skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closely related is the courage to tell people to do their job properly and explain fully what they're talking about.

Often I've found myself in situations where the person training me will ask 'Do you know about this?' and I think, well yes we briefly went over it yesterday, and then they forge ahead. But they should realise that it's worth slowing down and going over things at a conceptual level. You can't really build on a passing familiarity with the foundations. And the person being trained is not really in a position to judge how important it is to dwell on certain subjects.
This is fantastic! Bookmarked!
The more this line of cases makes it in the news, the higher the general public's recognition of Samsung tablets becomes and thus Apple's case weakens... Interesting negative feedback loop!
Thanks beobab, this is very encouraging. I will try and improve the button and of course I will fix the typo.

Now I should go back and continue work on that book.
I love this bit of history from the hint :)

Aside: history...
Larry Wall wrote the original Perl in 1986-87, the same two successive years he won the IOCCC. I hope this program helps you to realize that this was no fluke - that Perl and Obfuscation are as inseparable as, say, camels and humps.
Debian gets a new code name roughly every two years, surely that's not so hard? You're probably also going to get better results googling for a tech issue with "debian squeeze" than "debian 6", given that 6 is a more common term in general.
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169222-country-withhe...

"With hundreds of millions of Tweets posted every day around the world, our goal is to respect our users' expression, while also taking into consideration applicable local laws."

No more twitter revolutions?
Dumping? Not. Those who do what it takes to learn the material pass; those who don't, don't. An unwillingness to pass those unwilling to learn is not "dumping". More than enough learning resources are provided & available; most of those I fail are just plain unwilling to learn.
I think the GEMA should be their smallest problem given the amount of illegal content they keep offering. In my opinion they should have been shut down by now.
Jim Carrey lorgne vers Loomis Fargo de Jared Hess
La vie d’acteur est dure. Jim Carrey devient braqueur ! En fait, la vedette de Kick-Ass 2 s’intéresse à Loomis Fargo. Ce film, mis en scène par Jared Hess, est basé sur une histoire vraie.
Yes. It is why the aliens in Independence Day lost the war.
www.poissonrouge.com is a fun, flash-based site.

I'd also recommend "Kid Mode) (aka Zoodles) as a fun website/android phone app.

Disclaimer: I'm not an entrepreneur, and these aren't my sites :-(
Then why not simply make him a job offer? Offer him a decent signing bonus to sell/hand over/wind down his current company plus a salary he can't refuse. Surely that must work out cheaper than buying a company you don't want.

And if he really doesn't want to work for Apple, trying to 'force' him by buying his company doesn't seem like a good long term strategy
For me, I put on nonstandard software that gets removed. Sometimes software sources aren't preserved--especially if I have messed with GUI configurations.
Your opinion only makes sense if you think P(your analysis of the source code is correct) > P(you can trust person X) * P(person X's analysis of the source code is correct).

Actually the right hand side is much more difficult to defeat because it involves more than one person.
They're going alphabetically if you haven't noticed.
Nope, this doesn't smell right...

In fact, this smells like an intentional leak by someone on Color's side in an effort to boost their price to some other potential buyer (counting on Apple's legendary no-comment streak to bolster the appearance of the rumor).

Think about the last time something leaked about an Apple acquisition before the deal was closed...right, never! In fact, Apple has notoriously remained quiet about acquisitions even after they close. They are not a company that does a triumphal sounding press release for every acquisition.

Yeah, occasionally you get leaks about Apple products. You think those aren't intentional? You think Apple's not leaking just enough about their upcoming products to keep people's interest. That's their game.

But leaking information about an acquisition? What does that gain Apple? If Apple really did want to purchase Color, leaking that information would only raise their price. No, the only entity here that benefits from a leak like this is Color.

