skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still confused about this whole thing. What did he do that he needed to resign for? As far as I can tell, he had an affair, which isn't exactly uncommon, and probably has zero influence on how he worked in his job.
It might be better to use a more standard license, maybe Apache or BSD with an extra clause prohibiting "sale in whole apart from use in a larger software distribution." IANAL but it might hold up better and be less confusing.

Otherwise, obviously really great work and very generous. Thanks.
Any date set at all? China blocks twitter, thanks for the info.
I don't think the 1-yr warranty claim rate is a needle-moving issue. Quality isn't it that bad. And extended warranties more than pay for themselves. The upgrade price for RAM basically includes the cost of repair and some extra room.
I'm not sure I see the difference between this program and a company that distributes a similar system for employees to track all the same information?
Daily Report: Using Apps to Lure Shoppers Into Stores
Down voters please explain. He not reply so far is a link that substantiates the above advice. An Apple.com recommends a occasional full discharge, mainly to calibrate the percentage estimator.
As long as there's software and media content you'll always have to be in some ecosystem. Getting out so there's no ecosystem is pretty much impossible.
"Human beings aren't cattle."

Approaching an airport security control a while back where security agents where shouting "Remove your shoes, belts and jackets, and move along!" repeatedly gave me the distinct impression that the TSA strongly disagrees with you.
>America has shifted far more Socialist (with predictable results).

Good lord, wtf are you talking about? Please keep your glaring demonstrations of ignorance in politics off this site. There are plenty of other sites for that.
Let's not localize programming languages. Please _
One of the 3 or so most senior engineers at Google is Sanjay Ghemawat (http://research.google.com/pubs/SanjayGhemawat.html). I always joke that it must be a pseudonym for a group of at least 10 people, judging from the number of files in our core libraries that have his name as the author. That guy is a machine, and it's very good code too.

So it's definitely possible to be a very senior engineer and still write code.
Me too, really made the article stand out for me.
>but ignoring it would be pretty foolish...

I have seen no evidence that this is the case. He gives his opinion, and people say, "oh my god, did you see what Woz said?!" and it's 'news' for a few days. And then everyone forgets about it. The only reason anyone listens to him anymore is because he was at the right place at the right time 30 years ago.
Yes this is true, but to be 100% honest, it wasn't finished. If you remember very early Android prototypes, they were in about the same place.
Even Stallman wants you to live in an ecosystem, it's just his vision of an ecosystem.
Nice work, but shame they're not in SVG format. Photoshop files are notoriously awkward to read for Open Source software.
Didn't need to say it at all. I probably wasn't being clear enough but I was referring to early versions that were called smart precisely because they removed the need for the programmer to count because they counted themselves. Hence 'smart'. Before boost and others cleaned it all up.

As others are pointing out they have advantages and disadvantages. It all depends on the situation. But they're certainly not free because they have a scope cost. Code size and simplifying compiler optimisation are important too. I think it's worth that pointing out.
I would imagine it is legitimately cheaper to design and manufacturer the devices this way.
Top 10 worst argument I've ever seen. Think about it.
Looks like there are a few positions: http://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/#q=%22architect%22&#...
No, that's not apt at all. The "trade" isn't C, Java, Ruby, Python, whatever. The "trade" is solving problems with computers. Usually the same types of problems.
$30 wearable eye trackers.
European Parliament warns against UN Internet control
Oh good. Anyone know if that will work with EE in the UK?
Their documentation has been hit hard by spam.

http://simplecartjs.org/documentation/google_checkout

Looks like a great library though!
Wow, you're right. The random distribution looks far more "meaningful".
Yes another reason why I still bother to maintain an email server for 150 people in our family and friends circles.

It is one hundred times more expensive than industrial hosting but, if you know what you want there is only one way to get it.
Great read.

I disagree with him on bots, though. CCP has a highly evolved bot system which is tied into their build system, so that unit tests can include player behavior. This isn't directly relevant to load testing (although CCP does that with bots as well), but it certainly demonstrates why bots are worth the effort.

And if you've got a full-fledged QA department, bot writing is a good QA engineer task. This is also a decent way to give ambitious QA guys a coding task that doesn't have the potential to affect customer-facing game play.

Without violating NDAs I can say I've worked at MMO companies that found bots invaluable for load testing. Replays will definitely catch things that bots won't, but if you're thinking about how many players you can fit in a zone, etc., etc. bots are great.
Thanks Adam. Beautiful icons.
When the safety issue blew up they asked the company about it and they confirmed the "mistakes" are intentional to catch copiers.
The hacking scenes in most movies are atrocious. Remember that movie Hackers back in the 90's? There's a few scenes where they hack into a supercomputer using (at best) 28.8bps modems on Mac laptops and they're presented with GUI's that represent them graphically flying through a filesystem while searching for some files.

