skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Nexus 7 user, those direct updates from Google aren't much of a selling point. https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+7+4.2+problems
i hope they do, would love to buy one
I agree with your suggestion on the webcams. Another approach is to use machine learning to generate the high-definition image from the mutual information contained in the multiple images by using probabilistic estimators. As an example, [1] has empirically shown decent results using MAP estimators.

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.130...
The Humble Bundle may have allowed them to file Chapter 11, which means they don't plan to shutdown, instead of Chapter 7, which would have required total liquidation of the company.
So my employees should get a raise for not leaving me? Not sure that logic will fly.

I'm certain there's a bad date analogy somewhere in there too! :D
I think Amazon Prime video works on the Nexus 7 with Firebox beta and the Flash plugin.
47€ *

Their dollar-euro conversion rate is pretty bad.
I'm inclined to believe (if they want to be nice to their customers) that they'll extend the offer if the site remains unavailable like it is right now for the next 24 hours.
As many others have said, the best way to get a pay rise is to get a new job. This becomes especially true if you work for BigCorp (or at least, big enough to have internal policies on pay rises).

I used to work with an embedded engineer who got a pay rise of 40% by quitting and getting another (very similar) job. Her manager knew that he needed to pay her a lot more but global company policy tied his hands and limited what pay rises he could hand out. I think he watched this happen over and over and over again.
What's wrong with that? As long as he's got arguments, there's nothing wrong with him focusing on an issue that he deems significant and educating people about the issue.
Before I try to answer the "should", I can tell you that you certainly "could". I have lived and worked in DC/NoVA area and there is definitely possibility to get more. But coming back to the point about "should", you need to ask yourself the following questions and assess your situation:

1. How critical is your position/situation at the current company ? Is it possible to have a frank discussion about salary with your manager and see where it goes ?

2. Have you tried looking outside just to get an idea of how much someone is willing to pay you ? With 2 years of experience, 75K is not a bad number necessarily but again I know a few 2 years experienced Java devs making more than that.

Bottomline is that it comes down to whatever you can negotiate. Pay attention to the word negotiate again. Thats what it really is all about. If you don't try hard, your employer will obviously not do charity even if they love you. So go out there, talk to current employer and look outside at the same time. You will know where you stand.
You can't possibly play these all before the world ends!
Mark Cuban and Minecraft Creator Notch give $500k to EFF for patent reform
I agree. Indeed, it's a very good question whether Wikipedia shouldn't just operate.

However, as I said in the other comment I made, this growth seems to be needed in order to maintain, "just operate", the achieved purpose of Wikipedia - online, open encyclopedia. The growth is needed because online, open encyclopedia is itself a moving target. The main problem, it seems (as pointed in the Annual Plan[1]), is the trend of fewer contributors with each year. If you read the comments at theregister article, all of them talk about the bad experience of editing a wiki and engaging with the contributor community. Now, I have no idea how true this is and how often this happens but the fact that there are fewer contributors each year remains. Wiki edits and the contributor community are the lifeblood of Wikipedia. If these and their quality are waning, then this will have a large impact on Wikipedia being an encyclopedia. Furthermore, to be a true encyclopedia, the quality of the articles needs to be as accurate as possible which certainly is a moving target. Investing into additional tools to better assess articles' quality certainly works towards this target.

Next, there is open and online. Part of the money goes towards broadening the reach of Wikipedia. Like making it available in the Global South via mobile for free, with no data charges (Wikipedia Zero). Or consider lobbying - if the foundation itself does not defend itself from acts like SOPA and thus remain online, who else should step in to WMF's interest? I think it's fair and very empowering to have people with very limited Internet access to at least Wikipedia.

With that said, the question changes. It is not about whether Wikipedia needs more money - it does - but it is about how much it needs, i.e is the foundation efficient enough while maintaining the target of an online open encyclopedia. revelation's comment[2] about hiring as a startup is quite a interesting comparison

[1]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-1...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947473
They sure are good at crafting that advertising message to make it sound like they are in dire straits to even pay the hosting bills.

Make it sound like a small org: "we have only 150 staff" ...

Lead with the necessary hosting costs, even if stuff like "programs" is where the money is being spent: "have costs like any other top site: servers, power, rent, programs, staff, and legal help"

Imply the whole project is on shaky ground: "take one minute to keep it online another year"
NOOO my boss is on vacation until next year, how am I supposed to get approval?

