skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also hope it gets done right. Look at Avaaz.org if you want an example of how to do it wrong. I signed one of their petitions and was put on their mailing list, but they send out email for some of the dumbest things, which makes me go numb to the idea of getting involved. I unsubscribed when they sent out a notice saying they wanted donations because they were being DDoS'd... and then sent a second email the next day. Annoying and irrelevant to the organization.
This is so cool! I can't wait to see more humans in space.
This has been posted to Slashdot too (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/25/1744246/photographer-...) ... Candice, welcome to the Streisand effect!!
True, but automating the driving part goes a long way to making the driver irrelevant. Instead of having someone from the shipping company spend 60 hours a week with a truck, they trucking company now just needs someone in each destination to meet with the truck for a few hours a couple times a week. And even that will only be necessary until that is automated as well.

The driving is the skilled labor. Handling the load/unload/handle and paperwork/report issues costs a lot less labor-wise
I wonder when we instead of having incognito modes have separate sandboxes per domain. Say one domain that only have data from facebook.com and is only reachable if you are actually visiting facebook.com.

Yes, this will make the web less hyper, but right now some behaviors is out of control for the user.
This is very well done UX-wise. I especially like how Stallion indicates progress when I check PyPI for updates. Will I also be able to use it to search PyPI and install packages from there at some point?
Actually Pro accounts still only get 30 days. You have to subscribe to the Pack Rat feature to get indefinite storage.
That was the original point actually.

It was a way to make the dangers of the law immediately tangible to regular internet users.
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How would Gandhi's startup look like?
> Now, I prefer #1, but willing to settle for #2. You seem to reject both?

I completely embrace 2, as you do. I just don't think that live tracking of legislation is the way to do it, and I think that it has dangerous pitfalls.

> If you think lawyers understand the law, well, you're a bit naive.

I think they understand the principles on which the law is grounded. Basically, either law school is useful or it isn't. By most accounts, law school is 3 years of intense study, at the end of which you're qualified to...use LexisNexis. Either those 3 years are a waste, or they learn something that takes roughly that long to learn.

Of course some laymen can achieve that knowledge, and some in less than 3 years, much like people can learn to be good programmers without setting foot in a classroom. But that's an exception, and we can't predicate the functioning of society on exceptions.

> That's like saying a baby is useless because it can't hold on to a job. Well, yeah. If you kill the baby, it never will.

That's a fair point. And part of the beauty of the baby is that you don't know what it will grow up to do. But every parent has a dream for their child; my argument is that the dream expressed is misguided.

> This is very quaint, and honestly, I'm a big fan of the principles on which this nation was founded ... but this is merely one of those principles.

I know, it is quaint. But I don't really see a good alternative, because I don't trust our ability (yes, mine included) to figure out who to trust based on crafted messages, or selected video clips.

As I said, your point about the baby is well taken. This can definitely be a building block—but why don't we think about a building block to what?

As a thought, how about running analyses on laws vs. desired outcomes vs. predicated outcomes. Analyses run using open-source code—and hopefully eventually with predictive power. I think something like that might be very useful, and would definitely rely on this repository; especially if someone has the resources and time to artificially create it going back several decades.
What's the difference between "status quo" and "present"?
Thanks, that is the aim, to serve like a frontend for pip and PyPI.
Yeah, I don't live in Britain, but as a European, it still has some really bad connotations.
Apple Stores reportedly to begin selling Tony Fadell’s Nest Learning Thermostat
I've thought about this and wonder if it has to do with the fact that they

a) already know what you are going to say (if they've done enough volume the complaints generally are the same)

b) if "a" isn't true then does it matter if you have a thousand happy diners and 6 don't like the napkins from a profit perspective

c) they don't want to put a negative thought in your mind by asking you (negative priming?)

d) they feel they cover this with surveys that they do

e) they don't want to hear a complaint and then have to comp you (profit)

f) none of the preceding they just don't do it because they are lame and/or busy.

Anytime I've been asked this type of question though it's been over the phone by a bank employee who hits me with "is there anything we can do..." and I don't feel like giving any help to an automaton basically. In general I don't do any phone surveys. If someone with a clue called me and had a real conversation I would. I hate surveys.

Of course if the restaurant is really on the ball they can see whether there is a problem I guess also by watching the diners.

Interesting if anyone in food service could chime in on this issue.
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Dateline - November 10, 2015 - In perhaps the most bizarre twist in the story detailing the strange hurricane that recently destroyed the Willis Tower (nee the Sears Tower) in Chicago, a scientist has used one of the new climate modeling systems to identify the sneeze that he claims pushed the chaotic drivers that caused Hurricane Zed to take such a strange course inland along the Great Lakes. Dr. Zimmat has been using the new Watson 2nd series in an attempt to untangle chaos theory to find the ultimate causes of major weather events, in the hopes of finding humanly affectable actions that could help to dampen the ever increasing number of Hurricanes.