It's like tangue says, geeks in front of a shell just wouldn't be sexy enough.
> I'm fairly confident that the PC revolution would have happened with or without Woz.

I don't like this argument at all.

I'm fairly confident that any single invention or discovery in the history of the world would have happened with or without the person we credit it to, someone else would have done it anyway. But that doesn't change the fact that it is an achievement and doesn't give you the right to dismiss the work the person did.
I really like the idea. 30 seconds is intense and turns it into a game. A way to "cheat" is to hit reply and if you aren't signed into Twitter a window pops up with whatever you have typed in so far and gives you an infinite amount of time to finish your response.

I answered 1/1 questions and it was about vibrato when singing. Now I'm having a discussion about it. Happy to help this person learn to improve their technique.
I think 'denounce' might be a bit strong. Your friend should start by asking his colleague if he can provide some 1:1 feedback (guidelines here aren't bad, key is to be specific about behaviors: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/giving-constructive-fe...), and if nothing changes he should voice his concern to his manager.
> You're blind to the box you're currently living in.

I definitely feel this all the time. Just about the time I start feeling comfortable building webapps, I step back and see _all the programming_ I'm not doing. Writing webapps in Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript in any number of flavors (Rails, Django, Flask, web.py, node, Backbone) still has the same feel, because it's all for the web; there's a common goal.

"Sprachgefühl" is perhaps a useful word here — having a "feel" for languages is all you need to start learning new ones. It's even truer for programming than it is for natural languages.
Yes. I simply followed the procedure as shown in the OP.

You also need a LTE compatible Micro SIM card. Most phones sold by the canadian carriers nowadays do have them, even if they are not 4G.
Apple are planning: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

Sony made the following literally YEARS ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasstron
I guess I'm lucky enough to never have seen that class in code I've seen. :)

That seems like typical Microsoft object-orientation. It's not really much of encapsulation. Reminds me of MFC :-/
On the old teletypes if you made a recording of the modem chatter and played it back into the modem coupler (300 baud) it printing out the entire conversation. (I did this.)
> Try putting a bigger SSD in your Air sometime

There are aftermarket Air SSDs.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/

Note that they even sell IDE drive upgrades.
iTunes through the ages
You're correct. I'm wrong.

With that being said, how does his approach work for, e.g., writing software for airplanes?
Hear Hear. Haven't heard that one before but it probably has quite some truth to it. Sort of like the old: "Science advances one funeral at a time" - Max Planck.

Anyways. His criticisms are all good ones, and yet I can't help but feel like he's missing the big picture- that or he thinks we are just doomed.

In the short to medium term future (5-25years) biofuels are probably not the answer they've been hyped to be. Yet there are still some places where they will still work well, such as any thing that isn't in contact with the grid. These biofuels will be competing with oil that must be drilled through kilometers of ocean and earth, or from injecting massive amounts of steam into the ground... talk about inefficient.

Further, biofuels do not necessarily need to use arable land or potable water.

In particular I'd like to know specifics about reports of "higher efficiency" than should be possible. I wonder if these reports aren't based on efficiency as calculated from creating biomass. One thing that immediately comes to mind, is that perhaps simple circulation and dispersal of light in water can account for increased "surface area" that makes up for the "max efficiency at 20% sunlight" statement.
Something that came to mind is if you put an RFID detector near toilet doors and visibly show a count of how many people it thinks are in there, you could easily demonstrate what a terrible violation of privacy it is.

Edit: You could also show who and how often, but I'm scared you'd be arrested...
California Milk Processor Board Files UDRP for GotMILF.com
>No offense but I am almost certain, you will not be asking this question if Woz was praising Apple and dissing Microsof

Wrong. I'm asking these questions because I want to know why people fawn over Woz's opinion. It's the same opinion that thousands or millions of people hold, but no one cares when they say it. For some reason, because Wozniak worked at Apple many years ago, when he says it, it holds more weight? I'm much more interested in the opinions of people who analyze the strategy of Microsoft and Apple and who actually make -good- predictions, rather than some guy who worked with Steve Jobs 30 years ago.
This is a great point, but raises issues around the entire US public education system that often times crosses the line of babysitting vs. education (I know nothing about this school).

Managing a bunch of 15 - 19 YO's is pretty challenging and as schools continue to get their budget raised or cut, based on attendance, it will be more important to manage attendance vs. GPA / performance. Having kids safely in school, with butt in seat in class, will be continue to be a driving KPI.

Human beings aren't cattle, but an education system built around preparing kids for a 9 - 5, factory job, is essentially a cattle farm.
I agree on (1). Typedef obscures more than it helps.

On (2), I think the solution is intrusiveness. intrusive data structures and intrusive_ptr should be used more in C++.

