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I wonder what will happen to apps like Firefox when Apple switches Mac OS to App Store only by default and implement some of the restrictions in iOS in the Mac app store. Restrictions like no Javascript allowed. Sure, apps like Chrome can go the same route as they do on iOS and build a custom Chrome skin atop the slower Mobile Safari engine available to 3rd party apps and always be a slower 2nd place browser. But Firefox? If it's just another slower webkit skin, it's not Firefox. Which is why there's no Firefox on iOS.
I notice that you put "eggs" in the category of things that you can prepare without a method of heating, which is an excellent way to get salmonella.
Ben isn't a native English speaker and was following the repo's rules. Joyent publicly shaming him and saying they'd fire him over a gendered pronoun in the documentation is an absurdity. There is prior history between these folks as rivals that explains Joyent's animosity toward Ben.
There's no possible excuse for this, the office should be fired and arrested for man slaughter.
Flat screen TVs are cheap as shit nowadays.
Cool! Will soon see online/offline AI in action!
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why is this news? They are stealth
If the definition uses "complexity" in this way then it's not using it in the "plain English" sense, but in a specialized sense. Quantity isn't complexity.
The notification fatigue is going to set in. Not sure this is a sustainable growth lever.
Apparently the culture there is pretty poor...

http://www.quora.com/Clinkle/What-is-it-like-to-work-at-Clin...
I don't even have words to say to that. Just wow.
An alert is triggered when last contact goes beyond a certain time (e.g. it's been 3 months since you last talked). Then a user can click on it to send a premade email. And I just shot you a note on Linkedin - happy to chat!
If github is reading this, I would love to be able to explore by ``genre''. I'm not really interested in a lot of the popular repos on github that are flashy js libraries or whatever.

It can be harder to find repos that are, for example, Security related (that aren't the big famous ones like metasploit, SET).

edit: To clarify...since typing ``security'' into github obviously yields so many results. It's hard to weed out the junk I guess..but I guess that's the very nature of the Search bar.
Why would regulation freeze technical expectations? IP transit pretty much boils down to cables and switches. A regulatory model that mandates specific speeds could probably even specify allowed tariffs. In theory it should be fine. I'm not sure there's a whole lot of "business models" for such a simple thing as transit. Most of those models are just trying to find breakage so you can market services you hopefully don't have to deliver.

The real problem is, like the telephone network, you end up getting all sorts of little exceptions and silly tariffs and they don't get updated and it turns into an idiotic mess.

But in theory, mandating target coverage and speeds should work just fine. Just like the phone network, if the FCC decides to actually get involved and fine people, companies will take things seriously (for the most part...).
The DNS has been changed to point to another server on the same network. The original is still running at http://97.74.205.113/ but the domain now points to http://97.74.205.82/ Strange https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/reformgovernmentsurveillance.c...
I like my ISP. My internet's expensive and not terribly fast (18/2), but it's reliable. (more so than the power co. the phone co buried their lines, the power people didn't.)

I'm in a rural area, and as far as I know, there are 2 options, Comcast and the local phone co. I'm with the local company. I've had to call customer service a few times, and the phone is answered at an office 5 miles from here. It's one (not difficult to arrange) transfer to someone who knows what I'm talking about when I go on about routers with the default password and a privilege escalation bug. They're the only telecom that has ever impressed me with their customer service.
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Typically, law enforcement officers are not fired until and unless there is a conviction.
Seeing as the cyclist was in his bike lane, it's unclear why he should have had to anticipate the speed of the automobile.
What's the solution to the security problem? Why would you buy a mini fridge or a hotplate if some crackhead (maybe even your mom or her boyfriend) was just going to take it and pawn it. They already have enough issues just showering safely.

No, this isn't a technical problem. It's bigger than that.
- I never knew about this link, thank you sp332.
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Presumably when you say GOOD you mean good for the position. If you take a holistic view, that metric should encompass things like how they will work on the team, whether they will fit in, and even whether they will be good for the company.

If your company gets measured (as it will) by future prospective job candidates beyond just this one hire, one thing they will look at is the health of the company (see the article).

A lack of diversity in a company does not say anything conclusive, but it can be a red flag.

