skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm definitely not a big fan of Techcrunch but I kind of agree with them on this issue. They have these documents, there is information in them that would be interesting to the general public, they should publish them. It seems like they are showing some modicum of restraint by not posting the embarrassing personal information. Beyond that what would you really expect?
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Moreover, this only applies to the European SKU's. OEMs can still install IE.
It looks like compiler-rt is a replacement for only a small part of libgcc, It's just the functions you need to _run_ C programs. It doesn't include functions like printf.

And as for why they're doing it, it's to allow llvm work without a dependency on another project.
Happy to see the iPhone app will be out soon too. Now if only I'd actually get my google voice invite I signed up for over a year ago...
Why not just buy the standalone OS? You are not forced to buy the upgrade, and if you are reinstalling that much, it'd probably be worth it.
BlackBerry update bursting with spyware
Huh. I had no idea that this feature was even available. I imagine that keeping an unlimited amount of undo data would take up a heck of a lot of space that wasn't actually needed, so it makes a lot of sense that they're switching it to premium accounts only.

To me, even 30 days seems generous. I suspect they have statistics on how often people undo changes, and from how far back. It'd be interesting to see the data that motivated the "30 day" rule, if it exists.
Likewise. I dualbooted my laptop during the BETA, but as soon as RC came out and I knew it would be a stable and was supported by updates (as opposed to needing to reinstall a new release every few weeks) I moved entirely to 7. Since then I've done the same to other PCs in my house as well as my girlfriends notebook which ran Vista like a sloth but now excels under 7.

Couldn't be happier.
Unless I personally know the guy, most of the time my eyes are on the lady. But no mention of her wearing the logo...
I am in the same boat. It must be a massive undertaking for them to roll this out.
If you know the goods at a certain pawnshop are stolen, but they have the best deals in town, do you buy stuff there?

If you think TechCrunch is wrong in disseminating this information, then you shouldn't click through to their articles. Doing so makes you complicit in their business model.

There is a difference between someone hacking into Twitter, vs. Deep Throat talking to Bob Woodward. I think Deep Throat was doing a public service, and I'm happy to be complicit in his and Bob Woodward's conveyance of "confidential" information to the public.

Was the Twitter hacker doing a public service of any kind? Or was it vendetta, or competition, or just mischief? To the extent that there is no public service, then by reading TechCrunch's posts of that material, you are just buying stolen goods from a pawnshop.
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You could have also used GWT. The few Cappuccino apps I have seen are more attractive, but that might just be because GWT apps tend to be written by Java people and Cappuccino apps by Mac people. Hate to make a gross generalization like that, but Java apps with UIs rarely look good.
If your friend cannot give you a fair equity stake, its not worth your time and effort to make it work. Before signing the NDA (which is perhaps just legal due diligence), you should have been equally formal to make equity a pre-condition of signing, that would have been a good lead into negotiations. Or, maybe walked away. It sounds like you surrendered that opportunity because you're a nice guy and this is your friend, but..

This is business. I think you need to be honest, you feel like a "regular employee". Friends or not, you're going to be a sharecropper on your friend's land, and that's going to ruin your friendship if you keep quiet. What makes it better than any other gig? -- you said it yourself, you might as well freelance on honest terms up front as a contractor or as a regular employee at a regular company with money to pay you. Why should you risk investing your precious free time?
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-Or any factory or public works facility that gives public tours. Fascinating stuff.
I agree that it's very cool to transform your display code using macros, but it's a non-starter on many projects, because you can't farm out the HTML/CSS work to a designer.
user: flooha on google talk.
Koobface worm infects Twitter
I wonder how susceptible the iphone would be to this sort of snooping.
So if i were nuts enough to try this experiment, which language would you recommend? Ok to reply via email off list as well.
The server should have the standard cmdline MYSQL admin installed on it (one imagines).

Try opening a command prompt and running:

mysqladmin

[obviously with username and password]
If it is there us should let you run the SQL commands you want. (ref: http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/mysqladmin/)

If you want an SQL prompt then mysql on the commandline (will 100% be there) will work

mysql -u <user> -p <password>

http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/mysql/
Removing the deadline removes the likelihood of groups applying.
I won't repeat what everyone said: It's great!