Edit: Oh apparently it's for personal editions only.
Personal license means I can use it. Company license means the company can let me, or any ONE else at the company use it.
If I have to work on another project named after Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, I'll quit this damn company!
The way I understood it, a personal license is if you're paying for it (and the company isn't reimbursing you for it). You can still use it for commercial purposes.
The US is on the list. It's at the top (2nd item) instead of being in alphabetical order. This would work great if it weren't defaulting to Czech. By the way, web designers trying to do this: add the "special" values at the top of the list (so they're easy to find) AND ALSO in alphabetical order (in case users go looking) -- it still works fine with duplicate entries.
The only sale is for the personal edition - so your boss' approval wouldn't help anyways. ;)
That could have been conveyed in a much shorter article that doesn't discredit honest projects of community members. Also, I don't feel guilt-tripped. What do you expect? A multi-paragraph article on top of each page?

If you click through, for example in Germany, you get a pretty detailed explanation of where your money goes:

https://spenden.wikimedia.de/spenden/Ihre_Spende_wirkt

The largest part: support for volunteers. Isn't that what Wikipedia is all about?
They put United States near the top of the list, not in alphabetic order.
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I feel you man, i upgraded resharper a few weeks ago.
Don't mean to undermine your point but where in US is 12-14% raise average ? From what I know, most full time employers go for the usual inflation crap of 3-4%. Unless you change jobs or are in contracting, 12-14% seems high to me in the US.
Characters from Bananaman. Not my choice, and I can't wait for the list to exhaust... though I like the idea of calling the devs VM test server 'zookeeper'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaman
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Funny. I use mythological figures. Right now it's "metatron", and "delphi"...
So far as I can tell, it's not so much "The Register thinks" as "Orlowski thinks" - much though I tend to enjoy reading his articles, a small dump truck full of salt is pretty much always required.

The improvement from one star to four on the efficiency-as-a-charity thing and the innovative things they're doing with the money led me to have a more positive impression of wikipedia at the end of the article than I did beforehand; hopefully a decent percentage of readers will feel the same way.
Yes. I think that some commenters thought I meant that whatever they are becoming is necessarily bad, when the point is that it's different. Might deliver a bunch of cool new stuff.

This is a story about mission creep, and growth, and what happens to internet locations that become extremely popular. Would it even be possible to stick to one simple mission? I kind of doubt it. If not, are they being "forced" into growth simply to stay alive (as you mention)? Do they morph into a more traditional charitable NGO? Do they end up as a political party, or a multinational coproration? Or something completely different? Why aren't they moving to more of a PBS model where they operate entirely off of investment returns?

It's going to be a fascinating story. We make a mistake by assuming that they are in complete control over how this thing plays out. In my mind this has much more to do with the internet and technology in general than Wikipedia in particular.
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mcherm & akavel - Thank you. I've seen this on other lists, but those lists actually display that top list first. When I chose the IntelliJ country options it put me directly at the Czech option, so I didn't even try the top of the list.

mcherm - yes, for usability purposes they should be put in both places
We use the same core for JavaScript, HTML, CSS among all IDE's. They're often not available at the same time because we ship at different times. Otherwise all the same.
No problem. I just get worried that people hear about corporations or nations "writing off" debt and wonder why the system is rigged so they can't "write off" their own debts. Of course you can, as long as those debts are owed to you and not by you.
Quelle Surprise, a Journalist paints the picture that a local decision is wrong and englightened foreigners got it right.

This is linkbait, pure and simple.

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What worked for Iceland...

less people, first to go,

not in EU, few options,

history of obstinancy ( cod wars )

...

Cannot be applied to Ireland ...

more people, later to go,

bound in EU, many countries who would back it ( UK bilateral loan helped a lot )

history of abiding by contract
Yes it was. According to Groklaw, Samsung has already pointed the re-examination results out to the court, as this patent made up a solid chunk of the infringement the jury found, and hence the damages number presumably needs to at the very least be adjusted. However, the jury didn't indicate how they apportioned the number, so this might be another way for Samsung to get a new jury trial on at least parts of the issues.
"you can expect roughly a 10-25% year over year salary increase"

Which country or states specifically ?
Ugh. I tried adding a product to the cart and got a "Some JetBrains services are currently down for scheduled maintenance. We'll be back online shortly. Thanks for your patience." page.

Someone chose a really bad time for scheduled maintenance... I'm doubting it was scheduled.

Hope they get this resolved soon.
Deferreds and Promises in JavaScript
I want intellij idea, but it seems doomsday has fallen on there servers...
> Isn't that what Wikipedia is all about?

That's the heart of the issue, right? Is the Wikimedia Foundation just supposed to run a website that is edited by volunteers, or is it supposed to also do other things that further the same goals as the actual Wikipedia? The foundation itself has the latter viewpoint, while I expect most people donating are just donating to pay for the former.
You have to start analyzing, what is it that you really want out of your career? Mastery of a development stack? Creating a start-up company? Project Manager? Set a goal, start with the end in mind and from there you can dedicate your steps towards that.

