skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very true. My country's Government had an issue with a major internet project where they bought the best commercial address database available. Turns out that hundreds of thousands of addresses in there were incorrect, and tens of thousands just didn't exist. Caused huge problems.

Proprietary geospatial data can be very hit and miss. If you assume that the majority will be high quality, you're setting yourself up for disappointment...
In the case that one client can be connected to the receiver (I don't know enough to know if this is a correct assumption), the receiver acts on content that is streamed to it. If other people playing the same game, pushed their interactions to a server that also is serving the receiver, the receiver's content would be updated with all the players interactions. Clients could be updated with pubsub socket connections, and the receiver has a stream from the server. I bet there is good potential for gaming with Chromecast.
The best way to do it is with a superconducting magnet.

And no, it doesn't quite levitate, but it takes a very long time for it to fall through. I think the video we watched in high school physics class had it take about fifteen seconds to go an inch and a half.
Yes, perhaps a month was optimistic. Looking back through my emails, I see it took me 5 months (in my spare time) to design my language and instruction set and develop the compiler and VM. After that I wrote the function libraries. This was the first (and only) compiler I've written, and I just bought a book on compiler construction to figure out how to do it. This was an object-oriented C-like language, which was general purpose. It took a few years of actually using the language to make it "instustrial strength".

Writing a compiler is a lot simpler than people might think. I used "Practice and Principles of Compiler Building With C", which explains things very well. It seems to be out of print now.
Zapier is launching 28 new integrations over 28 days
Ninefold aren't bad either
It's completely worth it. It took me ages to decide, but it's absolutely indispensable now.
With all possible respect, pffffft. I've seen 75 year old men get hired for entry-to-mid-level network administration gigs. Age discrimination? Get away from the Valley.
Be a presenter at DiG Festival 2014
We use Overdrive from our library on two separate Android devices. Does not worry me for my device but the other user is not technology adept. Just getting Overdrive working and the user trained on was a nightmare and bucket of frustrations.
Who enjoys violence? Why possible value does graphic violence have for entertainment? There is nothing laudable about it. It is simply evil for evil's sake.

On the other hand, there's nothing abnormal about the desire to look at nudity or sexually explicit material.
You never heard of Xunlei? It's a Chinese product and it's like just $20 a year.

Xunlei has a huge network and it's very likely the content you want is already in their server and has been encoded.
One of the reasons for creating an LLC or corporation is so that #2 does not happen. As long as company is set up correctly and founders do not do something stupid like personally guarantee a loan then you should not have to worry about this.
Many people use ISP-provided router that choked when there are a lot of open connections. A torrent client will usually try to open as many connections as possible, pushing the router to the limit. Under that condition, if another user join the network and tried to browse the internet, he'll encounter a lot of connection timeout error. The only way to avoid this issue is to configure the torrent client to play nice (limit the number of connections) or tweak the router QoS settings to lower priority for torrents traffic (not sure if it's possible with encrypted torrents).

source: my apartment shares a single dsl router to all its tenants
Our use-case is different (not cassandra or db hosted on ephemeral drives), but what we've found using AWS for about 2 years now is that when an availability zone goes out, it's either linked to or affects EBS. Our setup now is to have base-load data and PG WAL files stored/written to S3, all servers use ephemeral drives, difference in data is loaded at machine creation time, AMI that servers are loaded from is recreated every night. We always deploy to 3 AZs (2 if that's all a region has) with Route 53 latency based DNS lookups that points to an ELB that sits in front of our servers for the region (previously had 1 ELB per AZ as they used DNS lookups to determine where to route someone amongst AZs and some of our sites are the origin for a CDN, so it didn't balance appropriately...this has since been changed) that is in the public+private section of a VPC with all the rest of our infrastructure in the private section of a VPC (VPC across all 3 AZs). We use ELBs internal to the AZ for services that communicate with each other. The entire system is designed to where you can shoot a single server, a single AZ or a single region in the face and the worst you have is degraded performance (say, going to the west coast from the east coast, etc.).

