skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should they? If a man attacks another man, we tend not to kill him, at least not immediately as is done with dogs. There is usually some hope of rehabilitation.
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haha. great reply. I knew it was out there somewhere.
There was an article on here yesterday that said something along the lines of "if you're older than 23 most startups won't even give you the time of day" or some tripe of the sort. I find that to be a negative, untrue stereotype, and it's nice to see the data back up my opinion.
On the black market, iPhone 5s have even been reported reaching over $3.500

Maybe a typo but this is an unreleased product.
Cleaning the dust off your record

Getting up to change between one of 4 channels on the television.

Wrapping left overs in foil and baking in an oven set to 275 degrees for 30 minutes to re-heat.

Needing two or three friends to move your television

using your hand to move your player's position on the game board.

reading books you checked out from a library

figuring out where you are by un-folding a 48" square out of date printout of what streets existed about 5 years ago.

The list goes on and on.
An asset is currently the way to do that.
Ć programming language (http://cito.sourceforge.net/) compiles C# subset to C.

The C code generator is very simple:
http://sourceforge.net/p/cito/code/ci/master/tree/GenC.cs
> For RSS, I have first to “guess” (or rather hope) that there is a feed, since browsers now hide the infamous orange icon. I can then select the url of that tab and copy it. Then, open a new tab, go to the reader I chose to use and paste the url. Hopefully, that reader is smart enough to actually find the feed url from this page’s url. If not, I’m screwed anyway and I’ll have to look into the HTML code of the page!

On sites that provide a feed link, I just click that link, which opens that feed in feedly, and I hit add to my feedly. Process is as simple as twitter. The choice of some sites to hide their feeds and provide no links is the burden of site designers.
In a proper free market they can't really do that, as I can buy a handset through operator A and immediately switch (with no penalties allowed) to a cheaper operator B.

If there is no legal/monopolistic lock-in like in USA (where the phone is locked to a certain operator), but instead operator B can jailbreak&unlock your phone for you when you switch, then you can't extract huge monthly prices just because you sold a phone 9 months ago.
I wonder if one can use paint or some kind of odd wavelength light bulb to make recording the license # too blurred to use.
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An easy way to determine if the US supports a group is to look at the language used to describe that group. Are they "freedom fighters" or "terrorists"?

France is fighting "terrorists" in Mali, not "freedom fighters". The US supports the Syrian "rebels", not the Syrian "terrorists".
Luckily, grammar rule don't evolve from what grammaticians want but from what people use. And a singular "they" sounds natural and follows the trend of language streamlining where it is most heavily used (there's a trend of irregular verbs becoming regular verbs based on usage).
I look at the money.

In a cyber-war, how much would the Kremlin pay to
disrupt every Chinese WiFi network to which an Android
device has a current password?

Do you think Larry Page can be bought?

I'm serious: You need to consider the way Google is run before deciding if any of these theories are plausible.

This is a company which has a history of spurning money-making opportunities in favor of some higher ideal (often times to the chagrin of business-minded types within the company). To give a few examples: Licensing Android, complying with China, accepting paid placements, etc.

You can argue each of those decisions was actually more profitable for Google in the end. And that's the point: Google would not make $10B next year if they sold out their users to the Kremlin this year.
Google App Engine 1.8.2 with new dedicated memcache released
thanks for the detailed response. I know very little about the actual application of data science, so it nice to hear the thoughts on the feasibility of this from someone who does. Either way, someone seems to think they can teach it in a bootcamp format, so I am curious to see how they manage.
It's too bad FeedTree (http://www.feedtree.net/) never caught on. Decentralised, peer-to-peer push distribution of RSS-style updates. Instead we ended up either hammering servers checking for updates, or using centralized hubs like FeedBurner, and eventually moving to completely proprietary services like Twitter and Google+.
yea it was in the article about why working in a big company
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You...
Author here. There is very little code in the book and it is split between Ruby and Java. The chapter on writing includes a fair bit about how the API documentation burden in statically typed languages is lower, since the types are part of the method signatures.
This has been my experience as well. Stupid bots being denied recursive requests. I modified my fail2ban script to autoban them which helped considerably.
I am a person who severely can't stand paperwork. (ADD may be a factor.) Yet I'd be just the sort of person who would actually be productive in a self-directed fashion. Do you think that striking out on my own could work? I would pay money for someone else to do the paperwork side (although I'd have to trust them, of course...)
I'd like the headline changed. Nothing in the headline or the url makes it sound like it's a funding page.
Saving wifi passwords to the cloud.
Something a lot of people are missing: Not all cultures do [first name] [last name].
But is it really terrorism at this point? It's a civil war. Just because some groups that use terrorism to further their goals are participating doesn't make it any less of a war.

