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Northern India is experiencing cold wave and shivering.  It is reported that Pathankot and Talwara, bordering Himachal Pradesh witnessed heavy snowfall in the morning on Saturday. Dozens of villages along the Himachal-Punjab border in the lower Shivaliks experienced snow for the first time ever. Residents woke up to find a 5-inch sheet of white covering fields and open spaces. Not used to the cold, many birds and small animals were found dead.

What is Hadoop?

Hadoop is a free, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It is part of the  Apache  project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop makes it possible to run applications on systems with thousands of nodes involving thousands of  terabyte s. Its distributed file system facilitates rapid  data transfer rate s among nodes and allows the system to continue operating uninterrupted in case of a node failure. This approach lowers the risk of catastrophic system failure, even if a significant number of nodes become inoperative. Hadoop was inspired by  Google 's  MapReduce , a software framework in which an application  is broken down into numerous small parts. Any of these parts (also called fragments or blocks) can be run on any  node  in the  cluster . Doug Cutting, Hadoop's creator, named the framework after his child's stuffed toy elephant. T...
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Beloved Master, What does Love mean?

Question -  Beloved Master, What does Love mean? Osho  - Prem Jyoti, love has different meanings for all. To writers, love is words. To artists, love is color. To a comic, love is laughter. To a baby, it is mother. To bees, it's nectar. To flowers, it is sunshine. And to cows, it is a lot of bull. It all depends on you what love is going to mean. Love is a ladder with many rungs. At the lowest it is physiology, biology, chemistry. It is nothing but a play of hormones. A man is attracted towards a woman, a woman is attracted towards a man. They think they are falling in love, but if hormones could laugh they must be laughing inside you -- you are befooled. What you are calling love is nothing but attraction between male and female hormones. It is pure chemistry; at the lowest point it is not more than that. It is animal, it is lust. And millions of people know only love at its lowest. Because of these people there has arisen a great tradition of renouncing love. The peopl...

Osho, what is your message to humanity on this new year’s day?

My message is simple. My message is a new man, homo novus. The old concept of man was of either/or ; materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral, sinner or saint. It was based on division, split. It created a schizophrenic humanity. The whole past of humanity has been sick, unhealthy, insane. In three thousand years, five thousand wars have been fought. This is just utterly mad; it is unbelievable. It is stupid, unintelligent, inhuman. Once you divide man in two, you create misery and hell for him. He can never be healthy and can never be whole, the other half that has been denied will go on taking revenge. It will go on finding ways and means to overcome the part that you have imposed upon yourself. You will become a battle-ground, a civil war . That’s what has been the case in the past. In the past we were not able to create real human beings , but humanoids. A humanoid is one who looks like a human being but is utterly crippled, paralysed. He has not been allowed...
Getting Started with Your Facebook App on Heroku Last Updated: 15 November 2011 facebook Table of Contents Create an App What is Heroku? Heroku Account and Tools Setup Editing Your App Working Locally Further Reading This guide is for Facebook developers who are creating apps on Heroku via the Facebook Cloud Services integration. It assumes no previous knowledge of Heroku, and will walk through every part of the process: creating an app and a Heroku account, setting up local development tools, and deploying changes to your Facebook app. Create an App (If you’ve already created a Heroku app via Facebook, you can skip to the next section.) Start by going to Facebook Developers and clicking Create New App in the upper-right corner: You’ll be presented with this dialog: Enter anything you wish for the app name, check the terms box, then click Continue. Fill out the captcha in the subsequent dialog and click Submit. After a brief delay you’ll be taken to your (cu...

Seek

The search depends on the seeker. Masters can only show the way. The search depends on the seeker – what quality of being, what quality of inquiry the seeker brings to the search. Everything will depend on it, on why he is in search, what the reason is, because the reason of the search will become the cause of his growth. If the reason is wrong, from the very beginning he has taken a wrong step, and the right end cannot follow a wrong beginning. The first step is the last step also, because the first step implies in it, has in it already, the last step as a potentiality. The seed is the tree because the seed will become the tree. The end will come out of the growth of the seeker, and if from the very beginning a wrong reason exists to seek and search, then everything is going to be in vain. The masters can only show the way, they can only indicate. Everything else has to be done by you, by the disciple. The discipline is not going to be imposed; no master ever imposes a disc...

Dexter, Season 7

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Every week in  Slate ’s  Dexter  TV club, Katy Waldman will have an IM conversation with a different  Dexter  fan. This week, she rehashes episode 7.1 with Torie Bosch, editor of  Future Tense  at  Slate. As Season 7 opens, Dexter has just dispatched Travis Marshall, aka the Doomsday Killer —but there’s a catch. His adoptive sister Debra, newly appointed lieutenant of Miami Homicide, saw him commit the murder. Even worse, she witnessed the crime after suddenly realizing that she might harbor romantic feelings for her brother. In Episode 1, Dexter tries to convince Deb not to report him, even as he struggles to conceal his true nature as a serial killer. Torie Bosch:  I've got my rubber apron on. Let's do this thing. Katy Waldman:  One tension that I kept feeling during the episode was: How much was Dexter faking in his scenes with Debra? Was his shock and fear a performance, or was it a genuine reaction to getting caught?...

Top Search Types

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We determined that actually people are more interested in topics other than adult phrases online.  In this year’s version of the study, we classify the type of searches that are made in the top 100. So, you’ll see an even more defined category than what we were thinking previously.  We used to think in terms of “top websites”, “adult websites” and “top brands” , but we've realized that Everyone's searching for websites for the most part and so we need to categorize the “type” of website they’re looking for.  Even though there are MANY different permutations of adult phrases being sought after online, we do see that many people are busy being “social.”   Then again, maybe the adult content surfers don’t want Google to know they’re searching and they bookmark them instead?

L i f e

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave. If you are alive there is inconvenience. If you are alive there are challenges. If you are alive then every moment you have to face reality , encounter reality. Every moment you have to be ready to change and to move. Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That’s why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain. ~ Osho