skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting metric would be the number of people who posted at least one content item every month for past quarter. Here the content item = status/+1/like/comment/photo/URL.

Write metric is more robust than read metric, especially against users who are simply using FB or G just to login into other sites or apps.
Ah. Spoke too soon. The comments here lead me to believe cloudant is to be used as a couchdb replica provider.

Maybe cloudant should say that on their pages! :-)
Settings -> General -> About -> "WiFi Address"
He presents prediction as new, ignoring google suggest; predictive text on phones/tablet keyboards; tab-completion in bash/vim; intellisense etc. And it obscures the part that is new:

And the second is what actions would lead to useful results.

No longer statistical, but based on the (presently) unknown! Not predicting what you are likely to do, but exploring ahead of you. Not based on your past, but your future... A very cool idea.

Actually, at present, it seems to be just a secondary ranking filter of statistical suggestions, so it would never consider an original action (i.e. that wasn't already likely). However, that kind of exploration would really be expensive. Another problem is defining "useful results" generally, so it applicable to results not seen before.
Possible cultural differences there - to me that clip sounds like an "American V8". Performance car manufacturers put a lot of effort into making their cars sound right - to my ears the more exotic Lambo/Ferrari/Aston engines sound much nicer - but that will just be my own cultural biases regarding what a performance car is supposed to sound like.
> And I wouldn't care less. It's not harming me in any way, like it's not also harmful if they drink a bottle of beer on their way home in the subway, which is totally accepted also.

To claim that second-hand smoke is not harmful is utterly absurd. The same goes for alcohol consumption in public places. It's fine to have a drink on the subway, but who takes care of the shattered glass the following day[0]? If you're lucky, the local government will use ratepayer money to clean it up. If you're not lucky, it stays there indefinitely.

Frankly, I think that those who drink or smoke in public are being totally inconsiderate of others.

[0]: This wouldn't be such a big deal if glass bottles weren't so popular. Unfortunately, they are.
> Food, drugs, and sex are basic human drives.

And then there's coffee, which exceeds them all :)
Thanks, that could be an alternative and I'll play around with it to see how it works out.
Virtually all SSH attacks are of the nature mysql:mysql or mysql:password, so you should be safe as long as you can trust your users not to be stupid. The attackers prefer quantity over quality when looking for targets.

And if you use SSH keys you should be totally safe.

Remember to apply security fixes though since the automatic attacks also probe for ancient versions of SSH servers.
HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit
2) There is no such thing as "fair use" in Germany's copyright law.
Why Did Steve Jobs Decide To Make The iPhone Before The iPad?
Nota bene: Laws regarding driving are fairly strict in Germany, so those measures make sense in a way.
You need to click on a link in Hojoki on the right once you've logged in, not on the link you see when you click to activate Box... I nearly fell for that.
No one likes to burn bridges, even if they get sued. They could do a "this is how google would look if you go through with this" day, but for now they look to be taking the more safe route with lawyers.
Haha, it seems to have decided the content of "Example tabs" is the main article/content of the page.

ps. That text was generated with http://hipsteripsum.me
" and a 99.9% uptime guarantee with no scheduled downtime"

That is BS and Google knows it

Why? Because Google can suspend your account at a whim and not even tell you why.

Google did that to a friend of mine, yes, paid account, yes called support line, they basically said "tough, it may return in 48h"
This would actually be funny IF I thought there were still serious grown-ups in Washington who were actually trying to find a real solution. I don't.
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My Road to (Web) Design
> First, it's you who puts yourself in that position.

The people in the saw movies all kill themself, right?
WhatsApp was never designed with security as a priority. I remember a couple of years ago after it took off investigating it with a packetsniffer when I noticed the phone number verification text let you in the second you finished typing the PIN. I recall either the server was sending the PIN to the device or the device was telling the server what PIN to send in the text. Ridiculously easy to impersonate anyone at that point. Last I checked they had fixed that hole but I'm not surprised others have popped up.
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Nothing quite underscores Google's desperation like the "you can't view Google+ content if you're a logged-out Google user"-trick they pull. What the hell is the deal with that? Are the little check marks they can put in the Active Users column really worth the bad experience they are giving those same users who just wanted to read the post?

Sure, it's a little niggle, nothing worth complaining about. The grating thing is that they went out of their way to create a roadblock, even casting aside the pretension that logged-out means something.
If it's an LCD and you didn't pay a lot for it, then it's doing that.

Graphic designers usually pay for good quality monitors, but they would be well served by also having a bad monitor to check what their work looks like for most people.
7.3 earthquake in Japan, forecasting tsunami of 1-2 meters
Why would that kill the law?

