skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of take some offence to you using "ubuntu generation" as a pejorative, but you're right about people hating on MongoDB because it is cool to hate on MongoDB. I'm sure that most people spreading the fud have little to no experience with it.

I think that MongoDB has got a lot of attention because its brand of NoSQL is one of the closest neighbours to RDBMS. I believe a lot of people may have dabbled with mongo and they might have walked away realizing that NoSQL is not 100% sugar plums and lollipops as evangelized. There are trade-offs between different NoSQL databases and RDBMS, and Mongo is no exception. Personally, I really like MongoDB and continue to use it.
I also do that. Once in a while you get text with a colon in it, which Chrome interprets as a protocol handler and goes to about:blank. 1 in a thousand but it still gets me often. Here is a test.

drag: thistext

And yes, I've reported this bug.
The SSH access is for deploying the rtm binary (setup, config, updates). Only one host is allowed to reach servers through ssh via the ssh key in question.

# cat .ssh/authorized_keys2
from="213.186.50.100" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC[...]hBIuk57cDxs= root@cache.ovh.net

For harvesting data, the rtm binary is run by crontab, and does send msg. OVH are not polling the servers.

# cat /etc/crontab
*/1 * * * * root /usr/local/rtm/bin/rtm 46 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

If customers are not comfortable with that, they can opt out, according to the documentation (removing the ssh key and/or the rtm binary).
true, but any way to determine it using only javascript in a browser?
IDFblog, if you tried to go there during the war, they would popup and say "we're checking if you're a legit request .... redirecting now"
Fake press releases are a public service
;) You are correct.
How much Truth is in this post?
Will there be any such thing, that will go mainstream???

I thought C++ won over C# :(
We do have a blog - the subject is vast. Do you have anything in particular you would like to read about?
You can not sign away legal protection in a EULA. This is why EULA's normally say's something like "we forbid everything, and leave you with no rights what so ever, except what ever rights the law guaranties that you have".
I tried to read the Bizspark FAQ, and now my head hurts. But anyways, what I think I was able to get out of it is that:

1. You have to apply.
2. You have to be approved, which takes a minimum of 5 business days, and you may not get approved.
3. At some point you "graduate" and lose your licenses and have to pay for software. The faq does not say when this graduation happens, but I seem to remember hearing something about 6 months.

So, no it is not really free. And it is definitely harder to get it than simply typing:

sudo apt-get install apache2
I do sometimes when I'm on a desktop, but other wise it slows me down way too much. And I'm rarely on a desktop.
Which they're very aggressive about doing...
The main reason I'm not so concerned is if they have physical access to the server they have root access anyway. At least this way I can see them logging in.
It's really splitting hairs, but I'd argue that's a commonality of goal (rejecting tax increase), but difference of motivation (too much/not enough). Love the example, though. Politics makes strange bed fellows.
Normally, no one goes to jail because companies is not viewed to have mens rea, ie, an intent to break the law. The company only want to earn money and safe guard their revenues.

The only option left if you ask the police/state, is to make a civil case out of it and sue the company. Sadly, civil court has rarely any effect on the market, which can clearly be seen by the sony rootkit controversy. The EU might enforce some industry regulations in regard to backdoors/spyware, but I would not count on it. To enforce such regulations, they would need to prevent importation of devices that break said law, and that's a rather large step to take politically.
The Gross State Product does NOT belong to the State, though.
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Eclipse Foundation's Orion - An Open Source Platform For Cloud-Based Development
But it's not 50% subsidy, it's just 50% things other than tuition. There's also various donations and grants.
A calling convention for ARM that supports proper tail-calls efficiently
I repeatedly click and drag, click and drag. I have no idea why I do it.
What Happens When NYU Students Discover They Can Email 40,000 People At Once
OVH have a data centre in Canada now. You can email them to get the i3 Kimsufi server there.
Via Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/11/orion-open-source-plat...

P.S. Functionn contains a whole lot more of awesome resources like Orion. There only a fraction of them I can post here at a time. Take a look if you're interested, and subscribe:

http://functionn.blogspot.com
Catch-up TV : No Limit, diffusé sur TF1, séduit
No Limit a déjà trouvé des adeptes. La série de Luc Besson, diffusée sur TF1, est en tête du Top 10 Catch-up TV. La Une domine avec Koh-Lanta, Danse avec les stars, Mentalist et Camping Paradis.
To be honest, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it wasn't to do with "thinking of what to do next", perhaps I just made that up in my memories.

However, I have clear memories of dragging boxes back and forth. They are so clear that I even remember inching the edge of the box closer and closer to the edge of an icon and seeing when it would select it. Also, I remember making the box thinner and thinner until it would either disappear, or you would get a single thick line when the dashed lines on either side were lined up with each other.

