skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem here is that there's almost no paid alternative: Gmail still has the best web UI, and do you know any search company with a subscription fee?
That is, there's no alternative payment method: you pay with personal details, dollars not accepted.
By defining costs that way you do bring down the overhead, i.e. what they have to pay up-front, but not necessarily the actual costs.

If I am a lawyer doing my own patent trolling, and that takes up 10 hours of my time that I could otherwise have sold to someone for $x/hour, then $10x is a cost associated to the patent trolling, even if I didn't actually have to transfer that money to someone else.
P4Merge, I would guess. (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/products/merge.html)
Now I hope that mobile browsers be more compliant, specially on contentEditable issues.
Currently Canonical encourages using QML for writing apps that will be mobile-friendly: http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/

Maybe this is going to be the mobile toolkit you’re talking about?..
Sounds like p4merge.
Originality is not really the main goal. Surely usability is the more important thing to aim for?
That sounds like no problem at all. You (the company) only have to hand over data you have. If you have no data, then you have nothing to hand over.
Sure it does. OWS was everyday people visibly and peacefully saying that they are unhappy with the way life is treating them. They were then treated as terrorists by the FBI. This sends the signal that unless you are willing to be treated as an enemy of the state, don't complain. Saying this is "uninhabitable" for normal, happy, productive people is not a widely held opinion, but it is rational.
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Python doesn't always hew too closely to TSBOAPOOOWTDI, despite Ken Peters' lovely entreaty. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
I have multiple Google accounts, from well before they required telephone authentication, and use multiple Google services (gmail, youtube, search primarily) but I do not have any Google+ accounts.

I know this for certain because if I actively try to access Google+ from any of the Google services, it asks me to first create one.

I have also never tried to change any Google service or access it differently so as to avoid Google+ account creation.

So, clearly, Google+ can be avoided, if you never had it.

That said, I do browse with scripting disabled (Google is not trusted by default and neither gmail, youtube or search require it) and I only log into Google services from trusted, i.e. personally owned, devices. I can read posts on plus.google.com with this configuration. I have also never given my real name to an online service account, except at the time of individual payments - financial information always claims among the highest protections of laws.

In my opinion, I think Google has been very fair with people who are only interested in access to their individual services, especially those that well predate Google+, without being bloated or forced away by the rest of their ever widening ecosystem.

Compared to Facebook and even Microsoft, Google is angelic in terms of access, privacy and service encapsulation considerations. I cannot compare to Apple since I only use them for music purchases.
This is only really useful if the company is in the EU. If they aren't then they aren't bound by that law. After all, there is nothing your local Data Protection Commissioner / courts can do to them to make them comply.

From looking around the FitBit site, it seems they are in California, so Californian law applies. No EU Data Protection Directive there I'm afraid. (If they were in EU their terms & conditions would probably not be binding anyway, against the EU Unfair Terms & Conditions Directive)
I've written a blog post which explains what this vulnerability is, how it works, what the facts and non-facts are: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulner...
Thing is, though, under normal situations, that scenario with Enterprise could have been much better, and ZipCar might not have been so great:

* You live in a popular neighborhood in SF with lots of nearby ZipCar lots. Many people do not have that luxury.

* ZipCar was more flexible for a holiday rental. Fine. Any non-holiday Enterprise rental would not have had that problem.

* The credit card issue: you're in the minority. Most of us are fine with having a credit card and even many of us use it as more of a "charge" card, just as a buffer between the merchant and our bank accounts (not to mention cash back, airline miles, etc.). I'm not trying to say "change your ways"; I'm merely pointing out that this was a special situation for you in particular, and that most people would not have to jump through these hoops to rent a car from Enterprise.

* The last time I rented a car, they had someone come pick me up and take me to the rental location, free of charge. Maybe Enterprise (or the rental location you were looking at) doesn't offer this service, or maybe their policies have changed, but many car rental companies will do this for you. Yes, it's still more convenient to walk a block to a lot to get your car, but a driver picking you up is still pretty damn convenient. Not to mention that you know when you get there that the car will actually be there, and be clean.

So in the end, you're condemning traditional car rental services mainly for things surrounding your special circumstances, which is a bit unfair. On the other hand, it's great that ZipCar is there to cater to your needs! The bottom line is that ZipCar got you where you needed to go, and under terms you found acceptable. Definitely a win.

On an off-ish-topic side note, I do own my own car (and live and work in SF), and despite how often I tell myself I should just get rid of it, stories like this make me very glad I haven't, despite how much money I'd save without it. I hate having to depend on others so deeply for transportation, with no fallback plan should the stars completely misalign.

