skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, so Google is dropping XMPP support because Outlook.com is supporting it to allow Gtalk users to chat on Outlook.com, so in order to perpetuate the GMail/GTalk lock-in by caging the Gtalk chat users to GMail, they're dropping standards support and killing access to all XMPP clients in existence including non-Microsoft ones? And they announce this right when Microsoft spent all the time and effort to allow Outlook.com users to chat with Gtalk friends and is rolling out that feature? Am I right? Someone tell me I am wrong!

That sounds unbelievable, coming from the supposedly open company even though it's coming on the heels of them trying lock out millions of Windows Phone users from Youtube by sending a C&D takedown on the app.

I guess open standards don't work when you're the guy trying to lock in users. If Google had a lock-in on Office products, looks like they will ditch "open data" and "open standards" in a heartbeat. They should change their policy to "open when it's convenient for us to flog it for PR purposes, else closed, oh and please store all your office documents on our cloud, we make it really convenient.".

This is not Open vs. Closed anymore, this is Corporations vs. Individuals, except for Mozilla which is becoming less powerful because Google uses its ad dollars to bundle Chrome with Flash, Acrobat and Java updates by default thereby reducing Firefox's share and has the nice side effect of reducing Google's payments to Mozilla for searches.

And Web DRM? Of course it's coming because IE, Chrome and Safari are going to be supporting it fully with 80% marketshare and people will blame Firefox if Netflix doesn't work in it and recommend you switch to Chrome to see movies! iOS, Android and Windows Phone, BBOS will add support for 100% tablet and phone support for the DRM. Firefox and Opera are powerless to stop it. We have already seen this play out with th h.264 HTML5 video support in Chrome fiasco when Google said it would drop H.264 from Chrome but did not and Mozilla was left holding the short end of the stick and had to recently had to eat crow and add support for H264. The web is owned by the corporates, not individuals anymore, there was some hope when Firefox was at 40%, not anymore. And we all willingly gave them the power by believing in "open" and "do no evil" and switching in droves.

I can picture Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Netflix etc executives sitting at a bar and giving toast to each other and laughing while we whine and debate fruitlessly with vitriol on these forums. All their stock valuations are up recently!
F# has been making great inroads in the past several months within "traditional" .NET shops (i.e., Windows + Visual Studio). However, there is a significant portion of the F# community who develop and/or deploy their code on Mono; in fact, the F# tools are shipped as part of the Mono distribution for OS X.

If you want to read more, there are a number of threads regarding Mono + (Linux|OSX|FreeBSD) on the fsharp-opensource mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/fsharp-op...
1. It's a progressive enhancement so nothing stops working
2. It should be possible for any mail provider who chooses to implement these features, no?
I suggest you look at both your career and your dating as very similar things. You (a 20-something female in techie-SF), are in high demand in both areas.

Just do not fall for the myth that the right guy(#) or the right job will just come along. You have to go and find it. The clever part is maximising the surface area you have "out there" whilst keeping a quality reputation.

I suggest the following:

1. Decide roughly your ideal company / man (see (#) below)

If you cannot write a paragraph about the ideal that really knocks your socks off, then you do not know what you want.
This is then the time to sample many different types and determine which suits you best.

2. Be aware of the local landscape - Angellist is good here as is OKCupid. However nothing beats meeting people face to face. Go to networking events. (Both kinds)

Whilst this may seem a little light hearted please remember this one important truth:

The best dates / jobs will come from mutual acquaitances able to connect you both. So this means expanding the people whom you know - spending all your time in one office with one set of people will limit the fish you can catch. So attend networking events, of both kinds, and remember its a sellers market.

Its your twenties. Have fun.

(#) broad assumption that you are hetro, but if not its still a sellers market it seems.
Statistically speaking, nobody sends plain text email any more.
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>what is wrong with plain text?

Plain text means anyone can read your message while it's going over the wire. That person sitting next to you in the coffee shop? He's running a packet sniffer and is reading everything you send, because it's plain text.

-- edit: In information security, plaintext means unencrypted. That's true for SMTP, and that's what I'm referring to. Am I wrong?
weareconvo said:

>You are most definitely the only one. And judging from your comment history, you also like Windows 8, so rest assured that your opinions are far, far outside the mainstream

As an opportunity for introspection, please reconsider your life choices about spending your time trolling on HN. I'm assuming your dismissal of my opinion because I "like Windows 8" is from this comment which you apparently found on the third page of my comment history:

>Basically, after an hour or two of using Windows 8 I became used to the new interface. The only other thing that's important to do is replace the crappy Metro versions of applications with standard Windows versions.

So my description of Windows 8 as "the crappy Metro versions of applications" makes me a shill for Microsoft I guess. Wow, with friends like me Microsoft certainly doesn't need enemies like you.

