skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please do not link a news aggregator, the Palm Beach Post was the creator of the story and should get the traffic. (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/worst-...)
How is opting-out possible in this case?
Except Apple has NOT confirmed that they actually recycle these new models with glued components. In fact their official response* dodged this question, directing attention to other aspects of their green efforts. But no word on the key design change, the gluing of components that would need to be separated in order to be recycled.

Does Marco have a source for his claim that Apple actually recycles the new models if you bring them back?

*http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/10/apple-responds-to-epea...
So what are the health risks of exposure?
A landfill is not a black hole or a magic box. The stuff is still there. Decaying. Reacting. Leaching into the groundwater and into the air. And holding lots of valuable materials that now have to be dug out of the ground elsewhere.

Saying, "fuck it, put it all in landfills" isn't economic efficiency; it's short-sightedness and bad accounting. Thinks like EPEAT work to take societal costs hidden through negative externalities and put them back in the purchase price.
I guess I don't see a necessary connection between taking a trip somewhere and health. I do see the advantages of disconnecting from work/email for 30 days. But why do I have to fly to Hawaii or Europe or something to do that? Can't I take 30 days off to putter around my house, reconnect with friends/family in the area I haven't seen enough recently, read a few books, participate more in local cultural activities I neglect due to being too busy, etc.? To me, the most relaxing vacation is taking time for myself in my hometown, with people I know.

I find vacations sometimes interesting and educational (see other societies, etc.), but not generally relaxing. To me, packing, flying places, and living in hotels is a bit stressful. To some extent, it actually makes me feel more busy, because it's one more thing, along with work, that gets in the way of me spending more time on the local stuff I'd like to spend more time on.
Agreed. And please add me to the list!
They also had a marketing problem. If they had simply called it "Gmail 2.0" or similar I think people may have used it more. I hope Apache Wave gets more traction. It's promising but I'm doubtful of its progress.
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It's worth pointing out that many commentors in the last thread on this case justified the historic price regulation of cabs by municipalities based mostly off safety issues, and often said that it was reasonable for the government to continue to so regulate even when technology disrupted the industry:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4221589

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4221844

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4221747

But the city council gets some angry emails from constituents about blocking Uber and what do they do? Remove the minimum prices requirements without any compensating changes to the safety regulations. (Presumably, Uber cabs already satisfy the safety rules for dispatched sedans.)

So, whatever you think about cab regulation in the abstract, I think this is good evidence that the mechanism for how the government actually makes regulatory decisions bares no relation to abstract arguments. The government officials are just human beings responding to their various incentives.
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I think a better example is how WebOS and Windows Phone handle communication. They treat communication like it's between two people, rather than between two applications. Text messages and Facebook messages are combined into one, so you can continue the conversation from anywhere. Facebook and Twitter posts are added together to show what the person is doing, rather than what accounts on disparate are doing. These aren't huge monolithic apps, they're more like feeds from services all tied to a single person. Both WebOS and Windows Phone allow you to combine multiple accounts for contacts together into one person.

Basically, it shouldn't matter what service someone is using. What really matters to people is people. If someone is at their computer, they might want to use Facebook messenger. If they're away, they'll want to use text. Barring that, they might rather use email. The point is, someone shouldn't have to open the Facebook app, find they're not online, send a text only to wait for a response and assume they do or do not have their phone on them, then send an email. If they can do it with one app, the app telling them the best way to contact someone, it makes communication much easier.

No one has gotten it right yet, but I feel WebOS and Windows Phone are closer than the traditional discrete applications.
Formspring disables all user passwords after 420,000 accounts compromised
I'd like to see a breakdown of the money flow in the traditional taxi industry. With a medallion system, how much of the cash flow goes to the medallion owner, and how much to the driver?
In the US, workaholic is said as a bad thing, but a lot of of people within corporations expect it.
I notice you've inverted my order :) I too would put editorial support as top of the list of things a writer would miss nowadays in bypassing a publisher (though of course some books also require a lot of design input). There's an interesting gap there perhaps for publishers to simply supply editorial expertise, or writers to team up with editors and produce books independently - though this tends to result in the formation of a small publishing house, with associated costs.

