skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latency != bandwidth. Also, one goal of DPI is to enable granular QoS policy. So the total bandwidth available would stay the same, but the bandwidth available to each app would vary depending on network conditions and the will of the network operator.
I wrote about this morning actually! Realized that hating being interrupted by meetings made me feel like a programmer for the first time. http://tommy.authpad.com/i-apologize-for-every-unnecessary-s...
"I won't be able to see Season 5 until Season 6"

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but there will be no season 6. Season 5 is the final one – the first half aired this summer, the last 8 episodes will air next summer.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/done-amc-sony-tv-reach-deal-...
Last I checked, implementations of offline caching were unusably buggy. Has this improved?
Thanks for your comments Danny.

You make this process seem so simple that im eager to learn it.

Can you outline steps necessary to subpoena paypal without having access to an expensive legal letterhead(that comes with an hourly legal bill attached) and to actually follow through this subpoena into getting requested documents.

I was able to get a phone number for supposedly a legal department, but I was told in so many terms to only have a lawyer call them. Im sure if pressed, paypal would give out their legal teams address.
China doesn't have political freedoms, but our incarceration rate is about 7 times higher than theirs; indeed, the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...

I don't want to go way off-topic with this, but it's a pet issue of mine because I think it's a human-rights disaster.
Oh certainly, I feel the same way. We are definetly going to put humans on Mars eventually, and better sooner rather than later, but I think that it is something that needs to be done with an incredible amount of caution. There are definitely concerns about contamination that need to be considered carefully when planning such missions.
Is the Daily Deals Model Toast?
Well thanks for saving me time from installing this POS

They even send LOCAL notifications to override my notifications preferences for no notifications.
So did they just buy Sparrow to shutter it? Or for a talent grab? Why wouldn't they rebrand a full native app (that kicks ass too) and run with that?

Not taking anything from this, it's very nice too, but I would have preferred they left Sparrow alone if they didn't intend on using it at all going forward.
As a developer I schedule "surgery time" to avoid distractions. Blocks of 2-4 hours during the day where I go dark - no phone, no email, no chat/IM. The surgery analogy is apt. A good surgeon is amicable, knowledgeable, listens to patients and applies a deft touch to fix problems. But when he's elbow deep inside a patient he sure as hell isn't going to be taking any phone calls.
Indeed. In London too. And Googles first data centre innovations. The best thing is they are very cheap especially in a recession when shipping is looking bad. For a few hundred dollars there is no real competition...
Thanks for the pointers! Nothing good comes easily!

>you'll have to offer something special to get noticed.

This is true for absolutely every startup.
I see this is a problem for smaller companies just getting into outsourcing and for brand new products. There have been examples on here like wakemate that have had a really hard time getting quality products produced in a reasonable timeframe.

For bigger companies though with more stable product lines I think this is much less of an issue. Bringing manufacturing back is working for GE for more complex and expensive products. I am not sure you will see then bringing back the basic models of appliances though.
My startup (8 people) recently started interviewing at Waterloo, and the quality of students is every bit as good as MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, or CMU. Right now Waterloo is the best-kept secret in startup recruiting, but given how good the students are I doubt it will stay that way for long.
I don't use Facebook because of my privacy concerns; in fact, a lot of people do.
I think the bleep up is that law enforcement are there to protect and uphold the law not breaking the law itself.

I.e. hackers are not allowed to hack other computers, but the government own agencies suddenly are. Now you have a segregated law, it’s a different law for the government agencies than its own citizens/hackers.

If we should have a fair society the same law should apply to all citizens, or it’s no longer a law but special rights to privileged people in the society.

The big question is do we want a spy society were as soon as you have different opinion than those of the government officals they can attack you with small petty crimes they have observed you doing from your own private sphere. I mean the general thing is that even government officials break the same laws they not hunted, but if you do you will get attacked.

The big question is that of fairness which is what the law should be about or they are no longer true but false.
For me I can't use Facebook auth because I don't nor plan to have a Facebook. I do have a twitter and regularly use them to login to websites. 1 click signup is very convenient but some people just don't want to sign up for Facebook.
Depending on what happened, git often keeps old references around for a while, so, for example, you can recover dropped stashes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89332/recover-dropped-sta...
Do not book your flights yet. Remember Google IO 2012... they announced some dates, then a few months later they changed the dates of the event (shifted it a few weeks later). Be careful when you book flights until they officially put tickets on sale.

EDIT: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/save-date-for-google-...

initially announced on Oct 17, 2011. Changed on November 28, 2011. Dates of the event shifted from April 24-25 to June 27-29, 2012.
I found the story they give about GE forgetting how to make water heaters interesting. The line you usually hear about startups creating their core technologies in house and outsourcing non core things comes to mind.

