skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed... it's almost like an fMRI of the national "mind", measuring activation in both spatial and topical dimensions.

Might be interesting to see retweet patterns, to illuminate how sentiment is forwarded through the network.
Yet another example of a compromised GoDaddy account and someone potentially losing their domain. Yet people continue to use GoDaddy time and time again.
May you work in interesting times /s
Linode had SSD hybrid in beta. Unknown release date at this point. https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=10406
Thanks Daniel.
Agreed. Before we go there we wanted to do two things... 1. validate the concept and 2. improve our results.. then we want to build out an end to end product.
To be picky, if you're treating it mathematically the phrase "sense of security" has no meaning.
We have cafes and other neighborhood establishments here as well. But I appreciate that fact doesn't serve your sense of self-superiority.
Wait, did you know you were going to be laid off too?
In the URL: words?utf8=✓

Nicely done.
A new hydrogel uses holograms to warn you about your health
> Question about the underlying SaaS product. I'm not understanding how a database client on the cloud can connect to a database server on my own machine?

OP and founder of JackDB[1] (the SaaS product referred to) here.

The majority of people using JackDB connect to cloud hosted databases such as Heroku Postgres or Amazon RDS. As they're designed for access across the internet, no special configuration is necessary for them.

To connect to a database on your local machine or local network you would need to set up your firewall to allow inbound connections from our NATed IP. More network details available at [2].

[1]: http://www.jackdb.com/

[2]: http://www.jackdb.com/docs/security/networking.html
.. or in a less cynical view, it makes it easier for a little guy to sue a big guy without getting into a huge "who did what first" court battle.
Let's grant that while technology today has a long ways to go, we will eventually be able to record enough memories and provide enough computational power to simulate human behavior.

When we reach that phase, would a simulation of your deceased loved one be a comfort?

I think we're getting into philosophy of mind, here.
This one will be hard to beat!
Wow. That was incredible. The monotonous way in which the message was delivered, the complete lack of emotion and empathy, is appalling. Notice she did not apologize nor express any condolences beyond declaring the new unemployed state of those people to be "unfortunate." Without knowing much about the situation (I only listened to the recording), and leaving myself wide open to be corrected by someone with more insight into the background, I believe the word cowardice would be a pretty good description of what's going on here.
Your argument applies to anything that has been obsoleted. What about the poor bastards who can't afford a car and depend on a horse and buggy? The highways are too dangerous for them. What about those "long-term" planners who standardizes their IT infrastructure on Jazz drives? And the poor sods who think all new laptops are awful because of that one printer they bought in 1987 that needs a serial port?

IE7 and COM are fucking ancient. And they're both shitty technologies. COM, especially, is a sad, disgusting 1990's remnant of "guru"-level C++ shit-baggery that is the only technology I'm aware of where the boiler-plate code is 2x to 3x more than the actual code. I'm glad those are put on the back-burner by MS.

Unix is from 70's and it's fucking solid. You wrote C code in 1975, you could probably port it to Ubuntu Linux without too much effort. You "standardized" on "enterprise" (a hilarious word, btw) technologies like IE7 + ActiveX? You deserve all the pain that is being dished out to you.

The crying and stomping of feet that happened at my company after IT deprecated WinXP + IE6 was music to my ears.

The world doesn't need IE6. It doesn't need IE7. It doesn't need COM. What it needs is fewer "enterprise architect" types who read too much MSDN Magazine and develop brittle "solutions" based on ActiveX and sell them to unsuspecting victims.
I just wish utilities worked like this. The constant rise and increase in actual service costs for gas/electric/water is down right criminal. Even with residential / corporate programs for curtailment and decentralized energy reduction during high yield periods is nuts - http://www.ecsgrid.com/, http://www.enernoc.com/
Should be public now!
Actually, castle doctrine does give you the right shoot someone breaking into your home in almost every state. It is exactly the way our current society is run.
Some of the world's richest people have signed a non legally binding pledge to give half their wealth to the Gates Foundation eventually
I still think Chrome peaked around version 20, I have an portable version of it around. With it I can open hundreds of tabs without any problems and it is perfect. Chrome 32 is so bad that I question the QA department/process of Google. Three days ago I Canary crashed on start (Win7) had to wait til next silent update, but now it's a lot better than 32.

