skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or polygraph (lie detector) machines, widely used in the US, but considered unreliable pseudoscience in Europe.
Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
When MOOC:s fails
Here is a example when you wish more of MOOC:s.
https://class.coursera.org/strategy101-001/forum/thread?thread_id=2680#comment-4332
Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this.

Either way, an idea for a browser feature is hardly a huge industrial secret - Webkit, Blink and Gecko have near-parity on features, and are competing more on speed. How would this stand up in court?

Neither Google nor Opera have anything to gain from this - what could be the economic rationale?
Similar idea to The Mathematics Genealogy (which is, as the name implies, only for mathematicians).

http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
In this case, the attacker (supposedly) booted the machines into rescue mode through OVH's control panel. None of the steps you listed would've prevented that (I'm not saying it won't prevent other attacks.)
Nature is a Labyrinth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
Surely work for hire applies?
Doesn't the magazine make a pretty poor enclosure for the electronics inside? I feel like people generally consider magazines to be disposable and mistreat them but it doesn't seem like a good idea to do that to what looks like a Li-poly battery.
Missile Command arcade game using a real Laser
For better or worse, your sentiments probably place you outside the target demographic for Forbes magazine. I will add that many of the resources consumed in online activity, including my comment here, are largely wasted.
I would honestly call myself both. I have a traditional BA in Art with a focus on Graphic Design. I love illustrating, maintain a sketchbook of drawings, help create posters for people, and can call out fonts all day. I'm also a developer. I have 6 apps on the iOS App Store, all coded by moi, and all designed by moi. Beyond iOS, I've also written some neural networks in JavaScript and just yesterday I turned my Raspberry Pi into a cloud media player - writing a PHP script to go through all folders on my external HD and find the audio files, check their metadata and add the file path/metadata into a database, then stream it from an app of my own design.

I think it's a new age, where the stereotypes of designers being afraid to read/pore over code are gone. Code is becoming more and more commonplace. Almost everyone at my university fulfills their 2 classes of foreign language by taking 2 classes of CS (you have to do one or the other), and one of those classes is usually an HTML/JS variant. I also believe that in this new age, making ugly but functional software has gone by the wayside too. People are utilizing software ALL DAY because of smartphones now - where the bar for great visual design has been raised so much higher due to the big name brands like FB and Twitter investing so much in great products. Because of this, software engineers that have (even a small amount of) front end work to accomplish are forced to make more conscious visual design considerations than they have in the past. And this is a good thing.
Implications of changing communication patterns on Education and Innovation
I could solve some of them quite well with only using a standard US keyboard and US layout (the trick is to use the compose key)… As long as they don't start including icons into the crapcha as well.
"Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this."

These two things are not linked, stop trying to make it so.
What was the Internet like in 1995?
How stable is btrfs at this point?
agree. especially as it is likely that chips will become the biggest part of our waste.
This was clearly a skit or parody used to make an important point. The content is not the title.

Just saying.
RSS might not be world-changing, but it is absolutely crucial to the web.
my thoughts exactly. the only folks who seem to value mbas are other mbas. i don't even think i can accept the defined success criteria outlined in the article (un-sustained long term growth) much less the premise that only mbas know how to achieve it.
you likely aren't hosting a BTC exchange too, they were likely specifically targeted.
David Notkin passed a few days ago also. Bad week.
Ghost: The Future of Blogging (Node.js)
Last time I checked, Norway was not really part of the US, so the law might actually be different…
High school popularity is usually correlated with social competence, which is a very valuable and underrated skill on its own. Given two people with somewhat similar technical skills, the guy with the ability to mingle outside his comfort zone is usually going to win out over the guy who just wants to work.
Is there a product in history that has been more hyped than Google Glass?

This is a B2C device (on the spot customer service, hospitals, ...), nobody wants to look like a freak in front of his friends, nobody is going to talk to this stupid device in public.

