skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who rides dual suspension bikes religiously on the north shore of vancouver bc, and has had expensive bikes stolen in the past, I would absolutely buy this for all of my bikes. Especially since it helps you to track the thief down. Nothing sucks more then bike thieves.

Don't steal bikes bro.
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>long-distance shipping, longer lag-times

I was told that according to a supply chain exec at a major US retailer, saving 1 day in supply chain lag time would save said company $100MM per year.
Is adding a question mark after a headline still an acceptable way of avoiding doing any actual journalism?

(Hint: seems so)

I expect better from 30-year-old publications.
After the last drone fiasco, how about GPS signal overloading?

Terra-forming (moving landmarks or painting hills with reflective paint of sorts) and cloud salting could also bear some interesting results to at least introduce noise into the data-input systems. Enough noise and you'd probably down something.
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Do you have a sense if it's difficult to acquire real Coke syrup? Or, do they pretty much shut out consumers from buying it?
This is a pretty big win for SpaceX. The Air Force had previously been considering continuing an exclusive contract with ULA through 2018: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/spacex-ceo-musk-say...
Interesting and sad. I don't know if it is possible but I am wondering if such a law could include an 'opt out' policy. Something which said to search engines and the like that they are allowed to snippet your articles.

Then have Google turn off indexing of everything that doesn't have opt-out enabled.

My expectation would be that the opt-out publications would flourish and the ones who had opted "in" would quickly die or decide to join the "opt out" group. I can't imagine anyone looking at their referrer links would think this scheme was a "good" idea.
Inferiority complex? Seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If they didn't, would you claim they didn't release numbers because they feel they have fewer users?

I don't think they're trying to imply anything. What's wrong with just giving you some numbers without any motivation behind it?
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Oh, I like that. A pretty clever design.
This is scary? I expected Nazi zombies!
I didn't follow why the article stated that AC is not ready for the grid of the future. This DC grid seems to be an incremental improvement, 10%? But IMO not a huge breakthrough.
>Romney got less votes than McCain. Romney was more fiscally conservative and more socially liberal.

Was he? McCain had always been kind of a moderate -- he only went crazy to secure the 2008 Republican nomination after the failure in 2000, and apparently once you go crazy it sticks. And Romney was the same way: He sure didn't look very socially liberal to moderates during the 2012 primaries.

It seems like that's what doomed both of them, actually. To get the nomination they each had to move substantially to the right of their own previous positions, which convinced just enough of the base in order to secure the nomination while alienating the moderates. Then the general election comes around and neither the moderates nor the extremists like the candidate because he at one point or another expressed a number of positions they strongly disagree with.

Romney also had a couple of issues McCain didn't: He was a notorious Wall St. guy running at the bottom of a recession notoriously caused by Wall St. guys, and he was running following the 2010 census which gave more electoral votes to typically Democratic population centers nationwide (which, unlike the Congressional elections, couldn't then be gerrymandered by Republican state governments for the presidency since states typically don't allocate electoral votes by district).

The problem is that the same process is likely to play out again. Fox keeps giving airtime to the Huckabees and the Trumps to try to get out the base against the Democrats, but with those people going to the polls and voting on those issues, it makes it impossible for a moderate Republican to get nominated without taking positions that alienate moderate voters, and then they lose the general election.

Am I the only one that remembers that Bush ran as a moderate in 2000 and won? It was only after 9/11 that he went cowboy, and then only won in 2004 by beating the terrorism drum that has, by this point, worn out and lost its effectiveness.

I certainly don't mean to imply we need another Bush, but at some point the Republicans need to realize that pandering to crazies loses elections. (And in the meantime I'm happy to help them realize that by not voting for them, and I don't think I'm alone.)
The tl;dr (it's a software product I think?) for this article is a dead-pan recitation and is hilarious.
Thank you for saying this. If you look at Apples stock today, its up $10 a share, or $10 BILLION dollars in market cap just because they are going to make a shitty $100 million dollar investment. Why are the people so impressed with this?
I've only read the reporting on the memo, not the memo itself, so I can't comment on the legal arguments within.

But aside from that, I thought it was a fairly sensible move, precisely because the policies were a) pretty benign - they're not really going to hurt the interests of the content industry, b) neutral politically - they won't offend the conservative base, and c) naturally appealing to a constituency that's outside the typical G.O.P. base.

We do a good job appealing to married, religious, older, self-employed, or rural voters - if only we could run a competent campaign, we could potentially win on the strength of those constituencies alone. But that doesn't mean we can't find simple ways to appeal to other groups of voters that are consistent with (or at least don't contradict) conservative principles.

