skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> although i'm not sure why you refer to them as 'poor-mans copyright'

just a misunderstanding, I was searching my brain for the phrases you mention and out popped 'poor mans copyright'[1]. You are indeed correct this is a totally different thing and "Mountweasels" (fictitious artifacts) are a very sound method of establishing the originality of certain work... I have to wonder if "Mountweasels" hasn't krept into our language in just such a manner though!

[1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_man%27s_copyright]
luks like its all full of big claims without substantial reasoning :S ... or mebbe i dint read it right :(
It doesn't bother me much for a simple reason: Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation applies to cloud computing. Right now there isn't enough processing power or storage on a portable device to store everything you would want out of a thing like this, but give it time. And then it's hardware, it doesn't have to be ad supported -- the device can know all about you, but it's your device.

So that's one possible future. And the tech they're developing is pretty agnostic to whether the information it collects is stored in the cloud or just on the device, so let's try not to be too pessimistic about something cool just yet.
Wow, thanks for the insight. I had no idea!

You're right. It did set off alarm bells at the time, but i kept having doubts since i myself am essentially a non-developer and was unsure if perhaps my argument was weak.

Now, especially after having read your response not only am I very relieved, but am realising that I had more admiration for these developers than they deserved.
Lol, frightening indeed. My bad.
Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ghc
Glorious Haskell Compiler, actually.
Once investigations are complete you should have your property returned.

As absurd as it sounds, it does make sense to seize all property capable of storing data, and that includes games consoles, iPods, etc.
How to help the open web
Apple Campus 2 by Foster + Partners (November 2012)
How do you tell what music is controlled by the RIAA?
Reminds me of a joke:

Knock knock?
Who's there?
[thirty second pause]
Java.
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear, I was referring to the search results page, (that's why I mentioned the red bar)

Thanks.
>"Springs back to life"... talk about sensationalism.

[...]

>The original article is a much more appropriate read

From your the first line (in bold) of your link:

> The world's oldest original digital computer springs back into action at TNMOC
Figuring out which labels are and are not RIAA affiliated has become more difficult in recent years. My former go-to place for this information, riaa radar, no longer exists, and the RIAA members page (http://riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=aboutus_members) is of questionable accuracy.

For example, until recently Matador records was listed as a member. I emailed Matador and they basically told me that RIAA keeps re-listing them without permission. I don't follow the music industry closely enough to know which other labels are mis-listed as RIAA members, but I'm certain the number is non-zero.
I, for one, completely reject the author's claims. He must be wrong just by the simple fact that he is not citing enough data to back up his predictions. Definitely needs a better forecasting model.
Inside a cavity duplexer
Please note that although the latest commits on [1] were 2 months ago, for a long while it hasn't been updated and/or usable to a decent degree.

It seemed to have been deprecated in favor of [2] when the original author of lex-pass left Facebook.

Sorry if any of this information is a little off/incomplete, I think it's been 2 years when I oversaw a BSc paper revolving around extending lex-pass.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/lex-pass
[2]: https://github.com/facebook/pfff
Depends on the country. In the UK I can't think of any cases of downloaders being pursued by the BPI (British equivalent of the RIAA). They have deliberately erred on the side of 'educating' consumers about legal alternatives to piracy rather than dragging them through the courts.

Heck, the authorities took down Oink's Pink Palace, arrested the owner, then ended up dropping all charges against him and not pursuing any action against the site's users.
I meant an actual partnership, with co-branding and everything. A mention of GNU buried in a page most people aren't going to look at won't have the desired effect. Look at the website for any convention and you'll see what I mean. For example: http://www.e3expo.com/splash/

And hopefully it'll work better than this: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/29/linux-car-first-to-crash-...
> A computer can be connected to a network without having Internet access.

In fact, as the Internet is essentially a network of networks some of which may be connected and disconnected at arbitrary points in time, it is a bit difficult to strictly define what it means to have Internet access.

In practice it would probably mean something like "can access a large majority of servers that consider themselves to be Internet servers", which is however impractical to test for. A "good enough" substitute is often enough to test connectivity to a few representative services which are unlikely to be unreachable all at the same time if you consider yourself to have "Internet access" (Google, Amazon, ...).

In this case it would however be best to test connectivity between the user and the specific server that the user is supposed to access.
In my opinion, B2B is a business model, not a market. Stocking washrooms with toilet paper, providing office temps, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux support all are in different markets.

Domain expertise is important.
If you really think that's the case then you don't understand Disqus/Reddit OR Redis.
True, then again the temptation for them to start feeding you personalized real time ads, were your whole life is their ad canvas, might be too great to resist. Lets wait and see.
Neuro-censors... you mean like this guy? http://vimeo.com/46304267
;)
The original shares the same ridiculous title but the article itself is a much better read.
I suppose it depends on if you're trying persuade another programmer or the end customer.

