skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are competitors for entertainment eyeballs anyway. Usually, competition is defined by a market (i.e. what customers get from them), not by how they manufacture their product. Of course, each litigant will construe the situation that best suits their case. related: "B. Market Lies" in http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels...

Meanwhile, it's pageviews for everyone.
We do basically the same thing at our office, though with IOS Event Manager foo sprinkled in. It works great.
Really? I'd say it's the opposite. Being confrontational is easy and the important skill is training yourself not to interact aggressively with other people - in my experience at least, the success rate for getting what you want is much higher if you don't turn an encounter into a fight.
"their reputation took a hit and they no longer had a good relationship with Apple which hurt their ability to cover future product releases."

That's a little different. That is more like "keep your enemies closer" type situation. Different strategy it's like a news outlet pissing off the White House in order to have a sensational story and then having access cut off.
Super-star programmers
I think he means that Google doesn't have all the information Facebook does and can't leverage that for advertising. For example, you can find someone's Facebook profile through a Google search but if their profile is locked down Google it missing their photos, likes, friends, etc. - stuff that would allow then to tailor their ads just that much better.
What is the impact of smartphones on voter registration?
Sure, but the vast majority of outages aren't related to a cut cable. I've done a ton of telecom work, and the thing I encountered most commonly was billing issues (ha!). Next up is equipment failure at either end of the line; bad card at the CO or bad modem on premisis. A distant third is outside issues like bad interconnects, and waaaaaaay out in forth is cut cables. It really doesn't happen all that often, even in big cities.

By going with DSL and cable, they may be in luck even on that side of things. In a lot of places, phone lines (DSL) were run underground way back when the cities were built. Cable came much later, so it is frequently run above ground on utility poles. This means that if someone backhoes your DSL cable, the coax on the pole for cable internet will still be fine.
Why doesn't the school just start its own meal photo blog. That would actually be a great way to publish the daily menu. Photos instead of just text.

If they think the girl is deliberately presenting unappealing selections, they should present some more appealing ones as a counterpoint.
Those were movies targeted at least partially at the children/young adult audience. The Snow Crash movie is unlikely to be targeted at the same demographic.
I was about to say I just spent my lifetime without social media but I had no idea Hacker News was social media too. I guess that's good. Means I'm getting on with the times and not living in the 80s as one commenter put it.
>> As a MSFT shareholder I have no problem with them doing this given that Yammer had between 50-100 million in revenue last year and dominates their market.

As a MSFT shareholder, I am interested in how they came to the 1.2B price. Between 50-100 million in revenue? Actualized revenue does grow and shrink. It is a fixed number. That is quite a spread. They might very well dominate their market, but how much is the market worth? What is its upside?
That is A thing that matters, but I think a lawyer that's committed to playing fair is important, even if the opposition doesn't think so.
Does this cover HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript? Also, $35 is one time fee or monthly?
Building a simple query DSL atop the peewee ORM
resu.me - Different approach to building resumes

caree.rs - Hiring platform for companies

talkto.me - Chat

I don't know if I should still hold on to these or sell.
One of the themes in the book is the adolescent fantasies of male badassitude which follow them well into adulthood, with a diminishing but ever-present sense of possibility.

Actually I'm not sure that is a theme. There's a brief meditation on the theme of adolescent badass fantasies, but it's only used as a way of introducing a new character who is an even more ridiculous adolescent badass fantasy than the ridiculous adolescent badass fantasies that we've met up to this point.
resu.me - Different approach to building resumes
caree.rs - Hiring platform for companies
talkto.me - Chat App
* FJ is a site that's been around for years and has had a steady falloff of users and who's popularity has been waning since 2006. This looks to me like an act of desperation, not a brilliant gorilla marketing tactic.

* Threatening a lawsuit against The Oatmeal, who in turn responds with charity and humor does not make FJ seem cool.

* DDG is obviously returning some pretty bad relevance, considering a search for "the oatmeal" on Google doesn't return a single reference to FJ except in the News section talking about what huge dicks they are. This is not positive SEO. Also, when I search DDG in an empty session, I only get 2/6, not 4/6, so either they've already fixed this oversight or you're getting some unique results because of your history.

* FJ does not get DMCA protections. As pointed out in the above letter, they don't have a DMCA agent on file, which means that even though Inman isn't going to go after them, as a result of this bogus legal threat against him, they've just painted a big bullseye on themselves. Anyone who feels like they want to pile on and get some free money out of FJ can now point to their works being online and sue. Someone less courteous could extract up to $150,000 per infringement, especially since there is clearly commercial intent behind this "unauthorized sharing".

