skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then they're not really interested in keeping in touch

Yes, or they are simply not interested in stories about the risks and plans of Google and Facebook. Or do not understand when you try to explain it.

A significant part of my family and friends is already on that path: only reachable through sites like facebook or gmail. Taking some "political stance" in not joining (how they see it) will very readily be translated in "you are not joining. you are not really interested in keeping in touch with me."

So no. It will work out precisely the other way around.
Given that the ruling talks about each user having their own storage space that isn't accessed by others, I doubt they could do this. Further, the plaintiffs would be looking for any technicality to get them with, so I'm sure Aero wouldn't have risked it.

Otherwise, it's as simple as using hard links to the files.
You fail to address the point of how much control people are comfortable with giving away. Some lights are fine if they're fully automated (fridge). But for others people want to have some control (e.g., reading the bedroom, looking to see if there's a mosquito etc). So no, there appears to be a limit of how much UI you can take away.
So did you make it onto kickstarter? You just spent the £25k out of pocket for the prototype?
So you contend that Apple must be one helluva lucky company since ALL of their popular products are famously built without customer interaction.
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This reminds me of how my grandmother used to leave voicemails in a robotic, staccato voice so that the answering machine could understand her if the machine's default robot voice picked up the phone.

To her, the answering machine's voice is an instruction of what type of input the machine needs.

To us, of course, the answering machine's voice is just a product of the sad state of answering machine voice technology.
It’s time to grow up.
iirc Heroku has several full time employees who have commit access to PG. ie they're paying for some of postgres's development.
Open up groveshark, play "my station"
Pretty straight forward here... take the cash. With a wife and family, you need some savings for a rainy day. I don't know your specific situation, but I rarely count on options as money in the bank.
That's how I feel, I couldn't put it into words before reading your comment.
it looks like they fixed the /w issue with google but it stil shows up in other search engines.
Let's pretend the deflation is at 3% (i.e. there's a inflation rate of -3%). Then your 100 units will be worth 103 units (in today's money) in 1 years time. This is a guaranteed rate of deflation (bitcoin has a guaranteed rate of deflation, I don't know if it's 3%)

So someone comes along and wants a loan, but they can't pay back 3% interest rate, only 2%. Why would you give that person your 100 units if you'll only get 102 units (in today's money) back in a year? Much better to hold on to it.

So someone comes along and can pay you 5% interest rate. Sounds better, right? However it's for a business. So you don't know if their business will survive, it might go backrupt. Let's pretend it's an early start up, so there's a 50/50 chance they go bust and your 100 units are a write off and gone. So that's only a 2.5% interest rate. Again, why loan it out if you can get a guaranteed 3% by doing nothing?

etc.
> Yes, there are bad doctors, and there are cursory or improper diagnoses, but that does not make the valid diagnoses any less valid, or the invalid diagnoses any more valid.

It calls into question, somewhat, whether there actually are any valid diagnoses, if a disease is well-known to be very commonly diagnosed improperly.
Meanwhile they are holding back a security fix for numerous other companies that also take security extremely seriously. This creates a situation where companies considering posgresql will now have to ask "will I get security fixes as soon as they are ready or will I intentionally be left vulnerable while more privileged users get early access?"

Not a good precedent as far as I'm concerned.
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in all honesty its similar to grooveshark. There are so many of these types of sites and my issue is just that I don't want to keep searching and creating playlists.
Maybe because that makes it easier to put it online and link to it from a blog post, and raise awareness of the game. Blog posts can be both useful for other entrepreneurs as well as great marketing.
Cash! Should the company go bust, you get fired, you can't work, etc. you must have a backup! I keep 3 to 6 months worth of cash on hand in a savings account that is at a bank not accessible from my day to day bank. That way I am not tempted to spend it. I never look at it. Ever.

If you do decide to go with the stock options have $50 of your direct deposit each paycheck go into the above mentioned savings account.
I was just recently considering whether we should move our postgresql over to Heroku.

On one hand, it sounds promising that they deal with important security updates, and can do it even before the fix is officially announced. Very impressive.

On the other hand, not being able to schedule the downtime to fit with your app/userbase is quite annoying. I understand this could be a potentially big security vulnerability that needs urgent fixing. But each organization is different and their risks are therefore different. Some people might prefer to take the risk of a few hours delay to apply the fix (being exposed) in exchange for not having to experience unscheduled downtime of this nature... It seems a little awkward to me that Heroku is taking this decision for its entire customer-base in such a way.
But is that $10 profit going to be worth the risk of default when an investor could get a satisfactory return by just sitting on the money in the first place? What incentive does an investor have to take bets and possibly lose thousands or millions of dollars when his money appreciates considerably without doing anything?