The way it is framed seems to suggest that they have an existing (probably solo) developer who is used to not using version control and is frightened by the thought of adding new tools and processes.

If you introduce such a person to version control it will necessitate them spending some time to learn the system which they may be defensive about since they see it as some outsider encroaching on their territory.

In such a case the best bet might be to follow their method until you hit some situation where there is a problem or significant reduction in productivity as a result (shouldn't take long) and then demonstrate the virtues of using source control.

If on the other hand it is a non technical person who is making specific dictates about source control then that might raise another set of red flags.
Microsoft's current strategy with everything seems to be:

"me too! me too!!!"
I just bought a domain. I will build my portfolio and blog more. Thanks.
>My ideas are simple ones, I like them, maybe they will grow big someday but while they are small going legal means I will pay more in taxes (time for bureaucracy is not free IMO) than I earn.

You will never pay literally more than you earn because that's not how taxes work. If you're just talking about the extra time it takes to do your taxes, it's really not that bad. Keeping track of how much you make and spend isn't very difficult when everything is electronic and records are stored for you. Plus, you need to do that anyway for the sake of your business. Get some basic tax software, enter in how much you made and how much you spent. Pay what the program tells you to pay.
I typically say when a feature is released to testing/customer acceptance, I'm done the spirit of what I was approved to work on, and the work is both billable in full at that point, and the warranty clock of 30 days starts.
I highly recommend the book "A Farewell to Alms" that gets a mention in the article.
Probable mistype, you mean tldr.it right ?
Just saying that as a cofounder of tldr.io, whose goal is similar to that of SkimThat: provide human written summaries ;)
It's the same black blob. As usual, there's no higher-resolution data for small remote islands.

Though if it weren't labeled as "Sandy Island", I would think it's just an artifact of some kind. It certainly doesn't look like any real island at that distance.

http://goo.gl/maps/NUWhA
As was pointed out elsewhere, this was applied for a year before Google Glass was shown at all.
The Spinning Spheres Model of the Universe [pdf]
Waiting Rooms Must Be Disrupted.
I visited the doctors office yesterday and while waiting thought, "this place is miserable." I understand that a lot of people who visit them are miserable as well, but for crying out loud, the atmosphere of a waiting room at a doctors/dentists office is terrible.

Everyone I've ever visited seems to be the same. The same television showing Dr. Oz or News, the same germ infected instant coffee thermos, the same uncomfortable chairs crammed so close to each other, the same three month old magazines, the same droll wallpaper and generic motivational framed pictures, the same.. you get the picture.

I got to thinking about it. About how to possibly improve these environments for both the customers and the doctors. Ways to possibly invest further in the atmosphere, equipment, sanitation, and technology. Ways doctors could leverage people (users) in their waiting rooms to recoup the costs of an upgrade investment (and potentially generate profits after breaking even). I've got a couple different ideas that are no doubt, "out there", but I think it's fun to play what if!

Do you hate waiting rooms? Do you think its a medium that should and could be disrupted?
This looks great - but that sub-headline is almost unreadable (too thin/too light) "Warn your users when their network etc." (Chrome OSX)
Show HN: simple middleware for node.js that routes URLs to js files
Yes, it's usually best to keep compiled files out of version control unless you have a specific reason for doing otherwise. Most IDEs will generate seperate src and bin folders which makes this easy enough. Just initialise the repo in the src folder and it will have no knowledge that the compiled files exist.

Phrased another way, if compiled languages were indeed incompatible with source control then that would be a reason for discounting doing serious development in compiled languages altogether.

You can also point out that git was designed specifically for use in a compiled project (the linux kernel).
Thanks, the article makes more sense when I read it with that definition of big data.
Just to clarify something, you state that you would not want to work on site as a contractor. Have you been working from home on these jobs? If so, have you had to go on site to secure these jobs first? What has been the on site/remote ratio?
TLDR: Mining big data collected on users won't boost the ability of companies to sell products to the degree big data proponents claim.

This article is garbage since it totally discounts all the other uses of big data. I, for one, work in the risk analytics sector where 'big data' is mined to try and identify which assets have the biggest impact in a risk profile.
I don't think they could move to 9.2 in 2010 ;)
Nice. I'd remove the animation though. I think that animation is just annoyance (even slight) in structures that do not require animation. That extra few fractions of a second can mean a lot. That's why on Windows or OSX I remove the animation to hide and show application windows.
He really could have done without that bizarre strawman narrative in the middle and provided an actual argument besides "You're all wrong, just stop".
Pointless response.
This is a just discussion of the hype cycle, you can apply the very general rules to almost any technology. No new insight here, it feels like link bait.
Quite funny film. The premise appears to be happening around me (in London, UK) as the social housing and unemployable people have lots of children compared to non-social housing people. I'm not talking small amounts more - we're talking 6-8 children versus 1-2. In my children's school, 26 out of 32 children in the class are entirely dependent on welfare, and this is a nice bit of London apparently.