Using this type of setup, we had 100% availability for our customers over a period of 2 years (up until a couple of weeks ago where the flash 12 upgrade caused a small amount of our customers to be impacted). This includes the large outage in US East 1 from the electrical storm, as well as several other EBS related outages. Overall costs are cheaper than setting up our own geo-diverse set of datacenters (or racks in datacenters) thanks to heavy use of reserved instances. We keep looking at the costs and as soon as it makes sense, we'll switch over, but will still use several of the features of AWS (peak load growth, RDS, Route 53).

The short answer is to design your entire system so that any component can randomly be shot in the face, from a single server to the eastern seaboard falling into the ocean to the United States immediately going the way of Mad Max. Design failure into the system and you get to sleep at night a lot more.
Yea my hs physics teacher demoed this and talked to us about possible applications for a while. i don't remember any but thank you wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current#Applications
Complexity aside, concrete syntax places a hard barrier on composability of constructs (I say that based on usage, not a PL researcher). This is something quite far from the applicative/functional world (lisp, stack based, ml, haskell and its predecessors... ) where the combinations are greater (since most things are expressions).
I have a lot of clients still running XP. I have warned them that once MS stops the updates, the bad guys can examine updates for Vista or Win7 and see if the security hole exists in XP. I am guessing that with an April cutoff XP will be unusable as an internet connected device by October.
...they're accessing a service that's out there somewhere...

Exactly what IBM offered in the late 70's.
I doubt Google cares about keeping people from seeing nudity or porn. They probably care a lot more about the legal consequences of distributing porn apps, and the market consequences if religions try to get everyone to boycott Chromecast because it's sinful.
Yeah I'm actually pretty surprised that this made it to the front page. Pretty novel and I thought more people would know about it (being a typical physics class demonstration). Cool nonetheless.
Uh, holy crap??? That's amazing. I hadn't even thought of trying something like that. That's brilliant and ingenious. At this point I'd just resigned myself to transcoding where needed (usually just need to change the container, which takes one ffmpeg command, and about 2 minutes for a one hour video) and let iTunes handle everything, but I have a major soft spot for Plex and miss using it. That's just phenomenal. gushing.stop();
That may be, but when the rubber hits the floor, you are often better learning to "think in the framework" that you have, than you are trying to reinvent yet again. This can be just as true when considering new frameworks. They may be better, but that doesn't mean you have time for them.

And I fully acknowledge that this is an art. Knowing when to consider making a change is a tough piece of knowledge to try and hammer down.
Perhaps you'd also be surprised at how many girls injure themselves doing this by themselves, without instructional videos.
Wow, a bit surprised to hear that! What kind of tricks are we talking about? I've been on their $5 plan for over a year and have never heard anything from them about upgrading!
I took a picture on the train the other day, in the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley on CalTrain it was macbooks all the way down the car. It was the first time I had seen the entire car with nothing but Macbooks.

That said, the particular infographic is misleading in a number of ways, MacOS 10.9 but none of the other versions? Windows 8 and 8.1 are differentiated by not Windows Vista, SP1, and SP2?

Microsoft's biggest problem is that XP is "good enough" on hardware that will never run Windows 7. That leaves them asking someone to spend anywhere from $500 to $1000 to "upgrade" a machine that is working fine for the intended purpose, sometimes several thousand machines. And who wants to do that?

