skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other thoughts and speculation.

If the Dutch paper did redistribute/re-license the story to AJ, and if that is in fact a violation of the scrollytelling license, then they(the paper) should be the customer that scrollytelling should be name/shaming and DMCAing. It is also likely that AJ views this(DMCA/blog post) as a upstream licensing issue, and the fact that they have a business relationship with the Dutch paper may lead them to take that up with the paper and not respond to scrollytelling. As, from AJ's point of view, they have already payed a license for the content in this scenario.

EDIT: If scrollytelling does not have a straightforward and integrated solution for redistribution licensing then this was bound to happen and probably has before, they just didn't notice because it wasn't an outlet the volume of AJ.
This ... is not the best way to take advantage of what is basically a sales lead. After all, Scrollytelling is a small company with only a handful of clients, of whom De Volkskrant appears to the most important, so why barge in with DMCA takedowns and angry allegations before you have to?

This would have been a great opportunity to work through Scrollytelling's existing relationships with their clients (and their clients' reporters) to get in front of AJ and make a case for their platform (and only go for the lawyers if talks broke down). Instead they've now ensured that, regardless of anything else, at least one reporter is never going to use their platform again and is going to be one hell of a net detractor. For a small company, garnering a reputation as being troublesome loose cannons isn't a good way to grow market share.
I didn't know about this until recently, but when you are shooting on the iPhone, you can touch any area of the screen (e.g., a blown out highlight, or white sky) to adjust the exposure so that the area you touch is correctly exposed.
I just had a Lexmark tell me cyan, yellow and magenta were low, which was fine since the document I was printing was black text with 2 exceptions for arrows where to sign in red.

It printed all the text in orange and the 2 arrows were a perfect red.
I don't quite understand the need to share a random Wikipedia post as a Hackernews item...
I'm in a similar position myself! I have picked up Ableton recently without ever having played any instrument (those 2 weeks in my teens don't count). As a newbie I didn't think it wise to spend much money, so I mostly read some online resources on music theory, but it's hard to find something both accessible and reasonably comprehensive. What did you use to learn sound synthesis and music theory?
The State of JavaScript: Front-End Frameworks 2016
Okay, let me assume that this is even a thing (I don't know, but you seem to). There are still two fallacies in trying to equate the lost life against the payout:

1. The person committing the suicide and thus the fraud would not be weighing his life against the money, he would be considering the well-being of his beneficiaries instead, and deciding that their well-being is worth more than his life.

2. He cannot reasonably control the payout of the life insurance. Anything beyond a certain mark (maybe 2 million $) would raise a lot of eyebrows in the insurance company.
Why do you think that's a better title?
No need to travel back in time; still acceptable in many places and cultures around the world TODAY.
That's because you've probably grown up under this regime. Older style razors are the opposite.

My dad has probably spent $100 in shaving supplies over the last 30 years. I got suckered into Gillette and could probably buy a Honda Accord for the money I've dumped into this crap.
Even large companies do that. When a company I was working for began to grow, we got some contacts from Adobe etc. About "hey, you're using illegal copies and we can help you go legit."
No doubt. Where does the assumption come from that banks aren't aware of this market. And how on earth does one compare near lawlessness of Facebook with the most heavily regulated sector of banking. Lastly, is the author completely unaware that not all business models try to maximize "eyeballs", or customers and that some attempt simply to maximixe revenue or profit.
Also Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, highly recommended.
They listed MWh/y which is a pretty strange unit. The farm is 253 MW, so not a significant percentage of total US generation.

Source: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne...
I'm the Legislative Director for a nonprofit and my first observation of this tool is that I have no clue what it does. I just spent five minutes poking around and it's not obvious what this does, or why I would need it. The map populated with dots that did not seem to have function, and the state issues seemed a little off as most state legislatures are now out of sessions.