All it would do is make Google news useless for German news.
That's a strawman; the bots never indicated intention to read. They indicated (via `User-Agent' header) intention to index content and got HTTP 200 OK response to that.

Nothing in the HTTP protocol specs (RFC 2616) even suggests it is only meant for direct human consumption. To the contrary, it states,

user agent
The client which initiates a request. These are often browsers,
editors, spiders (web-traversing robots), or other end user tools.

...and the Google bots clearly identify themselves as indexing bots.

Please don't be obtuse. The whole matter is not about Google doing something strange or different than any other search engine. It's just about collective bargaining of one business group against another business. Some german press companies stood up as a (self-appointed and thus somewhat suspect) representation of whole german press industry and are trying to get a bigger slice of the cake.
Software transactional memory in gcc 4.7
I've never seen a full laptop that didn't have a PgUp/PgDn that wasn't a Mac.

Some netbooks do have these keys removed, but certainly not "most" laptops.
Thats why economists nowdays come more and more to the conclusion that looking at the institutions rules is usless. You have to look at the defactor rules not at the ones writen down.
The drones are identical for this competition; and are running an unprotected telnet server on the same wireless network. Just look at the code:
https://github.com/substack/virus-copter

This only proves that the organizers had no technical background whatsoever.
I would love to have a car that drives itself while I do other things in the back.

I would hate to have a car that tries to tell me how I should drive. This thing started with the bells that ring when your seat belt is not fastened, and it's only getting worse and worse.
if i may be of assistance here.. when they first demoed their emergency brake assistance ( think of a fancy three-letter acronym i'm totally unaware of here ) system, it.. failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYY7OfQ4-5A .

But considering how many mercedes test cars I see ( living in Stuttgart ) every day, it seems they are taking QA really, really serious.
I don't see it either :-/

I've zoomed it in until the bars almost filled the screen and I still didn't see any gradient, despite reading in the text it should have been so obvious. Kind of defeats the point about 24 bit sucking...
Tim Cook TV Interview about Maps, Samsung and Apple TV with Brian Williams
Governments 'too inefficient' for future Moon landings
Looks really nice. Especially I like how it handles situations were handles collide or go over each other. For example http://jqueryui.com/slider/#range just places both handles on top of each other and refuses to move the other, which can be really confusing. Awesome.
Well, they probably filled their belly with enough user-base, now they can ignore the rest and focus on cashing in.
- Lion is very fast with a SSD, but definitely slower than 10.6 with a regular hard disk. Hence the difference in perception between various people.

I'd like to see this backed up by numbers. Sure, Lion and Mountain Lion are quite slow on spinning platters, but OS X feels almost an order of magnitude faster since I had an SSD. Much faster than Snow Leopard with a hard disk. The numbers are also on my side, an SSD completely blows away hard disks both in access times and read/write speed.

but the implementation sucks on multiple monitors

Indeed. Big time. It works ok on the road, but when I have an external screen connected I never use full screen support. It would be easy to make things better: allow users to put another full-screen application (or desktop) on the secondary screen.

Tons of annoying little bugs at the lowest levels, and you really wonder what was broken there that they needed to fix. Like the mouse cursor that sometimes disappears.

I really disliked Lion for all its bugs. But things have been steadily improving since Mountain Lion, to the point where even iMessage works most of the time in 10.8.2 ;).
If you +1 things and use hangouts, 'using Google+' is exactly what you are doing...

You might only be at the bottom rung of MAU's with a tiny level of engagement, which if common would be easily identifiable by looking at other metrics. So it's possible they are purposely deceiving us with misleading metrics - but you are indeed a G+ user. Albeit, not a very valuable one.
The cpu utilisation of that page is quite impressive.
1) Normal search at google takes one sentence, title of the webpage and links them together. To support that service, they have ads. If news take two sentences, how is that totally absurd compared to one, and why is search totally acceptable but news search not?

2) as other has said, public sites are indexed in an opt-out system. Opt-in would not work, and would destroy any form of search system, indexing, yellow pages, and so on.

