skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reviewing their list of "Top 10 Floating Sheep Maps" that appears in the sidebar, it's a reasonable assumption that this is a site with a certain world view. The readers who agree with that world view (say, /r/politics) won't particularly care about the statistical sample size as long as the results reinforce their beliefs.
Microsoft Surface Touch Cover splits within days, some users complain
The teensy 3.0 also comes with a 16 bit ADC (of the succeessive approximation breed, not sure of the quality).

Most of the arduino-like boards have a 10 bit resolution.
GPL/BSD are "restrictive" to protect the freedom of the software. You cannot have freedom without having a rule for freedom. Free software is not anarchy software.
Of course it's correlated with the red states; when the person they didn't want to see win won, they said anything they could to degrade him. Certainly the n word is the easiest and most offensive word to throw out, but that doesn't necessarily imply racism. Though I'm not defending their use of that extremely offensive word, it's highly disingenuous to equate it to racism.
I prefer the term heavy drinker to alcoholic. Alcoholic is just the rest of society trying to put some distance between themselves and other bad drinkers.
Everyone who smokes is a smoker.
Some smoke more than others. We don't call 60/day people smoke addicts, we call them heavy smokers.
Well, technically it doesn't have to be Apple hardware. They could be running hackintoshes, which would obviously be against the EULA of OSX. Another possibility is virtualization. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I think the OSX Server EULA allows virtualization since 10.7. So setup any linux server off the shelf and virtualize OSX Server instances on it and you have your cloud building blocks.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic but Heinz have been selling ketchup in upside down bottles for years now.

http://blog.infotrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Heinz_...
This will give me a reason to actually go to Radioshack now. The convenience of being able to just grab a development board like this without having to order it online would be fantastic.
Nearly all financial market data is disseminated from market venues via multicast. It's the most efficient way to do it. However, you are right about multicast not being generally used.

The consequences of this fact are that there is a limited subset of engineers who understand it well and that vendor hardware support for it is often substandard. We constantly have to provide feedback to Cisco, etc. on what sort of features should be in their hardware and what sorts of instrumentation can help operate and troubleshoot multicast networks.
There's still the Win7 desktop and ability to run normal Windows software, it's just hidden under the Metro coloring book. Click the desktop tile (it should be turquoise with a picture of a fish), and voila, there's the familiar Windows desktop again (see e.g. this: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/28/Click_the_Deskto... ). Start menu is gone, but there are third-party replacements.
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L. Ron?
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I work on a bioinformatics team in a research environment and have no bio coursework/background. There is a ton of standard IT work here.

I do mainly data integration and standard reporting stuff. For example, reports for "where is my sample in the pipeline, has the fastq been generated, where are the variant call results?" But being interested in the bio/genetics stuff is a huge plus. Hackers in the space seem welcome and needed. You gotta fight the credential hierarchy some - you clearly don't matter as much as the MD/PhD, but sometimes they should listen to you, like when, say, it comes to the programming language choice you make for the app they will use. That said, I sneak in what I think is best for the task and if that means Ruby or Clojure instead of Java, results are what matters in the end.
If this was a full scientific study, I'd agree. Lets keep in mind that it isn't, and it's just a reflection of what was actually said.
It isn't fair to draw conclusions from this such as "Alabama is a racist!?!?", but the data do still say something.
This is amazing! Where do we apply for beta tester accounts? :)
Windows 8 is a normal x86 operating system, and as such most applications should work out of the box if they worked on Win7. The main difference is that is much more usable on touch enabled devices and provides an alternate application distribution system, Store.
Ok so all the normal programs should be compatible just fine then? Also that must mean the windows 8 for laptops is different than the windows 8 for touch and mobile devices.
Probabably a fusor, according to the Wikiepedia article "Fusors have been assembled in low-power forms by hobbyists."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Ok I was getting scared there for a minute.
Eight years and 800,000 bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000

Given its age and heritage and historical influence (and given that it's used by hundreds of millions of people), Mozilla's codebase is right up there with Linux and GNU as one of the most impressive examples of open-source software.
There is Windows phone 8 and Windows 8, they are different operating systems, both have design and support for touch systems.
It's not very reassuring to check the FAQ, and to see important questions like, "Is it possible to prevent unauthorised people/clients from using my services?" being answered with a very vague answer like "Yes."

I hope to see more complete and detailed answers for common questions like those.
Can of worms = opened. The "n word" does imply racism. I'm not going to write a book about it, but I'll just put that out there for you to think about.
Just to ensure that complaints are not the only opinions developers like you hear, let me tell you that I use Gnome Shell everyday, and I love it. I migrated a lot of the people in our office (a small Actuarial firm w. ~12 people) to it and everyone likes it.
I think the FSF has done enough to deserve a defacto trademark on the term Free Software. Certainly I see no reason why your particular definition deserves to supercede the established convention.
So I posted this, not to say "booking sux" but to spark a debate on the fine line between glorious code and shipping features.