How does it compare to the free service GovTrack? What about paid services like CQ, BillTrack, and Politico?
I upvoted you for contributing to the discussion, not for being correct.

It looks like Amazon is adding 1 gigawatt across five projects, to the existing 75 gigawatts.
No, "1,000,000 megawatt hours of wind energy annuall."

/ 365 / 24 = 114 MWh per hour on average. Or ~250 MW nameplate power depending on capacity factor.

Ed: They list 253 MW.
That's one million megawatt hours. Watt-hours are the most confusing unit ever, and measure energy, not power. (A watt-hour is the amount of energy produced by one watt for an hour.)

1e6 MW hours = 3.6e15 joules. The power plant generates this over a year, so that 3.6e15 joules / year = 114 MW on average.
It was quite implied by the use of the word claim and the scare quotes.
On the other hand, I think the pleasure is to have 1) startups as a customers, because 2) It has few employees and you can quickly negotiate with them, and 3) They are funded and can quickly spend money to speed up or improve their product. Just from a risk perspective, in economic crises (e.g. 2007/2008) we had a flat line near 0 of revenue coming from startups.
> “Equity is critically important because it is the thing that everybody has in common. Since everyone benefits from an increased share price, everyone tries to increase the share price.

I don't understand this. I have equity. I don't care about it, since I value it at ~$0.
Yup. I have had two brother printers so far. The first was about 8 years old when the paper feed became unreliable, so I replaced it with a newer (color) model. Prints great, takes whatever cartridges fit, works fine with Linux, windows and osx. Haven't tried network printing from Android or iOS yet.

Disclaimer: I probably print about five pages a month, so it hardly sees extensive use. I also don't print photo quality stuff, mostly role playing maps and characters for gaming sessions. But under those constraints, it's been great.
Eh, not all impulse control disorders come from brain damage?
You'll get better quality from shutterfly, apple, etc.

If you need something quick, most CVS and RiteAid stores let you Sunil photos online and pickup in 1-3 hours.
Bitcoin Accepted German Energy Giant Enables Payments
How the 'why's drove the 'what': Epilogue
You don't have your lifecycle set to the generation length -- phones, as you note, are around 2-3 years, but they have a lifecycle of one year. The fact that the watch has a much worse lifecycle than the phone -- despite being half the cost -- gives valuable insight into Apple's beliefs about how compelling it is.

If the Apple Watch were amazing, and a new generation could be more amazing yet, why wouldn't a substantial number of the owners upgrade in a year?
The best way to make a difference against this nastyness realistically available to us is probably the "one star review".

And when you do, resist writing 10 paragraphs about all the times HP has ever wronged you or a long story about how much you needed the printout when it refused to print.

One star, one sentence. "Expires full inks after only x months forcing you to buy new ones when you don't need them."

I know for certain these short, sweet reviews change the buying behavior of my non-techie family.

Make a difference. Write a product review today.
It isn't. A lot of commands from above but total local implementation, or even local governments doing their own thing since the emperor is so far away.
No big deal. I knew it was only a matter of time, since it was already announced on Parks and Rec a while back. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFKoGtgg6Mo
What I find bad form is to immediately take the discussion public. He/They could have approached the journalist privately first.
Old, but still so true:

"Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable"

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

Had this one printed out (oh that irony) and taped it to our office wall when we had to deal with crappy printers on a daily basis working for a big DAX company.
In this hypothetical situation Microsoft doesnt make the stupid move of requiring all apps go through their store which imposes its own limitations (like sandboxing).

Mind you, it would be a completely insane move for Apple (or Microsoft) and I can't see them doing this any time soon. It would be absolute suicide.
Elon Musk says the future of AI is in linking it to our brains
I guess because "double" rhymes with "trouble" maybe?
Yes that part is absurd.
If you need occasional scanning, its the way to go. I buy a cheap all in one every two years when target/Walmart clears them out. Last year I bought 3 for $20/EA.
Chelsea Manning’s heroic hunger strike
Perhaps ink?
LLVM will change licence to Apache 2.0 with exceptions
Question for BSD users:
Will this change affect FreeBSD and OpenBSD? OpenBSD Policy says that Apache 2.0 is incompatibile with their software.
Yes there is a reason: To print high-quality photos.

