skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And thanks for feedback!

I updated the coloring a bit:

http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3298...
The Russian regime is too busy doing things that are important for Russia. Kasparov is a piece for the western media outlets to focus on as a political victim, while he's very unimportant in Russia and amongst Russians.

If he was a real problem, they would have put him down by now. If they didn't allow protests, they would be cracking skulls.
I always laugh at the amount of ignorance when people talk about this topic.

Apple has been doing this since the very beginning of OSX. Aqua, Pinstripes, Brushed Metal etc. And the popularity of OSX is one of the core reasons for Apple's success. The fact is that Apple does do consumer research and would have changed approach if there was evidence it was hurting them.
> The CEO of a company cannot "take back" or "wipe out" your right to purchase stock, aka stock options.

The folks who thought they had options at Skype found out that there were secret addenda to the option grant that let them swindle you out of your options when you leave.

http://framethink.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/lee2.pdf

http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/how-employees-get...
The company ran out of money, went bankrupt essentially, and thus common stockholders got wiped out. Silicon Valley doesn't tend to punish people for failing at business -- it's not clear from anything I've seen that the company did anything immoral. It would be nice to retain enough cash to pay out some severance to employees when you shut down, but other creditors have rights too, and you can get sued if you do more than the minimum. Maybe putting it into employment contracts is worthwhile.

I agree it is a shame her health insurance is tied to the employer -- that's a major problem with the US health care system, and why I have personal insurance (rather than taking insurance from an employer). Fortunately, her husband should have a new job if he wants one before the end of the week.
That's because his only support is outside of Russia. He's just a nuisance at most.
I don't think that Apple suing to protect its intellectual property is wrong. But even if I did, I don't buy the logic that doing the 'wrong' thing is okay because the other guy did it first.
Closure - A Fairy Tale
Would you have someone with a vested interest in the country running it, or someone who gets elected, steals from the country and runs off without consequence after 8 years? ;)
I know. My point is that Google left the "don't be evil" mantra behind a long time ago.
Unfortunately COBRA ends when an employer shuts down its health care program (bankruptcy, etc.)
Oh, and for any who like the look of Blessings but don't have any terminal projects afoot, shoppers who looked at this item also viewed...

A sequel to itertools:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/more-itertools/
(The upcoming 2.1 will include all the routines from the "recipes" section of the docs as well.)

A front end for the popular Nose test runner that shows a progress bar and tracebacks during tests (via blessings, of course):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose-progressive/

A shim for using Nose with Django (and making your tests go 4x as fast):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-nose/

While on the subject of Django, here's a little shim to let you write lightweight management subcommands (and generate commands at runtime, if you want to go crazy):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-subcommander/
Have you ever considered which represents a higher bandrate, Internet 2 or a 747-8 filled with your poop flying to Australia?
The point was that I can't. The study mentioned above claims that people act more honestly when they are reminded of a set of values to which they are supposed to adhere. I was simply stating that while I was in the military (for about a decade), we were constantly reminded of the set of values which we were supposed to follow, yet I saw no signs that such a practice has any effect whatsoever on an individual's behavior.

Honest, decent people who join the military (or any other group) will likely remain honest and decent. Dishonest people will most likely remain dishonest until their actions prevent them from getting what they want.
Maybe it's a patent litigation bubble :-)
once again no mention of a framework I love for node and that is http://railwayjs.com/ it is pretty railsy, built on top of express, and has the ability to leverage the socket abilities all with an orm and fully structured framework
As others have said, it's not so much that UPS knows this, but that they subscribe to a service that aggregates this kind of data. Go get your credit report online. You'll be asked similar questions. Do credit reporting agencies know this data? Not necessarily, they subscribe to a service that aggregates it so they can confirm the person trying to get your credit report is you.

