skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly seems most American media sites are reporting it in that way - despite the fact that China and South Korea have either penalized them already or are investigating them now, too.

Maybe it's a conspiracy to "go after American companies" from all of these regions. Or maybe Qualcomm did indeed do something bad.
I think this video is relevant: http://youtu.be/67EKAIY43kg

There is a common idea when faced with abstract or conceptual art that "I could do that," or "my kid could do that." Usually though, you couldn't. I don't find the arguments in the article very convincing – to my eye he appears to be producing original works of art.
FWIW, we use it to communicate with our vet down here too.
What's New in RESTHeart 1.1.0 – The REST Server for MongoDB
Fear at the tap: Uranium contaminates water in the West
Sub Internet for YouTube, would your post suffer?
Apparently content-blocking is not enabled for iPad 4th Gen, because I can't any of the apps. A thoroughly useless device.
Right. I have absolutely no doubt that there's precisely zero coincidence that he doesn't do this to AP/Reuters/Getty images.

He may not "believe" in copyright (though it would be awesome if someone took a photo of his "work" and what his reaction would be), but he sure as hell knows that it wouldn't survive through court.

He just doesn't care, though. "Even if they didn't give me permission, I'd do it anyway."

Such a rebel.
No, the set of problems where PHP is the correct tool is rather small: 1) existing PHP codebase and 2) small webpages in need of little dynamism.
FB has a "real looking names" policy, which has little to do with the names on people's government ID unless they get reported.

(And of course, the more lawless the area, the less likely someone is to even have an official identity)
you didn't load their advertisement, they didn't serve you content. Seems like a fair exchange to me?
After a phone restart all is well now. Nice clean app that will definitely a new go-to when trying to kill a few minutes (ie. waiting in a line).

I thought it would be cool if you could go to other cities and see what article pop up there, but then noticed you have that already!
I don't think I would want my medical images sent over WhatsAPP....
AWS Lambda: “Occasionally Reliable Caching”
One problem with replacing all the schwas with ə in spelling is it would break the visual relationship between related words. (I don't know if this problem outweighs the benefits that would be gained from otherwise easier-to-learn spelling.)

For example "atom" and "atomic" would be spelled "atəm" and "ətomic". If you're learning the language and you know "atəm" and then see the word "ətomic", you might not know it's related to "atəm".

The situation would be even worse if we decided to spell consonants phonetically. In American English the t in "atom" sounds very different than the t in "atomic". Suppose we introduce a letter ɾ (from IPA) to spell the sound of t in "atom". Then it's even less evident that "aɾəm" and "ətomic" are basically two forms of the same word.
Should they block Google's public DNS servers from resolving their domain, too? Good grief.
I Wrote a Book to Teach the Wolfram Language
This a million times. I could not have stated it more clearly. These kinds of transactions work 100% by "brand" and 0% by content. Prince has established himself as a brand and probably made other people money in the past so whoever buys his artwork believes there is still a lot of upside in it.

Buying one of his "works" is not any better or worse than trying to ride a bubble in the stock market.
In the US I have family buying the super duper comcast package which is near $200 (At least $175)
I love the idea of setting an hourly timer to do something physical like 50 jumping jacks.
This is interesting, but even for a beta you should explicitly tell prospective customers about the limitations of your service:

- how big are the zip files they can send?

- any limitation on the outgoing bandwidth?

- will the static websites be public or will it be possible to configure some sort of basic authentication?

- etc. (I'm sure you get the idea)
We're currently in beta with a DNA-based health advice service (http://withinhealth.com) and here are a few observations (this will be written about more in detail at a future date on my personal website)

- People remember health information that is specific (personalized) to them.

88% of our beta users are able to remember their genetic insights/advice 3 or more days after receiving them.

- A compelling, personalized reason can help users get over the hump of taking an action.

No one wakes up in the morning and decides they want to get some blood work done for the heck of it. We identified interesting genetic predispositions for beta testers which were enough to motivate 7% of them to get blood work done. 21% of beta testers took an some type of action based on the personalized and advice we presented.

It hardly goes against common sense to believe that personalization would facilitate retention and action but it has been fulfilling to witness firsthand.
Yeah, a nontrivial app is comprised of so many parts, if you tried to reinvent a few of them yourself you'd never get anywhere. Also, try looking at the commit history and issue lists of seemingly trivial libraries. It's incredibly easy to underestimate how complex something that looks simple at first can be.
What if? On the value of counterfactual history
This is how kids/tweens TV has worked since before youtubers
June?
Curious about your opinion on Andy Warhol?
There has been a bad record of FBI entrapment programs where they provided the radicalisation, the organisational structure, and even the guns or explosives to people who might not have come into contact with actual terrorist groups.

https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-te...
The NFL has 15-16 games per week. Of those, 4 or 5 are on the local broadcast (three or four on CBS and FOX, one on NBC in the evening). If you want to access the other 11 games, you're reliant on cable-based access.