"I'm afraid I can't release the name of the individual," Dr. Zimmat explained, "however by using the network of cameras in downtown London and correlating with the time our models show an unusual movement of air, we can with 90%+ certainty say that a gentleman's sneeze in the wrong direction is ultimately to blame".

Investigators for London Yard remain mute on whether any action is being taken, while inside sources state that it would be hard to prove anything more than unintentional manslaughter. US investigators, however, are working on a theory that members of Al Quaida may have planted a mole in London to execute the sneeze.

1/2 :-)
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Nope:

The Java-based (J2ME) versions of the Battle.net Mobile Authenticator previously
available through this website have been discontinued.

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/mobile/
"He cites an idea that he attributes to Cheezburger Network chief executive Ben Huh, that every Internet user should have their legislators’ phone numbers saved on their cell phone and ready to use on a regular basis."

@jasonrr and I built a (free) app for this (http://shipordie.com/post/15463322294/contact-congress-talk-...). I can confirm that once you have your congress critters on your phone's speed dial, you wonder why this wasn't always the case.
I second this one ... one of the better books I've read in the last year. Validated some of the ways I thought about myself and my business, as well as gave me some new ideas and approaches to thinking.
is the metafont source downloadable?
Instead of wasting my time I use MrNumber app (http://mrnumber.com) to block unwanted calls and texts.
Like Hot or Not--but for Draw Something drawings
Some of these drawings are staggering. Others, not so much.
I'd say it's a limit caused by truncation, but this is rather irrelevant.
This is a guess:

Perhaps its because he's the new CEO, and Apple has just issued a large dividend for the first time in a long time - it looks better if the new CEO isn't a major beneficiary of the policy shift.
This shows everyone that he's in for the long run - there's no possible accusation that the dividend was for short term personal gain.

This also sends the signal that he isn't just paying the dividend because he thinks share growth (otherwise his main compensation) is finished with.
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What's bad about using all available tools? Worked pretty well for SOPA/PIPA, the way I remember it.

It's more of a pet project than a start-up, so I don't imagine it will take up too much of his time. If it does, it's going to feel a little vain and put the people behind more in the centre than the cause.
This post if poorly written and poorly researched.
With email, I get to decide if I want to read it or not. With the phone I don't get to decide if I want to let it ring or not.

The real issue is that phones were ever allowed to ring in the first place. They should all just leave a message which should then be stored until a I chose to listen to it. Then in the future, calls from that number could be allowed.

In addition the phone company could allow you to preunblock certain numbers, such as those from your schools and hospitals.
>The idea that one must hire a lawyer just to be made aware of what the law is or is going to be ... is so warped and disgusting, I just don't know what to say.

Try this: The idea that one must hire an engineer to build a bridge, or even design one, is so warped and disgusting, I just don't know what to say.

The idea that one must hire a doctor to prescribe life-critical and potentially deadly medication, or even give a diagnosis, is so warped and disgusting, I just don't know what to say.

I'm not advocating keeping citizens in the dark. But there is a reason we don't leave this to amateurs. We have already seen the way small, out-of-context passages of law read by people who lack legal understanding can get blown out of proportion in the media and threaten the country's progress, if not well-being. Remember death panels? The anti-vaccine movement?

People participating too actively in processes they don't understand is a very real danger. It doesn't necessarily outweigh the benefits, but I wouldn't downvote someone just for bringing it up.
Who are you calling lazy?
I see, your post of 'meaning' vs 'text' makes the issue(s) a lot clearer - thanks. What other meaning conflicts might arise other than time-related ones? I think with some clever tagging combined with a script on top of git one could have something tell you "show me what law as it is applicable today - not everything that's been passed for the future"

Cherry picking commits and branching on every possible merge conflict (and picking one winner for each branch) should be relatively straightforward, I guess the question is how big of a set of possible documents might this be - 10? 100? 1000? Would this be a process done by lawyers for the purposes of understanding laws on the books or by someone in the legislature at the end of each session?

