skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some discussion about that here, but no speculation http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2013/6/19/breaking-stratasys-acquir...
You aren't at all alone. I was really hoping for updated module development information from someone currently in the trenches.
Apart from various ebooks and what not, it seems they also help people sell:

Backup software subscription: https://www.clkbank.com/orderDetail.htm?rcpt=4fb75aa1LPBHFEH...

and ...

Phone lookups (they work?): https://www.clkbank.com/orderDetail.htm?rcpt=514323c6WDJ2F3C...
Has scribd been useful anywhere?
> I'm not advocating using Dart in production

then why anybody would want to use it? as much as i dislike MS , their TypeScript language makes more sense than Dart which feels DOA already.
Consider also, that Stratasys had no answer to their biggest competitor's (3DSystems) consumer line that's been going gangbusters (Cubify).

I can imagine a world where $403M worth of stock is a good trade for a well-known name, a product line with a large customer base, and profitable consumer sub-unit to compete your biggest competitor, who has the same when you don't.
This is just another sad reminder of how broke the legal system is in the States. A simple fix, for this and many other types of legal bullying, make the protesting party pay ALL legal fees and a stiff penalty if they lose in court. Protects the clear cut owners who get infringed, yet weeds out bs cases like this one. Since it makes sense, is fair, and would simplify things - you know it will NEVER happen.
I don't see how this matches. Is owning an iPhone a symbol of being rich more than other smart phones? I know people that can easily afford an iPhone but don't have one. I know people that have an iPhone but probably should have paid their rent instead. My wife has an iPhone. We can also afford for me to have one. I choose Android instead.

It is also only geotagged tweets. I don't geotag my tweets. My wife doesn't use Twitter. So we're both completely out of this "study". It would be interesting to see stats on how many Android users geotag their tweets vs iPhone users. I believe there is a certain mental difference between iPhone users and Android users (not better or worse... just a different type of person) which could have a bias toward geotagging vs not.

Do the results take into account multiple tweets from the same person? One "rich" person with an iPhone that tweets 50 times a day is going to make a bigger mark on an area than 5 "poor" people with a Blackberry that might only tweet 1-2 times a day.

I'm not convinced there is anything useful here.
Stratasys to Acquire MakerBot for About $403 Million
The only reason they backed off of it was because of the bad press it gave them in the first place.
I'm fairly certain they do, from experiences in the past where otherwise completely private (but unprotected) URLs have ended up indexed.
I knew it! Bushwick and Broadway near the 24-7 Popeyes/Dunkin Donuts as I suspected.
They don't want IR cameras to help people with alzheimers, they want to spy in our houses. It's insulting you would pretend to believe them. You are a weapons manufacturer, not a humanist helping the world or a scientist working to save lives. Oh and as a Canon City person, keep your sympathy for us fire victims and direct it to all the women and children already killed in the drone wars.
Doesn't matter to me in the slightest. I was a 360 owner this current gen (coming off of the PS2) but I will leave Microsoft come end of year.

I don't want or need the vast majority of features they are offering. I live in Bolivia - I don't care about the NFL, can't watch Netflix or even stream Pandora. The PS4 has more features that I can use and want, is cheaper and doesn't come with bullshit DRM.

Where's the choice?
So the local feds took 60 servers? Out of 690?

I can't tell from the 1HU front plate of a generic server what it's contents are. So maybe those were the only servers they could directly implicate in transmitting copyrighted stuff? But I'm not sure you can even make that distinction (load balancers, proxys, internal networking different from outside view, ..). The charges also included racketeering and other capital crimes, so I'd imagine they could have easily taken all of these servers on that charge alone.

Also, the way searches work here is that the people executing them are usually not involved in the actual investigation. They call it the executive arm for a reason. So they usually get a broad description of what to take (servers), and from whom (Megaupload) and then take everything they can find. Police here commonly confiscates displays when looking for hard disks.

Also, why did LeaseWeb not immediately re-assign after first non-payment? What was the bet here? That MegaUpload would be able to stave off capital charges on absolutely no capital at all (initially), spanning 5+ countries?

From what it looks like, these servers were tainted, and should have been taken in as evidence.

(Whats the connection here with https://www.eff.org/cases/megaupload-data-seizure ?)
My anectodal observation is that these types of social programs tend to be much better received in countries other than the US. In the US, we're all raised on the idea of earning everything you get, and dependence on government is equivalent to surrendering freedom. We're also such a large and culturally diverse place that doesn't have a very long history compared to many counties, so there is more of a sense of "take what's yours" than "we're all in this together". This is a cultural bias which is hard ingrained in people (despite the clearly flawed fundamentals). Consequently, the same benevolent social programs that enjoy successes elsewhere tend to do poorly here.
Even leaving all negative conservatives of this decision aside for now, it hardly does solves anything.

