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If two pointers point to the same memory location, are they the same pointer? No.

Two branches are two branches, even if they point to the same commit. Update one branch, the other remains unchanged.
According to the article, ServerBeach did have justification: it's the letter of their policy. That doesn't make it smart or sane, but it is justified. They did what they said they'd do.
I get called a troll by people all the time for the simple crime of making an argument they can't refute.

The guy on reddit wasn't a troll, near as I can tell, he was a guy who started a lot of subreddits and provided content for them. Seems to be the opposite of a troll, even if the subreddits were in content areas we might not like, the people who went to them apparently did. Yet The Atlantic writes an article about him?

A real troll, in my understanding, is someone whose goal is to disrupt conversation.

But these seem very rare.

"Troll" has become the catch all excuse to ignore and attack people you disagree with, near as I can tell.
Why I Hated My Time in China
Kaspersky Lab Developing Its Own Operating System
Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time
Hi HN,<p>In my spare time (evenings and weekends) I've built 3 products which have been relatively successful even with little advertising (only google ads budgeted at $30 per day). The latest one is WcfStorm.Rest; which is a REST service test client. I built it because I found that the current tools did not have the features I wanted such as, intellisense when working with HTTP headers, syntax highlighting for JSON messages, etc.<p>I'm continually trying to improve these products and would very much love get your feedback. Every suggestion is welcome!<p>(My apologies for any grammatical mistakes. English is not my first language)
That's not a fee (which would disincentive filing DMCA notices in the first place), but rather a compensation for damages (which puts the burden of proof on the victim).
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There in the declining cash cow phase, so its a matter of whatever corporate-political faction can get in there and gobble up that revenue ($60mm, nice). It really, really, f'n really is not about engineering at this point in a big corp's life. Most executives would shoot all the engineers if they could get away with it and it created a tiny personal profit for themselves.
Android FUDmentation
Legacy Browser Compatibility for HTML5
As long as Internet Explorer will be around holding onto their share of the market in the world of legacy browsers, you’ll have to face the facts and develop your CSS to work around versions of Internet Explorer 7 and 8. We have had a ray of hope with the shunning of Internet Explorer 6 as it has now begun to join Netscape in the graveyard of browsers past.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656378
Currently I'm focused on stabling the current version, but definitely will try to push it to other OS, can't guarantee tho
> it's merely an explanation of why a successful religion (in terms of number of believers) might have such a rule: because the rule is what causes the success.

That would be a sad statement for a religion. But it also points directly to the problem. If a religion is successful only as far as it is able to control people, it is not actually very useful.

Most religions do have extremely useful core concepts. That is true for Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. If we could just step back to recognize these core concepts all of "this" would just go away...
My day job is as a data scientist, and most of the applied ML I perform is simply plugging data into some optimizer/detector for best algorithm and running split train/test loops. Most of the work is herding the cats in the business units and justifying my salary to the Board of Directors.
> you could've hired 250 highly paid full time developers
> for 1 year for that cash

Ok, let's imagine you got $60 million and hired 250 engineers.
What do you do now?
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"Rather than hire one of these rare and expensive people, why couldn't a business hire a statistician and a couple of computer science people and have them work as a team?"

This paradigm shift is happening at intelligent companies. You hire a competent software developer who took stats 101 and knows how to Google some stuff, then have him oversee a pair of interns, one who has a math/stats degree and the other who has a physics/engineering degree. In six months you'll have a trained Data Science (tm) team.
The best justification I can think of is that they deal with such a large volume of requests that they simply don't have the time or attention or legal latitude to be skeptical of DMCA claims.

I don't really find that sufficient, but it's all I can imagine.
Plenty of fresh water fish (carps in this case) are grown in ponds to which they add cow or pig manure. I guess it is to increase the amount of food for the fish as microbes can feed on it and invertebrae can feed on the microbes. They have been doing it like this since 1500s.
"This probably needs to be clarified a bit to say that Ng's course skipped this."

That seems weird, considering Bayesian learning/methodologies are a big cornerstone of ML.
One question: how many of you have side projects, whose main purpose has nothing to do with the web? I mean do you build/play wth furniture, micro controllers, cooking etc kind of stuff.

I know that monetizing them is far more difficult compared to web ones due to default advantage of distribution on the web.

But what are your successful projects which are non-web?
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You do realise that the vast majority of Google's products and moneymakers were developed bottom up. Let the developers work on what they wish valve style. You are hiring them for their brains and initiative you know.
It was legally justified, but Pearson's request was still silly. It would have been more reasonable for them to go directly to Edublogs rather than pulling out the big guns as a first move.