Firefox 26 is great, the only missing thing is multi-process support - otherwise a single website can hang the whole browser... not so good if you open dozens of tabs and keep them open for days.
Could any of you transcript the call? My english is not good enough for <48kbps transmissions.
Having kids is the old-school form of immortality. I imagine many of those other billionaires are thinking about their dynasty.
To do it via a conference call? What a piss poor leader and dick move.
Laying people off is never easy. I'm sure many people will poopoo this call but this is a clean and a clear message.
"Hello, and welcome to AOL Moviefone. To be acquired and laid off, please press 1."
The next one is a gem too:

~1:55 in: "Abel, put that camera down right now. Abel, you're fired, out."

https://soundcloud.com/jim-romenesko/aol-ceo-tim-armstrong-8...
It was like I read some scary book.
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This made me sick to my stomach and I don't even work there.

"Hey you're fired tomorrow, thanks for your work!"
They are in London. Typical pattern here is hiring a contractor to implement and then using permanent employees to maintain.
It seems pretty harsh to do it this way, but from the sounds of things these were pretty sweeping layoffs ("hundreds" is what's being said). Doing it on a personal level probably wasn't even remotely viable, even just in terms of time.
I get a little annoyed when people say that I'm German. I mean, despite my ancestry, I was born in America, and I've never even been to Europe. And I'm a little annoyed other times when people refer to "native Americans" as if I'm not one of those.

Those are little annoyances. I don't believe that the speaker is trying to disrespect me -- certainly not intentionally -- and I take it with a grain of salt.

In other words: this seems like making much to-do over very little.
That women of lose more than expected when they play against men of equivalent rating is entirely consistent with regression towards the mean [1].

Because elo ratings contain error and men are on average better at chess [2], the average true value that elo ratings are trying to measure will be lower for women than men at equivalent elo ratings.

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

[2] About 1 SD, http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/277/1692/2269...
Angry Birds website hacked after NSA-GCHQ leaks
Stock companies require signed model release for every person on the photo. But copyright is belongs to creator - photographer.
I meant: put through bankruptcy. That would have been catastrophic for the economy because Iceland would not have had a financial sector at all for some time.
>those guys would run circles around the organizers of, say, occupy wall street

I'm a gamer, and I was an organizer of Occupy Wall Street. That you would even compare the difficulty between running a virtual guild in an online video game, to attempting to organize a real world dissident political movement from scratch, boggles my mind. I've done both, but you clearly don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about.
Edward Snowden Nominated by Norway Lawmakers for Nobel Peace Prize
Thank you for this awesome suggestion, I hadn't thought of using TaskRabbit and will try it out next time I get the chance.
The conversation itself is new information.
> Many things go into being rich, but the top of that list is making more money than you give away. Practically by definition, people who continue to do this will continue to get rich.

Except there is this thing called "diminishing returns" that somehow does not apply to being rich. Also, wouldn't "spend" be a more appropriate description than "give away" here?

> There is no shortage of humanitarian efforts, funds, and foundations started by the wealthy for the sake of the underprivileged. To suggest these are insufficient because their founders remain wealthy is foolhardy.

Luckily, the author of this article isn't suggesting that - he is arguing that in its current form these efforts are insufficient because the poor remain poor, and that he has good reasons to believe they will stay poor if we don't change specific problems not addressed in Gates' letter.
Not giving them away is a reasonable choice on Nintendo's part, and protecting that IP with technical measures (i.e. only allowing software for which Nintendo has received the appropriate licensing fees) is consistent with their stated position.

I am not putting forward a position on free/freedom here. I'm just saying that their technical measures are appropriate for the protection they said they seek. It so happens that these technical measures also protect the hardware from being used for other purposes (even without infringing on Nintendo's software IP)...
I would say "American" (edit- instead of "non-Australian"). It's pretty common in other English dialects. There's a great series called "The Story of Film" which is narrated by an Irish guy who uses rising inflection on nearly every sentence. It's difficult for me to get used to but I wouldn't give anyone a hard time about it.

edit2 - fixed title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odyssey It's available on Netflix
When an armed intruder is breaking into my house? Yes shooting them is in fact my first go-to defense. When someone else is intending to do harm to me or someone I love I'm not going to wait around for the police to get there 30 minutes later. All the police are going to find is my dead body by then.
I'm an American and I can't stand the mode of speech you've described. Unbelievably grating and disingenuous.
For many years I imagined that space faring future humans would depend on hydrogen gas clouds as the source of their energy. Think: intergalactic highways with gas-stations at such formations. But this brings another resource to mind: In the future, we might view planets, not merely for their mineral resources, but also for the heat that may be trapped within them (AFAIK not all planets have a hot, molten core).

Autonomous planetary settlement bots; colonizers of planets. Harnessing the energy trapped within the planet to refine minerals on the surface or terraform the surface.
I was confused to whether this was real or in fact just someones audition tape for the George Clooney movie "Up In The Air".
In my newbie days of event-driven programming, I forgot to add 'if (err) {...}' in an express application and crashed the server.
Job at Billogram – Super happy
I applied for a web developer position at Billogram.com 3 weeks ago and signed my contract this Monday.

Billogram.com is probably Sweden's hottest startup right now and they solve one of the biggest timesinks for freelancers right now, invoicing.

It has been my dream since I finished high school almost 2 years ago and here I am. Can't wait to see what the future brings.

If you have any questions, ask away!
chmod -R 0777 /*
instead of
chmod -R 0777
yea, what a dick!
Seems like the point this guy is trying to make is that being poor is relative. So while poor countries are now better off than they were 50 years ago they are still about as poor as they were 50 years ago in comparison to other countries that also become better off.

I don't know if this is a good or a bad way to measure a country.

Would there not be any poor countries if all countries had about the same wealth distribution? Perhaps all countries would be poor then.
No, it is not fractional reserve banking that guarantees this, but duration mismatch.

A bank investing money from demand deposits into 30-year bonds is what causes this, but fractional reserve banking does not necessitate this practice.

Full reserve banking means banks just hold your money, and don't invest it in anything, which would mean you'd have to pay them to store your money.
Unfortunately, none of that is true.

MPEG-LA doesn't give you a licence to all known H.264 patents.

The only way they protect you from trolls is if the troll is happy to take a cut of their existing take, which if you had a solid patent with no FRAND obligation, would probably be silly.

They will troll the people offering you alternatives though.

Patent pools are an inefficient government solution to a government created problem. They looked like they might actually fix this, but the amount of rent the government lets these corporations collect as a tax on digital communication means they have the lobbying power to keep it rolling.
Both parks and libraries are not ideal year-round, especially for the elderly.

I agree that there has to be some sort of disruption, especially since the trend signals towards a lot more elderly and other people with idle time.

Maybe some civic-minded startup, NGO or other kind of nonprofit. I hope someone wealthy funds such ideas, I'm annoyed that at least in my country much of those services are hijacked by "churches" that are very opaquely run, but give people a sense of community and things to do. I hope for similar secular services (think televangelists).

Example (in Spanish):

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_An%C3%ADbal_Gim%C3%...
I've often heard that apologies in various contexts can be used as evidence for litigation (eg, saying "oh sorry" after an auto accident) . Its a sad state of affairs, but people have to protect themselves from idiots and the courts they convince.
Tim Armstrong is the current CEO of AOL and former senior Google Executive. He is reputed to have been the driving force behind the success of Google's Ad Words business.

