skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Amazon lens that everyone knew about and could be removed with one command? The whole thing was massively blown out of proportion, often by people who'd never even used Ubuntu.

What's wrong with selling commercial software? I could understand it if you were all about Open Source, but you're clearly not. Redhat certainly sell proprietary software solutions. Debian don't, but then that's their raison d'être.

They've given back a whole OS to people. They've released plenty of their own software under the GPL. Fine if you think that's not enough, but it's far more than many companies have done and accusing them of not giving back at all is flat out wrong.
I had a similar experience with Accenture. We called them Accidenture...
I don't think being a social enterprise should mean that they shouldn't make profits at all. Given that they their major income is from support and services, I am quite sure measures like amazon ads were quite inevitable. Not to mention how long they had survived without making any profit to get some presence in a dominant space ( Ubuntu ShipIt! Remember? ). Even if they make smart profits, doesn't change the idea of the company and why they exist.
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Either the favicon is terrible or I am too dirty minded. Nice product, though.
In Scotland there's a fair amount of male Kellys and Lesleys which also appear to have slowly evolved into female names in the rest of the English speaking world (as far as I can see)
What if a diamond 100ft in diameter hits Earth in near-light speed?

http://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
One could also argue they are discovering a niche (developers who need to get on the go really fast, really often), so they're entering a tiny fraction of one market only. I guess it all comes down to perspective.
1990: Steve Jackson Games vs the FBI
NSA technology, oversight, and audits: Show us real barriers to abuse.
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Like I said, I don't like Wordpress either. But within the constraints of shared hosting LAMP, guaranteed isolated processes are not possible. PHP adds a lot of introspection, so anything declared anywhere can be read or changed.

Wordpress is not alone in this. It's the platform.
Looks like a photosphere.
Maybe you should rather describe what it in the picture to satisfy reader curiosity.
Install Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL on Debian for WordPress [Youtube]
Two Climate Analysts Fault Gas Leaks, but Not as a Big Warming Threat
Typically CSRF tokens are only required for state-changing requests - POSTs, PUTs, DELETEs.

They're broadening that recommendation also to include pages that reflect input. Think GET requests that take query string parameters. So e.g. https://google.com/search?q=pajamas would become https://google.com/search?q=pajamas&csrf=etcetc.

It seems like a pretty impractical mitigation to me. For one thing, it would make it very difficult to share links; a link containing my CSRF token wouldn't work for you. It would also make it much easier to give up your CSRF token. We would need to retrain people to think of the URLs they're viewing as personal and secret.
I thought this was going to be about the Parque Central East Tower that burned in 2004 (http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/741). As far as I know that one still hasn't been fully repaired, but I guess no one lives in it (yet).
Regarding [1], in the favour of regexps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language

If you can't use a regexp to recognize the general case of email addresses, no finite automaton can..
Twitter boss 'sorry' to abused women
Many startup employees will work for Yahoo for $150K/year if all their favorite coworkers are working for Yahoo and they get to work on a product they're familiar with.

That seems at odds with the fact that most of these companies products are immediately shut down when the acquisition is announced.
Those associations are there for a reason. Passive income means either you had enough initial capital to live off the risk-free rate on that long-term, or you're doing what amounts to arbitrage. And while arbitrageurs fulfil a valuable market function, they've been publicly hated since time immemorial.
Really it's not in "perfectly good" condition. Broken screen, broken usb connector, bad battery life, water damage that causes the cell radio to intermittently not work.

But it still works as my bike-phone.
I expected to see more people in the picture. I hardly can find one. Maybe they were edited out.
Making your own solutions is overrated. Why should I create another function to show time as " x days ago" when it already exists?
Real terrorists have already been using that for a long time. (For instance, remember those media blurbs about lots of porn being found in the raid on bin Laden?) As such I'd bet they have infrastructure in place to detect such communications.

But in the same half-joking vein, some other problems:

1. I recall reading that such stegonagraphically watermarked videos were pretty easy to detect using simple statistical analysis of the noise in the frames. With dedicated hardware for multimedia decoding cheaply and ubiquitously available, frames can be efficiently extracted and the additional number of bytes does little to slow them down. If the hidden data is encrypted, well, you could just do that without the porn.

2. Unless you make it as easy as tapping a key to start communicating, it still does not remove a main barrier to widespread adoption of encryption, which is inconvenience.

