skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DC metro area performs its traffic tracking via old-fashioned cameras, license plate reading, and pressure sensors in the highway.

I don't really know what the linked story has to do with toll RFID tags or automobile tracking; I was expecting some kind of source that supported your claim.
The bulk of his money came from co-founding Current TV then selling it to Al Jazeara for an estimated $500 million in 2013. He also made a killing off of getting a bunch of Apple options for serving on their board in the early 2000s.
Thanks for the feedback.

There is a searchable archive of all messages which is only available to the list administrators. Since members of a list aren't required to have any sort of credentials the message archive isn't available to be but I do intend of make options in this area.

The limit of 100 members is mostly an attempt, at this time, to only tragedy small group. I simply didn't want groups of 1000's from the start.

As to how we're different from a MailMan-list etc. Our aim is to make setting up and managing an email list as simple as it can be. Group email is a very effective tool for small groups and we want to make it available to as many as them as possible.
Amazes me that anyone familiar with data online thinks there aren't ways to track and store everyone's internet usage.
Anheuser Busch acquires SABMiller for $106 Billion
"permanent"? Nothing is permanent if you have to pay monthly.
It probably also claimed to be "permanent".
You just know that when the pricing page says "Call us" that they are going to try and rip you off. This is a classis sales technique for expensive products, they ascertain how much you can probably afford and then that becomes the price. Very off putting.
But that's still Google providing the advertising. In what way is your search history not contained to Google when an advertiser asks Google to display text ads with your content to people that are interested in X, Y and Z?

I can think of a few very expensive ways, but those are also ways in which Google is allowing erosion of their competitive advantage by allowing that information to leak. That, by the way, is why I don't feel particularly paranoid about Google sharing my information everywhere. Google is strongly incentivized to keep it closely guarded so other people can't monetize it in ways that cause Google to lose out.
The main reason is: this is their homepage after they just released a MASSIVE new product and raised a pile of money. The majority of relevant traffic to their homepage either knows who optimizely is or is already a customer.

Their original product was pretty straightforward: easy-to-use A/B testing. Put in your site, drag and drop some stuff, click go, and it'll tell you if one version performed better. Their old home page reflected this, and mostly tried to get you to take it for a test drive (you could enter any URL and play around with it).

The new product is MUCH more upmarket. They're looking for companies that have enough traffic that you can cut your visitors 5 different ways and still have a meaningful segment to market to. Between this and the fact that it's new news, the homepage is deliberately information-light. They know you know them, and they want to get on the phone.

My prediction is they drop back to something a bit more interactive / descriptive once the buzz from their raise and launch dies down.
Modern (market/captial) economies aren't an all or nothing system; tax law, regulations, and social programs are very influential and the diversity among policies for various 1st world countries show the "market" economics is a fluid force that is channeled through the framework of rules we create and modify.
It's also incredible hyperbole. Makes it difficult to take anything else the author wrote seriously.
Uggh I know exactly what you mean - I happened to see folks mentioning the rule change on the Canada visa forum and scrambled my application together just in time, and it was AoR the day before the change.

That really sucks man!
Thinking more of technical or trade certs that are not a money making scheme like pmp
You don't think it's amazing that people will pay exorbitant amounts of money for housing that a few decades ago was regarded a ghetto? I do.
While unsettling, that still doesn't explain the data flow out of Google. Google wants your customized list of email targeting, sure. But they don't want to leak anything proprietary to others to use, such as search history.
I couldn't help but wonder if this would ultimately produce the same result as the "No No" shaver which, from what I read, is just a hot wire that burns the hair at the root.

The reviews make it sound like its a rather slow and smelly affair shaving this way.
I incorrectly thought that your problem was that somebody else could monetize your work.

Copyright is enforced here, sites are banned and people go to jail for installing unlicensed software. Piracy is widespread because of many cultural, historical and economical reasons. There are 3 main business models Russian authors use: crowdfunding (there are few platforms specialised on books), appealing to audience without internet access, and receiving support from the government.
Just don't make it look like a bomb on purpose, and take it out during English class, and then plug it in and set the alarm off.
> It was just my opinion [... ]I have no right to put words in their mouths.

That's fine. But let's not pretend yours is a unique or unusual opinion.

> But the top investment bankers who were intentionally [...]

So here's another good example of the red herring that's been skillfully thrown your way. They could only do what they did because the system let them. Then they got slapped on the wrist a little (if at all) because the system doesn't punish itself.

And let's not forget: most of the people complicit in all that stuff were regular folks humping a boring job trying to make enough money to not go broke. By headcount, guaranteed those sub-$40k-a-year regular folks outnumber the terrible fatcats 10,000-to-1. They're responsible, too, but you don't see people demonstrating in front of their local mortgage broker's house. So when you (the global "you") talk about IBs ruining America and so forth, it rings pretty hollow to me because the system that let them do it in the first place is what you should blame. As long as you're distracted from that fact, you are no threat which is why knowing how to think is so important (colleges will try to trick you into believing that's what they're teaching, but they're not. Your first exercise is to figure out why they're not).