People loans each other bitcoin in the bitcoin economy all the time, abiet with high interest rate.

if everyone is forgoing their metaphorical pizza in the hope of exponential growth in currency value, the market will be unusable.

The demand for pizza will be low, but not zero, because the desire for pizza competes with desire for monetary profit. At some point in the future, people decides that the waiting is enough, and they will buy pizza as reward for all their patience.
There are bad neighborhoods, but it's fairly easy to know where they are. Being street smart + avoiding hotspot areas will dramatically decrease your risk.

The rest of the city has plenty of natural beauty, affordable living, central location, interesting + diverse people, great food, gorgeous weather and fun nightlife.
I'm looking for a match to a die casting or cnc milling shop. Your contact info is not in your profile. Care to shoot me an email?
The effective treatment for any of these will not help the others.

This isn't entirely true. A person that isn't getting enough sleep can "fix" the problem with ADD medications, and thus maintain the erroneous belief that they have ADD and therefore require that medication. How often that happens is debatable, but it is one of the (many) things that lead to over-diagnosis.
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I'm neither a recruiter nor the hiring manager, just a developer working here at Zappos. It's a great work environment, lots of challenging problems to solve with great people around you to help you out.

The environment is fun, but focussed - serious work is done and you're provided with the tools you need to get the job done. Excellent equipment provided, and Vegas is a great place to live and work.

An understanding of and strong experience with JavaScript, HTML and CSS is important for this role. Other languages and platforms are beneficial too, and others are in use.

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Or, a number of other open positions that may be more to your liking:

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Just wanted to thank HN for not going full retard on April Fools Day
Thank you
Not sure if you are aware (or its designed that way) but on your website you have two different dice both labeled 'supernova'.
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You're saying that drugs cannot easily be bought with government-issued cash? It's totally the other way around: drugs are easily and frequently bought using cash, and vanishingly rarely bought with bitcoins.
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For a hobby project, I made a web domain name generator. It's always bugged me they aren't smarter.

It algorithmically figures out similar words by calculating pair similarities for all the two word domain names in the .com zone file (about 60 million.) Because of the way it works, the 'synonyms' it generates are more like how people use the words in domain names instead of a thesaurus, and it works for lots of things that aren't dictionary words. (ex: http://twinwords.com/?cmd=suggest&first=reddit&second=html )

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Try it out and tell me what you think!

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Although I agree wholeheartedly with the code of conduct, it's disrespectful to those who disagree to lump them together as you have done.

There will always be opposing viewpoints, even on things that we'd consider nearly cut-and-dry like not talking about your penis at a conference. Respect them and win with argument and logic, not with propaganda and bad posters mocking them as a disingenuous group. (The censorship complaint, though flawed, is a little more complex than you imply.)
Author here.

We’re doing almost the opposite – as little non-permanent snow and ice as we can manage. The reason is simply that we want to make this as useful as possible as a general-purpose base layer, and people usually want to see spring/summer growth. It looks subjectively right even in regions where it’s only around for a minority of the year.

If you’re interested in seasonal dynamics, I recommend Blue Marble[0]. It’s really good work – we’re in touch with some of the people who made it, and they’re sharp folks. But it’s half the resolution that we’re aiming for, and has some areas of distracting interpolation artifacts. Our main goal is accuracy, but we’re also going for aesthetics in a way that Blue Marble wasn’t.

0. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/
Because you want to use your smartphone. Smartphones are a horrible investment and you really shouldn't buy one if you're planning on storing it in the basement in its original packaging.
This is wrong in so many ways.

If your bank is hacked you as the user are not liable for the loss. Online transactions are traceable and reversible. Banks are heavily regulated and the legal regime is well defined. Etc etc etc.

Having your online banking hacked is a bit like being mugged on the way out of the bank. Having an online wallet service hacked is like someone driving in a truck, emptying the vault and leaving without a trace.
You totally wrong, and the reason you are wrong, is because you do not understand growth. Like... totally.

Yes, I'm arrogant and I'll deal with an idealized model where the same set of resources is transformed into final goods, but bear with me.

In order to get a real growth of 4% be it per year or per century in such a scenario, you need to find a better use of resources so that with the same resources you may produce an output which is 4% greater than before.