Can we just move on with our lives and stop talking a product that is not for sale, pretty much useless, will cost a bundle?
Wow, this makes me glad I bought the game on day one (after playing the demo and waiting impatiently for a while for the release on windows 8 store :) ).
This is missing the most important feature: a webcam shot of the person's face when they see it.
still waiting for some of your insight here, but, hey, this is just a guess but i think you're full of shit... if not, please share how the US funds the world's drug research. 18 days and nothing... guess all your other posts are crap too. this one hasn't really changed any opinions
How to Tell a Story with Data
Eric Schmidt angers MPs by defending Google's tax avoidance
This may be an unpopular opinion, more so here than anywhere else, perhaps, but such a paltry amount of tax on such huge revenues is galling. Is there a point where the externalities of tax avoidance negate the value to those doing the avoiding?
Didn't some guy just kill himself a while back because he didn't have the training to so much as read a balance sheet and ran his company into the ground? While MBAs may not be the best entrepreneurs, they are more valuable in keeping large, mature organizations up and running than Joe Nerd and his series of weekend projects. Hell, that's the very purpose of an MBA.
"You also need to secure scarce resources, develop cohesive teams, assemble collaborative networks and build lasting customer relationships."

The author assumes if you have an MBA, you are qualified to do these things. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Adobe Flash will start becoming popular again :)
What would be the better alternative?

The risk was far less terrible than, say, a few dozen tactical nukes used by one of the sides in a third war across Europe, as the status quo of warsaw pact borders wasn't that acceptable to both armies, and only MAD ensured that the cold war didn't become hot.
From the first paragraph of the announcement:[1]

“makes me suspect [...] people were gaming the system and had timed some of their pull requests for just before the release”.

Does anyone know what Linus means by that?

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/548799/
I'm in a similar boat. I'm thinking of buying the game only to download the pirated version. It sounds quite fun... almost as if the difficulty level is on "God mode."
That's a ridiculous claim, but even if it were true, it would still not detract from the point. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I have experienced a payroll miss (that turned out to be a mustake at the payroll company). I was not thinking about work that day, I was thinking about and applying for other jobs. I don't work for free and the minute I stop getting paid I don't work for you.
This begs for a teardown for possible reuse after the 15-day trial.
i seem to buy a new one every 6 months
The article is a very good demonstration of why MBA's are generally considered useless. Lots of buzzwords with little seasoning.
My favorite are the people who pirate the game at release and then buy it when it's in the bargain bin for $5, as if that undoes the initial act of piracy: "See? I bought it!"
Web 3.0 is "The Ephemeral Era." Do you agree?
Both mine and my neighbours' house have the same post code and house number. They get ALL our post, because their letterbox is nearer to the street.
Less Work for All
5 Types of Data Viz: Discovery, Quality, Storytelling, Dashboards & Trends
Boston Bombers Were Heading to Times Square
The domain 'tryghost' is something of a misnomer: this is a Kickstarter project.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...
This is my app. It is just a toy at the moment but if anyone has a problem it is near fixing let me know and I can turn it into something useful
>>> The people there aren't dumb--they know all of these actions have harmful and negative effects on others' help and the general environment, but they would rather not care than care for the most part.

>Well that's just disgusting. I don't think you could pay me enough money to step foot in that country.

It's not a property of a country or nation, it is a basic behavior shared by homo sapiens as a species.
Yes, we want to build a database of academic family tree across all fields, not just math, not just physics, not just chemistry. Scientific research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary.

When you think about it, the modern discipline of computer science emerged in the 20th century. Most of the first generation computer scientists are actually either physicists or mathematicians.
tldr: The default state of the world is not to respect meritocracy, irrespective of government.

Creating a true meritocracy requires first cancelling out the anti-meritocratic inclinations of the Universe, with basic healthcare and disaster recovery and such.

(There are also a bunch of collective action problems whose obvious answer is some form of the dread "collectivism").
Yeah. The "Ready? Try Ghost" button at the end is just an ad for their kickstarter project.

They should have just stated what it was up front.
Since the devs uploaded the game on bittorrent themselves, isn't it now implicitly legal to share that copy? Obviously not the unaltered copy, but if you upload something to which you own the copyright to bittorrent, you must be either implicitly giving people the right to share it with others, or you're entrapping them into committing a copyright violation. Can the devs then be sued for knowingly tricking people into committing a copyright violation?
There's a broken link on the question mark above the CodeMirror widget. It should link to the Markdown website but it links to a 404.
Yep not cool
An Introduction to GIS for Developers - Part 1: GIS Fundamentals-Esri Video
I am still trying to get my head around talking greeting cards!
I totally agree with this. I was working on a proof of concept for a back end system for a financial advice business. This needed to go to financial institutions and retrieve the latest price of a portfolio, that's it, not 'write' to the system, just updating data.