I have an ink jet for photos (admittedly rarely needed these days) and a black&white laser for everything else.

Also, part of the problem is that lot of people don't realize how expensive it is to run an ink jet and how massively cheaper a laser is in the long run. The average person needing a printing goes to the store and sees a laser for around $200 and an ink jet for $49, and buys the ink jet, thinking it's a better deal.
It is copyright infringement and piracy; they had no right to redistribute this code, even if they had kept the copyright notice.

Aside from that, I do think it is theft in the sense that AJ is using bandwidth not paid for by them.
In my experience donating time or money does not change the systemic causes of the issues. You will forever be donating. For real,sustainable change a different society must be built, whatever that might look like.
Just check on https://www.openprinting.org/printers to make sure whatever you want to get is supported.

Generally, I have less problems with printers like the XP-320 than HP printers because they are just download the PPD -> good to go. No fucking with HPLIP or an entire software stack around it.
500 Startups’ Elizabeth Yin: ‘Selling Is the Key to Success at SaaS’
Well, this is our product. Wouldn't you be?

In addition to copying the code, they left some original asset urls in there as well. Which means that those come out of our bandwidth bill. So yeah ... we're a little mad. Not terribly so, though. Life's too short.
Why would an application that was a music album be any more likely to be a virus than any other piece of software?

I'd have thought the bigger obstacle to people hearing your music is that people tend to prefer to listen to music in their music player of choice, in their own playlists or on shuffle. Then again, maybe creative control over how the songs that compose the album are listened to is part of the app's raison d'etre.
Decline and fall: how American society unravelled
> Anything that can be communicated in text, whether email, SMS or other, ought to be.

I see you never had a heated argument going on for hours that only started because people were missing your tone of voice.
So it seems that Al Jazeera was not that interested in resolving the issue.

Or they just didn't see a random tweet that happened to mention their handle. The post doesn't mention any direct communication from Scrollytelling.
Broadband internet speed test
Don't forget to choose black and white mode in print job settings.
"Double [the] trouble" is a somewhat common idiomatic phrase. It rhymes "double" with "trouble", and the word "double" has a pleasant ring to it in its own right.
Oilman T. Boone Pickens almost made a big investment in Texas wind in 2008. Could be he missed the boat.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pickens-plan-for-huge-wind-farm-...
Is there any energy market in the US where you can offer/buy "positive/negative operating reserve"?

Probably more related to AWS:

I could imagine Amazon getting in the energy market and trading negative operating reserve.
The scenario would be:

- offer cheaper AWS compute instances on the AWS spot market

- sell the excess energy consumption as negative operating reserve on the energy market
A company working in an unknown space, that doesn't even know how to be the kind of company it wants to be; a startup can be very exciting for an experienced engineer because (if you're like me) you do like to solve problems, and I (at least) view software as only part of the problem space (make the business money).

To that, I'm willing to bring wits, flexibility, and broad experience. I bring value and justify my existence, and I do expect to be appreciated (compensated) for that; I expect to have a much higher salary than at a non-startup, not a lower salary and a lottery ticket.

The sheer number of "startups" that want me to work for peanuts just tends to make me avoid the term startup. Instead I look for their investors looking for someone to help them manage their risk, and treat it as a consultancy.
I think I'm on year three for my laser printer colour toner cartridges.