3) This is not an intellectual property issue. Its a term of use issue if one want to be included in google search. One can not say yes to be included in search, but not if there are ads around. Either you want google to give you service, or you don't. I wish I could get a gemail free from spying, a google search thats anonymous, and free telephone calls without any recording/advertizements, but no. I can't get that from google, because their services to have a price tag.
I signed up when it first became available, and my limit is 500. The good old days…
This is rather interesting that it would be coming from Axel Springer. As someone involved in the Berlin tech scene I've seen them really investing a lot of money in innovative events and companies. My guess is there is some typical corporate disconnect there. I doubt this makes it through the legislation.
How to Increase the Performance of Your Wireless Network
Personally, I quite like nintendo's hardware and own both a Wii and a DS. But I bought them only after they became fully freedom-compliant and I plan to do the same with the current generation - the WiiU and 3DS. They're just games. No sense giving up my liberties for a console.
I'm a very happy customer since years. Probably they have a good support too, but I haven't had any problems so I don't know =)
I actually suspect I'll eventually end up being counted in those statistics, because I'll break and "upgrade" to join some Coursera/Udacity hangout. It will still be the only way I'll use it, but the stats will look great, I'm sure.
Alright, I'll write a rebuttal on behalf of the authors.

First, they tested their update methodology by applying it to a long history of released versions for each piece of software.

Second, although any code involving concurrency is tricky, I thought the line counts were actually quite low:

C LoC C delta xfgen LoC
vsftpd 12,202 113 101
redis 13,387 57 37
Tor 76,090 159 189
memcached 4,181 112 27
icecast 15,759 134 200

where C LoC is the original program length, C delta is the changes to the program, and xfgen LoC is extra specification stuff they had to write.

Third, how is a broken online update any worse than a broken offline update? Is there a greater argument for data loss?
How are profits generated on news.google.com?
Interestingly IETF discourages the use of X prefixed headers but they might still suite this kind of behavior http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
Microsoft Opens the Beta Version of Socl to Everyone
Too bad they feel like the main reason for keeping them in G+ is to make me join G+, which is why I still keep away from them.
So in your opinion everybody who drinks in public always makes a mess? I go to the lake with friends and drink often, but we clean up and put it in one of the public bins.

Also one could argue that if the park is publicly owned it should be publicly cleaned. If you dont want the park getting dirty you should let people in there.

> Frankly, I think that those who drink or smoke in public are being totally inconsiderate of others.

I think you can make a argument for smoking inside (or bars for example) but in a public park.

Also you have to understand berlin, even if smoking is not allowed in bars it is done in almost every bar, people seem to just have rejected the legislation.
Considering the close relationship between Mercedes and Tesla these features could be in the next Model S. Awesome!
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> Night vision [...] will hardly save anyone any time

Unless, of course, you go through areas where boars and deers regularly cross the road. Then it saves time and money.
I don't see the gradient switch either.

And having 2GB of VRAM does not imply that you'll need a 268-million pixel display to use it all. In modern games, the vast majority of that VRAM is used by textures (and we need as much of it as we can get!)
Add me to the list of people who have indadvertedly engaged with Google+.

Would be interesting to know how much people have accidentally done the same.
In addition: Google has no ads on the google news pages.
How are the forced. There have allways been bars that allowed smoking and bars that didnt. Everybody gets what they want. I see no reason why owner should do what he thinks is best.
It is a myth. America is still the top manufacturer in the world.

The difference is that China makes tons of duplicate copies of cheap goods, while America makes high value, lower run, complicated goods.

Which is why if you look only at consumer good you get the mistaken assumption that manufacturing is leaving the US. Try sourcing $100,000 machines and all of them are made in the US.
I'd say it would be even better if instead of promoting primality test ("prime?") to the first place in case of a prime result, it would display "[it is] prime!", since the program already did the check. Why hide information from user?

BTW, Bret Victor wrote a lot about this kind of interfaces in his essay "Magic Ink". It's long as hell, but well worth the time it takes to read.

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

EDIT:

Key point from the end of this essay, regarding use of machine learning to create smart / learning interfaces, which really got me thinking:

"Unfortunately, an algorithm that can only be wielded by a master is almost worthless. There are far more applications than experts; if application programmers cannot make use of learning, learning applications will remain rare and exotic.

(...)

As I see it, the primary challenge for the machine learning community is not the generation and tuning of yet more algorithms, but the design of simple abstractions. Learning magic must be packaged. Like a “file,” the abstraction must be usable by any engineer working in any domain. It must be so simple that it can be taken for granted.

Today, a Perl programmer needs just four letters to invoke decades of research into filesystems and physical media: “open.” A finely-tuned mergesort is available with the word “sort,” and even more finely-tuned hashing algorithms require just a pair of brackets. Until machine learning is as accessible and effortless as typing the word “learn,” it will never become widespread."
24bit is far from enough to prevent banding, and in many cases it's not just "a tiny amount" either. For example, a css gradient from #333 to #666:

http://i.imgur.com/9xeDT.png?1

It's quite obvious that for a gradient from 0x33 to 0x66 (one component), there are simply not enough distinct values to prevent banding. In this case, the range is 51 different values, for a gradient that's maybe spanning 500-1000 pixels. It really looks quite terrible.
Maybe you shoudn't be looking for the best city to live in, just one better than the default choice... Improving just a bit on most of your defaults would compound to a great improvement in your life!
The thing is, Googles self-driving cars won't get to you overnight. We may already have the technology, but it's too complex/costly for a normal car yet. (70k$ radar, a rack of servers)