He seemed to become less effective at Google as his responsibilities expanded and moved on to AOL.

Patch was his big play to make AOL relevant again and has proved to be a complete economic failure.

Highlights an unfortunate reality of the Silicon Valley that past success can sometimes just mean a longer rope to hang yourself with.

The reality is that running AOL is thankless job.
I love how unsettling this is. I'm unconvinced that it will work well, and doubly unconvinced that anyone will use it, but surely all the most exciting ideas are ones that scare us a little?
Crunchbase even says they only have 19 employees. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/patch
Good point! I'm to blame for that :) but I'll fix it!
"Best of luck!"
At least that guy later apologized and didn't actually fire Abel.

Edit: I guess he was actually fired.
It'd be great if you could contribute to Ops School (http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/introduction.html)!
If this is satirical, well done - it's both horrifying and hilarious. If not, please forward my communications to:

1A small flax hut
Adjacent to large boulder shaped like waffle iron
Fjordland National Park, New Zealand
very cool! I'd prefer comments to be threaded though.

Congrats!
I work for VerSprite. I'm new to the company but like what I have seen so far. We tailor our services to the needs of each client, verify everything we find, and the pentesters write their own reports.
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I don't think those two are comparable. Computing is known to be cheaper over time due to Moore's law, but you can't equate gas/electric/water the same way as there are other factors (population, demand, supply) that weigh in. Hopefully more innovation into alternative electricity (solar) will help with part of it. Another factor is inflation such as employee wages to maintain water supplies could increase the end cost to consumers.
I don't trust that this company will be alive in 50 years. I wouldn't even trust Google or Facebook with a task like this. Who can guarantee that any company will be around in 1,000 years.
I'm curious what the licensing costs are for their Microsoft stack. Stack Exchange was in BizSpark early on so they got a pretty good discount, but they can't be anymore since it's been more than 3 years.
Well the difference here is that a utility is a natural monopoly. It's not under market scrutiny except for regulators. Linode is under intense pressure and it's been lagging behind competitors for a while now

I've found Linode rock solid in all the time I've used them. But I've also found them a bit slow in adopting features that are important to me (this and SSD storage)
Now, where can I buy old PC with IE7. ;)
I didn't see that anywhere, is there a source?

Edit: Found one: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/13/aols-tim-armstrong-apolog...

Edit again: "Tim Armstrong has publicly apologized for the firing of [Abel] since then, but did not offer to reverse the firing or any compensation"

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Armstrong_(executive)
Its an american dialect, but its not quite right to call it american.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
I don't know. I got laid off 18 months ago. HR did it to my face (bringing in a small group of people at a time). It sounded almost identical to this, tone and everything. More realistic than parody.
This triggering a maddening desire to make some impulse purchases. Well done.
"Hi Everyone, it's (HR person). Patch is being restructed, in conjunction with the creation of a joint structure with Hale Global. Hale Global has decided which Patch employees will receive an offer of employment to move forward in accordance with their vision for Patch, and which will not. Unfortunately, your role has been eliminated and you will no longer have a role at Patch, and today will be your last day of employment with the company."

The rest is just general termination junk like turning in laptops and turning off email.
Funny because everytime I see one, it seems dirty, spammy and UI gone wrong. I never click on those. Just doesn't feel right. But it could just be me. Not to mention that I almost feel I have dyslexia [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia
Working Christmas Day at the Liquor store (before cameras were everywhere) and drinking Tanqueray and Mt Dew ALL day. WHEEE!!
President of Estonia calls for common digital market in Europe
Bill Gates would have to believe his efforts were worthwhile in order to keep himself motivated to try. He's essentially "all-in" on the Gates Foundation. His pronouncement on eliminating poverty is an aspiration he phrases as a "fact" and we are taken aback by the audacious claim, primarily because he's been wildly successful before, so hey, lightning might strike twice.

