skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there are multiple reasons for this move and labor costs are almost certainly the biggest factor. But one aspect that I haven't seen discussed but which may be relevant is that companies increasingly turn to the ITC as a patent enforcement lever. The ITC is a US agency which can effect import bans of products found to infringe. Obviously a great workaround to an otherwise crippling import ban decision would be having a US based assembly network.

Now the big arena is mobile and this announcement is about Mac lines but it's not hard to believe that this is a tip of the iceberg investment and that Apple might increasingly move to a system of using Foxconn's non-China factories around the world. Apple is partly financing the Brazil plant for Foxconn IIRC.

Another aspect that hasn't been discussed is the opening around the world of rare earth mines (reopening in the case of the California mine). Part of the reason "those jobs [weren't] coming back" was because China's rare earth's monopoly increasingly was reserved for Chinese made products.
Step 1: Make Google pay for including you in search results.

Step 2: Force Google to include you by demanding something like search engine neutrality.
Ideologue: One who can't elaborate their position in response to a counter argument and just repeats scripted talking points again and again until the other side gets sick of replying to someone so dull.
I think 'eating' into may be mischaracterizing things. A decrease in Apple's profit share when total profits are increasing doesn't necessarily mean Samsung is taking anything away from Apple.

It's entirely likely that Samsung is simply dominating the formerly-fractured not-Apple side of the market, consolidating sales under its masthead and, unlike RIM, HTC, et al is doing so profitably.

Given that Android device sales were growing incredibly rapidly during a time when no manufacturer was making much profit on them, I think Apple's profit share has been overstated for some time. It was only a matter of time until someone figured out how to make money selling to the slice of the market that Apple ignores.
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The creator of slf4j and logback originally created log4j, so "Not Invented Here" is literally not true as the inventor invented those three libraries.
Learn R and machine learning (this will take a while). Move to a major city. One of the biggest career benefits you have as a scientist is experience with real data. If you can't get a job in the sciences, get a data science job. You are very qualified for a better job than most companies will give you at the entry-level with a hard-science BS.
It's an alternative spelling in German, sorry for the confusion.

"Google could not find that quote in any translation for Meditations"

That's because I translated it into English from a German translation of Meditations ^^

here's the same thing without that extra step:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_aurelius_bkvii...

If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt. But if it be somewhat that is amiss in thine own disposition, that doth grieve thee, mayest thou not rectify thy moral tenets and opinions. But if it grieve thee, that thou doest not perform that which seemeth unto thee right and just, why doest not thou choose rather to perform it than to grieve? But somewhat that is stronger than thyself doth hinder thee. Let it not grieve thee then, if it be not thy fault that the thing is not performed. 'Yea but it is a thing of that nature, as that thy life is not worth the while, except it may be performed.' If it be so, upon condition that thou be kindly and lovingly disposed towards all men, thou mayest be gone. For even then, as much as at any time, art thou in a very good estate of performance, when thou doest die in charity with those, that are an obstacle unto thy performance.

You know what, I think I like my version more :P
There should be one on there talking about not talking about karma. I think I saw a "how I got so much karma on HN" story peak at #4 earlier this week.
I pointed out the error to the BW team and they said they'll fix it for the web/mobile apps. Thanks for pointing it out :)

edit: It's fixed now: http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2012-12-06/feature_chart_...
It's better to be happy than not happy. Rich/not is something different. I know many people in varying degrees along that scale and their happiness does not seem to be correlated to their wealth. Many in the lower end of the scale believe their happiness is tied to it, though.
It's over the top.
Thanks a lot! We've come a long way since then - forks, followers, dataclips, extensions, new plans, new versions... Man, actually it kind of terrifies me to think of it all.
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I like T-Mobile's plans; I chopped my bill from $90/month to $30/month with unlimited data use by switching over and bringing my own phone.

What doesn't make sense right now is that their no-contract "Monthly4G" plans are a better value than the "value" plans. They have the same service levels at the same prices, but without the contract.

If 80% of their activations are choosing the value plans, are these people simply not noticing there's another option in the website menu? I can't imagine why you'd sign a contract for no benefit.
And of course I got slf4j and log4j backward in my examples.
This 'virus' shows how open the drones truly are. Let's get started on a security module!

I think the AR Drones provide a great platform that non-programmers can get excited about and in turn want to program themselves.

The drone is a perfect combination of functionality and openness.
"could not find any references to "marc aurel" on the internet."

?

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22marc+aurel%22

"Mark Aurel, auch Marc Aurel oder Marcus Aurelius"
I see many mistaken "Reply"'s every month, and I think I've only seen one mistaken "Reply to all" in my life.
> I'm not sure what other approaches work, when you need to present thousands of commands to end users.