If thomasted110 is the best what's available for now at yahoo, there will be, simplifying a bit, 109 another unhappy users (thomasted1..thomasted109) + tedthomas_xx users + other unhappy Ted Thomases settled for different username at yahoo.com.

None of them is aware if tedthomas will be available. Most of them will not even know that this grand redistribution will take place. In the end if tedthomas will be "reused" only one of them will be moderately happy, while others are no better of.
I disagree. I think they have hit the perfect middleground. Those who want digital downloads can use them with the understanding that they cannot be traded, but like steam has always functioned. Those who prefer true, physical media can still use it just like it makes sense to.

I think this is by far the best decision they could have made. They have kept DRM out of it for those that do not want it, but have also taken a step toward the online download service that they have been striving for.
Agreed. The Atlanta map destroys the hypothesis. The money is in the "green" norther suburbs.
I live in a medical marijuana state, but I think alcohol is still more of a controlling factor. However, I think weed is replacing it in the younger generation. This is especially true for the "just out of college" population. In this group you have a lot of people with degrees, lots of debt, etc. who are working crappy jobs they hate that are often unrelated to their education and who are getting paid close to minimum wage. I know quite a few people like this who are big into weed, and the first thing they do when they get up in the morning is smoke a bowl. I can't fathom getting high at the start of my day. I'm pretty liberally minded when it comes to parting, but I used to wonder why anyone would want to dull their senses and numb their mind when they are doing their job and going about their day. Then I realized if I was massively in debt and/or stuck in a dead end job, I might turn into one of those people too...
Heh, Power4Home System ordered by "I.hate.niggers@microsoft.com" ...

https://www.clkbank.com/orderDetail.htm?rcpt=504d78866YCRFEF...
Is there anything people can do about that on the service-provider side of it, to limit account compromise via the Yahoo-email-password-reset vector? Short of something like disabling password reset emails to Yahoo addresses, which would cause a different kind of collateral damage?

I've actually run into a few services that won't accept signups from any "free webmail" provider, usually listed as Hotmail/Outlook, Yahoo, and Gmail. I suspect the reason for such policies is worries about spammy new accounts, but the risk of account lapse followed by impersonation might be another reason to favor such a policy. On the other hand, it would also lock out a number of legitimate users who use one of those services as their main or even only email.
Illegality also leads to a potentially unsafe operation. Without legalizing something, there can't be any regulation of the industry. Prostitutes are obviously wary of calling the cops in the event that they are abused, mistreated, robbed, or whatever else.

Legalizing prostitution allows its workers to fall under police protection.

Illegality also leads to money hiding endeavors and tax fraud. Illegal sex workers are wary of setting up a real shop where they could implement security methods, or a guard to stand at the door in a brothel type operation.

Legalizing prostitution allows for better taxation, and less in the way of illicit venues.

I'm sure you're right in that every woman wouldn't turn to prostitution just because it became legal, but at least part of that should be attributed to the inherent danger of working in an illegal market with zero marketplace or police protections. We (hopefully) wouldn't see a huge spike in legitimate prostitution if it were legalized, but we would almost certainly see an uptick.
Been on Prozac?

I haven't, but I'm on another SSRI now, and I can't begin to see this as a drug useful for placating the masses. If anything, it's increased my motivation to fix things that are broken. It's replaced apathy with a wide range of sometimes intense emotions.

Some people call them happy pills, but my experience is they're something else entirely.
Disc is required for disc-required play. Code is required for discless play.

They'd buy the code from the people that made the game, of course. If you want to install the game to the console and play it without a disc present then it's trivial to process that through a workflow that requires some sort of purchase.

You can have the best of both worlds if you like.

If it makes it any simpler just think of it as downloaded vs. disc-based games. You can pay to download the game to your console or you can play the game off of a disc. For convenience you could include a free download code in each new game, or even just provide a discount.
Amazon is careful about this with their affiliate program - but most other retailers aren't in my experience.
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Bold? More like desperate. Not doing this would have killed Xbox.
Unless it's done manually, automatically. Via cloudflower, Amazon Mechanical Turk, or something like it.
I'm a bit disappointed at this change - on one hand, it's nice to know that I can share my disc games if I want to. On the other hand though, this effectively means they're killing off their disk-less approach to owning/installing games. This means that instead of having all my games tied to my account on any device I own, I have to lug my games around with my everywhere I go. This also means picking my vegetative self up off the couch when I want to switch what I'm playing.
An entity that only does the right thing after being publicly ousted is not an entity deserving of the public's trust or business

That feels overly cynical. It's not like they were caught doing something underhanded, they just announced policies that weren't as consumer-friendly. There was a backlash, their competition took advantage of it, and they switched to a better policy.

To me, it seems that everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Capitalism still works.
Personally, I don't care if the Kinect is always connected if the thing isn't online at all.