I don't expect 'the Redditor vote' to ever go Republican, but policies like this can shift it a couple of percent, lower donations, and reduce turnout - all quite-useful things.
An interesting read as always from raganwald, but I think the title is off. It seems to me that the reason Joel added "gets things done" to his creed was to avoid exactly these kinds of problems, and by "these kinds" I mean all the myriad ways that smart people shoot themselves in the foot by either overthinking, or making assumptions, or just plain being used to gliding through on minimal effort.

Now obviously the definition of "smart and gets things done" is open to a huge amount of interpretation, but I think it's clear enough that he means getting things done in terms of shipping useful product. If one does that, then the problems that come with inexperience are self-rectifying.

The problem is if someone is not "smart", they won't learn from their mistakes, and if someone doesn't "get things done" they may lose site of the final goal and fall into mental tarpits as they gain experience.
Thanks for the description... Some of us do not have iPads. ;)
Just type in :+ to increase or :- to decrease the font size there.
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Thanks for the info Chris. I certainly hope you won't have to make another big move, but vendor lock-in is always a consideration. Also, I'm curious about network/other latency and bandwidth limits when it comes to accessing cloud-based database services. Did you do any measurements on that before or after switching?

...and regards to Natalie, Dana and the rest of the postmark team!

EDIT: noticed info about latency from cloudant on another comment.
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. My wife and I each drink a couple liters a day. Our Sodastream is one of the best purchases we ever made. We save money, we're not lugging bottles home from the store, and it's better for the environment.
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Travel is great for this because you are literally taking a journey. It's also possible to get the same experience by taking a figurative journey mastering things that challenge you.

I wrote about this yesterday http://davidolesch.github.com/2012/12/05/how-to-choose-your-...
Another data point: in a household of 2, we may consume 2-3 liters on peak days, probably an average of 1 a day during warm periods in the year. His math is probably right, but his assumptions don't seem to be backed by anything but anecdote! Also, saving bottles is a footnote, but I think environmental benefit adds up quickly when you compare the cost of transporting lots of bottles from the bottler to the store to your house to the recycling center. Wish he had some hard real-world usage data available.
I'd ask you to go back and consider the definition of a "just" law.

You just suggested that people who work on "evil" systems be "excommunicated". Exactly how do you do that in the context of a functioning legal system without the involvement of a substantial majority of the people who would have to live under a system.

To me, it sounds like your argument is that the laws of the USA dont meet your liking, even though those laws are developed as a result of a democratic process. You're arguing against your own point, which sounds like nonsensical thinking to me.
Your points are valid, but the important things to consider are framing and negotiation. This was Obama's problem for the past 4 years.

If you initially propose something "middle of the road," you get negotiated to 3/4 down the road. If you propose something idealistic and way far to one side, then you give the opposition things to negotiate away. Then they feel like they win, and in reality you come up with something much more moderate and "middle of the road" than you would have otherwise.

I wish I could find the article, but I once read a story about a web designer who knew his clients ALWAYS had to have some feedback. "I love it, but can you change the color of this" or "make this bigger." No matter how perfect the design was, they HAD to give feedback to feel like they were doing a good job.

So the designer would make a beautiful website, and then put a really ugly snowman in the background. Then the clients would say "I love it!" But can you remove the snowman?"

Say you want reduced copyright terms, reduced damages, and expanded fair use for DJs. Then give up the DJs.

You know you have to give them something, so add things in you're okay giving up.
Some places sell the whole kit:

http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=246
> big bottles lose fizz every time you open them

Solved if you use Fizz-keeper pump caps. This helps put the bottle back up to pressure after it's been opened so that the water doesn't go flat doing the same job.

We used to use these ~30 years ago when we had a Sodastream (I still have memories of going to John Lewis to get refilled cartridges).
Not sure what your point is, since the mode of interaction wasn't the problem with this app. Trying to start a WinMo vs iOS war, perhaps?
Many people assume these sound much more like hearing aids they do. At best, they sound like a steampunk old time tube radio set with considerable static

http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/cdemos.htm

for some demos. Ones with few channels sound positively terrifying to me.
I find the whistle-blowing aspect interesting (Chunghwa didn't get penalized because they blew the whistle).

Did Chunghwa participate in the price fixing? Did they get the benefits, and then throw their competitors under the bus? It would be an interesting way to disadvantage your competition if so.
How long until Coca Cola ventures into this home-bev market?
I think an increase in robotic automated manufacturing is a definite positive (than the alternative -- outsourced assembly), since it incentivizes companies that make the robots for those lines, and companies that make the robots that make the robots for those lines, etc.