Booking are #1 in their market and are killing it. Does this mean that despite our disdain at copypasta code, maybe code quality isn't really a problem?

I've been thinking about complex software a lot recently. Let's say that just like death and taxes, a complete rewrite is an inevitability in a sufficiently large software project. Look at Window 95 -> XP -> 7 or the introduction of OS X, or even Windows Mobile -> Windows Phone.

If your code quality totally sucks then you're more likely to bin your code-base and start again earlier. If your code base is great, you might trundle along for years while all your upstart competitors gobble up your market.
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Firebox's firebug addon makes it worth the price of admission. Thanks for a great 8 years FF!

Side note: if you could add support for base64 pngs embedded with the data uri you could really help me out of a jam...
I hope that this decision causes them to re-think their position.
Racism is deplorable, but weren't the threats to kill Romney if he won the election equally deplorable?

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-supporters-on-twitter-...

What is any less hateful about them?

"I'll personally f*****g kill Romney if he try's some dumb nazi s**t f**k that (sic),"

I looked through floatingsheep's other recent blogs and they didn't cover that one.

The problem I have with the lack of objectivity on racism is that it's actually counter-productive to solving the problem. Raising the alarm about one type of racism while turning a blind eye to other types of irrational hate smacks of hypocrisy.
Yep, it was just a joke, but trying to make a point at the same time.
Re-upload it to youtube and try the auto-captioning service there.
i'd like to reiterate that hipmunk should make it clearer that multiple airports is supported now. It used to not work, and therefore I used Kayak.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

Is giving alternating answers. Was slow for me and then stopped responding.
> No one has to let you work offline. You can choose to do so yourself by using offline applications if that's something you care about.

Except that it's hard to do this across multiple devices now (especially when most of them are not PCs), because everyone got on the cloud bandwagon and don't let user own the data anymore.

> But web-based applications have major advantages to the application provider.

(emphasis mine)
U.S. Companies Finding Stuxnet ‘In Our Systems’
Thanks. I've been trying to find a good way to understand the accuracy of Silver's predictions.

What's a fair benchmark? This article offers up a "coin flip" for each state, computing that such a coin flip would have a Brier score of 0.25. (The Brier score is a mean-squared error between outcome (1 or 0) and the percent certainty of the prediction in that outcome. If a coin flip is the model, each state's result of 1 or 0 would be in error by 0.5. The mean squared error would be 1/51 * 0.25 * 51 = 0.25.)

But... that seems like too generous a benchmark. Take the simple model: "assume 100% likelihood that state X will vote for the same party as it did in 2008." That guarantees that deeply red or blue states will vote the same way, so it takes the non-battlegrounds out of the equation.

With this model, there would only have been 2/51 errors. This simple lazy model achieves a Brier score of 0.039, beating Intrade and the poll average computed in this article quite badly.

After working through this, I'm still impressed by Silver and the other quant predictions. But I'm more concerned about media that rely too much on reporting a single polls result as "news" rather than as part of a larger tapestry.

Then again, it's the maligned media polls that are the raw input to Silver and the other models. Unless the media keeps funding the polls, the quality of these more advanced models will suffer.
One of the main issues of Luther's reform is that good and evil are a personal choice

I wouldn't say it like that. Luther's main position was that salvation or forgiveness of sin was a personal matter between God and the sinner; that salvation comes directly from God and cannot not be conferred by a priest or church, in exchange for money, etc. and that the Bible itself was the source of divine knowledge, not the church.
From wiki: "Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior"

A frustrated exclamation of a horribly degrading word to express their anger != A view that African Americans are inferior.

It certainly doesn't show class and I'd bet you'd surely find a higher proportion of racists among those who tweeted that word, but calling them all racists? Wrong.
I liked this example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Feeling.ogv. It also showcases the subtitles feature of the player. It didn't play the first time I tried it (current stable Chrome on Ubuntu) but reloading helped.
Well, on the flip side:

I heard multiple "The problem with Republicans is old white guys" comments on NPR and CNN. From respected "pundits" no less. Talk about your sexist, racist , ageist comments!

Substituting the words "Democratic" and "young" and "of color" sounds pretty silly.

