skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The expression of india wanting some "control" over the internet looks like part of the bigger push going on for the UN to control the internet, which it kind of scares me. I honestly prefer the current mishmash of tech companies as stewardship. There are a lot of scary countries in the UN (China, Pakistan, United States etc) that shouldn't be anywhere near the censorship button. I could see UN "internet rights" laws looking like the european ones restricting speech around things like religions.
Daily, local delivery is far more environmentally friendly than having people drive to pickup their mail even once a week. What's important to realize it's less a question your mailbox is from the post office, but how far your mailbox is from the mailbox the previous person on the route.

PS: This is also why school busing is so much more efficient for everyone but the students who have a long ride.
At first I thought $1 is too low to cover for the lack of ads. But then I realized that $1 pays for like 50 average ad clicks of theirs, and who clicks that much on Facebook ads in a year? So $1 would probably more than cover it.

But I still think people would rather start using something else. It would only give Google the opportunity to start advertising Google+ as the FREE social network on TV and elsewhere.
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I don't really understand what stands it up now.

American politics has nothing to do with reality anymore.

This morning in the car there was a news bit about a guy who had just been arrested, and it was found that he'd posed with the Governor for a photo a couple of weeks ago. Clearly the Gov poses for scores of photos every day, most of which are with people whose names he doesn't even know. But it appears that someone thought that we needed to know about this photograph, and I can't imagine any reason for that.

The political system seems to be a perpetual motion machine. It sustains itself independent of the rest of the world by producing unfounded hype that creates hysteria.
It's not a problem with prepaying for heath benefits. It's changing the rule to force prepaying ~7 years worth of heath benefits every year until they are ~70 years ahead. If they had been forced to gain 6 months of headway every year you end up with the same mandate at far lower up front costs.

PS: Also Ford does not need to 100% fund there pension plans they are allowed to have a gap which is currently around 20% or $15.4 billion as of end 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/us-ford-pension-id...
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FTFA: "While default would be a first for the Postal Service and a sign of how deep its problems are, it's largely symbolic. Postal officials have pledged that employees and subcontractors will continue to be paid and mail will be delivered as normal."
Agreed - expressed another way by Montapert: "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." Whenever looking at performance it's critical to ask what concrete things were accomplished as a result of the work. (Blanket statement coming!) If you see the words "Facilitated" and "Coordinated" more than "Built", "Developed", and "Wrote" then that's a warning signal.
Which subreddits do you subscribe to where you see that unwanted content?
Most skills are bicycle skills - we do a lot of different things every day in this business. Its tricky to guess what we'll do more than once, that's the rub.

I learn skills when I want to - not when the job demands it. I actually enjoy learning things, and do it more often than needed, to improve myself you might say but actually just because.
You might put your email in your profile so we can contact you privately :-)
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And now, finally, we shall expect lower energy consumption of AMD processors...
To be more specific this is the transaction taking place (failing to take place, rather):

Congress passed a law in 2006 (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr6407 ) insisting that the USPS fully fund its pension liabilities by 2043, beginning in 2007 (see SEC. 802. B of the full text). That amounts to a radical restructuring of the USPS's costs (not that doing so is in principle a bad thing, but the implementation of this law is... onerous to say the least).

This is basically Congress telling the Postal Service how it should allocate its money, and the Postal Service responding by saying "we can't meet the terms that you've unilaterally passed" by not paying the treasury the sum of money necessary to fund future pension liabilities.

This says essentially nothing about the costs of current operations or obligations.
There's a reason TechCrunch passed on them. Except for Zagster (Bicycle Rental Marketplace), Tweaky (Marketplace for small website changes) and maybe RocketLease (Electronic Lease Applications), these startups strike me as painfully mediocre.
It's a reboot of the franchise. Just like the new Star Trek movie wasn't called "Star Trek 11" but simply "Star Trek." It would be odd to keep the same version numbering scheme when they threw away the old system, no?
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http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3186/2549379679_5251c541f6_z.j... nuff said. I swear sometimes they don't even ring the doorbell.
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You'd also want to know that even without this pension payment, they would still be losing many billions every year, with future projections of even larger losses in the future. Internal USPS estimates say they will have an annual deficit of $20 billion/year within a few years (it's about $10 billion for 2012), but the new pension payment is only about $5 billion/year.

You'd also want to know that "pay as you go" pensions are illegal in the private sector for good reason, so it's not ridiculous for the government to insist that USPS put money in a pension fund.
Feynman lived in Far Rockaway! I had no clue, I wonder if he lived near my current apartment.
> Luckily the ouya is going to do just that

There's very little reason for anyone to have confidence in Ouya as a platform. From the developers' apparent inability to plan (still no dev documentation, still no SDK...and they're planning to release in the next eight months!) to their pimping of a port of the Android port of a DS game as the biggest thing that's happened to the platform. (I have the Android port of FF3 on my Nexus 7. It's ugly enough there. It's going to be really ugly at 40".)