As a very low level hiring manager (which it sounds like you may be, very low level) you don't have to think about this much. As you ascend to higher levels, the environment you are providing for employees, and consideration of how each employee you choose contributes to that environment, becomes more of a consideration as to whether someone is not only GOOD at what they do, but also GOOD for the company.

And if someone with an overwhelming advantage in the job marketplace gets edged out in a tie-breaker amongst equal candidates, cry me a river; they will be just fine.
tl;dr ask the right questions

That being said, this is hardly limited to data scientists.
I wouldn't mind Google storing this info if they could provide me with value in doing so. But I just don't think they can, telling me what trips I've taken is kinda cool, but I'd rather use the photos and their geolocations for that. I just don't see the value in this so I'm opting out.
"Dear Government. You've pissed off $1.4 trillion of the market. You might want to review your recent behavior."
The legality of the currency isn't confirmed either.
I was looking at building one of these a while back for my computer. It seams pretty easy with an Arduino, a $15 roll of RGB LED strip and some computer software. Though going beyond computers, it gets quite complicated.
Simple guess is there's software outside of your google account that tracks the location. Then, once you're google account is assigned to that phone, the google account is mapped to that software and therefore assigned to all of that phone's location history.
As mentioned in the article, there's always potential downside to preferred stock. A more accurate comparison is if you could buy Twitter stock for $100, would only start losing money if it went below $30, and would only start making money if it went above $100. If that is starting to sound like a crummy deal, then clearly the preferred stock price has some loose relation to that of the common stock.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of feudalized devices.

Relevant: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
I love these screencasts!
You realize there is no down-voting right?

And your post isn't being voted for because it is irreverent.

Lets say that the value of a BC goes up to 1 Million USD somehow (which is REALLY unlikely), a Satoshi is still worth a penny. We understand that it can't divide infinity and yes you are right by saying it, but for this discussion, we are able to divide a bit-coin as much as needed, and besides- if it ever gets to the point (somehow) that we need to, a future protocol could fix it.
Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.8.6 released
Regarding criticism that this isn't renewable and delays the move to renewable resources:

At the rate we are damming rivers, we will destroy many river ecosystems. This new potable water source seems less harmful than dams and could be a bridge until the energy costs of desalination are low enough.

If this discovery spurs investment in desalination (since this is simply cheaper desalination due to the lower salinity) that would be an added benefit as it would accelerate the move toward desalination.

Perhaps we could skip the dams entirely (which though seemingly renewable from a water perspective, are highly destructive to river ecosystems).
I visited SA a few months ago, with an eye toward possibly moving there and working remotely (I'm a software developer for a large software engineering corporation that's relatively friendly toward remote workers).

My opinion was that it would be very difficult to be a remote software worker in SA because the network infrastructure was so poor. Everyone I talked to just used USB cellular modems to get online, and the load would actually cause the cell tower near my friend's flat to crash sometimes at peak hours. The Internet was entirely unusable for good portions of the day.

Meanwhile, if you're willing to pay a premium for installation and use of a wired connection, you wind up dealing with the sort of thing you faced or just flat out apathy toward whether or not the service should actually work consistently.

In your own experience, is this an accurate assessment?
You're attempting to say that because a subset of cyclists don't obey traffic rules therefore it's okay to not treat cyclists who are killed in traffic accidents as human beings.

Stunning work.
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>> It showed how strong the GPS signal was at the time, how strong each surrounding Wi-Fi hotspot signal was, what local cell towers were nearby, and so on

That quote struck me as very strange. Why would they collect all that data in the first place, anyway, if not to do exactly this?
I don't see how traffic laws have anything to do with respect for life or equality in the eyes of the law.

You've provided a perfect example of the cognitive dissonance that immediately manifests when cycling, traffic, and law are discussed. These are easy points to grab onto, based on one's own frustrated anecdotes. Unfortunately, its selection bias at its least. Cars are everywhere and almost hit you every 10 minutes you're behind the wheel. You know how to look for them, you're forced to when you are being evaluated for your license. Suddenly a cyclist comes along, the first one you notice that is, and once they act even a little sketchy you get to tick another box in your selection bias.

Were he to be 'hit by a police car' while driving in his motorcycle or compact car, and likely killed, would we be discussing the validity of his death and its relation to the traffic habits of other cars/motorcycles/Ferrari drivers? I dare you to tell us yes.

