skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't know. i do believe it is true (chileans i know that have lived in argentina are mortified by the corruption there), and the country is very isolated culturally (by the andes in the east and desert - and poor relations politically - to the north). so it's reasonable for it to be different, but i don't have a good explanation for why it is.

whatever the reason, it seems to be quite deep, culturally. anecdotally, i was shocked just a couple of weeks ago when i went to get a picture framed and the people doing the work lied to my face (they said between themselves that they didn't have the material i wanted; when i questioned that they promised they did; the results were not what they promised). that was very odd for chile (sorry, i didn't make it clear above - i live there), but the shop owners were argentinian immigrants... it is normal, culturally, here (speaking in broad terms) to speak "optimistically" of the future (so if you ask whether a shop will have something in stock next month, they will - usually, in my experience - say yes), but not to directly contradict what was said a moment earlier without batting an eyelid (i should perhaps add that i suspect i missed something myself in the exchange in the picture shop - perhaps the expected way i should have behaved was to offer an acceptable compromise instead of directly questioning what was happening - i am aware that cultural distinctions are not absolute judgements).
I'm using it right now. It's rather lightweight and is easy to setup on a low end VPS. The git-related code has features Bitbucket only just added: side by side diffs, comments at line number, activity log...

The issue tracker is rather basic (like Github) so you guessed correctly -- many people are using it alongside Redmine. I've created a simple patch and theme to tie the two together [1] - something that would be impossible with Github. Between the two it's had a significant positive impact on recent projects for both me and my clients. It's been much easier to grasp the current state of the project than using just gitk or a standard file browser or cli client. I expect to see many more Gitlab installations in the future. The ability to customize it for a need is invaluable.

[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/97#issuecomment-...
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It's done at both side of the graph, so it makes 0.06 :-)
But that's not the point. It's the principle. If you present a graph based on actual data (verified by many scientist) and you change the data however slightly to fit your point of view, that's malice. Why do it otherwise?

Maybe not enough for this though:
http://www.pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?article=Nzg5Nw=...
> Disable HTTPS Everywhere.

It wasn't that either. It didn't work for me, and for many other people. See the thread for simple `curl http://whatever-joyent` failing.
Your numbers are way out.

It says that Highgate is 10 minutes away by road from Old Street. The 271 bus takes more like 40 minutes on a good morning. I don't think it could be done in 10 minutes even without traffic.

The AA route planner gives it as 20 minutes which is optimistic http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp#fromNode=182600...

Enfield is 20 minutes from Old Street by road? I don't think so!
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What X needed was to slim down. That's something I can get behind. But the Wayland folks went too far, and the rationale seems to have been "because this is our first real opportunity to break from X"... in other words, because they could. What we needed was an X12, not something different for the sake of being different: evolution, not revolution.
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DR; DM (didn't read, daily mail)

Need a better source.
The most important thing you need to do is to make your implementation completely transparent and publicly available. Data doesn't get more personal and private than the data you will be storing.

Simply saying that you encrypt data is not enough. People need to know who has the keys and who is able to get access to the keys if they need to.

Also, if the images can be viewed in a webpage, then they're not encrypted as far as I'm concerned. Even if you use client side javascript to handle the decryption, you can be compelled to modify that javascript for a particular user to obtain their key/password next time they log in.

"We would also need to decrypt and reencrypt all data if the user changes password"

This depends if you are using a key derived from the password. Or if you are using a randomly generated key that is encrypted using a key derived from the password. With the latter, you would only need to re-encrypt the randomly generated key. Not the entire data set.

I understand that usability is important for your business case. Just don't forget how sensitive the data is that you will be collecting and how ripe for abuse it is if you don't secure it fully.

I also think that you should open source your client software. If not, I'd be concerned that at some point you'll be forced to put back doors in it to get at peoples keys.
Thank you for explaining this simply and concisely. I was aware of "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State", but I'm not sure I fully understood it until now.

A question about resource discovery using links. In practice, does anyone write web service clients that use, and are driven by, link discovery? It seems to me that in a b2b scenario, an organisation that is going to be investing time and money in developing a client for an api will probably want some documentation to work against.

Also, is there a standard way to make discoverable the http methods that can be applied to a resource?
Exactly. The bigger you get, the more you need to protect yourself, especially in customer relations communication. You can't keep the casual startup mentality forever (well, in many cases anyway).
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I run a digital publishing business that has grown nicely over the past few years, revenue is about $300,000 this year and has grown nicely each of the past few years. I am also employed full time and have a limited amount of time to dedicate to my business. However, I do not want to give my job up, as I have a lot of upside coming up in the next few years.