Unfortunately for you since you appear to loathe Microsoft, my opinions are typically early for "the mainstream" as you say. I was the first of my friends to get an iPhone and was responsible for at least 60 other people purchasing an iPhone. Now people who respect my technical opinion will be following me to Windows Phone 8 or Android. Both platforms have surpassed anything that Apple has to offer.
the discovery of the Timmins reservoir could cause scientists to rethink habitable zones on a planet, as well as what role isolated underground reservoirs may play in the preservation and evolution of life.

It's always amazing to me the kinds of discoveries that people are still making, and reinforces just how little we really know about the planet we live on.
Yeah. Right.

See, people make it sound as if you have to keep standing or work standing for durations like 6-7-8 hours. Which is just very difficult. It's not good for your feet either.
nothing stopping them from doing so.
It's also logically inconsistent. Either the threat of interference and danger is great enough to warrant bag checks, or it is not, and this threat is overblown like every other "threat" in air travel nowadays.
> Plain text means anyone can read your message while it's going over the wire.

Plain text is a style of encoding information (e.g. binary, XML, JSON, plain text, etc). Encryption determines if someone can intercept your message.

Something can be both plain text and secure, like HTTPS for one example.
I would like to see the replacement of SMTP be designed along with a redesign of e-mails themselves as well.

I'd like to see the HTML that is supported in e-mails standardised, so there's no more issues about which clients will render what. I'd like to see the failure notices standardised, so that invalid e-mail addresses produce a standard "404-like" response, and so on.

The problem isn't so much that we have multiple implementations (I agree that can potentially be a strength). The problem is that there's very little that's consistent across the platforms.
Running #! myself right now, having tried various other distros over the years. It's my main desktop environment for when I'm not gaming, being very fast and sane.

The main advantage it has over Debian, Mint, or (shudder) Ubuntu is that it is a no-bullshit setup of Debian with all of the normal tweaks I'd eventually add myself. It already starts with a solid setup of Openbox, and competently brings up the non-free software I'd be using anyways right at install time via a friendly little script.

And, unlike Ubuntu or Mint, it seems to be a fairly small shim over stock Debian--which makes getting things to work a hell of a lot easier.

Also, for anybody running it (or other .deb compatible distros), check this out:

http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/

It's a nicely trimmed-up version of Wine with Silverlight that generally does the right thing and lets you watch Netflix from your Linux.
Open? I waited for months to get an invite.
Vigilante justice is terrible but I don't see anything else doing the job; it may be a last resort but I think our globalist-corporatist society is At That Point. The people with connections and resources own the politicians (all over the world) who make the laws. Besides, even if one country does everything right, the parasites in charge of the world can just move their money around.

I've been saying since the late '90s that health insurance executives should be publicly exposed when they murder people, and I still feel that way. If the courts were actually cracking down on those fuckers, then I'd say that vigilante justice is unwarranted; but how many health-insurance murderers are in prison? The fuckers kill 45,000 per year (a 9/11 every 24 days) and I don't know of one who has gone to prison.

Why do we tear the shit out of two Middle Eastern nations (one of which had nothing to do with it) over 3,000 dead but allow health insurers to kill half a million over that same decade and not even give them personal civil liability?
> Well, to be fair, if you don't want your binaries exploited, don't write the exploit into them.

That's a bit naive and not the point of this PoC. The exploit used a bug in the code generator. Normally, guard code would have been generated that would have caught that issue, but it just wasn't, and that's why the exploit worked.

So in theory, every program with that particular programming bug and the missing guard code (due to the code generator bug) is vulnerable.
They might allow for tar files in the subject and come to think of it, ogg files as well...

So what?
Except cows don't pay the slaughterhouse like I pay Google.
The mobile YouTube site that Google serves to Windows Phone devices presumably doesn't play videos that are marked as unavailable on mobile, whereas Microsoft's app apparently ignores that flag and plays them anyway.
How do you tell if something's flagged?
Twitter Users Risk Damnation, Say Saudi Religious Police
Just refreshing my memory here, but this blog post [1] is what kept me away from secondary indexes and explains why I need something more from Cassandra. Especially the section on "The Good: Secondary Indexes", I actually have some data that is stored by timestamp, that was, as I recall, the biggest turn-off on them.

Has the state of affairs advanced since a year ago? Would love to hear it has!

[1] http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/2012/03/cassandra-indexing-g...
Thats anecdotical evidence. 10% inflation can also be felt on a supermarket.

Private inflation offices also gain money by providing high numbers, as they tell what other people want to hear.

The reality is that the Central bank prints money at an accelerated pace and that there is inflation between 10% to 30%. "closer" is not enough for me.
Google I/O 2013: Google Cloud Platform meets the Internet of Things
> It's chockfull of microsoft's PR drones and MVPs saying all kinds of nasty things about Google and Apple and not really disclosing their affiliations with microsoft.