If the residents of New York City rebelled, and managed to take control of 2/3rds of the city, that would be a civil war (or at least I would classify it as such), even if Al Qaeda showed up to participate.
And this is why you shouldn't open source the core part of your business (looking at you DotCloud). Sure, Docker is good for the community. But it's also a key competitive advantage for DotCloud. By giving away that advantage, they create opportunities for viable competitors.
The public will likely never be smart enough.
Seems like there's a CSS issue with the sponsor modal http://d.pr/i/Pgko
Exercise in a Pill? The Search Continues
Very cool! Been looking for something like this since Docker was announced. Basically Cloud Foundry is far too complex for what I/we need but this would fit the bill nicely.

One question though, what is going to be 'the cluster' (The site says it distributes work across 'the cluster')? Basically, will it be capable of interfacing with cloud API's or will it just be you manually setting up a group of instances to host the machines to run Docker on top of?
Another good method: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/12/14/add-latency-to-localho...
Opensource Wireless Temperature Controller For Homebrewers
Open-source BT sync doesn't sound like it is completely out of the realm of possibility.

http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/8816-will-syncapp-be-open-...

http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/21048-defensive-open-sourc...
FTA: "notably, Russia bans handset subsidies"
I have seen it in another Eastern European country - the sum of all mobile subscribers each operator claimed to have, exceeded the population by 50%. I attribute it mostly to marketing tricks like counting pre-paid cards that have not been explicitly canceled towards the general tally of active users. In general the operators try to appear to have more subscribers in order to entice more new subscribers to choose them.

I seriously doubt that the telecom regulatory bodies in these parts of Europe pay much attention to the coverage/subscription rates claimed by the mobile operators' marketing departments.

Of course some of the people have more than one SIM card, but with at least 3 major operators this simply doesn't add up.

EDIT: added the sentence about the lack of regulation
There was a nice set of slides few days ago - http://www.slideshare.net/nzakas/enough-withthejavascriptalr... - exactly the same idea.
> "As the author, I should probably take my own advice and do what I always tell my students."

The structure of that sentence irrationally infuriates me. I find it so distracting that I have been unable to glean any meaning from the rest of your post. You should therefore change it.
Can't recommend http://www.charlesproxy.com/ enough for any web development. One of a long list of features is throttling.
You missed the central part of my argument, so I'll reiterate it here: users don't care about this stuff, and passwords are user-hostile. Google chose to implement this a certain way that works for 99.99% of people.

Now, in the 0.01% case, your counter argument still doesn't hold, in my opinion:

> Do you really want to trade all your stored passwords for the convenience of not having to enter 1 additional password ('my Android backup password')

Yes.

Even strong wifi passwords can be brute-forced within minutes from the curb by anybody with an unmarked van and a measly few GPUs. At this point in the technology race, wifi passwords are really just keeping the honest people out. If you want something stronger, you're going to have to go to machine certificates on each laptop / mobile device.

> once every one or two years when you activate a new or additional device??

Even worse, passwords that aren't used often exit my fingers' memory and are thus lost to time (unless I write them down and store them in my safe deposit box or keepassdroid or whatever, but "hardly anybody" does this, so Google would get phone calls from users every year or two saying "can you give me the password that I'm supposed to be using to keep from giving you my passwords? kthx").
Yes, thank you, I didn't feel like digging around for it.
Also the standard library is really small. So after a short amount of time you have used almost all of it a few times.
I agree it seems like pseudoscience.

Actually I did look for information to discredit the theory about a year ago. There appears to be more out there now. At that time I did lose interest after reading about problems with tired light.

Regardless, it's an interesting theory from a philosophical perspective, even if it has major problems.
Indeed. I'm a bit curious as to why DotCloud released Docker? I mean, sure, someone was going to have an easy-to-use container system sooner or later, but for now that is one of the few defining features that DotCloud has going for them... although one of their competitors is successfully using a modified version of Cloud Foundry (AppFog).
I don't see this in the FAQ: the magic that makes all of this happen (which you're integrating) is technology built by other developers. Why should we be supporting you to do this work rather than the other developers who broke ground and already did a majority of the heavy lifting?
I agree with regarding an M.Eng as a 5th year of University, though it's a year of actual major-related courses rather than Engineering core classes. That's in fact how I decided to do one: my professor pointed out that it was not one year on top of four, but one on top of one. I got to take another year of electives that were applicable to my career, rather than the core classes (chemistry, etc) that I was required to do during especially the first two years.

I do disagree with this snark, though:

> This was back when "financial engineering" was the buzzword... that worked out well, didn't it?

My M.Eng (Cornell ORIE) was not in FE, though my department offered it. Their (admittedly biased) response to this line of thinking: if we had more financial engineers, we would have had people who actually understand the instruments that were being traded.