3. The problem with porn is, people will just end up paying more attention to the medium rather than the message.
Show HN: US Senate Editing Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&diff=566904988&oldid=566903734

Look at the IP on the top left (new revision)
156.33.241.5

Whois the IP - http://www.utrace.de/?query=156.33.241.5

Notice anything funny about the netname LOL
are their any plan to make this app available to other O.S. ?
Found an english version of the directive (PDF):

http://www.government.se/content/1/c6/18/19/14/70f489cb.pdf

Page 40, Actions, first paragraph: “In addition, all authorities should make use of DNSSEC and be reachable with IPv6 by 2013.”
They will def. miss the target. I read on Kickstart or somewhere. If a project fails to meet 30% of the target on first day (or so), project will most def fail.
Memories of ancient Phrack issues...
Good points. Python lists are surprisingly slightly faster than tuples (which are immutable). That's because lists are extremely common, and more effort went into optimizing them.
Ok, that made slightly more sense. But still, all WD drives are assembled either in Thailand or in Malaysia. Something like 2/3 of all WD drives are made in Thailand. During the floods, production in Thailand was shutdown completely for a month or so. The supply disruption was very much real.
$('*').filter(function(){if($(this).css('background-image').indexOf('black.png') != -1) return true}).remove();
I agree in as much as I think that PHPClasses is an anachronistic throwback to the bad old days of PHP. It has a shameful history of promoting terrible code with dubious "awards" as if it were the greatest thing ever built. Newcomers to PHP development would be better served by a web that lacked phpclasses.org in its current form.

For example, in a recent article entitled "26 Ways to Show that PHP Can Be Better Than PHP" (http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/203-26-Ways-to-Show-that...), they showcased a series of "multithreading" implementations in ascending order of WTF, culminating with this:

Mohammed Yousef from Egypt has written the PHP
Threader class that also takes advantage of the
fact that a Web server can run multiple scripts
in parallel, except that it uses AJAX requests
sent from the browser to start the scripts.

I disagree, however, with the idea that Manuel Lemos is a clueless, destructive clown. I think he's a well-meaning, intelligent person who has somewhat failed to keep pace with the "proper software engineering" standards that have infiltrated PHP in recent years.

For example, in an article from 2013 comparing development using Wordpress vs using a framework, I would have expected some comparison of the viability of automated testing in each approach. And unless my name was Fabien Potencier, I would not expect to be advised to "use your own framework if you have a good capable framework to address your needs".

But this is only destructive to the extent that others fail to make a strong case for building well-tested software using high quality open source libraries where suitable instead of endlessly reinventing wheels. There is room for competing ideas, and I don't see these particular ideas as an especially worrying competitive threat.
Nah, doesn't make sense. According to this fighting nazism while being German wouldn't have make sense in 1930s because you pay taxes.
It turns out the Nigerian prince was a counter-NSA agent!
Don't even get me started! For other examples of how the MA state government loves to put their money anywhere BUT their mouth, come check out the number of "Additional Vice Provost" positions in the state university (UMass) system.

They laid off people who were doing actual work to make room for people whose only job responsibility is to collect a paycheck.

It amazes me no end!
> A few minutes after installing the IOS 7 beta I just knew I needed to switch to Android ... [iOS 7] feels a lot like Window Vista.

Yeah, iOS Beta 1 and Beta 2 were ugly and buggy pieces of shit. Beta 3 and 4 are a lot nicer.

In my opinion, the UI still needs work but I'm willing to forgive the guys in Cupertino since it's ... you know ... a beta.

TL;DR Guy switches to Android after using pre-release operating system on his iPhone.
quite a few windows have a red triangle in them, f.e. http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-154....

what do they mean?
Which is not to say that it is good:

"The real argument against over-reliance on fracking as a solution to the climate problem is that its value as a bridge fuel has been oversold."

It's like recommending to a smoker that they switch to chewing tobacco because it lowers their risk of dying from cancer.
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You are right, of course. Still trying to improve my English ;-)
Guess you ignored the "excluding call-to-authority" part of my post.

No one has tested this form. So just putting it down seems premature.

I'd prefer people to be data driven, than just cargo culters.
Ignoring the doubters, there are plenty of cases where custom drive firmware might be useful.

I read online (probably on HN or similar) that Amazon Glacier is using drives with custom firmware that keeps them spun down to 300rpm so that more drives can fit in a rack without power and cooling concerns.

That's certainly an interesting case that certainly wasn't possible without drive manufacturers stepping up to Amazon's wishes. Being able to do custom mods like this to your own disks is pretty excellent as well.
Doesn't that make this field better? Not worse. So the data says this field will convert more?
So, just because iOS 7 has a frosted glass effect - that means it offers no improvements over iOS 6? Seems like pretty awful logic.
20k is nothing. Smartphone manufacturers will laugh at you for fewer than hundreds of thousands. To get a good deal they want to see millions.
seriously... now you know what the rest of the world feels like when something only launches in the US. And by the way, we are the majority...
Would you want me to translate it?
Hosted Wordpress.

Wordpress on a self-hosted server is a world of pain unless you're prepared to spend significant resources on optimising it and keeping it up to date. And entertainingly, if you fail to keep it up to date the result is usually a rooted server, sooner or later.