Drop-down and context menues worked fine. In fact even current ribbon works like drop down menu with pictograms instead of text (Mac Word's Home tab has 19 drop-downs out of 35 items).
I was particularly surprised to see how aggressive the TV campaign was. I've seen these all over. They're really running with this thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIluNt0mvA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6bSCW_UI0

Not surprisingly, they've apparently hired a former political hack to help run this campaign. It's interesting, because these ads definitely have a dirty politics feel to them:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/07/23/can-mark-p...

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/07/19/mark-penn-microsoft%E...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-03/did-mark-pen...
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> blogspam

You have a weird definition of 'blogspam' if using a headline to point to an article you're commenting on qualifies as 'blogspam'. There's nothing in the law (from what I've seen) that says "If you have more than a paragraph of text, this doesn't apply to you" or anything similar to that.
Full Disclosure: Breaking into botnet with 16M bots (TDSS)
Heat map: Terrorism around the world (the U.S. is among the least affected)
> Ask instead, "was this a politically effective policy memo?"

The long-term political goal for the Republican Party is to win elections, praticularly the presidency.

Younger and tech-savvy voters tend to vote Democrat. This is a problem for Republicans because their voter base is literally dying. If they embraced copyright reform and pushed it as an issue, there may be a lot of votes in it for them. I would regard that as "politically effective".

Another point is that Holywood and the music industry massively support the Democrats. This would mean that if the Republicans adopted copyright reform as a policy, the Democrats would be in a bind: either adopt copyright reform too (and annoy the copyright industry, and give up all the money it gives) or don't (and annoy lots of Democrat-leaning voters). It's therefore a wedge issue that could be tactically effective for the Republicans.

It most be pretty obvious to intelligent, thoughtful Republicans that their current strategy -- of getting lots of white men to vote for them by exploiting prejudice against blacks, Hispanics, women, and gays -- has no future. So they're going to need a new one; copyright reform as part of an overall libertarian agenda might be part of it, and by shutting down the debate on the issue, the Republican Party is not doing itself any favours.

But I suspect it will take them one or two more election cycles before it sinks in to them that they need to do thinks differently.
We give talks some times, and we're always happy to answer questions if you've got 'em. We open source stuff sometimes too, if we think it might be generally useful.
The state of Digg after the redesign
Thank you for the education. Is dropping the ius/us (I forget the term high school latin was a long time ago) a common way of translating roman names to german?
Here's a little teaser: https://github.com/will/datascope
Communities are more like Facebook groups...they have their own discussion threads, membership/ACLs, etc.
The benchmark command has the path "~/gnatsd" in the prompt. Looks like it's Go-NATS.
Not from heroku guys but definitely a worth reading http://thebuild.com/blog/2012/05/18/running-postgresql-on-aw...
Isn't the problem here that the benefit is not directly visible? Same reason there is still no global agreement on a proceeding against global warming. There is no doubt that you need a functioning, diverse and independent press for a functioning democracy. So indirectly everyone (corporations as well) benefits from this institution.

In germany we have a couple public tv stations which are financed through a fee everyone owning a tv must pay, regardless if they watch those channels or not. They arent bound to a viewing quota, are independet from the government and have an educational mandate.

Well, at least in theory: In practice huge amounts of money are just wasted by a gigantic bureaucratic apparatus, politicians and the church have a saying in the content and the stuff shown is becoming more and more like the crap on private tv stations.

I think something like this could be a viable solutions. But implementing it, especially the algorithm which decides who gets how much is very hard if not impossible. To much attack surface for illegitimate interventions.

edit: typed that comment before I had time to view your link. great read. Never really thought about the "save newspapers vs save journalists vs save society" aspect.
Well I can only read English transcribed interpretations so perhaps a native German speaker can correct me.

As I understand it this is their argument:

Google crawls site X, a user visits Google News or Google Search, Google displays a page which has extracted content from site X as a link (usually the headline) and a "snippet" of what that title is referring to. Google also has advertisements on the page.

Now, as I understand their argument, The publishers claim Google makes money off someone who clicks on an advertisement on these 'constructed' pages. Google's news page is full of headlines and snippets that came from other publications. Google doesn't pay those publications, but the only "reason" that someone is reading the news page in the first place is because those headlines and snippets are on that page. Therefore Google should either share any revenue they got from the ad click with the people whose 'content' was on the page, or they should pre-pay for that content in the first place.

Does that seem like it captures it? If you agree that it does, then we can speculate that the publishers lobbying for this 'law' believe that in this economic transaction Google is getting a better deal than they are.

