skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the significant drawbacks to every proprietary drag-and-drop website builder is that you cannot easily export your website. Any time you spend building your site with their tool just further locks you into their hosting platform.

I've seen some very nice personal webpages built on Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, etc. by non-technical and non-design users, but I would never recommend it to a business client.
We use an original generation Fire Stick specifically for Prime streaming (everything else is on Apple TV), and it's an okay product, but Amazon's dual goal to provide free streaming while also driving purchases makes it a flawed product in the same way that Apple Music within iTunes made me pull out my hair. The new generation with voice should be a good improvement (the amazon remote app for smartphones already incorporates it for the original generation of fire sticks).
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Looks like someone's uncorked the truth and it's spilling everywhere.
Cancel your Amazon Prime, send a signal to Amazon.

There are plenty of retailers with expedited shipping options now, and I've long preferred say, Newegg, over Amazon for technology products.

I'm canceling my Prime. I don't even own a Chromecast, or any iOS devices, but I'm not going to support a company throwing its weight around in this abusive manner, even if it's entirely legal.

(It is not without irony that I write this, because one of the reasons Amazon is doing this is the Apple tax on digital goods, which is why I don't purchase iOS devices for personal use. The idea that Apple should get a 30% cut of everything that flows through an iPhone or iPad is insane to me.)
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AIUI Rust grew out of a dissatisfaction with C++, and it does have a few good features, such as type inference. But since Java was released, it's been unthinkable for a high level language to require programmers to do their own memory management. If Rust is aimed solely at systems programming, to be used the way Algol 60 was used to implement MCP, PL/1 Multics, C Unix, and Oberon Oberon, then the lack of a garbage collection is understandable. But you can never guarantee your product will be used as intended: I've encountered people who think C is an acceptable choice for everything.

I'm not merely dissatisfied with the current status quo: I'm actively doing something about it. IMO we're doing practically everything wrong, from hardware upwards. Fixing it requires systems very different from those in widespread use today.
> And with what provisos about selling through those apps

Chromecast doesn't have any special connection to Google Play. Anyone can cast whatever they want. Amazon Prime Instant Video can already be cast, but the user experience is so bad that you probably don't want to.
> Amazon can absolutely do this

May, maybe not. It depends if the FTC views this as an anti-competitive move. See https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

"It is unlawful for a company to monopolize or attempt to monopolize trade, meaning a firm with market power cannot act to maintain or acquire a dominant position by excluding competitors or preventing new entry."
Amazon Instant Video is available on Sony TVs running Android TVs, but Amazon disables the app from working on non-Sony TVs:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/16/amazon-disables-the-...

Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Crunchyroll, etc. all support Chromecast. It would be extremely easy for Amazon to support it, if they wanted to.
or just don't use CDNs... they are just another privacy issue on top of all other problems...
I think the grandparents warning only applies to pure caffein powder. Essentially pills are (professionally) predosed to be safe, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Borrows may be non-lexical in the future, but deallocation via ownership will always be at the end of a lexical scope. Not only would eager deallocation be bad for performance, it's also a backcompat hazard at this point.
If for whatever reason lfs doesn't work for you, check out our solution to large file storage on git: https://github.com/dailymuse/git-fit

We wrote it because of various issues with tools at the time, basically boiling down to an inclination to have a dead simple solution.

I haven't tried lfs, but if it's anything like github's other software, then I'm sure it's substantially better than our tool.
Even the methodology for acquisition of the self-reported data used in this study has changed over the years.

> In NHANES I (1971–1975) and NHANES II (1976–1980), in-person interviews were used to obtain self-reported dietary information via a 24-h dietary recall questionnaire that assessed food and beverage intake for weekdays only. In NHANES III (1988–1994), dietary information was obtained through a self-reported 24-h dietary recall using a computer-assisted, automated, interactive method for any day of the week. In NHANES 1999–2002, a multiple-pass computer-assisted dietary interview format was used to collect detailed self-reported information about all foods and beverages that were consumed the day prior to the in-person interview (weekday or weekend). In NHANES 2003–2008, 24-h self-reported dietary recalls were performed twice (3–10 days apart) using an automated multiple pass method.