I had really high hopes for this at first but this has been in meltdown mode pretty much from day one. I just hope that the hardware actually gets into users' hands, because frankly at this point I'm not even sure.
>It was dark.

Hmmm... Which person do I engage? Maybe the guy with the rifle, down in front of the screen, who is facing the audience, shooting everyone, with a clearing around him?

>Everyone was panicking

Not everyone panics in emergency situations.

>I hold that the death toll would have been considerably higher if some of the cinema-goers had been packing heat and decided to shoot back.

He shot about 60 people in about 90 seconds. Anything to trip him up would have lowered the death toll.
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I'm from Canada, and I have no complaints about my mail service.
I can strongly recommend Dennis Covent - http://denniscovent.com/

He recently designed a site for me, and I was really impressed with the quality of his work, and his responsiveness and attitude throughout the project.
+1, I've seen this idea before, and I think it's horrible. It's a ton of boilerplate crap that doesn't seem to solve any real-world problem.
The twist being only allowing .edu addresses at first.
> They should come out and say we don't care how much weed you smoke, we're not going to drug test you now or ever, we just don't care what you do in your free time.

The threat is that a foreign nation will take over a DEA field office and blackmail you. "We can overlook the pot this time if you cooperate and wear this wire. Don't cooperate and we'll do an asset forfeiture on your house and report your kids to CPS for being homeless." In a few months you'll be doing dead drops for a Chinese handler and thinking you are doing the right thing for family and country.

It is not about drugs but the abject corruption of the War on Drugs.

Polygraph interviews are not anout ferreting out all secrets, they are about finding how hard it is to get secrets out of you.
I am getting "504 Gateway Time-out" when I visit the page
> Just like the constantly-needing-a-bailout Amtrack ,and every other government service,

I, for one, as a citizen of one of the most privileged countries in the world, am very happy that the government provides many of the services it does (EPA, FCC, FDA, Medicare, Medicaid, USPS, SEC, GAO, CBO, NOAA, CDC, just to name a few).

These organizations aren't perfect, but that's not an indictment - nothing on this Earth is perfect, and libertarian capitalism is not a solution to any of the worlds problems.

Context and history are important. Pure capitalism has never been, and never will be, unicorns and rainbows as far as the eye can see.
10,000 hours and too little time...
Does that explain why it passed Congress nearly unanimously? Actually more Repubs than Dems voted against it IIRC, but I'm far too lazy to look up the vote totals now.

I do find it hilarious that people think putting money in a pension fund is some kind of Republican conspiracy. Aren't Democrats usually the ones who support government pensions?
> People tend to base risk analysis more on stories than on data.

People base all decisions on stories rather than data. It's marketing 101 -- don't sell features, sell stories.
"504 Gateway Time-out". Seems quite a radical redesign.
Same here. Doesn't bode well, does it?
How did that debacle "align with Google's business interests"?

Payload data can be used to inform their advertising efforts.

Two other points:

1. After an engineer alerted his supervisor of the "accident" it continued anyway so even if it was a sincere accident, nobody gave a enough of shit to rectify it.

2. Google still has the data two years after they were supposed to have deleted it, which they blame on communication issues as to how to delete it. Is Google saying the don't having the engineering know how to properly dispose of data if needed.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Google-Failed-to-Delet...
Which subreddits do you subscribe to where you see that unwanted content?

It shouldn't matter what subreddits I subscribe to (and the encroachment of certain trends keeps herding people to yet new subreddits. /r/gaming -> rage comics and DAE remember. Okay, everyone to /r/games...rinse repeat. /r/atheism -> ridiculous and obviously fake caricatures for people to knock down. /r/programming -> beginner material, so what, /r/notbeginnerprogramming?)

That is a hack, manual solution for machine learning of the things I am interested in.

Netflix uses strong algorithms and a lot of data crunching to suggest movies I might be interested in, rather than simply forcing me to subscribe to wholesale genres (you like Action movies so here's every movie that dropped in the Action bin). The eventually winner of the social news game will be those who effectively transfer that sort of learning to this genre.

Note that you can take it beyond simply finding correlation indexes between users -- analyze the linked site to determine factors like is it image heavy, what is the grade level / complexity level of the writing, discern the subject matter, etc.
if your defending yourself you want a hand gun

Disagree, at least depending on the situation.

If you're defending yourself in your home, the most appropriate weapon is likely a short-barreled shotgun. The short barrel is advantageous for being able to quickly maneuver around corners, etc. And the shot requires less (but not zero) accuracy in aiming, and if you use the right size shot, is less dangerous to bystanders because of minimal risk of over-penetration.