The other points will vary depending on the publisher and the author of course, and some areas (like design and pr) which might seem unimportant, trivial or simply unnecessary to the author might be vital for a successful book. Re PR for example, this encompasses getting reviews in major trade publications/newspapers, getting radio interviews, getting web coverage etc etc, but that'll vary depending on the subject matter - for some books obviously it'd be minimal, so in your experience it might amount to very little added value. Re research, depending on the topic, sometimes editors will do a lot of the work and pull in writers to write specific parts of a non-fiction book - hard to believe if you're a committed, involved author I know. Re design, depending on the book this might be more or less involved - for some books it'll be a simple template where text takes precedence (fiction, programming), for others each page is unique and the illustrations are as important as the text (a children's maths textbook for example).

Other bits was just a catch-all for all the other admin which goes on in publishing a title - buying the ISBN, typesetting, proofreading etc, along with distribution etc, though frankly I think distribution is the least important part of the puzzle, and for many books there simply won't be a dead tree version soon. I suppose my main point was that publishing encompasses far more than the layperson usually considers, and costs are not solely or even mainly associated with printing hard copy books.

So publishers will change with the coming of the internet, perhaps becoming less important, but I suspect they will always be around.
Author of airportcode.riobard.com here. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw someone wrote a script to call that ancient API of mine from a few years back. Thank you for the `sleep 1` =)

I haven't maintained that service for a long time, and I've got a dozen or so emails suggesting ways to improve the API. I'm not sure what I should do with it, given that the data is really scrapped from Wikipedia and pretty hard to keep it up-to-date. Any suggestions?
Very few scissors store company-confidential data.
Or at the opposite to get a better return on it. If working more produced automatically more income, Japan would be magnitude richer than Europe.
Food for thoughts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
Eh? The UI isn't just the menus! It's the shortcut keys and the ways in which functionality is exposed and a whole lot else.

"In a web browser, sure, the UI barely matters."??? In a web browser, the UI is the ONLY thing that matters. Every browser out there can render a web page. It's how it responds to the user and what it enables you to do that makes all the difference.

The biggest reason I stick with FF is the pentadactyl extension - A browser without decent vi-like controls is intolerable to me, and chrome's equivalent isn't up to par. So I stick with FF, for the UI.
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Not sure if you did that intentionally (to make the claim even more questionable), but the article says "50 meters", not "50 feet". That's more than 3 times the distance.

Silent downvotes, how lovely. Why?
For reference: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Terahertz.png

Unless they geo-locate me in Europe and s/feet/meter/ (how stupid would that be?) I fail to understand what the silent criticism is for.
From what I have seen, both your salary expectations and cost of living should be very similar.

However... 110k for a PM w/ 2 years exp. does sound pretty high to me (for NYC), but it does depend on industry/company.
We don't miss regulation until it's gone. The apartheid government, in its dying days, decided to promote free-marketism and it deregulated the minibus taxi sector, thinking that each driver would run a one-man business. What really happened is that those with access to capital bought fleets of minibuses and South Africas cities became a nightmare by the mid-1990's with taxi-owners forming cartels which engaged in bloody wars for lucrative routes. The taxis are unsafe, and their drivers are reckless (passengers dare not complain). Government attempts at re-regulation are constantly stymied.

The taxi industry operates with impunity, and managed to get ownership of new Bus Rapid Transit systems in Johannesburg and Pretoria (they'd have shot bus drivers if they didn't get a stake).

I've been threatened personally with a weapon (a hammer, not a gun, fortunately) by a taxi driver who felt I didn't move out of his way fast enough. Not coincidentally, it was around that time that my libertarian leanings began to wane.
What I would add to this is:

Understand component lifecycle. Understand it well enough to know you have to design your app around it, because you can't subvert it. Do this first. Do not write code before you understand this. A good way of understanding this is to override all the lifecycle methods in Activity and log them, then watch what happens. Understand that Android can "destroy" both individual component instances and whole processes. Understand that you can't thwart "destroy" by holding a reference.

Understand Android's support for a data model in a sql database, abstracted by ContentProvider, and how to build an observer pattern around this.

Understand Android's support for concurrency, enough that you know the limitations.
Try reading up on Hilbert's second problem. Wikipedia does a good job [1]. Then read about Peano axioms [2]. Finally try to understand what is meant by the term "consistency" [3]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_second_problem

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency#Consistency_and_com...
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I've tried to hire in the Philippines for 24/7 operations and have had a hard time... there just doesn't seem to be a big community, or as the article says, everyone leaves.
I'm not "missing out" on anything. 99% of the time, I don't need the new features. Rails 2.3.8 and prototype do everything I need it to.

The best framework for each new project is one that has the features I need, and I'm productive with.

