skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would only be a straw man if arson weren't a good way to kill a lot of people at once. Events have proven otherwise.

This particular assclown had the smarts to do a lot more damage than he did. If he couldn't have put his hands on firearms, who's to say what he might have done instead? Turn himself in peacefully? I'm guessing not. He might have gone full Aum Shinrikyo on the theater full of people.
Previous discussion on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4176658
That's an awesome letter. Makes me want to go our and buy a bottle of their whiskey just to support a polite, respectful company.
>"“You would much rather hear a message from your friend than hear a message from a brand,”"

Not sure I believe this. I guess it depends on the context of friend.

Sure, maybe if one of my best friends has something to recommend, I'll listen to what he has to say. But chances are it's going to happen in person. If he has a cool shirt? I'll see him wearing it. If he has a new car he loves? I'll go for a drive with him. And if he tries to give me advice on something I know he's clueless about, I'll ignore him.

However, what do I care if a "friend" on Facebook exclaims that they've been using some new product, and they love it? If I don't know this person well enough to speak with them in real life, their opinion is nearly worthless to me. I think I'd rather just listen to the branding.
As far as navigation, I really like how it's done on the HUD in the Camaro and Corvette. Normally, the HUD shows digital speed, analog tach, current gear on autos, and a couple status things like turn signals and headlights.

When a navigation command is coming up (turn right on US-1), it shows a little progress bar indicating when you have to turn, an arrow pointing the direction to turn, the name of the road, and the speed in smaller text: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzoesc/7176906639/sizes/h/in/...

When the song changes on satellite radio, or you tune the radio, it shows the artist and song title temporarily.

As far as getting a secondary read on acceleration vs. speed, I'm spoiled by driving manual, and I generally know how I'm accelerating based on pedal position, current gear, and engine note. The only car that's really scared me with a lack of speed feel was the Nissan Murano, with a continuous transmission and no changing engine note from about 30mph to 90mph.
I logged into the sampler site and toyed around with it in the different browsers (IE 9, Firefox 15, Chrome ??) on Windows 7 with only input boxes behaving in different ways. Escape key could be used in IE to cancel input but not in others. On my iPod Touch, Safari could not render anything and Opera Mini could only show the front page but did not allow interaction. On my Nook Color, the Browser app also could not render the site either.

Overall a nice little library with most of the expected widgets. Too many issues with the older mobile browsers that I'm not sure I would use it just yet but I would give it serious consideration as it does look like it might improve the experience for business apps we currently deploy in-house. I would probably need to actually download and toy with it for a more complete experience.
I do like that it tries to address the problem of phones advancing during the lifespan of the car. The hardware would have to be generic enough though, that it can be useful and adaptable in the long term.

I'm not sure if it's feasible though. to use Android as an example, not every Android ever released can run jellybean. It still requires newer hardware at some point.
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Ah, neat. Though the new account doesn't allow video privacy or embedding, and I really wanted both of those options. Hmm...
The software updates would be for the infotainment (hate that word) or navigation system, not the control systems that actually run the transportation part of the car.
How do we recalibrate people's expectations about the value of software back to pre-2008 levels?

One suggestion: Stop trying to push the cutting edge forward and start delivering value to people in the technical stone ages. In other words: B2B.

Stop focusing on entertainment or social value and make something that actually makes or saves money. People are still paying $12,000 per seat per year for the Bloomberg Terminal. Make another one of those.
Any idea how BPFP got the branches design in the first place? Some freelancer? He found it himself somewhere online under "free vectors"? Curious how the OP was involved in (I guess unwillingly) interfering with JD logo design. And did he know before..
(I'll provide the opposite single datum, resulting in a thread that neither proves nor disproves the point being made in the article.)

I did the same. I have five sidebar ads (I don't use the timeline): Two directing me to "Mature Singles" (despite the fact that I am in a relationship (though, maybe this is the correct demographic, statistically speaking), one for a local-ish restaurant, despite the fact that I have never (as far as I know) "Liked" any restaurant on Facebook, one for a company offering to help me get a pardon, and one asking me to advertise on Facebook (I think it's a third-party service, not an ad by Facebook for itself; I'm not going to click on it to find out).

This is just as bad (or good) as going to any random site on the internet and ignoring the banner ads there. So the experience isn't terrible. However, for a company that's supposed to be The Big New Thing In Advertising, I think it's pretty disappointing.
Here's a video of said display: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEVUfuZg1g4&feature=playe...
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That was quite the daring book cover in the first place... here is the official logo just to jog your memory: http://images.google.com/imgres?q=jack+daniels+logo&num=...