I'm highly suspect of this one. This seems like an interesting avenue of exploration, but this data seems too weak to make broad claims from.
First thing in a while I have been disappointed in from Amazon. Pretty crappy move.
They still sell the current American flag, and we've killed what, over 100K civilians in the middle east in an unnecessary war? I guess fake outrage is necessary to fill the 24 hour news cycle.
That's my experience too. Fortunately most of the EMV-activated terminals I've run into also accept NFC so I've just been using Android Pay to avoid the extra hassle.
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This was not some amateur discovery. This was 2009 Intel International Engineering Science Fair's top prize for Microbiology category.

I would be surprised if those award winning high schoolers had no assistance from professors to teach them how to do research and write papers.
This is great, we plan to ship alpha LFS support in GitLab CE & EE & .com in 8.1 or 8.2. That is in addition to the git annex support that EE & .com already have for a longer time https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/17/gitlab-annex-solves-the-...
Google has dominant marketshare in its industry (search engine), Amazon does not (retail).
I believe they required sideloading because of Google Play's restrictions on selling items / subscriptions without giving Google a cut.
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>Amazon Fire TV Stick

Which unsurprisingly, doesn't support media from the Google Play Store. The only acceptable streaming device is one from a neutral third party (Roku, Tivo, etc.) who will support all providers.
Because I misspoke and it's actually that any hot titanium will form brittle oxides. The Heat Affected Zone (HAZ) extends far further than the weld puddle, so you need to substantially increase the coverage of your flood, usually far enough that it makes sense to do the welding inside of a bag, down in a tank, etc.

I heard that one of the titanium bicycle manufacturers actually had whole rooms that they flooded and the welders just wore masks that gave them air. Totally a "I heard it from a friend who heard it from a guy" kinda situation though.

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I don't understand how the official EU test can be such that it differs from "real world usage". Why don't they just record a couple of hours of real TV shows, play them back and plug in a Watt meter?
Also canceling my Prime membership. I would hope this comes to the eyes of the antitrust bureau as well as it seems like a fairly strong case. If Google de-listed Amazon from their results for having a competing product it would be huge news.
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I wouldn't call it manual at all. It looks remarkably like automatic storage duration IMO.
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> If they are no longer the "Everything Store" then they won't be where I go to for everything...

I'm working on it: http://percht.com , its still under heavy development and im not done crawling everything, but its coming. yeah you cant order on percht either, but i have to start somewhere...
There's cool stuff behind the scenes including react / nlp / and neural nets in case anyone would like to collaborate.
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There are a lot of comparisons in the original announcement of LFS on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9343021
It doesn't look like anything new AFAICT. I don't think they ever recommended sha-256 for TOP SECRET documents and with a quick scan I didn't see any new discussion in fips-180-4 itself.
I always have a phone, tablet or computer within reach, so it's not a problem to have no dedicated remote (one less thing cluttering my living room, actually).

I also use legal-greyarea services like Put.io, which only work on Chromecast because of how open the ecosystem is.

Before this I used a Boxee Box, which I preferred over the competitors because you could load it full of homebrew (including Put.io).

The Chromecast is most-used HDMI device in my house, because it works with everything I use.
Eh, I thought the last third was a letdown.
I think it'd be great if databases had a "back in time" feature, ability to view the data in the form how it looked like in the past. Instead you have to always develop it again and again in the schemas - very often keeping complete history is desired. Storage is generally no more an issue in 2015, especially if compression is applied.

Even if you keep full query logs, getting to the state the database was 10th of February 2014 05:34:23 UTC is rather inconvenient and slow.

You wouldn't need bitemporal schemas either with a feature like this.

Another pet peeve in relational databases is a no-compromise hierarchy (and graph) storage. You can usually get fast reads or fast inserts, but there always seems to be a compromise.
Planetes is my favourite anime, though granted I haven't watched many.

I'm not sure if the logistics make sense though, I haven't done the math but I would imagine that the amount of fuel needed to change orbits would either be prohibitively expensive or you would spend months before returning to the base station.
>It's not that peak oil didn't happen, or that it wasn't traumatic

What trauma do you mean?
I dunno, I wouldnt be surprised if Prime Video and AWS actually make money, unlike the "most valuable component" that does not. Besides, will you really stop using Amazon if it is the "Everything except a few devices store"?
Hubris. There are other channels and consumers will surely find them.