Unless I REALLY need the performance improvements, or the modular design of Rails 3.0 why even waste the time?

Exploring as many frameworks as I can is the exact problem I want to avoid. Generally I read enough and do research on the side because its fun, and I know what's out there and what I'm missing out on. If I need to create a simple web app to do simple things, and I'm not scaling to a billion users, and I simply need software to help me automate or model something, Rails 2.3.8 works.

When you quoted me on different web app behavior, I simply meant the client side. Rich client-side JS driven apps need different things because the data behaves differently (especially if you are doing realtime stuff, versus not, etc). When it comes to the server, Rails 3 isn't providing anything I need for my tools. Now, are we porting to Rails 3 for our flagship product? Yes. And we are doing it because we want the performance enhancement and maintaining the gems we use might be difficult in the future.

Anything else though? Much more productive to type 'rails my_app' with my current environment and build something that works.
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That's true! But that's exactly why I think maybe asking for the "failed" to tell about their new idea(s) would help identifying those true entrepreneurs!
Like PostBox only online.
Debt-holders don't control a company either. But when you have somebody's money and the expectation you are going to give them a lot more money in return, it changes things.

You're correct that they haven't lost control, but now they have somebody to answer to. Somebody who just gave them $100m. Somebody with more equity than all but a few of the people involved. Somebody who's powerful and respected and whose job is to push tech companies in the direction of maximum return.

It changes things.
I was on the verge of abandoning FF on Android until the new upgrade fixed the problems I had with it. So that was a big thumbs-up.

It also came with enough significant UI changes that even as a programmer who's used FF dails since pre-1.0 days, I actually had to stop and RTFM to work out how to use it. That was a catastrophic thumbs-down. Most users wouldn't stand for that level of disruption to their software.

Mozilla has done an amazing job of "one step forwards, two steps back" over the years. Firefox has gone from being the amazing browser I recommended to everyone to try to a browser I'm almost embarassed to admit I use.

I really hope the fixes they say they have in the pipeline live up to their promises and fix the issues they still have. But even if they do, if Mozilla don't stop their trend of fixing bugs but breaking the UI, it just won't matter in the end.
> I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything.

Easy: Privacy.
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Hilarious! So now all it takes to shut down an airport is to sprinkle a bunch of blackpowder outside in the parking lot for people to track in on their shoes?

The government is making the "terrorists"' job way too easy.
There is an argument to be made that no guaranteed vacation days means that companies don't have to pay you for your unused vacation days if you leave or are let go.
Slightly OT, but did anyone else have any issue grokking the headline?
A little Entreporn is good as a source of inspiration and ideas.

You just need to set a very tough limit of how much time you spend reading this stuff. (During an initial week or two it should be zero, because you have to learn to fight the urge - and make sure it's not an addiction.)

Also, you should be honest with yourself - this is not real work, so don't start your day with surfing for inspiration (don't start your meal with a desert). Leave that for the evening, when you're done with work and also in a more reflective mood, so that your mind will make a better use of all the inspiration.
They do. It is called the "revolving door". After a few years, most senior SEC staff go on to work in the banks they are supposed to regulate.
Forgive me if I'm missing something, but I already have this with my Thunderbird email client, which allows me to assign tags with customizable names and colours and to sort my emails into an arbitrary set of folders.
It's a shame (although not surprising) that Apple has never released a firmware update for the 2006/7 MPs to allow them to boot into the actual 64 bit kernel, as opposed to the 32 bit kernel's extended (4GB> RAM) mode.

It is still possible to boot the 64 bit kernel and install ML by using a non-Apple bootloader (eg Chameleon), basically turning your Mac Pro into a 100% Apple hackintosh.
Like Around the World in 60 Days :)
As I normally just send an email to myself as a reminder to watch a video, I think this is a great idea.
So far, only Barclays, Citigroup, RBS, UBS AG, ICAP, Lloydsand Deutsche Bank are being investiagted.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-09/libor-criminal-p...
Let's go the Linkedin way.
I lived on the other side of Austria, in Innsbruck, and only visited Vienna a few times, but I thought it was quite pleasant. Not the most 'happening' place, but it seemed nice.
A project to fingerprint 1.2 billion people
Non-ionising radiation, so assuming power level is low, very little.
Ha! Sorry, didn't mean to resurrect a dead project. I just searched for an API to the airport codes and ran with it.

I was actually hoping to find just a data dump of them somewhere, but if you can't I suppose no such thing publicly exists.