I have identified someone that I would like to hire/partner with as something similar to a co-founder. I have worked with him in the past and know that he will bring great value to the company, he is a true executer.

I know what he makes currently and that wonder what would be the best mix of compensation, equity, profit sharing and vesting to offer.

Any thoughts?
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Really great - the only thing I'd change is the ability to add a price filter for renting in £ / calendar month (rather than just / week as it is).

Other than that, brilliant!
Very nice idea. To be honest, I doubt you're ever going to get high-quality timely data on available places, but I think the site is still very useful if only as a guide to what property is like in the area and which estate agents to call.

A few issues/suggestions based on 5mins clicking around:

* Lose the 'label' field on each area the user picks - they're already choosing a search term for google maps, why can't you just use that?

* Having chosen two places and chosen some property parameters, the right-hand-side of the page contains two 'property' buttons: one grey, which does nothing, and one orange, which allows me to reset the parameters. The grey one is useless and confusing, lose it

* Having chosen these places and parameters (I chose 'crouch end' and 'dulwich'), I can't see any properties, just the standard gmaps lollipop icons on the map. I guess this is a bug? In any event it's unclear what I should do next - you'd lose me at this point

* There's a big transparent grey footer that doesn't contain anything - what's the purpose of that when you could just show more map?

HTH etc. Nice idea, will check back once in a while...
Yeah; what we have is smaller electronics, fewer data paths, slower technology and probably uses quite a bit less power. Power consumption is proportional to update rate too.
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You can view PDFs easily enough on a physical Kindle device, though as others have stated they don't scale that well.

You cannot operate a Kindle in conjunction with Amazon's ecosystem without having an Amazon account registered to an email address that you control. There may be ways to jailbreak a Kindle so as to enable you to (e.g.) transfer files via the USB cable without registering the device.
No it doesn't. You reload DRM-stripped books on the device, as if it had never been bought from Amazon.

Don't forget that DRMs aren't here to save Amazon from piracy. Today and for the next couple of years, what they really care about is securing a dominant position. So the DRM security only needs to be good enough to reassure clueless edition managers, who believe that DRM will help their business rather than hurt it. So they have no incentive to get out of their way to bug DRM-stripping customers (in light of which, I'd guess some of the morons who handled Linn Nygaard's case will be fired, and deservedly so).

Same as iTunes DRM actually, which Apple ended up discarding once they were in a position to tell the music editor to just shut up.
I still think there is plenty of legal wiggle room to sound like a carbon-based lifeform.

I am not really sure what legal case this would open them up to, but we have to assume they've consulted with their attorneys prior to writing the statement.

There is also an opportunity cost to going all legal, which is the attrition of brand perception and customer relations. Apple managed to pull both off during Antennagate.

Maybe Amazon cut the cord to US-East as a diversion and hoped that and the Apple keynote would distract from this screw-up. :P

EDIT: Which is not to even touch on the subject of assuaging the fear that consumers might suddenly lose all access to their entire library in the cloud. There is a lot at stake here, and Amazon have done nothing to dispel this apprehension arisen in light of this event. It's not just a customer catastrophe, it's an e-book/Kindle catastrophe.
It's simply a shitty attitude, and being a large corporation is irrelevant.
Reminds me of the lifetime free flights that were offered in the past: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/05/lifetime-air...
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They are between the conflicting priorities of providing improvements on the one hand, and making switching easy on the other hand. I fully agree with not making a 100% clone. However, being mostly similar to GitHub increases their acceptance among users who are already familar with GitHub.

Other reimplementations of big applications face similar issues.

For example, the similarity of LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice) to older MS Office versions is an important factor that contributed to their wide success. Over the years, they were able to maintain a more consistent UI than MS Office.
Are you confusing Public folders with shared folders?