Which is the same as saying the the only way to grow is to find ways to produce final goods cheaper.

And because production is cheaper, more goods could be sold but.. entrepreneurs will still make a profit. Pretty much the same.

And the fact that final goods get cheaper means just that.. That goods get cheaper.

And you will not get rich by just holding bitcoins, or any other fixed supply money. Yes, you will be able to get more stuff for but only because the stuff get cheaper..

You'll still hold the same fraction of total purchasing power that as the day you decided to "hoard" your money for a while.

That's not what I call getting rich, and that's why loans and interest make sense and are safe with bitcoin.

P.S. Take you time. It's late in my TZ.
> deflation makes it more profitable to do nothing

Isn't deflation for the buyer seen as inflation for the seller and vice versa?

Why would you then not (applying your deflationary spiral model) expect a "market death" from sellers not selling under currency inflation?
Slightly funny application names in ChromeOS in developer mode
> Interning at the same place twice yields diminishing returns: you'll be working with the same tech, not meeting new people and learning new tricks. Plus, you won't get to experience more company cultures, finding out where you fit.

Unless you want to work there after school, in which case returning is a very good idea, because the whole point of the returning internship pool is recruitment.

> Don't even consider interning part time during the school year. The pay will seem appealing, but it will take away from your college experience. You only go to college once, you should enjoy it to its fullest, you have your whole life to work. Again, money is insignificant compared to your life earnings.

There are lots of reasons other than money to intern part-time during the school year. It provides an outlet to do real-world work and build relationships that will matter for years to come after you've graduated.

The interns who continued to work in some part-time capacity when I was at Apple (and who continued to make solid technical contributions) were almost invariable hired.

> Interning in the Valley is a rite of passage, but after you've done one internship there, consider other places. NYC is great, I live there and highly recommend it

The company in question and the work you're doing matters as much or more than the location you're in. Obviously, you want to live somewhere nice, but if you want to work at a specific company, then that should be what drives your internship decisions.
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+1, I'm a long time lurker, but never bothered to make an account. That post warranted it though. I've never been so amazed.
I'm sorry you feel that way; that wasn't our intent. If you've got ideas about how we might improve it, please let us know: https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/#feedback.
False (I work there), although some of my colleagues have submitted patches.

Commit access is handed out very selectively at postgresql.org, and committing patches is not the bottleneck in making features (reviewing and writing the patches is).
I feel like anti-discrimination laws could be circumvented on the same grounds that non-Stanford students can't live in Stanford dorms. As for renting out expensive real estate cheaply, I don't think this would be the case as the real cost is the property not the building, so building a higher density building theoretically allow enough money to be made because of more rents (albeit at less rent per unit). Also, I'm thinking of a more dorm-esque living space with small rooms and shared spaces.
Item #7 is incorrect. You can't make a union of a pointer and an integer type or a union between a number of chars and a larger int type and expect valid results ever -- the optimizer will rip your head off.
Well, I really can't blame anyone but STEAM for this. They don't have APIs for anything other than stupid TF2/Dota2 things so it's no wonder that people scrape their pages every day.
No, no, Jacob, not you -- you guys do great work! Relax! I was replying to parfe's characterization of those who do disagree.
I don't think we disagree? My claim was that many bright low-income kids don't know about or understand the opportunities available to them. Obviously it's not because they're stupid -- we're talking about kids smart enough to go to Harvard -- so yes, I think the majority of the reasons are cultural and/or stem from lack of information.
Sorry, but I only made it halfway because I had to squint to read the text. More contrast would be nice.
It is not my job to sell the other side. It is my job to be respectful of the fact that the other side exists, and to be reasonable to it, not hostile and mocking.

Imagine if you had a minor quibble with the Code of Conduct. You're now going to reconsider even bringing it up here, because someone's already mocked your potential argument disingenuously, and undermined any conversation that might be had.

It lowers the tone of discourse, and I see it too often. Rings of "if you disagree with me, you're a Communist".
> Canada lifted this idea from the US.

Umm, I'm not sure why you decided that this was an American idea that Canada "lifted". Isn't it just a little possible that the Canadian government had this idea first?