The only thing I don't remember is why or when I did it :)
I'm the opposite. Almost everything I have is at the knee of the price curve. Typically that's where I find good value.
That is true.

I wanted to email my tax data to my accountant. So, I made a self-extracting PGP archive several megabytes in size. Gmail wouldn't let me send it until I tacked on .remove after the .exe extension.

It's not really an unreasonable thing, IMO. Google is just making sure the file won't run semi-automatically upon being downloaded. Ending in a random extension prevents that, since the user has to deliberately rename the file first.
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The thing is upshot doesn't seem to trigger if portion of the screenshot is selected. Capturing the whole window works though.

Edit: someone has opened a github issue for this https://github.com/fwenzel/upshot/issues/28
Well, since it's listening to frequencies, any instrument that can be fine-tuned is "supported", but I guess they made this for instruments with cords, like guitar (explains the stratocaster-inspired name) and bass.
Each sentence or paragraph is another hurdle to clear. Marking a selection provides the satisfaction of marking that I cleared it (and allows me to avoid rereading too much when resuming after an interruption or break).

I get extra annoyed when something prevents this. For example, a PDF viewer that loses a selection on a shift-click, rather than expanding it. I feel this actually increases the effort of reading, by taking away the easy tracking benefit.
Politics is the Mind-Killer.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer
DeadDrops - anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing
I don't understand, who outside of the investor is supposed to gain value from a public trade? Aren't all public security transactions valueless outside of the investor?
Google Nexus 4 Launch - a Disaster of Catastrophic Proportions
I run noscript, solves that problem.
"any UI behavior that requires waiting seems pretty dubious to me..."

Deep down I really agree with that, but I become conflicted when I consider settings with severe limitations that have little else to turn to. For example: the timed hover to select on some Kinect games: touch screens that use longpress as a substitute for right-click; touchscreen keyboards with longpress as a shift-like behavior. It somehow seems regretfully acceptable when dealing with the limitations of a touch screen, single button, or no button environment.

One case where I think it is ok to require waiting are "Ejector seat button next to the radio" type situations where user action could have potentially disastrous consequences: I am glad I have to hold down my power button for some time to force a hardware restart.
I'm not so much worried about the cost of the printer, it's $50/lb price of the plastic that's bothering me.
MICROSOFT TO RELEASE UPDATE TO FIX RANDOM REBOOTING IN WINDOWS PHONE 8
Google.ro hacked after FBI arrest
Great idea. I may steal it. I do office hours 'for free' now, but this might add a nice charitable twist... Thanks.
Check out http://papertrailapp.com. Awesome service!
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Google’s Romanian Domain Gets Taken Down By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB
Unless something has changed:

1. It does take a few days.

2. You do need to be approved. I've heard of plenty of people signing up and getting approved, not about anyone who hasen't. I don't think it's a problem to get approved assuming you're really a startup. And for the record, you don't need to give them almost any information, save a website and filling out a few forms.

3. It lasts for 3 years. I think there's also a limit on how profitable you can be and still be eligible for the program, but it's something high. E.g., if you're making 1 million dollars in profit already, you're not eligible.

All in all, I sense from your tone that you're really looking down on this. But Microsoft is basically giving away thousands of dollars of software to any startup that wants it. Not just servers, but also Windows, the Office Suite, etc. This is a great opportunity and startups that aren't taking advantage of it are missing.
Isnt the Dropbox Public folder going away or is already removed for new users ? I think they stated that in the Annoucement of their new "Share a link" feature.

If you are a longtime dropbox user you will keep it though.
Reminds me of the Cold War when the CIA planted camera's inside XEROX copiers and was stealing everyone’s secrets for decades. http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=47ddf19823b89
funny thing is - trailers are today revealing much less than in the past.

If you have seen the movie True Grit - either the old or the new one - compare the trailer to the 1969 version, which essentially gives out all the plotpoints - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-j4GDqjv4 - and the trailer to the 2010 version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCu-zuAgM .
It's there on the site.

What instruments can Stratotune be used with?
Stratotune is suitable be used with instruments from the brass, string and woodwind families, including acoustic, classical and electric guitar.
Give your eyes a rest and stay focused using Black Screen of the Internet
I am a programmer and I use BlackScreen1.com to have a rest for my eyes during long hours of computer work. I switch to it when I want to divert attention for several seconds, so it helps me to stay focused. It's cool that it shows new random intro pic every visit. I can refresh the page multiple times and have a side show :-)
The California budget crises were created by the rule that required a 2/3 supermajority vote in both legislative houses to pass a budget that raised taxes. That rule was used by the minority Republicans during the recession to hold the state hostage to slash and burn government programs across the state. The rule was rescinded by voters in 2010 after they got sick of the insanity. Voters also just gave the Democrats a supermajority in the legislature. We will now have unimpeded Democratic rule.
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I have a win 8 professional license from DreamSpark(my university had to apply for this). The license I got was valid for 2 years, and I graduate in 6 months. So, it's not really hard like you say.
Cost has not been an issue for me. I've got 14 tables on DynamoDB - most at 5 read, 5 write, and one at 20 read, 10 write - and its been costing me around $50-$60 per month. IMHO cheaper than running a MySQL database and a slave instances.