Except that they conveniently ignore the economic benefit they are getting from Google for telling the world that their web site has interesting content (or at least content related to the news interest or search interest of the web searcher).

Presumably these publishers make income either through sales or advertising on their web site. And those sales are proportional to the traffic at their web site. Google could charge to include them in their search/news results (and they in fact do that in search with AdWords) and would it be more or less than the papers would charge to use a snippet?

The easiest way to educate a publisher on the value of having their results appear in Google is to stop having them appear in Google. Ask any web site that was knocked off the first page by the Panda update how that feels. Those guys really "get" the value they receive by being up there. Publishers don't get that yet. (well not all of them). So Google stops indexing them. Their traffic goes back to pre-1995 levels (which means nobody goes there) and their internet costs (hosting, etc) now exceed the revenue from online advertising. Whoops! Education achieved.

Of course I could be totally off base here, there could be some moral argument I'm missing but frankly I think its all about the money here and not all of the 'value' is accounted for.
The main point is very little is known about these drugs regarding potential for abuse or potential to cause psychosis or mania. Most of the media reports have proven to be inaccurate or anecdotal from small sample sizes.

Secondly, McAfee has denied any long term use of the drug on Joe Rogans podcast and said his reports were one-off experimentations.

So both of those combined means that saying his use of bath salts is a good indicator that he may have committed the crime is wildly speculative.
you have less than one month..
"...Windows VPs Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller..."

Had to mouse-over to figure that out.
Yeah, maybe you're right..

>I work for a large enterprise who previously was an Oracle shop and even they are starting to using MongoDB and CouchDB internally.

Whoa..that's a pretty serious claim..seriously? If yes, then I think it really is the start of a new revolution...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJqHPHLExo
That is so crazy and inspiring to see such an interface + usability created with only HTML-CSS.
Ahh, I see. Why do you guys prefer that configuration? Space/resources, reliability?
this was a lot of words about how - you have to just try something really to know how it works...

it's like voyager 1, we thought we knew what the edge of the solar system would be like, but until we actually reached it or at least reached the zone we are in now we didn't know it would behave the way it does...

With code, that is also true, you can't assume it will behave as you'd expect, what if under the given conditions there is a bug in the assembly code generated by gcc when it compiled the ruby interpreter such that the lambda behaved incorrectly? Or even a bit of memory was flipped into an invalid or unexpected state... shit happens which is why we must type, test, type, test, type test... all day to figure out how it really works...
"Apple makes the only developer laptop"
Robots don't replace people -- they empower them.
It only places Ballmer closer to the team if one presumes that Sinofsky was not part of the team.

It only implies removal of a layer of management if one doesn't see Reller and Larson-Greene as having been promoted.

The appearance of Larson-Green and Reller on Microsoft's Senior Leadership Page supports my thesis.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/slt.aspx
I heard recently that there is a new translation which is rather good for the modern reader. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperors-Handbook-Translation-Medi...) I think I heard about it on the excellent "History of Philosophy: Without Any Gaps" podcast, but I'm not certain of that. It can seem silly to spend money when you can get the ideas for free, on the other hand, the style of translation can easily get in the way with ancient writers and old translations. I've quit reading a couple of dry translations of the Meditations when they would put me to sleep rather too fast during bed-time reading. I've got the new one on my Xmas wishlist and plan to buy it in the new year if someone doesn't get it for me.

So maybe check it out if you find the old versions slow going.
> But if it does, it should stop. Just because it happens doesn't make it desirable.

Never said it was desirable. I'm just fairly convinced that this is the type of interaction that humans do when they communicate in this medium. Like I said, we have 7 or 8 years of experiments and people acting pretty much the same throughout. Some combination of anonymity, fake points to score every contribution with voting and emphasis on many short nuggets of information rather than long form maybe? who knows.

> it should stop

"why can't everyone just get along". I think it's safe to assume by now that this behaviour is human nature + this communication medium. You can tell people to "stop it" or you can change the system that encourages/causes/incentivises that behaviour. Only one of those approaches has ever worked.
Step back from the marketing speak hyperbole and read that last sentence again. All you're saying is that "this app lets you take a picture and print it".
Compacting a Python Application into a Single Source File
"Private repos (I seem to be the only one to not want everyone to peek at my shitty hardcoded bashrc)"

GitHub has private repos. You pay for them. It's how they make money.
See my comment below, but to recap the point, Publishers don't necessarily understand the value of being listed by Google. Not listing them is both the fastest, and most difficult to argue with, way to educate them as to that value.
Someone already mentioned Rickshaw, but I also know of one other library that looks similar to this: dc.js (http://nickqizhu.github.com/dc.js/)
John McAfee Suffers Possible Heart Attack at Guatemala Detention Center
I stopped using this but I can't remember why exactly. Something about not being able to use this without a mobile? Or a mobile number?
A guide I made with some photos available here: http://snapguide.com/guides/make-a-pseudo-soda-stream/
You could always use Heroku Postgres. Our whole reason to exist is to ensure you can work fearlessly with your data.