True, but you still have to pay the Sunday Ticket Premium of 300.00 or whatever it is now for the year. DirecTv paid 12b for it last time the contract was up, and my guess is they don't fully recoup in that in the Premium (part of the value is that it's DirecTv exlcusive). Whether the NFL can make as much selling the package (or a different one) a la carte is impossible to say.

Fox Sports is not fledgling. They've been number 2 to ESPN for most of their history, and a huge number of NBA and MLB games are broadcast on Fox Sports.

Fox Sports (and FSN aren't) but FS1, the non regional Fox network with the highest subscriber fee, is.

But I think I agree with you on a broad level that the sports other than football are going to have to rebuild their revenue structures (probably via direct access streaming) before the cable complex completely collapses. Football is largely, but not completeley insulated.
How to Get a Good Night
> Once you turn one on, chances are you won't see the kind of high-quality ads that might convince you to turn it off again

I don't understand this idea that we will see "high quality" ads and actually enjoy them.

The problem is it seems like advertisers are still trying to cram in more and more and more. Ads that block content, interstitials, ads all over the page to the point where clicking anywhere is a risk.

I agree that adapt or die isn't fair. Neither is cramming ads down your users throats.
You can click the app for more info or put the app name at the end of the URL: http://didgoogleshutdown.com/gmail

Here's an article about it, though: http://www.indiatimes.com/news/world/google-allegedly-planni...
Weird that it worked after a restart. iOS ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glad you found the location search feature, let me know if you think anything else would be cool.
I don't know, how easy would it be to rewrite the entire Etsy stack in a new, static language? My instinct says it would be "not trivial".
I can't imagine feeling so entitled that I would argue that people owe me web and TV content. I think that your option if you don't like the advertising that is supporting a service is to not use that service. If you feel strongly about it you could even tell the station/site the reason you are no longer using their service.

I really don't understand the argument that "I don't like how they want me to pay for this service; therefore it is ok to steal it"
I am not presupposing anything, here is DownThemAll's own blog post on the subject: http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/
A good upsell, yes. But initial seeding to "affordably priced" online services at full data rate can never be economically viable to the provider. Bandwidth is cheap(er) these days, but routers which can handle big bandwidth are still big bucks.

Hold on, this is hacker news. VCs, this is a great idea!

No, no of course it's not. Initial seeding is a competitive moat for the first mover. Moving a few hundred gigs to a new backup company just to save a few bucks? I don't think I could be bothered, because I KNOW how long it will take.
Prostate Cancer Treatment Tied to Alzheimer's Risk
I totally understand the privacy implications, but I'm a person that tends to extern all its personal facts, so I'm kinda "public" by default, so no worry about sending what I talk about with even with strangers.
Exactly, I just jump to the middle of any video from the Internet which is not a movie.
Getting a little offtopic, but regarding your PS: I dont know, I just often see someone assume that someone replying to them (when they are being downvoted by others) assume that the person has negative intent and is part of the downvoting spree.

I would much rather engage in some discussion even if their opinion is honestly held than downvote someone I disagree with. If someone is a shill or not listening to reason on the other hand...
Just to add on to your point, I tend to think of relative value in terms of my relationship to a cheeseburger and a vegan's relationship to same cheeseburger. I might spend $10, maybe even $20 on a good cheeseburger. The vegan would spend money to not have to eat a cheeseburger. Does that change the cheeseburger at all? Not one whit. Does that make either consumer better than the other? Well, only the vegan thinks so, but that's a different issue entirely.
How I Learned to Get Customers from Competitors’ Popularity
If you press the `?' key it brings up a menu of help options, including

Select one item:
a - Long description of the game and commands.
b - List of game commands.
c - Concise history of NetHack.
d - Info on a character in the game display.
e - Info on what a given key does.
f - List of game options.
g - Longer explanation of game options.
h - List of extended commands.
i - The NetHack license.
(end)

Obviously, then, you need to know to press `?'. People who are accustomed to using interactive software in the terminal can probably guess at that, but it's worth noting that the third line of the manpage reads

To get started you really only need to know two commands. The command ? will give you a list of the available commands (as well as other information) and the command / will identify the things you see on the screen.