How do you know this?
Scientists, blowing things up,
losing fingers, eyes? Does it happen?
I mean with serious scientists, I mean
the most serious?

Hmm?????

Try

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

From chemistry lab, remember the Bunsen burner?
Yup, there was a Bunsen, a chemist. He was
blind in one eye, from some chemistry experiment
gone wrong.

They called him 'fingers' because on one hand
he didn't have any -- one of his science experiments
blew off his fingers.

The PDF above, it's a total, thigh slapping, laugh
yourself dizzy riot! It's about the chemistry
research for liquid rocket fuels, not really for
the huge US Saturn moon rocket (just kerosene
and liquid oxygen) but for smaller rockets such
as anti-aircraft missiles. It's a riot: The
stories of "red fuming nitric acid" mixed with
all kinds of stuff they could dream up, using
mostly just the TIFO method -- try it and find
out -- blowing holes in the roofs of labs,
creating stinks that make a skunk smell like
roses, doing things in cities that should
only be done in deserts 100 miles from anyone,
doing things in deserts, e.g., creating a
column of smoke two miles high, that maybe
shouldn't be done this side of Pluto, is
a total SCREAM. Then there were the
'mono-propellents' -- no mixing or ignition
required. Some were weak, say, for just
gentle orientation of a spacecraft. Others
were attempted for lots of thrust. Alas,
once the reaction starts, might it just
quickly move to the whole supply of
mono-propellent? Yup, darned right.
And, then, right -- kaBOOM.

It's standard: Have much curiosity
about chemistry, and some things will
likely go BOOM. It's true at 14,
40, with a chemistry Ph.D. or not.

I was never injured, but not for lack
of a lot of chances. For one, apparently
I didn't use enough KNO3 with my C and S!
Dad had a 100 pound bag of NH4NO3 to make
the lawn green. It REALLY made the lawn
green. Put that stuff on and get some rain
and have to mow the lawn every other day,
and it's a DARK green. AMAZING stuff.
It was readily available because the
surrounding areas were full of cotton
farms, and it did great things for
cotton.

I only worked with about a 1/2 cup of
NH4NO3 at a time and got nothing out of
it. Good thing: I might have lost
a hand.

Once actually learn some real chemistry,
then see (1) even if know a lot of
chemistry, messing with such energetic
reactions, where the reactions or some
unintended byproducts might be wildly
unstable, and, as of the time of the PDF above, even good chemistry
can't predict what will/will not be
unstable,
can be dangerous and (2)
if its not dangerous, then just do the
energy calculations on paper and f'get
about mixing up the actual ingredients.

Still, Al and NaOH drain cleaner,
just gather the whole school together
and tell them -- just do NOT do such
things because you or someone else
might lose a hand, eye, etc. Then
DROP it. For the DA, hmm, add him to
the list with the person in Boston
who went after Aaron.
Because startup people can identify with the mindset of working 16 hour days. I don't but some people here do.
Vulnerable to what? As far as I can see, it will crash or corrupt memory when it tries to read/write to it. An actual exploit of this requires intent.
dschep is dead for some reason, so copying & pasting his answer so all can see:

Duplicity[0] supports it through a boto[1] backend.
[0] http://duplicity.nongnu.org
[1] https://github.com/boto/boto
> The mobile YouTube site that Google serves to Windows Phone devices does not display any ads.

Right, but the mobile YouTube site could exclude videos that require ads to be shown.

> Therefore an ad-free app for WP does nothing to change the situation that WP users don't see ads on YouTube.

It's possible (although I don't own a WP so I don't know) that the app for WP shows videos that it "shouldn't" without ads.
ASCII also increases "file size" by about 30% (using 8 bits per character where 6 would suffice).

A better optimization than diligent bit-packing is a stateful compression system such as deflate. In addition to doing real compression, it will take care of any wasted bits in ASCII andd Base64 (latter being a MIME feature btw, not SMTP).

I don't know if people usually run SMTP with TLS compression enabled - if not they probably aren't too worried about the wasted bits.
There are no pure ideas in politics. There is the law, motive, and regulations. The person driving it is of importance on how they dealt with others in the past.
Home->Settings->Accessability checkbox should fix community pages
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How? I can't find the option. The tiles are absolutely dreadful.
I find G+ way less of a waste of time than FB.

WIth circles, I've been able to curate some good tech people/products/open source projects/communities to follow. And since G+ is built around the concept of Circles (Groups), and not an afterthought like FB, it works really well. And unlike Twitter, the conversations that happen make more sense because people have enough room to be coherent. A lot like Hacker News.
Unfortunately the reality is that customer support will only be justified if the increase in cost is accompanied by a greater increase in revenue (thereby increasing profits). Alternately it can be justified by "the other side of the coin", which is to stave off a decline in revenues (say, because you are so pissed off at the lack of support & service that you're willing to go to a competitor: ex United Airlines)
In getting to my grandparents house, Google Maps for years listed as part of the directions a two-track that doesn't actually go through all the way (it ends in the middle at a junk yard). My grandma runs a business from her house, and customers were being routed down this two track road. Not great for business.