It was great during development because I would create the tables in the morning, code all day and then delete the tables at the end of the day so I would only pay for 6-8 hours of provisioned throughput!
Why?

The article's target audience is not professional sysadmins, but people who would like to set-up a server and tweak it for their needs.

>> I can think of a number of reasons why someone might opt to go the Windows Server route.

Sure, but practically speaking this happens most often in the corporate env. See above re target audience.

>> can both be obtained for free through the DreamSpark program for college students and through the similar BizSpark program for startups and small businesses.

Why would anyone do this? Just type in terminal three commands and you are done. I am honestly curious - why would anyone use IIS except it mandatory per corporate P&P...?
Usually - when I'm reading - I don't have my hand on the mouse... Just they keyboard, so no... Funny how many people do... It would seem distracting to me.
It says this on the front page, under the Specifications tab:

Instrument Types: Any instrument capable of sustaining a tone in the detection range

The pitch detection combined with the pitch pipe means that you can use it to tune almost anything tuneable. I've certainly tuned lots of weird things with Cleartune over the last couple of years. I'm not sure what this app brings to the tuner table, but I'd be interested to find out.
Funny thing is that the "new and better" Google Groups don't work for me on any Android browser on my tablet, at all.

Why make a website and not test it on your own ecosystem? Sometimes I don't get Google.
Scrub values in JavaScript live
Technically it's not just cease-fire when you end a war, it's capitulation on one side.
It's weird that one can't easily find any links to their github page from the site. Here it is:

https://github.com/jstat/jstat

I almost thought they weren't on GitHub.
Why I Like BlackBerry 10 and Why I Don’t Hate iOS/Android
Accessing the back door by a non-authorized party would probably be criminal.

There is a big difference between leaving a back door open through incompetence versus leaving it open with the intention of breaching your customers networks.
paying with bank transfer I do not recall any such trouble.
Abusing Twitter API
"I found TinyGrab, which works with OS X's screenshot function. I can even upload the files to my own server, but only using unencrypted FTP, which is scarily insecure."

!true. tinygrab supports sftp. doesn't it?
What's better - if you click on it, you see just that.

A blogger logo. That's it. That's where the link leads. To blogger logo.
CloudFlare's goal is to power a better Internet. While that will inherently mean we will increasingly find ourselves in difficult situations like this one, we will continue to be guided by the principle that it is not our role to decide whether one idea or another is correct, but instead to ensure that all ideas can find equal footing online.

I wonder what jgrahamc has to say about Cloudflare shielding sites used to ddos people.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1182576
correlations to age and wearing glasses would be interesting
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They can also sue. Together with disabling the app, that's plenty of 'anything' to enforce their guidelines.
Ask HN: Will native C++ compiler merge with C#?
See this : http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/MS-working-on-a-same-compiler-for-C-AND-C--Not-in-incubation-but-for-production-

How much truth is in this post? Should it be taken seriously by the hardcore C++ programmers (game devs etc) ??
In theory other cash equity holders, and to a lesser extent brokers, exchanges and potentially others in the order book...
My current plan is to live in the great cities of the world, 3 months at a time. Since 3 months is what you can usually get for a visa. So far I stayed in London which was fantastic, for 5 months, and have been in Paris for 4 months, which has been great for learning french and getting lots of work done.

Last year I was just working in my home city, doing the same sort of stuff. This year has been a lot more exciting, met great people, and worked with some exciting startups in London. Fantastic.
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I'm not having any luck finding the Sen research you cite. And without it, I'm not sure what you mean by "IRV is highly unlikely to produce an outcome which violates transitivity and independence." Link?
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"100Mbps guaranteed" is a little suspect given that is the theoretical maximum speed of fast ethernet. Maybe they have gigabit but I doubt it.

I am also very suspicious because the uplink speed for the fast ethernet switch the server is on can not support "100Mbps guaranteed" for every port on the switch simultaneously.
Thanks for responding. This is food for thought and may be encouraging. We "just jumped on Python 3.0 shortly after release" and have been using it without a glitch for four years. I don't doubt your claim about Python 3.0's "readiness for production", though, because workstation number and text crunching "production" and high-volume web "production" are so different, but (in addition to other languages) we've been using Python3 as our only Python for years with no (known) problems.

