skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yahoo is trading a sliver of goodwill from people that can now get their name of choice for incredibly pissed off former users that lost emails they relied on. Just because they havn't logged into them, doesn't mean they weren't using them. EX: i use a yahoo email for an ebay account I regularly use, but because of ebay's messaging I never log into yahoo. If i'm not the only person on earth that does this, there will be bad results from this 'house cleaning'.

The point is email address arent just for getting emails, they're used as identities online.

How horrible and shortsighted. Yahoo is actively inviting ill will and complexity.
What are the next steps to take for pushing an app with a database, Redis/Memcache, and scheduled jobs?

Do I just set that stuff up like normal on my box or should I be integrating that with Docker?

Very cool project, would love to get this working and used for internal projects.
Has anyone heard if they will take the tech back towards open or move in a closed direction? I don't know much about Statasys but I'm guessing they are a closed company and their machines aren't open sourced?
Why is that? Makerbots use the same material as Printrbots, RepRaps, etc... It is available from multiple retailers.
Why would a Web Developer be less experienced in setting up a Web server than a Developer?
- a touchy Web Developer :)
That's not actually true. The Free-Ride Zone was discontinued due to budget problems.
I would have thought prozac was closer.
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Because housing benefit doesn't work like that. It's idiotic to think that it does.

Most HB fraud is criminal gangs using fake id, or individuals who are cohabiting but claiming as singles.
I believe in this case, where two outside reviewers recommended acceptance and the original authors recommended rejection, that the appropriate action for the editors was to get the two outsider reviewer's opinion on the original author's report. Even better, a third outside reviewer should be contacted to assess the original author's report.
They could divide users in two camps - those who want the old system and those who want the new system. If buying used games is good for you (e.g. you are living in country with less income than average American), don't enable the feature. If you like digital sharing, enable it.

IMHO, their proposed system is OK, but it should be opt-in, not opt-out. I mean to buy a lot of games and I have zero interest in playing online. Why should I care about that anyway? 24-hour check is...let's be honest and just say it is limiting.
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yahoo mail was my first mail 15 years ago. But the product hasnt evolved much yet. In my opinion , Yahoo lacks of the proper agile culture where products evolve gradually (like google products ). Look at yahoo groups , feels like 1999 ...
So they can buy start-up all they want , yahoo has a cultural problem. definetly , at least if they want to look relevant.
They should rename the Xbox One to the Xbox 180, it would be very apt.

On a more serious note, I don't like this rollback. It only goes to show how the witchhunt and echo chamber on Reddit worked. Even before the reveal, Microsoft was falsely accused of trying to game Reddit and everyone flew off the handle over someone pretty much lying to be a troll. Say the word "DRM" and you get bucketloads of Reddit karma and posts pointing out the facts(forget about posts taking the opposing view or opinion) were downvoted into oblivion by the angry mob.

And then there was the bad timing on the NSA leaks, which didn't help at all. Everyone has smartphones, laptops and tablets with cameras and mics which could be watching and listening and Apple/Google were part of the leak, but it was Microsoft that was singled out for proposing a device that could turn on itself, and had numerous safeguards to configure privacy if you wanted to.

All this doesn't excuse the fact that Microsoft utterly and totally failed in communicating their message in a proper manner in E3 and handed Sony an easy victory on a silver platter.

I guess it was easy to roll this back because it was not Microsoft but publishers and game developers that were going to reap the benefits of diskless gaming because Gamestop etc. skim off the value of older games and leave publishers with not much value. Once the public failed to see the advantages and blamed Microsoft for a power grab that was not going to really benefit them all that much, it was game over.
Steam (while it doesn't have used game transfer) pricing has more to do with publishers and many competing platforms (Amazon, Gamesfly, Origin etc).

I imagine Xbox One prices would be determined by Microsoft and the publishers (with the cost of licensing factored in), and not quite the free-for-all pricing that we've come to know and love about Steam.
No, it should be that every time you load it on the console it phones home. So only 1 person can ever activate it.

Phone home on activation is infinitely better than phone home every day.
Which compiles to JavaScript with Dart2JS.
This sounds amazing. I've done iterative jobs in hadoop before - it's very hacky and I generally just have it launch job after job after job until the result converges to where I want it. I'll definitely try this out soon.

Then again, while I absolutely love doing work with big data, I've been having a bit of an "existential crisis" since the NSA leaks :(
Xbox One: Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it
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That's my favorite aspect of the Dokku/Docker combo: your paas doesn't need to be in a walled garden, isolated from the rest of your stack. You can mix containers deployed by Dokku with other containers deployed directly on Docker - in the end they're all docker containers, so you can manage them with the same tools.
The reason Microsoft is doing this is not what you think it is. The Xbox is a subscription business. $50/year * 46 million subscribers. Microsoft can't afford to lose those subscribers.