For software that runs in the terminal on a unix system, putting such instructions in the manpage is the appropriate thing to do. I don't know how they do it on Windows, it's quite possible it's more obscure there, which would be a shame, because more people on Windows are uncomfortable with TUIs.
I think the mistake is assuming that $20/mo/fan is the upper bound. That's just a baseline direct subscription number. What ESPN should do then is offer a menu of more specialized sports products on top of that baseline. I do think there's going to be a painful transition in their business model in moving from leveraging a price from a wide range of cable subscribers, to offering premium products directed at sports fans. But, for all the pain, I think there's plenty of money to be made.
They have lots of success, you just don't usually hear about it. Here is one of the few that actually got press: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2011/11/1...
From what I understand, they used to change volume slightly which they claim wouldn't negatively impact algorithms looking at historical data. Then, however, people were using volume weighted average pricing (VWAP), which would eliminate that change. This is just theory now, but I believe they just add double trades, instead of fake trades are certain prices.
How microservices broke monitoring (and how to fix it)
Is ZH part of the propaganda operation? I thought it was just a freelance conpiracy theorist running clickbait for the lunatic right.

Come to think of it, maybe Trump is a Russian agent. It would explain a lot.
Apple Maps, once a laughingstock, now dominates iPhones
I am also concerned with that. That message has been there unchanged for some time now. To be fair, there's a lot of stuff on the Github page, including the Android client under Apache license. Although as far as I can tell, desktop client is not there yet.
If you write your own, how do you suggest avoiding the same coordinated omission error as those tools?
Docker and Iron.io = Super Easy Batch Processing
For a less obnoxious answer: if users choose to use Google, it's not Spideroak's problem. By dropping GA, they're no longer forcing users to be subject to Google's tracking.
There is plenty of lithium. This is just an updated version of the Malthusian idiocy.

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/31/rare_metals_mineral_re...
Good question!

Probably the vendors of the software concerned. Perhaps it started out as a list of three with a major bias towards a particular product. And then the competitors responded, moderators did their things and eventually an accurate list was evolved.
Sure, I understand that pumped storage is different technology but the reservoir + head infrastructure required for both is pretty similar and that's what costs money. The turbines would be designed differently since you want dispatch-ability rather than peak output and the intakes would be a lot lower because otherwise you can't actually use most of your capacity but otherwise you're still talking about massive civil engineering projects either way.

Not only that, but the best sites have probably already been taken and if you want to build a massive amount more (by a factor of 50 or so) then you'll get into more and more marginal sites.

Even in countries with a lot of lakes available near elevation change, blasting and tunnelling into rock to get the water from the high to the low reservoir is not cheap.

Assuming that you build one full day's worth of storage (10TWh), for the sake of convenience we can convert this to power and say that we need 416 GW. You say that the expensive part is focussing on peak output, I actually disagree (because I think the civil engineering costs dominate) but let's put a 50% discount on capital costs at the end to account for it.

Doing a little digging online, cost ranges for building pumped hydro go from $600 - $2500 / kW. Let's take the lower number and further halve it to account for what you said about energy maximising storage being cheaper than power maximising.

If we need 416 GW, that'll cost $208 billion US dollars to build.

To be honest I went into this thinking that the cost would come out to be ridiculous but I'm not actually sure that is an outrageous cost. It's only a fifth of the US annual federal discretionary budget.

If those cost assumptions actually added up which I'm not sure they do.
The future of twitch.tv, maybe.
While I can see the humor in your taking a stance as an arbiter and unquestionable authority on all things artistic and therefore leveling criticism at my personal opinion as conveyed using over-the-top creative writing for effect, I kindly decline the relevance, necessity, or functional benefit of your review, and believe it should be shot into space, where it will meet its well deserved audience.
Plug: https://www.sync.com
SlackSnap – snapchat on slack
I don't understand that argument either; but no one is making it. First, filtering ads is not stealing. Secondly, nobody says content is owed - those companies are free not to provide it.
Could We Harness Epigenomics to Become Master DNA Conductors?
How to choose between the new Apple TV and Google's new Chromecast
Manned by representatives of patent holder companies...
> (edit) I re-read your comment. You aren't apparently interested in session counts. But what's good the GA summary then if you can't tell 10 bounced visitors from one visitor with 10 hits? This makes no sense. If you want to look at just page hit numbers, there are dramatically simpler ways to do that.

I do not care to track users/sessions, page views are enough for me. I am tracking content and content views... and I get this big tool that is awesome at slicing data and presenting trend information... for free.
> Many of those failures are capable of generating reasonable incomes for employees and founders for years, but those incomes are not proxies for investment returns.

That's part of my point. The current VC model causes failures of businesses that are viable going concerns, but not growing fast enough. They know they can make more overall by pushing a subset of those business to explode at the cost of killing most of the others. This also allows them to increase the velocity of their investments, further pressuring their startups to grow or fail fast. Their "cohort of pedigreed startups with plausible business plans and some degree of traction" should yield enough moderate successes to make investment profitable, as long as they are willing to play the long game.