Apologies if I'm ignorant on this stuff - I'm just really interested.
So, only Android and other devices will end up being "airplay speakers". Brilliant.
Assuming you're from one of the "supported countries", though, which aren't listed.
I thought that this was one of the worst written articles about Apple I have ever read. It was linked from Daring Fireball for some reason. Why should Apple do CMS? I don't understand where to even begin: IWork, iCloud, iWeb, mobile me, etc. must have never existed or just disappeared. Also, when did iTunes die? Did people just last night stop buying music, apps, ebooks, and movies from Apple? When did Apple's incredibly profitable ecommerce solution stop making sales? I should just stop here. If you haven't read the article, consider not wasting your time. It is not just without merit or basis, it doesn't even contain any interesting links, but I can't down vote links in HN, so sorry.
Not exactly, ultimately it was just that. The problem was that there was a spec for a file format for data from the spacecraft that was supposed to be in metric units, but some of the data was in imperial units, against the spec. This resulted in a course deviation which ultimately doomed the spacecraft. That said, there were warning signs that something was wrong which the ops team didn't pick up on but should have.
Virtualenv is a nice tool for managing library sets.

RVM allows you to do that plus it allows you to install and manage multiple versions of Ruby itself. Want to have side-by-side Ruby environments of 1.8.6 and 1.9.3? No problem.

https://rvm.io//
Interestingly I look at this news in almost the opposite way!

I used Opera desktop for something like 10 years too. When I moved to Chrome (maybe 3 years ago?) I was like, "ah, this is what these websites are supposed to be like". I was actually quite sad to say goodbye and I still miss a lot of the features (sidebar!), but it always struck me that Opera was living in a bit of a dreamland where they just hoped the web was 100% standards compliant. Admirable, but unfortunately (in the short term at least) users suffered because so many sites just didn't quite work. This may have improved since I jumped ship.

If a major company could give Opera the resources to catch up to Chrome in that area, then I'd be excited for the potential to create a comprehensively market leading browser.
Oh, nice work! There really isn't much point in running an indicator if it's just doing a DNS lookup to _guess_ if you were using IPv6, it covers up mistakes too easily. So it's nice to see it done properly, and the way you show the protocols of additional hosts is really slick too.

The indicators all just being AAAA or not instead of IPv6 or not was my main complaint last time I tried what was available on Firefox, but your comment lead me to the Firefox clone of IPvFoo: IPvFox. Thanks!
Let me guess, you work for the RIAA...
... on a hand-picked list of 7 companies after 5 days of trading...

This is extremely selective and misleading. You could also flip this around and say the underwriters did the best job getting maximum value for their client.
IMO use of abstractions is vital to any profession, not just programming. This is because of how the human brain is structured: we can only hold 5-9 things in our working memory at any time. In order to tackle more complex concepts, we have to chunk several basic ideas into one theory, which is a big part (though not the only part) of what abstraction is all about.
Your comment is true, they are the most successful companies to date in their respective markets. However, Tesla is the only company that makes a fully electric small sports car, besides the recent Fisker Karma which has yet to see widespread production. In addition, Tesla received about $450 million dollars worth of funding from the government, which radically enhanced Tesla's production capacity and perhaps makes them look more successful than they actually are. Furthermore, I doubt Tesla is more successful than the gasoline car it is trying to emulate, the Lotus.

SpaceX is also the most successful company in it's market. However, it's a tiny market with only a few companies, and receive government contracts and funding as well. I understand that the funding is orders of magnitude less than the Shuttle, that government funding is almost essential in new ventures like this, but the company would not be as successful without this additional money.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that yes, Musk is extremely accomplished. He has incredibly successful companies. However, the market for small electric sports car as well as ISS delivery system are both very small with few competitors, and would not exist without government funding.
Piano cat plays.
Prepare for battle, soldier.
Evil is afoot!
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I'm guessing that's necessary to provide the basis for the insanity plea.
I think it's a win/win situation not just because of PR but also PR during the quietest hour. Foot traffic helps in retail.
Didn't he state his preference was for him to call the salesman back and the salesman insisted he be the one to call?
Why do people publish those idiotic videogame scare stories?
Interesting, I've had an almost opposite experience, but I don't know the ruby landscape all that well (bundler/gemsets/rbenv/rvm etc) and I suppose it just depends on what background you're coming from.

FWIW, when creating a virtualenv the -p flag lets you choose a python binary (and therefore version).
We've been through the legal arguments before with the SonicBlue/ReplayTV lawsuits 10 years ago:

http://news.cnet.com/ReplayTV-puts-ad-skipping-on-pause/2100...

That time around, the legal costs helped bankrupt SonicBlue.
That's semantics about what happens, doesn't change the overall situation. Reword to "the salesman said he would call back and the customer didn't ask him not to but instead said it was fine".
- People may feel there is no content they wish to broadcast about themselves to the world. I don't have a desire to promote myself constantly, I'll just continue being quiet. Not everyone feels the need to tell the world their thoughts constantly.

