skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it's fixed to QUnit for now (configuration allows for a test.html file). No Jasmine then.

There is configuration for scripts, pre/post build and test phases. Unsure how this works together with having a set of browsers in the background.

In theory it makes sense to extend command line testing (maybe against PhantomJS) with integration tests against actual browsers. Let's see how this works out with BrowserSwarm.
Being careful in reforms is good, but I think the heightened pleading concern is not that big an issue here. The plaintiff is looking at their own patent and saying "this thing you did violated this part." If they don't know enough to say that, they shouldn't be in court -- either the patent is so vague they can't figure out which piece of it you violated, or how you did so, or they know, but don't want to say because uncertainty is a much stronger extortion position. Either way, getting rid of this is a good step, and an appropriate one to the subject matter.
OT, but I couldn't help notice how similar name and icon are to LEVEL-5.

http://level5ia.com/
Changelog: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.txt
It's not the SIM, it's the carrier bundle. Each iPhone ships (and updates) some XML files for each operator that contain all specific operator settings. These vary from radio configurations to features lock/unlock; eg: you can tell the iPhone how to remote-check whether tethering is activated on the data plan, and change the UI accordingly; it can also contain a custom action box to show to the user when they try to activate the feature, and/or activate the feature itself directly, communicating to the operator network so that they can bill the user.

Carrier bundles also allow carriers to specify bookmarks to add to Safari, the idea being that users "might find useful" to have direct links to check their invoices or so. Such bookmarks are of course deletable.
Friends Without Benefits
We've been loving screenhero. When pair programming many of us can use vim and tmux but for those developers who use an GUI editor nothing beats sharing the screen this way.

We've even taken to using it when sitting side by side with laptops to reduce craning your neck or backseat coding.
What I know is true: I've reviewed many places, yelp 'filters' my reviews as fake even though they are legitimate. So 20% of the ones they don't filter are fake, but several of the ones they do filter aren't fake? Sounds like the site is just fake.
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They're recruiters, paid by companies to find employees. They get a cut if you sign with a company through them. So they scrape, hard, for leads.

May as well be nice to them, maybe they'll give you an opportunity in the future :)
The real news is that NY state is prosecuting fake paid reviews as fraud, the WSJ is reporting on it, and that HBS released a study with quantification of it. Also, this is another sign that the "Wild West" days of the Internet have ended.
I just installed a Chrome plugin called "first click free" which does this automatically. Been doing this manually for too long, haha!
I'm pretty sympathetic to anesthesiologists after another WSJ article I read a few years back.

According to that article, anesthesiologists used to have some of the highest malpractice premiums. Rather than lobbying for liability caps as some other physicians have been doing, they did a lot of analysis of their own data, and figured out how have a lot fewer patients die on them. Now they have some of the lowest malpractice premiums.
What does Paypal (eBay)'s acquisition of Braintree mean for Stripe?
A proper analogy on the Apple side would be "ShittyHut" where you can buy only magazines from Shitty Magazine Inc and nothing else.

E.g, a "Cosmopolitan App" that you can't delete and can use to only buy Cosmopolitan.

That is the proper analogy here.
I'm not knocking Stripe. I use them and love them for what they provide. They've taken an extremely difficult problem and made it easy and they deserve a lot of kudos for that.

However, there are others doing similar work that deserve similar accolades. Balanced is one example. I think the work that Square and now Shopify are doing in the POS space is laudable.

It's just a matter of seeing the forest through the trees. Stripe is a big tree, obscuring a lot at the moment (with good reason) but it behooves us to continually look around and find new opportunities lest the entrenchment of companies like Paypal take root again.
TEDx - Become Uncomfortable to Become Comfortable [2011]
Curiosity Rover Makes Big Water Discovery in Mars Dirt, a 'Wow Moment
Yeah, people really need to know how to google effectively. You can also add "-" before a word to cut out results with that word. (example: "cats -dogs" will return searches with cats but take out ones that also include dogs.)

Then there's "file:" and a file extension name to find searches of that filetype. (example: "AP biology file:ppt" returns all ap biology related powerpoints.

Next there's "site:" and a website. (Example: "site:reddit.com fedoras" searches for fedoras on reddit, a very common thing. Useful if a site's search engine sucks.)
Ford acquires in-car connectivity startup Livio in sub-$10M deal
When did Slashdot first mention Google? That is when I first heard of it
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It might help to pull a few of the headlines from the tip archive and put them in the Tip Archive section on that main page. The main page is rather content free, so showing some highlights from that content (and/or showing people's opinions of that content) might be a good thing.
Digressing, I wonder if antitrust would say that Google is "tying" their Google+ social network to the lawfully-acquired dominant market position of YouTube.