Before the companies would even talk to us, we needed to fill out a 20 page questionnaire about everything from where the company was located and registered, etc, to our security practices. We needed to have individual user accounts, with full logging and auditing so that everything could be traced. The datacenter we were in needed to be ISO27001 compliant, with yearly penetration tests carried out by an external company. Our systems needed to have penetration tests carried out by an external company... the list went on.

In the end, as a small business, we concluded we couldn't do it.

I've got some friends who work for a company that does secure datacenter hosting, for government stuff, bank stuff, etc. It is not cheap. It is seriously highly priced, and you don't get anything like Amazon AWS, it's all about managed servers and dedicated firewalls.

People need to start taking this stuff a little more seriously.
DHH had this to say about the demo scene, in an interview with Randal Schwartz:

Q: Really? What made you not want to be a programmer? This is curious.

A: "I had a bunch of friends who I loved dearly, but in many ways were exhibiting all the traditional programmer stereotype themes of being just overly focused on things I didn't think mattered and at that time programming perhaps also was a little bit different. Growing up, programming was assembler and C. I had a lot of friends in what was called the 'demo scene', which is mostly an European thing where you had all these guys on the Commodore 64 and on the Amiga writing these really awesome visual displays of various kinds, and all that stuff was usually in assembler. I had absolutely zero interest in learning or doing anything with assembler, it just didn't make any sense to me at all.

I only really got interested in programming when I stumbled across languages that made sense to me on the level that makes sense to me, which is at the very least high level languages like Java, PHP, or whatever have you, anything that's above the 'I have to dick around with pointers' or I actually have to move memory spaces around; that stuff has absolutely zero interest to me at all.

I didn't start programming until I was in my late twenties, and even then I didn't start programming because I wanted to be a programmer. I started programming because I wanted a few programs. And that was apparently the easiest way to get there because the other way of getting programs is that you actually have to talk to programmers, which is surprisingly painful at times. I found that the easiest way was just to pick it up and learn it myself."
Again no, you are reducing things to an absurd degree. Organised crime is very complex. Mugging is simple. Theft is not [necessarily] simple. The latter subsumes the former precisely because of it's complexity. You may be talking about something that equates to mugging, however the majority of commenters are holding that the term you are using equates to theft in just about every example.

Look into the Yakuza. Each 'family' can consist of many _tens of thousands of individuals_, from the grunts to the cops and judges on the payroll to money launderers and each one is needed to take one of your 'simple crimes' and make it into a business for the family, so by definition they are not simple crimes.

I think you are nit picking to backtrack on what I still hold was a shoot-from-the-hip over-simplification. I think you are not willing to concede the definition of a word beyond your own example despite a rich history of it's use to the contrary.
IIRC, Ghost was a (unrealistic) vision of what a minimalist branch from WP would be like. It was unrealistic because trying to maintain some compatibility with WP's ecosystem is probably something you can't do just somewhat, like pregnancy.

So not having WP compatibility makes it less of an initial attraction to established bloggers...OTOH, we definitely need a good, minimal self-hosting blogging solution between Wordpress and Jekyll. Hopefully the next generation of bloggers will realize that even WP is more than they need, just as many modern WP sites eschewed Drupal (qz.com, for example, and several major traditional news websites)
> we are at war with the upper class whether we want to be or not

Does that include people like PG?

I'm not sure quite how to put it in a way that will do any good, but the amount of anger you seem to be carrying around does not sound healthy. Finding a constructive way to deal with it - perhaps by finding a better job, moving somewhere better, or whatever else works for you - might be something to consider.
Right, but, headlines are important. They describe what's in the tin, and when the label on the tin doesn't match what's in the tin, people get mad (understandably) and the whole thing falls apart.
The most frustrating thing about reading about exciting discoveries is how few of them ever go into 'production' in the near future.

-Graphene

-AIDS vaccine

-Malaria vaccine

-Fusion reactors
Value of geospatial services to the global economy
What happened to the original plan to base Ghost on Wordpress? I love Node as much as the next guy, but surely basing it on Wordpress and therefore PHP would make it much accessible.
it doesn't take an mba to read a balance sheet. a bachelors in accounting is enough to be a cpa. and you don't have to be a cpa to read a balance sheet. perhaps it takes an mba to manufacture a fake balance sheet that will pass wall street muster though.