But what you will get is more and more autonomous features until there is the first fully autonomous production vehicle. And this Mercedes is one of the first bigger steps in this direction.
What’s the Most Important Theorem?
Firstly, I HATE that UI. It's slow, clunky and cluttered. Secondly, you have deliberately some of the most popular people on Google+. In particular Guy Kawasaki. It's not representative of a typical user.
Not limited to Google, not by a long shot.

"Speaking personally, on every day that I'm blocked, I add college traditions that never existed, transpose digits of population figures or world records, and create articles on bullshit "folklore" that is often absurd; this is what Wikipedia will have to put up with if I am to be blocked from it. About 1 in 3 of my vandalisms survives for a year, and several have been reproduced on other articles."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_so...

etc.
It's a gift that keeps on giving.
Voter registration: Cross-checking databases 'as accurate as ID cards'
curl -I www.reddit.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:30:26 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
From what I have read on the fastmail.fm blog, etc, they tend to do some very good stuff on the back-end, particularly(open source) contributions to the Cyrus IMAP server. These, I understand, have improved the failover and resilience of the IMAP server a lot. These might not be "innovations" in a technical sense, but they certainly make Cyrus a much better server for Enterprise users.

The less said about fastmail.fm's "innovations" on their web interface the better.
If it keys off the MAC for a pseudo password, how can this scheme work if you swap to a new phone?
My assumption is that the water level represents the center of an oscillating waveform, so it is "top to low" in the sense that it goes from the top of the wave to the "low" representing the normal water level, and it is "middle to top" in the sense that it goes from the (middle) inflection point to the maxima. For the former, note that oscillations may cause a lower amplitude less than the normal water level, but it may look more shallow due to the different diffusion of water relative to air.
Is there a way to tell?

I think I signed up for my personal domain when it was 50, and my business domain when it was 10, I'd kinda like to check. Glad I go the business mail up and running in September now!
Noam Chomsky's Legacy
There's two schools of thought here:

1) Push Method - Create your attention. In-bound marketing techniques such as: Blogs, podcasts, video, eBooks, enewsletters, whitepapers, SEO, social media marketing[1]

2) Pull Method - Buy your attention. You can do this via traditional marketing activities, such as PR, advertising, and spam.

Both have their associative costs and neither can be considered anecdotal to success. Either way - as you rightfully put - you need a plan. The earlier the better.

[1]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbound_marketing
Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business. Only Paid Version To Any Company
I had the impression that iOS apps that use any API to retrieve the MAC address is banned from the store, similar to the way calls to retrieve the UDID are.

Maybe they are grandfathered in? Would they be banned if they pushed an update? Are Apple afraid of kicking out an iMessage competitor?
The dream is that it will make search better, and that's the most important thing google does - and the thing that they most need to improve.
My guess is that if newspaper sites lose a big chunk of their traffic they might reconsider who should be paying whom. I'm also guessing that without support from newspapers, the law is less likely to get through.
Why is that excellent? Why can't people just grow and sell like they do any other plant?
Ignore the app and sign-up on the website. I already had an account for the browser-based testing so I didn't experience the sign-up problems other people are describing.
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Brodo di carne, ricetta leggera
"automated parallel parking"

I've started using the park assist feature on our car just for the fun of it - what amazes me is how accurately it parks. Only annoying thing about it is that it won't park on the "wrong" side....
The proper term for pushing this law is "rent-seeking". You must include our content, and you must pay us for it.

This is a general problem with people and businesses perceiving themselves as working for society. They cannot see the wrongs they cause - because it's all for an even better cause.

German newspapers can use robots.txt and obey the social contract of the web like the rest of us.
I assume you divided the exit value by the number of companies to come up with something around $ 2M.

First, not all companies exited, therefore "expected exit value" is probably much higher (and I would rather look at the median value to have a better ideas of the odds).

Additionally, the purpose of building a company isn't to "make an exit", it's to build a business. "A startup" is, to me, the early phase through which many business go.

The journey is more important than the destination. Building a business is a life-changing experience.

You will become rich, if you accept that wealth comes in different forms; the irony is that pecuniary wealth will be more likely to happen if not sought after.
>What good is it to not let people know how much you make, how much is in your bank account or not wear a rolex in a ghetto?

It helps protect the establishment and preserve the status quo. That's about it. It would be in most people's interest for these things to be public.
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