skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its an epic marketing fail for the MBA.

"We're America's holy frat boy paladins of corrupt crony capitalism inherently and forever above the lower class proles, entitled to adsorb the profit of all as our feudal reward." Um, well, OK then, nice to meet you too.

In the real world, turns out they need about a page of car TV ad style small print at the end, like "Not including $100K delivery fee. Not valid for retail sales companies; other exclusions may apply. Offer only valid for well qualified sociopaths. See your local student loan pusher and/or parole officer for further details"
This is bullshit disguised as economics. It's an MBA's analysis of why they're not allowed in the club, and it's because "it's not cool enough for us."

Costco follows TQM: their business model is integrative and process-based, and takes into account the quality of their product, market, shopper experience, employee experience, and management. This is key. It cannot be ignored or glossed-over or simplified, and any doing so is indicative of an ignorance of the process.

There isn't a lot available about Costco's internal process (that I can find with some cursory googling), but TQM is based on W. Edwards Deming's theories about factory quality, applied in Japan to bring back their entire economy after WWII: https://asq.org/learn-about-quality/total-quality-management... -- I've found this single article which sums up Costco's successful use of it: http://costcoteam3.blogspot.com/2009/06/quality-control.html

From the article:

"The true definition of quality control is the stabilization and maintenance of a process to produce consistent output. The key to Costco's ability to maintain their low prices and quality is because of good wages and benefits." This is an astute recognition of the importance of the workforce in the quality control process. This is, quite simply, the truth.

The blog post also goes into other use of TQM and process control, including statistical analysis of transportation, use of data on a large scale, and using product quality control methods to ensure good final consumer satisfaction. This is all essential to quality, which is essential to their business model.

You can look into details of all aspects of their business, but they will always be secondary to their overarching TQM model—everything is inherited from that. Asking for details about this is like asking what type of screws were used on the Space Shuttle and claiming that's why it actually got to space.

This is not simply a coincidence of market position and product segmentation. It is all a deliberate, controlled process that is repeatable. Most importantly, other businesses can use all of these concepts to also get a repeatable, predictable process-controlled output.

To me, this is not boring or trivial at all. It is paramount to the success of the organization, and an important paradigm shift for all American business. This is something you need to pay attention to. TQM, and more fundamentally Deming are things you should look into and understand, because they are more correct and provable than your standard run-of-the-mill boring old business theory. Even software companies can reap the rewards in process theory and management theory.

The secret of this successful company is actually different, and it's on a high level. You can't just reduce it because you don't like the high level part. Pay attention.
Probably the 'no duplicate link' exception doesn't apply to sites like tumblr where different subdomains likely belong to different and unrelated people.

ie:

hello.facebook.com and sayhi.facebook.com belongs to the same entity but you can't say the same for

hello.tumblr.com and sayhi.tumblr.com

I'm jx making a guess though
Can you support your claim for the seven days limitation? In the Wikipedia link they use the term "indefinite detention without trial"

EDIT:
Also here - http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011005_ramasastry....
N.S.A. ENFORCES ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY ON CONSCIENCE
They have this at the Exploratorium! Definitely cool to play with.
I'll never understand the opposition to a single, global, government entity. It seems like the most logical plan.

Otherwise, you get multiple countries playing the zero-sum game of gaining at the expense of other countries. Exactly what we have now. You know, like exploiting the resources of poor countries so we can have cheap gasoline. Good system?
I'm not informed on customer demographic differences between Costco and Walmart, but I'd think that a poor economy will disproportionately affect Walmart due to economically disadvantaged people won't be shopping at Costco in the first place and they tend to be the ones hurt the most in economic downturns. So "better" customers could be leading to better financials on the part of Costco, not just some anti MBA culture that resonates with the HN crowd.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't the .git directory essentially contain the entire history of the repository? The history could easily contain sensitive information like passwords. It will contain names email addresses of contributors, too. Try it yourself: cat .git/logs/HEAD
Why not just store a TrueCrypt volume(s) in Dropbox?
I would love to see the decision memo where they decoded it was less effort to build HHVM then to rebuild the site from scratch.
Four times the blast radius of the weapon used on Nagasaki.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been PM for 7 years total (with 10 years in between the two terms) That’s shorter than George W. Bush was POTUS. David Ben-Gurion was PM for 13 years.
Thus far the government has shown that they are unwilling to let the Supreme Court review that regarding citizens. They would rather go to trial than let a question (where the individual was captured far from combat zones) go before the Supreme Court.