UPS has, unfortunately, been quite the unintended accessory of credit card fraud/identity theft. I worked for a company that lost $30,000 to credit card fraud in a single month. Almost exclusively, the perpetrators would order $500+ in merchandise and have it Next Day Delivered to a vacant (but legal) address. Once they got the tracking number, they called UPS and had it rerouted for pickup. UPS says they check driver's licenses for pickup, but obviously this policy is inconsistently applied.

In reaction, the company I worked for modified its UPS contract to disallow reroutes. This caused an amazing number of headaches for the company's customer service staff and for UPS customer service, as many legitimate customers were caught in this net intended to prevent fraud loss. Most of my experience with UPS comes via my former company. As a mere consumer of UPS services nowadays, I've noticed a number of service improvements that I remember my previous company suffering from previously. It's interesting.
These major "news" outlets got their information on Syria all from one guy who sat in his apartment in London. How can we grant them credibility?

Also, here's a link to an article that actually draws from a Russian article. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2012/07/31/what-do-...

Good to get some news about Russia from something that isn't a conglomerate of media corps that is funded/protected by political interests that have a bone to pick with the current Russian regime. ;) (that is, news from russia)
"Breaking news! Corruption and totalitarianism of the Russian government, KGB and orthodox church exposed by the unimaginable injustice dealt to the members of the Pussy Riot and undisputed chess champion Gary Kasparov"

Anyways, here's what I was motivated to write in an earlier post on this topic:

Why isn't Madonna or these other outraged people protesting over the 32 miners killed in South Africa?
I understand 3 years (or is it 2?) is a tough punishment for what is basically vandalism by western standards (although I'm sure we can find examples or worse injustices in any of the western judicial systems). The organized and overblown reaction to all of this is much more about ruining Russia's reputation as a democratic nation than anything else. I've actually heard the nightly news-anchor here in Canada report on "International condemnation" of the sentencing. Are you fucking kidding me? Miners being gunned down for protesting in South Africa, Omahr Khadr still sitting in Guantanamo for something he might've been involved when he was 16, all the Wikileaks shit from Iraq Afghanistan... and the Pussy Riot going for a 2 year stint for vandalism is causing "international condemnation"?! If anything's made me aware of how alive the cold war is, this is it.

Also this:
I don't want to be misunderstood.. I'm in favour of Kasparov and the Pussy Riot doing what they're doing and fighting for a better government in Russia... as anyone should be doing for their country! But I am just irritated by the "better than thou" indignations echoed in media channels of the equally unjust western world that tends to ignore massive wrongdoings that are too inconvenient to the larger narrative.
i read somewhere that they had INSANE capex spends on the hosting.
I think there is a lot of identity associated with users. I'm relatively young, and often I will see one user identifying another user by their first name, which I don't know at all. People know each other here.

This might be bad. If so, I'd say all comments should be anonymous for 2 days. Give out a pseudo-random pronounceable handle to each user for posting on each thread. People making dick comments will still have to deal with their commenting history as posts are "unmasked" in 48 hours. (This well could cause more problems that it solves.)
Can you point to a good technical description of how Tor works under the hood?
Exactly what I was going to say. Steve Mann comes off as a lunatic in this whole affair.
Hacker News was key for me to feel comfortable moving away from San Francisco. I realized that I was getting most of my Silicon Valley news from a source that I could read from anywhere.

The comments here are so good that I often read them before or even instead of reading the article. HN is a superb collection of items well-aligned with my interests in startups, business strategy, and major technology trends.
nowhere is dishonesty or double dealing more likely to be recognized and rejected.