They basically copied it verbatim.
I got a C&D letter once from a real asshole who tried to get me to stop providing after-market documentation for his trademarked software. I responded with a very simple letter. "Thank you for your concern. I will personally audit the documentation to make sure your trademarks are appropriately credited. If you notice any documentation which lacks a notice saying you are the author of this trademark, please let me know as soon as possible so I can correct this oversight."

I never heard back.
Oh? Care to elaborate? Were they offering a deal of some sort?

That's very interesting. And, I agree, if Facebook has begun to stoop to the level of ad sales people cold-calling small businesses, things are not well.
Don't see this mentioned anywhere else yet:

I was just going to bookmark this list itself, thinking it some random post by some random google plus person, but it looks like the mother website (class-central.com) is dedicated to just providing a constantly updated list of online offerings from Udacity, Coursera, and edX. Essentially, a MOOC aggregator.

I was thinking to myself just a few weeks ago how nice something like this would be. I <3 the internets.
Don't forget Twitlonger ("Blogless writing for tweeters"?). I stumbled across an article written by Jason Alexander on there today.
To point 1: Your argument leaves out forwards and centers who frequently shoot set shots during the game without jumping. Also, my point still stands: the form is similar enough because they can practice their elbow, release, spin, and arc mechanics - all similar to a jump shot.

2. Yes, but some players don't have hook shots at all. It's another shot you have to learn. Granted, with the amount of time NBA players spend practicing, they probably could learn another shot easily.

3. I agree with you here. These players should switch. But reputation and ego get in the way; it will take a player of influence to break through the "underhand free throw" barrier.
The difference is money, i.e. how much money they can get out of the gamer during the course of his 'addiction'.
Thanks! Bought it. Also looks like it it is regionally accredited but I'm not sure about my specific program though. That's something I'll check out tomorrow.
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Thank you for the explanation. I couldn't find a nice succinct explanation in my quick google search.
"There's a myth out there that has gained the status of a cliché: that scientists love proving themselves wrong, that the first thing they do after constructing a hypothesis is to try to falsify it."

This sounds horribly wrong to me. Isn't it the "myth" that the scientific community is self-correcting, not individuals?

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The problem is there are plenty of scientists who are willing to lend their credibility to these sensationalist stories.

Every story has an interview with some expert from some university backing up the premise, because scientists are people too and some of them want their 15 minutes of fame like the rest of us.
When I read the title, I really got my hopes up that this was about replacing the steering wheel, pedals, shifter, etc.

I was sorely disappointed... this is just another rehash.
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What a fucking attention whore.
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It got me thinking - you just can't fake, or 'manufacture' real talent. When you hear a superbly delivered voiceover, or inspired production, or an announcer on-air who just 'gets' how to connect with her audience, it shows that all the audio processing in the world... all the sound effects ever recorded.... all the imaging ever produced can't replace real talent. You just can't fake it!
asteroids: that's military tech in disguise, not humanity-saving foresight.

tsunamis: detection only, not prevention.

rare diseases: some are rare enough that virtually no substantive research is done.
Correction: this isn't a cease and desist letter.
I seldom drink hard liquor, but I will get one bottle of JD when I travel next time just for this nice polite letter.
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My previous job morphed from being something quite interesting, to a company running a jobs website that sold education leads. Before I left, I ran the traffic to a website selling education leads. It was many of the big online players. You should be aware that many of these schools had a pretty shady business model. Their students would get student loans, fail to finish their degrees, and default on their loans. That was Ok from the schools point of view, because for a year or two the schools were charging fairly high tuition rates. They were essentially programs for transferring money from the federal government (in the form of loans) to the schools. These are the so-called "for profit" schools. It is not their "for profit"-ness that was the problem, if you will, but the way they treated their students. The government is starting to really crack down on these abusive practices (bad for both students and the government). Many of the students were of a fairly low income background, who had never been to college. There are a number of news documentaries about this, under the "for-profit" label. It seemed from me, on the outside, that most of these students would have been better served taking classes for much less at a local community college.

I am only aware of SNHU in the sense that they were buying leads in the same space as the for-profit companies. You are right that technically they seem to be a traditional non-profit college, that has started an online program. However, that online program seems to be the tail wagging the dog in this case.....

http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2012/so...

I am not saying that they are bad - I certainly don't know that. But before I signed up, I would spend a few evening Googling their specific reputation. I would worry that this school is simply trying to hide the same "for profit" motives in a non-profit cover. I know there are other players that are doing this exact thing, by taking over a small traditional school. In particular, find out what their graduation and retention rates are for their online students. What educational backgrounds do the students have? Is their program going to be of a quality that you'll be happy with?

