skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political musing aside I think it may be disingenuous to compare modern collision-free Ethernet vs shared-medium solutions.

Modern Ethernet over twisted-pair connect directly to a switch, a quite intelligent piece of technology. During this transfer you will not get a collision because it is your wire. When all the various clients packets converge at the switch the software there will sort and buffer the traffic in a hopefully 'fair' way and then send all that traffic out a collision-free link. Repeat. (Note: old Ethernet did at one time transmit on a shared medium but most people thing of Ethernet as our modern twisted-pair-switch-n-router architecture).

ATM and other channel access methods[1] are solutions dealing with a different problem. A shared medium can quite easily become overwhelmed even if everyone is playing fair. If the link just has too many clients the network collapses. One might liken this to the "hotel wifi" or "stadium wifi" problem.

While I think more open wifi is good, the technical challenges are not trivial. Many hotels and stadiums are moving to WLAN Controller architectures coupled with highly directional APs. Just a bit ago we saw an article on how the Super Bowl will be RF Spectrum policed this time around - just to try and keep the shared medium working. There would be many policy questions around deploy, management, policing, etc. and many technical questions about channel access, network health, buffering, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_access_methods
It will be very hard, perhaps impossible, for Mojang (or any other company) to replicate the success of Minecraft. But I don't think 0x10c needs to be as successful as Minecraft is. As long as they can make at least a little profit on 0x10c all will be fine. From what I've seen and understand about the game, I think 0x10c will certainly be profitable.

The nice thing about 0x10c will be that in a way it's another sandbox game as well, but this time the sandbox is the on-ship computer instead of the world. But I also think the game will offer plenty for people who are not into programming. Markus streamed the FPS capabilities of the game recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2k8QBcaaUM
Ownership types in Rust, and whether they're worth it
Worth noting that my understanding is that the Icelandic government never insured these deposits into Icelandic banks by foreign entities. In the case of Great Britain, the British government decided to retroactively insure these deposits by British entities on behalf of the Icelandic banks. The issue at hand was whether the Icelandic government should retroactively insure the banks as well, and pay the British government off. The Icelandic government initially voted to do so, but the people said "hell, no!" in a referendum.

So in my opinion, the Icelanders didn't fail to pay a debt; they refused to incur one because the entire world has started feeling entitled to zero-risk bank deposits. Which is quite sensible: Iceland is a tiny country, 319,000 people, and Great Britain is quite large, 62 million people. Spreading billions of dollars of loss over Iceland's population is thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per capita. Spreading the same loss over Great Britain's population is tens or hundreds of dollars per capita. Iceland just can't afford to be insuring global banks, which is why the didn't and aren't.
I'm a man. We (male) developers don't have to be like this, and many of us aren't.

But, I've said it before and I'll say it again: men have even more of a responsibility than women to speak up and combat this kind of sexism. We (men) have the utmost responsibility to make sure that we are fighting to allow women a place in our industry, a place where they feel safe enough so that they can be equal participants without worrying about being looked down upon, harassed or concerned for their safety.

The sad reality is, more than having courageous women speaking up about sexism, men speaking up about sexism convinces other men to treat women respectfully.
We have an organization here in the UK called the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who lobby on poverty and publish statistics, but they use a relative measure of poverty as basically, being in the bottom third of the population. So, if your next-door neighbours on both sides are watching Blu-ray and you have a lowly DVD player, then they would count you as "living in poverty" for the purposes of the statistics they compile.

When you consider that the very poorest in the UK have free housing, welfare, free education and healthcare, etc, then "poverty" in a global sense is very obviously long since eliminated here.
> they even tell you to interpret weinre as penis right in the first sentence.

I don't see it:

> As all mobile developers should know Weinre is the best thing to have happened to mankind since American Idol got cancelled.
This needs a lot of expansion. Which FCC regulations are keeping competition out?
When one of the sides is British, the BBC presents one side, or presents the other side in a completely jaundiced way that omits relevant but inconvenient facts.
Indian government will spend $6.9 bn on Technology in 2013: Report
Illumos/OpenSolaris: "I needed to live 6 weeks in my old Mercedes."
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The article assumes that half a million customer will pay for 2 years. I don't get how allowing a customer to watch all episodes in 1 month will help recurring revenues. Sure, people might get hooked on Netflix after that but I fear that past the initial "wow, Netflix can produce stuff too!" excitement, it will end up being just another show available.
Fair point. I think what interested me about the article was that both Facebook and Twitter were mentioned equally (8 times each) during last year's Super Bowl commercials. I agree that Twitter is the social platform traditional media has the most affinity towards, so in that respect, the results are to be expected.

Here are some stats on Super Bowl mentions that might be of interest to you:

Facebook: http://newsroom.fb.com/News/570/Super-Bowl-XLVII-on-Facebook

Twitter: http://blog.twitter.com/2013/02/the-super-tweets-of-sb47.htm...