Was GE originally known for manufacturing (or ability to manufacture) and then lost that core ability? If they did, what would their core ability be after outsourcing, management of manufacturing? Maybe I'm not making a good connection there, but I think it could be.
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I think you're underestimating the limit to how fast DPI is or can get. The computations aren't complicated and like many kinds of algorithms you can trade space with time.
Why being a single founder makes me learn faster
I don't understand why iOS users feel so entitled to support from competitors' services. I don't see Apple making Android apps for iTunes, iMessage, or FaceTime (which Apple claimed it would make an "open standard").

And remember that this is a matter of perspective. The lack of good support for Google services on iOS is a good thing for me - it'll increase the number of people using Android, thus hopefully getting me better Android apps for my phone and tablet.
It's just ("just") a six-month trip. If you want to break things into smaller shipments, launch them directly to the Mars surface.

Even better, this means you can get a significant portion of your mission hardware (including your return vehicle) ready and waiting on the Martian surface, having survived what is probably the most dangerous part of the mission (landing) before your humans launch.

(Two year launch window gives you time to make sure everything is working, and also gives various in-situ fuel production methods a chance to run their course.)

The only real place besides the surface of either planet where you would want to "dock" with something is the orbit of either planet.
When I need to be in the zone, knowing that there is a fixed end time can be an obstacle.
Anyone with the ability to run their own mail server can do this, as can anyone willing to use Google Apps; Gandi has the nice advantage of not having to run your own mail server.

In my case, I use their server for SMTP, and run my own IMAP server, moving mail from theirs to mine as it arrives.
It's hard to grow a colony if the things people are made of has to be imported in.

The far side of the moon is awesome for science (the most ultimate radio telescope ever) but not so much for growing humans.
As a guy in QA, what should I do? I can't ever tell if it's just the developer being nice when they say they want me to tell them about bugs before filing them, or if they actually want me to.

How would you want your QA people to deal with this problem?
I thought that Jasmine had to remove the background audio playing at YouTube's behest.
At the Roundhouse Community Center? Yes that was me :)
It's a fine little control but for a project of any size at all I feel like you are going to get much more bang for your buck time wise by simply building up your own nice UI lib for easy skinning etc vs managing n+1 external dependencies like this. Perhaps this makes sense for really complex controls though. I feel like a complexity rating would be useful on cocoacontrols.com to call out (like a star rating only something cool like cups of coffee or blearily eyeball icons) the really complex ones vs the very light weight controls like this.
Keep in mind, last year they changed the dates after the announcement.
Product design, sales and marketing. Would have to read some more to see which area was really their competitor advantage in the 60's.
Perhaps they are of the opinion that DPI will better-enable them to apply QoS rules, resulting in a net improvement in perceived performance?
You probably want an actual nuclear power plant for any planet-side mission. The Russian TOPAZ is a model for what we'd want in the long run.

RTGs are becoming extremely rare since the US isn't making any more. :(
Seriously, though, who are these people? I mean, how can I get a cushy gig like that?

You have to wonder about them as individuals, right? What path has their lives taken that they step into a room make a horrible decision like this and not retch. Is it a perverse sense of superiority over the people who are left out from the decision-making? Is it a complete lack of personality and individual thought? Or is it just an attempt to climb one more rung up the ladder, maybe move into that slightly nicer home in McClean or DuPont Circle?
Does anybody know if SpiderOak is open source? This matters because it is claiming to be cryptographically secure.
On one hand, outsourcing rapidly transferred several decades of manufacturing and design knowledge to GE's soon-to-be competitors. (I haven't seen a Haier fridge on sale in the US yet but it's a matter of years, not decades.) On the other, maybe it juiced executive bonuses for a few years and may have permanently removed organized labor from the US private sector.

I wonder to what extent insourcing represents surrender for US firms seeking access to the Chinese market. China's leaders don't seem keen on idea of letting foreign firms sell in China longer than it takes for Chinese firms to pick up knowledge. The licensed production of Russian Sukhoi-27 warplanes comes to mind - the Chinese agreed to pay for 200, assembled from kits with Russian assistance. After 100 had been built, the Chinese said "no more" - and started advertising an indigenous copy for international sale. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-11#J-11
The argument is that they need no push, they act that way already. It's everybody else who needs to recognize them for what they are.
I don't think any earth plant could survive 1% standard pressure. I have read papers on what genes would be interesting to splice here and there to make plants that could survive that, though.
See, that's part of the problem. We need to interact with you. Do we skip meetings and go to tickets? Except that tickets are often ignored or are misunderstood. Then comes the need for discussion. Of course, interrupting a developer is bad, so you have to schedule a discussion - A.K.A a meeting.

