skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michelle Malkin, Jonah Goldberg, David Brooks (debatable), Charles Krauthammer

talk show: Glenn Beck? Rush Limbaugh? Pat Buchanan is on the communist PBS show McLaughlin Group.

Colbert isn't a journalist, but talk radio is 99% conservative or if not outright conservative then advocating "common sense"-y solutions that somehow always come out conservative.

Didn't check wikipedia or even look up articles.
There's a more general proof at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:euFgQLUCTfwJ:... that looks reasonable at a skim.
Not really cheap SIMs, nor can you usually pay 10 bucks a month pre pay for your voice/data needs.

I live in China, and prepay is great. I still pay full price for my phones, but I come out ahead in the end.
In recent years, sale of prepaid sim cards in Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan have become more restricted and require IDs.
Tellingly, that part is left unspecified.
T-mobile's postpaid "value" plans can also be a good deal (no phone subsidy, but yes contract/ETF). We just moved from the prepaid $30/month/line plan to a family value plan, because we could get 5 lines for <$20/month/line (unlimited talk/text on all lines, 200mb data on two lines).
Yeah, I could never justify a service like this for $100/yr. It's cool, but it's also free to get a local google voice number that forwards to the cell and just press 9.
And how many thousands of Americans are incarcerated rate now due to that same crime?
He was talking about the nexus line, which is free of carrier lock in (we will just ignore CDMA galaxy nexus for now).
No victim making a complaint, not obvious which jurisdiction the action took place, not a crime in all jurisdictions.
Citing the whole thing and highlighting the problem in italic:

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You may not publish, transmit or store on or via the Rackspace Cloud’s network and equipment any content or links to any content that the Rackspace Cloud reasonably believes:

- Constitutes, depicts, fosters, promotes or relates in any manner to child pornography, bestiality, or non-consensual sex acts;

- is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence or contains harassing content or hate speech;

- is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;

- is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;

- creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;

- improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;

- is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;

- infringes on another person’s copyright, trade or service mark, patent or other property right;

- promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling or illegal arms trafficking;

- is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to the Rackspace Cloud; or

- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent or may result in retaliation against the Rackspace Cloud by offended viewers.

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For example, publishing this comment would be a violation of these terms, because it links to exposed trade secret (http://web.archive.org/web/20080404222417/http://cypherpunks...), to content that infringes trademark (http://www.apple.com/iphone), violates export control laws (https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/network), and content that is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime).
In what way? How has he taken more of a position on the election outcome than a weather forecaster does on weather outcome?
Few, most are incarcerated for possessing large amounts. But in any case, state and federal policy are two different issues.
How does this compare to Amazon? Does Amazon permit unauthorized scraping, etc? I'm guessing that they do.
Ask HN: What packages does everyone use for Sublime Text?
When I first started hearing about the 538 stuff I was like wait whattttt isnt that Nate Tha' Great? Crazy enough, it was. This world is very small.
They have incredibly great logistics, they have made lots of forward looking investments. It is difficult for competitors to produce similar devices at similar costs to Apple, and their margins are much crappier when they do. But they should catch up, as long as Apple stops improving logistics and making forward looking investments (or the competitors do).
The editorial raises some valid concerns, namely how unfair competition can destroy an industry. Not surprised at Linus' again calling people stupid, and his cortege blindingly cheering him up.
Linus misses two key points. First, Engadget focuses on tablet pricing moreso than cellphone pricing. Second, all Engadget is inelegantly saying that the lowest price for something isn't necessarily its most efficient one.

Efficient prices versus low prices will play out spectacularly poorly in U.S. v. Apple and publishers, the book price fixing case. Like with tablets, Amazon undercut the true price of books, which harms authors and publishers. Hilariously Apple and publishers did a legal "corrective action" that is precisely described in the DoJ's own guidance on anti-trust. But I digress.

I would agree with Engadget that Amazon and Google selling tablets at or below cost is unequivocally bad for the tablet industry. I'd prefer efficient prices. Otherwise, Amazon undercuts everyone, all the other tablet manufacturers cease to exist, and then they let the product stagnate.
How does the logitech system work? it just flings files over a network??

Can it do multiroom? (same music many places at once) if so, how? (mainly a question re: non-insignificant data multicast and syncing with low latency, i guess?)
God says...