The box, the DRM, media integration, etc. means nothing if they lose those subscribers to the Wii U or PS4. So, don't piss off your core customers.

Anecdotally, a lot of my friends and family who are longtime Xbox gamers have no intention of buying a $500 DRM laden Xbox 360. Removing a lot of the DRM restrictions still doesn't fix the price and now Microsoft already looks a bit foolish for not being very customer friendly in the first place.

The "console war" is a long game, but Xbox One didn't start out on the right foot for sure.
How on earth else would you pronounce it? Now, lighttpd, on the other hand ...
Yes, I'm aware that dealers sprung up as a sales channel for cash-strapped automakers. They didn't have the money for a nationwide retail campaign so dealers sprung up to do it for them, and to earn some profits in the process.
No. That's not true. That's true as of today with the new change. Before, that's absolutely not.

This just goes to prove that most of the ignorant internet rage was from people that didn't bother understanding just how much MS was really giving us with the previous setup.

You can't "phone home" with optical media, it's not serializable.
Opening an e-commerce? Remember the milk.
Of course, presumably it can work the other way as well. I look forward to small private copwatch organizations that can keep a camera on police interactions with the public through small UAVs.

The threat of ubiquitous surveillance through camera phones and drones has the potential to radically change policing tactics in the US and curb brutality.
Good to hear, I do miss that from Google Reader. But mind if I ask you something?

I accidentally unsubscribed from one of my feeds. (Because the "Unsubscribe" button is next to the "Mark Read" button, and doesn't ask for confirmation...)

I went to the website and re-subscribed, adding it as a new subscription. But it stuck itself in the "Uncategorized" section, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to move it back into its proper folder (drag/drop doesn't seem to work, there's no shortcuts that can rearrange stuff from what I can tell, the "My Account" page doesn't have any options for it...). For that matter, I can't figure out how to rearrange my folders and feeds either. Is there a way to do this? It's my biggest UI gripe in an overall solid project.
Guess this is their only choice right now. Have a divide between digital and physical copies. People who buy digitally gets better rewards (subjective) than people who buy the physical disk.
Yes, it is literal.

Hanlon's razor is advice about what predictions you should make (or which hypotheses you should advocate, if you like). It says that when you don't know whether something is malice or stupidity, you should never predict/theorize the former.
>The society in A Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction fantasy world that is a far cry from any society that has ever existed.

Could you justify this further? I'm curious as to your reasons for writing off Brave New World. I just recently finished it (I've read 1984 a few times already too), and I found Brave New World to resemble life in America a lot more than 1984 did, at least based on my personal experiences and not what I hear on the news. However, before I go and write up a bunch of stuff, I am interested in hearing your view.
Just put a code into the game case that allows for discless play, and require an online connection to install the game to the hd and unlock it for discless play. Not rocket science.
Yeah, I lol'd at that too. Especially given that logistic regression is a tool for statistics, not machine learning (unless you subscribe to the theory that those two fields are one and the same).
Do you prefer chain restaurants or local joints? Why?
Does Spark address the same problems as Storm?

It doesn't look like there's been any direct comparison of the two, though it looks like there's overlap. (I've wanted to start a streaming data processing project, and this looks like it would be good to consider for it.)
For all intensive purposes, your right, but is they're really any need to go over things with a fine toothcomb? As me and everybody else seems to feel, the point hear is mute, and I'm sure yourself agrees. Its clear enough what was meaned.
I'm not listening to someone on UI advice who has probably the most useless header I have ever seen. What would you even call that? It's not a splash screen. It's masturbating onto a sock because you can.

It makes me scroll down to actually read the article. Why would you do that to a user?
Affiliate marketing scumware. Like how to Make $5000/month at home crap. (Spolier Alert: Sell pamplets on Clickbank)
Okay, so now it's just two-for-one.

Now I get to buy and play Halo5 and then give the disc to my brother.
With about 30 seconds of thought.

You can still play the game without uploading so each game represents 2 copy's. Require an activation code to "load" the game which you can get automatically online or with a phone call. Require someone to unload the game which spits about a 6 digit code before you can upload it again. Make a fast online check to see if anyone registered the game via a partial code on the outside of the box for the used game market.

Don't let the disk play online content while "loaded" on a separate XBOX. Allow someone to declare an Xbox as broken, lost, or stolen.
As far as I understand it, other people can log into your console to play the game, or you can log into someone elses console. You cannot lend games to anyone to use on another console without giving them access to your account.

They also places very clear restrictions on selling used games.