The dislike for intrusiveness is rooted on equating classes with responsibilities. A single responsibility is often spread over several classes, because the classes form a useful cluster. A clear case is items of a collection. If an object already knows it's an item in a collection, there's really no harm in using intrusive lists.
Job Interviews Should Not Be a Trivia Contest
Who still uses typewriters? Prisons, police stations and baby-boomers, it seems.
Yossi Kreinin wrote a good essay on that topic in 2009: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/the-nomadic-programmer.html
Companies are also free to pollute and in some cities the pollution is so bad it seems like a weather system.

You mentioned your libertarian leaning. I find that hilarious. Yes, there's an intersection with libertarianism, but there is a lot that doesn't intersect.
> [edit] More downvotes please. Fits our industry with booing of people that demand facts and upvotes for people with strong opinions with no ground in reality.

The content of your comment is true. The tone is profoundly irritating. Nothing to do with facts or opinions.
Why haven't we solved the gravitation issue for these sort of spacecrafts yet? Can't we get gravitation if we do a spinning part around the ship like suggested here?

http://youtu.be/3kuPkc7D35U?t=1m10s

How long would it take us to go to Mars at current speeds? A year? What would be the ideal travel time till there so we don't get affected by space radiation too much?
What is the difference between a warrant and a court order? Both presumably have judicial oversight, so is it just a difference in the standard required to issue one?

This reminds me of an experience I had several years ago. My sweet grandma fell prey to a scam where someone called her, impersonating me, and said I was in trouble in a foreign country and needed money. She sent some money via Western Union (or a comparable service, I don't remember which one) to my name, and the scammer picked the money up. To do this the scammer needed ID under my name. I called up the company and asked to see a copy of the ID that was used, since I wanted to know if any of my documents had been compromised.

The company said they wouldn't release that information without a subpoena, which seemed reasonable to me (for all they knew, I was an attacker trying to steal someone else's ID). But I couldn't find any way of getting a court order of any kind. It seemed reasonable to me that I should have standing to see what ID was used to impersonate me and steal money from my grandmother, but I couldn't find any options for actually obtaining it.

In this situation, I would have loved a way to obtain a court order for this information.
Does that mean I could use the Nexus 4 on Verizon?
How Boxee Saved Our Thanksgiving (And How The Jets Ruined It)
It's a matter of resources. It was a very ambitious project, and they didn't have the funding behind it that Apple and Google do.
Most companies choose a stack and keep it. Developers don't even get a say.
Why? They only look slow and difficult looking backwards.

If you'd lived through the use of them you'd know that it was incredibly cool to be able to save multiple programs on a small, portable medium and just find the program you are looking for by fast forwarding to the right position on the tape based on the counter.

Also, tape was incredibly easy to get because it was the same stuff you used to record music. It was not hard to obtain; any music shop or even stationer had it.

And it turns out it was very robust: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-switch-on-30-year-old...
> I suppose the question is why is this, is it just that the folks who are driven to open source development don't have a sense for aesthetics and convenient UIs?

No. They do have a sense of aesthetics and convenient UIs. Ubuntu is an example. Open Source follows the trial-and-error iterative approach. If the project has enough momentum, the end is bound to be near-perfect, having gone through so many iterations and decisions by the users itself.

However, the problem with Open Source + Hardware is that hardware is too slow and unnatural for iterative development.
I haven't really had problems with this. I have an Android phone, an iPod, and dual boot Ubuntu and OS X. Google Music syncs iTunes to my phone via the cloud just fine; the iPod naturally syncs with iTunes. On Ubuntu I just use Google Music via the browser, or Pandora.

The tech community is _already_ smart enough to deal with their stuff. And the consumer community doesn't seem to care much about being locked inside a brand; they don't know any better, for some reason, to most people, it makes sense that if you have a Mac, you need an iPad, not a Kindle Fire. Or if you get a Kindle Fire, you simply adjust your expectations accordingly.

Obviously it's unethical for companies to do this, but when was the last time megacorps operated with any higher morality than economics demanded?
"Did you diagnose yourself using the internet?! All symptoms lead to Crohn's disease or cancer! It's probably just a stomach bug."
No, the bands aren't the same
Internet killed GPL. AGPL tried to win the Inernet, and the corporations dodged it.
nice idea but right now the implementation is full of fail. I got 5 questions, none of which I could answer (directed at their friends / rhetorical) and then I got asked if "this was fun" and to tweet about youasked.it

Please make sure that the user actually answers a single question before asking them to tell their friends how much fun they're having.
Jeannette Wing Will Lead Microsoft Research International
> Having kids safely in school, with butt in seat in class, will be continue to be a driving KPI.

Source? All of my years in school have taught me that (unwilling) attendance != comprehension of material.
Outlook can pick up mbox, but how about moving your filters around? Or Apple Mail VIP contacts? Virtual folders, fancy tags and indexed search databases?