14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 14:3 Son of man,
these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be
enquired of at all by them? 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel
that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock
of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD
will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because
they are all estranged from me through their idols.

14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces
from all your abominations.

14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up
his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning
me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 14:8 And I will set my face
against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will
cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am
the LORD.

----

The difference between God's logic and man's is...

God said war was "servicemen competing" and the Bible says there is a time for every purpose under Heaven.

I'm not saying we will have war, I'm just pointing-out God's ways are far above man's ways and this article reeks of human logic.

Eastern religion reeks of human logic.

Jesus told the story of Martha and Mary. Google it.

God says...
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Oracle's Virtualbox.org down.
I agree with your point of working full time will make you 10x more focused. The other important thing when you are at your very early stage of product development is not to be distracted by other stuff like how you are going to do marketing, scale, etc. etc.
I wonder how it works in the good ol' USA. Somebody cares to explain?
The OP referred to turning various kinds of interesting subject matter into entertainment, versus merely reporting it. I think this is actually an interesting idea, and I don't think it has really been tried.

The typical entertaining news story "writes itself". Gossip, stupid pet tricks, etc.

Indeed the entertainment industry is itself very conservative in its choices of subject matter.
In Indonesia as well.
http://aws.amazon.com/aup/

The wording is "You may not use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use, the Services or AWS Site for any illegal, harmful or offensive use, or to transmit, store, display, distribute or otherwise make available content that is illegal, harmful, or offensive. Prohibited activities or content include...".

No "linking" mentioned here, although, "otherwise make available" is a broad definition.
The problem is over the longer term. Competitors will have to exit the market, creating a monopolistic situation with all the problems that entails.
Yeah, I can see that being valuable for somebody who needs a ton of phones.

I'd blow through 200MB in three or four days though. =)
I don't get the Excessive Use section. Don't you pay for what you use. If your VM has 7g ram, are you not allowed to use all of it all the time?
There are pre-paid providers which operate on AT&T networks and offer services (including upto 5GB data) for about $50. If you are not on a family plan, buying an unlocked phone and going pre-paid is actually cheaper.
You might want to have a look at QuickCheck. Trying to port it's techniques to other languages will also give you some insight (and will result in valuable tools).
Worse that that, he's demonstrating that the 'access' and 'insights' and 'instincts' on which their status as Notable Pundits depends is actually worthless. They are simply making shit up, and what they invent is invariably a tight race scenario because that's what gets the most profitable ratings. In othr words, he is demonstrating both their fraudulence and the disservice they do to democracy. And people LOVE him.
Agreed, although ArsTechnica is pretty good and I'm starting to like anandtech
A big enough mining pool could DoS some or all users by consistently producing a longer block chain than anyone else's (which clients would accept as authoritative) while omitting any transactions they don't wish to let through.
Sure, but those "fact check" stories are useless. People see the first thing. They aren't likely to see the next.

I get the rationale, but it doesn't do what reporters need to actually do to be an effective part of the political process.
I believe they are mostly talking about maxxing out your CPU usage since I am sure they oversell their CPU availability. This could really be fixed with affinity settings, but that may also interfere in peak moments. Im sure they have that in there so that they can kick you if you start holding you CPU at 100% load 24/7
That means that a XSS attach, or just a comment, and you can shutdown any company hosted at Rackspace?
One advantage of Valgrind over Address Sanitizer is that you're not limited to checking C/C++ programs. For example I am developping a programming language for fun and I can check for bad memory usages using Valgrind. From what I understand, that wouldn't be possible with Google's tool.
The anecdote about your post would be more helpful if you linked to it, rather than merely described it.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pubid=ra-4e6b4ca17f059aa2
"Regulate the light in your life" and "Alcohol is lying to you" are really true for me. If I read a book instead of Reddit, I can fall asleep in 30 minutes. And wine always wakes me up with the 2am hangover.