Meanwhile, this is completely independent of the issue of legal respect for life. The disproportionate number of charges dropped or DA's not charing offenders for incidents that involve cyclist deaths.
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The primary purpose of WiFi to enhance location information is to bootstrap the download of current GPS orbits (the ephemeris) [1].

More advanced techniques relying on radio signal strengths, RTT time, and other observables [2] are being developed but I don't know of any in widespread use. I wouldn't be surprised to see something emerge soon though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

[2] One example: http://ws2.binghamton.edu/fowler/Improving%20WLAN-Based%20In...
Why is it written in Java? Isn't it a default performance hit? I'd expect such frameworks to be written in high performance languages.
What does Jetpac measure?
to raise the money they need they could run ads for like 1 day. or only on a small faction of pages.
Eggs are in the category of things can do not need a fridge for storage, not of things that do not need heat to prepare.

Whether that's true or not depends where you live. The US and Europe have developed different systems for egg production and storage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325540
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> if they're on the road, they're a vehicle

Try this out sometime, and see how far it gets you. Take up a full lane of traffic, as is your right as a vehicle, and see how long it takes before someone tries to run you down, because risking arriving at the office thirty seconds earlier is worth risking bodily harm to another human in a fit of road rage.
Maybe, but that's a rumor of a failed acquisition attempt. They will almost certainly raise money at that valuation or higher though. Just as soon as their current investors can find some dumb investors to pump the valuation sky high.

http://allthingsd.com/20131029/snapchats-giant-funding-from-...
'The Mother of All Demos' Is 45 Years Old, Doesn't Look a Day Over 25
Has anyone heard of: "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age"
When do we drop the word "stealth"? I think raising a noteworthy funding round and having articles on CNN are both good indicators the startup is anything but.
Can you imagine the datasets FB has to work with? Statuses, pictures, locations, social graphs. It's incredible. It's hard to blame LeCun/Hinton/Ng for moving towards industry with data like that. I'd bet that the only place with more data than FB/Google is our good friends at the NSA.
If you think The Guardian is ugly, look at this Norwegian newspaper: http://www.dagbladet.no/ (one of the largest ones)

(The scary thing: It's cleaner than it used to be - they've toned down the most excessive advertising)
Yeah, I goofed by listing them in the heatless category. You can short-term store them without a fridge, though.

Obviously none of the things I listed will form a complete diet, but if you are eating mostly take-out they are probably a superior substitute for some fraction of those take-out meals.
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Our primary ISP is crown-owned (it's basically a public utility, just like our power, water, gas, etc). They also provide phone service and cellular service.

Their prices are not the best in the world, but they're reasonable and the best around here. While every other ISP is trying to find ways to get people to use less data to avoid infrastructure upgrades, they're rolling out FTTH. $160/mo get's you 200/60.

Everywhere I've ever lived and every connection I've ever tested as been the speed sold +/-3%. There are no monthly caps (not even soft caps). When the CRTC allowed charging for bandwidth overages, they came out and simply said "Our mandate is not to make money, it is to provide a service to the public. We will not charge for overages as it does not further our mandate."

We have surprisingly close to full coverage of the province even though there are a lot of rural locations.

On the cellular side of things, it's thanks to them our province gets better deals from all of the carriers (even national ones). Our crown corp had been offering deals that were worlds better than every other carrier, forcing the others to try and compete.

At the end of the year, they still generally drop money back in the province's coffers.

Guess what? I'm pretty much satisfied (a little sad my neighbourhood is so far down the list for the FTTH rollout is all) and not constantly enraged.

We have this strange hybrid between market competition and a public utility. I don't know if going fully to a utility would be a benefit for us - the way it's structured now there are still incentives/requirements for the utility to remain competitive and keep prices low. I hesitate to see how this would be bastardized should those requirements go away.
"nasty element of anti englishnes and sectarianism that was common" - that is complete and utter rubbish and your "knowledgeable" colleague is painting a totally inaccurate negative picture about the attitude of Scottish people towards religious, racial and cultural tolerance. He should be ashamed. I will conceded that there are still some problems (which are being addressed) at old-firm games (Rangers vs Celtic) in relation to sectarian chanting, but that's tiny vocal minority who are given a disproportionate level of press coverage. The vast majority of Scottish football fans have no truck with this outmoded behaviour.