You can just move around the mails themselves, just like you can move around your music, and as a small bonus, the static playlists.
Video of one of the first Apple computers ever built
We have an in-house XML driven formatting engine to generate PDF reports at the company I work for (we're in England).

The style attribute names have been written in British English - e.g. the colour attribute is colour and not color as it would be in CSS.

Despite being British this drives me crazy! I use the US English spelling all the time (I've been used to it in CSS for 10+ years!) and then wonder why things arn't working.

So, +1 to no en-us to en-gb localisation. This Brit will take consistency any day :-)
Privacy Concern: Google Rejects Anonymous email like VMAIL
I notice recently all email sent from http://vmail.me a mail focus on security & privacy is constantly rejected from Gmail:

This could be how yahoo mail and hot mail is playing Gmail when it first came out. Make you think that

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"

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This is the mail system at host mx1.vmail.me.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The mail system

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That's for sure. It's no wonder why they're so hated in society.
But this distinguished but elderly scientist makes neither of those claims; he states that growing plants for biofuels is a Bad Idea.
That's not post-scarcity. That is inefficiency. And it is still capitalism. Money is a bookkeeping system for IOUs, not an economic operating structure.
This works only if the two nodes in the network have exact matching needs/abilities. This is rare even in small groups.

If you will, money is a message is a message passing protocol. I don't care what's on the other side and how the message (money) was generated - all I care is that I received a message (money) and then I sent other messages (money) to other actors in the network (obviously I sent back something in exchange and so do the other nodes). Then they generated their messages and so on. This way all I need to know are the nodes immediate to me to work it out. I don't care how complex the message graph becomes, it's all irrelevant to me and to others as well. If you don't have that then you have to broadcast all that you offer and all that you need and somehow create the graph to work it out all out. Money is a cheap way of abstracting all that.
Limited plumbing hampering your ability to build HTML5 apps?
Where did somebody find a box of 20 of there? Does anybody how many Apple 1's there were made?
wow! they have A User!!!! :)
Some of the difference comes about due to the number of cores in the machines we purchased - they are 16 core machines (each E5-2650 has 8 cores.)

In terms of storage, we are utilizing HDFS with commodity 3TB drives, thus no specialized storage from EMC (or the like.)
I blogged about this yesterday. If that's their plan, it helps to occasionally have them in stock. But they've had none in stock, no preorders, nothing, for 10 days now. In fact, it's only been in stock for 30 minutes ever. False scarcity is a great marketing technique. Ask Apple and Nintendo. Key word is "false".
I don't know why these documents have been scanned, but this is where I've gotten all the online references so far. And no, there is no index :(

These can only be found by crawling through the top level directory, which I only found through Google. It's just not a priority for the FCC.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Databases/docum...

http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OSEC/library/legislative_h...
How is capitalism a cooperation model?
How is Democracy, for that matter?
“These ‘Student Locator’ programs are ultimately aimed at getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, and wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government.”

Out of curiosity, are you more afraid of the government having that goal and enabling that environment or Facebook/Google/Foursquare/etc? Why? I think this is an interesting discussion.
It looks like this is the game, made in 14 days, by a team of 6: http://www.bigblockgames.com/games/coffeehero/
Band 4 is 1700Mhz

EE UK uses LTE on the 1800Mhz

Here's a list of the LTE networking bands

http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php (nice graphics below)
Nice! I'm a developer with zero illustration talent. Even if I never use these, I donated anyway. :)
At one studio job, where I was in my last and final interview to be a director - "really, a formality" they said, "you're good as hired"... and at that interview they informed me they knew about a patent I own, and said all I had to do was sign the patent over to them and I'd be hired. WTF?! I told them "no", they said "no job" and I said "good by!" And who was that studio? Vivendi Universal.
"Use is 3X as cromulent as use."
Thanks - appreciated :)
Having an affair opens yourself to blackmail, and given he is the top spy this is considered a serious offence. That's the thinking, anyway. There might also be an ethical code which was broken, which is a fireable offence.
In the spirit of noelwelsh's comment above, we could say that the "trades" are things like "writing webapps" or "writing control software or airplanes" or "writing simulations of chemical systems."

"Solving problems with computers" is too broad for any one person to master all aspects of it. There are so many different kinds of problems! Many of them also involve domain specific knowledge that has nothing to do with computers or computation (my airplanes and scientific computing examples above).
> doesn't give you the right to dismiss the work the person did

What part of WalterBright's post made you think he dismisses Woz's work?
More of an academic exercise, just to further my understanding of other languages/frameworks (I'm looking into Play! also)
We've intentionally detonated hundreds of nukes in the atmosphere.. Even over heavily populated cities. Sure, it was bad, but not earth-ending bad.

If a lunch failed and "nuked" the launch pad, I hope we'd just move on to another continent and try again (and again)