At this point, I think running your own data infrastructure is like having a generator in your garage instead of using the power grid.
Oh, so I would assume without anyone to sue, there'd be no case? If that is correct, I would predict if these publishers get their way, those that make use of the law would paint themselves into a corner. So it's not just about protecting our interwebs, but also about protecting them from their own stupidity ^^
Deploying any change to 400m+ users is extremely non-trivial.
Either you're saying most civilian technologies were military in origin. Or you're saying most military technologies end up with civilian applications.

I doubt the latter is true, and I'm not sure about the former either. The military R+D budget is big, but these days (maybe always?) it pales compared to public nonmilitary and commercial R+D activity.
There is however another approach by the same guy. Called Zedd Physics Library:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/441/44185.html
What I liked about this the most is that the winning team thought outside the box. While most people focused on "how do we make this drone fly better?" these guys focused on "how do we sabotage the other drones?"
Space for page down and shift+space for page up are pretty common too.
Yeah this is according to TorrentFreak. Of course they're going to put him up as a role model.
Agreed. I set up my nexus 4 with a $30/month plan that has 100 min of voice, unlimited texts, and 5GB of data at non-lte 4g speed (throttled after that). I can't understand why you would opt into a binding contract at a higher price with a lower data cap. I'm betting that their new no-contract, no-subsidy model will work out well for them especially as the upfront prices of android phones drop.
Horse buggies went away because people switched to something else. If that was the case here then we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.
Gates never left. He's the largest shareholder and chairman of the board.
Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urls
Engineer Shares Eight Favorite Features of Windows 8
Slowly, go is getting into more and more places. This is yet another nice replacement. It is probably going to be way faster than the Ruby implementation in the long run.
But I do see how this could be terrifying to not have sound in your head (a sense you can't easily get away from), then start having this sort of sound in your head.
Really awesome, but 1900MHz doesn't penetrate the low-e coating that my employer uses on its office buildings. AT&T's 850MHz HSPA and 700MHz LTE do, so I can't switch, bad though I may want it.
Recursive Apps
We were thinking of directly tying your Swrm profile to something like LinkedIn, and in keeping with our vision of honesty, essentially prevent users from being anonymous. What do you think?
I really get a kick out of these personal stories that pop up on HN. I'd never find them otherwise.
The only reason T-Mobile is doing this is because they have a ton of unused bandwidth due to low subscriber numbers, so they're trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Ultimately, it's much more profitable to use the subsidy model, because it allows you to hide the true cost of the phone from consumers, most of whom are too stupid/ignorant/rich to realize/care they're getting ripped off.
Excellent point. Maybe this sort of plan would be unworkable given the ability to end run or exploit the system in certain ways (or just the way disciplines naturally blend into one another)? Maybe you could benchmark based on markets (the music industry is x billion, y million minutes of music are produced every year, etc.) and where a work doesn't clearly fall into a category it could go into the cheaper one or be interpolated.
It also isn't really inaccurate. The team was Belgian. They developed a contact-lens. The contact-lens uses "LCD" technology and acts as a display.

True... I thought it was going to be a HUD type thing but I blame that on me wanting a HUD and having no interest in using my contact-lens to display things to passers-by.
Well, in a way that's some sort of good news, but shouldn't they actually work in LTE instead? Playing this catch up game will not really help them grow the business. Except maybe if they are looking at a different market segment.
> Except in very rare circumstances, the United States does not extradite its citizens to face criminal charges in other countries.

Wait, what, really? They've been pitching a fit about Gary McKinnon, Christopher Tappin, Assange, etc.

I guess I should pay more attention to the laws of other nations.
> If 80% of their activations are choosing the value plans, are these people simply not noticing there's another option in the website menu? I can't imagine why you'd sign a contract for no benefit.

That's the case on a lot of carriers, not just T-Mobile. Off-contract plans are usually cheaper than on-contract plans. Verizon, AT&T, etc. just don't advertise their off-contract plans, so you have to ask for them explicitly.\

In T-Mobile's case, they're actually pushing the disadvantages of an on-contract plan (lock-in) with some of the advantages of an off-contract plan (cheaper bill, though I suspect still not as cheap).
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