We should remember what Bush asked the 4th Circuit to do when Padilla petitioned to the Supreme Court for the second time.... Fortunately the court would have none of these games.
What about controlled sharing? You may want to share something with someone and them only. Would you like others to see it? (Here others being the government). Sharing just doesn't always mean speaking out loud. It can also mean whispering to your friends. As social networking sites became the present day's trend, encrypting a mail and then sending it to attain privacy might look a heavy job. With diaspora, you can save that headache, when you attain privacy along with sharing. IMO, it's a double treat..
All "mean angry faces" represent someone you don't intend/require/expect to see your data. I don't want the police to read my data.
Hollywood has a bit to answer for here. They give us things like James Bond and Jason Bourne but in reality the people who work in places like CIA are mostly the same kind of muppets who make up the bulk of every other profession.
I don't necessarily think it should be free (gratis), but a serious math package should definitely be open source to give legitimacy to any result it produces, for the same reason that a proof that is kept secret is not a proof at all.
I think leaking some of this stuff is one of the most patriotic things you can do, given the subject matter and the government overreach it was meant to expose.

In fact, I wish this happened more often. The population as a whole shows a lot of apathy until something like this happens to stir the coals. Unfortunately, it's going to take a lot more than just this to bring about major change.
Threatening to take up arms is a way to pressure for political concessions as an end-run around representative democracy, when you aren't getting what you want (for example, when the populace elects the 'wrong' President).
>"When treason is committed? Yes."

There are a surprising number of people with this mentality. They'll be the reason the status quo is maintained.
It is interesting, but it's a standard way of demonstrating normal modes, or the applications of eigenvectors. I would think most physics and engineering undergraduates have studied this.

That's not to say you shouldn't watch it, but just to put it in perspective - this is a topic studied in the 1st/2nd year of university, not a poorly-understood topic for research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mode
The 4th amendment is strong as it has ever been, and the 1st is much stronger.[1] Are police knocking down your door without a warrant? If not that's the 4th amendment working as intended.

What we have here is a system:

1) Clearly designed to pass a 4th amendment analysis;

2) Enabled to to pass such scrutiny be the unprecedented access Americans give corporations to the details of their private lives.

For what its worth I think the NSA programs are bad ideas, in an administration that has had a lot of them.[2] But not every bad idea is unconstitutional, that is to say not every bad idea can be fixed in court rather than in Congress.

[1] In light of this story, who is still mad at the Supreme Court for holding that Congress couldn't shut down the speech of corporations (like the ACLU?)

[2] Menacing over the Supreme Court justices during the state of the union probably being the worst.
Playing the devils advocate here. What would stop the dropbox service from being able to collect the private keys on the user's computer?
this is 2 years old, no?
I am not familiar with the law in The Netherlands, but possession of a nuclear weapon is probably something one would need to clear with the government, regarding the terms on ones lease.

The bombs are a part of the "Nuclear sharing" initiative, where they are under the direct control of the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
For simple static sites, I use a workflow very similar to this one[1]. It takes a minute or two to set up, but once it's all configured, you can deploy to your heart's content without ever worrying about exposing your .git directory to the world.

[1] http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto
yes, and it has been for quite some time.
I loved the passive-agressive 'encouragement' at the end:

Game Over

You scored 19 out of 39

Here's a fun fact: If you just blindly clicked 'yes' for every answer, you'd have scored better. But don't beat yourself up about it. I mean, you might hit someone else by accident.
Google bans Glass from its own shareholder meeting
Well it's still speculations. Some speculations can of course be plausible even if far fetched. And i do think there will be a outcry if the land with one of the highest income taxes in the world decides to hunt people down with data designed to catch terrorists and organised crime.
Do you trust the asics you're running on? At some point this mode of thinking becomes tautological and neurotic.
That's not a definition of tyranny, it's a hypothesis about tyranny. But it's foolish. Pointing a shotgun at random government workers like the census taker or sending ricin to the President are not doing anything to improve our politics.
Especially since I guess the social network of HN users is pretty well mapped out.
07:00 — Honolulu, Hawaii
10:00 — San Francisco, California
13:00 — New York, New York
14:00 — São Paulo, Brazil
18:00 — London, England
19:00 — Rome, Italy
20:00 — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
21:00 — Moscow, Russia
22:30 — New Delhi, India
01:00 — Shanghai, China (June 11)
02:00 — Tokyo, Japan (June 11)
03:00 — Sydney, Australia (June 11)
It is not a cure. I doubt that there is a single technology that can be called a cure. It is a solution.
Nobody considers this a weakness. For reasonably small values of "nobody".
Dart isn't hugely popular because it's targeting Java developers and early-adopter web developer types more often come from a background in dynamic languages. And they don't like Eclipse. Dart will be successful when it is necessary for all enterprises to do front-end coding where the tools make up for some of the lower skills.
I wish Ada was in there too.

Rooting for Rust.