To paraphrase fake Mark Zuckerberg. "If you had invented Facebook. You would've invented Facebook."
I follow django-dev, sometimes drop into irc, and haven't seen anything inappropriate in there. Did something happen I'm not aware of?
IMHO, no. Once this ruling is through all the appeals, it's likely that they'll be able to do whatever they want. It's not like NBC can come in to your house to inspect your antenna. Similarly, it's unlikely that they'll be allowed to inspect this company's filesystem's algorithms. (Remember, disks do not write 1:1 what you tell them to write. If the disk's abstraction over the spinning magnetic platters is acceptable, I doubt the law could find a distinction when using hard links instead of identical files.)
About SEO. Normally, when a business creates a Facebook page, they tend to include links that point towards their business sites or their blog so that they can avoid duplicate content. Facebook notes tend to get high rankings (link juice) on Google as well. How do you prevent duplicate content while giving link juice to your clients' web presence and not get that diverted to Facebook?
Square + Box = Polyhedron
Maybe there's a market for storage that is deduped but plausibly claims to not be.
This a good reference to get you started:
http://www.slideshare.net/mattangriffel/growth-hacking
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"...it was fair use because the ads were preserved..."

Since when does fair use require the preservation of ads or any specific portion of the content? Your argument dilutes the meaning and intent of fair use. Even the matter of being free or not has no bearing. The majority wisely avoided this area and fundamentally upheld the fair use rights of the users. The dissenting opinion confuses the issue by discussing licensing agreements, even going so far as to suggest fair use is somehow illegal.
I've read the NYT article instead ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/business/media/aereo-wins-... ), but the following excerpt really rubbed me wrong:

A group of other broadcasters, including Fox and PBS,
said they intended to move toward a trial. “Today’s
decision is a loss for the entire creative community,”
the group said in a statement. “The court has ruled that
it is O.K. to steal copyrighted material and retransmit it
without compensation. While we are disappointed with
this decision, we have and are considering our options
to protect our programming.”

Why is PBS fighting this? They are subsidized from the government with the goal of providing educational television to every one. If anything, PBS should think this is a great idea. More viewers mean more potential donors during phonathons.
I think it's a bit hasty to call this stuff the "exact requirements of the law." It's not like they are following a precise recipe laid out in the Federal Register. They are attempting to apply a precedent in a novel way. It's obviously not exactly settled, or the court would not be hearing the case. The whole point of the appellate ruling is to decide whether in fact they are adequately complying with the law.

As a non-lawyer, my smell test is violated by how needlessly complicated the technical approach is, to produce a fairly simple result. It would be like saying there's an exception to "no trespassing" if you do a very particular, complex dance before entering the property.
This is the first real news today that I wish was an April Fool's hoax.
the fallout continues...
the need for inflation is a widespread belief, not a fact. Of course people would still spend their coins. How would they buy services otherwise? what monetarists do not understand is that if you could save money, that would free many resources now used to hedge against inflation, and they would be available to better use and cheaply. Furthermore we all would be inflation-protected, and not just the rich who can afford to do investment. Furthermore deflation revalue your salary, and you should not be fighting with your boss for a payment increase, but he would have to give that fight you to decrease it. We wouldn't have an economy based on the ever growing, ever spending
I happen to be working on some 32/64 bit code right now, and this article has some very useful tips. Pretty sure they mixed up arguments on their memset() call in section 3 though:

memset(values, ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(size_t), 0);

should be:

memset(values, 0, ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(size_t));

That would not be a fun bug to track down.
C's definition would be incredibly unpleasant to use with no implicit conversions from void * . If you had to write things like int * x = (int *)NULL I'm pretty sure everyone would just use 0.
This is rather disconcerting. They are given us a window of 48 hours where our site will be down for 60 seconds. On top of that we cannot schedule the time with them.

60 seconds may seem like a small inconvenience but it is one still the same. I host a few clients on their servers and I need to relay this information. I sound like a jackass being that I can't give more specifics on the timing of the server being down to my clients. How does Heroku not feel the same?

I am appreciative of the update but that is also what I pay them to do.
Have you read my post? I even mentioned "menu costs" in my response.

The issue is not that the currency has volatility, but that they refuse to peg the value. Scribophile is facing menu costs, but the menu costs are of their own creation. Simply allowing their prices to fluctuate with value would solve the problem. My point was that technology can make volatility a much smaller issue than it was in the past, hence why using old currency paradigms hinders thoughtful examination of the costs and benefits of a currency like bitcoin.
how is bitcoin anonymous if someone is able to find out where money was able to be transferred out of so easily ?
Joke went over my head and I was getting visibly upset until I saw the oatmeal and realized the whole thing was a joke.