Do you know of any examples of that kind of rejection? When Hollywood directors make a movie that bombs, it's common for them to be put into "Director's Jail," where they don't get to make lucrative movies for a long time (see: Michael Cimino), has this ever happened with a C-level? My sense is that these bridges are fireproof.
Garry Kasparov released - Kasparov's Twitter
In my experience the _more_ link works for about 5 to 10 minutes. If you slowly scroll down the page reading things on it, by the time you get to the bottom of the page it no longer works. You have to reload the page to get the link to work.
Easy to follow, well written, cant wait for the follow ups. Thanks!
Did you hang out with those people during civilian life? How can you say the various credos had no effect on them if you do not have the same experience without the credos.
Sam and acme do away with almost all the cursor movement commands and keystrokes of other editors, and replaces them with the mouse (to move the cursor around, just point and click, simpler and faster) and structured regular expressions (to select text segments in a document, then run commands across just those). They even use mouse chords for common operations such as cut, paste, and run a command, which are so muscle-memory to me now they don't interrupt my stream of thought.
> very few very bright people would prefer to work in at a big company

Citation needed?
Sprint's Motorola Photon Q one of the first phones with Moto's bootloader unlock
let's be clear. this war is apple's doing, not "all the tech giants".
I disagree. It's more about money than innovation. The non-copy arrangement that Microsoft & Apple have led to Windows Phone which I think most would agree is the most unique and maybe the most innovative platform. Would consumers be better off if Microsoft could have puked out an iOS/Android clone instead? Arguably Windows Phone as we know it may be suffering commercially because it is a departure from the iOS/Android model. So in this case is being less innovative actually a smarter business move? If so that's really troubling. We are not seeing small companies getting stomped out over patents but instead giants fighting over who gets the most money selling essentially the same basic products.
i think typically you get your full 25% at the end of the first year and then it starts vesting monthly.
Ref: World War One
So you are saying he must be unpopular or unimportant because he hasn't been put down for causing problems to the state? If you think all the popular and important people are dead, then you really hold very little hope for the living.
Someone?

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

- Steve Jobs
The details make it sound more like a PE rescue to me, but I agree that it's unlikely that there is some kind of windfall being withheld - the likely other option probably would have been bounced paychecks.
A "show press release" button? WTF kind of user-hostile information designer suggests...oh wait, Engadget.
> 3D printers sure look like they could help with this problem in the future.

What fraction of the parts on a car do you think that a 3d printer can produce?

For example, they can't produce any of the electronics. They can't produce any of the load bearing parts. They can't produce any of the sheet metal.

> Heck I'd love for mandatory escrow of every component's 3D models

Lack of 3d models is rarely the problem. (In most cases, you can use an existing part as a template.)
They did actually.

2010, Oct 06: Motorola sues Apple over 18 patents, and files an ITC complaint against Apple over 6 of them.

2010, Oct 29: Apple sues Motorola over 6 patents, and files an ITC complaint against Motorola over 3 of them.
And patents should be

A) Sufficiently complex. No more slide-to-unlock trivial bullshit.

B) Strict checks on prior art. Slide-to-unlock, again.
It's great to know that you work in the industry, but it's irrelevant; argumentum ad verecundiam is a logical fallacy and only serves to demean your argument.

To address your point, I understand interchange as being set and collected by the card network, and is non-negotiable. Anything off the top is left for the banks to keep for themselves, e.g. the plus in "interchange plus" pricing). Another example assume a hypothetical interchange of 1.5% and a merchant that has a merchant account that costs 3.5% + 30¢ (gateway) per transaction. In this case the card network takes 1.5%, the gateway 30¢, and the banks 2%. Is this not how it works? It would be nice if you could cite something (not trying to be an ass in case it reads that way :).
Sad really. This reads like a legal maneuver to escape prior financial obligations. Fire everyone, sell the assets to a new company, have that company re-hire the staff (if they are stupid enough to work there) and then negotiate new contracts with various vendors until you are up and running. Meanwhile creditors, investors, and disgruntled employees are left to sue an empty husk of a corporation with no assets.

It will be interesting to see the ramifications on Perlman's career. In a valley that embraces shooting high and missing, this doesn't feel very 'gentlemanly' if you will.
http://drupal.org/node/861192 comment #4 - used for Drupal's test cluster

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-case-studies/ (including Limelight networks)

Switching in early 2010 would have made you an early adopter.

