skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whom is fine, but so is using "who" in its place. If in doubt, use who.

Probably better advice. There's a bit of research literature on the death of "whom". I can't remember when exactly, but I want to say around the beginning of the 20th century it pretty much died out from the language. It's a nice progression, English doesn't use thee, thine, thy or thou anymore either.

re:myself.

That's just plain weird.
Very simple. Keep the 24 hour restrictions as-is, but allow transition to an offline mode after notifying the mothership. This disallows all the family sharing features. Games installed using a physical disk would require the disk to be present, downloaded games are unaffected (since you can't sell them without connecting to xbox live.) This takes care of the submarine scenario. When you're back online, check for the disk again before allowing disk-less play. Make sure the offline transition can be done through smartglass, and you handle the hurricane/somebody-cut-the-fiber scenario as well.

Any holes in this approach?
thread closed.
My computer has a webcam and microphone pointed at me whenever I'm using it. Same for many, many people.
Ah, see, he was referring to North Korean law, not American law. So he was technically making the most truthful or "least untruthful" statement he could make.
nah. you can totally disable it with hardware:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jpMACMgKo2A/UaaIiPp3IvI/AAAAAAAAAP...

m3mnoch.
slava @ rethink here.

I have a few thoughts on this:

a) There is an astronomical difference between a neat technology and a complete, usable, supported product (especially with really complex software like databases). I can't tell yet how committed Toku folks are to this project. Is this a research project that may or may not go somewhere, or are they all in on the product? I think it's very important (for the customers and the industry) to get a clarification on this point.

b) I love seeing engineering projects like these. Experimentation like this (using a superb storage engine to power a popular db) is really exciting. I'd love to see where this goes.

c) RethinkDB has its own state of the art storage engine (with a very different architecture from Toku) that's tightly integrated into the full system. That lets us do very interesting things (fast path code paths, btree-aware caching system, etc.) The advantages and disadvantages of pluggable storage engines are really interesting.

d) If TokuMX does turn into a complete product, it's really exciting. It's nice to see the industry maturing.
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This is a brilliant end-run around the fourth amendment. Sure, the government isn't allowed to do mass warrantless surveillance, but they can order companies to do it illegally and then pardon them.
I just wish they focused on profits per employee as a metric, or really any actually meaningful metric besides gross revenues. You can make anything impacted by technology look bad by looking at only revenue.

The music industry revenues dropped by half between 2000 and 2010, however it doesn't talk at all about how much costs dropped in the same time period. More specifically, the cost per artist brought to market (album creation to distribution). As long as more music is being created and making to listeners, then market demand is being satiated, and that is all that matters.
Cool, I didn't know there were multiple versions of checkers. I'll have to check (hah) out that solution for the American version though, always interesting (as well as what the differences in rules are). Off to Wikipedia, I guess ;-)
Hi, this is Matt Hulett the CEO of ClickBank.

ClickBank was recently made aware of a situation in which customers were posting their information using social bookmarking sites, which are indexed by Google. As a result, ClickBank is taking steps to limit the information that a consumer can inadvertently share through such services. We take customer privacy very seriously and believe that all individuals share responsibility for maintaining the security of personal information that is posted online. At no time is customer payment information disclosed.
"A good designer is a good communicator." I'm really glad you mentioned this. To many people view design as making something look cool or pretty.
Can I put a TokuMX node into a Mongo 2.4 replica set cluster? It would be nice to let it sync to the cluster and then compare it against live Mongo nodes. Any concerns with sharding?
Plus with the "Family group" feature, it would have made even more sense.
I don't see where I claimed any of those things, especially how my claims are racist?

You claimed that drug dealing is a non violent activity. I showed an example of where that is demonstrably not the case. Roughly 65% of the coke in the US comes through mexico where it is causing serious violence.

In my home country (UK) we also have problems with violence and intimidation from drug gangs in many deprived areas.
I wish web sites would allow me to specify a separate email address specifically for password recovery. This would make my account much more secure.

Regular: foo@gmail.com

Password recovery: foo.special.admin.email@gmail.com
For those who are interested, the specific BeagleBoard that christina_b is using is the xM:

http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBoard-xM

It's not the cheapest in the family but it does have a bit more in umph.
You don't need dnsmasq for that. dnscrypt ships with the ldns-blocking plugin to block list of domains and IPs: https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/src/p...
Console gamers are used to having a physical totem of the game. When have you ever been able to easily loan a game to your brother who lives across the country?