There is no reason why these require additional payments or phone home every day. Phone home on activation or trade would have sufficed, and I would have cheered it all the way.
Barely on topic. Here's a recently posted video on a Dart alternative called TypeScript.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-Stev...
They are not discontinuing their product line or even canceling service for some of its customers.
What they do is effectively transferring online identities they granted from less deserving, from their perspective, users to more deserving ones.

There is a lot of problems with this from both from security and moral points of view.
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Having serial numbers on CD is not above current technology, and I'd wager that the number of people willing to never connect their system to the internet due to the fact they're pirating a bunch of games is statistically insignificant.
Maybe. My perspective is that Yahoo! did some research on why people left, stopped using, or never considered Y! as their mail service. I presume one of the responses is that people dislike non-vanity addresses. Instead of tedthomas@yahoo.com, the only variations that remain include thomasted110@ or tedthomasemail@. Ugh.

A simple query would show that these vanity addresses are sitting stagnant. A touch of PR and awareness instills or revives interest.

I think an optimistic view is that Yahoo! is willing to cut the fat and take chances on reuniting strayed in addition to inviting new users.
I see they have a SendGrid plugin. I'm looking to track our SendGrid email traffic more in a more granular manner and for longer than native SendGrid supports (they only store for a few days).

Does SendGrid via New Relic mean they provide more granular tracking and longer term storage?
That's correct. There is basically nothing comparable between asm.js (which is a subset of JS with a JavaScript interpreter optimized for it) and Dart (which is a language that currently compiles to JS with no special compiler optimizations in any engine that I'm aware of).

When Google starts shipping the Dart VM, then it will be a different story, of course. It will still not be comparable to asm.js, because asm.js runs in all browsers without the site author having to do anything (which would not be the case if Google shipped the Dart VM, as it would then be possible, and convenient, to write pages that only worked in Chrome).
Closest I can find is commits by author, but doesn't parse out specific files unless you view the commits:

https://github.com/mattsah/beer-recipes/commits/master?autho...

Change "mattsah" in the URL above to your github handle
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That example is a small change. I apply what I know of a hundred years of combined direct marketing knowledge to more clearly demonstrate a site's value proposition. I do bigger changes that involve copy and presentation, not changing the color of a button.

There are golden principles, CRO isn't be throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks - it is using what we know and what's been proven about psychology to increase sales.
This is talking specifically about disc-based games, which will return to operating as they always have. Good news for everyone. If you want to lend your game to a friend, give them your disc ("Lug" it around? For real?). Further when the inevitable system outage/hack attack happens, yay, those disc games still run. When Microsoft bans your Live account because your nephew trolled some people, yay, those disc games still run.

Game makers can choose to do other things, just as they can on the PS4. Specific downloaded games might have specific activation policies, and so on.

The outrage was that Microsoft seemed to make the baseline one that was very anti-consumer. They have done these sorts of things quite often, going above and beyond to serve interests other than their customers. Recall when Microsoft Media Center forcefully imposed completely irrelevant broadcast flags that no other DVR or cable box in the world listened to, deleting recordings after a prescribed period and so on.
In all fairness, their "work" is based on djb's (dnscurve). In fact, the entire company OpenDNS was built off of dnscache. And djb gives it all away fro free. That's what I call community.

If your "cute little DNS server at home" is dnscache, then I'd say you're on equal footing with OpenDNS. And if you configure CurveDNS or some other implementation of dnscurve then I'd say you're achieveing everything you could achieve with DNSCrypt. And it won't cost you anything... like OpenDNS spying on your queries and serving you ads.

The truth is, there are hardly any authoritative servers on the internet that support encrypted queries from dnscurve clients; dnscurve, as impressive as it is, remains obscure. If you're worried about someone sniffing or modifying queries off the wire as they travel from OpenDNS's or your home dnscache server to authoritative DNS servers, you'll have to restrain yourself to querying an extraordinarily small number of domains that have configured dnscurve. All other queries will fall back to being sent unencrypted.

Why not just do TCP queries over SSL?
I'm saying that's the way it should work. Give the user a disc and an activation code. Activation code becomes tied to the account until traded. Problem solved.
There's no reason that you can't avoid discs. Xbox One will still have the on-demand downloads, just like today, although it seems it'll be for every game.

The rage was over adding "cloud DRM" to purchased discs.

MS most likely had this planned out from the beginning. It's a great way to do PR. Announce something silly, get people talking about your product and not the competition. And when they do, it's on the thing you've decided.

Then, flip it back, destroying the one thing people were praising the competition for. Get bonus points for "listening to the community" and being "flexible".

Now, MS has dominated the press for a while, and removed the "one" big problem with Xbox.

Where is the discussion of how terrible it is that your Xbox that you paid for, running software you buy, on a monthly subscription, is shoving ads all over the UI?

