skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cease being an "active member" if you don't spend $10 for a year, but you don't have to pay the membership fee again to become an active member again. Just spend at REI.
It's kinda important for us as well. Just as women are generally the victims of rape, men are usually the victims of false rape allegations (I'm not saying that they are either more or less frequent (in the Western world), probably rape is more frequent, but I guess we'll never really know. In any case, I'd guess that false rape allegation can be just as devastating, if not more, as a rape).

As a man, I'd just like to know when it's ok to have sex with a woman without risking being accused of rape. Therefore, my opinion is that rape can not be declared after the fact.
I don’t care about the details of Swedish law with regards to rape (or more specifically: I only care when someone really loudly exclaims that something that is obviously rape isn’t), I do care about evidence presented in favor of a conspiracy. I commented only on why I think the presented evidence is not convincing me of a conspiracy, not (e.g.) whether it convinces me of whether Assange actually raped or not.
Post offices have very short hours. And most packages are delivered via UPS, Fedex etc. Their hours aren't much better and they have far fewer depots. When DHL still served the US I once had to drive 45 minutes (each way) to get to their depot which was only open 9-5.
we are still allocated 50-25-25 valley-restofUS-RestOfWorld, so at the moment 1/2 our deals are in California. but due to prices being somewhat overvalued here, as well as comparatively inexpensive in other places, along with potential for growth in emerging markets, yes we are planting seeds for the future we think will reap benefits 3-5+ years out. we think it's a pretty decent strategy, but only time will tell.
Crashes on startup. HTC Evo V 4G, Android 4.0.3. Reported via Google Play.
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Not to be the debbie downer, as I use rewards cards as well. But there is not such thing as free money. This money you are getting is coming from somewhere. The banks are clearly raking in a$$ loads of cash from the merchant when you use your card. I think it's safe to assume the merchant increases the cost of their goods to offset the fees he pays for transactions. So, the merchant sets his prices 3% higher than he would have to, you pay that extra 3%, get 1% back and think "oh, goodie me, free money", and the merchant breaks even. Sure, you come out 1% above people not using rewards, but it's a net gain of -2%. Credit card companies win.

Like I said, I use rewards cards as well, it's a bit of a tragedy of the commons if you will, everyone just trying to offset their costs for a little, but this just causes the hidden costs to continue to rise.
agreed, difficult for new entrants to come in at this point... that's also what people told me 2 years ago, and we carved out our niche ok. so not impossible, just challenging.
Judge Koh suggests Apple is “smoking crack” in Samsung case
If you have a car, going down to the local UPS or FedEx depot usually isn't too bad but if you don't have a car (e.g. most people in NYC) it can be a real nightmare. In urban areas, depots tend to be in industrial areas with poor mass transit access. Accordingly, having a local, secure, place to have packages dropped would be a great service for the latter group.
We do show matching rides from Craigslist as a service to our users. Using an iframe means we don't need to scrape/copy the content to show it, but it still looks good/works well. CL seems fine with it, we haven't had issues with them. And we send lots of our traffic to them, not that they need it :)
Any suggestions? After a while, we could say that we had 2nd round mtgs with VCs and that we had so and so committed, but in the beginning, there wasn't too much else to say.
Most people I know in NYC get their packages delivered to their office.
Does it work if you try again?
Looks like this is an issue with mod_python, which cannot accept chunked encoding (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-222)

We’re not sure under what conditions the client decides to send chunked vs not, but in our testing if you retry it should get through.
So RegistryLove's success will hinge largely on their ability to get the word out to the general public.

I agree with this. But, assuming the advertising dollars are there, it's extremely easy to target brides-to-be through specialty wedding publications, etc.
4. Extradition in Sweden does not need to be through the courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
The 1% payout you describe seems to be about the max that customers end up with. Maybe some store specific cards are slightly higher, and maybe the right airline miles.
Video footage from the raid, with court footage of Dotcom on the stand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0Wc0sg

snowwindwaves: "which makes no sense to me"

It would if you lived in, say, Tahiti.

One of NZ's best assets is it's environment. It's directly linked to the dairy industry and other agri-business which is resonsible for keeping the country financially soluble. Is it worth keeping NZ and its waters clean? From a business perspective, yes.

As for nuclear power plants, NZ is (vulcanologists correct me if I'm wrong) the world's second most seismically active country, next to Iceland. I believe on the whole (i.e. not just in the span of your short lifetime or recent events) it's more active than Japan.

Moreover as someone else said, there are alternative sources of power that are just as appealing. Hydro provides most of the country's energy. Fossil fuels seem more lucrative as an export than as a domestic solution. However coal use in some areas is still very popular as a means of heating the home.
"...I can't give you a technical answer as I'm just the marketing guy..."