I did have to swap out the black after two years maybe 2 1/2 but I ran it for six months with errors and warnings and pleading.
American employers have tricked employees, via eg: unenforceable legal threats, that sharing salary information is illegal, self-harming, and in bad taste.
Language mostly evolves by usage, not mandate.
The article mentions that the previous four are grid connected but it doesn't explicitly say the same for the fifth: "The four previously announced wind and solar farms deliver energy to the electrical grids supplying both current and future Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud data centers."
google did not serve them (ok from cache), google must read them and process the content, that cost google time and money.
Is the word "myth" here being used in the sense of being true but connected to storytelling nevertheless?

Because the Great Pacific Garbage Patch really exists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.[2] Because of its large area, it is of very low density (4 particles per cubic meter), and therefore not visible from satellite photography, nor even necessarily to casual boaters or divers in the area. It consists primarily of a small increase in suspended, often microscopic, particles in the upper water column.

Research has shown that this plastic marine debris affects at least 267 species worldwide

Also, overfishing is real. Colony collapse disorder is real and affects wild bees. Monarch butterflies and others are becoming extinct. So are tigers and many other species. (although the trend has been halted for tigers).

The human population explosion and energy use explosion that grew even faster are the problem. Regardless of how efficient we get, we can't sustain such population growth indefintely. And Capitalism is extremely efficient at exacerbating negative externalities - whether factory farms, private prisons, weapons manufacturers or manufacturers of anything (plastic etc.) the incentive is to exploit negative externalities as much as possible to have more customers pay more money faster. The collective effect is perpetually increasing money velocity and increased velocity of exploiting externalities.
I agree that it's a very misleading experiment. People usually don't need to answer questions of pure dry mathematical probability. What most people answer here is a differently interpreted question:

"Which option, do you think, is probably more descriptive of Linda?"

Or "Do you think a bank teller usually has such a life history? How about a feminist bank teller?"

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I hate it when experimenters ask about probability explicitly. It just test how much probability theory you've learned in school. How familiar you are with the mathematical framework. But it doesn't test everyday reasoning. Good tests for probabilistic thinking shouldn't even mention the word 'probability', but set up some physical or other task where you have to use probabilistic reasoning to solve it effectively.

For example the Wason selection task (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task) is also an artificial question that is hard to answer, but as soon as a practical story is built around it (alcohol and age), people can solve it much easier.

It's not that people are irrational, they are just bad at abstract thinking devoid of any practicality. We like to think in stories, situations, intentions. Abstract, "robotic" thinking is harder.
I'm trying to find a differentiating factor... it would be really cool if it could somehow intelligently parse the contents of Bills to provide a more useful summary.

For example, the summary of HR 5538[0] offers me no insight as to why the vote was such a party split (Dems against, Reps for). So I started reading the actual bill text, and then gave up because it's long and I have things to do...

0: https://4us.com/Bills/Details/h-r-5538_congress114
Benchtop black hole _analogue_.
Ask HN: What has been your experiences with using a terminal on mobile phones?
I wanted to use one, but am not sure if it will be usable enough. If you have been using it for some time, please share your experience. Thanks.
So, it doesn't restrict, it just requires you to choose GPL? That is a double plus good interpretation of the facts.
6 Steps to Build a Successful Content Marketing Strategy – Code95
Canon hates Linux and is basically the Broadcom of printers there, I wouldn't advise ever supporting them.
Because that's what team rocket would chant if they upgraded their servers
See also the completely-in-hardware "1-bit symphony" (http://www.1bitsymphony.com/) and innumerable other projects.
The original blog post does say that scrollytelling sent a DMCA to AJ. But, that was probably handled with, "what link is that DMCA on?", "Oh we payed for that license, ignore it and tell de Volkskrant"
I thought these issues are obvious by now.

Some typical points to consider:

1) Never store a length as an int, unsigned, long, etc. Use size_t (or ssize_t) instead.

2) Never store a pointer as an int, unsigned, long, etc. Use uintptr_t (or intptr_t). ptrdiff_t is the type to use for pointer differencing.

3) When comparing or casting to a signed type, watch out for sign extension. For example (short) -1 (0xffff) becomes 2^32-1 (0xffffffff) when casted to uint32_t. Remember char is usually a signed type.