As regards "anti englishnes [sic]" - there's always going to be a small minority of idiots who the press can't seem to ignore, but Scotland isn't a xenophobic country.

Have you ever trawled the BBC News website comments section whenever a Scottish matter is opened up to discussion? It's a bit of an eye-opener. There's a very vocal bunch of folks who view Scotland and Scots as a bunch of soap dodgers and benefit lackies. Your pal's assertion cuts both ways there, but I don't view English people as "anti-Scottish" just because of a few feeble minded idiots (e.g. the English Defence League lot).

"I could see a post Independence Scotland pandering to right wing anti emigration lobby and or religious or anti gay presure" - sigh.

Have you looked at the electoral map of Scotland (for both Westminster and Scottish Parliaments). The only viable right of centre Westminster party in Scotland (The Scottish Conservative and Unionists) got their arses handed to them back in 1997 and lost every seat.

Since the 2001 general election they've only managed to win one seat in Scotland. Nigel Farage (UKIP) was more or less told to fuck off and don't show his face again earlier this year when he appeared in Edinburgh.

Scotland as a nation votes centre-left and has centre-left sensibilities culturally and politically. I could say something flame-worthy about Scottish Labour, but Scottish Labour voter's hearts are in the right place despite their Scottish leadership continuing to have its strings inextricably pulled by Westminster Labour - remember Brown's slap down of Wendy Alexander after her "bring it on" referendum challenge to Alex Salmond [1]?)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Alexander#Scottish_indep...
There are not much political news of this type about USA on Hacker News (if this is not something about Snowden, which has direct influence on IT). Do not overestimate this media event, it's nothing but another Russia Today, which already exists. And this event is definitely has nothing to do with fascism, because this media already was government media in the first place.
Oh wow, another startup has to lay people off. Why should we care every time a volatile organization realizes that they're not making money and can't afford to pay people? Isn't that the nature of working at startups?
If I was her I would want to be called the female name, and you should always be a nice person and treat others like you would want to be treated, I for one would think.
There was a sad time where one (or more) of the gold sellers was suiciding their characters such that the bodies on the ground formed the letters for a URL. It was a very strange thing to see but if you were flying above the dead bodies you could pretty clearly see the URL.
This is so tiresome. The 30% is a service charge. It covers hosting, distribution and credit card processing to name but a few things. Before the AppStore, entities such as handango we're charging more than double as a percentage. It's not an arbitrary figure that you seem to think they plucked from their collective asses when instigating the store. So please. Drop the fucking trite meme. It's vapid.
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What is their net profit?
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
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Didn't dig much, but the "146% open source" line might be a reference to Putin.[0]

[0]http://gawker.com/5864945/putin-clings-to-victory-as-russias...
I agree that it's hard to do. And, Steve may have fostered the school of simple, clean design, but let's not give him credit for everything now. If you ever study Chinese brush paintings, you''ll appreciate how simple and elegant they are...and these have been around for centuries.
That's one of the main reason for using web apps. I can trust them totally, because they're so sandboxed! They can't even read or write to filesystems!
>The standard is slightly higher when you are a police officer.

I never said the standard wasn't higher- Also, I'm glad I don't live where you live, the police tend to drive very conservatively where I live, unless there is due cause.

>Driving your car under control means exactly that. Give bikers a wide berth. Slow down if it is unsafe to pass. Stop tailgating. Slow down in general.

Did the officer have his siren and lights on? Where I live cars (and bicycles) are required to pull over to allow the police car past. I assume you are not suggesting that a police car responding to an incident should should "Give bikers a wide berth. Slow down..." because that is ridiculous.
Huh, how strange...I just cleaned the perl version of this out of a compromised user account on a server I manage.
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He does seem to reinforce the stereotype of the eccentric physicist, e.g. the rumor that Einstein couldn't tie his shoelaces.
This is huge. LeCun is one of the leading AI experts in the world. With resources of Facebook I expect great things. I also see this as a technology bet by Facebook on long term strategy.

I own Facebook stock, so I might be biased.
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Sounds a lot like the observed behaviour of most bicyclist. No surprise to me that the two collided.

I must have struck a nerve.
My friend used to work at NSA research. He said they don't have much ready to use data yet
When you are on a Mac you can use XCode! Hell Yes!!!