If the rumor turns out to be true, the fact that details of an acquisition were leaked is much more concerning to me than the particulars of what company and for how much.
The thing is, this event is usually uncommon, whereas in this architecture it is quite common.
Thanks for this. I have been on the lookout for a lightweight OS like Crunchbag to upgrade my desktop from Ubuntu 10.10. Being a intermediate user, I do not want a lot of bells and whistles but appreciate a more responsive system. I manage a lot of Ubuntu servers so I would prefer an Ubuntu development environment as well. In fact, I am seriously considering using a virtual machine for this purpose.
babymail.com : you site says expired on 10/14/12 . However, http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=babymail.com&pr...
Detecting Duplicates in O(1) Space and O(n) Time
Obi says it best:

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
I actually found the interface smooth and intuitive.

One gotcha, however. Selecting a video to play while a song is already playing produces a broken UX for me - the video appeared in a modal box, but was truncated by the queue and play bars at the bottom of the screen. There was no obvious way to view the whole video since the controls at the bottom were hidden.
The sentence is contorted. It's correct, but that doesn't mean it's not contorted - it scans poorly and is not particularly readable.
But on the other hand PostGIS being independent from PostgreSQL has resulted in the best opensource GIS database. And with the recent addition of CREATE EXTENSION the PostgreSQL extension installation process has been heavily streamlined. Before CREATE EXTENSION it was a mess for larger extensions.
Fighting Hackers: Everything You’ve Been Told About Passwords Is Wron
Because of the points I made in my OP: engineers and patents. I'm not saying that Apple wants Bill Nguyen. Based on his leaving Apple last time his company was acquired, maybe they in fact don't want him. They want his engineers and patents, to get them, you have to buy the company. To get rid of him, you have to buy the company.
Thanks for posting this thread, I can see in the other comments lots of books that I now want to read.

For me I don't have a one favorite book, but my take would be:

- 1984 from Orwell

- the Foundation series, from Isaac Asimov (and basically, in my taste any book from Asimov has some good chances to be good)

- Hyperion, from Dan Simmons (a good scifi writer as well).
I'm VIP user on GS for 3 years now.

The interface was just downhill ever since they've switched from Flash. And not only that, but this thing hogs entire CPU sometimes.

Android app is pretty sweet, though it didn't received update in quite a while.

Btw, you can be on the edge all the time on http://preview.grooveshark.com

Not only that but they've broke the promise that they'll be always free (they're not in a lot of countries) and a promise to keep my VIP subscription cost permamently at what I've subscribed too.

I'm still a whore and use them as my primary source of music though, so I guess I endorse them.

EDIT: No, they've actually kept the original pricing. My mistake.
Better still, speak to your audience's level. Set a high bar by default, but don't maintain it to the detriment of communication.
Not my experience. I went through 3 automatic upgrades, desktops and servers. All smooth.

Ubuntu is the best <3
Using windows: Go to window, open, stick your nose out, and you know the weather. Look up to sky to predict weather for next half day.
So does PostgreSQL, but I have no idea about MySQL. You can run xpath queries against XML documents, and you can also index specific xpath queries (there is no general indexing infrastructure for XML in PostgreSQL). For JSON no path lookup functions are included in the core yet, but I assume there are extensions which add them.
Or admins who don't want to spend a day or two to learn about selinux and implications of adding it, then a couple more days to actually implementing proper policy for the company and deal with all the things you did not expect at first.

In reality it's not a tiny amount of work unless you're dealing with a single server. It's not a small amount of information to learn either. And it can have pretty bad effects if you happen to cut off your access by accident. So no, can't agree with the clueless admins comment.
Although the damage is done, I find it refreshing this type of court decision. Six months of "no copy" advertising isn't enough to reverse the damage but it's a start...
Just caught wind of Apache Cordova becoming a Top Level Project.
<p>http://incubator.apache.org/cordova/
Winning the battle defines the victor, not the strong.
It has nothing to do with sexism per se, and all to do with capitalism. If the bosses of any company can get away with paying ANY category of people less, they will. Including women bosses.

If they can take advantage of old societal notions of women's work value, to pay them less, they will too, despite giving or not giving a damn about those notions.
cf. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Bet...