I'm all for free speech, though. There will always be a noise component in political discourse and we Americans have pretty good filters.
When I try to work on my side projects in the evening, I often feel the same distraction / anxiety effect. The way I handle it is to tell myself it's ok to get some rest and do things that are not productive, and try to keep away from the computer for one or two evenings. Often after that I find I can concentrate better again. We need idle time to structure our thinking process, after all!
So quit whining and write your own json parser.
I remember making the jump from Netscape 4.72 to Mozilla 1.2, modulo a little dalliance with IE when it was still ahead of the curve. I've been on Mozilla/Firefox ever since, and never made the jump to Chrome as my main browser (though I have it installed). Firefox just keeps getting better and better, and I'm delighted at how the friendly competition between Firefox and Chrome is driving faster improvement to both, rather than the divisive extend/embrace/extinguish competition between Netscape and IE.
The n-word is not necessarily racist, if used in the right context. But given the context of most of these tweets it is absolutely used in racist tones, ie. "niggers in the whitehouse!"
Looks like Wikipedia is on track to become a big server of HTML5 WebM videos. The absence of H.264 support (assuming they hold on to that) might finally push Microsoft and Apple to support WebM out of the box. Maybe we will also see more hardware support for WebM in mobile devices...
Founder here: Thank you for pointing this out. We will improve the FAQ shortly.
I've done something similar a while back. A simple "works-for-me" package. Feel free to try it out:

https://github.com/exhuma/braindump/tree/master/jsonformat
Works here (Chrome 23 on Ubuntu).
it was a very biased 'study'. from the article, it appears that this person specifically targeted people that were anti-Obama, forgetting entirely all the racists tweets that threatened riot and death if Romney won.
The issue is also, is it really entitlement to ask for a level playing field and a functioning democracy?
There is a slight difference.

If elite American universities didn't penalize Asians, they would almost literally have no non-Asian students. This is because Asian-Americans optimize the entire lives of their youth around maximizing their admissions chances to elite universities. There's racism here, but there's also just Goodhart's Law, normal old American anti-intellectualism, and the proper acknowledgement that standardized exam scores show very little about a university applicant's real life prospects.

Part of turning 18 in the USA is making the transition from subservient child to independent adult, over a period of years (usually by 26 you're considered definitely adult or way behind). Part of the problem with Asian-Americans is, they don't make the transition. Striver-immigrant culture and extreme focus on family (at one time a part of Jewish-American immigrant culture too, often more an immigrant thing than a particular culture's thing) cause people to overoptimize their kids' upbringing on being good little subservient worker-bee children, often leaving them semi-crippled when required to function as independent adults.

And then let's not even get into the cultural differences in areas of authority, ego and freedom between East Asia and America, which put Asians at a severe disadvantage due to their inclination, ground in by "Chinese mothers" over periods of years, to expect being ordered around all the time.

Before anyone calls me a vicious racist, a Chinese student in a class at university once referred to me as "more Asian than the Asians". I like to look back on how completely wrong he was :-).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I've seen arguments for and against.

Arguments for:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/opinion/25iht-edbibel.1.95...

"People have broken their necks bouncing off the ceiling when a plane suddenly drops a few hundred feet in severe turbulence"

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1951/are-safety-...

"according to the FAA on average 60 people a year are injured a year because of turbulence.

According to Capt. Lim, each year about 58 U.S. passengers and flight attendants are injured by not wearing their seat belt."

"Aloha Airlines Flight 243 where a large part of forward portion of the airplane was ripped from the plane. The only casualty could probably have survived if she was buckled in at the time."

Arguments against:

"It has been shown that there is no net safety benefit for passengers who choose to wear 3-point restraints on passenger carrying rail vehicles. Generally passengers who choose not to wear restraints in a vehicle modified to accept 3-point restraints receive marginally more severe injuries."

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/RSSB_Seatbelts200...

Plenty of articles about fat people not getting any benefit from airplane seatbelts.

"in most air crashes, a seat belt will not matter"

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/business-travel/travel-tools...

So, basically airplane seat belts are shown to help with turbulence. If an equivalent level of restraint can be created for standing passengers, I don't see why not.

Edit: O'Leary seems to be aware of the turbulence issue: "We're not talking about areas of huge turbulence around Europe."
Drop the fallback mode if it means better quality of the rest.
Seriously, Gnome Shell runs fine on my Intel integrated graphics, i suppose it runs fine on nvidia and amd as well, so why fallback mode anyway.

How about communicating to distributions to fallback to gnome2 or xfce or something similar as a recommendation?
An Analysis of Market Demand for Web Programming Languages (October 2012)
The Wixel seems to be similar, but with built in wireless.

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1336
The problem with compulsory voting is that no box exists on ballot papers for many perspectives.

For example, I strongly believe that representative democracy (the common kind) is a farce and do not want to be represented by anybody but myself. The ballot papers make no room for this attitude - everything is framed in terms of the current system which is that either Bob or John will represent you.