Really, if you want to do that with a digitally-purchased game, you should just both be buying a copy, for a lot less than that disc would have cost. But MS wasn't willing to say "sorry, you're obsolete" to the game stores, so they weren't saying "hey now your games will cost half as much or even less if you buy them through us". Consumers have shown they don't care about all that DRM/licensing stuff on iOS if an expensive game is one that costs $10!
> The skills required to run a legal drugs business are almost entirely different to those required to run an illegal drugs business.

Which, incidentally, doesn't stop at the lower-level employees but goes the whole way to the top, and is one reason it is quite likely that the "newly legal mary jane barons" won't be the same as the pre-legalization illegal barons, they'll be existing ag/pharma megacorps, who are set up to do what a legal business in the field will need to do (including already being plugged in with the applicable regulatory bodies.)
Sony has a price advantage still, which is why the 360 "won" the last generation's console war.
The PS4 has been number one on that chart for most of the past week, despite being split up into multiple launch bundles. (I think yesterday was the first time the Xbox had reached number one since E3.) I've been checking that list, and it's my main evidence for the fact that consumers have actually been favoring Sony so far.
Okay, I appreciate that Ritchie was a genius and that C was revolutionary and is foundational to modern computing.

But seriously, C arrays not having bounds checks has probably caused more security disasters than anything else in the history of computing, with the possible exception of end-users. Was there a good reason for this, and if so, what was it?
Steam's sales have nothing to do with competition and everything to do with leveraging digital distribution and maximizing benefit for everyone, including publishers.

MS might be too wedded to old norms to understand that being able to lower prices can actually dramatically increase total revenue in a digital world but Valve very much does.

Here, read this: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economic...

That's some background about Valve's early experiments with Steam sales. Early on their preliminary research indicated that sales would pretty much leave total revenue unchanged, with the increase in purchases balanced by the reduced per-game revenue. However, they found out quickly they were very wrong. What they found was that with a 75% reduction in price their total revenue increased by 40 times. Not 40%, a factor of 40, 4000%. And not sales volume, total revenue. Which translates to much higher profit in the digital realm where per-sale overhead is small.

Game makers and publishers who actually understand economics, instead of companies like MS who merely pretend to, have the opportunity to greatly advantage both consumers and game makers. Cheaper games means more people can play them, but it turns out it also means more money in the hands of people who make games. Which helps those companies survive and makes it that much more possible for them to make more games.
I didn't really embrace DDG until I got the hang of all the bang commands. Make an effort to try those out and maybe you'll find the same.
I think the humor was there because the two lawyers graduated from he same place, perhaps knew or know of each other.
I think if it doesn't randomly drop hellfires around, you can get used to it. We do not live in constant fear of birds after all.
This really reminds me a lot of the progression of MySQL.

Originally it was used with ISAM/MyISAM and it was pretty popular. Then InnoDB came around and it quickly revolutionized the MySQL world, allowing MySQL to grow to the next level. Now InnoDB is by far the most commonly used storage engine and the default on several distributions.
I totally agree. It's great for entertainment value but further down the line, if there are other legal disagreements, this letter could come back to haunt.
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I love stats. I must say, that this is a very clever metadata scraping and analysis! I do have to point out that the purpose of a mobile device though is to be able to conduct work (or the basis of this article...a tweet) from anywhere, with that said, I don't think the geo location reflects where someone lives.

Side Note: I may own an iPhone, but my wallet doesn't agree with this title.
> Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold.

They’ve thrown out the baby with the bathwater. This sort of flexible licensing doesn’t make sense for disc-based games, but would have worked very well for downloads.
Some marketing fits the bill; without that, McDonalds is just an option to hurt yourself, while being spied on or killed by drones it NOT a choice, which does make a difference.
I don't understand your statement... is she playing to CA citizens who want the drones or who are against the drones?
There is still the mic part. Should we use bubblewrap instead?
Indeed, there is progress for whoever finds these vulnerabilities. And I'm sure they wouldn't mind doubling their salary.
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It was like inception going through the superclasses trying to get at some explanation of what a bean is. I decided I don't want to know bad enough when I was 5 levels deep.
You can't have mixed replica sets, sadly.
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I'm guessing that the publishers were only willing to allow features such as family sharing etc in exchange for limiting used disc sales.
... What?

While playing your game, you could have been completely offline without a disk. The 24-hour requirement is completely separate.
Microsoft passes information about vulnerabilities to all sorts of companies prior to Patch Tuesday, not just government agencies. That's not news; it only seems like news because the people paying attention to the NSA stories don't generally pay attention to how security patch management works.

NSA does not need Microsoft's help to break into Windows boxes.