(Disclaimer: I own a small amount of ZIP stock, which hopefully will be above water again soon.)
Can anyone translate?

I'm a native english speaker with a science-y background and I find that tough going!
WARNING: Sterotype-based humor ahead!

Q: Why are so many jews pessimists?

A: Because all the optimists stayed in Germany.
Any law which fails to be clear needs to be rewritten so that the judge and his court can maintain their integrity as the arbiter of right and wrong. You can't punish wrongdoing if popular opinion is divided.
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That's because you likely haven't optimized your development experience.

With both open at once and the ability to auto-reload you see instant feedback by just moving your eyes a foot or 2 over (assuming dual monitors here) instead of having to alt-tab cycle into the correct window or move your hands and use the mouse.

I usually have a few things in view while developing and it's just annoying (read: poor user experience) if I have to fumble around switching between full sized windows.

Why would I need a full screen terminal. It's a million times more productive to use something like tmux and have 3 or 4 terminals open which are effectively multiple windows.
Personally I tend to see it as down to whether or not the developer is involved (which dovetails nicely with your reference to automatic memory management).

GC can be implemented via reference counting. But in my opinion, if the developer has to explicitly manage reference counting (e.g. by using "smart pointers" explicitly in C++) I tend to see it as distinct from GC.
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By that metric, the police are terrorists for using tear gas and blocking roads.
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Also, pharmaceutical drugs don't just pop out of Wonka-like machines in a manner similar to the Everlasting Gobstopper. The production process has to be efficient. Efficiency is a function of the cost to research, design, construct and operate the production facilities and QA, and the expected returns.
Could you explain a bit more when Bodymedia FIT is superior? The FitBit One and Ultra tracks steps taken, floors climbed, and sleep efficiency, and tells you calories burned and distance travelled (the latter two i assume just simply calculated from the raw data collected; you can input your weight and stride length on the site).
I was actually talking about it with my roommate: if the next big companies could pop from other countries than the USA
And it's actually hard the believe and here is why:

- The USA is one big country one over 300millions people, one main language, one main culture, one currency ... and a shit lot of money ready to be invested

- When you start a company in France only 60 million people few investors, a small startup world, ...
And if i want to expand my company to europe, i need to get the different languages, different culture, different bank and sometimes different currency.

And if you want to invest it's harder because the VC system is different, they are not much a big fan of competition.

It's a pain is the ass to grow big quickly there and also the mentality is different.
You can have an active, non-violent protest. This entails disobeying any and all orders from the authorities

What you saw in London was not representative. OWS (possibly not every instance) was doing this when they were removed by pepper spray and bulldozers. There was at least one incident where an individual was hospitalized after being hit in the head by a ballistic tear gas or smoke canister. He was not attended to by the police who injured him. Perhaps they could have been organized more effectively, but I'm not convinced that there is an amateur organization capable of peacefully resisting our current federal forces.
It would appear that that's exactly what he's doing. It's not a bad tactic, though costly, and only effective if you can get dozens and dozens of thousands to participate.
More information here: http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/03/rails-sql-injection-vulner...
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> like I change my daily targets, but weekly targets dont change.

fwiw I think that is by design; the two things are independent. e.g. you may wish to set a minimum 10k steps a day, but a weekly goal of 100k (or whatever). It's a bit confusing because it sets you up defaults for both day and week where week=7xDay, but it doesn't have to be that way.
I still don't understand why desktop users have to suffer with a crappier desktop UI (Unity) due to this.
To be fair to Jobs, he came into Apple and had a really short amount of time to turn it around. I believe they had something like 2 months of available cash. And their stock was in the single digits. He shut a lot of things down; if you weren't making money (ATG, Newton, and the consumer products) you were gone. He also cut off charity and left it to Cook to re-implement it.

This is why I believe Apple are holding onto so much cash. Far easier to ask banks for million dollar loans when you have billions in savings rather than begging private equity who'll strip you to pieces.
Australian here. I think Australia has managed the metric conversion much better than most of the English speaking world. I found the miles usage for road signs in London odd, as well as the usage for pounds for vegetables in Canada.

Road distances & speeds : kilometres
Food measurements are always grams/kilograms & mls and litres ... except for steak & there are some hold hovers like soft drinks which are often in 330ml/600/680ml, 1.25litre, 2 litre. Milk is always litres and not just a straight conversion from ounces to litres, so always 1/2/4 litres. In addition, I think supermarkets are required to list food prices with a price/unit, e.g. $2/kg so that you can easily compare prices between brands/varieties.

Hardware supplies are in metres or dual listed.

Weight is always done in kilograms although older people occasionally will use stones / pounds (which usually requires clarification). Haven't heard them in quite a while.