While we're on the topic, the gun control people are irrational in trying to ban rifles with pistol-style grips. Such a grip gives no advantage to the bad guys: in Aurora, he was equally able to fire the AR-15 (which had such grips) and the shotgun (which probably didn't). However, pistol grips are useful to a home defender. It would allow the defender to hold the weapon covering the bad guy with one hand, while using the other hand to dial 911. Without the pistol grip, the defender couldn't do that.
Wow, thank-you for that! I found a scanned in copy of RUN Special Edition 1989 with the purple color and all. Many great memories just came flooding back. I remember my copy had just about fallen apart but I kept it until just a few years ago when my parents house caught fire. That issue was very special to me.
The new outlook.com also does not respect the RFC in this case, which I thought was especially funny.
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Or a lighter and a can of wd-40 as a blow torch to kill flies. :D
No, it's different. Hushmail is specifically a security product so it's a much bigger deal that it is inherently less secure than the alternatives.
Reddit is far from being a link aggregator right now. Reddit is all about the community. I'd call Reddit a community of communities, I feel like this is what describes it the best (in its current state).
This is ridiculous! We should try to stop this!
>assume it is my goal to cater to as many users as possible

The thing is, it's not your goal to cater to as many users as possible. It's your goal to optimize your ROI on development time. The reason we have to have laws about accessibility is that your average fast food place knows that wheelchair-bound hamburger sales will never make back the cost of constructing a wheelchair ramp. The economics of the situation wouldn't provide for disabled people, so we have to have regulation to make sure they get taken care of.

(And before anyone jumps on that and misinterprets me, I am not comparing disabilities to turning off JavaScript. I'm simply showing by example that it is not good business to try to grab every possible customer at any cost.)
Ah, thanks for being okay with making UEFI standard for Macs, so that nerds would be forced to accept it.

Fuck you.
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Where's your outrage over Syrian and Iranian Intelligence and their tactics?

Your entire rant is irrelevant. Independently of how much you dislike foreign agencies, working for the NSA might also pose ethical problems.
Why not - this is exactly what multicast is for.
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In less than a week, we've had those 'genius' ads on TV that seem to insult consumers' intelligence [1], and now the person who led CPU design for iOS devices is leaving the company. These are not encouraging signs for Apple.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/07/30/viewers-giv...
I have no problem with the word "we". I have concerns with where people draw the line between "we" and "them".

I find nothing weasel-like with stating "Soviet engineers created the F-1 nuclear reactor in...". It's perfectly accurate. Saying "We created..." is rubbish. I mean, are you suggesting all Germans shouldn't be bothered saying "we killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust"? Is that less frightening that the alternative "Hitler's regime killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust"?

I think your examples are contrived. The coach/trainer/owner says "We did it!" as a shortened colloquial form of "we achieved our goal of obtaining a victory!". I'm talking about people who sit on the couch watching a game, who have never attended a match or contributed anything to the team they 'support', and say "we won". I'm not saying there's anything bad with that, just I find it strange. Many of my closest friends do it and I tease them for it - just like they tease me for only being interested in the team/individual performance/strategy.

All I did was point out that people seem to (conveniently) identify with "we" when it reinforces a positive self-identity and some people choose not to identify when it reinforces a negative self-identity, which does make me wonder how healthy their identity is as a consequence, and I personally find the consequences of this unappealing.

Sure this can be mostly harmless e.g. in the case of sports, but it is identifying with a group psychologically and somewhat irrationally in my opinion and it's something I don't find natural.
Because it’s related to monads and this is HN. ☺
Do you have a source for the post office losing "many billions" yearly aside from the pensions? Because everything I've read says the opposite - that it'd still be breaking even but for that.

And while I agree that pay-as-you-go pensions aren't a good idea in this instance, the law requires the post office to pre-fund the pension system for like 75 years. So a lot of these costs are for the pensions for future letter carriers who haven't been born yet. There's a lot of room to build up a fund in a way that doesn't lead to these sorts of short-term losses.
I found that pretty suspenseful. I was rooting for the bird to find a fish before running out of air.
Good catch. I figured HN would reject it if it had already been posted. Was surprised when it went through, actually.
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Microsoft never claimed to be Mr. Nice Guy. Craigslist likes to show itself as a model corporation.
I'm about the same age with nearly the same experience, although I don't remember exactly when the Commodore showed up in the house, it was just always there.

Hours and hours of Jumpman, Ghostbusters, Castles of Dr. Creep, Bruce Lee, Space Taxi, Save New York, Kids On Keys, Asteroid, Impossible Mission, 5-A-Side Soccer.