If someone wants to do something crazy at Microsoft it would be to target windows 9 to every single windows capable platform from XP to present. That would be a huge amount of work and so I doubt they will even attempt it, and they would have to back port drivers for hardware where the vendor no longer exists. But it would solidify their OS position once again.
I enjoy it. Very much indeed. To be more specific I love epic war battles like those of Lord of the Ring. I do not, however had the need to inflict violence on others. I guess I'm weird that way.
CRAZY video giving Katy Perry and Rebecca Black a run for their money
That's not true; you can read the key from 3.0 (the latest) Digital Editions with no problems at all.
Designing User Interfaces for Your Mother
You're saying "Mechanical License", but I thought cover songs were Compulsory Licenses [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_Stat...
This series of posts appears to be a somewhat poor copy of another blog (although it is linked).

http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/
You're right. I'm going along with DRM by putting up with it, and it's not something I feel good about, and something that bothers me. I'm doing it because it's a complex situation, especially for the authors involved, many of which aren't in a position to stick up "for the cause". I understand you want me to make strategic decisions to bring about change faster, but I'm concerned about the collateral damage. It's tricky.

I have actually tried to give preferential treatment to DRM-free options where available, and bought some DRM-free books that I might not have otherwise, as well as advertised them to peers and generally tried to awareness of the topic and the benefits of unencumbered book files.

That's the trade-off I'm currently at. It's not a desirable one and I have great respect for your stance, but it's what I feel is best under the circumstances.
may I add this article by Laurence Tratt about parsing :

http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/parsing_the_solved_prob...
ltu discussion http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4489
Another interesting option is Beamer[1]. Bought it a while ago and I have nothing but good things to say about it... Just drag any video on it and stream it to your AppleTV in seconds.

[1] http://beamer-app.com/
> developers are welcome to cast shootings, stabbings, explosions and other gory images

Although I strongly agree with your general sentiment regarding the USA's backwards policies on sexual content, I'm not sure it's accurate in this particular case. From the article:

> Also verboten are hate speech, violence and bullying and online gambling.

It appears to me that Google is simply attempting to block all "R-rated content" as opposed to just nudity, sex, etc.
I imagine hosting this service in the US would create all sorts of liabilities.
I've found the iD editor on openstreetmap.org to be very good. It's been the main editor since May last year.

Potlatch 2 was the main one before that, which wasn't as good but was adequate.
They make a RSS feed of your content that you can subscribe like a podcast
How do you have a $5 plan? I don't see it listed anywhere on the pricing page: http://puu.sh/6Jlp8.png
No. At least I don't think so, but IANAL.

In general, bad laws are better fixed by repeal or amendment, as opposed to fiat of the executive branch, because they represent the people. The NSA spying on Americans is bad, and I believe a violation of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. That being said, the way to fix this is through Congress or the Supreme Court.

If you really want to see progress on this front, do it through the courts and through Congress. The wheels for this are already in motion, but it could take some time to have an effect. The two biggest things that could speed this up are to convince your friends and relatives that this is an important issue, and to vote for a non-establishment candidate in the upcoming mid-term election.

Unless this becomes an issue for the average American (hint: it's not yet), or unless we get non-establishment representation in the Capitol building, this won't get fixed the way it ought to.
Umm... maybe i am misunderstanding their service, but i fail to see the point. With put.io, a server can torrent the file for me. And then... i stream it from the server... So, my pc still needs that gigabits of transfer, at my usual net speed. Where was the gain? Couldn't i have used the same time to torrent it? In fact i would have to torrent it ONCE, but with put.io i have to stream (and thus effectively download that data) each time i want to view that file...
What I want to know is where did he get that freaking awesome copper tube??
It's the norm. Most startups offer market salary + stock options. Most of my friends who took significant salary cut for stock options got burned. I have no idea how much salary and equity is being offered to you, but here is an example.

Consider this, most likely the startup will fail and your equity will be worth zero. You need to evaluate risk & sacrifice vs opportunity.

Let's assume that this startup will get acquired for $50 million after 5 years and 3 rounds of funding. You take a 50% salary cut and 1% stock options; which will be diluted to about 0.25% after 3 rounds of funding (depending upon investment terms). You will get $125,000 (0.25% x $5 million) after 5 years. Is it worth the salary cut and sacrifice you will make?