I'm not saying Pearson was fault--they're not--but they could have done better.
Sorry, the reason I assumed OS X was because Safari seem to have better hyphenation support than current Linux browser rendering engines. See http://caniuse.com/css-hyphens and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5356752/webkit-hyphenatio...
Actually, we have some of the most talented designers I've ever met. Now, I'm working on things other than those you are bluntly describing. Most design work has been with special projects as well as our "native" apps. However, for the time being I've dedicated myself to software engineering around something I find very exciting. I probably said too much already.
nice, I like it, but I have found a small defect on the grid
http://imgur.com/pq2Mm
on Win 7 64bit
I did not say it is not deterministic, however it _appears_ to be non deterministic on a macro level.
Numerology is not a neat allusion.
The abstraction the whole idea. Dropbox is expensive capacity that has much more functionality than offsite backup. It's multiplatform online shared storage with good disconnected operation support, file history, dedup, etc etc. Different use case.
I agree with you that it may be beneficial to maintain the illusion of free will in the society, however the truth that emerges from science and philosophical discussions must be called out and their consequences must be carefully analyzed (no matter how bitter they may be). It's like the good old debate between good v/s truth where two may not be compatible.
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Since it's a "Kansai" event we are doing it in Osaka after the previous one in Kyoto. You can expect a Kobe event in the future as well :)
Thanks for correcting it. Don't know why I missed it entirely! Thanks for pointing other references as well, will definitely check them out -- this subject interests me a lot.
Will it only install on 10.7 or is it that it hasn't been tested on earlier versions of OS X?
The last meetup in Kyoto was a success, with about 30 people. Since this is the Kansai meetup, we're changing cities this month and going to Osaka (Juso to be exact). We'll have a bigger space so we're hoping to get even more people!
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Hurray. This is the 1950 dystopics with cameras in our homes all over again.

(You'll carefully note that rooting a computer includes getting access to its peripherals - including webcam and microphone.)

http://falkvinge.net/2012/08/28/what-came-true-of-dystopic-v...
True. What I meant was that free will as we typically consider it -- our _conscious self_ making a decision out of free will is an illusion. As you say:

>my brain has analyze the consequences of my action, and I am now at a point where I'm making a choice

If you differentiate between brain analyzing the consequences, and then _you_ making a decision, that is wrong. Research shows _you_ seem to be making a decision, but actually your brain has already made one. Of course, if you include unconscious neural activity as a conception of self, free will does exist but if only consider self that is conscious of itself, free will doesn't seem to exist.
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Graphically Chrome looks much cleaner to me than Safari, but I guess that's all subjective.

Safari's only color is the favicon of the current selected tab. Chrome shows all tabs favicons, plus a ”blue folder” for every bookmark folder and white document for every bookmarklet.

And the shades of gray are different from anything else on the system, and vary all over the place like crazy (Rollover, background tab vs foreground, etc).

Safari's toolbar, on the other hand is a single gray gradient from top to bottom.
>I'm sorry you feel that your countrymen are such terrible people that they deserve to die

It personally suits me fine if AlQaeda never existed.

>Wow, racist much?

Stop personalising it; it's not about me, it's about consistency.

See, the Jihadi pulling the trigger doesn't see him self as a "terrorist" committing "murder", he sees himself as a "fighter for freedom" performing "service", much like the Marine on the other side does.

That's why I'm trying to be cold-bloodedly objective, otherwise things become just a matter of opinion.

So a question for you:

If "wholesale slaughter" of innocent civilians is wrong, then will you condemn the strategic bombing of Germany in World War 2?

If you condone the strategic bombing of Germany(, or drone strikes in Pakistan), then how can you condemn Jihadi bombings on the basis of "wholesale slaughter"?
I looked at the screenshots of that project, you said it has modern "Metro" user interface, and I believe http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/screenshots.aspx this has nothing to do with Metro UI patterns. What about this?
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Why was this downvoted? Adding 1 to any number field is just as an atomic operation as incrementation is in Redis.
Thanks for the feedback! I think that is related to the charting component. I'll go have a closer look.
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Look up "The Fourth Dimension" movie by Zbigniew Rybczynski - at first sight it is hard to believe it was made in 1988 because it looks like a product of some heavy digital 3D processing. In fact it is each of the 625 horizontal scan lines shifted a bit in time relative to the previous one, an idea very similar to the one described in the article.
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My comment on the post shows how to go "back"
Cloudmagic.com does this already. And it also searches other cloud data too. - http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/18/personal-cloud-search-engin...
downvote, really?
Kaspersky developing its own industrial control operating system
We're developing a OS X Cocoa app that has a large Webkit component which uses whatever Safari on your system uses for the inspector. So Chrome isn't always a good option.
...as opposed to people in California and New York, states which create disproportionately large amounts of the national wealth, being told what to do by people in small states which don't have to manage the issues California and New York have to in order to keep the national economy moving.

