skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the locations are franchises. It is pretty common for a franchisee to earn enough money to open another McDonald's. The corporate profits probably don't tell the whole story.
NASA Partner SpaceX Completes Review of 2014 Commercial Crew Abort Test
It sounds like they're avoiding the issue for now by only allowing non-locked users:

> When you send them your email address they ask if you use a lock screen. (re: @ev9)
For other readers: The consensus on the reddit thread was that 2.2.1 was the last good version.
I love the idea of device docks and I would very much like to see things go that way.

I think docks have some hurdles to jump in the consumer market, though. They're unsexy - I think most people associate them with boring enterprise computers and boring enterprise work, and they tend to be big and ugly. They're expensive too, considering that most people view them as nothing but plastic with a few connectors and wires inside.

If someone can figure out how to jump those hurdles, though, and make docks sexy to the consumer market, beige-box sales will plummet. Make them smaller, easier, cheaper. Make them less proprietary - at the very least, a Company XYZ consumer dock should be compatible with all/most of of Company XYZ's portable offerings. Make them wireless and automatic (OK, I realize this conflicts with "cheaper")! Let me drop my Win8 tablet on my desk and immediately have it display to my dual monitors and let me use it with my mouse, keyboard, printer, big external drive and wired network connection. Let me press a button and have it display to my TV or play to my big speakers. Have your cake and eat it too.

I mention Win8 specifically because the whole idea of it is that it's a tablet and a desktop OS in one. Why on earth is there no Microsoft-produced drop-in docking solution for the Surface so it can actually be both?! The consumer potential is crazy - got a crusty old desktop PC laying around? Toss it, keep the peripherals, buy a Surface+dock and you've got a new tablet/laptop and desktop. You can "dock" a Surface as-is with two cables (a micro HDMI and a USB hub with all your desktop peripherals wired in), but that leaves out wired network (maybe important), certain peripherals like speakers (maybe important), and power (critical), and even two cables is two too many.

Most people who say they need a PC don't need a beige box, they need a keyboard, mouse and monitors on a desk where they can work. The form factor of the box that the CPU, disk and memory come in doesn't matter when you're at the desk, so it might as well take the form of something you can take with you and use when you're not at the desk: a laptop, tablet or phone.
I've heard this rebuttal before, but I really think with some clever engineering (which Apple has no shortage of) it could be done in way that would preclude a dedicated device, and wouldn't be intrusive to people who have no need for it.
Preferably the latter.
I'm fine with it, but i understand the concern. It sounds pretty easy to disable the feature...

> The simplest way to disable it is to add define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true ); to your wp-config.php file
uTorrent is a horrendous bloat, anyway. Personally I used rTorrent for a while (minimal ncurses interface, very appealing to me) but later switched to Transmission.

I've also used Deluge, but there's nothing too special about it in my eyes.
Currently, Android has 80% smartphone market share. Android smartphone market share growth is over. And yet, iPhone web usage share remains much higher than Android’s.
Since i stopped using windowz in mac i use the official bittorrent app
I think you misread "meritocracy" as a good thing. Meritocracy is pretty much Ayn Rand's ideal society: the truly talented, superior people rise to the top and dominate the lesser. This is an uber-capitalist notion: the ubermensch pretty much can't be nice to inferiors, because that opens the door for cronyism, nepotism, etc.

By contrast, communism would be the ultimate expression of sharing, cooperation, etc. but it ignores people's skill in the distribution of value. The old maxim, "from each according to ability, to each according to need" means that someone who is paralyzed and (would have) massive medical bills receives free treatment, food, etc. to stay alive. Obviously this comes from more "skilled" people - doctors - who in a meritocracy would instead extract the maximum value from their skills.
To me Wordpress is one of the most important things to happen to the internet, Not Facebook, not Twitter. Wordpress has democratized creating a site and helped millions of people create an online business, community, blog, helping bring in massive amounts of revenue for small business owners.

I've got 4 sites running wordpress: my portfolio, my online store, a design database for items under $50, and a magazine cutout marketplace. (See my profile for links) Those last two I mentioned took less than a week to tweak and hack together thanks to the speed and ease of setting up wordpress sites.

It's sad that Matt Mullenweg never got the same recognition that Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg got. He definitely deserves it. We've got to stop only celebrating and worshiping people who make money. I think Matt empowered people just as much if not more.
Yeah, but then you get opinionated curves. :)
Didn't know it was consensus but 2.2.1 will max out your DL and UL without the BS malware. I have been using bittorrent since before uTorrent so there's a reason I stuck with 2.2.1.
Second for Deluge.
24-hour car race helps automakers design your next hybrid vehicle
That's interesting and all, but why do we get a mildly-interesting wikipedia article every couple of days without any context or commentary?

I've half a mind to write a bot that submits a random article every 48 hours.
I have a feeling they will sneak the malware in the official bittorrent app too
It's tricky getting a passive GPU to actually work, mine has a tendency to overheat and halt the system rather than throttle down under load. It required a fair bit of tweaking to case fans and driver underclock settings to get it stable.
That's what I use, but keep in mind it's closed source (not sure what their business model is)
No non-US government official can feel secure in giving just a business card to his US counterpart, because he has to assume his contact info will be given to the NSA.

Hell, no one, regardless of nationality, in or out of government, can fell secure in any communication of any kind with a US government person.
Surprising that no-one is talking about Yahoo and their tactics to get more users. I am sure SearchProtect and Yahoo! here have a deal to push as many default searches as possible to drive revenue.
Yep, and now that it's happening, it's a cloudy number because MS cut the price when changing from 7 to 8.

Well, the price cut is another symptom of decreasing market appeal. But it does make the number less useful.
OSX Safari 7 further blocks tracking by online advertisers
As today with the release of Safari 7, not only 3rd Party cookie is being blocked. Local Storage as well as WebDB, any kind of website data are being blocked. When you go to Safari Preferences (CMD+comma), Under privacy tab, on Safari 7, it now says : "Block cookies and other website", originally was "Block cookies". That confirms the changes.
Microsoft sell direct to consumer[1]. Every consumer electronics store I walk into has a bunch of Apple gear sitting on store shelves also.

[1] http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/html/pbPage....
Even Sun installs some kind of ad toolbar in Java!
Radiation units are a bit weird. Sieverts are normalized to biological damage, because units of energy are insufficient to differentiate between 1 J of sunlight and 1 J of x-rays.

I think the 0.15 mSv the article mentions is per year. The next sentence says per year explicitly.
It's night and day. At Microsoft you have legions of professionals getting paid every day to solve your problems. The open source product builders are fewer in number, less well paid, and less disciplined. Going open source is like buying a kit car instead of a Honda Accord, on the off chance you will want to customize the engine. Most people don't run custom cars and they don't want to run custom software, either. The desire to tweak your software is a bit of a masturbatory instinct. Gratifying, but you should probably be doing something better with your time--like your core competency.
Let's just blame it on reddit
The transmission guys are against rss for some reason. Tixati and qBittorent have it.
Absolutely agree; the business logic is the tough part. That's why it should be easy it iterate and verify it, which is the goal of what we're doing here. The sooner you can get a product out, the sooner you can spot your edge cases and things you didn't think through, and fix them (very quickly).
Not an Oracle user, but aren't they primarily pushing their DBMS and related products, with their RH clone merely a certified platform for the their core products?

Same kinda true of IBM too, no? Except AFAIK, they don't even have a Linux flavor the claim as their own. I think they're clearly a supporter of Linux, but any marketing I've ever heard from them (admittedly not much), was for their own core products.

Red Hat is indeed a commercial company with a Linux distro as its core product, but, while it may be the most successful "Linux" company, isn't it small potatoes compared to AAPL and MSFT? Most non techie people I know probably wouldn't know what Red Hat is, but I suspect all would know Apple and Microsoft.
Awesome! A solid templating engine with that syntax makes it a lot easier to move languages and ecosystems. I've been meaning to write more Clojure so it's good to know this exists.
My Linux history:

1992 or 1993 time frame with SLS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System) using floppies written to by a Sun SparcStation 20 because downloading 10+ 1.44M floppy images over a 2400bps modem connection from the same SS20 was just way too slow. Switched to Slackware sometime after it was released, still a Slackware user.

Which means I've been using Linux for 20 years and Slackware for almost as long....
Any bets this is Google's second step towards a kind of Facebook page? (First step was the right-side card)
First Vuze, then uTorrent. It looks like the life cycle of any popular torrent application is:

- Starts very light, bare bones, downloads torrents and that's all

- Gets bloated with more and more features that nobody wants

- Partners with a shady company

- Dies

Off to alternatives I go.
Damn; and I blamed Firefox for this.
My bad then. Where I live it's not uncommon to use "robust" as an euphemism for fay. Sorry for misunderstanding.
I don't think they're doing banner ads. I bet this is the beginning of Google "pages".
Wasn't uTorrent The Best Thing Ever when it first hit the scene? I seem to recall it was this application. It was about a 93k executable that didn't need to be installed. Just download and run. It was my go to torrent client of choice during my Windows days. Sad to see it become this.
I'm a big fan of rtorrent, I just wish that it was a proper server/client. Not a fan of daemonizing things by running them in screen.
Awesome how much creativity these hackers had. The graphics are surprisingly pretty amazing for some of this stuff.
Or computers. The military threw a lot of money in to early computer research in order to make nuclear weapons work (better), cryptography, ballistics tables, and other military purposes.
Why isn't there:

- a very strict requirements collection phase: You're only green-lighting one app a month, surely you could spend some time frontloading the decision making so the people proposing the idea can be very specific.