Engine power is measured in terms of kilowatts. For some odd reason we have an odd unit for fuel efficiency of litres/100km. Not sure who picked this. E.g. 8.5 L /100km.

TVs are sometimes dual although mostly I'll see them in terms of centimetres although computer monitors are still in inches, probably due to the US.

I think when purchasing land it's a bit of mix as you can buy land in hectares as well as acres. There's also squares which I gather is 10ft by 10ft (which is odd and everyone I know silently guesses is around 9.something metres^2).

Not much into sports but pretty sure they use metres there too for Australian Football.
Interestingly you can set a silent alert for text messages per contact. I have this for automated balance/credit/debit alerts from my banks as they seem to think everyone wants to know their balance at 7am.
I think for lots of people, they don't want carry their expensive smart-phones with them when they exercise. I'm also always forgetting it, don't charge it, etc. These new devices are so small you can basically wear it all day and forget about it.
Q: I just wonder when Google App Engine catches up with Python 3.
A: Not anytime soon. https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9...
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I watched the mentioned 'Revolution OS' film on Netflix recently and it was extremely painful for exactly this reason. The icing on the cake was an excessively dramatic voice reading a fairly innocent letter from Bill Gates to a background of excessively dramatic music, it was enough to make me want to stop watching.
I'm fairly sure this is indeed where we are now. To be fair to the police, they are being controlled by federal organizations.
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It is debatable whether you can use DRM with GPLv2. It might still be banned. GPLv3 includes the anti-DRM stuff to be more explicit and unambiguous.
I'm a huge fan of the entire Fitbit product; the hardware is a joy to use, it has great apps for desktop and Android, sync is a breeze, the web app works very well; the whole process has been excellent.

However, having spent close to €300 with the company (for the scale + ultra, and recently upgraded to the Fitbit One), i was very disappointed when I found out about their data policy. Having to pay a premium 50/pa to get access to my own data (it's one of the big 'upsells' of premium) leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.,And now learning that even this doesn't give you access to your raw data is even worse.

I hope Fitbit changes their approach; if anything I think they have it backwards: give me my data for free when I purchase your hardware for life, and upsell me the web app (i'd be happy to pay for it; maybe include the first year free with your hardware purchase); rather this than than give you a pretty complete web app for life for free to record everything i want, but and then charge me to read back my own data!
I do pretty much the opposite of you. I only ever use one monitor, but have the highest resolution display I can get. I'm that guy with the new 15" MBP set to 2880x1800. The way I look at it, my eyes can only be on one screen at a time, and my fingers can juggle around the windows faster than I could physically focus on another monitor.
I actually like having my own goals. I'm not too interested in cake but I set a bunch of monetary rewards. $10 spending money, $30, $50 etc. While obviously it cost more gold to buy $30 than $10, if I save up for $30 it doesn't cost as much gold as buying $10 x 3. This is far better motivation than just levelling up in game. It's almost like going out and buying better equipment in real life I guess. I really like my rewards that way so hopefully you don't get rid of custom rewards entirely.

The store items are useful and getting to unlock them is good incentive to keep playing. I'm looking forward to seeing more of that.
Keep up the good work.
Their Privacy Policy[1] says that they're a member of the Safe Harbor scheme - which is supposed to provide "equivalent" protection for exported data. It includes the principle that users should have access to their information, albeit with a significant caveat:

Individuals must have access to personal information about them that an organization holds and be able to correct, amend, or delete that information where it is inaccurate, except where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual's privacy in the case in question, or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated

It would be interesting to send them a request and see what their position is.

[1] http://www.fitbit.com/uk/privacy
Something missing from the title:

> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has said

For why that's relevant, note who's in the copyright notices of the W3C's HTML5 spec: Copyright © 2012 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio)

Compared to WHATWG's HTML5 spec: © Copyright 2004-2011 Apple Computer, Inc., Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software ASA.
Traditional incentives are often not as effective as you think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

The best way to have motivated employees for creative tasks is to give them a high base salary, good working conditions and hire suiting ones in the first place. For repetitive jobs the incentives might work, but these are also the jobs where you should think about automation.
Thanks for the observation. You're right that it's fairly minimal in the sense that the framework is basically a leiningen template for new projects and a set of libraries that work on top of Ring/Compojure, with most of the functionalities initially intended for Luminus being pushed to lib-noir, but I kind of like it that way. Just a quick note - Luminus is not my work, it's being developed by a guy who also runs a blog I like to read (http://yogthos.net/). BTW, I'd be interested in seeing your work, if you're hosting the source somewhere.
Cool that its possible to change it, but I don't see any reason to introduce a "runtime.txt" file - seems very random. Would be better with a json file to put in arbitrary settings for the project (I think this is how its done with node.js on heroku, correct me if I'm wrong).
I agree: within the Android ecosystem and even within the ARM family, bytecode provides portability: you don't have to compile and distribute apps for different versions of the ARM architecture.