One thing: It's not SEO optimized and uses lot of pictures instead of text
libgcc is not glibc
It's a replacement for libgcc not glibc.
I'm still a little baffled by Vista's reputation. I'd rather not run Windows at all (alas, I enjoy PC gaming too much), but even just the addition of Aero makes it a much more enjoyable experience than XP for me. UAC is also clearly the right thing to do, and, begrudgingly accepting Microsoft's need to maintain backwards compatibility, they did a pretty good job of it. I've also had very few problems.
Squeak Smalltalk and Cincom VisualWorks both provide distributed development tools similar to _got_ or mercurial [underlines mine]

What is it linux-mag? spell-checker wont let you say "git"?
Yes, that's expensive. The free version is, but a very simple demo.
I am certainly not in the group of people, who believe revealing the stolen twitter data is good. But articles like this one make it really hard for me, not to argue out of the techcrunch perspective. I've read the comments there, too. And they are saying again and again that no personal data will be shown to public eyes. So I don't know, where's the problem to understand this point and why everybody, every time again, is writing about this point. Maybe there really is nothing morally wrong with everything that techcrunch says, they really want to publish (about strategy and cashflow numbers).
Yes, other news outlets may do this, but you don't get the smarmy "Heehee, look what we got our hands on, heeheehee." smug crap from the New york times. TC is trying to have the best of both worlds here and generate pageviews while still trying to appear like they are on the moral high ground.
My advice - leave the .FRM and .MYD files well alone. If you can remote desktop in (is it running on a windows server?) then bring up a command prompt and edit it using that. Have a look at this - http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20040609/806/

My second piece of advice would be to get a better host and sysadmin...
email@piersonthe.net is the gtalk email address
connect command: mysql -u<username> -p<password> <database_name>

update command: update <table_name> set <column> = '<your_change>' where <some_column> = <some_condition>;
Well, I believe I can do this by splitting what the user wants to do into several vertical services such as movies, hotels, flights etc. The user input will be categorised using bayesian categorisation, after which I believe some simple natural language analysis will do the job.
From the CIA World Factbook, Literacy in the 3 countries:

India 60.1%

China 90.9%

USA 99%

Seems like by that benchmark, India at least, isn't really competition.
Here's the source http://iihs.net/registration.zip (courtesy of http://www.blackberrycool.com/2009/07/uae-spying-on-citizens... )

Not very subtle to call the class "interceptor" !
Probably because of licensing; libgcc is GPLv3, compiler-rt has a BSD-style license
What an unhelpful example of using continuations.

Form verification always happens first on the client (to avoid a server roundtrip), and only if the user doesn't have JS enabled does it hit the server. When presented with that problem, not having continuations on the server isn't nearly as much pain as switching between languages to write the same verification code twice.

This isn't to say that using continuations for such a purpose isn't snazzy, it's just that, among all the crap you have to do to have form validation, that isn't big, in the total scheme of things.

Are there any really major uses of continuations? I remember hearing that Viaweb used a continuation-based thing to do color-picking and take you back to the same page, but nowadays that'd be done with Javascript popping a window up.

(This comment box's continuation expired. That's a pretty unhelpful application of continuations.)
I find this rather upsetting. I picked the unlimited option; but think that this removes the pressure on them to make a nice interface to all the deleted files.
Invited you on google talk, but you're listed as not connected.
"If Objective-C is a gold Canadian dollar, Smalltalk is the Aureus die from which the imperial roman wealth was forged."

Beautiful. Because of that imagery, I'm looking more into Smalltalk now.
We'd be out of business now if we had gotten VC in 2005. From the VC-funded companies I've been in before, getting VC seems like getting shot out of a cannon. There are no course corrections that don't involve big splotches of blood and viscera. You better be aimed correctly.

We didn't know enough in '05. We've watched 5 other companies launch the product we were planning to launch. One of them eventually took in over $80MM (!) in funding. The market hasn't panned out. We got to watch that all play out, see what worked and didn't work, and retool, all while building up a profitable line of business.

Just another reason, besides "it makes you work really hard", why not getting VC can be a win.
Have you tried filling in a carbon paper form with a laser printer?

Of course you could put all the arrest reports etc in an online system, that would save nearly a million $ and probably only cost $500-600M to implement.
And once online they could never be altered, lost, leaked etc.
Can someone explain to me how the whole half-price sale made sense?

The general tone of Windows 7 seems to be "Vista done right." As a similar example, Apple's tact with 10.6 is "Leopard, but better," and has decided to price Snow Leopard at $29 as an incentive to upgrade.

Microsoft seems to have far more at stake in Windows 7, and most average users who might be interested in upgrading have likely missed out on the half-price sale. (Hell, I'm about as tech-savvy as they come, and I completely forgot to order my copy.) Doesn't it make sense to leave it at $50 for quite a while longer to get people to upgrade?
It really seems as if PP has taken a turn for the worse lately. My only experience with them was a few years ago when I had a problem with someone accessing my account fraudulently. They where easy to get ahold of and proactive. A shame that doesn't seem to be the case any longer.
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I've discussed this with some friends in the past.

I think the tragedy that befell Software Engineering was that most companies had no Engineering track for a career. To advance your career you generally had to get yourself promoted into a team leader style position where you code a little less, then into a project management position where you code only a little and then into an executive position where you don't code at all anymore. I'm convinced that that has led to the majority of the amnesia in our field.