No doubt the people who created exotic Mortgage-Backed Securities were FE types... if only Moody's and S&P employed some as well, perhaps they wouldn't have been rated AAA. Then again, I'm assuming incompetence rather than malice; the ratings agencies did have incentives to lie.
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WSJ: Israel revamps army boosting tech, cutting conventional arms
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Very interesting, all the best !
In smaller government there is one and only one person you come to. If this person does not accept your bribe (or "lobbying") then you have to play by the rules.

In larger government there are a lot of competing bodies with vague job descriptions. You can honey them all with varying results. You can oil "layers of security" as well so those rarely help.

Don't confuse big/small government with big/small country. Surely there are banana republics, but I can't imagine you can buy out government of Iceland that easily.
If one doesn't like how her browser handles certain links, it's easy enough to get an extension or bookmark for that browser that does exactly what she wants. This is especially true for feeds.
"Its bad enough that cars with the "old" iPhone dock connector are now permanently obsolete"

They need something like ISO 7736 which about thirty years ago was formerly known under some now obsolete DIN standard, so naturally 30 years later we still call it single or double DIN mount.

I'd be happy with a secondary ODB-II port for charging and read only access. The physical side of car audio is pretty standard via the ISO standard aka "DIN mounts", but the electrical side is eternally messed up with embrace-extend-extinguish every decade another fad connector.
Google for WSJ title: Israel to Revamp Army for New Risks
> Cygwin is my primary means of interfacing with Windows...

Could you explain that a little more? For instance - say you want to browse the web or read email - you're doing it in a Cygwin terminal?

Do you use it as your launcher to launch Windows apps or do you only run text interface applications? Or, do you just do most of your dev/sysadmin work in Cygwin and use normal Windows apps for the rest?
And a car that seems to have achieved something that others haven't, is licensing its technology to Toyota, and is selling cars that people want and are excited about. Other than that, yes, just hype.
How I discovered The New York Times
What an awfully misinformed article. :(
The 'cluster' is a group of nodes running the Docker + Flynn software. It can be anything from a single server to a fleet of EC2 instances to a rack of servers. It would be easy to make a tool that spawns instances running Flynn on your choice of public/private cloud.
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That is not what the GPS tracker case said. Scalia wrote the majority opinion of the court, and that opinion was based on the physical intrusion necessary to install the GPS tracker. Physical intrusion into a protected space (your car is one of your "effects") has always been a search requiring a warrant.

See: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf.
That's very true. I'm in Russia and telecommunications are dirt cheap here. I barely spend $10 in 3 months on my cellphone (that's including occasional internet browsing, although unlimited traffic would cost you more). Broadband internet is also very cheap, my bill is $8/mo for a 30Mbps connection and unlimited traffic.

I buy a new phone every 2 or 3 years. Go ahead and count on your own if I'm better off with this model.
Ah yes, I've also been to the "Girl, your ass is gettin big" symposium.
At Centzy, we evaluated FoundationDB for several months. Impressive technology (horizontally scalable key-value store with transactions and failover), its fast, and it just works. We were initially concerned about using a proprietary datastore built by another startup, but after having lunch with Dave and Andrew, we decided we had to use them. One of my favorite things was how they sometimes responded to support requests with code.
Sounds stressful.
How Fast The 'Windows Monopoly' Is Getting Destroyed
Well, fail2ban can help, but that is only going to be generally quick enough to keep up with the initial ramp-up of the attack I'd expect. Once the full attack gets going you're probably going to be seeing requests from thousands of hosts at any given time. I haven't specifically tested under that scenario with fail2ban, but I imagine that it would have trouble keeping up with such a flow.
One forum user pointed out this link:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/priority-proj...

I would be thrilled if this project gets somewhere, even to gnash-like quality.
Those pop-up 'OMG PLEZ LET US EMAIL U COOL TIPZ' interstitials always let me know how much the site owner knows about marketing and branding.
Exactly, forcing a lock-in is illegal in all those industries as well.

For razors: you are allowed to manufacture and market blades that are compatible with competitors; so people are (both legally and practically) allowed to buy a loss-leader razor from company A, and cheaper razorblades from company B.

For satellite/cable TV: in places with decent consumer rights laws there are practical, massively used ways to get out of long-term lock-ins; so such deals work only as long as consumers like the deal. If customer walks away, there may be a contract-breaking fee involved, but as soon as you want to change the contract the slightest bit not to customer's favor (increase price by a dollar or drop a TV channel, which you may need to do) - bam; the customer can walk away with no fees.
- Home
- Brother's house
- Other brother's house
- Sister's house
- Brother-in-law's house
- Work #1
- Work #2
- Cafe #1
- Cafe #2
- Cafe #3
- School

And these are just the ones that I remember.
My main problem with Docker is that container IP addresses and MACs are changed after every container reboot. This means I can't have a database in one container and a web app in another because I have no way for the web app to discover the address of the database server.