"Python 2 will continue to be available (as the python package) for the foreseeable future. However, to best support future versions of Ubuntu you should consider porting your code to Python 3."
As Apple says in the "thumb" ad, it's common sense :)
I'm using gleebox[1]. It has "ESP visions" - you define selector for elements on certain website whic are tab-able. You can also hit 'g' and write text of link/alt of image and that element would be highlighted.
[1] http://thegleebox.com/
Space would be a terrible environment for building a datacenter. The main goals of a datacenter is to make computation as cheap, as fast and as reliable as possible. Having the datacenter orbit around Earth would not help us accomplish any of these goals.

First off, building a datacenter in space would not be cheap. It costs around $25,000 to send a kilogram of equipment into a geostationary orbit. [1] So let assume we were to use Dell PowerEdge C1100. Each server costs $14,000 and weights 18kg. [2] This means for each server sent in orbit, you could buy 32 extra ones on Earth.

Then, there is the issue of cooling. Although outer space is really cold, its vacuum prevents the heat generated by the machines from being dissipated quickly. Controlling the temperature of a such datacenter would be a very interesting engineering challenge.

And then how would you power this datacenter? Converting the excess heat back into electricity could be an interesting option. But most likely, it would need a lot of solar panels. This would make the datacenter cheap to run once built, but the upfront costs would be enormous.

And we haven't talked about speed and reliability yet. Since the signal would need to travel about 35,000 km from the geostationary orbit to reach us, communications between Earth and the datacenter would have significant delays. Even at the speed of light, the minimum round trip time would be about 250 milliseconds if we ignore all other possible sources of delay.

The hostile space weather would also make it pretty hard to run servers reliability. Radiations would destroy electronics, caused bit to flip randomly and do all bunch of fun stuff to the equipment.

But... anyhow! Let's assume anyway that by some magical work of science and Google engineering, we figure ways to manufacture a datacenter directly space for almost nothing by mining the Moon, discover some amazing thermoelectric generators with near 100% efficiency and space shields that blocks almost all radiations.

So back our previous example, a high performance PowerEdge gives us up to about 300 GFLOPS of computing power, 192 GB of RAM and 12 TB of storage.

Now if we were to convert the total mass of the Moon (7.34767309 × 10²² kg) into one monstrous datacenter, this would give us about 4.0 × 10²¹ servers. It would gives us a whooping 1.2 billions YottaFLOPS (or put differently, 1.2 × 10³³ FLOPS) of compute madness, 0.8 billions YottaBytes and 49 billions YottaBytes of storage. This monster would consume about the equivalent of 1% of the Sun's total power output.

[1]: http://www.futron.com/upload/wysiwyg/Resources/Whitepapers/S...
[2]: http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-c1100/pd#TechS...
The more honest but less interesting subheader:

Given n integers 1 ≤ ai ≤ n - 1, can you detect duplicates in O(1) space and O(n) time?
Thinking about this really hard, I'm not sure how nontechnical people can ever be sure that they can trust technical artifacts?
I just like the Velvet Underground reference on the new party app demo.
1109 UTC, not yet released. Kind of surprised there's no countdown this time ^^
Here's a Python program that builds a markov chain model of a corpus (with laplace smoothing) and then calculates the probability of the domain name being generated by that markov chain.

from collections import Counter
from math import log

corpus = """training corpus here"""

n = 1 # token size

def trans(w):
return ((w[i:i+n], w[i+n]) for i in range(len(w)-n))

tokens = Counter(t for t,l in trans(corpus))
transitions = Counter(trans(corpus))

def score(w):
return sum(log(transitions[t,l]+1)-log(tokens[t]+26**n) for t,l in trans(w))

for w in [" llmyw "," domyh "," tretz "," qenis "," debts "]:
print w, ': ', score(w)

When I use the European sovereign-debt crisis Wikipedia article as the corpus, I get

llmyw : -25.9316238289
domyh : -23.311005645
tretz : -21.4220068707
qenis : -20.7421233042
debts : -15.3287127006

Higher numbers are considered more pronounceable, so that's in order of pronounceability. Note that scores of words of different length are incomparable.

