skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they promoting hate speech on Twitter? The article doesn't say that, and a cursory read of their feed (through Google Translate) doesn't show anything I'd consider "hate speech" either.

Personally, I'm always sad when they ban these neo-nazi feeds and such. It's hilarious to read their complaints on the "intolerance" of current western governments, or calls to "ban repression".

(Well, it's hilarious because I'm fairly confident they won't regain power any time soon)
Well if it's true it would go some way towards explaining why Color took a fair few hours after the story broke to say "No, we're not shutting down", if the deal is there it's quite likely they'd need to speak to all sides (board, investors, potential Apple negotiations etc).

If Apple pay $40mil for it then they're as stupid as a sack of rocks. If they've ponied up $10-20mil as a talent grab I can kind of see it. Either way we're talking about pocket change to a company with as much cash reserve as Apple, but if I was an investor I'd be interested in hearing why Apple thought it was a good idea.
Nice one. This may actually convince me to get Win8 as it would then become a much more useable desktop OS.
I don't even bother trying to remember the code names. I've been using 12.04 for four or five months and I couldn't tell you the code name off the top of my head. If I really need to know it, I know I can just have a quick look in /etc/apt/sources.list
Should California Secede from the United States?
Here Come the Hybrid 'Laplets.' Should You Care?
Janke's book: http://www.amazon.com/Power-Living-Mastering-The-Self-Discip...
Windows President Rides Surface Tablet Like a Skateboard
Jeff Bezos' Secretive Blue Origin Tests New Rocket Engine
Okay, I had a look and it and its clearly for educational purposes only. Indeed this course is more a "fun" introduction to programming ("what's a function" ... ) than a real course on building games.
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Everyone has their own preferred setup, and that's great! It's part of what makes FOSS great: Your choice.

My choice is Xubuntu. I've been using Xubuntu on my laptop for the past 6 months, and the 12.10 beta for the past two.

The link below is my tasklist after install to really make Xubuntu shine. Oh! And now with updates to the Ubiquity installer, FDE can be done with the GUI instead of fiddling with the debian-installer text partitioner!

http://wiki.cyberfoxfire.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tech:xubuntu_t...
Too bad they can't get their iOS app through the apple approval process. It would be a serious contender to Spotify.
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The idea is only half the battle: Stop complaining about copycats
Twilio's volume pricing for inbound calls only kicks in after 500K minutes. You get that rate with Plivo for your first minute. Twilio's per-minute volume pricing for over 15M minutes of outbound per month is still more expensive than what you pay Plivo starting with your first outbound call. That's what volume pricing from the start means.
I still hate Apple for buying lala.com. "lala" was my generic google search when testing out working Internet connection. "Lala - where music plays" was something that I was used to see... until Apple shut it down.
Crockpot Chicken Pisano Recipe
I suspect it is thanks to the technical aspects and quality of data visualization, built by jashkenas and others.
They can also just legislate you out of existence: "You want to operate here? You comply with the law. And that means a backdoor."

As long as this service is commercial (which apparently it is) it will have a payment gateway, and that point can be easily blocked by a local government.
When a system is wrong, applying it strictly is often a good way to fight it. The "one click patent" has been useful to demonstrate the absurdity of patent and may have help to kill all patents.
queenis... kewnis... kenis... Yeah, I don't know about that.
So in your opinion it's the accreditation that makes U of Phoenix bad?
Yup! The previous version used JMVC but it was a poor fit. Backbone does juuuust enough to help you out then gets out of your way. Means you have to write a lot of your own architecture but that's pretty much my favorite thing to do ever (and I hated JMVC) so I gladly did so.

The site is way faster now, despite having more stuff going on, just because half the codebase is no longer trying to hack around the parts of JMVC we didn't need.
Just played around with it a bit. Looks like a more cluttered version of Soundcloud without as engaging of a social aspect.