Seems like this would be an issue for the host-only (private) network?
Thanks for letting me know, fixed!
You can downsize military as well. It's easier with smaller government because there is one person responsible, if they say we downsize military, we downsize it.

Compare it with having a dozen of committees with everyone in it being mediocre and fearing change, fearing initiative, fearing that something will happen after the downsize.

Committees are good at reacting (one loud incident -> wham you've got new regulations) and bad at acting (runaway project will run forever with nobody having balls to shut it down).
I'm on tmobile (android phone). The wifi calling feature doesn't work very well. You have to have a really strong signal, and even then the connection can be flaky. And for some reason, the feature doesn't work at all with some wifi hotspots.

So while it's a nice idea, in practice it doesn't work very well for voice. Texting seems to be OK.
We do try to deal with concurrency and goroutines as much as we can. I'd recommend taking a look at the (rather simple) goroutine example as part of the gtk package. Unfortunately though, as you said, GTK is not thread safe (calling GTK from multiple threads was deprecated as of the last release I believe) and calls must be made using glib.IdleAdd() to run the functions in GTK's main loop context.
What is the point of this link?
Okay, thanks for clarifying. The next question then would be, if you do reach your stretch goals and implement auto-scaling, would you at that point have cloud/MaaS API integration?
So it's a git post-receive hook that parses a Procfile and starts your app?
thanks-- fixed a bug where part of the modal was inaccessible on smaller screens
Heh, channel changing and library checkouts also popped into my head!

Life evolves!
The $100 Ouya, a Game Console From Quirksville
Isn't it highly dangerous to pull down the tree? Seems like you would have to run away in the exact moment it falls, so you are not in its path.
Author here. Apologies that the design of the website has been so distracting. I ultimately decided that I needed to ship, but I can see where those commenters are coming from (and I appreciate that most of you have been constructive). I CAN say you should all be glad to not see the 3-D book I created in Pixelmator. I saved you from SOMETHING, at least :)

Since I've now made real revenue just on the first days' sales, I feel more confident spending actual money on the site design.

I opted NOT to use a template because none of them seemed adaptable to what I wanted to do.

Anyone willing to help me out, or can recommend someone who would?
More info on "blimp" vs. "zeppelin":

http://www.airships.net/dirigible

A zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by a particular company [...] A blimp (technically called a “pressure airship”) is a powered, steerable, lighter-than-air vehicle whose shape is maintained by the pressure of the gases within its envelope. A blimp has no rigid internal structure; if a blimp deflates, it loses its shape.
Because it's better to have a small slice of a market that you can compete on than nothing on a market that is dominated by other players.

This supposed competitive advantage that they would have would mean nothing if they still had to work on top of other IaaS-providers. They would be undercut by the IaaS themselves. By changing the game, they get another angle to work from.
I don't think negative infinity is a reasonable number for this. If it were, then I would expect you to gladly pay someone all your income for the next 20 years to stand guard over your children night and day to ensure that none of them are kidnapped and killed. Anything less would be negligent parenting.
Docker was a big piece of the puzzle. I worked with DotCloud to make Docker happen and we're involved in that community quite heavily. There's still a lot more work to do, otherwise we would not be bothering with a campaign like this.
I think you can drag the link up to the tab bar, and it will open in a new tab.
Teletext Network - using TV bands to create an alternate network layer
BitTorrent Sync hits beta, adds Android support
Hey, missed this earlier.

What exactly does the public access TV station do for the community? How does something like that fit into the modern world where the price of a TV studio (or handheld HD) is not prohibitive, and the content can be distributed via the internet?

Lots of people still use TV, and yes, the costs of the equipment they provided are relatively low. But we were starved for cash, that's why we could be bought cheaply.

Does the franchise protect the company recouping the cost of the physical plan or is it more of a monopoly on providing video service locally?

It's sort of a monopoly, in our case it was a duopoly. They have to come to an agreement with the town to provide service, but it doesn't (usually) prohibit the town from bringing in other providers. If I recall correctly, there were clauses that other providers couldn't come in for cheaper than they did.

I haven't closely followed the so-called "national franchise" debate that took place a few years ago, other than that it was defeated.

A version of this came up in MA when I was there, as a state wide franchise. It was basically a way for them to get access everywhere, for cheaper, without paying the towns and paying a smaller aggregate total to the state instead. I was opposed to that (not that I had a voice), because we needed every cent we could get from whatever source.

I agree that the net sum of the system is pretty silly.
Awesome, great job! Really looking forward to this.
Here's a link: http://progrium.com/blog/2013/06/19/dokku-the-smallest-paas-...