I'd prefer to start doing webdev in Python3, too, as long as we can just work in Python3 without having our framework's (or our framework's vast, tortured userbase's) endless upgrade problems become our problems. We have no Python2 legacy baggage of our own, and I have no desire to go back and pick up anybody else's.

So when, approximately, will Django 1.6 ship, with "no reservations" about Python3 for production?

And do you have an estimate for when Django will deprecate Python2 entirely, so that Python3 programmers will become the assumed target for all features, docs, tutorials, code snippet examples, add-on modules, etc?
I should have added something about the Visa situation. If you have a parent or grandparent born in a European country, take your birth certificate with you and try and get local citizenship along with a passport. Almost everybody I had met while travelling had done this.

Check the websites for the various consulates, embassies and travel advice from your home country to find out what you can and can't do. Also remember that in many second and third world countries the written rules and the real rules are two different things - this is how I came to get a third passport in Serbia for $10 which I used to get into Hungary (legally, this time) in the summer season.

There are also special type of visa, for eg. with an Australian passport you can easily (meaning, just an application) get a 2 year working holiday visa in the UK

For everywhere else where you have Visa waivers, what I would do is use it as an excuse to get away to another country and come back in. I did this in order to stay in South Africa for 2+ years. Never had any problems getting the visa renewed each time.

It all depends on which passport you carry. I am fortunate enough to have an Australian passport, but there are other western passports that are good with Visa issues.

Flights in Europe and Asia are very cheap, lots of established low cost carriers.

The other tip is that even in the most expensive cities in the world you can find shared accommodation with enough space for a bed, desk and internet connection for a few hundred dollars a week. Just ask around. That type of accommodation is usually clustered around suburbs, for eg. Acton and Shepherds Bush in London.

I really should do what Alex has done here and write some blog posts with tips and experiences.
The new 13" Pro w/ Retina is probably the most perfect incarnation of a laptop available now. Apple finally did away with the rarely used optical drive which means it weights only slightly more than the Air. The resolution of the retina is great. I've used several 15" MBP's and the 1440x900 was never satisfying.

It basically comes down to high resolution vs half a pound in weight. Almost all developers I've worked with, prefer higher resolutions so the choice is simple for me.
If memory serves, Amazon was the first to come out with street view, via their a9.com site, circa 2005. However, they canned it before coverage got behind a few major metropolitan areas.

Then came Google Maps and a much cooler street view implementation.
btw..did you consider https://droplr.com
Straight to a paywall.
glad to hear there's many like us in the community.
I have been managing my business online and travelling for 11 years now.
My own RTW: http://www.tripfoto.com/roundtheworld/ (excuse the horrible website, here's better http://www.tripfoto.com).
Greetings from Riga.
Thank you for posting the link to the Github page...additionally for those interested, the library is by John Resig. Put it in the title earlier, got moderated out.

The library is also funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html).
No. Both the "safe" and "unsafe" versions are asynchronous. The safe version waits for a response from the server before invoking a callback. The unsafe version does not, but that doesn't make it synchronous -- the operation is still potentially executing on the server when the function returns.
I have never heard of an ISP limiting customers to running any number VPSs on a dedicated server.
The acme editor, and keyboard vs mouse
Seconded. I'd love to see a post about your experiences.
Talk about overwhelming. I could read about everything in just the first guys answer and it'd take me a full day. Not to mention the second guys answer, who seemed to provide more links and content to go over.
If pushing a new website to the webserver is the best argument of WAMP over LAMP, it sounds a bit odd. Pushing a new simplistic website to a LAMP (default one click installed), has as much difficulty as pushing files to a directory (/var/www). Even if Visual Studio gives a one-button-system, I would still not call that a killer feature over placing files in a directory.

When one pick between WAMP and LAMP, the question one should ask is if a) what framework matches best with the developers skill/knowledge and what features the site is going to have, b) what performance requirements are there, and c) what legacy code will have to run along side. Everything else is just buzz.
Capitulation, or crushing / collapse, yes, plus one.
The greatest Google Mail feature you're not using is definitely Forward All.
Forward an entire thread of emails, in chronological order, somewhere.
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The journey of Viraliti till the Tlabs demo day
While you are removing "backdoors", you secure your boot loader, right?

And I am sure you realize there is no way to secure windows server file system (off-line Password and Registry editors).

I usually don't worry about the NOC & DC staff, but since it is the topic here I am commenting.
+1 for flask fanboy :)
Supercell is Accel’s fastest growing company ever. (And it has a ball pit)
And how many also are OCD?
I went on it a lot during that operation, it was never down, actually.

Most of the official israeli sites were not affected, or only very shortly. However, a lot of small private - politically insignificant - owned websites (groceries, cafés, kibbutzim, craftsmen ...) were.
Definitely. Saved my arse countless times.
Using binary trees to generate random, solvable mathematical expressions.