Instagram: http://blog.instagram.com/post/42254883677/sbroundup

Google (search, not +): http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/m-beyonce-and-ravens-...
It will pay off, but it's more a long term investment and you should an opportunity cost analysis on the cost of hardware and expected returns.

Use this to calculate your profit.
http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/

Disclaimer: I mined bitcoins at the start and cashed out during the last bubble at ~$30USD per coin. I sold the hardware I had (ATI 58xx series graphics card mining rigs). The new ASIC hardware looks too great if you could gt your hands on it.

Remember though that you are at a disadvantage to more established miners who can afford these $X0,000 mining rigs that increase the total pool speed which brings down your contributions and your profit.
Phones communicate with plants
They may be explainable but do you really want to install an app that _could_ keep track of the numbers you call and then send them back to a central server?

In this case it is the BBC, so its probably only likely that the british government, the metropolitan police or mi 5/6 would be able to convince them to do it but a whole lot of less scrupulous organisations ask for that permission.
POP3 is no picnic, either. Outlook seems to want care about the last-used UIDL.

And, to make things more confusing, the RFC is a little vague about the re-use of UIDLs.
The cool thing is none of this was made for the profit or sales numbers. Notch makes games because he loves making games. In fact, it kinda seems like he's intentionally trying for a more obscure game, something to be niche with a strong community rather then wildly popular.
Use long flags when scripting
File:/// can crush you MacOS
'Year of Rock' is the patient guitar tutor for the Internet generation
Privacy groups call on U.S. Gov. to stop lobbying against EU data law
Speaking with Matt Lauer from the TODAY Show, Zuckerberg said that more smartphone users are actually accessing Facebook through their mobile browser than through apps specifically built for iOS or Android. “There are more people doing that than the iPhone and all of Android phones combined, right? So it’s actually a pretty diverse ecosystem,” said Zuckerberg.

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That has surprised me - but given Facebook's large sample size I think that goes to show you that the mobile web is stronger than maybe thought on first glance.
Stay in the USA. Easy to find affordable real estate no matter your budget.

Too many naysayers don't realize how ridiculous their local cost of living is, and how a simple move can cut that by orders of magnitude.

The key is being willing to move. Once you are, options abound. Get busy on http://zillow.com and search regions and price ranges; to get in the mindset, start by searching whole states for properties under $1000 (not a typo).
If they are to have chance of replicating that success, I would think they have to aggressively brand Mojang as the "creator of Minecraft". Maybe then it would be possible. I know of Minecraft, but I didn't remember that Mojang was the company behind it, before I was reminded by this post.
And they are just horrible.
The level of this class at University of Sydney is.
Bu the lecturer is really close to the ACS.
No, on the Weinre page:

> weinre is WEb INspector REmote. Pronounced like the word "winery". Or maybe like the word "weiner". Who knows, really.
Ah the ongoing Tumblr-fication of Hacker News.

Off topic no?
Just pointing out the full hierarchy of the nerd scale:

Dork -> Geek -> Nerd -> Hacker -> (Ritchie || Wozniac || Tesla)

It does in fact go deeper, but its a little more controversial:

Jock <- Madden Gamer <- Gamer <- Dork -> Geek -> ...
Heres a tip if you want to buy hp - buy their enterprise class hardware (probook / elitebook). The support on those is very good.
This article seems exceedingly hollow. "Ive's is coming, so change is coming." is something we've all pretty much assumed since the say forstall left.
Yeah we have a bug! We're on it. :)
I hate the big bang theory, and for the longest time I've tried to put my finger on what it is I don't like about it. I think it comes from a mixture of two things.

The writing making the characters repeatedly try and display how smart they are (which I'm aware is integral to the show) but to me makes them totally and desperately unlikable. That, coupled with the general tension building component of most sit-coms where all too frequently characters do what is clearly a bad idea, followed by some form of "make it better" set of actions.

I know that if they [the characters] made a mistake and just repaired it in a very mundane way this would not be good television, but I find it incredibly jarring that these unlikable characters have one thing going for them, their intelligence, yet seemingly couldn't find their way out of a paper bag.

(EDIT: This reflects the relatively few episodes I've seen, but every time I see one I feel exactly the same)

(EDIT2: Perfect example from a comment below,

"When he [Sheldon] drops some furniture he is carrying to debate the point that pulling it up the stairs would reduce the required vertical force by exactly fifty percent and not about fifty percent, he is doing something weird and nerdy..."

Debating yes, absolutely, but scientific debate by itself isn't funny to the general population (Deestan would enjoy it, I might enjoy it, but Joe Bloggs on the street probably wouldn't care) so he drops it. That's not smart. If the show was consistent he'd then point out that the loss of energy from dropping it far outweighs the benefit of moving it around, or he'd break his toe.

It's this orthogonal slapstick which seems totally incongruous with Sheldon's typical behavior which annoys me.
What I really really don't like about the Android app model is that an app will come along and demand over a dozen permissions. And I either accept them all or don't download the app.
> there seems to still be a growing population of women in the community.

Just keep in mind that, whatever growth you've observed, the number of women in programming now is much lower than it was in the 1980s.

For some historical statistics see http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-26/opinions/35268...
2008 FISA allows americans to spy on foreigners using US cloud computing
I just finished talking with a colleague whose six year old loves minecraft and I remember talking with a twelve year old who was similarly obsessed - to the point of knowing the patch numbers and all the details. The community which grew organically around this game is incredible, and that kind of peer-to-peer promotion is priceless.
exactly. the skin doesn't just "breathe", there's energy being spent in order to heat or cool the body down, as a reaction to the enviromental temperature.

buildings spend energy to cool down/warm up because the outside temperature is unfavorable. Can't see how opening the windows would help
Agree that laughter tracks sap the humour out of any situation, but then I stopped watching Arrested Development because I got tired of being beaten over the head with the joke by the narrator.

People need to stop worrying if everyone got the joke or not. The best comic pieces are layered such that even if you only get half of it it's still hilarious.
Should one pay taxes based on how different the rulers look once they are dead? 'Cos if so, I don't think elected rulers look much different from peasants either.
The Mad Video rolls out interactive video for mobile (HTML5)
> Sheldon's tireless and obnoxious pedantery is a perfect caricature of me.

IMO Sheldon's personality is the personification of a kitty cat.
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How utterly stupid do you have to be to engineer software that requires you to have configuration files in a publicly accessible folder? Even most shared hosts now will have a public_html folder and the ability to put sensitive stuff not inside it.

Complete untrue. You can (and are advised to) move your wp-config.php above public_html. The reason its not done by default is because you just can't do this on many of the crappy hosting services, and it creates a barrier for entry for people making their first-ever site.
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Crashplan? I helped a small business do it on the cheap, he keeps offsite storage at his house.
Truly a great tool, thanks for this!
Please, tell me, why there is always one individual who reads an article like this and goes "but what about teh menz!?"
Show HN: My Weekend Project: find popular spots nearby using Facebook Graph API
Tom Morris thank you for writing this. It so well echoes my sentiments. For all news site app developers out there, apps are only useful if it provides all the flexibility of reading news in the browser and more, don't let the readers curse you for making them download a pointless app. And yes, there are news apps out there that does things right, but very few.
Do you have a browser compatibility list?
More Thoughts About Blockquotes than are Strictly Required
Organizers Excited to Bring Back Startup Weekend Montreal
Don't forget - they're hiring software engineers! This is usually an indication on an imminent overhaul.

Sometimes I wish there was a vote to indicate that article is completely devoid of substance and is just regurgitating facts we all knows (iOS is 5 years old!) to come up with an exciting headline.
Lightning never strikes the same place twice, etc
Ikonica: Test the design of your icon on various platforms
I can't enjoy BBT. Just because you put smart words in a characters mouth, it doesn't make a smart comedy.
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Apple could solve this problem on iOS by giving us a button that forces the browser to appear to be desktop Safari, but apparently this is all part of their overall apps strategy or something.

The best is when after you go through all the nonsense, you get "This article is not available on your device." It's like when you want to watch a video, and you have to watch a 30 second ad first, and after the ad you get an error saying the video no longer exists. But the ad played. Oh you can bet that ad is always going to exist.
The beauty of the way how the TBBT is written is that geeks understand the science and laugh with the show, but the jokes are delivered in a way that non-geeks can still laugh at the punch line as well. Having a show that doesn't dumb down the humour, while still entertaining people like ourselves, would isolate nearly everyone else.

A good comparison would be between Frasier and TBBT. Frasier used very highbrow rebuttals delivered in a slapstick way. So even if you've never watched Opera, didn't drink wine and generally understood little about the interests of protagonists, you could still enjoy the slapstick jokes and silly situations that Frasier and Niles Crane would often create for themselves.

And this is why TBBT is such a great show - because it's nerdy and my wife still enjoys it.

Furthermore TBBT has a lot of subtlety that only a geek or someone living with a geek would notice. Things such as background props (eg desktop computers with the side panels missing). That level of detail only comes from a crew of people wanting to pay homage to nerds rather than ridicule them.

So while TBBT does play to the stereotypes a lot and while there are undoubtedly some cringe worthy moments, do think it's a well rounded show if you look at it as a whole.
Visit any thread on reddit that mentions BBT. It'll be full of highly-upvoted hate comments. It's a a close third hate object after Justin Bieber and "Twilight".

I wonder if the psychology student message boards also raged same way about "Frasier" (also an award-winning comedy with a live studio audience).

To me, BBT is great and I've just finished a second run through its 5 first episodes on Blueray. That Jim Parson is in no way a true geek makes his performance even more hilarious.

Amusingly the reddit snobbery over BBT can be found within BBT itself: the way Sheldon absolutely despises "Babylon 5" while fawning over "Star Trek" etc.
This is the first time I'm hearing anything about TBBT but even watching the show for around 60 seconds (Brian Greene in the coffee shop) made me think that it was terribly, terribly written and terribly, terribly acted. I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm tooting my own horn, but at this point _Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ probably is the most popular HP fanfiction ever written and that probably does make me one of the world's leading authorities on how to depict the inner mental life of nerds. This is not how you do it.

I can't imagine writing a scene where HJPEV is laughing with Hermione over someone's terrible popular explanation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty. They'd never go to a comic-book store just to laugh at it. It would violate their character identities completely. In a story where Harry Potter has to be rescued from certain death at the hands of a yaoi fangirl horde (Ch. 42, and you didn't even notice) a scene like the one in TBBT would be just too unrealistic. And if somehow anything like that _did_ happen in a scene, if some wizard _did_ undergo a comic misunderstanding of quantum physics, it would be after I'd done whatever it took to explain correct-Heisenberg to the reader so that they would be laughing (and commiserating) right along with the protagonists. If you don't explain Heisenberg, what's the point? There's nothing left but empty feelings of superiority.
Is there becoming a general consensus on what to do about a problem we are becoming aware is worse than most of us thought?

I glean the following from a few of these threads

1. Conferences, conventions, hackathons all should have published "acceptable behaviour" statements, and possibly a red / orange / green card system that everyone understands

2. online examples get red / orange carded though a bitly link posted on a red card site (did I read that?)

3. conferences share blacklists

4. we accept that this shit will continue and get worse in an anonymous internet and that we accept that as a price of freedom and try to mitigate it for those who actually pay that price.
I think this is an overly cynical view. Minecraft is actually fun, particularly with friends. The multiplayer experience is in a niche essentially on its own. This great multiplayer experience encourages people to get enlist their friends to buy the game and play with them.

While I think a $1 billion valuation is probably presumes far too much about the repeatability of Minecraft-like success, I think it's obvious that Mojang's success with Minecraft is attributable to more than just effective marketing. I also don't think it's unreasonable to think that Mojang's highly innovative game design will bring them more success in the future.
Social startup, Unation, hopes to change the way businesses connect with fans
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You WANT to be fired from your job this year
It's amazing, and frankly stupid, how quickly you slid from piracy to OSS.

OSS has nothing to do with piracy. If I licensed my project MIT, sharing it is not piracy. OSS platforms do not have thriving piracy ecosystems because there is plenty of OSS software for them. In my experience, people who believe in OSS are the most likely to champion using a legal OSS alternative to pirating some widely-used proprietary software.
i feel like HP is missing the point of chromebooks.
It would not be possible to draft a law that did away with these natural tensions in an easy and robust way. The lines must be drawn piecemeal, with deference to but not bound by precedent. At least in this the tensions are made explicit in a way that even unsophisticated citizens can understand. (Not that any particular citizen will understand it, cf. the many Americans who completely elide "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times" from the Copyright Clause.) Eventually the nation will have the legal system the citizens demand (or is that deserve?), the laws on the books be damned. The rule of law is a tradition more than it is a text.
Nice, but it's broken on lesser browsers

http://s3.postimage.org/8d3zodcur/Screen_Shot_2013_02_04_at_...
Twitter Can No More Produce Analysis Than A Monkey Can Type...
Florida is not in a temperate climate.
What's more amazing is that the Internet is about the size of a shoe box...
I agree. The Big Bang Theory is comedy about smart people, not comedy for smart people.
Farming Superbowl Commercial Uses Social Media to Raise Funds for FFA
True, but other languages are not typically processed in the traditional mod_php way where urls are directly mapped to files in your static root, thus it's extremely rare to see e.g. python or ruby files served as static files.
iPhone takes top spot from Nokia for global mobile Internet usage for 1st time
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The article is talking about temperate climates, whereas Florida is humid subtropical in the north and central parts and tropical in the south.

In temperate climates, the temperature outside might be just cold enough, but not too cold, that "opening the windows", or something equivalent, might be a viable strategy.
I have seen an app (probably root-only) that can restrict specific permissions on applications. There are no promises if it will break the app or not, though.
I'm not sure this is fair to pin on PHP in a broad way. Many PHP frameworks do not use the application file-structure root as the httpd document root.

For example with a Symfony app:

. - App root

./web/ - httpd doc root

./app/ - app files

./app/config/ - config files

Barring an exploit that lets you break out of the httpd doc root (not saying this is impossible), there is no way to request the config or app files directly.
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