software companies to offer products and services at below marginal cost? Clearly zero is below whatever the actual marginal cost is, and Eric Schmidt summed up the industry's view of charging zero: "Consumers like the price of free."

I would love to learn from a knowledgeable lawyer why the practice of giving software away for free -- even when it potentially harms new entrants by eliminating entirely their potential for revenue generation -- is legal.
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When will average people be able to afford commercial space flight?
"so I found it amusing that they don't include Blekko"

Just took a look at Blekko. It looks good, but you can't honestly believe the layman cares as much about it as he does about search engines coming out of MS or Google. Does the layman (MS' target audience here) even know about Blekko?
How to tell if it's HTML5
Looks good... But why PHP ?
I use rename[1] to clean up problematic filenames. Sadly I have to rename it to `rnm` because there is a namespace conflict with rename.pl in util-linux. On OSX it is as easy as `brew install rename.` I do not know why it has never made it into the debian.

Taking care of a directory full of madness is as easy as `rename -z`:

-z, --sanitize
Replaces consecutive blanks, shell meta characters, and control characters
in filenames with underscores.

[1] http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename
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Remember, they are building a backend and clients for pretty much every platform available, I would say 20 engineers is barely enough to accomplish such a task in a timely manner. 37signal makes their apps available on web only.
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