skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that you are wrong but that fix seems to about suppressing error results and a quick glance at the diff doesn't immediately look like it introduces any filter (unless all images are suppressed from Amazon).

If the bug I linked to is fixed it should be marked as such quickly because theRegister's initial review of 12.10 links to it and refers heavily to it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/18/ubuntu_12_10_review/

Either it is fixed (and that should be properly indicated) or it should be taken seriously and fixed VERY quickly. The attitude of don't care/won't fix isn't acceptable for a public release by a supposedly professional commercial organisation or really anything beyond hobbyist scale. Canonical/Ubuntu is too big to let this default behaviour out of the door. If they can't fix it instantly they should disable the whole feature (as default) until they can fix it.

Edit: I've checked the diff again and maybe combined with server side changes it may resolve the issue. The point remains that the open issue should be properly closed.
I agree with all the points you listed and that CSS layout is superior. However every time I use a CSS grid I find myself thinking whether the content and design are really separated. If I add classes like .col-1-4, .span3 or .three.columns to an element in the markup, doesn't that mix details specific to a certain design (or even one particular screen size in responsive design) with the content?
It'd be glorious if one service (say GitHub) had multiple remote links that dynamically switched for you when service faced an outage.
Twitter does not allow the keyholder to revoke tokens; only individual users can do that. It would be impossible for Tapbots to reclaim unused/unpaid tokens. (Which is why they beg users of the alpha to dissociate Tweetbot in their control panel if they don't plan on buying the app.)
Sure. I am the founder of a YC company that originally did a Fantasy Sports for money product. While not an attorney, I did spend tens of thousands on them and learned a lot about applicable law.

My advice of course is to do the same if you haven't already. I'll be happy to give you my impressions but I'm no substitute for a lawyer who understands the ins and outs of your product. I can at least recommend a good one in the field of gaming law.
They're not all paywalled, but some do take some extra clicks and scrolling to finally get to.
An eCommerce Refactor: Cleaning up a Common Pattern in a Rails eCommerce App
I'd like to add that the DailyCred guys are incredibly warm folks to know in person - I've had the pleasure of long chats with them here in Seattle :)
I've fixed the display issue, but I remember now talking with a user who couldn't get podcasts to play in Ubuntu/Chromum -- Unfortunately, its a licensing issue and my hands are tied :( Chromium users will have to use Firefox or another browser to actually play content.
Install it on a USB key. If you want to try the upgrade but have a perfect backup of 12.04 LTS, you can image your drive (depending on resources) with the "dd" utility. WARNING: be very careful with this. You can easily destroy things with dd.

From the USB install;

dd if=/dev/{ubuntuDrivePath} of={someOtherDrive}/{backupFile}.img

This creates a 1 to 1 representation of your drive. For example,

dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/data/backups/workstation.img

You will of course need to use an additional drive to store your backup.

To restore, boot into USB again, and execute:

dd if={yourBackup} of=/dev/{ubuntuDrivePath}
Original article on nytimes.com:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/technology/yelp-tries-to-h...
Reason why Facebook is paying Indians..
Thanks. It redirected me to http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LL9VDG, which just offered to take my email address when it is available. I thought pre-order meant I'd pay for it. lol
Given the events of the day, I'm considering stories like this to be bear attempts at stock price manipulation.
I interpreted this as largely a protest in the hopes of getting Twitter's token policy changed. It seems very odd that they can get 100,000 tokens for free but can't pay for more.
I'm interested to see that developers aren't trusting Twitter when they said if you got close to your token limit you'd be able to apply to them to raise the limit.

On reflection, given their recent behaviour as a company I can understand that.
It is incredibly obvious you have never worked this sort of job before.

Prior to getting into university I worked fulltime at a green-bean processing plant. Green-beans come in on a truck, straight from a harvester, and leave on another truck cut and washed. Exposed to the elements (roof, but no walls) in deafening noise, standing in front of a conveyor belt for hours staring at green beans trying to grab all the dead field animals, sticks, and stems before they went into the cutting machine. The beans were soaking wet so my hands were constantly freezing. On good days they threw me a rake and told me to climb into the back of a tractor trailer. After a while that gave me RSI.

It was I suspect worse than cork sorting or soaking. Certainly comparable.

Did I enjoy this job? Hell no. Would I rather have been doing something else? No shit. Would I, even in retrospect, want myself forced out of that job at that time? Fuck no. Would I ever think of going back there and suggesting that all those other workers be replaced to improve their lives? You have got to be fucking kidding me.
Synthetic cork has been shown not to be as 'good' as the natural type for certain cases. For one reason or another it either lets too much Oxygen through causing the wine oxidize too fast, or not enough causing wines to age slowly.