However, I feel people are getting stupider. It's not because of breeding but because they contract out all but menial thought to technology. Long since gone have the days where any mental effort was to be expended on performing a task.
No, coding standards bicker about such frivolous things as whether to use _, m, or m_ for member variables. Just pick one and stick with it. Arguing over one or the other is both useless and utterly stupid.
I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product?

There are certainly a bunch of areas where Microsoft are also innovating (see Microsoft Research).
huh?

for me "big data" is the emergence of scalable tools for handling data sets that are much bigger than you can handle with one computer. (ex. Hadoop)

there's definitely a feeding frenzy here because the spend on hardware could get high (say 200 powerful servers), therefore the spend on associated software and services could be high too.

a few issues stalk big data

for any IT project there's the issue of how much value you can create per bit. Imagine Facebook has a $10 ARPU, for instance. They can't afford to use more than $10 a year worth of hardware and electricity to offer you the service.

Thus, if your "big data" project is going to cost $500,000 you ought to have a plan to create more than that in value.

often the best way to deal with "big" data is to make it small. I had my eyes on a 50 TB data set a few months ago but didn't have the budget to work with the whole thing.

I realized I could take a statistical sample of just 50 GB which I could download to my house and process on my cluster here. I can't get an accurate answer to ~every~ possible question with my 50GB sample, but I got answers to the most pressing questions and discovered that a 1 TB sample would be good enough for the toughest questions I wanted to ask.
Unprecedented simulation of 3.6T particles in the universe's 1st 13B years
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Hair Loss
How cloudy is that!?
However, patents versus material commitment are very different. The latter requires some effort.
> A blog is not a protected computer, which is a term with a definition in the law --- it's one that used by financial institutions, by the US government, or that affects interstate commerce. Again: not a blog.

That is flatly and totally wrong. Any computer connected to the internet is a "protected computer" for the purposes of this statute: full stop, end of story. Additionally, some computers not connected to the internet are protected computers.

It's possible that a blog on an intranet machine that is absolutely not accessible to the outside world could be argued not to be a "protected computer". Any blog routable from the outside world absolutely is.

Every blog in the world accessible from the internet is in fact being run on a "protected computer". Accessing any of these machines without authorization or exceeding authorization can in fact be charged as a federal misdemeanor.

This is not arguable. It's exactly what the statute says, it's exactly what the DOJ says, it's exactly what every court to consider the issue has said.

For example, here's a direct quote from one case: "the latter two elements of the section 1030(a)(2)(C) crime [obtaining information from a protected computer] will always be met when an individual using a computer contacts or communicates with an Internet website".

Note the word ALWAYS. All that remains to be proven is that you weren't drunk or otherwise not in control of your faculties, and that you did it without authorization or exceeding authorization.

People take issue with me calling you a knucklehead. But you are making statements that anyone with a cursory knowledge of the law would know to be false, and you are making them repeatedly and refusing to educate yourself about it or to investigate in any way or to consider the possibility that you might be wrong.
iOS 6 fixes bug that sent iMessages to stolen iPhones
Delivering a working product that will continue working for years, and is easy to understand, fix and extend, is true productivity.
Well, yes, but he also supplied some arguments why his idea might be better which is what I was referring to.
So MS is copying Google on this, despite that they put in this patent application over a year ago, and despite that these types of devices have been discussed for decades and only now practical? This is very obviously not a "me too" effort, but even if it was... who cares? Competition is a good thing.
Microsoft Research: innovating to keep ideas away from other technology companies through patent hoarding.

I'm not convinced anyone should be developing this product.
Yeah - When I was providing IT support services, we used to run into a similar kind of problem all the time. In the end we realised that we were going to execute in a way where they had no option but to use the tools that we wanted. We at all cost avoided getting into a debate with internal IT staff, and as for the client gave them only one option which was to do things the way that we wanted.

Your method of using appropriate timing to introduce new tools is also what we employed and works very well.
I do think the big data promise is overblown. Looking at my local grocery store, the american one is always trying to collect my phone number and tie it to my purchases. That will give them an edge more than what they have to pay their multi-million dollar IT budget to satisfy this? The store is barely filled during peak times.