My personal recommendation is to do what you want to do. If you don't want to maintain it, perhaps add a note about that, but whatever. You've got no obligation.
Having hired two North Americans in Berlin (one from the US, one from Canada) I can say that the process is surprisingly streamlined and straightforward. Canada and Germany have a Youth Mobility Agreement that allows young Canadians to get their work permit within a week in Canada - for US-citizens you need to outline the reasons for hiring them over Germans and EU-citizens in writing. It suffices to state that you're looking for a native English speaker that would potentially be able to run an office in the US at some point. Done. The whole process took us less than 4 weeks and doesn't involve an attorney or any other significant legal fees. Applicants need to be able to present a bachelor's degree as a minimum though, so you wouldn't be able to hire the next Steve Jobs.
Also, Berlin offers significant bang for the buck - the cost of living is (still) comparatively low and the city itself is simply amazing.
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Is there somewhere I can go to check if my Macbook is one of those? I have to start buttering up my boss if I need a new one. (Xcode updates sure force upgrades. I was just fine with Snow Leopard, except iOS 5.1 wouldn't build without the latest Xcode, which is Lion only. Grrr.) Now this.
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I was quite surprised that my now 5-year-old MacBook Pro will still be supported. Maybe it's time to fork out for that SSD upgrade and scrape one more year out of it after all.
Is the OUYA going to kill AppleTV, GoogleTV, and NexusQ all together?
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It's a Dylan Thomas reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good...
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Nice article Dan! And thanks for including a picture of Mochi, he'll appreciate the celebrity status within the start-up community.
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Thanks soo much for posting your code. Just starting out with python and it's nice to be able to learn from someone else's exploits.
If you have Lion, go to the Apple menu -> About this Mac. Then click on the "More Info…" button. The model year should be listed under the model, on the right.

If you don't have Lion, I think you can still get that info from the window that comes up when you click "More Info…", but I forget where (and don't have a machine running Snow Leopard handy ATM).

EDIT: The required models are listed by Apple (linked in the article): http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
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Those cases where the BaU figures are used are disclaimed with the qualifier, "Under the Business-as-Usual scenario", and the ensuing discussion is pretty clearly intended as an exposition on how we should not have wanted to mimic the BaU scenario because, as the model projections for that scenario indicate, there was compelling reason to believe that the consequences would have been bad.

Again, cherry-picking things out of context does not a compelling argument make. Unless the people you're trying to compel can be trusted to not check your sources too carefully.

And of course the corollary to that is, if the topic is controversial you should always thoroughly fact-check your sources.

(Speaking of, I couldn't find the phrase "with certainty" in either of the three FAR policymakers summaries. . . perhaps you meant "with confidence"? Regardless, it's skirting the edge of dishonesty to use the phrase "their words" to describe something that isn't their words.)
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> It imposes a transaction cost on the tipper -- "is this work the click?"

Since you have a set monthly amount that's just split up among your clicks, I don't see how that's true. You can click on every single site you browse to and it'll just split up your $15/mo "web budget" thinner and thinner among the sites.
Although the new title is bland, it got me to read it. I likely would have skipped the the original unless "Alan Kay" was in there somewhere.
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"But most of all, having a draft might, as General McChrystal said, make Americans think more carefully before going to war."

As if "Americans" will suddenly have a say in any decision to go to war. Congress is demonstrably not even required in such decisions any more.
Your profile link to the Android book indicates that you know what you're talking about.

As someone who has a decent grasp on the lifecycle part, could you sprinkle the other two points with a link or two? Or .. a general direction? "Enough to know the limitations" for example is .. hard to follow-up on.
And I really believe everybody thinks he's more important/irrepleacable than he really is.

Right now, my boss and the 3 "senior" analysts are all on vacation... they aren't really missed. Reminds me of the cannibals joke ( http://www.guy-sports.com/months/jokes_silly_puns.htm ).
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I'd say it's only big news because we're still in the "bash bankers, everything is their fault" climate sadly.
If these devices worked ..., they would already be used in thousands of labs

There's an old joke about economists: two economists are walking along the road, and see a $20 bill sitting on the ground. The first asks "are you going to pick that up?". The second responds "Nah. If it were real, somebody would have taken it already.".

That said, I mostly agree with your complaints. You should note, though, that SCOTUS precedent already addresses related concerns, saying that our homes are safe from prying by way of high-tech sensors that normal people don't possess.
clojure looks great for starting for server side language.