Also a $100 Discount doesn't have any traction with me regarding all of the bad will they created from the decades of pushing highly proprietary technologies into the market. Their terrible practices for me hit a crescendo when they made my life miserable via in-laws putting Sony rootkit audio-cd's into their PC.

Nope. Not getting any more of my dollars.
NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy
The thread topic is "FBI Surveilling U.S. With Drones".
This is what they could have done to save the data:

- replace the hard drives

- start renting the servers to other people

- save the old hard drives just in case

How much would it have cost them to save the old hard drives on 600 servers? Not much.
Looks like some of these are showing a customer's physical address too. I sure hope that wouldn't be PCI compliant.

https://www.clkbank.com/orderDetail.htm?rcpt=504d78866YCRFEF...
(Click on View Details under Tracking Number)
Really? It's not possible to turn on Kinect? Even if you unplug it? Even if you cover it? Even if you put it in a cupboard? Whoa, that must be a marvelous piece of hardware.
It sounds like you're misinterpreting the grammar of that sentence (namely the "would have" verb). It might not be "correct" usage according to prescriptive grammar books, but I immediately interpret as meaning that they are expecting a future event.
> Would YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal?

Why not? Viacom sued despite the DMCA defense.
An immutable data service
This is making an implicit assumption that iPhones are symbols of wealth where other smartphones are not.

The real cost of smartphone ownership is in the contract. The ~$100 savings you could get in buying an Android phone (not always there - when S3 was introduced, it cost the same as the iPhone - $200) doesn't mean much when you consider $100+/month over two years. There shouldn't be a real difference in the wealth of Android owners and iPhone owners.
Another virtue of That Hideous Strength is that Lewis is good at blurring the lines between "good guys" and "bad guys". Instead of Thought Police, he shows Mark Studdock and Feverstone doing evil things out of ordinary motives that we all share.

To continue your metaphor, when it holds up a mirror, we can all see our own faces.

It makes us consider how little it might take to turn us into collaborators in such a future. That might be a useful thought for tech companies right now.
GWT may have been released 7 years ago, but it isn't like it was abandoned 5 years ago and the last stragglers have been dying off since then. The release tempo didn't fall off a cliff until the end of 2011, which just so happens to be when Dart was announced.

Not that there weren't signs of ADD before that, what with the dizzying changes in how-things-ought-to-be-done with each point release. But an attendee of 2011 Google IO could quite reasonably have come away with the impression that as far as Google was concerned the future of GWT was glorious. (see http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions.html)

Even in this age of iterating, pivots, and agility, two years is a quick turnaround from breathless evangelizing to dead and buried.
Previous discussion from a few minutes ago, not on front page anymore.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907976
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You should probably have people use visudo instead of editing /etc/sudoers directly. If you make a typo or similar that prevents sudo from running correctly it will catch it.
Interesting idea. It didn't really have the breweries that were near me, though.
Correct. From the DSS, 'Cardholder data includes: Primary Account Number (PAN), Cardholder Name, Expiration Date, Service Code'
3) At 0.58 oz, a DVD weighs less than a sippy cup

The Xbox One will support blu-ray discs, so your entire argument is invalid.
The Netflix thing is the only one stopping me, really. I love the idea of voice commands (if they work smoothly) and combining my OTA channels with my games. I'm willing to pay an extra $100 for what I assume (and will wait to see verified) will be a much better cohesive media experience than the PS4 that includes those two things. By pay an annual fee for Netflix on top of what I pay Netflix? Never.

I also don't care about the always-semi-on Kinect.
I wish you were right, and the games would have indeed been cheaper. However, Microsoft said that they would not.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/17/microsoft-reveals-the...

Was this a pre-emptive statement, based on their retraction today? Possibly, but probably not. Pricing their games lower would convey the secondary message that their games have less value than the equivalent game on PS4.

Would they have lowered them eventually? Probably not until Sony did as well. There's was literally no reason for them to do so (aside from some graduate analysts saying it would have cost them in the long run).
Longer term - yes: See data retention details here http://newrelic.com/pricing2 (and note that you can get a free New Relic Standard account here http://newrelic.com/sendgrid

More granular - no: The SendGrid plugin presents roughly the same data you could access via the SendGrid API (at least AFAIK).
Proposed solution to Microsoft's game licensing policies
It actually is! I presume it implies the morals of the Church of England.
You can probably keep buffers very small with megapipe, since syscalls are batched together, so they can't impact throughput very much in case of many concurrent connections. You still get a lot of memory taken out of kernel per syscall, but spread across many connections, if I understood megapipe correctly.
Yes, but why is that their responsibility? Had MegaUpload offered to buy the hard drives, or pay for their safe keeping, sure. It's not clear to me why a company should, in perpetuity, be required to keep the data for a former customer that is not paying them to do so.
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Without the retraction, Xbox one would probably have been dead on arrival. This move takes them back to where they were. The malarkey about how XBox one wanted to be a better steam and would offer cheaper games(this was what some xbox dev said in response to the xbone bashing), now stands squashed.