> they are more valuable in keeping large, mature organizations up and running than Joe Nerd and his series of weekend projects

this is the same premise as the article. who says an organization has to be large to be successful?
Sounds compelling, though in Turkey (where I live) recording someone without their consent is a criminal offense. To legally use the app, I would need to open every conversation with a request for their consent to be recorded, and even then I could be prosecuted if the material was made available to a third party without the person's permission. Journalists here run into this problem all the time, so I don't think this is a very good market for trying this.
I don't know what your point is here.
Yes. The author is Andy Orlowski...
It's not just a US concept. Norway seems to have fairly strong protections on the expression of ideas - i.e. you can't copyright ideas in many cases. I wonder do they have special laws for trade secrets. Opera are going to have difficulty hiring people if they are suing former employees.
How I coded in 1985
I find myself reluctant to buy games that are not in sales, even if the normal price would be reasonable to me.

I wonder if there were less sales whether I would spend more on games, spend the same on less games or simply pirate more.
The fallacy with this argument is that if everyone behaved if you did there would be no games. If this stuff is "free" it's the tragedy of the commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons - except in this case it's developer resources that are "common" and will be depleted as there wouldn't be money to pay for them.

I think at this point everyone understands that there's piracy out there and it's not going away. The thing that irks me is the moral argument like yours (provided it's not a troll, I can't be sure) - I just wish people would admit that they're taking something for free that they shouldn't - no one is saying "trust me - you'll like it," don't give me that "after I evaluate" stuff - you can read dozens of reviews and watch full play-through movies on Youtube. I wish people would just admit that they are scumbags.

Extremely tiny scumbags in the grand scheme of things - less than folks taking a candybar from a corner store as digital goods, as you noted, are freely copyable without cost, but scumbags nonetheless as you are the leeches that make things worse for folks willing to pay for stuff. If you're a student and have no cash but want to play every game that comes out, you're probably going to pirate, but don't create this entire moral structure of justification to compensate for your being a freeloader. Just accept a the tiniest twinge of moral responsibility as you play your free game and become a better person down the road.

As someone who enjoys playing large-scale single player games on PC - Skyrim and the like - I'm upset because more and more developer resources are going to switch to F2P and "always online" games because those are the only ones that "beat" piracy and there are going to be less titles out for the PC and more that just are on console the next generation of locked-down consoles.
Get in touch with others while surfing on any websites
Not a long time from private disclosure to public disclosure, but in reality not much will change. Perhaps Apple could use a more unique SSID on their networks e.g. "Apple Demo 2A422A" which would be different from store to store.

On the other hand, there are so many places with free open wifi, which could easily be used instead. I'm pretty sure most of the computers on campus have connected to either McDonalds or one of the 4 different networks available in public transport.
No, that's entirely on topic for this particular point.

I know and you know this kind of tracking is industry standard because we are in this industry.

Most people outside this industry don't know that, and are pretty shocked when they see. Seriously, if you have access to a Google Analytics account with a reasonable amount of data start showing people how much stuff you are tracking and see what their reaction is.

Telling OP their "phone home" concerns aren't valid because that's "standard practice" is a terrible argument.
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Spamhaus hacking suspect 'had mobile attack van'
If the judge can find the image in Google, that's not going to end well.
This is a trade secret case. If he genuinely had trade secrets (the bar for that is pretty high in the US), things like work for hire, non-competes (which are officially allowed in the US outside of California to prevent the "first bite of the apple" of trade secret disclosure), etc. are irrelevant.
Print is saved!
Not just phraseology. The whole attitude expressed in that phrase stinks.
IIRC the full story is that said code actually only worked due to quirks of the compiler/processor - when they tried to use it on a new system they realised it was actually wrong.
Hard to say anything without hard details, but in Europe this stuff can be hard to make stick.

Also this kind of actioning is distrubing from a company like opera.

Death throes?
Anyone has a link to download a liberated proper copy of the game?

The one on ThePirateBay appears to be the malicious trojanized fake version described in the article.
I think it's rather sad when a project says they're open source, then says things like :

"You'll need hosting for your blog no matter what, but our service will be the most powerful way of running Ghost - and the easiest to get started with. You'll have the full Ghost software with all bells, whistles, themes, plugins, and some extras that are only available with us (like automatic updates and backups)."

So they won't be open sourcing it then if they're planning on not allowing people to add these features to the main code base?
Winning Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics is like being a world class developer in say both Haskel and C. Being a world class designer and developer is like winning the Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Literature at the same time.