However, outsourcing the hosting to people who do WP and nothing else removes most of those headaches and makes it a very time-effective platform.

Personally I use WP Engine for my hosting (I wrote about why over here: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1...) but there's a lot of options out there.
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Yeah, having just installed an unofficial build of Cyanogenmod 10.2 for my S3... It would be a bit ridiculous for me to annouce that due to bugs that Google had forgotten how to innovate and thus I'm switch to iOS.

I think people just some time like a sea change, and look for an excuse.
How to Master Your Elevator Pitch
Unencrypted data sent through public wi-fi can be snooped on, that's as new as sliced bread.
Also, lambda doesn't appear to be going anywhere. It's one of my favorite features.
Emergency entrances for fire / rescue. You are not allowed to put anything in front of those windows, so that firefighers know they can break those windows to easily gain access to a building. They can then be used to help people escape, or get more firefighers into the building.
I think he isn't mad about bugs, but about the gimmicky nature of the "innovation" in IOS 7... but maybe I misread him.
Windows 8 is still gimmicky, though...
Ok You Luddites, Time To Chill Out On Facebook Over Privacy (2010)
If the Moon were replaced with some of our planets
What's wrong with Angular? Why is it slow?
I used native functions (for the styles) since they performed much faster in other projects where there were many DOM elements.
It's called common sense.

NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/july-dec1...
sorry - was agreeing, but I don't think people justify it by saying "I use it because everyone else does". The network effect has real benefits (docs, books, themes, plugins, etc), and that's why people would say they use it, not simply "everyone else uses it". 'twas late when I wrote it, now it's too early to think straight :)
Oh and btw, they even show us where the censored parts are: http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/tokyo.xm... (four nodes of type hotspot)
Does anyone have a PDF of this?
If you want to continue to ignore the reason for this then this sounds bad. And almost everybody here is ignoring the cause and fixating on the symptom.
At the end of the day, it is not in China's best interest to harm the US economy.

J. P. Getty said "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." We owe China a lot more than that.
Putting the project itself aside (which does seem quite useful), am I the only one who finds it intriguing the fact that Google is not using Google Code to host some of their recent open source projects?
Yeah, I went through the Coursera course. Honestly, it was amazing. I had read through several programming books, but this was systematic. The "design recipes" help you to write clean, testable functions, and to think about your design before you start typing. I actually found it to be one of the best introductions to programming in Haskell. I had read 'Learn You A Haskell', and 'Real World Haskell' but this course made the whole approach to types, and pure functions really click.
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Freaky 5 lbs killer toxic frog found - WTF?
Personally I do not enjoy using poorly-typed languages (C, C++, Java) and prefer the flexibility of untyped languages (Python). However I even more prefer the flexibility and strength given by powerfully-typed languages (Haskell, and I suppose Scala, OCaml, F#).

Don't confuse typing with rigidity.
Cool, so the difference with this and Jing project is that it has the video on the bottom right as well as the video of the screen?

Definitely 3 minutes is a bit short for some applications
I get the author's point, but he has decided that frosted effects have gone out of fashion and uses this as a litmus test for whether or not a platform is in decline.

The crux of this argument is that "pointless" features are a result of stalled innovation. I'm sure if the author was to look more closely at his Android phone he would see a great number of pointless features; especially in OEM skins like Touchwiz.

If the author was trying to convince me that Android is a superior platform when it comes to innovation (which it may well be) then he has failed to provided any evidence other than "because frosted effects".
Good catch right there. Removed the overlay and saw a man washing his hands in a sink, and a woman sleeping.
> The problem is if you combine all the various flags that affect the compiler, across all the architectures, across all the platforms, in all its variants (cross compiler, native, the many handful of libc and barebones variants) you're looking at too many tests to run no matter how huge an infrastructure you have to run it.

As someone who at one point in time maintained such a compiler test system, I'll say that it isn't possible to get all combinations, but you can hit a reasonable percent of them.

A good compiler test run end up running through millions of tests. It isn't for the feint of heart, but it is perfectly doable.
Check out https://bitbucket.org/ant512/gobble

It's a lot like the blogging engine described in the article, but it includes comments/Aksimet/reCAPTCHA and tagging.
I like it, but being in London I'm more interested in something that'll hold my phone when it's inside a bulky waterproof pouch. I have a good pouch with a clear plastic cover so that I can see and use the screen (my phone is a Lumia 920 and is sensitive enough to respond through thick plastic), but have yet to find a holder that securely holds it. On road and off.
It's confusing to see responses like this.

We continually hear about how great MongoDB supposedly is from its advocates, with them claiming it's suitable as a general-purpose database.