When you keep jumping jobs, it means you haven't figured out what you want to dedicate yourself to because you easily get distracted by 'new and interesting' things. Truthfully, when anyone is really passionate about their job, they never see it as 'work', they naturally tend to stick to it for the next 3 or more years of their life - and those people are the ones who tend to naturally create "interesting" things (ex: 10gen, 37signals, Redis, NodeJS etc.)
We're working on it. Sorry. Response has been overwhelming.
Looks like it's been edited with your suggestion.
Thanks. I'm a long-standing IntelliJ user; I ditched Eclipse in favour of it at my day job 4 years ago and I never looked back. Looks like I'll try it.
Well, the progression should be:

Navigator -> Explorer -> Konqueror

With the order the arrive at a new found / colonized land.

And then you just go there for Safari.
Just buy your own copy, you are allowed to use it at work but you can't share it with other people.

Also you have to buy it with your own money.
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Personal license means it's in your name, nothing more. Whereas Commercial license means it's in your company's name and therefore unnamed, so it does not belong to a single individual but to the company.
Thanks, both: very helpful.
My advice: don't say your site is down for "scheduled maintenance" when it's obviously because of an unexpected surge in traffic. It just makes you look dishonest. (Well, either that or really terrible at scheduling your maintenance periods.)
I paid 111€ to upgrade (94€ + 19% french VAT). If I were to upgrade now, it would cost 27€ (23€ + 19% french VAT).

I wonder if I should just cancel the upgrade and buy a new license. According to the terms and conditions on the Digital River website, I have a legal "cooling off period" of two weeks.
Searching for "C standard doc" does not actually work.

"C99 standard doc" let's you find http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf but searching for "function declaration" does not take you anywhere useful.

That's not to say reading the whole thing is a waste of time, just beyond the scope of most new programmers.
The renewal is optional. You would still be able to use the builds released, during your valid subscription period after it ended. But in case you wanted to use builds that will be released after your subscription ended, you would have to go for a renewal.
Don't forget the hidden NI contribution from your employer, council tax, massive fuel tax, tax on alcohol, etc. That said, I always see California and Europe as the same tax wise.
Orlowski is the reason I stopped reading El Reg. He's constantly negative on absolutely everything, from Google to Linux to Wikipedia to anyone-with-any-money-whatsoever, especially if based in California.

He's like one of those unmarried aunts who won't stop gossiping on other people's relationships because they don't have a life of their own.
...I came up with a simple media type that adds linking on top of JSON

Adding hypermedia reflection to JSON does amazing things to APIs. We've been doing this via oData for awhile, and it makes things so much easier on the client. Anyone building a hypermedia/REST API with JSON (or XML) would make good of using standard formats that incorporate this functionality and attitude.
DataMapper 2 Status and Roadmap
It has removed the bit about a 4 being in the air twice as long as a 2, yes, but has not included the bit where I say the exact relationship is complicated.
Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up
Sorry, but €12 per amateur picture is not a steal.

Then there is a whole different issue of prioritizing resources while you get into projects like that. Why rock festivals? Why not illustrating Polka performers, or wurst wrappings, or carriages of subway park in Nuremberg? (Rhetorical, we all know rock festivals are fun)
Oracle Buys Eloqua for $871 Million
Not sure what happens if you are self employed or have a limited company to consult from.
Looks great!

Reminds me of when I built Logbook - store notes on Gists from CLI. The mindset is amazingly the same :)
Though I offloaded most of the CLI processing to Thor, and didn't build Command/CLI abstraction into it.

You might even find it useful:
https://github.com/jondot/logbook
> I expect most people

Please put numbers on the table, because I expect "most people" to be fully aware of how that non-profit thing works.
Working on it. Sorry about this.
I wonder how secure that basement is. Someone going down there with a chainsaw could do a lot of damage.
Great site BTW...
JetBrains: 75% discount until the 21st
From your other comments, the biggest question is what is the equity split?

You should tell him that you need more help, and he needs to give up equity so you have something to offer to someone else that actually has time to assist you.
consumers are interested in the best value/experience they expect from purchasing a device. I believe that the open web will provide an environment which will result in a better user experience over time and hence will enable richer experiences.
I cant wait for the cart to be up. I have 4 purchases to make.
> He's not saying they must conform with these ambiguous rules. But if they don't, it's fair to be contemptuous of them. There is nothing at all unusual about this, there are lots of actions that won't get you in jail but will get you punished in various social manners.