As we couldn't contact Google about it, she had to print new business cards that told people when to stop following Google's directions and which road to take instead. MapQuest didn't have this problem.
Yes, it is still expensive, but I can get somewhere cheaper and nicer than where I am currently living in London NW3. As someone who is married and planning to have children in the next few years, I think you hit the nail on the head. If I were 20 and single I would be living on Old Street.
This is pretty cool, but the fundamental problem is still that you (or someone else) have to load an entire PDF (or set of PDFS) before you can use the full text indexing to search it.

If you're running a service (say like DocumentCloud) you're way better off precomputing a full text index on ingest and providing a search API than shunting over substantial parts of your stored documents.

Definitely cool as a piece of gear, but not terribly practical from a client-side perspective i'd think.
Indeed there is not such thing as an inflation precise calculation that makes everyone happy. There are many different approaches to the inflation problem: do you take into account real state? even if few people can buy a house?
"Not federated support, but supports interop with XMPP clients. Meaning you can continue to use XMPP clients to log in to Google Talk and those messages will interop with folks on Hangouts."

https://plus.google.com/107968525907303243288/posts/HFe3W7A9...

So Google Talk will continue to live on (which allows them to implement some sort of server side functionality which converts a Gtalk message to a Hangout message when both members have activated Hangouts), it's just not actively being worked on.

So really the only effective change is the Chrome extension and Android apps have been replaced so you have to use a 3rd party Jabber client if you do want to use GTalk on those platforms.
Once they're polished, you can just make sure it runs on your local copy of Hyper-V, then upload a VHD yourself. Azure's underrated on things like this.
Plant got rid of Junk DNA (just like Dark Angel's Max)
I think you're conflating two fundamentally different meanings of the word "platform" here, which is important because the two are almost diametrically opposed. YouTube is a platform for content providers to distribute and monetize their videos. They are not a platform for video application development which harms the intended users of their platform - the content providers - by wrecking their monetization strategies.
Appending to this link, with the advent of CSS3, the slideshow effects can also be rendered in a very elegant manner in your browser.

Reveal-js is one such library that helps users develop really good presentations in a very small span of time.
http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

I'm personally a big fan of reveal.js and have used it on many occasions.
Demo - http://gkarthik.net/gsoctalk/
For some reason, the website is not loading here and Google's cache dates from before the release of the exploit, so the post is hidden.

Anybody has a mirror or some way to access the post?
There are many costs that simply do not get reflected on the balance sheet. It's important to consider costs from every avenue in order to accurately reflect what a company is paying. Technical debt, corporate politics, etc all slip by the accounting radar.
If IBM's Sametime supported launching without crashing, it would be a better feature than their XMPP federation.
Hm. Our three core pieces of technology were developed by freelancers - our GUI engine, our audio/visual networking modules, and our server-side app model were all done by three different non-employees.
They are all employees today, which I admit did change things. Principally, it means they can't/don't work the hours they used to (they work normal hours now). Since their compensation doesn't change with greater hours, they just don't have the same motivation they used to.

Don't think it has to be stock options that made the difference. They got more of that as freelancers too - they exchanged a rate cut for options early on and came out ahead of any employee there too.
Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
They are probably not able to factor interesting numbers - here is an estimation from Physics SE what their technology is probably capable of.

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11063/can-quantum...
I have to join in to say that this page (which exists since some time, only has recently be updated) is really impressive, and a very good educational material for everyone wanting to really understand the workings of GPS.

Nevertheless it's not the only attempt, bug a very good one, at "open source GPS" projects. There's at least http://www.gnss-sdr.org/ which is a more software-centric approach being able to work with different receiver frontends. And I've just found another FPGA project at http://www.witchnav.cz/.

Naturally the software-only solution will burn a lot of CPU in the correlators, so I'd expect a software solution to require a multi-GHz machine, whereas the GPS receiveres with FPGA (such as the one linked to) works easily on a pretty low-performing Raspberry-Pi.
They pay with their flesh.
No, Mary Sues are really awesome, in all aspects.

"The prototypical Mary Sue is an original female character in a fanfic who obviously serves as an idealized version of the author mainly for the purpose of Wish Fulfillment. She's exotically beautiful, often having an unusual hair or eye color, and has a similarly cool and exotic name. She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws — either that or her "flaws" are obviously meant to be endearing. "

I apologize in advance, and DO NOT click the link if you don't have time.. (because linking to TV Tropes is evil; click it and wake up a few hours later wondering what happened - you've been warned.)

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue