skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The former, which is quite useful, when you keep mistakenly only replying to the previous respondent in a group email chain. When this becomes an issue is when you don't realize what you've done; then the person you replied to might not notice it. And then they might only reply to you since it's not longer a group email... and so on.
Javascript, APIs and the Appification of the Web
Google very publicly announced the changes and Microsoft is attempting to conflate product search with general web search. It isn't shady to create a paid listing catalog (which is essentially what Google has done with its product search) if people are aware of that fact. While Microsoft isn't lying in this campaign, they are attempting to paint Google as being dishonest with their general search results, something that isn't true.

The quotes on the top banner are all Larry and Sergey talking about search, not product search...a feature which is no where near as popular or used. Putting these quotes on the same page with attack language could easily confuse anyone to think Google was now accepting paid search results a la Overture back in the day.
http://prgmr.com is my favorite. It's just straight-up simple hosting by a team of people who know what they're doing. Ubuntu is so simple that it doesn't make sense to have your hosting provider also install software for you.
Maybe because you don't use it? There's a notice at the bottom of every page and a link that says "Why these products" with the same discloser.

It's part of the reason I find this annoying, people keep parroting it and then talking about generic search results which are not involved in anyway. Whether it's intentional or a byproduct of "Google" being so widely used for different things, I don't know.
No matter what user agent you use, Chrome won't show you how your page looks in a non-WebKit layout engine like Gecko, Trident, or Presto.
How to choose your path
Please change "is getting licensed" to "is now licensed" in the title!
I'm guessing "screw-google", as I always assumed scroogle.org meant, though now that I think about it perhaps Scroogle is "scrape-google"?
Inbox preview used to be a labs feature that loaded a quick HTML view of your inbox as the interface rendered. It satisfied your last wish, but sadly they removed it in the new gmail.
You are going about this all wrong. If you are still struggling with ruby the language, you shouldn't be learning at the same time one of the most opinionated DSLs around (rspec), because it will confuse the hell out of a beginner rubyist
My money is on some kind of Mission Impossible-style escape from the hospital using body doubles.
New Media Rights: You gotta fight for your right to be an indie developer
I'd be interested to hear what a ruby core dev has to say about this, aren't they working on an embedded version of the MRI? Otherwise, I'm not in favor of not being able to manage memory, some might think its a pain but when you have no memory, then you want to be able to crunch every byte when you need it. I think it could be interesting though, ruby is a very HL abstracted language, and if it gave you enough control it could make writing embedded programs a lot easier.
Fair enough about the 4 minute mile.

But substitute any big feat done for the first time: iPhone taking control from the carriers, or Y Combinator being successful by funding a bunch a little companies. The point is it was harder to do because they were the first.

And educational opportunities are abundant in the US, regardless of where you live. The limiting factor is more likely you don't know how to access them. Which would change if you were around people who did.
If you own the phone you can just do a prepaid arrangement. They just bill you at start of each month for the coming month of service.

(I have T-Mobile, Nexus S, $70/mo for voice/sms/5GB data)
It's clear that the MBA is throttling the calls at the Kernel level since there is nothing at the protocol or hardware level that would necessitate something as slow as 60k calls/sec. While that speed is certainly not bad, especially for a consumer laptop and may beat out of the box Linux distributions, it doesn't mean that the bottleneck isn't something that's hardware dependent.

Ultimately, if you want real speed doing something real simple, you're going to want to use FPGAs anyway which would be a trivial consulting fee to implement compared to a development effort that will go deep into your kernel, hardware drivers and probably protocol tuning as well.
I feel silly for how much I enjoy reading and hearing about his antics. Not really interested in passing judgement on him or his choices, but the long-form content on his blog is entertaining if not informative as well.
Oh, in this particular case I agree, the Karma company generates the karma and furthermore consumes it all as well.

What I was referring to was a distributed model where users essentially 'sell' their bandwidth to others for a credit against using someone else's bandwidth in the future. In that situation credit generation is a serious issue (how does someone 'pay' for my bandwidth if they don't have any credits themselves?). Using the term karma in that scenario is a bit confusing I guess :)

In an ad-hoc wireless network there is the concern that some users will be selfish with the bandwidth they use and provide. Solving the problem of credit generation will help in that situation and in the sharing of an uplink bandwidth. The main difference is that in an ad-hoc network simply being part of the network adds value, and the bandwidth costs are based on power consumption and actual throughput, rather than an upstream cost.
I'm not sure about what's offered right now to new customers, but for me once the original contract expired I didn't renew it and instead of getting phone "upgrades" I got a cheaper "loyalty" plan and I've let that run for years.
It should be a deterent to enter the illegal trust knowing that every member has an incentive to blow the whistle. That needs massive amounts of faith in competitors.

When I worked at Sony the only annual mandatory traing sessions were competition law training for everyone near marketing and the potential penalties were drummed in (upto 10% of global group turnover).
Apple to Revamp U.S. Manufacturing Efforts
This is what a wiki is on the data side.

On the infrastructure side, there have been attempts at self-hosted wikis, where the files that run the site are editable from within the site itself.

Unfortunately, the "could this actually work" part isn't a technological problem, it's a sociological problem. You can't just put something out there and expect it to magically go if you define enough software rules. The hard part of any community isn't the software, it's the community management.

LambdaMOO tried letting its users self-govern and they just ran amok, and admins had to come back in and take control.

Today, you see community-oriented startups like Cowbird have community managers as cofounders or first employees. Flickr's cofounder Caterina Fake famously posted well-written, polite comments on every single photo posted to Flickr for hours every day, for the first N months or years, in order to set the tone for all the users that would follow her.

There's a new textbook out, Building Successful Online Communities, which seems to have done a great job in surveying the state of the art in online community building: http://successfulonlinecommunities.com/

Because it's really a sociological problem, the correct answer to this is to dig into fifty years of sociological research, starting with Bion's "Experiences in Groups." Clay Shirky pokes at it pretty well in his piece, "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy": http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

Groups of humans need hierarchy. There are thought experiments about how you could make a group function otherwise, like Block's "Community: The Structure of Belonging", but they're unproven.

For a long list of references, you can read my references for an essay on community organizations, which starts on page 2 of this PDF: http://distance.cc/issues/01/vitorio-colophon.pdf
It seems to me ... that a reasonable short-term goal would have been to reduce the term of copyright, ratcheting it back to where it was, say, before Sonny Bono.

A bit of a decrease would be possible, from life+70 to life+50, but since the U.S. acceded to the Berne Convention, it's committed itself to terms no shorter than life+50. I think expanding statutory protections for fair use would probably be a more effective approach, although expanding compulsory licensing is an interesting possible alternative.
The hospital should probably make sure all the air-duct vents are screwed on tightly.
The application is in some sense basically a wrapper around a VNC connection. It's likely that the performance issues you're seeing are due to VNC latency rather than the power of the virtual machines themselves or the hardware they run on (which is pretty beefy). But your point is well made: given this architecture you can't really watch video or do things that require high framerates.
A big part of the problem is the difficulty of proving fraudulent intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Man there is so much insight in these comments. I know so little about manufacturing. I've up-voted all your comments, despite the differing stances.
Just got back from a Verizon store and wished I'd had this information. They told me that I had to pay the same price whether I had a prepaid phone or not.

I tried unsuccessfully to argue the logic with them that if they didn't need to subsidize the prepaid phone why couldn't they pass the savings through to me?

I was told by the manager that's the plan take it or leave it, so I left.
Nothing scary, they just are aiming carefully to shoot their own buttocks with some good German schrapnel. If there will be no readership for them, they will not be able to sell ads and die in 3-5 years, depending on long term contracts. And this is a good thing. Since you can use free Russian and Urdu headlines for free! Oh, I forgot to mention Chinese.
tl;dr: Your mom was right. You should do a job you love. Here is a little more about why and how.
>Higher visibility: Paid offers will be highlighted throughout Bing Shopping, including search result and product pages

from http://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/search-advertis...

well, okay then.
In all the universes in which bitcoin succeeds, it first succeeds as a protocol for which traditional currencies circumvent their own limitations, as this value is immediate, palpable, and unaffected by bitcoin's scarce use. Only then, once this niche is established, will bitcoin succeed as a widespread end-user currency on its own right.

This paradigm is present in so many innovations. It's simply tapping more readily accessible value as a way to construct a launching pad for further growth.
I'd say linode, I've had great experience with them, you get your own machine, so you can stack it however you want, pricing is reasonable, service and documentation is great. Heres a link to uk based servers: http://www.linode.com/avail/
so you're doing most of your communication over voip then?
Or you just dont talk on the phone?
Check out netmap for an API without these issues. I'm not sure what API the original author is using to exchange data with the wire but bulk/scatter/gather approaches are typical in high performance messaging systems.
Hmm could you elaborate on point 4? I didn't think of that, but yeah I guess with regulations, that adds another layer of security. Just how much exactly? If it gets hacked, I guess this still doesn't mean we can get our eur/btc back?
Yeah, how much is the buffer size?
The Antifragility of the Web
Golden Spike: Private Lunar Exploration
I think the bad part here is that the google shopping page looks just like a regular search page except with a notice at the top right (that you have to hover over to read). I actually would have no problem with this if it were clearer from the page that all the results on that page were paid for, just like I don't have a problem with adwords ads at the top of search results because google really does seem to do a good job of making sure they are relatively relevant (though usually the only time I click on those is when I'm going to be shopping anyways).