"Unfortunately I can't answer the following questions about security precautions, but I can see if one of our engineers can hop on the thread to respond."

I don't think he's not explaining it because it would be insecure. He's not explaining it because he doesn't know it well enough.
I despise the attitude that anyone who disagrees with an idea is a "hater". I also think "If all you see is a lame pinterest / canv.as / quickmeme clone, then by definition, you see nothing more than the average person." is pretentious and implies that the average person is never correct. I see nothing impressive in Makr.io.
Aisle 411 is doing indoor location:
http://aisle411.com/
He seems to have disappeared, apart from sporadic tweets. A quieter version of Mark Pilgrim and _why?.

Is this normal for successful Web entrepreneurs?
That and people who did art in undergrad. I know quite a few that still live with their parents and/or work for close to minimum wage.
That is very true, but I also see it as being the lesser of two evils. I, personally, would much rather like the idea that if I work towards something with goals, hard-work, etc. that I can be the rule. Instead of just giving up before even trying because "I think I'll always just be an exception". If you follow what I mean? I guess it's somewhat of a catch 22.
Oh? No SCUM for you? Bye!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQSOlF9ZZM
In that situation I might write back:

Dear Peter,

Thank you for your "message." I find your breach of contract totally "unacceptable" and I will see you in "court."

Michael
perhaps true, but the ability to deliver that statement forcefully & confidently is much easier for most people if it's actually TRUE. while some can pull it off whether or not the reality matches the statement, most of us are more likely to display confidence knowing the facts match the body language.

plus, you'll get reamed if you later get caught telling a lie, and ethics matter (at least for some of us).
Thanks, appreciate the feedback. One of the goals we have is to make you a better presenter. For v1, we researched presentation best practices and built the app so users automatically do things like limit the amount of text per slide, use consistent fonts and text placements, and add emotional impact to words with high-quality (no clip-art!) images. The constraints are intentional, and in fact was the inspiration for the name, as a Haiku is an art form that promotes creativity through constraint.

That being said, I think there are lots of opportunities in the future to help users add features like bullet points and charts, while still keeping it simple and guiding the users towards creating effective presentations.
Didn't communists in the USSR find that when you give everyone a "right" to have all their basic needs met and when you took away their motivation to work hard to succeed, a lot of people decided not to work or they decided to work at things that the community didn't need?

Not the way that you assume, no. Huge strawman here.
Everyone should be skeptical that they can beat the market because it is true, there is overwhelming amount of evidence that few people can do it on a consistent basis, even some of the best fund managers.

Also, I think you picked up Apple for the right reason, even if it wasn't the immediate source of their success. For most of us (non-financial types), it is best to gamble on companies that we are familiar with. I play around with stocks on the side, and it should be no surprise that most of my winners were stocks for companies that I was familiar with (i.e used their product), and most of my losers were from stocks that I picked up after reading a crappy financial advice column.
For 5., the actual statement I could find reported was that Sweden will honour its treaties, and in particular if the US fulfills all conditions in the US-Sweden extradition treaty, Sweden is obliged, under treaty, to comply.

And it is extremely problematic in many ways for anyone (Judge or Politician) to promise at this stage what will happen when the Swedish judicial system deals with a hypothetical extradition request.
I don' think the advice is to do a proof, but rather to design and think about it in such a way that you could given enough time.
Why is distributed social apparently so hard that we couldn't buy it with $150,000?

Is sharing status really a lot more complicated than an RSS feed with public key encryption?
There is no cohesive argument in the article. It's all just speculation:

"to be fair, this piece is a speculative article. my aim here is to raise questions & start a conversation, not to make a pronouncement on what app.net will or will not be (because i don’t think that’s predetermined, or something we can know yet). there’s a reason there’s a question mark in the title."

I feel that not making herself clear in the article is deceptive. I had to read the entire article to figure out there's nothing there.

[Edit] Furthermore: with Twitter's follower model how much more segregation can you get? How can you compare white flight from neighbourhoods with white flight from Twitter? What are they running away from if they choose whomever they follow?
> Facebook is a powerful societal force at this point, and successfully disrupting it with a distributed, non-corporate-controlled service would make a big difference for individual choice.

What individual choices would it make a big difference for?

> I get your frustration with the constant stream of Blathrs and idiot.lys

I'm not frustrated.

> But what Diaspora originally set out to do was and is important.

I didn't say otherwise.
perhaps, but also useful information... much better that the person said it, rather than think it and not let her know.

at least now she has information to process about that pattern of interaction behavior.
First, arbitration clauses aren't always enforceable. Suing for the $250 allowed would still be a nuisance.
A pity that the only ones who will take heed of this are the people who aren't already brainwashed into the cult of their own self-superiority.
koji isn't a founder, but I am. I can understand why you think that way, but to some degree this is about a bigger problem that we lived through, first hand. That is, people don't know what they data is, so why would they use even the most perfect distributed system over something that provided basically the exact same functionality.