There is a very little chance that this startup may turn out to be a $1 billion exit. Let's assume this happens after 10 years and 8 rounds of funding. At this point, your 1% equity is diluted to about 0.04%; so you will get about $400,000.

If the startup is acquired for anything less than $50 million, you will probably not get anything.

If I were to join a pre-funding startup and take significant salary cut, I would expect at least 10% equity.
Even without superscalar execution it'd still help, since no sane architecture has floating-point arithmetic with an effective latency of 1 cycle. Current Intel cores have a latency of 3 cycles for FP add, and 4 cycles for FP multiply.

OoOE is another matter though...
Using KeePass combined with btsync - fairly decent combination. Have my db synch'd across all my devices, and available from any desktop machine I have access to. Haven't tried using the android version, but I'm sure it works well.

Now I just have to trust the security of btsync
That would make Windows 9 so much money. Having to shell out a huge amount of money for upgrading is keeping our customer base (school districts) from making the leap before the last possible moment.

With the advent of thin clients and visualization, having a low-powered machine with a low-overhead operating system is looking more and more normal.
The Big Five publishers should be long past "Does DRM buy us anything useful?" and should be thinking about "Is DRM hurting our interests?"

The effect of DRM on piracy is negligible at best and could be actively promoting it at worst (when ordinary customers get stuck in these hoops). Meanwhile, the main practical impact of ebook DRM is to create lock-in for ebook DRM providers, especially the ones that are also retailers, like Amazon.

The Big Five publishers seem convinced that Amazon is a serious threat to their business. Given that, I don't understand why they give Amazon the club to beat them with by insisting on the customer-hostile misfeature of DRM. If they hadn't done that in the first place, perhaps they wouldn't have felt forced to solve their "Amazon problem" with an illegal conspiracy in the second place.
The problem with in-browser password management is that the attacker does not need to escape the browser. Code injection (via XSS or a browser exploit) into a running extension is likely easier than defeating the seccomp-IPC implementation or the AppArmor/SELinux profiles which protect the system. Addons like LastPass are mainly concerned with remote server weaknesses, but nothing will protect the browser from itself.

Another opinion: It's weird loading a browser+environment for non-browser passwords (SSH, HTTP/WebDAV, etc), and it's equally weird managing the passwords separately.
Interesting, they used to offer a 10GB plan for $5 (which I've always been on: http://d.pr/i/WDEK ) . Apparently it's not available anymore! However, I was never asked to upgrade my plan (I didn't even know the plan I was on didn't exist anymore before today!)
If you want to distill all of what "the cloud" means into just "accessing a service", then sure. Nothing's changed in 40 years because it's all still just "clients" accessing "services".

Also, transportation hasn't changed in millenia because we're still just humans moving places, and information retrieval hasn't changed since the invention of the written word, because we're still just absorbing information from glyphs on something that has distinct colors.
Not just any money, price plans are quite drastic ones.
Good thing XpExtend was just released at XpExtend[dot]com.
Every elevator you've been in has been held up by a magnet. They're just not obvious inside the motor housing.
Hmm, that's repeatedly not worked for me IIRC, but then I'm doing it on Wine rather than an actual Windows. Actually, now that I'm forced to recall the details ... maybe the problem was actually getting the newer version to run due to the .NET requirement.

Still though, different app versions but same DRM system version - the relevant info would be how long it took to defeat that version of the DRM the last time, right?
There are lots of street numbers around parts of Brisbane (probably some of the most comprehensive are around Fairfield to South Brisbane). It's pretty easy to add - I traced my neighborhood and added address data in a couple of hours.

If you want to make the world a better place, you could do some around your house as well!
I would avoid off shore developers at all costs. It'll be more costly for your business if you didn't pick the right ones, or not managing them correctly.