What's wrong with speculating that the Microsoft Bug Bounty is an NSA-influenced plot to funnel zero-day to the government is that that's a stupid conspiracy theory. It's elaborate and complicated in ways that the NSA doesn't need to deal with. It also casts aspersions on the people at Microsoft --- who are actual people who you can actually talk to --- who worked very hard to make this program happen after Microsoft spent years being criticized for not doing this.
"But this model is a problem for online journalism, because revenue is generated only from the articles that are actually read"

Not anymore. Paywalls are going up everywhere.
Do a whois on cnn.com
From the terminal, whois cnn.com and I get:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

CNN.COM.UNIMUNDI.COM
CNN.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
CNN.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
CNN.COM

what gives? Navigating to cnn.com in the browser still redirects to the correct site, but it seems their whois info is all funky. Can someone explain??
I am more sad at all the potential advances that have been lost / delayed:

These changes will impact some of the scenarios we previously
announced for Xbox One. The sharing of games will work as it does today,
you will simply share the disc. Downloaded titles cannot be shared
or resold. Also, similar to today, playing disc based games will
require that the disc be in the tray

The last thing that next-gen consoles need is to remain anchored to last-gen practices. The road was going to be bumpy but, as many have said before, so was Steam and now everyone loves what it's become.
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779494
Blame the mods. The original title I submitted it under was 'Men's Wearhouse Founder and CEO fired after 40 years' which I felt captured the interest value for startup founders on HN far better. The current headline is not the one on Bloomberg either, but appears to have been (poorly) composed by the mod.
Those are all extremely different levels of trust. It's useless to treat them as equivalent.
"This is making an implicit assumption that iPhones are symbols of wealth "

It's hardly being assumed, he's comparing a map of usage with known wealthy areas and drawing that as a conclusion.

Further wealthy people can have and use things that are not symbols of wealth. They might prefer pepsi to coke moreso than the rest of the populace but that neither assumes or implies that pepsi is a symbol of wealth.
I am no expert but I believe Stratasys paid for the brand and community. MakerBot is the most well-known 3D printer out there but not the cheapest or most well-designed (in the prosumer category). My guess is that the infusion of cash will help MakerBot manufacture more printers at cheaper costs and, thus, enable them to target additional market segments (beyond the prosumer category, where they already face competition from Form1 labs).
And unsurprisingly there are many accounts of this being abused already, heres a few high profile examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_... , http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet...
Run dnscrypt-wrapper or unbound on your router. Then run dnscrypt-proxy or dnssec-trigger on your clients.
You get secured against local-network DNS attacks, and this let you use any upstream resolvers (or none).
Not necessarily, there's already a web component to Xbox Live at xbox.com that you can login to from any browser and you can even do things on it (today) like reset all your Xbox 360 digital content licenses (I think this is limited to once per year) for exactly this sort of situation where your console died and you had to buy a new one.

So, log in to xbox.com, see list of your active licenses, click 'deactive' link on the games you want to forfeit your current digital license for. No console required.
There's nothing wrong. Skip below to see information domain CNN.COM. Compare with whois microsoft.com, for example.
"The two men were in federal court Wednesday on charges that they conspired to provide material support to terrorists, including use of a weapon of mass destruction."

I'm starting to think rolling a large rock down a hill at a group of people would be considered "a weapon of mass destruction"

Does the term have any meaning anymore, or is it just a pile-on item to aid in plea bargains?
For what it's worth, the stock browser on the nexus 7 is chrome (unless you root and sideload the actual stock aosp browser or use a custom Rom with it).
I think anyone who actually cares about this stuff has two simultaneous responses here.

1. Do you actually care if you get it?

2. Go f* yourselves
Why is everyone so angry at the companies for complying with these government orders instead of being angry at the government that's ordering them to do these illegal things?
Given the late surveillance system revelations...

I don't.
I'm not seeing it. It's a sea of red in downtown Seattle (and up into Lower Queen Anne i.e. where the Space Needle is). Yeah there's some purple in there but as it has been pointed out, surely those are Windows Phone devices.

The neighborhoods south of downtown do appear to be majority Android, which does agree with the assertions of The Atlantic.
A lot of what you see online, even in professional agency portfolios, isn't particularly interesting. I see a ton of basic anatomical mistakes and it seems that color is used improperly more than half the time. It used to drive me crazy, because it felt to me that it wasn't professional work.

Partly as a result of that, I'm thinking about moving into the design field. But for me that's with a somewhat formal background in color and fine art; not as difficult a transition I think.
I learnt an even better trick: don't use it.

Or rather, only use it if you intend to go the whole hog and comply with all the pedantic, pseudo-latinate prescriptions of traditional formal English grammar.

"It is I."

"Bad grammar is something up with which I shall not put."

"This is an historic occasion."