Tangent: my favorite example of this method of distraction is Obamacare. All this discussion about how to make it so everyone could afford an asprin at the hospital, and when it was all over nobody had bothered to ask why an asprin at the hospital should cost $15 in the first place. Why not? Because that's not a conversation the system wants you to have. $15 asprins build hospital wings and buy fancy new machines and pay administrators 8 figure salaries. We do not talk about the asprin.

Anyway, my point is that calling out the rich or the 1% or whatever is stupid, because they give back way more than their fair share (by the numbers). When someone/something says you need to direct your hate over that way, your first reaction should be to look and see what's the other way. The system that let banks go too far is the same system that's burying young people in student loan debt. Except this time you can't walk away! You and I both know this, but now we'll tab over to our editors and keep coding and making money and paying bills and moving on with our lives. This is why the system is the system, and we are not.
Optimizely ain't cheap, dude, and scaling doesn't work the way you want it to at a lot of volumes.

I worked at a company where we paid $400 / month for Optimizely, based on having ~20k uniques. That seemed fair. If you take that up by 100x, $40k / month might not sound fair. You can cut the pricing at that point and say it's $10k / month, but there's a world of difference between a B2B site and an ecommerce site. The usage patterns are different, so the value received and load put on Optimizely are different. It bears different pricing.

Beyond that, sales reps aren't all bad. If you're going to lay out $200k for a product like this for a year, you probably don't want something that you just email out a bunch of logins and say "hey team, try it out, let me know what you think." Talking to a human being can help an exec figure out the way their organization can use it the best and help them get that implemented. Yeah, they're biased, but people who deal with sales reps know how to mitigate that bias, and a good rep can be the difference between a successful implementation and a failed one.
Thanks a lot for the feedback.

I have made spreadsheets working out how much lists will cost to run for various sizes and levels of activity and I think $10/year covers most reasonable cases.

Some competitors have more tiered pricing but I really wanted to keep things simple with a single headline price.
I'm not normally one to jump on the "it's the media" bandwagon, but it's unusually true in this case, although not in the way you present it. I think that shows and movies have show "the good guys" using torture more and more frequently, and this has actually changed our perception of right and wrong.

(For example: 24, Almost Human, Batman...almost too many to list. It's funny to watch the second Rambo movie and ask yourself if there's any difference at all between the russians in afghanistan in the 80's and the US there in the 00's.)
A film about the looming retirement crisis
"I'd really really rather wait for fusion."

This is like the computer company that loses business after announcing the date for its next model, except worse, because there's no date for fusion. The threat of fusion is sucking the air out of fission.
The importance of community-oriented GPL enforcement
Show HN: C# FTP Server with Optional Google Drive Support
Open Source Initiative Supports SFC's GPL Enforcement Principles
It eventually gets reduced to the name of the company that capitalizes on the solution most successfully.

"Oh, they're using Panasonic batteries."

"He drives a Tesla."

"Google it."

I still think emc2fusion.org is worth a second look. Unfortunately, a number of really useful writeups were on talk-polywell.org which dreamhost hosed.
Fair point but free services get shutdown too.
This has always seemed like a moot point to me when the government can demand that they install a backdoor at any point in the future under a gag order. Though this is true for any company anywhere basically.
I don't know much either, I had folder issues many times (package-v1 still loaded trying to open .emacs.d/elpa/package-v1/some-file even though package-v1 has been deleted and now only package-v2 is on disk.

I remember a few elisp level error after upgrades.
Yeah, as someone who works with Electron, the naming is often frustrating for doing Google searches. Wished they had stayed with atom-shell for that reason.
Nice catch! That one is from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_chemical_formulas

I've updated the offending page.
Amiga Walker Prototype
Interesting. I would note the following:

"Applications are open for YC Winter 2016"
Is this an Uber thing? I didn't see it mentioned.
A Google a Day
This seems like common sense. I know if there are layoffs at my company, the first thing I will do is start looking around.
His handwriting was so bad I often needed one of the expert scholars to decipher it. I essentially learned through exposure, and realized how valuable studying the original manuscripts of authors can be. Whitman, for example, wrote on scraps of paper (essentially like Post-Its), and then tacked them to a large wall and rearranged, crossed out, rewrote, and edited everything like that, eventually getting to a point where he was happy, upon which time he rewrote everything again in the final manuscript he sent to his publisher. This was for Leaves of Grass.

UVA also has the papers of William Faulkner, so I learned quote a bit about him, too. Additionally, four original copies of the Declaration of Independence.

