skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is the authors point? Is he just upset about the terminology usage? Is he implying that he has "big-data" like it is some kind of pissing contest? He never even explains what kind of scale he considers to be "big-data". He just says everything is lots of data and nothing is big data at all.

Also his usage of childish memes makes me unable to take it seriously.
You mean the paper that has been countered with [1]? Regarding this I'd wait and see what the reaction to the counter is going to be, I for one am certainly not convinced that modeling one particular implementation classically would disprove quantum computing for any of the implementations. As far as I've read we have enough examples where only quantum models fit, which all would have to be debunked.

[1] http://dwave.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/the-recent-how-quantum...
Come try OpenBSD sometime. They take man pages seriously.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strlcpy
Also, the speaker looks pretty much like Jabra Speak 410. And the camera looks like a Logitech fullhd webcam without Logitech logos. Which are all admittedly excellent products for doing video meetings.
VSP is Voluntary Separation Plan. It's different than early retirement, because it's not just to get people to retire early. Typically there's some target criteria, like having a particular rating on your review for the past N reviews. Not everyone will take VSP -- they're assuming a certain percentage of people offered will. There's also limits for groups to prevent a mass exodus from one division.

I know a few people who were offered VSP previously, but they're still at the company so it's not like "If you don't take VSP you're going to be fired soon."
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That's an awesome project. Have you open sourced it?

Also, just to draw the distinction: Pasteye is for near-realtime monitor notifications, and it seems like Canarypw is more like an archival search.
I was thinking the same thing. The ads appear only on the Game Over screen. On my Droid, the ads appears to be cropped, so I don't even know what is being advertised to me. Finally, I don't even see it for more than a half second 'cause I just hit the Play button as soon as it appears.
You, like a whole bunch of the new technocratic futurists, have almost no ability to discern fantasy from reality.

What you're talking about is popularly known as science fiction. You should be writing books and not pretending like you know the first thing about politics.

The reason why things take so long in reality is because there is a multitude of voices. Reddit does not promote pluralism, rather a giant circle-jerk of like minded individuals. Compromise is the name of the game in politics, something that the goon squad on Reddit has almost no understanding of.
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And apparently Windows Phone will get this game weeks after it's everywhere else.

You laugh (not wrongly), but mind you that if MSFT pulls that off it would be a remarkable improvement from their track record from a year ago when they got Draw Something and Words with Friends months after they had ceased to matter (which in turn was still an improvement over a year before that when they just didn't get the games at all).

Of course, how much further they can improve this "WP game arrival latency" and how much it really matters remain open questions...
If there's lower resistance, you can use smaller, less leaky transistors, so it'd also help in that respect.
Battery life is probably as important as size for merging the tablet and phone markets. My tablet is effectively an extended battery for my phone. I could probably use my phone for everything I do on my tablet, but if I did, I'd be charging my phone 2-3 times a day.

As soon as the size gets more usable and battery life improves sufficiently, tablets will probably turn into a fringe device.
Fantoches. Articulo.
Adam Atomic's canabalt, and it was a brilliant and polished game (even if it was created in a super short period of time). I'm sad to see Flappy Bird mentioned alongside it, yet the comparison is apt and I've spent nearly as much time in a marathon happy bird session as I ever did in a canabalt session.
Battery life is probably as important as size for merging the tablet and phone markets. My tablet is effectively an extended battery for my phone. I could probably use my phone for everything I do on my tablet, but if I did, I'd be charging my phone 2-3 times a day.

As soon as the size gets more usable and battery life improves sufficiently tablets will probably turn into a fringe device.
You're thinking of Canabalt, which had a pixilated art style with a limited monochrome palette:

http://adamatomic.com/canabalt/
This project isn't open-sourced but there is an API in the works. I am going to be presenting some of its abilities at BSides Vancouver next month.

[edit]

I should add that a component of it might be open-sourced but I haven't had much time to digest the idea of doing so.
Israel has potential but the state will do everything it can to keep non-jews from coming or working there. Yes, if you are highly skilled you can get up to 5 years of working visas but after that you will get kicked out, with no exceptions. I know this because it happened to me.

You will never have the option to get any sort of permanent residency in Israel (unless you are jewish). The game is rigged so that to get permanent residency you have to have lived for at least 10 years on any non-tourist visa. So in theory you could study there for 5 years, then work there and max out your 5 years working visa options... but they will make certain to kick you out just before. I have had friends that could not complete their phd's because if they were to be given another years student visa they could then apply for permanent residency.

Also, btw, unlike many other countries your work visa in Israel will be tied to one company. To work at any other company you will have to apply for another visa. This does not sound like much but it makes it difficult to move between companies.
Of course. Naturally, everyone places different value on these things. However, I have several reasons to believe that my criteria has some merit. Specifically, look at the reverse of each of the two criteria: imagine a coin with a very small network and a very young blockchain. This means that a player with lots of computing power can at least mine a huge amount of the coin, or even carry out a "51% attack" and double-spend.