It's paradoxical however that to increase the portability of certain types of apps across mobile ecosystems, eg. iOS and Android, and now Ubuntu, your best bet can be to write the portable part in native C or C++, bypassing the Dalvik layer using JNI/NDK. This is apparently the common way to make cross-platform mobile games.

On memory consumption: I haven't made any measurements, but the Android .dex bytecode format has been designed with low space requirements in mind. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjedOZEXPM . However, all apps run in their own VM process, with lots of common structures shared with them using an initial shared VM process and clever forking.

I always thought one of the main original motivations to use Java was because it's so well spread among developers. Since in the early days before the JIT compiler, there must have been a really obvious overhead even with the interpreter hand-coded in assembly. But they must have wanted to use a well known higher level language with good IDE support etc.

Ubuntu mobile apparently uses Qt: "It uses QML to give you a really slick, easy development experience for native apps with engines in C or C++, and JavaScript for UI glue that isn’t performance critical. We also give you full native OpenGL, which the top games companies are using to make incredible games." It seems actually pretty nice for developers: http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/
Using applescript to launch ssh into different terminal tabs.
Same, I have one bigish monitor (but not too big) and plug my laptop into that, which I then throw all the stuff I'm not interested in (Spotify, IM, IRC etc) on so I can check it if I need it, then one big ol' monitor for what I'm interested in. I've done double and triple monitors and it kills my productivity and gives me neck ache.
My pet peeve:

I wanted to know what fitbit is, but the site redirects me to fitbit.com/de and I closed that site.

How can they be open about data, if they have obviously no clue about open standards, like http accept headers? Worse, there's no way to visit the (official?) fitbit.com site even after that idiotic redirect. I can't access an english version, period. Stupid.
It's awful to argue this by analogy. If your house is full of termites, you leave, cover the house with a tent, and fumigate the inside. Should we leave the US, kill anyone who's left, and come back to a deinfested US?

Even under your analogy, you're giving one interpretation. You could be over-exaggerating the effect of the tree because you're a perfectionist who runs from the least bit of trouble. The tree might have fallen, broken a couple of roof tiles, an eave, and a window. Sure, snow and rain can come into the bed, which is right next to the window, but a tarp can easily cover the damage and you can stay in the house while you get someone to fix it.

Just because you say that the situation in the US is unlivable doesn't mean that others generally agree with your view, or even that you are right. No amount of argument by analogy, no matter how visceral, will help.
What do you think is a reasonable law, in this case?
Heh. As I get older, the inconvenience of having to move my head around compares ever more favourably with the inconvenience of having to struggle to see what I'm looking at. :)
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The average for a 4 year degree only is just shy of $55,000 so the minimum is well below that. Perhaps you mean specifically computer science, but based on location and the school you went to you can definitely start below $60k. You are probably also referring specifically to SF, where your number sounds about right. Might be time to reconsider your perspective before trying to make sweeping generalizations.
Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts
That depends on ones frame of mind, doesn't it? If you consider that buy-in a failure - and who in that situation wouldn't? - Would you really be able to push on after that? Would you really want to?

If she maintains control, then sure - that might work, depending on how large amounts of sale she can gain from this move. But 25% doesn't smell like control to me.
It looks like Bukkit might be a perfect fit for ScriptCraft. Bukkit seems to have wrappers around a lot proprietary minecraft code. The ability to use those wrappers in Javascript would mean that once ScriptCraft was installed, futher Bukkit plugins could be written entirely in Javascript (no need for java).
Thank you all for help!
I love multiple windows sometimes. Computer usage doesn't have to be a choice of this or that, they're clever enough to be both. I use multiple desktop spaces, one might have a web browser and terminal window, the next will usually be a full screen editor if I'm on my Air with no monitor, otherwise it's a mostly full screen editor with a second terminal window. Pick whichever works for your productivity.
FWIW, I do see the occasional iPhone at Google - but not many, of course.

And no, the Nexus 4 wasn't an option for the Xmas present this year. Not totally surprising given the obvious trouble LG's having keeping up with demand.
Do WhatWG and W3C work in different field? If so, what are them?
Interesting article. I was surprised the author ended it with "I only regret that i had to terminate my contract early due to out-of-my-control family reasons." Doesn't seem to me to be a great thing to have on your website for self promotion.