And -- oops -- waddaya know, my kindle app just crashed :)
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Probably the last month I'll post this on one of these threads:

I wrote a way to search these recently ... just paste this in your console: https://gist.github.com/kristopolous/19260ae54967c2219da8

There is both OR and AND support here. If you specify your function parameter as an ARRAY then it operates as an AND, otherwise each argument is an OR.

For instance, to see posts that are remote and python OR remote and ruby, you can do

query(['remote','python'],['remote','ruby']);

The return of the function shows how many jobs were shown versus in total. For instance, as of this writing, I get the following result when running the above function:

{ shown: 56, total: 827 }

It's worth noting that some people have turned this into various "web apps" ... and a few people have forked it and added more sophisticated queries ... search HN news stories for links.
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Every full-time job I've ever had in the US paid very well but there was no time to spend any of it because I was at work all the time. Anyways, if your budget is that tight an extra 6 hours a week would let you live further from work / drive an uber / cook more / whatever to fill in the gaps.

> Besides, if they generate the same value - why would you pay them less?

The parent to my comment was referring to shift work like nurses where you can't generate the same value in less time -- somebody has to be there.
No, I've primarily used Amazon for purchasing physical items when I need them yesterday. That said, I'm no stranger to Amazon's streaming product -- prior to the release of the Chromecast, Amazon was my primary source for purchased video content via PS3 (Currently I have 38 movies and ~8 seasons of television episodes in the account). This also meant I'd frequently use Amazon Prime video to avoid having to switch over to the Netflix app.

I'm far less concerned with the availability of the streaming product itself, and more upset about the corporate mindset this behavior demonstrates.
Same here, shipping is probably my biggest benefit, prime's video offerings are about the same as Netflix's
Cool, one thing though, you're not getting my genome. That's like giving you my fingerprints and we've just barely met. My fitbit data has probably already outed me to you given what I said previously. I'm OK with that because there's nothing but good news there. My genome? Well, it's a mixed bag like anyone else's hence the 20K+ steps per day as an ongoing service patch.

I do wish there were a way to anonymously calculate the very comparative statistics you're generating, but alas I don't see one. Am I missing something?
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You can only make that kind of a conclusion assuming two things:

1. Perfect information. You are aware of everything there is to know which might be tangential to the matter at hand.

Perfect information is not at all necessary for rational thought. There's a whole field of research about probabilistic reasoning that helps with that.

2. Identical environment. You share the same exact circumstances as everyone else.

That's really just a special case of point 1.

When you dismiss the views of others because you don't share them, you're not being rational ... you're just being stupid.

That's not what I said, either. I explicitly talked about investigating those views.

Suppose my friend comes up to me and says "Blue cars are more reliable than red cars." I inquire further as to how he came up with that statement, and he gives me nothing useful. "Its just my opinion / feeling / premonition / whatever."

Is it rational for me to believe my friend's statement? No, because there is no evidence.

Now suppose that one of the workers in the car factory hates the color red. And he's been subtly sabotaging those, and taking extra time to make sure the blue ones are better. There's that perfect information you're talking about that I'm missing.

However, even in that case, should I be believing my friend's statement about blue cars? No, because I don't have evidence, and neither did he. Until someone collects at least some evidence, it isn't reasonable for me to believe that blue cars are more reliable, because I don't have any basis in theory (that the color blue can actually affect mechanical reliability) or in practice (the statistics for the cars)... even though my friend's statement is actually true.

Rationality is a tool we use to discern truth from falseness. But we still have to do the work.
That's an interesting point. When Google started pushing G+ social networks in general was all the tech media were talking about. Now it's the death of cable and the rise of streaming services. And just like Google wanted it's piece of the buzz-worthy social media space, Amazon wants a piece of the growing streaming market.

It's certainly not a good precedent to set banning competitor's products from their store. I could come up with a dozen different slippery-slope scenarios.
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Apple bans iFixit app
Even on just middle-of-the-road household goods, ignoring weekly sales, Amazon doesn't seem very competitive with brick-and-mortar stores for staple goods, or at least those I buy. I occasionally run down a list of stuff I typically buy at Walmart (shampoo, detergent, OTC drugs, sponges, that kind of thing) to see if any of it has gotten competitive on Amazon, and it usually ends up being way more, not just 5% more or something but more like 50%+.
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The tragedy being that rustc_serialize only gets away with this because its machinery is directly built into the compiler.