The fact that they change the location of ads so you don't get accustomed to ignoring one part of the screen.

If someone brings that up now, people can respond "it's always something! MS made a big change and went against publishers, but you just want to complain".

Just like when VS 2012 launched with the shitty 1-bit icons and arbitrary casing everywhere. People complaining about "THE MENU YELLS" focused the conversation on that one thing. Then for RTM? "OK we listened and all caps are optional, can we stop complaining now?"

It's a possibly risky, but great way to control the conversation.
> mostly what you need to beat Hadoop is to make something practical, which lets developers be expressive rather than wrestle with overdesigned nonsense.

It would be difficult for an article to convey this. Having used both Hadoop and Spark, practicality and expressiveness are precisely what made me fall in love with Spark. You can do so much with so little code. Don't take anyones word for it, see for yourself. Download the code and run the interactive shell, takes 2 minutes. It was totally mind-blowing for me.
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If the 'never' is literal, then it's attempting to establish a universal truth, and is entirely useless as that universal truth is incorrect.

If it's not literal, then it's argumentative hyperbole and should be interpreted as "usually" or "most often". In this case the truth of the statement is intact and can be a useful guide.

So either you're right and the saying is worthless, or I'm right and the saying retains useful meaning.
I implemented something like this with OpenCV late last year using a node.js wrapper. We were looking to do something similar for image cropping. What I found was that OCV was kind of unreliable. A major percent of the time, it would mark knees as faces or even wrinkles in pictures of women's handbags. It was a side project and we didn't pursue it, so I was unclear if there was a way to train it over time. If so, did you do this to improve your accuracy?

I also used PIL a few years back to do image generation from text. I kept running into memory fragmentation bugs, weird artifacts creeping into images, etc. I haven't been able to recommend PIL for any serious work since then. Has this gotten better?
Twitter used to do this upon request. I assume they stopped because a manual process was too time-consuming.
Ignoring the snark (which I realize you did not start), that is totally irrelevant. Look at the numbers,

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...

and you can see that saying that asm.js runs faster in a particular browser is just wrong. On many benchmarks Firefox and Chrome are very close.

In the end, asm.js speed is just like SunSpider and Octane and Kraken speed - it's something browsers compete on. That tends to reduce the differences over time, since all the JS engines are very capable.
Is this totally confirmed? This seems hoax-y to me right now.
So far of using it I checked same results from google from time to time. So far top results always seem to be almost the same.
drivebyacct....

http://www.techspot.com/news/51227-sony-applies-for-rfid-drm...
Why couldn't they make it so the 24hr check still exists, but only for validating shared games. Traditional disc/downloads could continue working just as they do already.
Even more importantly they get to monitor what products you look at and don't buy. Or what products you buy after looking at another product.
Cool pictures, but knowing about some of these cities, isn't this basically a population map? Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1138/

It seems to miss very wealthy areas that have a lower population.
1) Microsoft doesn't set the price of games. What would have happened would be developers setting slightly higher prices than XBOX360, citing inflation and 'increased costs of development for more sophisticated systems' as reasons why the games are still more expensive. In other words, they'd be saying, "If it weren't digital only, it would be $89.99 instead of $59.99, so count your blessings!" Consumers are so well-trained to believe that they have no control over price; it's sad, really.

2) While you may have the luxury of a decent internet connection at a reasonable price, that is nowhere near the case for much of the USA. Gaming consoles are least common denominator products by design, so cutting off that huge segment of people for selfish reasons isn't a smart idea.

3) At 0.58 oz, a DVD weighs less than a sippy cup, so even the smallest of toddlers should have no issue carrying it. You're also missing the bigger point that, with a disc, you don't have to wait 2 hours for a game to download before you can play it.
This was my first thought. I've seen this done on a large scale with hotmail, where addresses automatically expire after a certain period of disuse.
>Just put a code into the game case that allows for discless play, and require an online connection to install the game to the hd and unlock it for discless play. Not rocket science

It is rocket science apparently

Person A does what you said and goes on a cruise ship playing the game before giving the disc to Person B.

Person B takes his disc, installs the game with an online connection. The server has no way of telling that Person A is still playing the game on his cruise.

Person B finishes installing, goes to a camping trip before giving the disc to Person C....

Person C installs the game, unplugs the network from the Xbox and gives the disc to Person D...
Or register the game to your account and then be able to share it immediately, wirelessly across the country with 10 "family" members and being able to resell the digital copy.

But noooooo, codes and short codes and registration verification sounds way better. >_<

I guess this is so frustrating for me because I worked on a licensing system and had to deal with the hundreds of little places it could be attacked in ways that aren't obvious if you haven't worked in the problem space before.