Used to use it all the time though.
Right, but it's a little buggy due to being a mashup of Xubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 12.10.
Science Grrl Calendar
Python 2.x is still available, this just means it's not installed by default.
Unity has really grown on me, when it first came out I switched to Xfce, also train Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome3 and KDE, they all seem a little dated now compared to Unity.
I think it's generally full of gotchas similar to that of SQL databases like MySQL and Oracle. In fact, most of the issues mentioned in this article, like delayed replication, indexed queries and using 'explain' are issues I've had to deal with in MySQL and Oracle. Most of these databases are fine out of the box for small scale use, but when you scale up you have to deal with these 'gotchas' like indexing, partitioning, bulk loading, and having to profile everything etc.
Take sw1 taxis in Victoria to reach your destination
If you have pre-booked your accommodation, then why not take a taxi in Victoria there.
Crushing the obstacles in your path?
Along the same lines, I've always had the thought that the reason IPv6 adoption is taking so long is because encryption is actually built into the protocol.

What happens to all those billion dollar wiretapping facilities all over the country once they find out they can't just siphon internet traffic into their facilities anymore?
We use it for a lot more than that, actually. Cross-domain request support that works even in browsers that don't do CORS, and a persistent socket connection to our servers that takes care of all the new awesome real-time social stuff (so we don't have to poll). Seeing what your friends are playing in real-time in the sidebar is just the beginning. We have a lot more stuff planned that uses that functionality.
You can't query JSON easily and hstore is only one level deep. So, no, its not as flexible.
I'm still trying to figure out the difference and advantage to learning this over node.js.
I would much rather have John Doe be safe from government surveillance than the government itself.
Related: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/11lsrw/feminist_...

(If it's correct or not, I do not know)
For those who prefer Gnome3 on the desktop instead of Unity, there's the Gnome Ubuntu Remix:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/
You know, in a way he is not that wrong. Bad things often are necessary for good things to happen. Crime may not the best example, though. But a good example would be striving for excellence. People who come from the rock bottom are often insanely driven to reach the ultimate heights. People who are happy and mellow by default most often don't feel the need to do so. Kind of like how a grain of sand irritates an oyster into making a pearl.
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Trustworthy Internet Movement
It's equally hilarious that the western governments use terms like free speech in the same sentence that they announce censorship. I'd lump them in the same category as far as contradictions go.
I think it's far more likely they'd find a way to break the hash function and not tell anyone about it.
I went to grooveshark.com and looked at the page for a few seconds. When I went to close the tab, a JavaScript popup asked me if I was sure that I wanted to "navigate away". Why, oh why does Grooveshark think that was useful, necessary, or a good way to treat a user?
Would love to know this too -- and am curious how the players in the market end up snatching these sites.
The fact that several people commenting here spotted that error, and still managed to frame the useful part of the argument properly, has given me renewed appreciation for the HN community.
An interesting review, but a bit difficult to read due to formatting issues. What resolution was this theme designed for? Even maximized on a 1920x1080 screen (I never browse maximized), illustrations are being cropped. Also, zooming in causes the sidebars to expand and the text column to shrink.
Likewise, upgrades have always worked for me. I think I took one computer through about 5 consecutive versions without reinstalling it. Maybe it depends on hardware...
Universal solution for breaking recursion loop
There's now a proper option in the privacy settings to disable remote searches.
> The "calories in - calories out" balance is a very crude approximation

Yes. Yes absolutely!

And a centrifugal governor in no way resembles the internal state of a steam engine.

And it doesn't matter.

Observing inputs and outputs is enough to control weight.
If its only coming with 3.2.3 it will break many existing tools.(think django)

If you see MAC, it does come with lower versions of python too, so it supports older python projects.(python2.7, python2.5 based and doesn't break the system)

Latest Ubuntu might well come even with lower versions of python too - as many Ubuntu apps and tools itself use the lower versions of python. But the default python will be 3.2.3

To use the right version of python we have to -

Manually install older versions if it doesn't have one.