4) Some legacy library functions return int, which is a signed 32-bit value in Windows and Linux (remember point 3). Watch out for these cases. For example don't use ftell and check s[n]printf return value.
That's amazing.

There seems to be a bug with the filter on the left side: after you select one and the page reload, subsequent attempts to filter won't work.

I actually have been working on a similar kind of search engine, albeit being a more "proper" search engine + crawler combination rather than curation likes yours. It's great to see other works like yours for inspiration :-).
32-bit is relatively nice because ints, longs, and pointers are all the same size; that was also one of the main motivators in the 16-to-32 transition era, since the relative size of an int and a pointer did not change. The same thing didn't happen with the x86 transition to 64-bit, because it would effectively double the memory usage of every program even if it never needed such widths.

The "bitness" of a platform has always seemed to be a bit of a vague term to me; sometimes it refers to data width, sometimes it refers to address width, and sometimes a combination of both and neither. If we refer to data width, then the 8087 was already "80-bit" (FP) or "64-bit" (integers) and the latest CPUs with AVX512 are "512-bit". If we refer to address width, then the 8086/8088 are "20-bit" machines, the 80286 "24-bit", and P6 "36-bit".

I think a lot of this confusion and the vulnerabilities thus introduced are precisely because the relative sizes of the different types have changed, and exactly how they changed is not consistent across platforms nor clearly known to most programmers.
Probably moot; I rather doubt that sending them a DMCA takedown notice will make them too interested in doing business with them
But your post makes it look like AJ just came and ripped it off, whereas the original journalist was just selling it around and you knew it. That's really poor form. By all means publicize it if you think you're in the right, but don't "selectively report" facts on the ground. For a company working with journalists, I'd expect more integrity.
Show HN: Weekend Project - Website Uptime Monitoring Service
A couple of months back, I had come across this promising-looking app on github - a website uptime monitoring service[1] built with Node.js, MongoDB, and Bootstrap, so I had whipped up a DO droplet[2], registered a (free) .tk domain[3] and after a weekend of messing about (mainly via ssh), had created a (stock) working service (and then promptly forgotten about it):

http://monitup.tk:8082/dashboard/checks

Turned out to be a lot better than I had expected!

Now, while there are many such (free and paid) services available out there, I do think one more can't hurt, especially with some more value additions thrown-in, that I have thought about. What do you all think? All comments, ideas, suggestions welcomed. :-)

Note: As of now, you can freely add site/s too.

[1] https://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime
[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/
[3] http://www.freenom.com
Separating yourself from other people isn't exactly a path to good friendly stable longterm relationships.

Currently the West is building relationships and trying to influence these countries. You can see it succeeding with Saudi Arabia, in that Women are allowed to work there now. That's still a long way off from where we would like them to be but it shows that the strategy is working, it just takes time.

You just can't change people's values that quickly, it takes generations for that to happen.

If you want to accelerate that to a timeline that is measured in years, you're going to have to start what amounts to WWIII and occupy the middle east or make sure there's nothing left to occupy afterwards.
I followed the course around the same time (i.e. watched and read the material but without doing any of the work).

I don't know that I can recall many specifics, but the most noticeable effect of the course for me was a greater awareness of what state of mind I'm in when approaching a task, how appropriate that state of mind is to what I'm trying to achieve, and how my choice of activities and working methods are likely to shape that state of mind.
In 20 years I'm looking forward to buying Amazon Citizenship.
It's so clumsy, it makes me wonder whether it's being done by a poorly written program instead of actual people. For example, it's hard to imagine even a very stupid person cloning a nearby metal roof and not a patch of sky, as is evident in one of the pictures.

Another possibility is that someone's deliberately drawing attention to these structures, using a bit of reverse psychology. If that was their goal, then the fact that we're talking about it means it worked. ;)