When you're in a small state with disproportional voting power you end up with more money coming back to your state than it contributes in federal taxes, so you can afford to act out and pretend we can all live in a screw the government utopia - the big states you're sticking your thumb in the eye of have to pay the tab.
Drats, will be out of the country, but I'll make one of these eventually.
Ask HN: Any cloud computing instances cheaper than AWS EC2 Micro?
Hello guys, I am looking for a cheaper solution than AWS EC2 Micro instances. Basically my site will not get much traffic and won't need much ram (~256 mb will be fine), I also need very small disk space. What do you recommend?
Would love to have you! At least, until you set up HNGifu ;)
I simply do not understand the hype with this 'new app.' Yeh, Atebits created the awesome Tweetie but then it went downhill fast after its acquisition. Don't get me wrong, I would have done the same there, but the track records speaks for itself, what makes this app any different that he won't sell out again, and support won't be dropped the second a better offer comes in?
For me Dropbox is all about keeping files in sync between different computers and different people, the backup aspect is very much secondary. Any solution that doesn't do cross platform and cross user syncing and sharing isn't at Dropbox replacement as far as I'm concerned.

For pure backup there's Backblaze, which is much cheaper than S3
> Santander apparently chooses not to.

because their customers chose not to care (at least, until shit hits the fan). A bank (or any conservative organization) will only really react, as it is too slow to become proactive (otherwise, it'd be by definition, no longer conservative! ala, google, facebook etc).
You can try appfog(paas).. and if you are coding on nodejs, you can try nodejitsu(paas).
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I'm french and i learned about this reform here, so don't believe that this reform is widely discussed in France yet. It's probably still just a project. I'm pretty sure it will be very opposed in France too.
Here, sample some of this: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-le...
I didn't really need to be convinced as I have a profound aversion for pseudo-science but that was a very interesting read. Thank you.
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There is an attempt here: http://bit.ly/SXwFDt
Absolutely. Scandinavia is often held up as an example of a set of ideal democratic states. After a friend moved there, I start poking around for details and the first thing I found was a mild warning that they were xenophobic. Visiting Sweden was the first time I had ever felt visible because of my race. It's not that they're racist (they're not); it's just that they're more homogenous so differences become quickly obvious.

> appreciate the fact that it probably doesn't get any better than it is now

I can't agree with this line, but mainly because you're talking about the future. I agree that it probably couldn't be better than it is now, but we can certainly improve it.

> The more you learn about the Constitution, the more you realize it's ridiculous to ask "what does the Constitution mean?" The 40 signatories to the Constitution had 40 different opinions about the meaning of the document they were signing!

There's an entire branch of government dedicated to answering that question on a daily basis, too. Established by the very thing they're interpreting. How's that for meta?
Beyond branches being expensive, even commits in svn are expensive. They publish immediately, which requires proof-reading, more testing, before each commit. This means there's an incentive to wait with commits.

Even if you do commit to a branch, where publishing is less of a problem, you still might regret a typo in the commit, which cannot (easily) be retroactively fixed whereas in git you can fix your private/unpublished commits as much as you'd like with virtually no drawbacks.
Oh those are screenshots for another product, WCFStorm (which is for WCF Testing). It's different from WCFStorm.Rest, the REST test client that is kind of metro - inspired. I have some screenshots here: http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/wcfstormrest-quickstart-guide.as...