We lost a generation of experience.
I have only been working with web technology for about half a year now, but I have worked with JSP/Servlets and Tomcat, RoR, JQuery, Prototype, JSON, XHTML, CSS, PHP to name a few and read countless articles on many more. While I was reading this article I thought Seaside looked worth investigating, but the main thing that stuck in my head was "Hmm. ANOTHER framework that I should look into that uses ANOTHER programming language and has different quirks and different advantages and different requirements than the others that have learned. I wonder if I will ever have the time to play with it...."

does anyone else ever feel overwhelmed and have trouble deciding which tech is the best and which to devote time to mastering? I know it depends on the developer and the specific project, but for someone relatively new to web tech in general how should I determine which to pursue?
What do you mean by java-only? This toolkit is, at its most fundamental level, a Java-to-Javascript compiler. Are you hoping that they write a Python-to-Javascript compiler and still call it GWT?
You shouldn't farm out markup! HTML generation has nothing to do with layout design or anything visual. You generate/write clean and semantically correct markup and you leave out sufficient hooks in there for any designer to plug-in the desired CSS and graphics.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700147
There's no difference between "leaked" and "stolen". Leaked documents are just those stolen by an employee.
I think its time for a good alternative. I mean I know there are some out there but what else has market?
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I've been playing with Win7 64bit on a quad core/4GB ram setup with NVidia graphics since the RC came out. I've ran a few steam games, DoW2, warhammer online and not had any problems with them.

The graphics card manufacturers seem to have Win7 drivers out already. I've also found that running vista drivers seem to work fine too.
I concur with you. Pirate is definitely a more pertinent term. Patent trolls recklessly attack companies in hopes of finding some good loot. What they're doing may not be illegal, but it's ethically murky at best.
Is anything about this headline correct?
halelujah ;-)

Its like:

html {
h3 { 'hello' }
}

... in Markapl (Perl) or Markaby (Ruby).

Much nicer to build (display|markup) logic here than with HTML template methinks.
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There's been a third-party GrandCentral/Google Voice app I've been really happy with on the iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

I'm interested to see Google's app and will likely wind up using it, but I doubt it'll integrate as cleanly as the Android version does.
...and when you click the "Upgrade my account to have unlimited undo history" you have to pay.

> If you'd like to have unlimited undo history, then you need to upgrade to one of our paid accounts.
I think defining the educational goal in those terms is rhetorical shorthand for 'employing the most teachers/instructors/professors,' not for 'having the most educated workforce.'
just invited you
Only farm out CSS. Markup is probably better (in most cases) with the developer IMHO.
doesn't appear to have mysqladmin on it.

i've downloaded some mysql guis and am e-mailing them to myself so I can get them onto the server. I found a few portable ones so I don't have to install anything and tick them off.
He did offer to pay for a lawyer for a "whistle blower" source, not so long ago.
The problem is that money transfer and storage tend to be rather heavy and complex things. And countries like to regulate banking.

But nevertheless, a online payment thingie that doesn't suck? Sign me up!
What does the Turing test really mean?
For those who are unfamiliar with Johnny, check out recordings of his talks. "Low-tech hacking" (or similar title) was a beautiful talk, entertainingly delivered. He's working on different purposes now, but he contributed a lot to the security industry and an all-around great guy.
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Yes and yes, it doesn't differ much from Vista and the launch issues from Vista such as poor driver support have largely been ironed out.

Get Home Premium unless you need to connect to a network domain, hard disk encryption, Location Aware Printing, Remote Desktop hosting, networked backups, or XP mode.
Probably not as well as notaddicted's suggestion below/above. People don't like being told they "should" do something, and it also presents a statement they can answer "No, I shouldn't" too. Ideally you'd need to ask an obvious "yes" question or just direct them to do something without allow them to think about it.
Don't trust anybody with your money that you can't physically shake your fist at. It keeps them honest.
Sorry, forgot I wasn't connected...
Riiight... except this really doesn't have anything to do with cloud computing. This has to do with hackers breaking into systems which was very common prior to cloud computing and it has to do with corporate espionage prior to that before computers even existed.

Cloud computing isn't really the issue, the issue is security in general.
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The issue of identity theft is not limited to one country or region it is a global issue and collective efforts should be made to resolve this particular issue.
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Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I wonder what your competitor did with that $80MM!
Yeah, that's not the same message they sent to all people. Mine gave me a choice but if I chose the Unlimited, the message clearly stated I would need to upgrade.

Oh well, either way, I don't mind. I don't require the unlimited history at this point right now, anyways.
Simulate Windows Application in Web
Well, I'm not realistically hoping for anything wrt GWT.