There are a lot of very shady schools in this space. Make dead sure that you're not getting into something you'll regret. I guess, in short, Caveat emptor, there are lot of bad online degree programs.

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Your comment doesn't have much depth; would you care to explain why you think the article is bad?
Keep clicking/tapping on Dave. Awesome.
What's the point of paying at all if it's going to be acquired? Seems to be you could save a bit of money by just stealing it until it gets acquired, then download the free version legally. I'm all for supporting independent developers, but I feel like I'm wasting money when I buy an app that's just going to be free in the future anyway.
> But why is NK having nukes a problem? There is no proof they want to use them. Just posturing... Very similar to India and Pakistan.

True that. I never thought about it that way.

> What has North Korea done, that caused the mistrust?

They're frickin nuts. They run horrific internment camps. Their ideology includes our defeat. (The western capitalist powers.)

Pakistan is a hodge-podge, which includes terrorist and islamist elements. I'm not up on the situation in Yemen.
> a) the startup might hit it big enough to make you rich enough to have a lot of runway for your own project,

Do you also buy weekly lotto tickets and make wishes on falling stars?

> b) you might learn something about the process of founding and running a startup if you get enough personal interaction with the founders.

There are a lot of ifs and maybes in these statements. If you're lucky, you might get blessed with information, and that information may be meaningful for you. There's a fairly high chance that at the end of the day neither of these things will be true for most individuals.
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Can anyone tell me offhand when Facebook's lockup period for employee stock sales ends?

I've always assumed that their stock is going to get hammered when the lockup ends, and I want to be ready for it (i.e. have money in my Fidelity account to snap some up).

edit: answered my own question: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/05/17/facebook-sho.... Approximately August 19.
Yeah, but imagine how exciting it would be for your project to be picked as the "one more thing" at a keynote. I can see that as a big incentive for people.
Thanks! I forget that I have to check since StackExchange links are unique.
I have no idea what this site does. I've read 7 paragraphs and suppose I should "Open the CSS panel" (although the name implied something javascript related) because it's the only call to action, but it does nothing.
Maybe $100/year.
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I don't use timeline either, and I have six ads, as follows:

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- "Enter to win a Free Lasik Procedure in the Denver Area today!" (I'm not in Denver and my eyesight is fine)

- "Alienware’s first 3D Capable gaming laptop – Get yours NOW" (I've been to the Alienware website recently, fair enough)

- "Cloud Hosting for Websites, Servers, Apps and Storage. Try Cloud Files for only 10¢ per GB!" (Ad for Rackspace, and I already have a cloud server with them)

- "Switch to Verizon and be a part of the largest 4G LTE network in America." (Well, I am using AT&T...)

- "Win Counting Crows tickets in the Get Some Giveaway. Wanna get some? Enter to win." (I've never listened to this band before.)

- "Nonstop service from Denver to New York (LaGuardia) Akron and Dayton starts August 12." (No idea why they think I'm in Denver...)

And the ads reloaded, so a few more:

- "Switch to Viaero for just a buck, and get a free month of service and a dollar smartphone!"

- "Want the Best Smoked BBQ in Denver? Ribs, Chicken, Fish, Crab Legs. We've got it all." (I'm vegetarian!)

- "Get 100+ graphic design concepts in just 7 days. You pick the winner! Check out 99designs!" (I've been to 99designs before, again, fair enough)

- "Searching for answers? 50% Celiacs DO NOT recover with a GF diet! Click & Learn Why!" (I'm not GF; at best, I've researched it lightly.)

- "Buy 2 Original HP® Ink Cartridges and Get 1 Cartridge for Free!" (I might have looked at ink cartridges once or twice in the past couple of months.)

- "Exclusive running & cycling brands at up to 70% off retail prices. LeftLaneSports.com" (I never, ever buy shoes online. I did search to find some local shoes stores about a month ago, though.)