Microsoft calling Google out on this is ridiculous, however, because the only way to get on Bing shopping right now is to pay for the privilege, which makes the situation essentially the same (note that the bing disclaimer says that they don't use payment for ranking, which doesn't disclaim the fact that you have to pay to show up at all).

http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-attacks-google-with-sc...

In any case, this feels super shady, exactly like a political attack ad, as others have said. It would be interesting to see numbers on how effective this is. The Bing it on thing did seem to have some reach into popular consciousness, but didn't seem very effective at getting people to actually switch (only anecdotal evidence, of course). I imagine awareness went up, but the key there was that Bing it on was a relatively positive ad: "we're just as good now" vs "look how bad those other guys are".
This reminds me of a time in high school where I participated in a physics olympics competition. One of the events was to construct a bridge out of provided materials capable of supporting the most weight. The score you received was calculated as:

(sum of weights supported) / (time taken to place weights)

The winning team placed a really small amount of weight in what the judges measured as 0.1 seconds of time. They cleverly gamed the rules to take advantage that a small time would act as a multiplier. Our team came in second for that event even though our bridge supported many times the weight theirs did, even if you took as long as you wanted to place the weights. It was a bit of an abuse of the rules and I felt it went against the spirit of the competition which was to engineer a solid bridge.

In this situation, by crippling potentially better drones the virus copter may have ended up technically winning but the measure by which it won may be different than what was intended. That said, it will definitely bring to the forefront a better approach to security which will have long-term benefits.
Said file will be virus checked before opening, of course.
Did you bother to read the presentation I linked to? They had all sorts of tests, had many millions of users's usage data. They even ran eye tracking studies to see how people actually used menus versus the Ribbon and on and on.

I'm unsure if, after reading the information how you could dismiss it as a "handful of wankers with a whiteboard" just "saying so".

P.S. Clicking the help icon opens a window with "Outlook 2010" in the first line of content. Searching for "what version" also provides an article explaining how to find this. My guess would be that "checking the version number" didn't show up as a commonly used feature, enough to warrant higher visibility or reworking the help system.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115229808208707341778/posts/5Buz...
It's missing "How I solved the travelling salesman problem using pure CSS and Clojure on my coffee break"
Just a few examples:

“I sometimes use Google's search engine, and I sometimes use DuckDuckGo. When I use a search engine, it is always from a machine that isn't mine and that other people also use. I never identify myself to the site, of course.”
http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

“I am unwilling to identify myself in order to connect to the Internet. For instance, if a hotel gives a user name and password to each room, I won't use that system, since it would identify me. I would need some other way to connect.”
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...

“I refuse to have supermarket frequent buyer cards of my own because they are a form of surveillance.

I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices.

When I need to call someone, I ask someone nearby to let me make a call.

I absolutely refuse to take Amtrak trains because they check passengers ID (sometimes, not all the time)”
http://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
Yep that's what I've been doing.
Designing a Java Cryptography Header
This remarkably thin personal blog post seems to be getting some traction, so I will remark (subject to editing in a moment) that the classic way to figure out "why is everyone like their parents?" was to do a study with a "genetically sensitive design." The ways to do that include studying identical (monozygotic, or "MZ") twins brought up in differing households, usually the result of adoptions splitting up twin pairs, sometimes from each parent of a twin pair bringing up one child after a divorce. More modern studies include designs such as studying the children of co-twins, that is studying first cousins who each have an uncle or aunt who is an MZ twin with one of their parents. There are many variations of studies like these.

Professor Eric Turkheimer, who I think is the current president of the Behavior Genetic Association (certainly he is very active in the association) does the scholarly community a favor by putting direct links to most of his papers on behavior genetics on his faculty webpage.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/vita1_turkheimer.htm

You can learn a lot about what makes children similar to--and different from--their parents by reading those papers. Another author who puts many of his papers on behavior genetics up on the Web is the younger researcher Lars Penke,

http://www.larspenke.eu/en/publications.html

who has published as a co-author with some of the leading researchers on human behavior genetics.
I agree with the first point. It did deserve to win.

In regards to the second point, I think you've been playing too much Black Ops 2.
I don't think anybody is saying that Google isn't being shady because Microsoft is being tacky as hell. That would be an ad hominem.