I was already disappointed with Go lang but this post have shown that Go can do worst.
I don't. They've proved with ACTA they are quite corrupt, and are much more concerned with doing US' bidding than with EU citizens' rights. That much we already know.

I do hope the European Parliament, which has been a lot more sensible on these issues, can save day, though, and maybe replace the whole EU Commission while they are at it, too.
Stalin's Gulag was full of "traitors".
>The 4th amendment is strong as it has ever been […] Are police knocking down your door without a warrant?

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_v._King

Justice Ginsburg , dissenting.

The Court today arms the police with a way routinely to dishonor the Fourth Amendment ’s warrant requirement in drug cases. In lieu of presenting their evidence to a neutral magistrate, police officers may now knock, listen, then break the door down, nevermind that they had ample time to obtain a warrant. I dissent from the Court’s reduction of the Fourth Amendment ’s force.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-1272.ZD.html
IBM has made a similar claim using Twitter's Firehose and natural language processing to determine a general overview of people's feelings towards a film. The solution was to tell the film advertisers to toss out more engaging trailers. It all seemed somewhat odd. Pay IBM tons of bucks just to be told you should probably make more trailers (which would most likely fail too.)
Travel Basecamp video series offers chance to WIN trip for two
Basecamp is a reality documentary series about a bunch of friends travelling around the world seeking alternative experiences in popular travel destinations.
Booking stereotypical resort packages for the logistics and security, they then bust off the grounds and interact with locals to find the best adventures possible.
Designed to be an interactive travel guide, the videos share local secrets and inspire aspiring travellers to take their trips and turn them into customized experiences.
This is a resubmission of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838570
"Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later."
I liked your post.

"Asking for details about this is like asking what type of screws were used on the Space Shuttle and claiming that's why it actually got to space."

One interesting interpretation is if you focus on failure, you'll focus on how the shuttle failed to get into space one time because the elastomer in a solid booster joint was required for political reasons because the segments needed to be shippable, and the specific elastomer had acceptable to excellent high temperature performance but epic failure at cool outside temperatures.

So if you fixate on failure, the way you "fix" Walmart, or America in general, is by copying one or a couple small details, like the painting scheme at Costco or the peculiarities of their payroll system or something. If on the other hand you fixate on success, then an analysis looks a heck of a lot like your post, more or less.

Or more generally, you fail because of details, but you succeed because of bigger issues, like using TQM Deming or other paradigms.

Flailing about for better numbers works in a sea of incompetence, but usually doesn't work if your competitors actually know what they're doing...
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Mozilla should move Persona out of the US
It is 5:40:79 Simple Universal Time - change your time thinking now
Basic SQL SELECT Statements
>Isn't a luxury hotel the worst place to hide?
I'm sure there are cameras and one is easily recognized when getting out of the room.

Depends if you think people want to kill you
Most of the US populous has jobs, beer and entertainment. Plus they might with the lottery some day and join the 1%.
Ecuador?
deny all; works too
I agree. In fact those icons are not the real ones. They are created on Photoshop, by a inside beta tester, who described them. I really think that we'll see something really cool after a couple of hours!
Well it's Google's search data... this isn't public information.
Unfortunately, there are significant amounts of people on both sides of any debate, much less this one, with either blinders on or have selective vision.

As a strict constructionist, I affirm the right of anyone to burn any flag, anyone to "protest" at a funeral, as well as PRISM being unconstitutional. Further, I believe that there is not an explicit "right to privacy" and therefore there is not a right to privacy. Them's my blinders!
This is essentially just Google using their search data to replace the tracking polls that movie studios do already. It's not hard to predict a movie's box office right before it comes out, but what good does that do you, since all the money has been spent already?
20:00 - Bucuresti, Romania
The unfortunate reality seems to be that quality open source versions don't exist for a lot of these. I'd love to hear about alternatives that you know of though.
To play the other side...

Look at what happens to every group of well-educated, well-informed, politically active people when they go up against an authority. Look at the Prague Spring (speaking of holding the government in Czech), at Occupy Oakland, and what's happened in Turkey most recently. Free speech and free assembly merely mean that you can call the jackbooted thugs names as they crack open the heads of you and your friends.

Further, consider that the trends in education, mass media, and overall American culture have very nearly destroyed the ability to field a group of people meeting any of the three criteria for your 'strait jacket'. We've done such a bangup job of driving social networks and short action-reward loops in our advertising and communication that we have a populace with such a low attention span that it's hard to stay angry long enough to cause trouble.

On the other hand, the 2nd amendment speaks for itself. At the risk of being particularly cynical, I imagine that it is far, far easier to find a hundred thugs who can be talked into taking potshots at the Man than it is to find one who can carefully and consistently explain why the government is doing wrong, what the exact nature of the wrong is, and how to fix it.