There is a thin line between trying to integrate and optimize services and applications between them, and forcing unwanted applications down the throat of users.
Basically every multicolored legacy deck runs 5-8 fetchlands, some even more. Almost no one runs that many dual lands though; even the greediest decks rarely have 4 of any single land, but every B/U deck is going to have 4 Polluted Delta to get their basics. Additionally, Delta can be played as a 9th fetch in a B/G or U/W deck too, because it still gets islands and duals, but you wont see an Underground Sea in that list.
In the video they said they were looking at a monthly subscription model which would be a deal killer for me.

This trend of getting users on subscription sucks.
> If the priority for Linux is to capture a bigger share of the dying desktop market at the expense of the server market, sure.

RHEL's next release will come with systemd. The server market is not threatened by systemd, and the growth market in personal devices -- mobile -- will benefit from its power-management features.

> On the server side, the whole "framework for parts assembled ad hoc by a recipe for a task" model is becoming more, not less viable.

systemd units are much easier to write than init scripts.
Keep in mind that (1) the standards for impressive traction were a lot lower back then, and (2) this happened when the first .com bubble was picking up a ton of steam.
We don't have a better source on this? The article contains nothing that this community could actually discuss.
Small Fish. Small Pond.
git init
git add .
git commit ":-)"
git push origin master

6 months later I still look it up... this tutorial is for me!
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I think it's a natural outgrowth of specialization. Right now the largest bottleneck our society has is the fact that knowledge is painfully difficult to transfer. You can send a kid to school for four years and he still more economically useful than a plumber's apprentice. If you take work away from the busy people and give it to the less busy people, the net result is an overall lowering of quality.

This problem does not seem to be surmountable with the level of social infrastructure we have. I doubt even more societies with a greater level of public organization, like Norway, could do this. Knowledge and experience are just best when hoarded.
Exactly. I come from Greece and haven't had any major problems with the Berlin winter so far.

London's cold was much more bitter, for what it counts.
It's funny... that would be awesome for me. But most of my coworkers want to plaster their iMac's with to-do post-its, put up photos, store snacks/Advil/whatever in their drawers, keep knicknacks/doodads/plants on their desks, etc. -- personalize their space.

I'm not sure how they'd feel about enforced mobility. I guess you could reserve a certain % of the office for mobile-people-only spaces?
Hex Invaders
It's good advice:

Build a focused narrative around why you're a great fit for a job you're interested in.

My company is building a product to help you do exactly this: Build a tight, anonymous narrative about why you'd be a great fit for the role you want. Employers browse these profiles and request to interview you if they think you're a fit. The anonymity is important to protect the currently employed.

We're working hard to both automate the creation process for these profiles and remove the burden of answering "What do employers want to see?" for you, the user.

Check us out—https://www.mightyspring.com. We're in private beta, but live track invite requests and will expedite to HN folks.
That link didn't help me. I think they're checking the referrer.
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If it works as well for Big Brother as it does for me, we are safe. (I tried a round of vPro motherboards on my last server buy and got unusable remote screen access functionality with the added treat of an ethernet controller that locks up sporadically under linux.)
"I have no idea why anybody buys a single family house;"

I can give you a few personal reasons which hopefully resonates with a few others. I prefer having a "detached" home. I dont want the hassle of sharing anything with anyone. That does not mean I dont want neighbors. But I am not interested in hearing when my neighbor flushes their toilet. I like having a backyard with some vegetation. I like having a driveway that I don't have the share (lot of new townhomes do that) etc etc.

Biggest reason: Kids. Yes you can live with them in condos/townhomes etc. but the autonomy/freedom of a single family home cannot be undermined.

It is not always about money and ROI. Life is a lot more than that and this coming from someone who values money a lot.
It actually happens all the time. The heightened pleading standard comes from two cases - Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937, 1953 (2009). As the Twombly court described it - The "[f]actual allegations must be enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative level, on the assumption that all the allegations in the complaint are true." What this ends up requiring is that the plaintiff state specific factual allegations as to what the defendant is actually doing wrong. This sounds like a pretty good idea but in many cases is much more difficult than you'd think. Usually the difficultly arises because the information that supports your complaint, i.e. what the defendant is doing wrong, is totally within their control. You, as a plaintiff bringing an action, do not have access to this information until discovery starts, which is only after the complaint and an answer have been filed.