Owning the bits is an important problem that will get solved with time, but unless people feel like they are actually creating and making something of value on social networks, then it will be hard for any system to pull it off, even if it gets all the tech right. Turns out the 'social' in social networks is actually the hard part.

This is our stab at it. Sorry if its not for you :)
The word was not just used as "lifetime of the product".

TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent
One-time payment of $499

We're pleased to announce a special offer that combines
three great products in our family — TextDrive,
Strongspace

How long is it good for?
As long as we exist.

See http://web.archive.org/web/20060203030930/http://www.textdri...
We're capable of thought, and bacteria aren't. That's a pretty sharp divider. I'd be grumpy if scientists were going to wipe out a planet of earth-plants, but it would be a travesty if they wiped out the planet of moose.
I love this, thank you. :) I added a bunch of these ideas to our Trello board.
Yes, I quite enjoyed that bit of snark as well.
Instagram 3.0′s New Maps Feature
Must have been a fairly painful writeoff for Adknowledge, who paid $50MM for the company a couple years ago just as social started to decline and were never really able to make any money with the product.

Seems like a great deal for Bailey, who was probably able to buy SR back with the interest on the money from the prior sale. Best of luck to Playerize with the platform.
I'm curious to know how do investors judge whether given founder has strong or weak personality? Especially in 30-60 minutes meeting? I'm sure it must be gut feeling but good salesman can easily fake it, unlike most of the founders who are geeks.
They also need nitrogen and trace minerals.

The minerals they could get from soil, but without nitrogen they can't make proteins. The atmosphere of mars is 2.7% nitrogen, but I'm not convinced that that is enough for nitrogen fixation to work.
Investing in Apple back then would have been like investing in a startup--investing in the engineering culture that made Mac OS X, not the product line itself. They were a company that secured a future from oblivion by making best-in-class stuff in a class with a huge upside for profit. I think a hacker could have seen potential that Wall Street did not.

And, like a startup, they took a number of swings before hitting the iOS home run, except they were also turning a modest profit during the swings.
thanks!
How small are the movements you’re trying to track? And what kind of time delays are you trying to get under? You can try mapping the same location multiple times (the more mapping the more accurate our system will be)
"all the people I know who inherited their money"

Selection bias. You're specifically selecting for people whose only money is money they inherited; failures, in other words.

There's a lot of children of rich people who are quite successful in their own right. Bill Gates, for example, did not come from a poor home. And the other thing you have to watch out for is reversion to the mean. It's unlikely Gates' children will outdo him.
While this only mentions native applications, the same could be done for web apps:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent" />
<style>
html {background-color:#000;}
body {background-color:#fff; border-radius:6px}
</style>
Meme creation isn't fully overdone until someone creates meta-meme creation: Where you fill in a few blanks, and the meme meta-creator gives you a website where people can create new memes tailored to some specific parameters.
Retrace your footsteps back to your original upgrade and cross-grade package. http://textusers.com/wiki/Lifetime_plans

One disgruntled VC200
Overall nice.

"Me too" on the multiple hangs requiring restart. Also seemed to have trouble making the help overlay go away: no tapping/swiping/pinching seemed to work; if it's timeout based it's too long.
yup, that's right
Your initial reading is incorrect. Past 250,000/yr, you go back to the normal 2.75% rate; you remain eligible up to that point, and that point is not determined monthly but annually.
The problem with positive rights such as these [1] is that it's difficult to say that someone has a right to something when it may actually be impossible to actually make good on it.

This is part of the difficulty with the USA's current healthcare debate. It's simply impossible to offer to every person, every imaginable medical care. There are not sufficient resources.

So from a philosophical perspective, how can there exist a fundamental right that cannot be fulfilled?

And then from a practical perspective, someone is going to have to decide where to draw a line. Someone will have to decide who will be given what procedures. The effect of this is that, at the very least, our rights (and not just these new positive ones) will be tossed around like political volleyballs. And at the worst, it creates an explicitly class-ful society, where some people are granted privileges that are withheld from others (which is the universal outcome in all Communist nations thus far)

[1] "Positive rights" are those where we say that someone must be given something, as with food, shelter, or healthcare. "Negative rights" are when a person is guaranteed to be free of something, as with freedom of speech (government may not limit speech), freedom from double jeopardy, etc.
The other way to look at it is that the service provider is borrowing money from you and paying you in services instead of interest. They have the right to pay the principal of the loan back at any time.