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Overall, I feel the same way as you. The ads are no better than something non-targeted.
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Kind of tangential to the article, but I often wonder why facebook has not tried the "freemium" model at all.
I'm not suggesting they do the typical freemium model, which would be to offer users the option of paying to get rid of ads. Instead, I think they could try charging based on usage (kind of like heroku). They would have to keep the service free for the majority of users, but I think they could get by with charging super-power users; I.e. the ones who can't live without the service. I know many people that would fall into this category, and I'm sure they would be willing to pay $5/month if it meant keeping their facebook.
Sure, that will happen at some point. Don't hold your breath though; evolution works over extremely long timescales (hundreds if not thousands of generations)
Nice. It took me a couple to understand that C&D's were preferred to legal action (I received a few from some really big firms). While researching the issue, under a small bead of sweat, I actually found conference papers from the originating firms outlining the preference of C&D's to expensive legal action. My personal experience with them seemed like glorified take down notices, which were easily complied with, but the language can be damn scary.

They are serious business, but, if some of these cases can be handled as humanely as the OP's example, a lot of people could sleep better at night.
Agreed but it also depends on circumstances: I've moved around enough that there are people whose opinions I trust that I rarely see in person. Similarly when traveling, I have some acquaintances whose Yelp recommendations are valuable and some I'd give negative weight to because I know our tastes differ – and if I'm in a big metro area for business I'm likely not to meet in person (traffic, schedules, school nights, etc.)
I don't mean to go all Carl Sagan on everyone, but these photos are such a great reminder of how stunning of a universe we have left to explore. And while I know the money doesn't exist in exploration funding to really push the space frontier yet, I really hope I eventually see the day where it becomes a priority again.
More data. On my timeline I get: http://www.jefftk.com/2012.07.22.fb-ads.png

One is trying to hire me to do C# or .NET programming, which is close to my interests except that I just started a new job (and am not keen on Microsoft languages).

Another is entirely in Chinese, which I suspect is because my profile says I speak Mandarin Chinese. I put that on there several years ago when taking a class, but my Chinese is by this point terrible. Facebook could easily tell I never write in Chinese, but is apparently not using information like that to clean up their targeting data.

The last is some sort of "Free Tickets" thing apparently connected to some restaurant I haven't heard of.
Wow, I completely glossed over that. I also don't write Java, so that's an interesting bit of info. Thanks!
I wish that went more in depth. It seems like a metareasoning reminder that taking time to decide is inefficient would turn into a quick choice. Unless someone without emotions is somehow incapable of picking random numbers.
That's probably one of the best articles I've read on the real nature of 'alternative' energy in a while.

My rule of thumb is simple : if someone calls it 'Alternative Energy', it means it's an alternate to having a cheap, ready supply of energy. Otherwise, it would just be called 'energy'. Nobody calls Nuclear power alternate energy, even though it's radically different to anything else that came before it in terms of generating power.

The percentage of power generated from wind globally, currently, rounded to the nearest decimal place is zero.

Trillions of dollars have been spent on windfarms and solar panels around the world, and, as the article notes, it has made zero difference to the overall energy mix. Yet it has affected national economies in real ways - the bankruptcies in Germany, Spain and elsewhere have real costs, as does taking the most basic economic input - energy - and making it more expensive for zero environmental gain at the global level. Despite the countless examples of failures to point to, the boosters insist that it's the right course, when any plain analysis shows the exact opposite.

There are plenty of people who hand-wave around the very real problems as outlined in the article, and say things like 'give it time, it will work out'. But you have to be a starry-eyed believer who trusts in state-coerced solutions to gloss over the myriad of problems of trying to jump-start essentially niche technologies into mainstream adoption.

It takes real courage to rely on human ingenuity to solve problems and come up with solutions. It's frightening to look at an issue and realise you have no answers at all.

But what's worse is to set off on a futile and damaging strategy just to be seen to be doing something, when that thing is ineffective at best, and damaging at worst due to the self-delusion inherent. This holds at the personal, family, business, state, national and global level.
The last player who did break through that barrier currently holds the NBA career record for free throw percentage. He retired in 1980. And he didn't have a bad jump shot, either. Food for thought.
You'd think except there are two ways at least they can allow the use and not dilute their mark.

They can allow the use and have included a statement that the mark is used by permission of the mark owner (whatever it is they are claiming is their registered mark). Or they can require that the claimant makes a statement that they are not associated with Jack Daniels and any similarity of the mark is incidental.

Jack Daniels as an alcoholic beverage doesn't lie in the same Nice classification as literature and so doesn't really infringe. There is no passing off, no trademark infringement just a similarity in design style which is mostly likely a copyright infringement; which again JD could allow if they wished without any prejudicial effect on any other threat of litigation they wish to proffer in the future.
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Hey! Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I'll start to implement some of those as soon as I can and let you know.
I vaguely recall something similar would appear if you put a certain formula or string or something in a specific cell deep in a spreadsheet somewhere back in the days when Win98 was new. I can't for the life of me remember what it was though.