You're right though. I should make that clear on that screenshots page.
I think Rust's attractiveness is due to its type system, which does not necessarily need to be statically compiled.
As someone who writes software for data scientists (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) I definitely agree with his analysis. But I would go further: without _domain knowledge_, a data scientist is really just a ETL guy who cleans up big data for the real analysts to make sense of. Applying the whole toolkit to a specific domain (and SaaS B2B looks totally different from supermarket loyalty schemes and from F2P mobile games) is key.
Shame it now replaces the + in my email address with a space when storing/retrieving it from a cookie.
I don't use Chrome myself, I use Chromium for testing when doing web development. Apparently you can't get the exact Chrome binary form Chromium source code, so I don't know if there are remarkable differences... but I find these quite amusing: http://i.imgur.com/Mq3pH.png

It is correct that these options are in "Privacy". The good thing is that you don't need to worry about tracking cookies because your browser is already tracking you ;)

(I'm half joking / half serious here; this is off-topic anyway)
Ads were the work of engineers who thought that they'd work better than corporate search that Google first started to monetize. So were Adsense, the ad auction mechanics and the Dutch auction for the IPO.

http://adwords.blogspot.com.au/2005/08/adwords-history-lesso...

http://publishing2.com/2008/05/27/google-adwords-a-brief-his...

That's most of the revenue.
Show HN: The Five Year Itch
Show HN: Experienced software engineers who want to change jobs after a few years need a service targeted at them, that won't make them chase ads nor swamp them with recruiter spam. We built FiveYearItch.com We're wondering: Does this meet a need for the stable, experienced, skilled, but non-rockstar programmers?
Agreed. I think this is a pretty good example of competition and market forces causing all users to have an improvement, even though the vast majority don't know or care about these things.
Being good at two things is more impressive than being good at one thing. Making a full featured VM is something that even lot of professionnal programmers can't do. The implication that you are "stamped" something at your birth was totally absent of GP's post.
It's true that the electoral college gives small states a slight boost in representation in the presidential election. This is due to the fact that the number of electors is a function of the number of congresspeople and small states have, relative to their population, more congresspeople because of the existence of the senate and rounding error when determining number of representatives.

With regard to whether getting rid of that advantage in electors in order to modernize the system would unfairly shift the balance of power, read the above paragraph again. The small states already have an advantage in representation in Congress. That doesn't go away if we make the election of the president rely on a popular vote.
http://phishvids.com - Phish Videos categorized by show, setlist, and song. Lots of stuff in the works for this one. Built in DerbyJS.
I see you worked at yelp before so I will not elaborate more, but it's not too hard to scrape yelp if you know what you are doing
I, too, came here to comment just because I thought an excellent article wasn't getting much discussion :(

I think the concurrency - both Clojure and Go trying to fix it - is a big deal. I live in the world of the partition-tolerant databases and multiple nodes and all and its a super-crap horrid world where everything seems permanently fundamentally broken. You can go a long way on a single node if you just have good clean design. I pay a lot of attention to new stuff like Spanner but right now all our choices are flaky. Related blog posts of mine http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-... http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/googl... etc

Regards your point that Rob & co couldn't correctly define "system language"; well, surely their definition ought to trump the interweb? If they consider writing servers 'systems programming', then I'd say it was ;) I mean, they didn't make the claim in a vacuum; its presumably what Google internally calls a 'systems language'?

That C/C++ people don't flock to Go is a shame, because C/C++ is so unnecessary for so many projects. Its really rare to need C, and never necessary to need C++ (and I've worked on C++ kernels back in the day).

There, hopefully my comment is hyperbolic enough for someone to take issue with a point and discuss ;) I do stand by my general thrust though
^this. I've often wondered where the science in data science is. I don't see it. If you're an engineer or scientist, you probably don't either.
Because implying that someone who needs a justification for "One person, one vote" is below you is not dickish at all. I saw my post as doing you a favor: giving you my return argument so that you could write up a proper rebuttal ahead of time.

But hey. You can poison the well all you like. The burden of proof is not on me.
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Google Drive and syncing with two computers ... Files end up duplicated
I'm not saying the Coursera classes are bad---just that there's a chasm between being able to implement or derive Naïve Bayes and being able to do meaningful work or study in applied statistics.
Median age doesn't say much about the number of people over 40. Life expectancy in iran is around 70 [1].

Also, the last shah was overthrown in 1979.

[1] http://www.indexmundi.com/iran/life_expectancy_at_birth.html
There isn't much in AI that has "the magic of AI".
Is there an obsession on HN with Betteridge's Law of Headlines?
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It seems that we can't use this in China.
The poster mentions their company name and URL in the parent post...
I'll be interested to hear how the print edition works out. So many things are different between the various ebook deals and their markets and the printed book deals and their markets.
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So a Russian-based anti-virus company is writing a new industrial control O/S from scratch and then expecting oil/utility/manufacturing companies to use it? Not to sound negative but I give this as much chance as the proverbial snowball in hell.