I hate to say it, but you've completely read this situation wrong, and if anything, The Oatmeal has come out with vastly more positive press from this than FJ ever will.
I never noticed that setting it at 70 degrees is done on purpose. I have always noticed and commented on the fact that Apple has paid immense attention to the simple experience of adjusting the screen. It's always so effortless, and never too tight or loose.
Gem from the article:

"The school’s website indicated that “Democracy Speeches” were being delivered by grades 1-5 on Friday."

Very democratic of that school to censor a speech. His next speech should have been on freedom of speech instead of animal cruelty.
Have your RAM failures been with the RAM Apple includes, or with third-party RAM you installed yourself? If it was the latter, that's almost an argument for Apple's decision.
Short bio: http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2012/speaker/Patrick+Huesler
The test image with four cats on a "Hello Kitty" rug results in only three cats being detected. The white cat on the far right has it's eyes nearly closed; maybe this is why it wasn't detected?
I assume that's why they got both cable and DSL, although depending on how things work out they might still run in the same trench.
Even better http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook,+google&ctab=0&...
Nowmaid: it's Uber, for maids. Press a button, get a maid.
Only relevant on exceptionally old and broken hardware. Any decent CRT or LCD provides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDID which lists both standard and non-standard modelines and frequency range. X.org takes that into account, unless you override it by hand. Also, the display will shut itself down if driven over threshold.

On the other hand, any software will happily let bad hardware kill itself, if not customized for particular hardware kink. I had a Linux apparently kill a 2.5'' HDD. Turns out OEM configured the drive to unload heads very often, probably to produce impressive power savings -_-'

After about one or two years constantly power-on, the drive accumulated its rated number (~500'000) of unloads and died.
Which will of course be forked to LatteScript, CappacinoScript and MachiatoScript. Real non-conformists will insist on TeaScript (or its fork - ChaiScript). After years of infighting, the industry will finally get behind a standard based on the least common denominator - CaffeineScript which will prompty be sued out of existence by the Caffeine JVM (overlay on .NET?).

By then, young developers will be so disillusioned with the whole process that they'll invent something totally different ... and who can blame them ;) Due to the vocal nature of its supporters, RubyRedGrapefruitScript becomes the default scripting language available in modern browsers.

I'm glad I know assembly language ... I can always go back to the beginning ;)
> It is far easier to take a fundementally-streaming stack and layer conventional request-response on top as a special case than it is to take a conventional request-response stack and layer a stream on top of that.

Exactly my thoughts.
They could just change the "copy public link" to no longer give a direct link, similar to the "get link" button.
He got the Bootstrap usage completely wrong. The icon gives you access to the top-level menu items on smaller screens. Nothing to do with "settings".
I'm more and more of the opinion that EC2 only makes sense for very small (2-3 node, no significant load) or very large (Netflix) deployments, and almost everyone else would be better off with either Linode-style VM rental or actual dedicated servers, depending on their needs.

The only exception I've seen are people with very spiky traffic patterns, who can save a bit of money by only running instances when they need them - but even then I suspect that the money saved might be less than you'd think.
Looks like Patrick has capped applications, so this is no longer valid.

http://twitter.com/phuesler/status/213644769367302144
i think of three skills of a good lawyer (at least the skills i value):

a) skill at writing clear, concise contracts.

b) skill at understanding acceptable tradeoffs - do we really need to spend extra legal time on X? what are the consequences if we do or don't?

c) skill at responding to and diffusing adversarial situations like this
Houston, we have a problem.

Just about the only thing I use Dropbox for is the public folder. I've gotten many of my friends and collaborators to sign up for the service, based on the recommendation of this very feature. It's been a real boon for rapidly iterating front end mock ups.

Dropping support for what Dropbox evidently regards as "edge use cases" is not how you "build the next Apple or Google". The Public folder may not be used by the majority, but it is the domain of the geekiest, most hacker-spirited segment of users. Why trample that most creative segment?

The removal of my team's files from Dropbox and searching for a better sharing method begins now.
Fun idea, but definitely needs more training. It even gets things wrong on the test images (sometimes spectacularly - why those leaves in particular?).
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/after-a-breakout-2011-yamme... says 2011 revenue was around $25 million.
Nobody Tracks Web Users More Than Google & Facebook
This is a great blog post -- I can't help but feel like its an argument less against social media and more about how we use social media.

I think it's particularly ironic that he singled out Reddit for providing "absolutely 0 value to me", since Reddit's original use was a news aggregator devoted to separating signal from noise. Nowadays, its a place for people to spout memes.
Presumably in the future connectivity will be much better than it is now, though I don't deny that there are real benefits of cloud hosting.
Looks like the peplink guys (cited in the article) have just the thing for you:

http://www.peplink.com/max-mobile-router/
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"I'm not advocating for any particular solution, just trying to draw parallels."