- A single gmail/similar address can work fine.

- Not everyone has enough friends to warrant using "social media".
Sigh. I'm sorry, I thought I was on a forum for hackers, not commercial property managers.

I see this fellow as no worse than, say, a telemarketer. In fact, that's probably a good analogy to draw... except that I typically get more annoyed at telemarketers who hijack my time and attention, than AOL management seems to be at the person who overstayed his welcome in their building.

It's possible that I'm only as sympathetic to him as I am because he committed his offense in the course of trying to create something. Telemarketers don't offend me because they're annoying and presumptuous, but because they're lazy and unnecessary. If every telemarketer dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow, life would go on for the rest of us. If every kid with a bit of hustle and debatable judgment dropped off the face of the earth, things would go downhill in a hurry.
I'm a sub-par C programmer and the comments definitely helped me out. Instead of assuming the reader knows what each function does, they are explained in enough detail that the average reader could at least Google for more info based on keywords.
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25 yr old Mayor doesn't have a car, so he didn't need a reserved parking space
Abstraction Creep
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Now, it seems pretty reasonable to assume that if Marketly is sending a takedown to Google to get such a link taken out of its search engine, on behalf of Microsoft, that it quite likely is issuing the same kind of takedown to Microsoft's Bing (hell, you'd perhaps think that Microsoft could just pull the link without a takedown).

I doubt that Microsoft is streamlined enough to allow different departments (Bing and whomever handles DMCAs) to effectively communicate. Microsoft is an immense bureaucracy.
On the conversion side seems like they should include a "What will the alert look like?" or let us know if we can customize the alert itself on the site up front.

I get why they're using the cat but lots of sites that I think would host this may be turned off by the format?
violent: acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force

violence: an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws

I would say some would label stealing a car as a violent action. But of course different people's definition will vary.
You're welcome.

We're talking about the collaborative work of countless human brains adding on to each other's work.

Every bit of progress in humanity is the work of an individual, either working individually or in group. Collaboration still revolves around individual contributions. In a lot of cases (e.g. group discussions and brainstorms) we get the impression that it's the group producing the result, but in reality it's incremental individual work.

You're claiming that collaboration can overcome the issue (complex brain understanding it's own complexity). I claim it can't : the ceiling of what can be achieved depends on what the smartest brain (so to speak) can comprehend and tie together.

An ant doesn't know how its colony functions, it takes a human to capture that. Same for us, it takes a more evolved brain to understand what makes us tick, we'll only sample aspects of it. A system can never be complex enough to understand its own complexity.
Apple can easily provide the curated experience without locking the device down. Sideloading can be available while still off by default.

The reason Apple has the App Store and restricts distribution channels is to provide a good experience. The reason Apple locks down the platform so hard that the only way even an expert can customize the OS is to exploit bugs is to retain control of the platform, nothing to do with a good experience for users.

As for why they should do it, it's because I want them to, and because I think the walled garden approach is frighteningly dangerous for computing in general. Everybody is following suit. In a couple of decades it's not inconceivable that it will be impossible to publish any software without permission from a big corporation.
According to this article Opera Mini has 169 million users.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/opera-mini-now-has-169-mill...

Considering that many of the users only access the Internet via their mobile devices I think Facebook would care about them.
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Huh, is it just me or is the font rendering on that site horribly broken? Every 't' looks like it's bolded, for example.
How can you not blame the business? If you are big enough to start a business, you should be big enough to run it right. That means doing research before entering a marketing channel.
> the meaning does not change

Your entire argument seems to be predicated on this idea. But the thing is, pretty much every linguist in the world would disagree with the notion. The connotations of words are constantly shifting — there is ample evidence of this throughout the history of languages.

I applaud you for thinking about this sort of thing and speaking out about it, but in this particular case I think you're tilting at windmills.

Even if we accepted this absolutist stance where words' meanings do not change no matter what the common perception or intent of the speaker might be, it still wouldn't be offensive to women. If the word's connotation is immutable, then it does not refer to human women at all, but to dogs, and thus human men have just as much right to the word as human women do. But surely you'd agree the word has acquired new connotations since then, contrary to your claim above.

There might have been some point in history at which your stance was the right one, but if there was, I think that time is long gone. I don't know if you're just that old or if your regional dialect is odd in this regard, but I'm pretty sure the verb "bitch" is not gendered in most people's mental lexicons today. Because it is not particularly associated with them, it does not actually do any harm to women as a group if you use it.

(Note that all this is distinct from the noun "bitch," which is applied to men but is still has gendered associations. Probably best to avoid that one. And obviously avoid both in formal contexts.)