There is no magical solution to this problem. :P
Harvard creates self-assembling DNA nanostructures from tiny DNA ‘Lego bricks’
Airharp app for Leap Motion controller
Short email. Anyone who is bothered by an email midstream chose to be.
That seems reasonable. But it explains "Google" more than "Play". (Why not "Google Market"?)

I assume Google decided on "Play" over "Market" for other reasons.
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Lots of people just don't use facebook and they are not going to start just to use your app. Also I've learned that everyone I know who has scew you money, doesn't use facebook.
Yeah, I don't mind arguing with his claims - you essentially said similar things - but it really was the way that he said it; all I could come up with were angry responses and I felt like it wasn't worth continuing.

"what you call ... the rest of the world calls"; "You might be surprised to discover"; "people don't actually"; "In fact"; "typically"; "Strangely"; I think you get the idea. All of this made me feel terrible.

At the end of the day, I basically am not convinced that life is as good or better than subsistence farming for the people in question. I was under the strong impression it was worse now because they don't have enough food and so it's below subsistence level (especially without foreign aid), but like you said elsewhere, I guess we can't know for sure. Anyway, thanks for your time pdonis, it was kind of you to respond here.
Yes, they've left out the largest brand in the world.

http://www.economist.com/node/21558269

Is Google currently in some spat with Germany?
I see only one link to the github repo and it's a direct link.
Sounds like you've never heard of the survivorship bias. I'm sure there were plenty of Peter Thiels out there with the exact same personal habits that failed.

There are a thousand Thiels born everyday. Most are fucked by being born into poverty - of those that aren't - their success is separated by mere path dependent chance.

Humans are similar. Situations aren't.
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Far from. It takes nearly 2 years just to get to Mars.

As a point of order: two year launch window, but a 6 month trip if you wait for that.
I'm not sure your sarcasm makes sense.

You can't host either Google Play or Chrome Store, but you can write your own and install apps from them.

There are many other Android appstores around - most phone vendors and carries have one, many large enterprises have their own and there are a number of 3rd party ones.

I don't think there are any other Chrome stores but I suspect that has more to do with the lack of use Chrome apps have.
Non-Google version: http://committee.tta.or.kr/include/Download.jsp?filename=cho...
Most authors are aware of this... Amazon has taken away the ability for authors to comment on other authors book, or at least it looks this way but as usual they haven't said a word about this.
I find dark humor in that we've lost such crucial skills. In the US, we've nearly lost the technology to create water heaters, but can definitely make fart apps.

On a lighter note, maybe this will reintroduce some needed humility to American culture. It's easy to forget that each item we touch, everything we use, was put together by another human's hands. Soldering together the proto shield for my Arduino deeply touched me, reminding me that every resistor and LED and processor in my laptop was soldered in by another human.

I may be romanticizing it, or maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm starting to appreciate objects crafted by humans more than those generated by machines.
What was the purpose of that arbitrary limitation again? It's mostly a holdover from the olden days we now have to constantly work around (by mostly having lazy people run things as root everywhere).
> What I have come to feel is that my use of the internet is mostly driven by rage - and it seems to be similar for a lot of people. On HN I waste time trying to correct people who will never in a million years be swayed by a random internet comment.

This, a million times. I've blocked a few websites (e.g. Reddit) because I kept being drawn into pointless comments and debates.
All of the channels on the site are live.

For example, if you head over to:

http://demiba.com/radio/lykke-li/

it'll make you a new session and you can share that URL with somebody and watch with them.

If you just want an Artist's songs, you can go the an artist page:

http://demiba.com/artist/david-guetta

If you want to listen to a mixture of similar songs, there's the radio feature:

http://demiba.com/radio/david-guetta
Well, I guess people by now are accustomed to being lied to: "security is very important to us", "we care about our customers", "we'll never sell your private information", etc. etc.

All this means is that 37Signals is no different from any other company in this regard.
YouTube doesn't seem to be interested in becoming a streaming music service. (I suppose that's Google Music.)
pitcher is made of lead free glass and the reservoir is BPA free

-- This is pretty much standard, not really a USP
There is a new version people should get instead. Not much has changed but we might as well direct people to the latest stuff:

http://www.amzn.com/145160811X
yes jQuery.Deferred is a very elegant solution to nested callbacks et all....
I have got it at the heart of the Single Page Application Architecture I am building currently.

e.g.
stionaJS.DAL.authenticate(creds)
.pipe(listDomains)
.done(withMultiUserDomain)
.done(withSingleUserDomain)
.fail(failedAuthentication);
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I am developing this tool (dockPHP) for the web developers to cut down their development time by a huge margin. It is still under development but you can try it out at novatap.com
Honestly, I'm sure good friends can spare three minutes for a phone call.
This psychological bias is called the just world fallacy and is a derivative of the aforementioned fundamental attribution error.