And so on....
Birds do drop hellfires constantly.
Add:

- Indie self-publishing (PS4 allows, Xbox One doesn't, this is a big deal for me personally).
I don't think they will give the companies immunity by name.
What's probably more likely is that nebulous publications might fail, and instead people may follow many smaller niche online publications. You might read about tech news, supreme court rulings, and something happening in Germany from three different, unrelated sources, but ignore local news about things happening in Amsterdam. These would be run by people with an interest in a particular topic, perhaps as a hobby part time. Hobby bloggers are really quite common so it's not impossible to imagine this.
Some of those hardware lights can actually be controlled from software, unfortunately.
1) Well, the whole "games are cheaper as a digital download" sure isn't true while physical copies are being sold in stores, thanks to agreements to not undercut retailers' prices. Only when a game is old enough that physical copies aren't being sold anymore does become true. As true as an incomparable equality can be, that is.
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The same applies at Microsoft (and the map shows it). Discounted and sometimes free Windows Phone hardware, and at one point the on-campus cell phone stores (all the major carriers) didn't sell iPhones. Sure many have an allegiance toward their employer, but people freely use iPhones and even MacBook Pros on campus.
> instead of

A number of us are angry at both.
They could have added another carrot: a donation to charity! IIRC, they didn't need to, the author agreed.
(This comment is based on reading the edited thread-starting post, but is more of an aside to the topic)

As someone involved in minority liberation campaigning, one of the biggest failings I see of my peers is not letting members of the minority group /just get on with their lives/. We are fighting for people to not have to fight, so it's important that we support the right of those marginalised to /not take a stand/, give them support when they on occasion decide to do so, and yet not expect them to do so again.
I'm disgusted to see our government still continues to operate however it wishes, confident that if they get caught breaking the law, the law can be promptly and retroactively nullified.
Unused Yahoo ids are going to be recycled. Yahoo Mail is just one of the services tied to your Yahoo id. Just sign in to Yahoo with your Yahoo id to save it and your email from being recycled.
I'm honestly shocked that many of these companies aren't being sued in European courts. There is more than enough evidence now to support this. Hit every company on their bottom line. Europeans need to present the following dichotomous choice to every American tech company:

(1) Operate in Europe and make money here, but no spying on any EU citizen.

(2) Continue spying, but don't operate in Europe.

Alternatively, eliminate the tax evasion benefits of routing everything through Ireland. The tax hit of forcing many US companies to pay the full amount of US corporate taxes should be more than enough to change their tune.
Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Ice Road Truckers and American Restoration are the top ones for me, precedence order. I like more of their shows though, http://www.history.com/shows
This is a really great & insightful comment. Thank you!

Is your point similar to the point that Chris Dixon made about cable bundling?
http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...
People who use your products or subsystems for evil are NOT going to tell you about it. Yes, you can do great stuff with drones. But to bring that up in the context of BAD stuff possibly being done with them, can seem naive and (inadvertently or not) help covering for bad stuff.

Let's say there is a topic about how a flaw in the SSL implementation of browser X can be used to take over the machine of a user by sending them to a specific link; and someone says "yeah but without that bug SSL is quite useful actually". It's at least kinda missing the point, and in a way that's in the playbook of PR firms to boot. To start out with "I am amazed at the disconnect" and the continue trying to create a disconnect is kinda rich, if you think about it.
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That is what the current marketing sells it as. Basically it is mainly a platform for leads based affiliate marketing with some sales stuff as well. So stuff like generate a credit card lead for $50/$100 down to get an email address for some mailing list for a $1.
Hard work getting people to pay money for junk, that's why you outsource it to thousands of affiliates on clickbank.
Do you have a lot of knowledge of their team's background and what Stratasys wanted from this deal? Without a clear definition of what's valuable here that's a sweeping judgement.
If your console allows you to play disc purchased games without the disc in the console, then being able to "deactivate" the disc on the web before reselling it would allow you to continue to play your game on your un-networked console.

You can't have disc-less disc games that allow trading and don't require some form of "always on". You have to give up one of those; this time around it seems they are giving up "disc-less disc".
The implications are more serious than immunity for NSA actions.

This law could circumvent the breaking of ALL and ANY laws by these companies. After such a law is passed, companies may not have to be accountable to anyone. When questioned, they can lie about it and say the NSA said so.

They don't need to release transparency reports cuz the NSA said so. Any tech company can lie to the Privacy Commissioner cuz the NSA said so. They can do anything cuz the NSA said so.

This is the mother of all loopholes. Good luck, world­.
Most users should expect a big reduction in disk space. Depending on your data and level of fragmentation with regular MongoDB, you could see ~4x-20x reduced disk usage.