- an MVP phase: build as little as possible to have a functioning product. Everyone needs to agree what the MVP is before starting, which is the purpose of the requirements gathering.

- bounties: get the people who set out the requirements to "kickstart" the project by kicking in cash. When the project is green-lit, the cash is apportioned to the tasks within the MVP and stretch goals - additional features to supplement the MVP.

It seems like there's too much of "we'll let everyone do everything!". The developers don't need to be making decisions about what features are worthwhile, the people who pay money should have some skin in the game. If people stand to gain real money, there's got to be a gatekeeper who decides whether a merge is worth paying for.
Before my current MBP(2012 model), I had a Lenovo R61e for about 5 years. It ran Ubuntu, and still works very well (except the battery, which is toast). It cost $400.
So glad someone posted on this bullshit. Not only has uTorrent started doing this, but BBEdit 10 and some other previously not super shady software has too.
What's remarkable to me is the arrogance of Kamen, when to almost everyone it was clear that the Segway was a solution in search of a problem, and would ultimately fail.
relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
To put this in perspective, DARPA's annual budget is a little more than 2.8 bn.

70 mn. over five years is (naively) 14 mn. per year -- which is 0.05% of DARPA's budget.
When in doubt, assume the worse so that you might only be pleasantly surprised. Assume there is a J. Edgar Hoover 2.0.
Nice group but they are definitely swimming against the currently standard approach.

That said, I think one really interest article here is: "Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Must Be an Extraordinary Science" by Nicholas L. Cassimatis

Brings a lot of challenges into focus.

http://www.cogsys.org/pdf/paper-1-5.pdf

www.cogsys.org
RSDS is part of the debug information section. The structure looks like (using the construct library's syntax):

CV_RSDS_HEADER = Struct("CV_RSDS",
Const(Bytes("Signature", 4), "RSDS"),
GUID("GUID"),
ULInt32("Age"),
CString("Filename"),
)

So it's a GUID, and one property of GUIDs is that they're "Globally unique", hence regenerated each time. Mystery solved.

Edit: Here's a source [1] so you don't have to take my word for it.

[1] http://www.godevtool.com/Other/pdb.htm
I was fortunate enough to attend a talk given by the person primarily responsible for writing it and he (as well as some people already using it) said they see no discernable performance difference.
yeah the Ask Toolbar is crap but at least that's opt-in... this is search hijacking.
All we know at this point is that the U.S. isn't doing it now...

Actually, we don't know that - we only know they said they're not. Given that Clapper flat out lied about surveillance at the start of all this that isn't worth much.
I just tried installing and after declining the offer the installer hung. Buh bye.
If an i3 is fast enough for you, and you don't need high end graphics, you might want to consider an Intel "Next unit of computing" system... You'll need to get laptop components for it though. I've considered it, but not that into quiet, and want a bit more power.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102...
Azureus/Vuze was never lightweight, and does not appear to have died. And uTorrent didn't begin to bloat out until after it was acquired by BitTorrent, Inc..

Edit: I think by partners with shady company you mean the malware company, not BitTorrent, Inc.. Just like Vuze has 3rd-party malware. Coincidentally (?), some Vuze malware reports mention Yahoo! being surreptitiously enabled just like the article.
There are four "[citation needed]"s in the first paragraph. Surely there must be some substance out there? I did some quick Googling and couldn't find much beyond what the article already has.
It's pretty terrifying what the implications of this could be. Want super soldiers who will obey any order given? I imagine they'll try to experiment with this kind of control mechanism.
I'm surprised someone is trying to distribute a "uTorrent Light" with all the adware and bloat stripped out.
I assume that pattern is due to businesses not starting new purchasing orders until the start of the next financial year?
Lots of people who like uTorrent simply use older versions, like the last version right before all the contested changes of v3 (v2.2.1 Build 25302 which you can get here[1]), or even some of the older 1.8x versions.

[1]: http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/9859/
Simple solution: go back to using the old, barebones, simple, fast utorrent v 2.2.1

http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/9859/

runs fast, no ads, no issues, just works!
The risk of outsourcing to an SaaS is that the vendor can disappear - it may be a small startup that goes bankrupt, gets acqui-hired, pivots to a different product, etc. Or maybe they can't provide the bandwidth you need to grow or the 99.9% uptime your customers are demanding. At that point you have to scramble to find a replacement SaaS or implement the service in-house.

I have nothing against paying for software that someone else wrote, but I'd feel much more comfortable buying the software and running it on my own servers (with a contract that says that if the vendor goes out of business, I retain the right to use the software).
Mobile users don't expect to pay for apps, ever. Even if people are willing to pay, there isn't any recurring revenue unless you charge for upgrades and the upgrade would have to be to be significantly better than the version they already own. So the question is, how much could you improve a product like this, over the course of life time of the business?