And do symbolic Linking the installed versions to /usr/bin and set $PATH appropriately for the correct Python version we need. Just use them as python2.7 python2.5 python2.6 while calling your scripts.

Also see virtualenv.
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Looks like it's to catch the case where you've got music playing and inadvertently close the tab. There should probably be a check to make sure you've actually got something playing in your queue.
Are Meteor or Derby frameworks to be used on the premise that you have only browser clients? If my Meteor/Derby web app has server component, how easy it is to build native iOS and Android clients to access the same data on the server?
Life hacks to make things easier
I am pretty sure that they can't get the approval from Apple because they cannot prove that they have the rights to publish the content.
My InstallationMedia is 9.10. I had one troublesome update where it only partially completed but it was happy to complete it after a reboot (11.10). Other than that, I believe I have only had one thing function other than as I would like. In the upgrade to 12.04, it hit a point where something I had changed in /etc (turning off AppArmor for Evince, so that I could use a custom hyperlink protocol, which made it easier to work with Lilypond) caused it to stop, awaiting a decision from me on what to do with it. As a result, I got up in the morning and lo: it was only a third of the way through. Not what I had intended.
Why not an acquihire? Perhaps (pure speculation) Bill Nguyen is brilliant at hiring engineers, masterful at developing new technologies (and their associated patents), but utterly crap at productizing these technologies? Guess who is really good at productizing technologies? Seems like a perfect match, especially if Apple saw their previous acquisition of Lala as a success.
Twitter Uses Country-Specific Blocking Powers To Restrict Neo-Nazi Account
I think we're approaching some form of angry agreement here.

To give you background, I have in the past year found myself arguing with "ketards" who have come up with some hilariously impossible theories. Such as: eat 8,000 calories a day; so long as you are in ketosis, you will lose weight.

Or: the human body is complex, so applying the law of conservation of matter and energy is erroneous.

Keto absolutely works for lots of folks. Protein is filling and delicious. But as a personal pet peeve, pinning everything on carbs/insulin when a) protein causes insulin spikes to, b) net calorie balance is still the bottom line and c) there are more hormones involved in appetite and satiety than just insulin gets up my nostrils a little bit.

And that's what I was referring to in terms of over-simplifications of a complex science via pop science books.
I wish this article had some comparison of AWS I/O (both ephemeral and EBS) to the real hardware (some average HDD and SSD, maybe RAID-1) in terms of random R/W throughput, sequential R/W throughput, single thread random IOPS, multithread random IOPS.
Ask HN: is it possible to innovate in tech without being a tech guy? 
Most people I met that aren't engineers only seem to think features as copycat of other products. I feel that's one of the main reason you should have a tech guy as a founder in your startup : otherwise you're only going to be a follower.

To innovate you need to see what's is possible given a set of technology before it exists. Even when I try explain things to (otherwise smart ) people they only seem to grok it when they actually see a prototype.

It seems obvious said that way, but I'm only realising this right now.

What do you think ?
Show HN: places and customized check-ins
We do that when you have music playing and we also currently do it in the first 30 seconds of loading the page as an awful hack around some completely crappy ads that force redirects that have gotten into our ad networks. It's just in there until we can get the ad problem fixed.
Here's a similar script written in VBS http://www.labnol.org/software/temporarily-block-websites/18...
Did you ever look into using something like LayoutManager or Marionette?
Indeed, i'm not saying apple is unfair but it's just a pity we don't have a native ios app, despite the legal affairs of grooveshark. There is a cydia version though :)
I do something similar on my own site, but the difference is it only kicks in if playing has started. I think they have the right intention, but they need to add an if statement in their window.onbeforeunload hook. (Edit - I see Grooveshark said they only do it for the first 30 seconds of the site loading as a workaround.)