Many of the industrial assembly robots are made by Asian and European firms, but there are definite advantages to being local to your customers -- a significant increase in robotic manufacturing in the US could fuel a surge in robotics companies here as a result, which is an exciting possibility in my book.
It isn't a problem if you're speaking specifically about Cloudant. They co-locate clusters next to your app as best they can (as Mike has mentioned elsewhere). That makes the network you're running on critical, however.

When we built out our message queue offering at SoftLayer (which uses Cloudant/BigCouch as a data store), latency out to the DB cluster simply never ended up being an issue. Properly leveraging DB features, I/O priority tuning, the caching tier behaving properly - all more often these end up being the culprit in performance issues.

What you need to better understand when considering a cloud-based data store is who's running your cluster. When it comes to guys like Adam, Mike and Robert, you're going to be very hard-pressed to find better (and available to you) talent in the CouchDB world. We certainly appreciate having them around.
with the financial freedom with an estimated net worth of $400M, of course he says that. these headlines are stupid.
> Steve Ballmer is a sales guy at heart

Indeed! I still enjoy his classic Windows 1.0 sales video:

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

It's a total self-parody, and you can tell he had a ball doing it.
Do you know that for a fact? Never heard that before...
Agreed. There's this sense that because a situation feels wrong, something actually IS wrong. But one must apply some rational checks to those notions, and see if the problem is really within rather than without.
Perhaps, but I recently read something which suggested they (to be precise, Native Americans) really were happier than the European settlers of the time:

"All of the white people who joined Indian tribes loved it and refused to go back to white civilization. All the Indians who joined white civilization hated it and did everything they could to go back to their previous tribal lives."

http://squid314.livejournal.com/340809.html (There's a lot more on the subject than just the bit I quoted.)
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Except in very rare circumstances, the United States does not extradite its citizens to face criminal charges in other countries.

@learc83: exactly. if he wasn't having a psychotic episode, he'd realize that. unfortunately his mind is probably telling him that somehow going to Belize > going to the US.
Belgian papers sued Google a few years ago over similar uses of their content. It sort of backfired on them when google stopped crawling their pages. The internet and Google are more powerful than the German print media. http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/18/belgian-papers-a...
I personally prefer a bouncer to screen+irssi because I like Textual for OS X so much :).

I definitely agree with your last point - the "irc types" also tend to the the "hacker types" these days.

I think my micro instance was $54/yr, and like you mention, I can do a lot more with it.
Crowdtesting: how many $'s is your idea worth?
There's actually a fairly simple way to deal with external systems that to me would seem to apply to hardware as well:

First, write code that "tests" the actual hardware, that means it drives the hardware and checks its results. Verify using whatever means you have available that it drives the hardware correctly.

Second, create a variant of this first test (class) that runs against your simulator (checking for the same results). I used a trivial subclass that changed nothing except replacing the device interface with the simulator.

Third, write your simulator against these tests.

Fourth, use your simulator to test the remainder of your system without requiring the hardware/external system.

Extend when you make use of new features, and occasionally test against the real system/hardware...
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They might not be having this campaign next year

Application verification — Users can choose to enable “Verify Apps" and have applications screened by an application verifier, prior to installation. App verification can alert the user if they try to install an app that might be harmful; if an application is especially bad, it can block installation.

from:http://developer.android.com/about/versions/jelly-bean.html

near the bottom

there is also a confirmation dialog that will pop up if a sms to a premium number tries to send
> believes in and fears anthropogenic global warming

It's a bit frustrating to see the term 'believe' used with respect to global warming. Global warming has been described using sound science and 99% of climate scientists agree on this. Using belief suggests that it's a matter of faith like choosing to be catholic.
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Imho it is actually good. Because Apple has too much power and can blackmail developers. If there is no hardware advantage and iPhone and Android devices get on the same level, more power will go to developers and not platforms. They will have to compete to keep devs on boards.
It's not hard at all. Coca-Cola themselves won't sell to you, but that's just because they don't have any interest in selling single units to individuals. I've heard that some Sam's Club stores sell it, and I've also heard of people having success by convincing a local restaurant to just order them an extra box from their distributor.
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Stop everything you're doing and buy "How To Win Friends and Influence People." It's available for Kindle, if that's your preference.