It is this phenomena under which the conservatives, republican party, libertarians, and the concept of meritocracy can exist and be honestly entertained and adopted by seemingly well adjusted people. To anyone aware of this bias the preceding philosophies verge on the psychopathic.

On following advice: if it's not listed as a series of facts, it's probably bullshit.
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The magnetic field on Earth is not what protects you from radiation. It's the thickness of the atmosphere. Lots of radiation is uncharged particles which don't care at all about a magnetic field.
All this has made me realize it's just a pretty complex issue. I found this link at some point and I think it covers a lot of ground (3 pages). Although the perspective of these people is obviously biased, they are certainly quite well informed.

http://www.theendofpoverty.com/poverty_persists_1.html
I hasten to add, combining this with KnockoutJS works wonders!
AFAIK if you double tap the home button whilst the phone is locked and then press play, it will then resume the music.

The feature they removed was the audio auto playing when you lock the phone.

EDIT: Just tested and you can indeed play music on the lock screen.
better yet i've added an after-save-hook to 'recompile so when i save the site is updated by the time i alt-tab over to the browser and reload!

M-x eval-expression RET (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'recompile)
Friendly reminder: iptables has a significant performance penalty on high traffic servers.

If your service gets a few thousand hits per day, it'll be okay. If you're trying to survive a few thousand hits per second, your clients will suffer less than optimal throughput.
NASA revs-up new Mars rover, missions to grow red planet exploration program
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Hi all, I have a quick question. When hiring someone, is it more desirable that they carry a Software Engineering degree or a Computer Science degree, or are both equally desirable?
> If such conventional bike cost 100 dollars and can last 20 years then [$20] cardboard bike must last at least 4 years to be competitive.

No. We're talking about poor people. A $20 bike that lasts less than 4 years is much more attractive for many people than a $100 bike that lasts 20 years because they don't have $100 to spend on a bike.

> And people with unstable income prefer long lasting solutions because there is probability that there will be no money in future to buy replacement.

Prefer? Sure, but I think you're overlooking the fact that poor people often can't afford that luxury (sometimes due to their own poor decision making resulting in a vicious cycle but that's still the reality).
The fix: work remotely.

Besides call in meetings you can filter all your communications through electronic means. I check my email only every 4 hours. When I need to not be distracted I turn off my IM. It can be kind of lonely but Im overall much much happier.
From the article:

"In 1984, a compilation of ps.c, the source to the Unix ps command, was observed to #include <sys/stat.h> 37 times by the time all the preprocessing had been done. Even though the contents are discarded 36 times while doing so, most C implementations would open the file, read it, and scan it all 37 times. Without great cleverness, in fact, that behavior is required by the potentially complex macro semantics of the C preprocessor."

"Great cleverness" apparently means "the ability to detect that a file has a standard 'include once' pattern and only process it once". It hardly seems like rocket science.
Some common Git aliases would probably be a good addition, e.g., "git cm" for "git commit -m", or "git lol" for "log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
fuck you, tinco.

(you are the same tinco, right?)
You would want to bring some nitrogen fertilizer, which is what the Mars soil seems to be short on.

(N2 also exists in the atmosphere, but at low levels.)
I guess the trick is to be careful about what you compute.

Helping your friend compute that infinite loop doesn't help anyone.
Even moderation.
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>> As for the numbers, only to be expected in a hype game.

> What does that even mean?

Think dot com bubble, think real estate pre-2008, or more currently think zinga, Facebook, instagram. These things were MASSIVE before they died (or are about to die) a death. Most people didn't want to think they would fall as much or as badly as they did (or are about to) in the end.

They all share one thing, they're massively over hyped for the actual value they give. NB: that's not the same as saying they give no value. Each of the above have considerable merit, but nothing approaching their hype. History tells us the safest bet here is to cash out.

>> Think about something like the parts market for appliances and cars.

Let's say i'm an appliance manufacturer, or i'm a 3rd party parts manufacturer. Where is the benefit to me in any of this?

Will a 3D printer ever be cheaper or able to crank out volumes akin to my sub contracted production lines in China? I think we can safely say no.

3D printers are a niche, that's their value proposition. I can have an amateur knock out a part that's no longer made. The same way i can take a trip to a local metal worker with both parts of a rusted-in-half fender and say "hey, can you knock me up one of these for my 1963 jaguar e-type?"

3D printers will continue to be as relevant to Joe Punter as my local metal worker's English Wheeling Machine.
What is the big deal?
GE is/was one of the best manufacturing firms in the US. The "Lean" in "Lean Startup" comes from "Lean Manufacturing". GE probably did more to innovate in Lean Manufacturing (and Six Sigma) than any other company in the US.
A few sharp guys I know just launched http://www.getblimp.com/
this is such bullshit - it is not available in my itunes app store (non-us). why not mention that in your release post?