If it's a shared folder then at some point you explicitly created a link to share access to that folder. If you don't want this anymore, you can revoke access. There is a big link icon next to folders you have shared.
An anecdote from someone with first hand experience seeing "burn out" happen is neither a theory nor unsubstantiated. An interesting question, however, would be whether there is something that predisposes some people to marijuana use, and whether that predisposition is associated with susceptibility to "burn out," even if marijuana hadn't been involved.
No, "was" implies the past indicative, which means "If I was your cloud provider in the past", whereas "were" implies the subjunctive mood, which expresses "various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet occurred" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood)
Do you have any evidence to point to this ~1000 cookie limit?
I think instead he's saying that in a "normal" job market it's possible to higher server admins of lesser experience for lower pay and suffer through the consequences of having to train them up and get them proficient. There's good business reasons not to do this but that doesn't make it any less of a normal job market
Thanks. Age wasn't important though, just background and experience. The eye for design you had already started cultivating with the magazine work shows.
I agree that with shipping product, and making sure people can return faulty product for replacement, Amazon is fantastic.

And this stuff about auto-detection of supposedly bad accounts, and closing of those accounts with very little detail or ability to appeal is worrying, but not limited to Amazon. (That doesn't make it any more acceptable!)

Where Paypal (or their honest customers) are at risk of losing many thousands of dollars from fraud I can understand that some[1] people are going to be innocent victims of heavy handed policies.

[1] For some values of 'some' including 'too many'.
> so it's cheaper to write it off

That's what they're counting on.
Yeah, the speed profiles we're using for the road travel have some inaccuracies as they don't yet account for traffic etc. We'll be putting in a separate mode for buses that will be based off more accurate TfL data, so hopefully won't see as bad a wormhole as that once that's in place!
Four brands taking the plunge into video sharing
Demo is awesome!
In Video, unless you are talking about MPEG2, packets are not equal. There are I (Intra) and P (predicted) frames. I-frames are a large spatially compressed frame, while P-frames are small and temporally compressed.

Other than that, depending on motion compensation, the size of the video frames may vary, i.e., high motion may create larger sized frames and low motion will create smaller sized frames.

Size of frames are also dependent on resolution so, if you vary that then you get even higher variability in frame sizes.

Furthermore, if you vary the frame rate then you will see packet generation times are irregular. The same logic of motion can be applied here. If there is low motion, reduce the frame rate, and if there is high motion then increase the frame rate.

Typically, audio has equal-sized packets and regular packetization intervals (however, even with audio there are exceptions, for instance silence suppression in audio telephony)
A 'small' slice of your facebook info.
Would you pay for a PC game in general? Because it's essentially a desktop game that's (at the moment) only easily played through the browser due to its language. It doesn't require an internet connection, if that's an issue for you.

As for an iOS port, it'd be nice, but it's simply not possible without me heavily modifying and diluting the game. Touchscreen controls wouldn't feel comfortable (maybe that's just me) and games of its difficulty and type don't port well. I've played other action-heavy 2D games on iOS, e.g. Dodonpachi, and so much needs to be sacrificed just to make it playable.

If anything, I could maybe attempt an iPad port. There's no way it'd be comfortable on the iPhone, though, and I wouldn't feel right completely killing the difficulty just to make it playable.
This is a bit dated, but it makes sense that there is a set cookie limit: http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/16/browser-cookie-limits/
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I think you should decide whether you want to hire or whether you want to partner. If you just want to hire put a competitive package on the table.

If you want to partner talk to him about what it would take to get and keep him highly motivated and driven.

Vesting should be over several years so you won't lose half your company if it doesn't work out in a short period of time.
While I agree that Bitbucket and Google Code are interesting competitors, I think the "popularity" of SourceForge is misleading.

SourceForge is only big because they are already hosting so many projects. I haven't seen any intresting new projects there. And those being there are would mostly be willing to switch to GitHub, if they had enough spare time for that (it's not just the project switch, but also the switch from CVS or Subversion to Git they would have to manage).
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Depends on where you are. It might be pretty good when dealing with Amazon in US, but I have been on the receiving end more than once when I order stuff to India. One of books I ordered, I never received and yet it was marked delivered in their history. I did not know what to do back then and case got closed just like that.
Never heard of UTC time format?
1 million Facebook entries isn't cool. u know what's cool?
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Well, at least it doesn't just say 10 AM ... ;)
Very similar list here:

http://www.skorks.com/2009/09/bash-shortcuts-for-maximum-pro...

which includes some other nice shortcuts - like ctrl + xx
Just downloaded it. I'll test it out soon.
Same as problems for pretty much any tech, such as Google.
It's working as designed and is not a bug. The help documentation describes the functionality:-

1) https://www.dropbox.com/help/167/en
2) https://www.dropbox.com/help/20/en
Chances are it's in the app's privacy policy that they can share your data with "carefully selected third parties" or something similar.
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Same happens in other former UK colonies, e.g. Australia.
I don't even know how the hell that managed to happen.