I was just trying to say: I like the concept, but not enough to walk through java-hell for it.

So, talking about hopes, I hope pyjamas will mature to a point where it becomes a serious option.
Congrats to the guys at Microsoft.
Call me selfish, but I treasure programming languages, specially the weird and unconventional ones, and specially if they have some sort of academic/theoretical brownie points.

You have already done BLISS, I have been meaning to clone it ever since I read an old rant by Dennis Ritchie on usenet. I am weirdly attracted to CMU languages, so I am gonna say Dylan :-) Marlais is open source and you can use it as a starting point. I am half way through cloning DUIM for Common Lisp and, frankly, all their "syntax" innovation would be lost to me. I am forever ruined for non-Lisp syntaxes, I think. ISO Lisp would be cool too.

If you weren't a compiler hacker I would have recommended Oberon.

For some reason, I could never see compiler hacking outside the traditional code generation for a real machine. If I wanna do source translation I would probably stick to macrology.

Miranda would be cool too, specially since there are no FLOSS compilers for it.

Mozart/Oz has a tiny kernel which you can clone, but I don't want you to learn this in that matter. Instead, get the book by van Roy and Haridi and enjoy at a leisurely pace.

Someday I would love to implement an APL and a Prolog dialect. Someday.
it should have mysql - that is part of the standard install package (I think it's auto installed too).

but eyh - your way sounds like a good methid, esp if your happier with a GUI
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The name is awful. Mashing up social media and a Tv show is a decent idea, but this formulation is a bit off.
Well, I can definitely agree with you on that, the initial load was really uncomfortable. I was talking about total overhead input/output though, would likely be less if it caches, instead of having a slew of flash/images to handle it...though you could argue the flash/images would be in a lot less "burst" and you'd have to hit x number of pages to exceed the threshold.

In any case, to me it's just really more fluff, and not likely to be really usable for a long time to come...just like things like rounded corners in CSS are fun, but a narrow solution when you have to support IE6...and yes, a lot of us still HAVE to support it. I won't turn down a job just because they have that requirement, just have to adjust my expectations.
You sir are right. I should of course trust the officials and you as to wether or not I should know something. Those people didn't get to be official without obviously having the utmost concern for my well-being, and without wanting me to be fully informed of the important stuff. Who do I think I am, wanting to know something that someone else deems improper for me to know?
How much does such a boy (or girl?) typically get paid? Do the workers tip him/her or is it fixed wages?
Other than the lambda in lambda calculus, what would make me think I'm studying Ancient Greek?

Steve Yegge had a vastly better blog about practice somewhere, making also the point that directed practice is better.
Well, when someone rapes you they penetrate your most intimate parts without your consent. I do not think there is anything more intimate for a company than their revenue data, plans and projections. So down vote all you like, however technically my analogy is correct.
we just need stem cell tech to generate sperms and ova from males or females.

But if you consider and want an system has stability population, maybe what you said is right.
Read this. It is a very fascinating thought experimental.
Wow. This debate is incredible.

First, I love using twitter and I think the guys that built it are great. They've created a product that means so much to people that many members on this site are willing to stand on shaky ground saying these documents shouldn't be published simply because they belong to a company they like. Internal documents are leaked all the time. For instance, Arrington reported that Microsoft's new search engine would be called Bing long before Microsoft announced this fact. How many of you chase Apple rumors before a keynote? This is all leaked information. Where's the outrage?

The standard for the press publishing information isn't malfeasance. Twitter need not have done anything wrong for the press to publish information that is of interest to its readers.

Arrington has drawn a line that companies are different than private citizens (who he feels should have some expectation of privacy). He is not releasing personal information that may hurt someone's career, merely information about twitter's potential future tv projects, business models, and projections.

The fact is he has gone about this in an extremely ethical way, acting as both reporter and ombudsman. He has censored portions which might do someone harm and has no doubt agreed to censor certain bits of information on behalf of twitter. However, he will publish as much of the information that is relevant and interesting as he can. In my opinion, this strikes a good balance.
It's "No-Tech Hacking" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2160824376898701015

He has a book out by the same title, all proceeds from the book go to the charity.
I think defining the educational goal in those terms is rhetorical shorthand for 'employing the most teachers/instructors/professors,'

I'm afraid that may be what is really going on.
Perhaps that how they're going to reduce the number of applications to read.
In my area there are several highly-local blogs (e.g. West Seattle Blog, White Center Now) that cover the city council and other local events/news/politics. I mean, they actually send people to council meetings to report on them.
How quick this was answered/people helped is remarkable. Kudos to the HN community! Maybe there's a startup idea here - or maybe it already exists. Typically I spend hours searching for answers online to programming/tech questions or I end up chatting to a guru friend of mine - for the answers.