That tattoo's a great idea...
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Has anyone been using the cloud databases?

I assume they're going to optimize better than i would, especially since i'm too busy to. but their 512 db instance is as expensive as a 1g server image that i'm running mysql on no, and I was planning on running more like rabbit mq on that server.
I think this just means they have to have a tiny X in the corner for you to try to tap and miss and click on the ad anyway.
I'm having a hard time googling for the laws surrounding the topic. Do you happen to have any links or terms that I might be able to foist upon The Googles to find out more about laws regarding the funding of pension liabilities?

I'm curious also at this point what percentage of employers even provide pensions?
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Well, you can shave off 300 million by giving them a six-hour delay...
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It wasn't their goal to cater to as many users as possible.

Their goal was to build a MVP as quickly as possible.
I'll check it out. Many thanks.
they should add Mozilla Persona/BrowserID as a second option to login.
This decision is the early sign that Craigslist is a dying company. It won't have a big direct impact: users won't notice and the PR impact won't go beyond entrepreneur circles.

But it shows their confidence is suffering and they're starting to focus on defensive measures - even defensive measure that go against their original values. Its not a sign of impending doom, just a sign that a long decline is underway.
I love lists like these - esp. when they are the little guys you never hear about.
If you think that subreddits don't matter, then you are clearly expecting from Reddit something that it was not designed to have. The most popular subreddits are swarmed with teenagers and the quality has gone downhill, that's true. But the value of Reddit is in its (less popular) subreddits.
But their algorithms for aggregating are very different. Reddit is primarily based on submitted links. Digg is primarily based on links shared on social networks.
http://spideroak.com/faq/ = cross-platform, client-side encryption / decryption
note for clarify - not associated with Spideroak in anyway, just a happy home user (100GB) and I've introduced it at work (2GB free account). Considered and rejected were google drive (privacy concerns), and I've moved away from Carbonite (also for privacy reasons).
If it's just gonna play video, it doesn't need Tegra 4, but if it wants to be a console, sure. But are Google looking to compete with consoles here?
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We are spending a lot of money staffing (i) universal delivery at (ii) a single fixed rate on (iii) a 6-day-a-week schedule.

Any of those three could be drastically relaxed without compromising the core value of the USPS in modern US life.
...that sounds fantastic to me. I'd read a lot more HuffPo if the pages weren't so laden with crap.
> polygraph

WTF?

What security expert would want to work at a place that takes seriously crackpot bullshit like polygraphs?
Oh the irony. I get a 503 error.
4/5 here
Make that a 504.
The new Digg....

504 Gateway Time-out
nginx/1.1.19

Well I'm underwhelmed.
Usually you can't "just substantially" do something without a huge inconvenience.
This seems very naive to think that Craig gives a damn about padmapper, they (CL) have every right to license their data to whomever they want, and PM choose not to seek such a license so I seriously doubt Eric would really stand much of a chance getting a job with CL.

You speak as though CL is broken, and it clearly isn't, as a marketplace it functions well. You may not like the website, but it's marketplace first, website second. If you want to sell something, it has the inventory and the customers.

Craid had to sue PM, it's just business, it wasn't a personal attack or a "dick thing" as you seem to think.
Sure. There is a lot of misinformation on the topic out there.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/who-kill...

"This past fiscal year, it lost a mere $5.1 billion. In 2012, it's facing a record $14.1 billion shortfall and possible bankruptcy. In order to turn a profit, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says the agency needs to cut $20 billion from its annual budget by 2015. That's almost a third of its yearly costs. ... In 2006, Congress passed a new law requiring the agency to pay about $5.5 billion a year into a trust fund for future retiree health benefits."
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I question the credibility of such lists. The article does not base any sort of criteria apart from "cool" and "purposeful" in judging these firms. Are these compiled in terms of user accounts/web traffic/vc funding levels etc, besides they are overwhelmingly "web" oriented. To keep web 2.0 running we need network 2.0 and infrastructure 2.0 running and innovating. Its sort of sad that very little press is devoted to making web 2.0 possible.
... not when you check the price of a commercial licence.

edit: found the email I was sent when asking Digia. 2995 EUR Windows Desktop only for a single developer, 4195 EUR for multiple o/s development; includes 12 months email support and maintenance upgrades.
huggyface's point is that Reddit should hide uninteresting-for-me material and surface interesting-for-me material automatically. Subscribing to subreddits is a manual process that shouldn't be necessary.
This looks interesting. I somehow really like Haskell, although I never got around to dive into it. It's one of those languages that I want to learn one day but never have time to. So, watching those videos is kind of showing me how things are done the Haskell way, which is kind of strange for somebody like me who's entirely used to C89 ;)