Discussing both aspects of the story seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Perhaps we could allow your examples, with fair use as an escape valve. The more work you lump under the same license, the larger the excerpt that's plausibly fair use.
I don't have time to respond properly, but even though I'm a bit of a copyright hawk myself I'm strongly in favor of the Khanna propositions. When the 'limited times' exceed the median human lifespan, the effective term of copyright for most citizens is infinite. I think most of the goals identified in the Khanna memo were shockingly sensible, even the DJ bits.

That said, it's not sensible in terms of political capital; even if the Republican party decides to leap in the 21st century and propose radical reforms, there are bigger fish to fry in the next Congress, like tax/entitlement reform, immigration and so forth.

Of course I think we need a third party and my occasional hobby is drafting its manifesto, but that isn't exactly a short-term project either.
T-Mobile is supposed to absorb MetroPCS's LTE network, IIRC.
I think I've lost track of how many times Microsoft has accused Google of something, only to find out a few days later that they were doing the exact same thing. At least make sure you aren't doing that, too, if you're going to accuse someone of something. Seems like attack ads 101 to me.

And yes, all these negative FUD spreading ads remind me of the old Microsoft, which is the same as the new Microsoft it seems.
Thanks for the delightful and thorough rant :)
Here's a study prepared for Congress in the late '50s when they were considering a revision of copyright law that provides a good look at the historical development of our understanding of the scope of the copyright power in the US: http://www.copyright.gov/history/studies/study3.pdf
How do you know that Google search is pure? I for one can barely see what are ads vs regular search and am deeply suspicious of Google's humongous increase in profits and Adwords revenue this past year after Panda and other updates. Occam's razor and all. Google has changed
Reminds me of Edison vs. Tesla. Too bad this time Tesla is worth $200 billion (Larry Page made sure of it) and Edison and Co. is run by a bald idiot named Ballmer.

If you have to litigate or advertise your way against the superiority of your competition via attack ads - you've already lost.
SEC staff questions a Facebook post
I can't find a reference, but isn't OS X known for being relatively slow at system calls?
No, it's the Betamax defense, isn't it? Substantial non-infringing uses make the technology allowable.
> Later, guards found him "prostrate on the
> floor of his cell and unresponsive."

John McAfee has stopped responding. Would you like to resuscitate him?
I'm curious, how would you imagine the second one would even work? Add a new header that asks the mail reader to choose "reply to all" by default? It seems like something no reasonable mail reader should or would respect.
Does anyone else not care about this guy's press bait? I'm flagging this. Let Techcrunch and other spam sites cover his escapades.
Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper.

Someone prove me wrong.
[C]ontent of whatever form -- be it newspaper articles, images, whatever -- has inherent value that should be recognized.

I don't buy the assertion of inherent value. There's a ton of crap out there.

If there's any value in content it's subjective, not inherent.

People who are so convinced of the value of their content are free to erect a paywall and rake in the cash.

But what if newspapers could charge a modest fee commensurate to the value an article link is to Google?

It' perhaps something to consider, but it has to be a consensual act, where the value is negotiated. Google may already be providing commensurate value by driving traffic to a site.
Random factoid: the prompt actually comes from getty, not telnetd.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like the plot of an Arrested Development episode?
This page looks terrible! There is a clutter of fonts, overlapping text elements, a scared girl and a scrolling banner. Its disorganized information overload! I would expect this from the Time Cube, but and not Microsoft.

It looks better through the Geocitiesizer

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...
As if we've never been screwed over by microsoft, fuck off
It is not hard to Google, and the answer is not surprising. http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/overview/faqs_en.htm...:

"What happens to the proceeds from fines?

The amount of the fines is paid into the Community budget. The fines therefore help to finance the European Union and reduce the tax burden on individuals."
Hmmm.... A very spicy plan is so spicy that it is better worth investing into own VM testing park. Mechanical Turks are also here.
To be perfectly honest I don't know.. I had latin as well, but I gleefully forgot most of it :)
IIRC, The PirateBay did/does/wanted to do something like that?

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/03/19/low-o...
I think it's great for houses without a full module wired for the same purpose and it's not programmable.

There are often designated slots for devices you wish to stay on - no more or less unless daisy chaining power strips.

It's a great step - but I know we can do better.
..and now everyone with an account on Hacker News is a potential terror suspect.
This deserves merit? This is discussion? For me, this page is just childish kinderganden-level "name-calling". Yes, there is 1 bit of information that is useful, but why not write an article and put it on the Bing frontpage. Did they really need to come up with "Scroogled"?

I don't think this deserves merit.