Meanwhile, the asian grocery store down the road has old credit card terminals and no phone tracking or other gimmicky crap. They sell cheap vegetables and are PACKED and are huge and they rent out their space to other vendors, Walmart style. No place to move in peak shopping time. This is because of their greater selection and vastly lower prices.

There are other factors, but I don't think keeping track of what everyone buys will give them some insight to raising prices on a few items.

The IT edge was realized by companies like Walmart and Costco in their supply side and inventory, I don't think big data will give them a similar edge which is what they are aiming for. Like Target gave targeted advertisement to pregnant women, will that edge really vastly offset their number crunching IT costs?
Maybe I'm way off, but I think this is kind of what Google intended in some sort of way with their Google X lab. They're exploring innovative and new ideas but I think it's with the intent of spurring on this competitive spirt with the other tech giants. One company exploring these ideas is innovative but may not make much progress; having a bunch of companies compete to come up with the best version of these ideas may make the progress on these technologies increase rapidly.
The landing page needs some serious design upgrade. In order to convince a startup you need to be a sample of what they want to be. Right now, you are not.

A 'real time' of jobs getting finished so users can see it without logging in would be nice (for those who allow it).

You are in a somewhat saturated market, great to hear you got traction.
Measuring Language Popularity is Harder Than Many Think
It gets even funnier when they mention 'security considerations' as a major benefit of using Java for said 'intelligent embedded devices', and that Java was 'originally designed and conceived to run in embedded devices [and] was precisely focused on the portability and productivity problems faced by embedded developers'.

Last few times I read about widespread cross-platform malware that affected Windows, Linux, OS X and even Android, sometimes all at the same time, these exploits were based on Java security holes :-S
Considering how recent the study of epigenetics is, I doubt we can make a meaningful analysis of this. Nutrition quality has gone up incredibly in the last century and its impact remains to be seen.
A Major Milestone in the Journey of Brain Controlled Computer Cursors
Didn't work for me in Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on Windows

* Worked after I relaunched Chrome and updated to 23.0.1271.64
"according to two recent Oracle-commissioned white papers."
Seems related to the big Xbox roadmap leak from earlier this year. 'Fortaleza' was the codename I think if anyone wants to do some digging.
OT, but it took me way too long to figure out how to make the slides advance. I'm an idiot :)
Risk analytics has always been an area for data crunching. It is not new and will benefit from big data advances. I think the argument is how far do you get until you have financially limiting diminishing returns.
Agreed. It should be "GHC Developer Leaving Microsoft".
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError:

at com.embedded.AutoPilot.flight(AutoPilot.java:1240)
Thats the best video I've seen in a while. Thanks for sharing hehe.
I've been having the same issue for months now, although I just got around to googling it to find this post. I'm seeing if creating a post solves the issue... lets see!

Edit: Nope, creating a reply to this post did not fix the problem
Thanks, that is a good point about the tooltip. I think having the collocate plus the node word in the tooltip will make it much easier to grasp. Thank you for the feedback.
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Firmware Leaked
Business Intelligence Just Got Better — Review of Yurbi
I think these terms spring into existence because a concept is understandable in the mainstream but still requires specialist expertise to accomplish. If excel could handle 50GB datasets it wouldn't be called big data, just excel.
"- "but we can just find a guy on odesk for $5/hour" (reply: OK, you do that, and come find me when it falls apart)."

Yes, except skip the 'find me when ...' part.
Instead of making snippy comments can someone please explain why java will not be used on embedded devices? There is big demand for java interfaces on wireless sensor networks for instance
I wonder if, at some time in the past, some cartographer examining a satellite image saw something that looked like a long sandy island and labelled it "sandy island" as a provisional description rather than a name, intending to get back to it. But they never did, and the description became a name.
I think this is one of our main problem areas. I've been A/B testing for the last 6 months but I think this is something that I can drastically improve on.

Thank you for your time.
iOS does not allow you to run any sort of non-apple just-in-time compiler (there is no public API to get executable mmaped pages to be precise), so a no go, you cannot.
I am now standing in a corner, bowing my head in shame.
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I'm curious what those 50TB were of. I don't know of many datasets of that size.
Meet the 'dorm room VC'
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Using django for a distributed commenting system?

Hammer and screws.
Well, think of the most efficient collector of water (and sunshine) you can. Water bottles have to look like that, or at least .. have a spigot you can attach a bottle to ..
I took a year out of Uni to do a placement / internship. Was paid 17k for that. Left uni and went straight to work at another consultancy for 34k. Lasted 10 months before going to a smaller company that are now paying me 44k.

Not a standard salary path I admit, but it is possible to play the market if you are a good technical and business person.

Edit: All salaries are in £ (pounds).
Edit: I am based in London:
Edit: I am not in banking.