The variable `n` sets the number of letters of memory the markov chain has. If you set `n` higher then you need a bigger corpus. If you set n=2 and get a larger corpus and preprocess it to filter out anything that isn't [a-z]+ it would probably work fairly well (I just copied the article in as is).
I was so fond of Ubuntu before they introduced Unity or Gnome 3. It was so responsive, easy enough for a beginner, yet it was not in the way for an expert user (apart for the lack of regex in the default editor, perhaps).
I tried Xubuntu, Kubuntu and other distros, but I kept going back to the default Ubuntu one.
I used it as my only OS for years, but now sadly it's the opposite and I boot it only when I need it.

I guess I should give up trying to like Ubuntu and start using XFCE instead. Thank you for your list, I will use it to check this desktop environment.
Downmods on HN are supposed to be fine to be used as an indicator of disagreement. It's blindingly daft, but that's the official position.
Right; if you don't understand the technology (or like most of us, haven't taken the time to comprehensively review it) you have to rely on social proof.
Curious as to what you were looking for but was missing?
I've noticed over the last year more 'obscure' artists starting to appear, and less '0 results' searches - though this is mainly electronica, so maybe holes elsewhere.
I ask because I do not know:

Is the US the only country to have found in Apple's favour in these cases?
Google Website Compairs Credit Cards,CD's, Checking and Saving Bank Accounts
update .com TLD zone maps? look for the ones that got removed ... that's my guess.
How to stop Verizon from selling your information to marketers
This is a wonderful update. I'll allow that it takes a moment to understand that the playlist along the lower edge should be thought of separately from the navigation it really only takes a moment. And the new front page opening is much more welcoming and I'd say the subtle addition of the (+) on the play symbol is enough of a cue. I never liked seeing the adverts page, so big and open, and found the old left hand navigation cluttered, useless, and to be ignored. But I'm happy to see that everything flows better now and like everything about it.

The artist overview looks much better now that the bio has been added and only a few album covers are showcased followed by a list of the artists most frequented songs. Which is what I want to see. I was always annoyed by the Activity Feed for taking up the space which ought to have been granted to Top Songs. My favorite change is the large Share Song invitation seen after clicking on a song. I'd really like to see Grooveshark replace YouTube for non-video music streaming and linking and I hope making that link so prominent will make it happen.

I do have a couple questions though. As someone who doesn't have an account I didn't see a link to add music and if I wasn't familiar with Grooveshark I wouldn't even know that was an option. Also I was wondering why the Artists Top Songs and Comments aren't switched when viewing a single song. And last, I noticed the radio button has been tucked away nicely. Since it's a switch would you consider leaving the menu up for a half second? That may be an awful idea but switches are meant to be seen and felt so I thought I'd mention it just the same.

edit: Since I was praising the quick sharing might as well: http://grooveshark.com/s/Do+Ya+Thang/4wvNTg?src=5
Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 12.04 (Initiator And Target)
Awesome! Does anyone know if that means that "python" is python 3 then? Or do they still use 2 for "python" and just add eg a new binary named "python3" by default?
Their webpage for iOS devices is actually serviceable.

I primarily use Grooveshark to find tunes I can't find on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon, or iTunes (I listen to a lot of import Jazz and 60s French pop.) For the dozen times a year I fire it up on my iOS device, it performs well.
The heatsink could be exposed to the space environment for cooling.
The problem with crypto is not source code. The problem with crypto is not the protocols or the algorithms. Partly it is infrastructure. Mostly it is network effect. Where the cypherpunks have failed (multiple times) is getting strong crypto to be the "default option" for a large enough proportion of users that it spreads virally and takes over the world.