Think of it this way. You have a patent. You're pretty sure, but not positive, someone is infringing on it. Without the ability to inspect the supposed infringer's facilities, how do you plead with particularity factual allegations sufficient to support an infringment claim? If the infringment is blatent, sure this is easy. But in more nuanced cases (I can't think of a technical exmaple) it is possible to end up in a siuation where actual infringment is occuring but because of an inability to access the right information there is not enough available to sufficiently plead a claim.
When they come out with new algorithms for searching, they are completely replacing their old engine, correct? Are they rewriting the core? Or is this more like v1 was PageRank, v2 was Caffeine, and Hummingbird is v3? Is a lot of the code is just being refactored or is everything getting rewritten?
At least in Sweden, no anasthesia is very much the standard option.
site: is one of the more useful search operators I've discovered. It's almost always better than a site search button for me.
I think that somebody is the EFF. HTTPS-Everywhere (look to the bottom of the page to DL the latest .xmi) has a LOT (certainly hundreds) in their list ... with qualifiers noted.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Same here. I was struggling over some results a couple times today where I entered keywords and it seemed more like Google was trying to answer a question. Wish I could turn the new thing off. I don't use Google that way.
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Yup, there have been plenty of times I've put quotes around my search terms and Google decided I didn't really mean to put quotes around them.
And +1 for non-contract-friendly carriers like T-Mobile. Anytime someone bitches about their phone contract (here in US), I ask if they're willing to switch to TMO like I did.

Some have good reasons why (mainly coverage, tho TMO is getting better), others are forced to question their contract policy.

Right now I'm paying monthly at TMO what I paid on Verizon+AT&T for me and my wife - except I now get 3 other smartphones on the plan for the same price, all with their own 500M data pool.

Once the new phones are paid off (i.e. equipment loan), I'll be paying just a bit over what I did for just one of my lines for all five lines I'm paying today. And no other carrier in the US has HD Voice.
Bitcoin and the Three Laws of Robotics
It's quite common here in Germany. I know several doctors who routinely do it without anesthesia, to avoid the dangers of sedation. Having seen a colonoscopy done that way a few times, I'd personally insist on sedation. Most people I've personally observed who were awake for the procedure seemed to find it almost unbearably painful, although there was a minority who didn't mind it much.
Crossing the User Adoption Chasm
Technology reporting, Glenn Beck-style. "I'm not saying your mother's a whore, but..."
It's true that Apple is hostile (= doesn't release spec, but doesn't actively make the protocol hard to reverse-engineer either, eg: the DRM stuff is limited to DRM content and not part of the protocol proper), but the protocol has been reverse engineered and there are many implementations of AirPlay nowadays.

What is the precedence on which you base your belief that, whatever protocol Valve has come up with to replicate the video stream, it will be open? I'm not that much into gaming, but Steam is a closed-source software that includes mandatory DRM for the games, it doesn't really set a precedent of openness and interoperability.
Ever since the Telegarden [0] shut down I've had an idea like this in the back of my mind but not solid enough to give it a name or draw plans. I'm glad someone is making it happen!

[0] http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/
Refuse to see the ugliness? No, I really don't see it. Sure, a few flags could be cleaned up, but the beauty of the rest of git more than offsets a few weirdly named flags.

Meanwhile git through eclipse causes nothing but trouble as far as I have seen. Making it seem like SVN is exactly the problem, git isn't like SVN so if it seems that way, something is going wrong. Pretending git is something that it isn't will bite you in the ass sooner rather than later. The disappointing part is that there isn't any technical reason why git integration in eclipse couldn't be good, it just isn't currently.
Or your cached copy of OpenStreetMap to find your way around.
Well, why don't you pack your stuff up and go home? It's terrible here after all.

It gets old, people coming to the US because they see opportunity, and then being entitled sanctimonious fools. Never lifting a hand to make it better, but quick to pipe up when it's time to critique, making broad statements about how everyone here is so misinformed.

You think the average person in China is any different than the average American? Over 110M+ Chinese people can't even read. I really doubt they are over contemplating all of the human-rights abuses in the world by nation-states, including their own. And I bet they sleep just fine too.
> There is one site where users share opinions with greater
> transparency than Yelp or Google: Facebook. The world’s
> biggest social-networking site prohibits the use of fake
> names.

Facebook isn't that transparent. You can't scrape Facebook.
It seems to work:

Where is disneyland - Shows a map and has "Get Directions"
https://www.google.com/#q=where+is+disneyland

How big is disneyland - 160 acres
https://www.google.com/#q=how+big+is+disneyland
Winning a civil litigation requires proving by a preponderance of the evidence that someone wronged you. The problem arises that in many cases, the defendant holds the cards when it comes to evidence showing wrongdoing.

The examples are replete. Consider the recent financial scandals. You may sincerely believe that you were defrauded by a bank, but to prove fraud you need to show fraudulent intent. I.e. you need e-mails between the banks' employees saying "hey, we're going to screw this guy over." Well you can't get those e-mails until you initiate litigation, and under loser pays you're on the hook if, e.g., the bankers were smart and did their scheming by passing paper notes.