Yet when somebody who has apparently used it in a production setting speaks out against it and its numerous flaws, the problem isn't with MongoDB. No way! It's a "problem" with the app "not being suited for" what MongoDB is "good at".
Lifehacking is just another way to make us work more
Why do you say that Percona has no real advantage over MySQL?
I think that's how most people start out. You're not really doing it all wrong.Coding with much momentum requires experience(which will come). To add to that, you don't always need to try to code by looking at the screen. Take a paper and pencil, try to understand what you are trying to accomplish. Make sure you build a few connections from the problem to the goal and eliminate all possible "wrong paths" in trying to achieve the goal. Trust me, this really works well and can save some time.You can always look it up on google, stack exchange,etc. But in all reality, most developers tend to hit roadblocks and spend quite a while on a maybe smaller problem.
This is awesome - any plans to charge for it?
Sorry, just saw your reply. Well, the studies show that people well feel good about rewards when they are unexpected. But once it becomes part of a standard routine it turns out to lower intrinsic motivation.
Most of the appeal of Percona (specifically xtradb over innodb) is only visible on the high loads of production environment. There's virtually no noticeable difference on your local development machine.
Wow, I didn't notice there was anything below the fold!
I really hope you are being ironic.
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You don't find too many details about Kowloon floating around, which is a shame since it was quite a unique settlement.

The best source of information about it is probably a photo essay called "City of Darkness" (http://www.amazon.com/City-Darkness-Life-Kowloon-Walled/dp/1...) which is frequently out of print, but which I highly recommend if you can snag a copy. It's a fascinating historical document in its own right, and one of the few reliable sources of information about the walled city, which is why it's referenced so heavily in the Wikipedia article.
Not really surprising. The goal of this project is to help developers make their web apps faster, not to make google code more popular. What's good for the web in general is good for Google and more important than the popularity of a product that doesn't make them much money anyway (google code).
I find it very positive.
I truly believe this is what 'democracy' has become, not just, in the US, but the UK as well.
I remember two times where learning a language that didn't embed the full paradigm (ADA objects) made me understand it better (Class OOP as in Java), the other one was monads in emacs lisp, so I think I understand your point.

The design recipes felt a little bit dull at first, but for a newcomer it's probably the good rhythm anyway. And now I often 'construct' my function through stubs, tests and then full code. Kudos to the authors.
There is varying resolution depending on depth in each point.
From my cursory glance at the book, I always felt the title was misleading. It is more a general introduction to programming through Scheme, with a focus on good practice than a treatise on software architecture.
Just wanted to add, since many people dont know, last month GitHub added a new feature called "Releases" that does allow you to attach binaries for projects

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Vista isn't given enough credit. It was a huge overhaul from XP. A lot of the improvements were of the under-the-hood variety, but there were some notable improvements in UI, such as search integration. Win7 was basically Vista with intelligent defaults (and funky backgrounds) while Win8 is Vista with Aero ripped out and Metro added in.

Aero wasn't meaningless eye-candy added to Vista to distract from a lack of innovation. It was MS taking skeuomorphic design so seriously that they were willing to sacrifice a lot of performance to implement it. Aero was doomed once MS started gravitating towards flat, colorful UI's that eschew skeuomorphism, and finally decided to try to run a desktop kernel on tablet hardware.

One thing I find strange about iOS 7 is that it doesn't seem to be well suited for older hardware or budget hardware like the iPad mini or the rumored budget iPhone. Does iOS 7 perform better than this added eye candy would lead one to expect, or will it simply run in a compromised mode on weaker hardware?
She said: "While I'm pleased they're listening, it's taken Twitter a week to come up with this.

"Twitter's 'report abuse' button on the iPhone application goes through to the old reporting form. What we're looking for is an overhaul of the system which sits behind the button.

"The current process is lengthy, complicated and impossible to use if you're under sustained attack like I have been.

"Right now, all the emphasis is on the victim, often under intense pressure, to report rather than for Twitter to track down the perpetrator and stop them."

-----------------

Two thoughts:

One, the expectations here for the turnaround time for Twitter to add new functionality to its system seem to be somewhat unrealistic.

Two, perhaps Twitter wants users reporting abuse to fill out a form (perhaps they could make it shorter if it's overly lengthy) as a filter to make sure only real abuse cases are filed, as opposed to, say, a system where anyone who doesn't like a Tweet clicks an abuse button, and that Tweet is immediately censored, or one in which Twitter hires a team of 50 outsourcers to manually sort through tens of thousands of daily abuse claims.
Stay away from self hosted blogging platforms. What if your server goes down and you want to update your users with what's happening? There are many other options available : Tumblr ( Many startups use it ), Blogger, and more.
I looked at the video of Finn and I think it should work with
your phone in the pouch. Or did I miss something?