And a little Benadryl always helps.
yes, it could do multiroom (although i never tried it - it allowed you to synch streams for multiple devices). no idea how it works at a low level - similar to airplay, i would guess.
Sure, if Rackspace completely ignores the context of the infraction. It's save to assume they don't.
Show HN: We built a platform for listing NYC addresses without power/water/heat
I live in NYC, and I have family and friends who were evacuated and didn't know if they could even go home. We built this over the past couple of days as a way for people to help neighbors find out if their homes are safe to return to. The data is crowdsourced, so getting people to add info is a challenge. Feedback and advice on getting lots of accurate data is very much appreciated.
Copyrightability of APIs: a small skirmish in a much larger war
I live in NYC, and I have family and friends who were evacuated and didn't know if they could even go home. We built this over the past couple of days as a way for people to help neighbors find out if their homes are safe to return to. The data is crowdsourced, so getting people to add info is a challenge. Feedback and advice on getting lots of accurate data is very much appreciated.
Sorry I lost your number...
Sorry, misleading headlines, money does Not buy happiness
You're probably using ASAN a lot more than sporadically within Google. A lot of the continuous builds run with it on.

I think that's really the biggest advantage ASAN has - it's cheap enough that you can just make it the default when running tests or developing on your local machine, and catch a number of memory errors immediately instead of having to actively debug them.
Why not just have the user submit a screenshot? Safari supports file uploads now so you could go 100% web based if desired. Or if you are iOS fluent, you could make an app that takes the screenshot for you by grabbing the last picture in your camera roll.

From there, with how simple the board UI is, it should be pretty easy to OCR it. Drop the color and you are 90% there.

There was a Where's Waldo post on HN about 2 days ago. Finding Waldo in that mess involved a bit more work and thought to chose what to look for. In this case it was the bands in the striped shirt that were most if the give-away.

I think you could do a nice app in iOS, though I personally hate the cheating apps. I wish games like Words With Friends, Scrabble, etc., would tell you if the player was in game or not, and possibly what app they switched to. Or provide a lockout mode where switching costs you the game.

Multi-tasking is a needed ability at times, and done games are long play, but certain cheater friends could be locked into a game they can't cheat in, which would be a nice feature.
Browser based downloads of decrypted files.
Oh Yeah, Apple Has Definitely Peaked 'For Real This Time'
It works badly. If you want any kind of post-paid plan you typically are forced to purchase a phone with a carrier lock. Some pre-paid plans will let you purchase SIMs and "bring your own phone" (Wal-Mart's "Straight Talk" being the largest that I'm aware of-- they're an AT&T MVNO).

The average US cell phone user has no idea that phones and service aren't one-in-the-same.
The ads are becoming a major turn-off for me.
I'm gradually turning down my level of engagement with fb; I think for me social media is loosing its usefulness- I would rather talk or have group emails with my friends, the last remaining ease-of-use that Facebook gives me is organising meet ups when overseas
To be fair, voters have more to vote on than the presidential election. Maybe that still means lawsuits should be flowing, but I don't thing it being a swing state or not is really the issue here.
If that was really a problem, they could just make voting mandatory. Like it's already in some countries.
I am not convinced that Amazon is losing much if any money on Kindle fires. They have far less overhead and far fewer middle men than standard tablets which when coupled with extremely high volume sales and crap hardware can drive there prices vary low.

For comparison http://www.amazon.com/Coby-Kyros-7-Inch-Android-Multi-Touchs... low end 7" tablet List Price: $179.99, sale price 100$.

PS: Also, Amazon has little control over there P/E, it's investors that are convinced there going to profitably rule retail in a few years.
The US Constitution protects a person's "papers and effects" from unwarranted search and seizure. "Papers" is a legal term for data file.
its obvious, the mars rover just asked john carter to his picture.
Copyright is totally different, and refers to publishing, not seizing.
Photo Sphere of Android building taken with Jellybean 4.2 camera app
I studied one semester as an exchange student in the US, and it seems like everyone there is attached to a plan, prepaid contracts are not popular, actually they aren't a good deal. I got a prepaid simcard and it was really expensive they even charged me .25 dlls per every received text, I'm not sure if every company is that expensive, but I guess they are.
That g+ post is particularly bad because it shows that Linus is opinionated (we knew that already), that he doesn't understand business (predatory pricing) and that he doesn't read very well (the Engadget article clearly explains that in the short-term, lower prices work in favor of the customer). In fact his own post can be considered a trolling piece since at the end he suddenly switches tack and justifies his choice of Nexus phones. Which is due to his own preference of the UI, but similarly ignoring others who may instead prefer iOS.
um whats up with the guys face in that pic?
You still have to show some ID in EU, I think (at least that's how it works in CZ and SK).
Well, there are a couple of surges not dealt with here. The first and likely highest current spike is the charging of all the capacitance in the hard drive. I've never looked but I would imagine the motor driver circuit and the electronics have fairly large capacitors on the input power rails. This should be relatively short lived but higher Rds from a crappy MOSFET would increase the charging time. The second is everything powering on, there are likely secondary regulators for the electronics (probably needs 1.8 or something not 5 or 3.3) and they could be regulating the 12V rail to something more controlled for the spindle motor as well. Those switchers coming online and charging capacitors on the output side will cause a bit of a spike also. Then there is the spike from firing up the spindle motor and the head servo, likely not insignificant. I have no idea if there is an inrush current / duration limit in the SATA/SAS spec or not, I would think so but I've never seen a drive manufacturer quote these numbers.
We may never find out because Amazon never reveals how many Kindles it sold or whether it really is making money from Kindle, and the whole "financial industry" is complicit in this crime in cheating the naive investor.
Cool analysis. I wonder to what extent the Mac/Obama correlation is explained by the fact that there aren't many Apple stores in Southern states and states with a lot of rural areas (which also happen to be Red states). If the opportunity to buy a Mac were equal I'm curious what how the correlation would change.
Modern vehicles in coordinated patterns can go fast safely. Modern drivers, not so much.
A bit of evidence to underscore just how much difference:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369307/Japan-tsunam...