Or say you have a products liability litigation. You think a car company skimped on some part knowing it would compromise safety. Who has the internal testing data that might prove that claim?

Or say you have an environmental litigation. You think someone is dumping pollutants in your river and making people sick. Who has the internal logs that might prove that?

One of the purposes of litigation is investigation--getting evidence that may prove or disprove your claim. In the American framework, if someone has a good faith belief that someone did something wrong, and can allege at least something raising that above bare conjecture, they are entitled to litigate to uncover sufficient facts to make their claim.
Sorry I'm still a bit confused. Do we wait for a personalised response or reply to the update?
Microsoft donates $100,000 to the IPython team
Sure. The Win32 build does the same. I also noticed reliable crashes at startup with some videos. In a blind guess I updated the video driver (from v314.07 to v327.23) with no effect. With disabled hardware-accelerated decoding everything works like a charm.

Give me a note if you would like me to do more testing.

BTW: After the crashes... what kind of information sends the bug report function to you? Anything privacy related (file name, ip address, etc.)?
On a similar note while LEVEL-5 is a prolific company when I first saw their logo my mind would jump to vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/
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AngularJS is amazing, and hard as hell
You're making me miss alta-vista. :(
Same here for some of my positive reviews. My one negative review? Went live and stayed live.
Thingsquare launches kits that let connected devices mainline the internet
I'm speculating that this change is the result of analyzing their users' behavior. Over the past couple of years I made a switch to asking questions, especially when trying to figure out some obscure Excel code I needed or something like that. I almost always found some forum response that would answer my question relatively quickly. I'm curious to see how this change will effect the results compared to my past experience. This might prove to be a boon for sites like Quora, as well.
Hi, I'm one of Balanced's co-founders. You might find this Quora post helpful [1]. Each company you mentioned chimes in about their relative strengths. From the Balanced side, here's why I think we stand out:

Balanced has been doing nothing but marketplace payments since early 2011, and have a history of coming out with the functionality most useful to marketplaces (and crowdfunders) 6-12 months before anyone else:

- Next-day payouts (same-day for WF)

- Stand-alone ACH payouts

- White-label merchant onboarding

- Dynamic soft-descriptor control

We've got a lot more coming out soon, and as an open company, you'll have a voice in exactly what we build.

That said, I'm not sure what your specific needs are, but shoot me an email at jkwade@balancedpayments.com and we can figure it out. Thanks!

[1] http://www.quora.com/With-the-release-of-Braintree-Marketpla...
Nobody said it was simple. The problem is that they shouldn't have tossed out the old code if they weren't going to be able to replace it.
- still works, but they removed + a couple (few?) years ago. Instead, they recommend you put the single term in quotes, so a search for 'linux +powerpc' would now be 'linux "powerpc"'.
a superior technology is known for several years, but still can't make ends meet

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2013/01/31/why-a...
I don't think I misused the word theory. I meant it as "not 100% fact". Even a scientific theory is not a fact.

"If only one fossil was to be found in the strata where it did not belong it would automatically disprove evolution theory--there would be no saving it. If a dog was found in the Cambrian period or a bird anytime before reptiles it would disprove the theory."[1]

Since we do not yet have the technology to map all layers of the earths strata to the point where we could find all existing fossils it still remains in the realm of possibility that a fossil is found in the wrong strata and the whole theory falls down. There are other falsifiable points to the Scientific Theory as well. If there wasn't then it wouldn't be a scientific theory it would just be a belief based theory.
So far it has not been falsified, but it still falsifiable.

Maybe my word use was a little off, but I believe my intent remains intact. Anyone who says evolution is a fact is doing so on faith and doesn't understand or accept that their are still falsifiable points left that could happen. Yes, it's well past theory and into Scientific theory, but it's still a theory.

[1]-http://freethinkerperspective.blogspot.com/2012/07/is-darwin...
I'm really looking forward to Rust, but I'm waiting until 1.0 or real close to then. My question is, when will 1.0 be? Is there a roadmap? A list of items to meet before then? Is it just being worked on until the core team thinks it feels "right"? I guess I'm wondering what the goal is, and how the progress is judged against it.
That argument doesn't really make sense. If x were fundamentally simple, why would I need a simple explanation for it? Clearly git is, or can be, complex, and a simple, simpler or simplified explication would be helpful.

None of that implies that "git is [an] unholy clusterfuck of a product," it means that git is complicated. For 99% of the work you do with git, it isn't even that complicated and you don't need to be aware of the data structure. As for the last 1%, well, that's what separates git from other (D)VCSs. Git gives me the power to do a lot, and incidentally, it gives me the power to shoot my foot off too...I still prefer it over say svn or hg, my personal opinion.