I haven't had any complaints about it and personally find it useful. Especially as it lets me quickly "close all right tabs" without stopping to think if I'm about to break what I'm listening to. However, these are podcasts and maybe people are less fussed about a random song stopping halfway through.
After reading everything you wrote I immediately thought..damn that must be a really horrible website navigation nightmare. So I went to the website, searched for an artist and dragged it. Then I played it. Then ..(cringe)..I did it....again. In summary, as of the moment of this post, the small scale nuclear holocaust of complexity you have described apparently lay dormant. My experience was actually kind of boring.

Edit*

I see what is happening. There are a couple of paths users can take based on if they click or drag items, and I just so happened to take the smoothest one.
Firefox: Nothing transmitted to Google until you perform a search.

Unity: Nothing transmitted to Amazon until you perform a search

Sure, I'm not agreeing with the default out of the box functionality, but other than the fact that user expectation is that a local search does not transmit information to remote servers (same issue as chrome's omnibox for typing URLs) it is exactly the same. But maybe Canonical should make it explicit what the default does (maybe they do, I don't know)

Install the OS, Click on gear icon (top right), settings, privacy, turn off online results

Point is your specific criticism can be levelled at firefox as well
The first release with Unity, I tried it for several days before giving up. It was just too buggy with the Compiz configuration I wanted/needed for some things; as soon as I touched anything in the configuration or with certain configuration things enabled, it would crash and require a reboot/gdm restart.

The second release I tried again. It almost passed muster, but it was still just too buggy.

The third release I tried again.

I never went back to the GNOME desktop.

I love Unity. It's not perfect. In things related to keyboard shortcuts in particular it's still got a ways to go, but it is good. So much better than the GNOME 2 desktop. (I've never tried GNOME Shell, so I can't comment on it.)
Yes it is. I worked for two ex-bankers who built the world's biggest fine wine exchange (liv-ex) over the past ten years. That is one of the most novel approaches I've seen using the network effects biz model!
Some people are both customer and user. Some are only one of those. There is a database modeling pattern for that. And then there is an infinity of roles - customer and user are just two of those.
Never used the site before, I gave it a go. What I wanted to find, I could not find. What I did find, the sound quality was, to me, awful. Maybe its just my taste in music and ears, but for me, still a long way to go.
Precisely my biggest problem with HN. There needs to be a way to repeal HellBanning, some sort of an appeal mechanism or a time-based auto-repeal that kicks in after say 4 weeks of good behavior such as 25 upvoted (albeit dead) comments from the HBanned user.
actually for OS X I have often forgotten and myself and many coders I know are one or more versions behind. I have to try to guess which cat is more bad ass: tiger or leopard ? I don't know which one would win in a fair fight.

and I find it quite annoying that they officially describe them as tiger, leopard, snow leopard and yet there is nowhere in the OS itself to tell you this. About This Mac : 10.6.8
Meteor 0.5.0 Released with Authentication and User Accounts
Vista user here. I'm pretty much waiting on 8 so i can upgrade.
Making it easy to pay with someone else's money (whether or not it must be paid back later) distorts pricing in any market.

The problem will eventually correct itself, albeit with widespread economic pain.
It will be interesting to analyse this once we know more.

Previous Apple acquisitions went quiet for a while but then became part of Apples plans in a big way:

Siri, Inc. --> Siri

PA Semi --> A6 chips in Apple devices

Lala --> iTunes Match

I suppose the difference is that they all had viable products prior to acquisition. But what I'm thinking is that Color have been working on stuff which is quite clearly close to Apples photo offerings (cameras in all their devices, photo stream, iCloud, gps, Facebook integration). How much would it cost Apple to develop all that stuff? A few million I guess. But what would the oppurtunity cost be of Apple putting one of their development teams to work on these features? A lot more (judging by how much Apple's profits keep growing).