This is one more shot at it.
Indeed. Whenever I see an article like this, I immediately start skimming for discussion of variance and confidence intervals. Wihout them, you can't really know what is going on.
awesome. i know one of the founders, when he told me what he was doing after grad school i was surprised there's any money in it. shows you what i know!

super proud of that team, really great story all around.
Huh, really? I've never had an issue and been doing the automatic upgrade for quite awhile. This is for the Server version though; I would believe it if the Desktop one is more fragile.
I wish I knew that it sucked.
Apple Buying Color Tragically Makes Sense
This is the first I've heard of this! I get daily spam texts from PPI companies (I even know what company they're coming from) so this will be invaluable to me. Thanks for posting!
No, Apple has won cases in Germany and Japan, while litigation is ongoing in Spain & Australia I think.
I quite like the idea. However, of the about 10 domains I checked (5 letter ones), only one was available. You probably should use a different, more reliable, way of checking for availability?
PROS:
it reduces the delays you have due to the paradox of choice

CONS:
it makes the choices for you
So at one point we all thought it was a mistake. But now it's apparent that Apple really wants to have the bodies of failed social networks piled around itself for some reason.
Or the admins could just reserve hellbanning for only the most persistent serious trolls. It is a useful tool but should only be used in extreme circumstances, not just for one bad comment. If it was used only once a month or every few months for persistent trolls it wouldn't be a problem.

Bad comments get voted down anyway, so there's already a mechanism for that, IMHO hellbanning should really only be used on people trying to post spam repeatedly or repetitively troll comment threads.
Serious question: What database requires read locks or shutting down the master for setting up a new slave? Is it MySQL?

Both sounds like really weird requirements for replication which defeats half the purpose of having it. PostgreSQL has never had any of these two problems. Still working on improving usability but with the addition and improvements of pg_basbackup I would say it is almost there. Hopefully 9.3 will get timeline switching to simplify failover.
Yes I tend to disable it.

It's the Verified By Visa of OS security.
Yes, when I saw that I could still upvote dead comments, I just assumed this data would be used that way -- otherwise what's the point in being able to do it?
Very good :)

..... And as we know, that could never happen...
>He kept it very, very short- the rationale being that if someone is expecting it, then they know the reasons why. If they aren't expecting it, then the shock means they're unlikely to listen to anything else you tell them anyway.

Respectfully, I think this is completely wrong.

People are feedback devices. They react to anything and everything. In different ways, some more than others, but they are not a machine.

What I mean, is that from the day you start working with someone, until the day after which you never see them again, there should be continuous feedback, just from being human.

This is not some contract you have with a faceless corporation!

I would never work at a workplace that can be described in the terms you've just stated, and frankly I think most goood employees wouldn't either.
Thanks for pointing it out. Can one find some mathematics behind Enigma in it?
I love Grooveshark and this redesign is really nice. It clears out a lot of the menu and features.

But the MyMusic page is really messy... I hope it's a bug because it's barely usable (http://i.imgur.com/TAzxG.jpg)
That's happily not how fractal trees work, at all. We have a few talks online describing how they work. Zardosht has one here http://vimeo.com/m/26471692 . I thought Bradley had a more detailed one at MIT but I can't find it right now. (EDIT: found it! http://video.mit.edu/watch/lecture-19-how-tokudb-fractal-tre...)

Basically, I think you're thinking of the COLA. What we implement does have a literal tree structure, with nodes and children and the whole thing, so at any point you're just writing out new copies of individual nodes, which are on the order of a megabyte. At no point do we have to rewrite a large portion of the tree, so there aren't any latency issues.
Omelet. Eggs are cheap and cook fast, you can put whatever you want in it - prechop/cook things to throw into it. If you're keeping it low-carb, lots of cheese and a spoonful of salsa on top is delicious. If you're eating the same cheap things everyday, then a one-a-day style multivitamin is cheap insurance against deficiency. You'll pee most of it out but it's better than risking an actual deficiency in something.
"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"

Are you talking about IPSec? This is still optional in IPv6 and available using IPv4.

I think the reason adoption is slow is that it's not easy to convince managers to allocate people and time to it... "So, it's not yet broken but you want to fix it?"