I disagree, though. They're following the law as written, which the vast majority of people and organizations do daily. The distinction is that by doing so, they've found a "bug" in the system, and that's something that deserves admiration rather than contempt. Here's the analogy: someone spots a bug in a program, and they're exploiting that bug in a way that's harming other users. Who deserves those users contempt more: (1) the hacker who found & exploits the bug; or (2) or the quiescent software developer who fails to timely patch that bug? I think it's (2), which is why I'm reluctant to socially punish NPEs. They're publicizing flaws in patent legislation to the detriment to many innocents. Consider this akin to "crowdsourcing" Congress, subject to a cost function (namely, the magnitude of harm suffered by the innocents). It's Congress' continued inaction that deserves the magnitude of our contempt; socially vilifying the 'hacker' is just a band-aid solution.
40 cross-browser CSS layouts
I actually already have it for personal use (which I bought for my personal use in side projects)

I was really hoping to get resharper for my coworkers. Every time I go to a computer without it, I realize all the best things I love in Visual Studio turn out to be features from Resharper :D
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I believe Komodo has line numbers turned on by default.
Well at least they spent some of it on going to the moon and sending stuff to Mars.
Big saleon all fashion
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Everybody pays it, it's just that half of it gets hidden from view when you're a regular employee.
I hope it becomes "48 hours only" because they are getting slammed.
The Connected Classroom: Education 2.0
The classroom has become increasingly digitized in recent years with computer technology becoming an essential feature in the learning environment. Sharp's BIG PAD is the next step...

"The basis is very simple but because it has a Windows PC behind it, you can start doing an awful lot."

http://bit.ly/SYOxAl
Took a little digging to find the How-It-Works page http://www.gog.com/support/website_help/downloads_and_games

I really want the Ultima pack. Is this site legit?
Yeah but once you have one successful app you get cross-fertilization.
>Philosophy of mind is probably the dominant research area in contemporary philosophy, and I think you'd find a lot that doesn't overlap at all with empirical psychology.

It's not really my area of expertise, but maybe the reason that philosophy of mind is such a big research area in contemporary philosophy is because we haven't figured out how to study mind yet. Once we figure out the correct questions about things like consciousness, we should be able to address them scientifically (much like we are doing with perception, learning, etc. through neuroscience), or figure out why it can't be addressed scientifically, or come to some kind of other logical conclusion.
verseker, at least while I was living there.
The whole point is, if you make it harder to unsubscribe, people will mark you as spam, think you're even more annoying than other not-wanted mailings and even more unlikely to do business with.
Compare it with a store attendee who pulls you in and doesn't let you out anymore.. You will NEVER shop there anymore even if they have stuff you like.
If it costs $30,000 to hire someone and the the employee is making $100,000 a year, it will be quite some time before a 3% annual raise costs the company anything out of pocket.

I would add that if you are in the knowledge industry, the benefits of keeping knowledge from walking out the door can be significant. The benefits of good will from employees and former employees can be especially beneficial when it comes to acquiring staff.

Leadership means going to bat for one's subordinates. It is a quality which distinguishes good management from mediocre.
Yes it's legit, they've been in business forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
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New York Stock Exchange is sold to InterContintenalExchange
Who says that the pictures are amateurish and that amateurs are taking the pictures? Also, I don't expect them to take 1500 pictures, but 1500 usable pictures (one per act).

Please read through the linked statement in the article, there is actually a long text attached.

And yes, you have to prioritize. One of the factors is actual volunteers. There are people that volunteer for rock festivals and did a prototype that was well received. So why not let them do stuff that they volunteer for? Because Polka should be covered as well?

The article calls this "highly questionable". No, its a thought out decision that went through multiple levels of review.
Being a solo developer with an idea, but not with the ending FastCompany wants.
range.js – JavaScript's missing range function.
@floydpink, the answer is yes.
The self employment tax is no less fair than the employer side of social security taxes.

The only difference is it doesn't use silly accounting to hide the tax from the employee.

It does seem to be the case that the chart omits the ~15% tax that goes to social security and medicare (well, 15% for people earning under the limit). So even the federal taxes on $100,000 are quite some more than 21%.
ICE agrees NYSE Euronext takeover
I am still waiting for it to go multi-platform.
am I the only person who gets a loading icon and no content? (Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m)
Idiot gurus and moronic buzzwords: British tech conferences
That would at least explain the absence of sample shots from the rig.
The Apache foundation beat you to it!

http://zookeeper.apache.org/

It's actually a clever name for what they're doing
Because socially punishing the NPEs takes the focus away from the real problem: punishing Congress for its failure to reform the laws causing a hemorrhage of lawsuits. The NPEs are effectively doing Congress' job by finding these loopholes; they're analogous to black-hat hackers who exploit a flaw in software that the developer fails to fix in a timely manner. In that example, this community historically hasn't vilified that hacker to the extent they vilify patent trolls. That's why I reacted strongly to your post.