Apple don't have enough staff to capitalise on all the oppurtunities that they have (hence their massive pile of unspent cash). They can only do so much at once. But what if they find a project basically tailor made to their standards (strategically aligned, patented to the gills, high quality code-base, iOS compatibility)? Might make sense to spend their pocket money and just acquire it for a somewhat inflated price.
Сельдь.
If you're currently listening to a song and you hit play on another song, it should queue up the second song to play when the first finishes. When you started playing the first song, also, the queue should have opened up at the bottom to show a list of the songs, and if you wanted to skip to the second song you could either hit the next button or the play button in the second song in the list.

http://cl.ly/image/390409163d2D Song playing is in orange, you can see the play button on the second song when you hover it.

Did the queue not open up for you after hitting play on the first song? Normally it should, unless you've manually closed the queue previously, but if this was your first visit that shouldn't be the case. When the queue is open, it should be pretty visually apparent what clicking the play button did. Also, most places that will add instead of play immediately should have an icon change (play+) http://cl.ly/image/1R3n1I1S0y0i

There may be a few places that either are not updating their icon or should be playing immediately but have the wrong classname and are getting caught in the 'play next' process. Bugs happen, I'll make sure it's on the list of things to check.
Maybe we are reading a different article:

Today, Canonical has released version 12.10 of its Ubuntu Linux
distribution, code-named "Quantal Quetzal" after a ridiculously
awesome-looking bird.
The rise of passive-aggressive wi-fi names
October 23rd 9PM ET: Third Party Debate with Larry King
Sensible decision there really, and hopefully it'll keep Apple from being silly again. Although they could write something similar:

"In agreement with the court ruling Apple acknowledges Samsung hasn't copied the design of the iPad. As the judge stated Samsung products lack the simplicity of the iPad."

Might get them in bother mind, but if a judge is willing to say your product is much cooler in a court of law, on the record no less, you may as well take what you can.
No, after JMVC I just wanted to write it to work the way we wanted it to work without dealing with yet another framework.
He's not doing something other than what he believes in if he has a more nuanced belief that you seem willing to allow.
They would have a significant financial advantage over Spotify, who pay a large sum to licence the music they carry.

Weren't they also yanked from the Google Play store?
So everybody but the United States will have secure communications. Race to the bottom, then? The place seems more Soviet every day.
What I loved the most - the integration of webapps as native desktop apps. Awesome addition. This changes the whole game. The HUD will be a search bar for that webapp. Mind = Blown!

Worth mentioning, I've used many Linux boxes before, but after using Ubuntu 12.04 from the past 5 months, its the most Productive System I've ever used. And It's only getting better over time.

Many thanks for the team that's behind this change.
Very good read. Mostly very well laid out. I like the use of fonts.

Suggested improvements:
The sign up form button doesn't look like a button. Maybe you could make it more "clickable".
Personally, I'd put more whitespace at the bottom so that people can have the sign-up page and final paragraph more at eye-level.
And one typo that I saw: I believe surprizes should be surprises.

Other than that, very interesting content. I'm quite curious, and keen to read your book.
Yes, but the "dragnet" type stuff is the more important one. If you "attract the all-seeing eye" to the point of getting personal attention (being hacked or physically bugged), it means that government already has more than enough reasons to get rid of you and nothing can keep you safe from an AGM-114 flying through the window and/or enough red-tape being unleashed on you to make you die in misery. They probably just need some information from you to go after someone else.

On the other hand, mass-scale surveillance enables you to actually find targets of interest out of sea of people irrelevant to the case. Because the usual problem is, you know there are Bad Guys[0] out there, but you don't know where. Mass-surveillance makes the search much, much less expensive. So they really care about it.

And there's also an issue of Big Data, aka. whatever data they collect on people can in the future be used in a ways we can't even imagine now but won't like when it happens. So the data itself is also a danger. Also humans make mistakes, and algorithms are not always good, and no one would like to have their home raided because some long-forgotten bayesian filter buried deep in the system didn't use logarithms properly and introduced serious errors to probability computations. That's why people care.

[0] - relative to what govt. sees as bad at the moment.
Pathogenize your ~/.vim