Also, those incomes become proxies for investment returns once the company is stable enough to start paying distributions to its owners. Again, though, that ties up capital for the long term, which is anathema to the current VC crowd.
Not really a fan, but his framing of his techniques as social commentary are, to me, quite functional and a verifiable artistic endeavor; as in, he may have used and somewhat appropriated pop-culture reference points, but with genuine thought and constructive 'addition' in the nature of art.
Put ublock into advanced mode then disable JavaScript for the site. Works just fine.
I think you have a limited view of what counts as literary. Well-developed characters are not a rigid requirement. Many classics of literature don't feature them. Have you ever read Kafka or Borges?
I think this might be relevant. Especially the last paragraph.

http://www.blog.twosense-labs.com/whatsapp-renegs-on-their-p...
This is pretty bad. Piwik could be a high value target depending on the nature of the site it is used to analyze.

I can't believe unsalted MD5 is "by design" (https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/8753).
If you used Android, you could run Firefox with uBlock Origin, which blocks those ads.
Calories restriction as in Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition aka CRON seems promising more than just restricting calories.

On BBC Michael Mosley has some interesting segments about CRON and its help reducing the levels of the IGF-1 hormone.
Ghosts in the Machine: A Tour of the Shoah Foundation Digitization Facility
The thing that is silly about that is related to cost of acquisition and retention of customers. If a company is able to get more data quicker they are more valuable to the customer and will most like be used and retained by the customer. If organizations are offering storage as a solution while at the same time trying to minimize the costs of that solution, by minimizing the utilization of that storage; they are exchanging fixed costs associated with storage (that should be easily built into pricing) for large variable costs related to customer acquisition, retention, and branding.
That in itself is a win, as it relieves the user from third party trackers. It also raises the barrier to integration, potentially causing ad-including web developers to pay a little more attention to the hell they are foisting on their users.
English orthography is so loosely connected to phonetics that that's not going to help things very much; it'll solve one small problem in the mapping of orthography to phonetics (until the next pronunciation drift), break the linkage between orthography and semantic relations that (in English as it is) is closer than the orthography to phonetics link, but still leave orthography only very loosely related to phonetics.
By the way, if anyone else wants to try to claim the $555 from Piwik based on the above theoretical attack, feel free.
Do you also experience slower response times at DDG?

Here in Europe 'ping -c 5' gives an average of about 10ms for google.com and 30ms for duckduckgo.com. Since search is such a fundamental part of browsing, this is very noticeable.
It probably won't come as much of a shock to folks here, but this article has a misleading title.

In the third paragraph, "Nudges hardly help" softens all the way to "nudging sometimes... isn’t effective".

I've come across three groups of reactions to "Nudging":

1) Yay! Let's use science for good!

2) Yeah but it's not a silver bullet

3) I think they're brainwashing us

Camp 1 is sensible, and has room for discussion about ethics, rigour, etc. Camp 2 is arguing against a straw man. Camp 3 is a reasonable position to hold if you have government trust issues and don't understand what's happening, so is an education and operational transparency problem more than anything.

Edit: disclaimer, I've worked closely with a nudge unit but am not an employee of one
Well Control Center came from SBSettings, for one. On a 3GS running iOS4, you could quick reply to texts, play background music, have a visual multitasking interface, etc.

This was years before iOS 7. Though most of the concepts seem to be taken from Android, which took most of the ideas from defunct WebOS. Well, mostly Apple and Google hired former Palm guys for their design teams.
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Not counterpoints. The comment above states that the pool of very good PHP developers is larger. This implies easier hiring (capacity to learn a new language is not relevant, because it works both ways), which, among other reasons, would be because they'll be applying first to PHP positions; and secondly, a very good PHP developer is far from somebody who just started.
Making My Emacs Start Faster
If I have buy a 1TB plan to hold 999GB of data and it takes months to push that data up...

That ZOMG WHAT A DEAL! of a plan is kinda worthless...

"Slam" is a bit of a loaded word, since... if they are selling 1TB of storage, shouldn't we get 1TB of storage?

That's the same crap that ISP's tried to pull with UNLIMITED INTERNET!!! (as long as you stay under 30gb per month)
And I don't want to shop at {Insert Store Here}.

If other people's patronage is required to keep your favorite store open, that is none of their concern.
I think very few people are exclaiming that "it's not art!". They're exclaiming "he didn't create this".
Setting up and using the new Apple TV 4th generation gave me a chance to test and compare it to Google's Chromecast. Google and Apple are the TV streaming leaders, with Chromecast capturing 35% of last quarter's shipments and Apple TV grabbing 20%, according to Strategy Analytics.

Though they are designed to do the same thing, these devices are very different.
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-cove...

Considering Piwik is used by the GCHQ, I find it hilarious.
How I could access 12M+ records from the Phone House and Dutch telecom providers
> I don't want one person making monetary gain over another.

Seems like that shipped sailed a long time ago: there are a lot of people who link to their companies, offer jobs, and that kind of thing here. Making money is not a bad thing - spamming is.

If anyone's interested, I hereby offer to spend the entirety of my ill-gotten affiliate gains on beers if anyone ever visits Bend, Oregon.