Seriously. JRAJAV, are you writing this down? How. To. Win. Friends. And. Influence. People. By Dale Carnegie.
Or they delegate the activities to the NSA who work under-the-radar and nobody knows anything except what the whistle-blowers say.
You should address this more clearly on your sales website. It's the first question people will have regarding using a database-as-a-service.

So mentioning the data centers you are in would be helpful.
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You can set up a script that will auto push to a remote repo on commit, the confusion comes in with the terminology in most distributed systems commit just means tell my local source control to track the change, where as in the centralized model commit generally means move these changes to the server. Just remind them that nothing gets to the server without a push. distributed systems have serious advantages over the centralized model, specifically when it comes to getting everybody's changes merged together in a chronological order. That advantage far outweighs the learning curve. If you use Mac's I would recommend SourceTree it is a very good UI for GIT and HG.
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Go ahead and tell that to your shareholders.
> if SSL is enabled for the agent, all data would be encrypted and could not be viewed by an attacker.

Allow me to paraphrase Ghostbusters 2:

"Ray, if an external service you're connecting your app to asks if you want to encrypt the transfer, you say YES!"
Odd, my experience is exactly the opposite: code that is written using TDD tends to be extremely concrete, because it does only as much as is needed to pass the test, no more.

If you are making code overly abstract, that does suggest you may be overthinking your TDD approach.
I think the problem here is that this goes against the basic premise of the web itself and hypermedia. What about my blog where I post the (in my opinion) most important news of the day and link to the sources. Okay, those links are manually curated. What if I write a script that automatically posts (tweets?) all the articles I visit. Ok I am not a search engine but where do you draw the line? My point is that this is very hard to define and write down as a law.

Is a discussion necessary? Absolutely. Do we need a strong press? You bet your ass we do. Do we perhaps need to restructure the current model and fund the fourth power? Yeah, I dont know. Is this the way? Certainly not.

But I think this is only another symptom of a trend currently manifestating where people with ties and no insight into the matter try to control and profit from a medium they are just beginning to understand. The ITU conference, this guy in the UK who wanted to sue everyoneone retweeting an article,....
Get your sarcasm detector tuned up.
Is there somebody at Google who made $200,000 by inserting the widget for `Reply to All`?
Google and the right database for the job
I wrote up a post-mortem here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4883468
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I can confirm the French dub is great, though the dubber cuts the end of his sentences off a couple of times. You may want to specify Mandarin/Cantonese/Other instead of just saying Chinese.
Maybe, but a massive change in interaction in this case seems like an odd logical leap to me.

You have a website that does a specific thing. You, presumably, have analytics that show what users do on that site. In the case of Freshbooks you'd come up with some kind of ratio about invoices -- say, for every 1 invoice created, 10 are viewed (that seems probably like it's close to the truth, if anything the ratio of views would be higher).

To then turn around and make creation of invoices the main interaction point on the app, despite everything you know about your site's visitors, seems like a logical misstep.

I hope I don't come off needlessly critical. My point is that you should have data to support changing interaction paradigms.

Another thought is maybe the Freshbooks folks thought the app would be an avenue for customer acquisition, in which case creating an invoice would certainly be the first thing they do (because new customers have no old invoices to view).
Vaguely reminds me of Snake Eyes, by Tom Maddox, though not quite as extreme.

http://www.dthomasmaddox.com/snakeeyes.htm
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I wrote up a post-mortem here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4883468

it includes some fun site stats
I don't know that it's sexist, but it's certainly a non sequitur. Then again, the whole article is devoid of facts, so maybe it's not too surprising that there are some gaps in its reasoning.
Are you trying to say the citizens of the EU shouldn't be told how their government is going to spend an extra $2 billion?

Because that's what he's asking about.

I agree it's an important question, but I don't know the answer.
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It's not the government's job to protect any industry from anything, only to foster jobs and the general economy. The 100 billion the industry makes is besides the point.
Further it's been proven that there was nothing 'rogue' about that report, it was properly vet and screened before release but the GOP bowed to lobbist pressure and came up with that lame excuse
I suspect that Ballmer wasn't really able to have full control of the company and decisions until Gates left (so...2007, right?). Then, I'd say that CEOs have to be judged 3-4 years in the future, meaning that if a CEO of a huge company decided something _today_, the successes/failures of that decision would only be evident years down the road.

So given that Microsoft seems to be in some exciting times right now, I'd feel comfortable guessing that this is more or less the strategy that got laid out once Ballmer gained full control of the company.

Then again maybe I'm completely wrong. Either way, we'll never really know I guess.