However, the fundamental break here is that the oatmeal makes his content available on the internet largely for free, whereas it can be difficult or impossible to access paywalled, unreleased, or service-based content.

People generally seem okay with control over creative content when general access to the content is not what is at stake.
> I wanted to know how many CCTV cameras they have.

Have you tried a freedom of information request?
Well The USA's botched derglation and mobile where the caller pays are another example of messed up telecoms.
The use case for a toaster does not change that much, and the mains voltage and the properties of bread remain reasonably stable. A good toaster can last for decades.

The things we expect our computers to do change over time, so sealed boxes must have short lives. That in itself might not be a problem if the boxes could be returned and factory upgraded in some way. Looks like the bonding of glass and metal make that harder.
Aren't they all the same people?
Does all wine taste the same?
Very well said - and you've pretty much nailed the heart of the problem.

The mistake as I see it is in ruling on individual cases as a matter of some matter of single process that in itself can be ruled fair and unfair - where this in turn is derived from some fundamental intuition. Currently the DCMA does this on the basis of 'stealing is wrong' and 'only the individuals who directly perpetrate the crime of stealing should be held accountable'

Following from this intuitive starting point leads to the dilemma that you point out - insofar as the end result accords with our sensibilities in some cases (like the oatmeal) but not others - like worrying about massive multinationals that rip their artists off continually and seek to monopolise distribution channels to create artificial scarcity.

But believing you can find a single rational system that can encompass all facets is just madness.

This is reason become its opposite - something I saw all the time when studying various ethics related subjects. Some philosopher would come up with some kind of intuitive starting point and then reason it out until the Nth fucking degree until it was obviously wrong. Then folks would say - that's not right - and try to draw it back to another intuitive starting point that handles the counter examples better... until that itself becomes another absurdity.

Moral intuitions transcend the rational reality upon which most of law tries to base itself. So STOP MAKING IT A MATTER OF LAW.... Let people self regulate - as they are doing most excellently here. We know what's right in this case. Funnyjunk is behaving like a turd. Do I have to reason this back to an intuitive absolute foundation that gets the right answer for how multnational comglomerates should be treated? No. Not being able to do that in a perfectly consistent rational way actually does not confer any degree of doubt on the pronouncement against funnyjunk in this case.

Shit like this is of course one of the main reasons I want smaller government... not because it's necessarily bad if they get all keynesyan every once and a while... or bail out some nasty bankers... because government - at all levels - is invested in the very roots and beings of how we relate to each other... it's bizarrely fascist and horrible...

Soz </end rant>
imo Diamond Age has a much better plot for a movie and is a better book than Snow Crash.
> But the article wasn't about cheating. It was clearly an allegory

Oy.
well shall we say south of the border there was lots of Qustionable conduct "Hem Hem" - though Argentina expropraiting Telefonicas assets gave me a good laugh.
Amazing! If you can charge 10 dollars a month for something which really doesn't do much and for which there are many free alternatives (some even provided by you) then I applaud. Do you have any paying customers at the moment?
> Streisand Effect - the act of trying to suppress information but simply making it more widespread as a result.

This effect provides a natural equilibrium. When an organisation considers censorship, if the Streisand Effect comes into their mind, they may not really want to censor any more. So somehow this effect prevents some censorship without it being triggered.
1. There is no telling how much (or little) of the situation and the discussion the original customer made available to the public and the consumerist.

2. Maybe Newegg sent her a canned response, and sometimes you learn that it's best to keep things general and not to enter into the specifics, because once you do, people start taking advantage of the situation.

My point is there are plenty of reasons why they can't, and shouldn't, accept working laptops in non-original condition back. Nor heat damaged ones with a non-original OS.

> I don't understand why there is such an obsession with their margins. How does that matter to me as a consumer in any way?

Because they already provided you with the lowest price, fast shipping, and a general return policy that works for 99% of the customers.

> I am purchasing a product. I expect to be able to return it if it is defective. Period.

Agreed. Except we don't really know much of anything about this particular case, other than what two biased parties have told us.

Though we do know that 1) the laptop boots up and probably works (70% of returns are 100% working) 2) it's being returned in a non-original state, and 3) even if the warrantee or return-policy was voided by the customer she still might be able to do the Manufacturers' Warranty.
Traits of radically successful people
I thought the parent post established that we were referring to their other products (basically everything besides glass and self-driving cars). These products are the ones I was referring to.
I stand corrected on the latest one, which I haven't read. I've picked it up in the bookstore a few times but the combination of a thousand pages of thickness and a less-than--compelling blurb on the back (wasn't this a Michael Douglas movie?) have failed to convince me. Thanks for the anti-recommendation... a thousand-page book is a serious time commitment and there's a lot of other things I want to read.