Wines that are meant to drink while young do great with a screw cap. Anything that I'd want to put in a cellar and age I'd want to have a natural cork.
Memo to Congress: Think Twice Before Meddling With Silicon Valley
Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law
Github.com is now up https://github.com/

https://status.github.com/
In this article he is reverse-engineering official Twitter apps. So there is an inconsistency even within Twitter's use of its own APIs. That, to me, is the mystery.

Also, I don't see how that statement implies the existence of something that no one has ever said existed. If the government says there are no aliens at Area 51 does that imply aliens do in fact exist at some other secret location? Uh-oh, maybe that was a bad example!
There are so many apps I might buy if I could try them, but I will never buy apps that I can't try. The ad model sucks and the lite model (2 different apps) sucks.

You should be able to install, use for 3 days, then it would get deleted from your device if you don't buy it.
Yes, and Google hasn't really even gotten started yet with monetizing Android. The real money maker will be Google Wallet. Just imagine Google taking a 2% cut out of every transaction you make through an Android phone. No one will be calling Android a failure then.
I think it's a conspiracy directed by an occult media producer's conclave to destroy the public image of file-sharing in general using this guy's butt-ugly face...

(No really, I'd rather hear more about what happened to the poor Demonoid guys than see his face taking up more media space - it's obvious that he likes publicity even more than money so even the FBI just gave him what he wanted!)
Easily calculate color contrast ratios. Passing WCAG was never this easy
Amusing coincidence then!
The FCC won't care, but a bunch of angry HAMs will be riding their rascal scooters around your neighborhood with directional antennas.

Calling channels are defined by the ARRL, not the FCC.
>I failed to lose weight on a ~1200 kcal/day diet for several years of relatively active lifestyle. Does that seem impossible to you as well?

Yeah, I would think that's impossible. I'm going to just state user error as the leading cause here for your inability to lose weight. Unless you're completely unique in some shape or form such that reducing your caloric intake also reduced your BMR down to basically 0 (i.e. dead), I'm going to have to call bullshit.
Your comment suggests that you are not very familiar with the nuances of Merger and Acquisition processes. As someone who has been involved in a significant number of M/A deals in different capacities, I can tell you that your speculation is uninformed. I won't comment further.
Verizon Is Monitoring Your Smartphone Activity And Looking To Sell It
Quickly skimming through the comments turned to be somewhat informative. Note that some are partial quotes from larger comments.

The ones that I found more interesting are:

- "The same price as my operating system. Later guys, it’s been fun."

While I understand his/her reasoning I disagree because it's a very deceiving comparison.

- "I love tweetbot, and I know tapbots won’t care, but I can’t afford to buy $20 for something that performs one function, which I can already get on my phone, and the same basic data from other clients and even twitter.com."

I wouldn't go as far to say that it performs just one function but I can understand what (s)he means.

- "The worst thing the App Store did was to devalue software. I write it for a living, I know the time and energy that goes in to building a good piece of software, and asking to be paid for that work is not evil."

- "I’d pay $100 for Tweetbot for Mac. Anyone who whines about $20 has clearly never written a piece of software."

- "Don’t get me wrong, I bought it. I’am a software developer too, so I know how much work you had to put into it. But still, it’s too much. Especially in Poland, where I live. Especially if you compare it to other Twitter clients, or software in MAS in general. Especially, if you consider that the future of the software is not safe (because of Twitter limitations)."

I guess we, developers, are always more understanding when it comes to the amount of effort required to create great software. However, you can apply that same stament to many other professions (shoemakers and shoes, etc)

EDIT: Formatting
Not very long ago, it used to be inconceivable in America that blacks and whites would one day sit together at the same restaurant, drink from the same water fountain, use the same bathrooms, compete for the same jobs, go to the same schools, and even intermarry.

Segragation was just a reality and anyone who suggested that there could be a better way was "living in a fantasy world."

Much the same was said about those who advocated for the downfall of Apartheid in South Africa. Most foreign policy experts were blindsighted by the swift and mostly bloodless downfall of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.

I could go on giving example after example from history, where what was once the status quo (and was even seen as the natural order of things) was radically changed in a relatively brief period to a state hardly imagined as possible by people living just decades earlier. Not only are such events plentiful in history, the rate at which such events are happening seems to be only increasing.

The only thing certain about the future is that it's full of surprises. And the world is what we make it.
Why are you lumping IBM in with MS?

The reality is that IBM is no longer consumer facing, and neither is their research. MS still is and has to be (and losing), but IBM just abandoned being a household name a while ago, except with things like Watson.
Did Apple's war on Android just draw its first Google blood
I agree with this, and believe it has implications for being able to communicate well and give greater precedence to the ideas one is presenting. ie: being able to grok someone else's though process to the level of allowing them to reach your conclusion on their own.
Well, since Countly Community Edition is open source we don't offer any SaaS from our server just yet. Countly Cloud will be the SaaS solution and I believe a micro instance won't do any good after the first week :) But a micro instance is powerful enough to host a website or a blog, even to open up your service for private beta.
Well, anyone looks stupid when you misquote them:

"And it's pretty clear that when you account for the costs of the Motorola purchase, Android has been a pretty epic failure."

IOW, Google has failed (so far) to profit from Android, and it doesn't appear likely to any time soon...
This is idiotic; you either trolling or blinded by privilege; I am out.
Assuming you mean github: people who want to cause chaos.
Simple Anagrams
Is that really some "special behavior"? As far as i understand the semicolon is just an expression separator like in Erlang and Pascal. In contrast, the semicolon is a statement terminator in C. C uses the comma for expression separation. Practically everything is an expression in Rust, even blocks, so

foo() => evaluates to the return value of foo
{ foo() } => evaluates to the return value of foo
{ foo(); } => evaluates to nil

The last case is not a special case. The last expression in the block determines the returned value. There is an expression separator in there, so there must be two expressions which are separated by it. The first one is foo() and second one is ... wait for it ... the empty expression. Which value should EmptyExpression have? Of course: nil, which would be called void in C-land.
Lunch with a VC
Push messages to friends' iPhone from commandline
Well yes, and bravo to those sentiments, which are insightful and worthy of praise... but then you say a bunch of things like: "If developers like you don’t screw it up, that is." "Your goal is to not do what your careless friends in iOS-land did and create a hopeless ghetto of a marketplace." "You as a developer have a responsibility when it comes to the economics of the Windows Store."

I'm not the only one here who felt your "call to action" felt like a call to collusion or bitterness at not being able to squeeze more money off the Apple app store. If I make apps for the Windows store, I'll charge what I feel like charging, thank you very much, and I'll have no one's moralizing lectures. Thanks. :)
Game changer.
You are confusing things and that is not true (at least not for past models). See more here:
http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...
What if a sequence of byte values is valid in the charset that IE uses to encode the form data as well as in UTF-8, but is interpreted as different characters in UTF-8? With your method you would not detect an error and use the wrong characters.
(Except if IE sends a content-type header with the actual encoding used, and this header is evaluated on the server side to convert the form data into a string. But in that case you don't have to check for invalid UTF-8 characters, but for characters that are invalid in the charset specified in the content-type header.)
Be 20 guys?
Author here; I love the Mac App Store and want to eventually use MonoMac to port some of my Windows stuff over to it :)

http://www.mono-project.com/MonoMac

I had A LOT of trouble finding publicly available data on how the Mac App Store is used. Sales figures, installs per day, price distribution, etc...

If you know something I don't, post it here and I'll do a follow-up.
Are semicolons annoying to type? Probably, I got used to them

The semicolon is the least-annoying non-letter character to type. It's right there on your home row.
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this is beyond absurd.

Really, now. It's on the level of:
PAYING for
ELECTRONIC "BOOK"
"RENTALS"

Think about that. Royalties, intellectual property, and blah blah blah aside...

They insist on implying that you're "renting" electronic signals. They don't want you to think in terms of paying an ISP for a connection (service), and then the transmission (bandwidth), AND THEN THE CONTENT (the "book") ON TOP OF ALL THAT. You could just KEEP the "book" forever, with virtualized backups if you really wanted to. And can't we just dispose of the "book" euphemisms too? What you're really paying for is a brokered decryption of information. Gee, thanks for brightening up that reality with all the duckspeak, marketing.

It's just bits. Induced magnetic fields on a metal platter. Energized wires in an integrated circuit.

I mean I guess you could take the view that we all "rent" beer, in a certain wry sense. But that's like when inmates rationalize that everyone's in a "prison" somehow, or when prostitutes rationalize that all house-wives are essentially "prostitutes" with a different name.

Seriously. Paying for a Twitter interface?

You can just use the website.

For free.

$20 is like 4 hours of work for someone who're making minimum wage.
That's reasonable. And I agree it's odd. Why should Twitter care if 20% of their userbase is on third party clients with an experience that's not on-brand, if those clients pay a per-user fee?

One explanation: not all users are created equal. It could be that the 20% who use third party clients are more/most engaged. Lassoing them back into the fold could have some strategic benefit.
I agree with all these statements. But the most important thing to point out is that CSS 1 and 2 and even 3 didn't solve the layout issues we needed solved. But there are improvements like native column support and true layout control coming. But damn, it's already nearly 2013.
I heard once about a tire shop that drummed up business by strewing nails along the highway around it. Somewhere outside America; India or Thailand or somewhere else. Anyway, that kind of business practice wouldn't get you far in the Western world, so it seems unlikely.