We cherish the 2nd precisely because, at the end of the day, you get a lot further with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.

If you don't believe me, ask the men in Washington.
Working on a DAW right now, actually.

Hoping to do a Show HN in a few weeks.
Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard
I would guess part of what is being measured is enthusiasm to go see the movie in the near future. I tend to only search on upcoming movies that I am thinking about going to see.
That's an assumption. The fact remains, the ability to move to other countries is a fallacy in that the rest are looking at or are implementing very similar strategies.
Lazy, useless nonsense like this gives people the feeling they've done something when they've done literally nothing. Some of those people might have actually done something meaningful if they didn't have a release valve like this to ease their conscious.
He might have an insurance policy. After all, he had access to other data so if they lock him up, they risk problems bigger than they could ever imagine.
He may have written a program that releases the information on a certain date. Or someone else has a backup and knows what to do with it.

Either that or he's no longer in Hong Kong, sort of like what McAfee did, tell everyone where he's at when he's really no longer there.
So when Snowden tells the CIA their office is across the street, it's no more than a tactic to mislead the CIA.

Either that, or he hasn't thought this through at all and I find that hard to believe.
Ask HN: Industry job for 1+ year or try directly for grad school?
Curious about what your thoughts would be on the pros and cons of the two options and whether or not going into industry for a bit would hurt or improve someone's chances. My real passion is research. I've been told working at one of the top tech companies could only help me get into my desired program (CS, possibly ML/AI).
There is a slide with 10 "tech events" more developer oriented :)

Any feedback is subjective, I just hope it will be useful for some folks!
What are the chances the streaming servers will be able to hold up with the demand? Anybody got a favorite mirror for this?
Manning was a member of the Army. You give up a significant number of rights and freedoms as a US citizen when you become a member of the armed forces. Which is not to say that it is right, but that it is legal.
I'd love to make it more exhaustive in the coming months. It will never be perfect though!
So they're streaming this one live for the first time in ages?
> [Lubbers] confirmed that there are in fact nuclear bombs in Volkel

No, he said they were there, and that there are still parts of those old bombs there.
The denials sound like a politician denying he had an affair...and in the end it turns out to be true. PRISM at least expresses the intent of the government, which trashes our right to privacy, probable cause,etc. The only right to privacy these days is if you're having an abortion.
I think he was in Hong Kong for the interview. If he wasn't, the government would use it against him in an attempt to make him look like a liar, an enemy of the state.
How can apathy be cured?
There's an accompanying blog post by Yehuda Katz covering the reasons behind the manifesto:
https://medium.com/the-future-of-the-web/2fcd1c1bb32
Ok, so what the USAPATRIOT Act allegedly does (and I want to expand on this below) is allow up to 7 days of detention without habeas petitions having any effect. This can then be extended, allegedly to 6 months, and renewed every six months indefinitely. This is what the statute says. So that's what the statute claims to do.

In practice it probably does not do so. There are two reasons to think this. First you have the fact that even the Bush Administration refused to rely on this provision during either Padilla case, arguing instead that the AUMF of 2001 was the authority to detain, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had ruled in Hamdi that there was at least some Habeas Corpus protection available to those detained under the AUMF, but the exact amount was unclear. It's further worth noting that the Supreme Court threw out Padilla's first habeas petition as improperly filed when Handi was released and in the subsequent petition case (Padilla v. Hanft), the DoJ continued to argue on AUMF grounds, not on suspension clause grounds. When Padilla lost in the 4th Circuit and appealed to the Supreme Court on the second time, the government abruptly decided to charge him in federal court, and then asked the 4th circuit to vacate their decision, which the 4th circuit declined to do (I think that such an effort on Bush's part was meant to slow down the next case).

The second problem is Boumediene v. Bush (decided three years after Hamdi and Padilla v. Hanft), which held that the Military Commissions Act was a suspension of habeas, but that judges should hear habeas petitions anyway, arguing that judges had the power to grant habeas petitions even if Congress suspended the writ. This means that Congress claiming to say habeas doesn't apply doesn't in fact mean that habeas doesn't apply.

I read Supreme Court cases for fun. I suppose this means I need a life :-P
This is almost certainly not the case, given that the Likud under-performed heavily in the last elections, and was outmaneuvered politically by it's three main coalition partners/rivals.
Which is useful only while tyranny is physical.
CCTV runs like mad across the UK. Well at least London. Almost every street corner here has a CCTV vid cam on it.
Most of the comments are concerning politics and very little are concern the economics of smaller companies and individuals rejecting services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

(Microsoft's TechEd had a big push towards Azure this last week. Their timing sucks... Sorry about their bad luck...)
Pretty big, they're using the massive Akamai network handling 15-20% of all internet traffic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#Customers