Your points about how netflix is behind a paywall and how there isn't a dvr or multiple hdmi inputs in xbone are spot on. If microsoft implements these features, then xbox one could be a great bet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876761
If you can find Wifi, that will also provide the necessary connectivity to enable your navigation route to be downloaded. This is how I got around rural Nevada, Utah, and Arizona with my Galaxy Nexus.
How do I lend a game to my brother who lives on the other side of the U.S.? If you're going to make the argument that discs are "good enough" you sound a bit like people saying letters are "good enough" compared to e-mail. There are obvious advantages to digital content but it sounded like to get those advantages Microsoft decided it needed to add some "DRM-like" experiences. I'm not going to say it was the right tradeoff but them basically doing a 180 based upon nerd outrage about the used game market is disappointing.

I would agree that making games unplayable if you are banned from XBox Live is horrible, and I am skeptical that was actually going to be a real policy since it's obviously unfair and there's no real "DRMy" reason to do it.
Scout Founder (Derek) here.

Here's my (biased) quick take on the differences between New Relic and Scout plugins:

* It looks like New Relic supports 2 types of plugins (1) direct integrations w/other SaaS services and (2) plugins you place directly on your servers. With Scout, you typically don't need to touch your servers to add plugins, but we don't support direct integrations w/other services (the actual plugins are run on your servers). So, if you're monitoring something server-side (like MySQL), Scout will feel easier. If you're pulling in data from another service (like MongoHQ), New Relic will feel easier.

* New Relic supports Java and Ruby plugins, we just support Ruby.

As a whole, Scout is more of a leaner approach to monitoring than New Relic.

Plugins are a part of most monitoring products. It's really the experience that matters. I love well-maintained tools that just work, so our approach to a plugin system reflects that:

* Gardening - Our plugin repo (https://github.com/scoutapp/scout-plugins) has 1000+ commits from 45 authors. We work hard to make sure plugins work, even when they weren't originally created by us. All of our plugins are open-source, so anyone can submit a pull request.

* One language (Ruby) - Why do we only support Ruby? (1) It's an easy scripting language to grasp (2) we know Ruby very well, so when something breaks, we can fix it 95% of the time vs. having to wait for the plugin author to address it. If you've ever browsed through plugins in an open source system like Nagios or Munin, you'll see how disjointed things can get.

A real-world example:

We track plugin errors in Scout so we can look for trends and plugins w/issues. Today, a customer reported an issue with our Delayed Job plugin via our UI. Beside it, we captured the actual error. They told us their workaround fix, which we then incorporated:

https://github.com/scoutapp/scout-plugins/commit/02239c8785f...

...and added a help entry in case other users run into the same problem:

https://scoutapp.com/plugin_urls/281-delayed-job/help_entrie...

So the total time from the reported issue to the fix was just a couple of hours, which is neato.
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IP isn't the only kind of value. MakerBot has a pouplar hardware product in active production, which represents a pretty big investment that can't be easily reproduced (or Stratasys, which makes its own hardware, would probably done so). They have a very strong brand, including the Thingiverse site. These are things that drive Replicator sales in the future. And Stratasys (correctly) views them as someone they'd rather acquire now than in three years.

That said: yes, the MakerBot really is just a refined RepRap. There's not much really of unique value there, technologically, beyond the aforementioned high expense of "refining" a hardware product.
No. In terms of io and other kinds of overhead, you are always better off running your database on a container rather than a VM. The majority of public cloud database services are either running inside containers, or in the process of migrating to containers.

An additional advantage of containers is that you can start running them on top of a VM, and then migrate to bare metal later, as your infrastructure requirements evolve.
User generated content is one way to grow content footprint at scale, you just have to invest in seed content and then moderation. My site (also in education space) http://www.TestDesigner.com has about 150K pages indexed in Google with 90% of the content coming from users.

SEO is not just about content though. Huge part of Patrick's success comes from link building via his very popular blog and his personal brand, this is the part that I think is harder to replicate.
We haven't trained our model at all and just use the include XML file. We have adjusted the default neighbors threshold which helps mitigate the knee factor. Faces tend to be in the 40+ neighbors range from my trials and the default is 3.

We use ImageMagick for cropping and resizing, PIL was just easier for the example. I haven't noticed any issue with PIL but I also haven't used it for any serious image processing.
How are the color pixels indicating device stacked in the map? If I only check Android I will see large green areas, but when I then check iPhone the same green areas will be red. Does that simply mean that there have been more iPhone than Android tweets in that particular spot?