OTOH, if I had a botnet and I wanted to see how powerfully it could DDOS without drawing a lot of mainstream media attention, github might be good for target practice. They have better infrastructure than most, and they always do detailed write-ups afterwards.
It maybe true that the BBC opposes this, but at the same time the BBC is beholden to UK and EU law; i.e. follow the law or be fined and/or loose all your licenses.
Totally agree, but Buffet's angle was that you play for the long haul, right? To me that's not what an "analyst" does. It what an "investor" does. Research research research.

He's not trying to figure out what exact earnings-per-share are going to be for companies every quarter. In fact, he was trying to discourage companies from giving earnings guidance.
Probably somebody pissed off their pull request was refused.
Gangs Of Wasseypur 2 2012 is a nice hindi movie.Picking up from the first part, Danish Khan murders the captured gunman involved in his father’s assassination, Sardar Khan. Sardar’s second wife, Durga, is now a maid in Ramadir Singh’s (Tigmanshu Dhulia) household. Danish and Asgar attempt to convince Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) that his friend Fazlu was the mole who spied for the Qureshis. Danish, in order to get a smaller jail sentence, surrenders to the police in a concocted case of thievery. After the court hearing, however, he is assassinated by Sultan Qureshi. A stoned and oblivious Faizal, returns home to the funeral of his dead brother.
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/gangs-of-wasseypur-2-2012...
While true, and more so in recent years than a few years ago, I think the cost of salary is way more ridiculous than it needs to be because of the bidding wars. Some are getting above market rate (or what market rate should have been) and stock out the door. That isn't typical for any other place. And college grads from Stanford are getting a premium for entry level salary according to a few TC articles I read that aren't typical for others.
> There's a fascinating lesson here because the extremely costly Motorola acquisition was directly linked to Google's decision to launch Android as a major business venture.

What.
"I'm not the only one here who felt your "call to action" felt like a call to collusion or bitterness at not being able to squeeze more money off the Apple app store."

Sorry you felt that way, but that's not what I said :)

You can charge what you want; just don't be surprised by the results if you don't attempt to learn the market and realize your own value.
I've worked for multiple companies that were acquired and was never able to feel at home in the new parent company.

My feeling was always something like "I never actually chose to work for you, and you never actually chose to hire me, yet here we are"
Farewell Tweetbot And It's Not About The Price
I was lucky enough to obtain a CR-48 from Google, two years ago this winter, and I still find it to be an enjoyable machine. The downside to the unit is that it is useless without an Internet connection.
That's right, oops!
It's reassuring to hear that what has often been cited as a case-study in over-ambitious fundraising and over-enthusiastic investment did, in fact, turn out to be a sobering lesson for entrepreneurs.

The tales of double-digit million dollar exit were frankly baffling and would have painted a very different picture of the current acquisition market.
Sadly, that's because other areas of the US are trying their best to NOT be an innovation capital. There really should be more Silicon Valleys but most other areas in the country don't have the will to do so.
I have to wonder why the BBC would release this. What is the motivation?

Obviously whoever is "jamming" them is not going to read this, say, "My bad" and just stop.

I am really wondering who their real audience, in this case, is. Is this an attempt to influence government actions in the U.K. or the EU itself? Is this part of a public opinion swaying operation to sway the British people so that more of them will support the idea of military action in Syria?

It's all speculation at this point, but I do wonder.
Cartoonists would exaggerate a person's response when they're, for example, hit by a mallet, or kicked hard. This is especially true in anime. In the real world, a person isn't bent in half from a kick, they're lightly dented; but, to emphasize the power of the kick, they'll bend the person in half. Why can't this same thing occur in movies with real actors? Perhaps they thought this bend would better convey the motion of flying, rather than a bunch of people just hanging in the air. If they were just hanging in the air, the average view would think something along the lines of "wow, that's a bad green-screen effect" or "huh... they're not moving, they're just going straight up..." vs "they're being carried to safety by Ironman! and they're having to cross distance to do it!"
Gree opensources their SWF tools for use with Unity and HTML5
They are unrealistic and its been this way for a while. A lot of companies over rate themselves, they want the best and brightest but if the candidate is too good they won't stay at an inferior company anyway so depending on the position someone with less education or experience but is a good learner would probably be just as good if not better.
Supporting the park service shouldn't be seen as left or right, it should be seen as cost benefit analysis that a particular congressperson has made.

In the present political climate, one of the political parties has (incubated?/)latched onto the generalized anti-government sentiment that came to a head last year around the Occupy movement.

Since National Parks and nature preserves are handled under a government organization, they represent something which that one political party has made a priority to remove in this round of politicking.
Seems legit, and they asked for 40 million only. I would have given more cos the pitch is the best
The Windows Store supports a built-in trial model for premium apps - historically it helped improve yield significantly on Windows Phone 7.

It even has expiring in-app purchases if you want to let someone try an in-app purchase for "free" and then expire it later.