Also, imagine a coin which you cannot spend on anything. You can mine it and send and receive it in a vacuum, but you cannot derive any other value out of it. Is such a coin in any way more valuable than a coin which lets you buy a cup of coffee, a car, or a house?
"it's just that there is a time/space trade-off,"

I don't see a time-space tradeoff here. Compiled naively, I expect the version with flags to be slower and take more space. Compiled sufficiently smartly, I expect them to be equivalent. I expect real compilers to be close enough to the latter for most but not all purposes, but I think if the flag version was more readable and maintainable the place to focus (collectively, medium term) would be on making compilers smart enough. Obviously, in the short term on specific projects you do what you need to.

"I think folks who argue that goto should never be used or has no legitimate uses, are just taking too much of a hard-line."

I agree, but that's because there are places where use of Go To makes things more readable and maintainable, not - primarily - because they are actually needed, per se, even with performance constraints (in the overwhelming majority of cases).

'And I think it just highlights a lack of understanding about what might make goto "bad" in programming--IMHO it's "bad" when it makes control flow more complex, which undermines maintainability.'

I agree wholeheartedly.
The Tsutaya T-Site store is always packed full of people too. One subtle thing about the architecture is that the white crosshatching on the exterior of the building aren't crosses but are actually hinting at the letter T. It took me a while to notice that detail.

They also have a cool service where you can browse and rent a few CDs from a pretty extensive collection and then drop them in the mail to return them a few days later. It's basically like a half-netflix option!
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> Build a good laptop, let me upgrade it, and support it.

How do you define "upgrade it."

Lenovo sells the Yoga ultrabook, it's thin, affordable $800-$1,000, has a great (in my opinion) build quality using soft touch plastic, includes a Haswell processor, and you can manually upgrade the SSD and RAM. It has a cheap wifi chip (no 5ghz? really?), but otherwise fits the bill you described.

Is the storage and ram enough? Or do you want more than that. Because I imagine it gets really tricky to build a thin, light, sturdy and reliable laptop that still lets you upgrade every single part.
So "big data" is just log data that has no apparent use? I would tend to disagree: you can perform "big data" operations on the same data sets you perform traditional analytics, you're just looking for different things.

Really, why don't we put down the pitchforks and call "big data" what it really is: data mining. You can perform data mining on small sets and large sets. Nearly infinitely large sets, given the tools to manage that data. "Big data" is just a buzzword that doesn't mean anything more than data mining (which includes machine learning, AI methods, etc) on a really large data set.
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http://www.reactos.org/about-reactos

"Free and Open Source replacement for the Microsoft Windows NT® family [...] with its latest iteration being Windows 8"
Just the next step. First Google offers a cheaper Office solution. Schools, Government, and Businesses fall over themselves to switch. A cheaper, more feature filled, Video Conference solution is just the natural progression.
I'm surprised people are surprised. Sony has no server business. They are in the thankless margin-less laptop/desktop business. That's a problem with no solution.
It's from a mongodb shop, so big data means web scale!
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All these posts and yet not one gag reference to the graphene condom? Well Slashdot this ain't (and thank goodness for that)
You don't give due process to imminent threats.

It ends up fitting well into a battlefield metaphor - you don't try every single enemy soldier before you shoot them on the battlefield.

The argument can be had whether or not this is indeed a battlefield, but to cry, "due process" won't get much of a reaction out of the folks who are doing this (GCHQ/NSA).
cuz an xboxone is perfectly acceptable on an expense report.
His main analysis is this: "It comes down to size. The vast majority of the hundreds of millions of people who use tech every day are just fine with having two primary computing devices: One for your pocket and one for your desk. " And in his opinion Tablet is neither.

My guess is that he hasn't extensively used a Nexus 7 tablet. It fits fine in my front and back pockets. I used it way more than my smartphone. And I rarely have the need to pick up my 10 inch tablet.
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Data size is relative to company size. If I work with a 120Gb clicklog file for a company with 10 employees, where no other employee has the tools or know-how to work with such a dataset, then that data is (treated as) big data. In the hands of Google, Yahoo, MS or Facebook if would probably look like a floppy.

No, you probably do not necessarily need a Hadoop cluster to work with a 120GB file. With Python and Pandas you could probably run through it on a budget laptop. But data will always be relative to your companies size and current know-how. In the most banal way: Data can be big data, because some manager can't open it in Excel.
Shouldn't "do the right thing" be sufficient rather than overburdening the company with legal matters unrelated to the core business?
Well, I did not bother to search it, so as of now I don't know her name and it won't ring a bell if I see it in unrelated news. There's probably more readers like me than like you.
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It's Carbon. Sticking it in the ground is a net pollution win. See also "carbon capture and storage".
> As a general concept, P2P is easy for users - using bittorrent clients, TPB, etc. is essentially mainstream.

I wish that were true, but I am forced to disagree; it's been my experience (and that of my tech-savvy friends with whom I have discussed this UX shortcoming) that most people don't know how to torrent (much less set up and use freenet). Showing my parents or most of my siblings how to use a torrent client in conjunction with a tracker site is not going to be a fruitful task. If it's not as easy as Youtube or Netflix (click and watch), they aren't going to put in the effort to learn or remember how to do it.
Because of how the contract was worded, they didn't have to actually provide the service just "attempt" to or something like that
Got to love the ash tray on the table in that picture. Ironic, isn't it?

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-uD5BuNqI4DA/UvOpyapQheI/AAAAAAAAAOs/N...
The three iOS device silhouettes in the video reminded me of the family stickers people put on the backs of their cars (Mom, Dad, kid, kid, baby, dog, cat).

Turns out, they exist: http://ifamilystickers.com
A "jumbo" box be an idea there. The office manager could get 1 jumbo box a month and then pass out candy to everyone (versus multiple subscriptions for multiple employees, which would add up fast)
I was wondering where is all the money was going. It's clearly the newly announced Asus Chromebox, which starts at $179[1]. I haven't seen the high end price, but according to the spec sheet[2], the only difference is the CPU. The price difference here is $820. I couldn't imagine the cost difference between a celeron and a mid-range i7 to be much more than $300. That same camera is $75 on amazon, and a similar looking speaker is $90, and I don't imagine a RF remote is more than $15. That gets us to about $600, and leaves $220 for the management and support fee.

So the hardware cost checks out, but the question is if their support and software is worth $250 a year. They don't do a good job explaining what goes into that though. Is the software a proprietary version of Chrome OS? Do you get to use priority servers instead of the normal hangout ones? Does that support fee cover all your chromeboxes, or is that per box? I feel a lot of the value proposition isn't being well explained. If it's amazing quality, and a great meeting experience, it can easily be worth it, but I'm not getting the sense of how the experience is better than if you bought the components yourself. A promo video demo would help.

[1]http://promos.asus.com/us/chrome-os/chromebox/

[2]http://www.asus.com/us/News/xjbJtLA1HEyUSUeo

[3]http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Webcam-Widescreen-Calling-Rec...

[4]http://www.amazon.com/Jabra-SPEAK-510-Bluetooth-Softphone/dp...
They never were nor did they claim to be.

These working groups are working groups second, and political battlegrounds first. I think the pace of the WHATWG has proven the futility of such working groups.

We see this time and time again, with various technologies. It's never worked well. And if Apple were doing this, 3/4 of this website would be cheering them on even though Apple's been pretty bad about this sort of thing historically.
I was thinking about that game crash myself the other day when mulling over the whole IAP mobile gaming fiasco. It really feels as if, by racing to the bottom, the whole market is running the risk of losing purchasers' confidence. There isn't really a very vibrant game review scene to prop things up either.
I'll point out that while the article touts its "blazing-fast Intel Core-i7", the likely reason that they chose an i7 is not that it is blazing-fast, but because currently, generally speaking[1], the i7 line is the only one that includes IRIS graphics, which is an IGP that is pedestrian by the standards of discreet GPUs, but quite impressive in terms of integrated graphics solutions. While all of the i7 processors that contain IRIS graphics are very fast from a compute perspective, that's not likely the reason they chose Intel's premium line.

That is to say, the i7 is still a compromise in performance, but has the great advantage of having pretty good graphics (which they need for high def video streaming) without requiring a huge discreet GPU, which in turn allows for a very small overall package. I'm not saying that it's a bad tradeoff, actually I recently bought a laptop that makes this exact tradeoff, but I think that it's a little bit intentionally disingenuous to tout its top end CPU performance when it's likely that this was only a secondary or tertiary factor for choosing this CPU.

I know it's marketing, and of course they're going to put i7 on the front of the tin because it's associated with premium-ness. Just pointing out why in this case it's kinda BS.

[1] Apple managed to convince Intel to integrate IRIS graphics into i5 branded processors for the late-2013 Macbook Pros, but it's the only place that I've seen non i7 line processors with IRIS.
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I don't understand - is QuakeNet saying it has unique evidence that it specifically has been targeted by DoS attacks perpetrated by GCHQ, or are they guessing it's the GCHQ based on the report done by NBC?

Specifically, this line:

> as well as wholesale attacks on the IRC servers hosting the network.

What is this?
Vanguard.com does that (but you get 2 or 3 choices that are all generally accepted, not "pick a date")
Not sure how quickly it updates, but have you seen: http://www.opensourcesports.com/
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Wait, you mean game mechanics don't need to be completely spoon fed to us? That's an outrage!
Is the pipe graphic literally lifted from Mario, pixel-for-pixel? Or is it just very similar. TBH, I don't think he's infringing any more than King, Zynga, et al.
absolutely. if the success of flappy birds teaches us anything it's certainly not a lesson about game design. the big players in the mobile space know very well how to generate long term revenues with their games. flappy birds is a lesson about virality (and how unpredictable it is).
> “Big Data” data tends to be cold data, that is, data that you aren’t actively access­ing and, apart from ana­lyz­ing it, prob­a­bly never will. In fact, apart from analy­sis, it could be regarded as frozen. It may be fed with fresh rapidly cool­ing records and the cool­ing records ana­lyzed for up-​​to-​​date analy­sis, but the “Big Data” pool should be at least con­cep­tu­ally sep­a­rated from the live data; min­gling the two’s require­ments can eas­ily end up in an unsat­is­fac­tory lowest-​​common-​​capability sit­u­a­tion where nei­ther is opti­mal.

So in other words, “Big Data” is what used to be known, somewhat less sexily, as “data warehousing”?
"I outsource one of my core competencies" doesn't give a lot of confidence.
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Okay, I've definitely convinced myself there is no good way to do this without having to write way too much code over and over again. The problem is basically equivalent to inserting items into a sorted list, but you only have one operation in which to do it. So, you are either limited to simple types, or your code for operations on types explodes trying to define all of the ways to compare types (in a generic sense) and different scenarios for combinations of types.

This requires a Turing-complete type system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative
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Yes, I'm thinking of the big picture. Might be more like Java 12 than Java 9... Or Quasar today!
If ReactOS every became a thing (i.e. more than a hobby exercise) Microsoft would sue them off the planet. I am sure Microsoft has countless patents covering Windows technology.
On a related question, what are the good blogs or communities to follow for Clojure web development? I just recently (like within the past two weeks) started using Clojure to rewrite some back end code that was getting pretty gross in Ruby. I'm building a rest api using compujure, and it's been very pleasant, but I know I'm going to need more tools and more help soon.
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How does it compare to Blue Jeans?
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And yet she represents a government which won't let anybody teach in a state-funded school without a postgraduate qualification in teaching that takes at least a year to obtain.
Super excited to see this news and what the CircleCI team have planned. Can't overstate how much I love CircleCI or how much easier it makes my life. Definitely one of the best services I use day to day.

Congrats to the team! It's well deserved.
My company has been using Google Apps for a while, uses Hangouts for videoconferencing, and the worst problem I've had is getting (1) a reminder to add a profile picture and (2) a pointless "What's Hot" email.

So not really sure what awful problems you expect to pick up.
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I've seen criticism of the collision detection a couple of times, but can't spot it myself. As far as I can tell, on Android, it's perfect. Do you have slowed down video that proves the detection is off, or is this just a 'feeling'?
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Misaligned incentives are a powerful thing. If you make it easier to do the right thing, more people will do it.
> “Big Data” data tends to be cold data

My experience is the opposite: big data tends to be a lot of rapid streaming data, near-real-time, with inputs from many sources and sensors. This overwhelms traditional databases.

For us, big data means we want stream filtering, heuristic sampling, map reduce, and the like.
other solutions in this space (ex. Cisco) are much more expensive
The software and experience could easily be worth the price, but the promo page does a poor job explaining its features and differentiating it from a normal Chrome OS hangouts experience. Is this special software that's only available on this package? Are there dedicated servers for subscribers? A video showing the actual experience would be worth a lot here, but the site tells me almost nothing other than it's a video meeting solution. Also, can I even use the chromebox for things other than meetings without a painful hacking process? It seems that i7 would be going to waste whenever you aren't having a meeting.
This? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI
This is an interesting point on the rise of Flappy Bird: http://www.bluecloudsolutions.com/blog/flappy-birds-smoke-mi...

"When you release games in MAY (Shuriken Block) and JUNE (Flappy Birds) that have a non-existant launch, then magically lift off 6 months later, it looks weird. Especially when your other games coincidentally all do so at the exact same time as well."
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Yes, and the reason for DRM is exactly the same as for centralization: central control and exploitation.

You cannot credibly argue for "building new architectures for the web where it's decentralised" (especially not with the arguments he uses with regards to corporate and government power) and at the same time endorse leaving the endpoints open to centralized control.

I can understand why some people who do not like it would still support DRM in HTML. I cannot understand why he does.
I found myself unable to resist clicking on this tantalizing link.