No, I didn't learn anything shocking, but I learned an awful lot about the history of the book, and archiving, and digitizing, and publishing. Terry Belanger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Belanger), a MacArthur Fellow, was my mentor.
> forward looking and idealistic planned communities, today neglected and infamous for their social problems.

I meet many people who believe tall buildings = social problems. But when you go to Boston, the places infamous for their social problems aren't tall buildings. They have triple deckers like this:

https://goo.gl/maps/a5iJXP5FE4t

Cars were shot up on that block over the weekend. Neighborhood has the same triple deckers as parts of Cambridge where each of those buildings would fetch $2MM.

Despite people's beliefs that social problems come in the form of tall buildings like Pruitt–Igoe, the honest truth is that the causes of social problems generally are not related to the shape of the building. In the case of Pruitt-Igoe, one only has to look across the city to Cochran Gardens to see that success came in exactly the same building form.
The big dispatcher switch in Flux is eerily reminiscent of how we used to program AWT widgets back in Java 1.0 days. This architecture was improved greatly in Java 1.1 with a delegation model. If the history is to repeat itself, as the OP so eloquent argues for, then, if you want to see where flux will be going in the next couple of years, start using knockout.js now and for once stay ahead of the curve.
> this makes you a shithead

This breaks the HN guidelines. We ban accounts that do this. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I totally get what you mean. It's really hard to prove that you're going to stick around and people are quite right to be scepicle about tech firms who seem to close stuff down as soon as the wind changes direction.
The effort mostly lies in figuring out who has the authority to make a hiring decision about you and convincing them to do so. This is really tough for young professionals who don't yet have a professional network. For a lot of folks in the mid-30s and older, getting a new job is as easy as sending an email or picking up the phone (especially in tech, but also in many other industries).
This is the core functionality of a product I made for a customer. He has two legacy applications that only support backup using FTP servers, but he wanted to store those backups on Google Drive.

The challenging part was the upload to Google Drive while still looking like a normal standard compliant FTP server and running as Windows Service.

The core FTP server library is written as PCL. The underlying Google Drive library uses RestSharp.Portable which is also available as PCL and should allow the use in .NET Core, Windows Store, and Xamarin projects.
Enterprise software, which more or less Optimizely is[1], is a very different sales model from your typical consumer or small company oriented technology business. It's much more focused on getting people on the phone or in front of salespeople. So, in some sense you want to have just enough information to get people on the phone.

[1] Super over-simplified rule of thumb: If you see "Solutions" in their nav menu, it's enterprise software.
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015
Another great example. I've given her plenty of praise as well. I've always credited her as inventing English-language programming and compilers. Are there any before her mid-1950's work? And that actually worked? ;)

So, Hopper is the first, great programmer that women bring us. Helps lay the foundation for all HLL programming. Hamilton took it to the next step to true engineering practice. Kind of set the bar high. So, she's my main mascot. Hopper's is great, though. Should probably present them all as a group with their contributions to foundations.
> I drag windows, scroll, and select text

All of which is easier because of multitouch.

Two-finger drag to scroll.
Three-finger drag to do anything that's normally click+drag.

Doesn't matter where your fingers are on the trackpad, or which direction you need to move, and you can briefly lift your fingers and resume a 3-finger drag.
Yes, but even respectable news and information websites now include clickbait (Outbrain and other "sponsored" content). I've seen it on WSJ, NYT, and other sites even when I'm paying $10-$15 a month.
It's a fairly common practice now (not the spam, I've gotten spam email clearly triggered by a re-targeting campaign but as far as I know it is not a widespread thing).

The basic pattern is: Get user to trigger re-targeting campaign, use re-targeted ads to read a tracking cookie or browser fingerprint from the user, use that to look up user info in your customer profile database you bought (or bought API access to) from a data broker, send targeted email, package up your new piece of customer profile data (Walter Kirn went to an art gallery in Hollywood) for later resale/trade.

The specifics for each step change all the time.

The author wrote this piece in a style where he defaults to paranoia in the face of all coincidences to mirror the subject matter so it was not an accusation. But this one is actually feasible.
Obama Won't Force Encryption Backdoors in Devices
One side of the screen to the other? With tracking speed set all the way up?
Democratic Debate Will Be First News Event Live Streamed in Virtual Reality
Does this mean Twitter Bootstrap 4.0 release will be delayed?
This yougurt has varieties made with whole milk, look for the red rings: http://www.oikosyogurt.com/greek-yogurt/ It's available in e.g. Wal-Marts in flyover country, and it tastes very good. Lots of sugar, of course, but also the fat. I think I recall some unsweetened yogurt, but non-fat, so it's like the descriptions I like of 1 and 2% milk: the first is water with one white crayon briefly dipped into it, the 2nd gets two crayons ^_^. But whole milk is plenty available.