Was this the demo or the full version? The last time I tested the full version on Safari (~5 days ago), it ran just fine.

I'll look into it.
Hello! I am unfamiliar with the details of the Kindle DRM implementation. Would you mind explaining at least the degree to which you are familiar with it, if not providing some background and/or links so that I can verify this statement for myself instead of just taking your word for it? Thanks!
I would love to see an analysis from someone who gets HN'd/Slashdotted/Reddit'd often traffic stats. I know that the "frontpage" of reddit would garner you hundreds of thousands of hits.
without delving in the conspiratorial, Can anyone explain why would the broadcast be restricted to Apple TVs other than trying to control the number of concurrent streams they have to serve for scaling purposes ?
Any idea what a typical vesting schedule would be for bringing on a partner a few years in?
Is this a spare time project or are you all involved in it full time?
Some people are refusing to pay Amazon (or other providers) for DRMd content - a boycott of anything with DRM.

Some people are not going to break any laws, even if those laws are mostly technical and not going to be enforced. And providing means to remove DRM is more problematic because the law is enforced a bit more rigorously there.
They reopened it because people heard about it and then started talking about stripping DRM and resorting to piracy, so somebody, somewhere decided to make this go away as fast as possible and as quietly as possible.

/cynic
Thanks for the feedback!

>>Having chosen these places and parameters (I chose 'crouch end' and 'dulwich'), I can't see any properties, just the standard gmaps lollipop icons on the map. I guess this is a bug? In any event it's unclear what I should do next - you'd lose me at this point
* There's a big transparent grey footer that doesn't contain anything - what's the purpose of that when you could just show more map?

Sorry about that - this sounds like a genuine bug. The grey footer is meant to display some text that tells you what to do next (property listings will appear in that area once you click on one of the orange areas of the map). If you could ping me to let me know what browser/version etc. that would be much appreciated!

Apart from that, everything else comes under "search controls usability" which is one of our top priorities for improvement, we'll definitely be doing some more work on those.
14 entries so far, two of which are Viagra spam. The scum of the internet certainly are industrious.
In fairness to the scientists, you know as well as I do that they could have stated the risk of a big earthquake and nobody would have listened. It happens in high-risk disaster areas all the time. Sure, they should be held accountable for making false statements for political or economic gain, but saying "those who listened to the scientists died" isn't fair.
4 years is pretty common and what I used.
Maybe not a rip-off, but still a lie.
wow, spent like 5 mins on the demo and already i feel like a doctor! omfgZoMG awesome!
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Looks really promising! If I had to learn anatomy, I guess I would use your tool!
> that patent owners should state a value of the patent when filing, and fees should be a percent of that value.

In that system, only huge corporations will be able to afford to file patents that are worth anything. Everyone else gets screwed.
This is a description of the Emacs bindings, which are the default. Vi bindings are also available and can be enabled by adding

set -o vi

to ~/.bashrc.

Peteris Krumins also has an article on bash command line editing with some extra information on completion:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-s...
mattdebord and estel: I'm one of the core Gitorious committers. What specifically did you find messy? The initial setup or GUI/UX? Honest question, as we're constantly trying to prioritize based on the painpoints of users. :)

BTW we've recently addressed the complicated manual setup with a new, automated installer that gets you set up within 30 minutes: http://getgitorious.com/installer

Also, a new and improved UI is due to arrive in Gitorious soon:
http://blog.gitorious.org/2012/08/21/sexy-looking-repositori...

All feedback is very welcome.
Disagree, it actually may make sense. The office is overwhelmed with patents and does not have the resources or people that are experts in that particular field. The author of the patent is supposed to be the world's best expert in their field (they are claiming to have crossed the boundary of known things with their patent, aren't they?) and it should be far easier for them actually check if there is prior art or the patented thing is actually not obvious to anyone, who is explained the problem that it is supposed to solve. Many low quality patents are filled and there is no risk in filling them. There should be a risk and a penalty for misusing the system.
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The three of us have been working on it full time since September, having done some spare-time prototyping in the preceding months. We're now trying to secure some angel investment to help us continue building and growing, it's something we're all passionate about!
It isn't restricted to Apple TVs, it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 or OS X >= 10.6.
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The sheets are named "sayfa". That's a hint about who he bought the list from. Anyone knows which language is that?