If their cost to provide the service is below the market cost of loaning them money, the difference is their margin. They simply need to price the "lifetime service" appropriately such that there's a market demand for it. If the price the market will pay is too little relative to their cost to provide the service, then they don't have a viable "lifetime offering."
I remember waaaaay back in the day when PayPal was called Confinity and they were doing this for PalmPilot. They pivoted and the rest is history.
Thanks for the report and sorry about the crash!

Any chance your sdcard/external storage is mounted or otherwise unavailable? We're supposed to have a popup to prompt you for that, but it looks like some code slipped in before the prompt :(.
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/LifeStrategy...

or

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/TargetRetire...
Bringing charges works different in Sweden from in the US. In Sweden it is the starting point of the actual trial, and it relies on the secondary questioning having already taken place. There are no charges precisely because Assange's behavior is obstructing the phase where charges can be raised.
Processor speed is near irrelevant. The processors that ended up in gaming consoles are both extremely complex and unique. More important than that, they were pushed to the absolute limit using specific programming tricks that work only on that processor by devs that had the official Nintendo dev kit. Not to mention full documentation, upwards of 5+ years of dev experience with that specific console, while also surrounded by people who know the ins and outs of the console better than Nintendo.

Emulating an N64 will continue to be difficult long after x64 processors have outstripped it in terms of speed by hundreds and hundreds of times. It will continue to require an HLE design to be playable until even after that. Then, maybe after we have an LLE N64 emulator, HLE JS N64 emulation will be within the realm of playable.
Why is Everyone Hatin' on Form D?
Flashy UI and solid backend code are almost always done by different people. The designer may be writing markup or some JS, but they won't be hacking on end to end encryption. The alternative then, would be to fire the designer and hire another backend guy.

Except they're not going to just not have any UI design at all, and hiring contractors for a whole project would probably end up being more expensive than a full time person anyway. Other members of the team could do it (probably not as well as a specialist), but then they would actually be spending time on design that they would have spent on the back end, which was your original criticism.

Also, the "flashiness" of the interface has a lot more to do with the talent of the designer than anything else. A talented designer may charge more, but probably not that much more, especially on a feel-good open source kickstarter project.
Thanks, glad you like the image search (it was a lot of work!) :) Sorry for the issues on the deck chooser, I've been meaning to re-write that for a while and will bump it up the list. I actually just added in a new first-launch experience, and I'm cleaning up a bug with those overlays, will be available in the next update.
Unless they can find cheaper than 2.75% elsewhere.
I'm trying to understand why?

If you are a member of the "social media elite" then you get a nice score and can get sweet deals from advertisers.

If you are trying to spend your company's advertising budget on social media instead of traditional channels, then I would guess this would make it easier. Instead of picking shows or channels just pick available people with high Klout scores.

Those two groups probably are enough to sustain a business, but I have no clue what anyone else would get out of this.
Is absolutely matters. If Sweden picks and chooses which rapists to prosecute based on how wanted they are in the US then they have 0 credibility. Beyond that, I imagine if Ecuador allowed him to be extradited to Sweden he would immediately be extradited to the US, which is why the logic that he is being extradited for rape charges is ridiculous. This is the most blatantly politically motivated thing I've ever seen. How people are naive enough to consider every possibility except for that kind of amazes me.
Jason Hoffman is not embarassed to rewrite history to his advantage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yluchvyUzvU
And it is actually somewhat dangerous to cast the return value of malloc. Aside from being redundant it can hide an error on compilers which implement an older version of the standard (not uncommon. Anything pre-C99).

If you forget to include stdlib.h the cast hides the error and malloc will be assume to be a function which returns int. makes for interesting runtime errors.

Never cast the return value of malloc in C, and don't write redundant code. C is not C++.
Evolving to Data-Driven Web Design
Players appear to be unable to say anything but their own name:

http://d.pr/i/P85E

And fixed: https://github.com/tlhunter/Cobalt-Calibur-3/pull/26
if it's easy for them, it's easy for others as well.
Everything you say makes sense, and yet... the reason it was called the "VC" plan is that the customers could expect to get many times more service than they paid for if Joyent was successful. And Joyent has been successful, although by pivoting into a different market. (I realize it wasn't an actual investment; no need to pedantically point that out.) (Edit: I see _delirium already made this argument.)

Would you call the Facebook mural artist a "bottom-feeder" for actually trying to cash in his stock because it's worth "too much"? http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/facebook-graffiti-a...
The article's essence

Your summary has virtually nothing to do with the article's essence. Among other things, the article doesn't state or imply that engineering is superior to other disciplines. Instead, it speaks of creating value, a concept independent of field. Indeed, the author isn't even a programmer—he's a product developer and strategist, and his degree is in marketing (http://www.sean-johnson.com/about/).