Even if you did pick the right developers, you will have to spend time to teach them about design. Design is completely off when it's done offsite.
You're more than welcome to think that, but I'm an adult, and you shouldn't get to decide what I can and can't see, anymore than I should be allowed to do the same to you.
Yes, and I am aware it was inspired by Python, that's obvious, and that's one of the biggest reasons I like CoffeeScript because of the nice somewhat Python-ish clean syntax. To me though CoffeeScript is even cleaner than Python. For example, you don't need colons in some places, and there are less underscores in some places. And with ToffeeScript smoothing out the async stuff, I think its really worth trying out for Python people.
Sadly a completely paid for house in California can still cost you $15K/year in taxes and insurance, not to mention maintenance like the occasional roof or paint job. But it helps clearly.

But I wonder a bit if this catches on if you will start seeing "retirement communities" in places like Las Vegas which have a number of houses available for 100 - 150K where taxes and insurance are less than $3K/year. If you work on the utility angle (massive insulation to avoid large heating/cooling bills) can you make that work?
The abrasive effects on Pornography on human brain for some strange reason does not get enough attention in the media. I like what Google and Apple are doing, at least there is a first line of defense.
These are the reasons put.io is awesome:

- It caches torrents that other people downloaded(popular torrents) so if you add them, they are in your library immediately
- You can subscribe to RSS feeds of TV shows from showrss.info without needing to download every show individually
- You can install the XBMC app to access you content there
- A REST API? Yup! They have it!
- It converts videos to MP4 on their cloud
- You can use multi-connection downloaders to reach to speeds like 30Mbps
- There are many apps to use with put.io
Agree. I'd love to have one of those.
- You don't need to seed.
- Your ISP won't throttle your torrent packets.
I use a GPS app on my iPhone called NavFree - it actually lets you use Google search for geocoding, and then OpenStreetMap data (stored offline, which is awesome) for the navigation.

It works really well. Sadly they haven't updated the data on the Australian version in six months though.
One advantage is to instantly stream video files for most torrents. If someone else on put.io downloaded a given torrent before you, it's available for streaming in mp4 immediately (and that's the case for most torrents I've added to put.io)
If I understand this correctly...

You're paying 0.99/mo to ensure that you get top speeds of all torrents downloaded all the time.

Sometimes you can't get the best seeder because more powerful seeders are taking your priority. put.io is always that more powerful seeder.
The point is, if you use torrent your ISP will detect is and in best scenario it will slow down your connection.

Source: Comcast and Time Warner Cable did this to me.
Last time I spoke to some Canonical devs, it's still being worked on, with a target for 14.04 as an alpha I think. I'd love to have ARM Ubuntu-everything; ARM laptop, Ubuntu TV stick, Ubuntu phone that turns into a full desktop when plugged in... The tech is so nearly there. Sigh, one can dream :)

EDIT: the main issue is ARMs lack of anything remotely similar to a BIOS. That's sort of changing, linux now has some stuff in the kernel to help target various ARM chipsets, but it's still difficult. Would be cool to see a kick starter for an ARM Ubuntu TV Stick -- I wonder what protocol would be best for "flinging" content to it?
That is absolutely ridiculous pricing! I guess there is one gateway anyone can use regardless of country is: http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/whatwedo/payment_pro...
Ofcourse it does not have a transparent pricing or subscription module, but you could overcome that by integrating with any third party app spreedly, chargebee etc
Well one could argue that folks already paid it forward. One could decide to take a couple of billion out of the cash on hand pile and invest it in reinforcing the OS footprint. I think ultimately that is what Apple is trying to prevent with their low cost OS upgrades.

But as a strategic move it would fix a number of weaknesses in Microsoft's current situation.
I see this as a mechanism for diffusing liability. Users who would otherwise be legally liable for seeding copyrighted content can instead use put.io, which "seeds" for them without their involvement and just lets them download as if they were only leeching.

As long as nobody gets a legal beatdown for using put.io...
20k visits is about $50 adsense revenue.