To be honest Cryptonomicon is the only NS book which I really and wholeheartedly recommend. Diamond Age and Anathem are definitely interesting and I'm glad I read them but they have their flaws, Snow Crash comes across as juvenile, and the Baroque Cycle is approximately five hundred pages of a fantastic book bound at random with twelve hundred pages of boring.
Makepizzahappen.com - one click pizza ordering system. Set it up once with your CC info, topping preferences, optionally rank local pizza places by preference, then next time you're drunk, want pizza and don't know who's open, just click the giant make pizza happen button

Foodmyface.com - more generalized food ordering system, development payed for by the proceeds from makepizzahappen of course. Similar to how Jimmy Johns online ordering works, but for any restaurants that deliver.

Ohshitmyshit.com - not even sure. A place for posting awesome stuff? A place for posing about your broken stuff? A place for posting disturbing pictures of poop in the hopes that a medical professional will see them and tell you what is wrong with you?
I might add, if you think 15 years in prison for using Skype is outrageous, what is the penalty for refusing to cooperate with a US court order or National Security Letter? And how is that functionally different from what Ethiopia is doing? The consequences are the same: surveillance, any time, anywhere the authorities please.
Absolutely agree fp looks and feels great in CoffeeScript.
Plot thickens: Nokia sheds another 10,000 jobs
Even though there's an upload limit, it might still be possible to create an app that plays back uploaded files by getting a /media link and embedding the URL in a flash/HTML5 player.

A browser extension/desktop program could possibly add a "get video link" option to the Dropbox interface.
I found that I couldn't drag the sample images into the box, but dragging from my file system did the trick.

Still failed miserably when detecting the faces though (and I was even using one of their test images).
Frequent snapshots only help you recover after a failure. RAID1 in software is a good way to prevent downtime, as well as potentially improve read speeds.
We're just launching the pro version now. The parent post is more promotion than just about anything we've done so far. But I'm a fan of transparency, and would be happy to share numbers in a month or three.
This is fact.

Honestly, it's not that hard to set up a server, and furthermore, it's just not that different to maintain a hard server than a virtual server.

And the most important part: when you have your own hardware, you at least maintain control over every aspect of your systems. The value of this cannot be overstated.
This article estimated the time of the "Blog Post" by saying the first comment was about "10 months ago", so the posted time must be before that.

This actually points out a very annoying thing that many bloggers do: They don't date the blog posts. For some reason, they think that the posts are timeless. This is especially annoying for technical articles, where the knowledge of time of publication is crucial.

My suggestion is: date your articles.
I'll watch this. As long as the main protaganist is some kind of Hero.
So google earth was released soon after 1992?
Costa Rica is again ranked as the happiest country in the world
Sounds a lot like Ender's Game to me, except you are tricked into managing a business instead of wiping out an alien species.
Victory for Martha as Council Backs Down on Dinner Blog Ban
"Snow Crash is definitely action, and definitely dated (it's more alternate present than near future at this point), but if it's dumb I would sure like to see smart."

I enjoyed reading Snow Crash, but I have to agree with the other posters -- it's a good story, not a great book. The prose is ...weak, to say the least, and it felt like science fiction for the sake of science fiction -- which is not to say that's bad in of itself, but it lacks the thrust and weight of Vonnegut or Pynchon (both of whom I recommend reading if you want to see 'smart').
Having the ‘Data Talk’ With Your Kids
This guy wrote Attack the Block? I hate to say it, but I didn't get that movie. Was I supposed to identify with heroes that are petty street criminals in a gang who like to steal cell phones from innocent people?

Sorry, I have a really hard time with movies that glorify the stupidity of a bunch of kids that skip class and become young gangsters.
One-time, does cover HTML5/CSS3/JS
Cool! Maybe we could grab a coffee sometime next week if you're up for it.

It's funny you mention that..that's exactly what I'm thinking about doing now. I found a house a little further out (Los Gatos) owned by a nice lady that is willing to work with me.

My coworkers think I'm crazy for considering being so far away (20 miles, ~45 minutes with traffic?), but I really haven't had any luck finding anything similar that's closer to MV.
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These tags tend to migrate, particularly in older animals. Shelter workers are trained to check the entire animal as the tags often end up on the animal's side or stomach.
Modular services with OpenJDK Jigsaw
To use cloudflare's "rocket loader", the host domain dns record must point to cloudflare instead of the origin server. If abc.com were using cloudflare, a user's request to abc.com/page would first hit cloudflare's server. Cloudflare would then proxy the request to abc's origin server, rewrite 3rd party urls, and return the modified content to the user.

I'm not sure how well cloudflare handles http vary headers, e.g. 3rd party resources that serve different content depending on cookies or user agent. An example could be google web fonts which serves different css and fonts to different browsers.