It is analogous to the question "how often do you beat your wife?", which is loaded with the assumption that one beats his wife. Similarly, the voting systems we are talking about make the assumption that the person agrees with representative democracy.

Considering that I pay taxes and contribute to this society, it is, frankly, an injustice that my opinion is not represented in the least.
In my humble opinion I think that while Firefox has asked some ground in market share, does a great job with the web and compete against the negligent microsoft products had 8 years to give us a better browsing experience we know today has much to do calving with Firefox.
This article is emblematic of what I would call "dark patterns of online journalism".
It's not the first time (search "Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest" for the latest example ), and it's not just a bad article. There is no added value in this article, it's a deliberate attempt to manipulate people's gut feelings, with a cost effective strategy in order to increase pageviews, and it needs to be denounced.
If we create a program that has all of that, then yes.

Note that my criteria (individual items are of course up for discussion, but the point is a broad range of human/animal like criteria) go way beyond pain. Emotion, empathy, maybe other things like self-learning etc. are a long, long way off being implemented successfully in software. I think that maybe when we reach the point where they are, it may not seem such a daft idea to protect them in this way. "After all pain is just an electrical impulse expressed as a negative emotion" which helps to illustrate the close relation between us and the (currently) mythical software we are talking about.

The rights which we are talking about aren't "magic" as you quote. They actually serve a practical purpose and in my opinion are a positive evolutionary trait. When applied to humans, their purpose is obvious (protecting us from each other, promoting cooperation and ensuring our survival as a species). But we live in a world beyond just humans, and inter-species protection and co-operation is in both human and animal (and, one day perhaps, computer) interests.

On the subject of vegetables, I have never found cabbages to be particularly empathetic, so I happy to relegate them to the inferior classes for the time being.
How about the tweets before the election talking about riots if Obama wasn't elected?
If data are to "say something", they must do so in a statistically rigorous sense. I'm not going to speculate on statistical significance in this particular case.
Yeah, no. http://assets.clearbankruptcy.com/infographics/leading-cause...
Do I understand correctly that you think that outlawing creation of custom licenses besides the chosen and already existing few will solve the perceived problem?

What's the next step, outlawing forks, since there are already enough projects?

And why do you see the very existence of the library with "no evil" clause as a market failure? Is that some people think that it's basic human right to be allowed to do evil? Doing evil, if we define evil as illegal, is already outlawed, so this one phrase is clearly redundant.

I said you, but it's not addressed to you, but to people that got so offended and turned up by this small "do no evil" purpose.

The market already decided, and that clause is there for a purpose. The author clearly didn't want people unsure if this piece of software will be used for good or evil to use it.

It's funny that people are ready to sign all kind of nonsense in commercial licenses, and this small clause makes so much pain to some "open source" developers.
Same here in Pune, FB has been slow in response (observing it for a few days now)
Agreed. It reminds me a bit of the fallacy of criminalizing "hate speech", which you are seeing in Europe lately. It actually gives the bigots a bit of a legitimate grievance, in that their freedom of speech is being eroded. Besides, personally, if someone is eager to inform me about what an idiot they are, I see no advantage in legally preventing them. I think the cult of political correctness has actually been quite damaging to race relations.
This is just off the top my my head. Some of these might be plain wrong since I haven't spent that much time with the newest versions..

- General lack of configureability. I'm used to things like fluxbox and kde where "everything" can be configured. (Don't knock it til you try it ;) Especially keyboard shortcuts for launching stuff, expanding windows, minimizing windows etc..

- The window handling is terrible. Really, it is.. Can't maximize? Can't easily switch between two firefox windows? I used to think it was because I didn't know how to do it, so I asked and watched a few OSX users. But they just move windows around. I'm not going to handle 15 windows like that. Even if osx finally got virtual desktops (?).

- Better terminal (both the gnome one and the kde one are so far ahead, at least at first look)

- Unix/linux CLI programs that I've gotten used to being there by default. Also, I'm sure there are programs I use that simply doesn't run on OSX (not really experinced it, but it seems likely ;)

Edit:
Also, the broader issue of customizability. Apple does a lot of things "right", but not everything. And while the "walled garden" do bring some advantages, its restrictiveness is a real pain when you're used to choose. It's impossible to do one size fits all in computing, you end up with something compromised, more tailored towards computer users quite different than myself.
You can always ask the app store/iTunes store for a refund, and they'll almost always give it no questions asked. At least in my eperience.
Now combine it with facial recognition software and the fact that most home electronics are always on and you have an amazingly dangerous device.
It does show down, but it is working for me