My sense is that most sites use Percona Server instead of MariaDB, because Percona and xtradb (mods to innodb) have been around longer, and those changes are generally a subset of the changes MariaDB incorporates.
I can no longer respond to the people replying to me, so I'm putting this here.

Motorola, not Google, sued Apple and Microsoft over FRAND patents in April of 2011. It wasn't until August 2011 that Google even announced their intent to acquire Motorola Mobility, and it took until May 22nd, 2012 for the deal to actually close.

If you were referring to a different FRAND case, I apologize, this is the only one I'm aware of.
You don't need HN to find out how Facebook handles massive deployments either.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+facebook+handles+massive...
Well in that case, why not just have the tsars back. Because that worked out so splendidly well for russia last time, now didn't it.
Let's be even more clear: there isn't a genuine equivalence between Apple suing Samsung and Samsung suing Apple. Even Google's lawyers told Samsung to change their designs.

The false equivalence that you and many other people continually try to draw in this thread and every other one like it has poisoned the well.

Nokia sues Apple over something? No big deal.

Apple sues Samsung over obvious copycat products? End of world.

Apple writes $10 bln check to Nokia without much fuss? Serves em right!

Samsung might owe Apple a couple billion? End of world.

There's a reason Apple sued Android first. and the consistent meme here that it's because Apple is the big bad is, frankly, total bullshit. Google et al. made conscious decisions to copy Apple's products.

Now maybe Apple also made a conscious decision to steal Motorola's tech. Maybe Apple's innovations are bullshit, obvious, non-new. OTOH maybe it isn't and maybe Motorola's is. In that case why should Apple cross license it's actual innovations to someone who wants to knock off their products? In that case, Fuck Samsung and Googlerola -- they can write checks just like Apple did to Nokia. Hardly the end of the world.
We'll see if that gets them out of class-action territory.
Much nicer now ! Thanks.
I'd also suggest http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/khosla-the-silicon-... as an affirming counterpoint.
That's what people said about Apple/Samsung until the trial reviled Apple did offer licensing terms which Samsung rejected. We have no way of knowing if Apple offered similar licensing terms to Motorola.
It looks like the main keyword is "Hangouts" Why won't you just change it to: Chill with me hangouts?
I am convinced that the reason most democracies have limited terms of presidency is because if one elected official can't be bought then the next one will be (or in the case of US elections - they ALL get bought!)
This is why voting for people is bullshit (in my opinion).
The government should be a bunch of invisible (but accountable) professionals academically trained in governance, laws, finances, foreign policy...etc with the only mandate to lead a succesful socially and globally responsible country. But if you really want to get all democratic about it, the "people" should vote on very broad issues to determine the intellectual values and the future direction of the country.
What about videos or images of gore where the authenticity may be hard to verify? Do these incidents of people or creatures being maimed or murdered cause people to be more likely to engage in the activities they see? Should they be illegal?
I see everyone discussing these short term results of Facebook's performance on the stock market, but has anyone really considered the long term value?

I'm not an expert on the markets myself, so if someone could break down what Facebook's longterm outlook looks like, that'd be interesting.
Tell HN: you help me code, I'll help you design
I'm a designer (http://sachagreif/com) and entrepreneur (http://folyo.me).

I am currently working on a new project, and I'm looking for a developer to help me out. Since this is a personal project, I don't have much funds and I realize I probably won't be able to afford a great developer. So instead, I would like to offer my own skills in exchange.

So if you've got your own personal project or startup, I'll be glad to help you with its identity, visual design, and interaction design.

Things I've designed: Sharypic (http://sharypic.com), RubyMotion (http://rubymotion.com), CodeYear (http://codeyear.com), and more (http://sachagreif.com/work/)

If you're interested, there's more info here: http://sachagreif.com/help-me-build-stuff/

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Be careful about visiting those sites. If you have any of the images saved in any sort of browser cache you could have criminal charges brought against you for possession of child porn. This is doubly true if you work in tech or IT and know a lot about computers... which I'm assuming many people in HN are