Not to mention that mobile users generally feel entitled to free upgrades - TapBots are having this problem right now with TweetBot.
One Site to Rule All Servers
same here, the trick is to not upgrade and turn auto-update check off

Here is version 2.2.1
http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/9859/
I think a useful question to ask is whether or not being "partners" means each country is universally willing to put the best interests of the other country first, even when that conflicts with their own best interests. If the answer is no, then intelligence gathering would seem to have at least some role even among allies.
Really? http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/21/microsoft-surface-2-revie...
Numerous models may not be needed. Quality affordable cars will sell themselves.

Apple didn't need a range of iPhones. They needed one excellent one, produced at scale.
Wow. People are actually angry in that thread because they didn't look closely at the setup steps.

Let's be clear here: the user was still given a choice, but the user "trusted" uTorrent to not force them to make one. Give me a break.
Yup, this is where I got it -- it's the last build before v3, which had a bunch of really questionable changes.
IIRC some people even run the older 1.8.x versions, for reasons which escape me at the moment.
Any torrent veteran knows it's [uTorrent 2.2.1] better than whatever most of the top commenters propose. Folks, you don't always have to upgrade, especially when the upgrade is simply a revenue stream for THEM.
It's closed source -- how would you do that? Most people settle for using one of the older versions.
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To be fair, utorrent used to be trustworthy before being b ought by the despicable Bittorrent Inc.
My visit with the Lord of the Startups, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham
As annoyed as I am by the reactions here (uTorrent didn't maliciously install adware behind anyone's back), I moved to Mac in 2009 and stayed there until I decided to build an HTPC for my living room. First thing I did was install uTorrent, and I was confronted with so much bloat. There are ads INSIDE the torrent list, and there are options to stream video/music. Completely unexpected.

From what I understand, there hasn't been a client that's truly taken its place.
Considering that in America you can walk into Wal-Mart, most hardware stores and some gas stations and walk out with a gun 10 minutes later, I'm not sure why people selling guns on social media is supposed to be news to anyone.
Hey thanks for piggybacking onto my response, classy.
Switch to Deluge[1]! It's Free Software, and is so similar to uTorrent you won't notice the difference.

The day uTorrent pushed the update that tried to install a browser extension I was absolutely done with them. I do not support malware in any shape or form.

[1] http://deluge-torrent.org/
Remember to keep watching during install though, this will still try and install browser add-ins and get you to download a movie.
Third for Deluge. uTorrent users will find it's interface very familiar.
These kind of shady deals can't be good in the long run. If you work at a company that suggests this, make sure to voice your opinion.

Someone should start a site that allows users to vote on a software company's trust factor. :)
I think the OP means that $400 is the retail price of a Surface, but the revenue listed in the report will be based on its wholesale price.
I don't care about Merkel's privacy. But I do care about the fact that she cares about her privacy, and that Germans care about the privacy of their elected Chancellor. Both of those feed into the relationship between Germany and the USA, and that relationship is important enough that the NSA should not put it at risk (or be allowed to be able to put it at risk).
It may also be the case that Twitter doesn't need to raise more money.
If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result.

If the issue about following content being above or below "the fold" were the only issue at stake, I'd agree. But from the pics in the article, I feel like people are going to see this and have an immediate, visceral, negative reaction, because it looks and feels like a huge banner ad.

But, if, as some people are saying, this is ONLY going to be for very specific brands and situations where the linked "ad" really would have been the top organic anyway, then maybe it won't be so bad. I had originally thought that this kind of ad was going to be allowed broadly and that they would be popping up all over.
Not new, though. uTorrent install has been shipping with crap for a while now.
Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser on the stresses of running a software company
LinkedIn Intro - an update on company's blog
Updates (as on the company's engineering blog):

1) You have to opt-in and install Intro before you see LinkedIn profiles in any email.

2) Usernames, passwords, OAuth tokens, and email contents are not permanently stored anywhere inside LinkedIn data centers. Instead, these are stored on your iPhone.

3) Once you install Intro, a new Mail account is created on your iPhone. Only the email in this new Intro Mail account goes via LinkedIn; other Mail accounts are not affected in any way.

4) All communication from the Mail app to the LinkedIn Intro servers is fully encrypted. Likewise, all communication from the LinkedIn Intro servers to your email provider (e.g. Gmail or Yahoo! Mail) is fully encrypted.

5) Your emails are only accessed when the Mail app is retrieving emails from your email provider. LinkedIn servers automatically look up the "From" email address, so that Intro can then be inserted into the email.

For the entire post:
http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios#!
The year of the Linux gaming console does not automatically lead to the year of the Linux desktop (though of course it helps).