Hmmm, over here isn't not hard to buy stuff with "healthy" amounts of fat, but, yeah, sugar abounds.

Ah, but the bacon counterrevolution is a wonderful thing ... although my favorite is Oscar Meyer, which is "sugar cured"; well, after salt, and officially ends up with 0 carbohydrates (i.e. below the reporting threshold).

So not all is lost!
>They increased worker supply, driving down wages.

True, and the switch in economic focus from manufacturing to services hasn't helped much either. Makes me wonder how single people raise kids when the average wage/salary anticipates 2 earners.
This was at a point when most people already had broadband, and used dialup modems were dirt-cheap on eBay (e.g., that's why she had a stack of USR Courier V.Everything models instead of Sportsters). IIRC I got a few of them from toss-out piles at ISPs I worked for, and some were my own stash from before I went to ISDN then cablemodem at home.

I couldn't depend on her to unplug everything every time there was a storm.
Not that it's not a cool project, but what possible reason is there to place the telescope on the surface of the moon as opposed to say, in geosynchronous lunar orbit? As the article notes, the environment is much more extreme and the imaging base much less stable, and I don't see any particular benefits.
The problem is you're right, but you're not in good company.

I want copyright too, and for pretty much the same reasons as you. But right now supporting "copyright" means you're taking the same side as assholes who insists on a term of 70 years after the death of the author, or more. Some people even at HN think copyright ought to have infinite duration. It means you're on the same side as those who want to send people to prison or put them in the poorhouse for putting a video on Youtube. The same side as jerks who want to deploy bots all across the web to indiscriminately take down content whether it infringes or not, and who wheel and deal with distribution channels when the draconian laws they bribe governments to pass aren't enough. Seriously, fuck these people.

The political climate in much of the world eschews nuance on basically any issue you can name, and copyright is no exception. I want reasonable copyright terms of ten to twenty years from publication and to wipe my ass with the DMCA. If I can't have that, and if the choice is between copyright maximalists and those who would abolish copyright completely, I'll support shit-canning the idea altogether. It might not be the most fiscally or culturally sound solution, but it at least shows a basic understanding of how human culture even works, which I can't say for the maximalists.
Most yogurt brands have unsweetened yogurt, but it's off to the side, only comes in very large sizes and is just plain yogurt.

The usual cycle of Greek yogurt is that new high-end brands appear with no sugar, get popular, then introduce new flavors filled with sugar. Some of them hide it in the ingredients list by calling it "evaporated cane juice", as if you didn't know what kind of cane they were talking about.
It's come a long way in the last three years:

https://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/ah-the-old-reddi...
I have family in the southeastern US who use "anymore" like the person you're responding to did (and they have for decades). I don't think it simply means "now". There's a slightly different connotation that seems somewhat negative. Kind of like: "It used to be like this, but now it's like this... and I'm not sure I approve".
>but also with them telling us what we have to do (other than taxes, license, etc.)?

The "fixing faulty firmware" sounds like it would fall under some minimum warranty law. Not "the government can arbitrarily force firmware updates", but "the government can demand firmware updates in the context of enforcing a specific law"
Facebook's Flux is pretty verbose and can be difficult to setup but similar libraries like Redux are very simple if you have prior JavaScript experience.

React is also pretty simple when compared to libraries like Angular.
> Also note the size of that printout of her program.

That print out is not the source code. I'm pretty sure it's a listing of test results. The Apollo computers couldn't store that much in either (the equivalent of) RAM or ROM.
The Twitter layoff uses "streamline":
"the rest of the organization will be streamlined in parallel."
Augur and the Crowdsale Model for Open Source Blockchain/Decentralized Projects
From time to time they talk about it candidly, the recognition that the electric vehicle shift poses a huge threat to oil demand as a whole (typically interwoven with a discussion on solar or renewables in general). All sorts of knock-on effects occur if you remove 1/3 of a market.

Saudi has around ~268 billion barrels of oil. They're producing at 10.x million barrels per day currently (let's say 3.8 billion barrels per year). Estimated reserves are almost always wrong to the low side, at least in the prior century projections were overwhelmingly that way. Saudi might have a century of oil production left at these levels. I think I'd be happily selling it cheap today as well (and considering their cost basis), I wouldn't want to be dependent on oil in 40 or 50 years, much less 100.
They do additionally claim a 10 year battery life.
2011.
Somewhere Over the Brainbow: The Unicorn Window Is Closing
The energy you lose from lateral collisions has very small impact on the forward movement

rolling as straight as possible might bump from side to side, but between the left and right side the wheels will be rotating with as little friction as possible.

deliberately going to one side guarantees that the wheels will never reach max speed.
at least they didn't name it "go"?
Also check out the successor to Rebol that's under development and seeking to be a "full-stack language," Red: http://www.red-lang.org/