If the same thing were to happen in Bangladesh it likely would take a bit longer to fix.
Even within a single "platform" you can have apps that are available on some devices but not others. It's not that hard to find Android apps that are only available on phones, not tablets, and vice versa, or for that matter ones that work on some phones but not others.
The term is "unreasonable search and seizure" and it is not considered unreasonable to search documents that someone voluntarily gave to a third party (e.g. a cloud hosting provider) with that third party's consent.
Smarter Skies - the future by Airbus
Competitors that can not compete are not competitors.
Kodak makes the new versions of Flip now.
If they advertise with certain features then you should be able to use those features.
So what happens if Desktop Linux ever takes off? What's going to happen when there isn't one organization to target and attack and villanize?
I'm thinking more about the vote being "personal and nobody should be able to know what I voted"-security.
I tried Dragonfly BSD a month ago. I found some essential ports did not work and I could not install the development software I needed. I wish they establish their own ports soon instead of piggybacking on NetBSD or improve the reliability of the existing ports. Also, DF BSD is too focused on filesystems (and in general, all BSDs seem to share this trait) and less focused on a desktop user experience.
I agree in principal, but in practice no such font is widely available. The emoji cheat sheet has emerged because a desire to use emoji exists, but both input and display are not well supported. The solution I propose, albeit imperfect, works today to display emoji input to those who would not otherwise see it.
Fortunately hosting is a commodity and you can get what rackspace sells from any number of providers. Don't like the terms? Don't do business with Rackspace. Vote with your feet and your dollars and make sure you tell them you're leaving because you don't like their terms of service. If enough of their customers do that they'll get the message eventually.

And if they don't get that particular message they'll have to move on some other metric (perhaps price) to get people to continue to host with them in spite of their terms of service.

Personally I wouldn't have a problem hosting with them under these terms, I'd simply ignore the terms and factor in the risk of being kicked out by spreading whatever I was hosting there across multiple providers. That's a good strategy anyway, even when you think you're in compliance with the terms of service where ever you host your stuff.
Forget About One to One, Mass-heads Do It with Two to One
I understand the usefulness of social media, and I understand the need for a business to make a profit, but when the pursuit of that profit bankrupts the value that the business provides it doesnt make any sense. Over the past year in particular I have noticed less and less posts showing up in my news feed on facebook, and also on the 'fan page' that i maintain has been rendered basically useless unless I pay to promote it, so it just got me to thinking on how facebook plans to eliminate a lot of its value and still keep the average person interested in using it anymore. And like I said in the article, probably the largest issue I have is that a business I've never liked or have a desire to like is able to post on my feed because they dropped $300 on a post. That's total BS and is going to forsure turn off users. I could go on and onnnn about this, hah.
In the end I think this will be a great short-term revenue stream for facebook, but will be the ruin of the company in the long-term as it's users leave for greener pastures.
They are called "desktops" on Linux.
may result in retaliation against the Rackspace Cloud by offended viewers.

This seems excessively broad. E.g., recursively: I am offended by this passage. Other viewers who are similarly offended may retaliate, ergo Rackspace cannot publish, transmit or store on or via the Rackspace Cloud’s network and equipment any content or links to its own Cloud Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).