What if? And why discourage him?

It doesn't seem likely to me, but I don't have billions to spend proving my theories. When I think in terms of probably outcomes, it seems more likely that the US will regress towards the global mean, rather than remaining as a permanent statistical outlier.

I also keep in mind that "poverty" has a way of becoming a dynamic definition. In the US, it's becoming that anyone below the 33rd percentile is poor by that definition. So poverty is always with us in that frame of mind.
dd if=outfile of=infile

Raw unadulterated fear followed by panic.

A full reinstall.

Triple checked dd params ever since.
Working in a satellite office for a large company. Whenever anyone from HR was in the office we always knew someone was being laid off.

What was more fun, starting around 11am one day, all managers in the office (about 6 of them) disappeared. Around 2pm none of them returned and were not responding to calls/txt/email. One of them ended up breaking the silence and told someone the office was closing. Everyone left around 2:30pm that day, and when we showed up in the morning, we knew we would be laid off. It made the meeting a bit easier.
The best way to wipe it out would be to do parody YouTube. Keeps of famous/consequential speeches or events recast into HRT. And hypothetical situations like HRT from an oncologist proposing treatment options.
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Very good article, thanks. I did not know about S3 temporary Urls, might use that in the future.
nope. try it: set HOME; echo $HOME.

on IRIX, $HOME for root is almost certainly root.
So the resulting command is rm -rf /
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That has always enraged me, thanks for putting into words.
Obviously I don't condone any mistreatment of or discrimination against transgendered people and think they should have full legal protections. On a personal level, they should be treated ethically and equitably, just like any other person.

But regarding the use of language, and forgive me for invoking the slippery slope argument, where does it end? The two propositions, "Person X is a Y" and "Person X feels they are or wishes they were a Y", are not the same. In fact, they aren't even close. As a society it would be ridiculous and ruinous if we were to conflate the two.

I believe it is possible to respect people and linguistic accuracy ("truth", if you like) at the same time. Also, I don't think respecting someone necessarily means doing (or saying) everything they want.
The symptom-to-ailment mapping is actually a quite complex problem that neither Google nor W|A have thoroughly solved, but Google provides results in a much easier-to-read format.
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challen.ge is my favourite from the page; it'd be great for hackathons/competitions/any sort of challenging or educational app.
Is anyone able to do this in hexadecimal?

Wolfram Alpha interprets 1/0x9999998 or 1/0xffffffe correctly as hex input, but still shows the output as decimal approximation, while a hexadecimal approximation would be more useful here. I would be really curious what this thing looks like in other numeric bases.

Unfortunately, the "Other base conversions" section only shows up to 7 or so digits after the point and doesn't allow expanding.

EDIT: found it! I didn't know bc in linux was this awesome!
echo "obase=16;ibase=16;scale=1000;1/FFFE" | bc
.0001000200040008001000200040008001000200040008001000200040008001000 (....)
I'm not certain that even at that phase it would be a simulation of the deceased. What makes us, us, and makes us want to interact with other humans on a regular basis, is that everyone changes. A static person doesn't exist.

Essentially, all this would be is a weirdly accurate and strangely formatted series of snapshots. Not a simulation really at all, but an electronic scrapbook.
It was AOL's (well, Tim Armstrong's) next big thing, until reality struck and they sold it a couple weeks ago.
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Like the idea, would use it, but it's hard for me to find furnitures that I really like. Especially I don't like the way most furnitures are constructed. If its construction not elegant, I don't find it's beautiful.
Most of Iceland's power comes from hydro, not geothermal.
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That might seem rational, until you ask how far away effective life extension technologies might be. If you are a 75-year-old billionaire, those technologies would have to be really close over the horizon. So it probably looks like a non-option to many.
I might be dense, but I dont get it.
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