skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is clear that you are not reading what I am writing or are applying huge biases which do not allow you to fully understand my point.

My point is that I don't get the chance to argue why I made a donation to NORML if my name just appears on a company wide list. People see it, they make assumptions.

NORML's failure to see how their branding is weak for large donor support is a huge problem for that organization succeeding in its goal.

This can be applied to as low as conversation among friends or as high as a politician who must choose whether to A) Support individual freedom and civil liberties or B) support drug addicts and criminal, burn out hippies in a drug induced free for all.

If you cannot see how NORML's image aligns anyone who supports it with the later, you should really take a step back and ask yourself the following:

Do you put your affiliation with that on a resume? What are the impacts of that? If you are in tech on the west coast, you may get away with it. If you are in a serious business on the east coast, you will have trouble getting hired.

Change from NORML to a hypothetical organization called: "Organization For the Reduction of Human Rights Violations on US Soil."

Now instead of your resume getting thrown away, you get to talk about how people are dying in prison who should instead be productive members of society.

The point is, I don't care about NORML, I care about trying to figure out a way to get this country out of this mess and I believe that NORML is branded incorrectly to achieve that goal.
Except: it compiles to JavaScript and you deploy that. When I was playing with Dart, I think it worked fine with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
It's true that most cease-and-desist letters contain awful legalese, but here's a great example of a well-written, classy one: https://brokenpianoforpresident.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/...
Here is the text: http://pastebin.com/enQyYvsQ

Original source here: http://localforums.org/westorange/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=...
Images of the pages: [1](http://www.westorange.info/images/cease-and-desist-letter/Re...), [2](http://www.westorange.info/images/cease-and-desist-letter/Re...), [3](http://www.westorange.info/images/cease-and-desist-letter/Re...)
Can I play?

http://web.archive.org/web/20080402062531/http://pturing.fir...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080402062531/http://pturing.fir...
The generalized form of most logistics problems reduce to NP-complete, but we are also almost always working in a system with much more structure than the general problem, so a polynomial time solution may be available. Also, many NP-complete problems can find 'near' optimal solutions in polynomial time.

For example, consider the traveling salesman problem in a metric space. We can construct a minimum spanning tree in polynomial time, and we know that traversing this tree takes no more than twice as long as traversing an optimal solution to the traveling salesman problem. By using the triangle inequality, we can further optimize our solution, still in polynomial time.
Fantastic product and team. If you get a chance definitely tune into their webinars. seminar.intercom.io

never thought I'd say that out loud.
Makerbot to be acquired by Stratasys
In the early heydays of the Internet, I recall ati.com featuring a comment to the effect "there are 147 companies claiming rights to our domain name. Get in line."
Heh, good question. The NSA, and it's predecessors (SIS, etc.) have been snooping since the days of the telegraph!
How come asian are worse? There is a plenty of asian maps services that leave both OSM and Google Maps in the dust.

Chinese ones with hand-drawn buildings and South Korean ones with ruler, area measuring and historical street view. Aerial view-quality imaging too.
.. and Yahoo or any other similarly priced services should know this how?

Meaning, you get what you paid for and if your usage of said service falls outside of an expected range then don't be surprised if your service is suspended.

It's 2013. I feel like this particular lesson should be well established, public domain knowledge but here it is again:

Free data, storage and associated services means that you are the product. If a provider decides to discontinue a particular product line, that really is their prerogative. If you want otherwise, then pay for the services you use and rely on and then you'll have a valid complaint if they are suspended.
http://pastebin.com/enQyYvsQ
If this isn't the sign of a product with declining use, I don't know what is. Of course it isn't news that few people use Yahoo mail anymore, but the fact that it's worth it to Yahoo to turn those emails off is interesting.
Sucks to be Kim but why should another third, seemly innocent party, have to suffer too?

600 servers that be leased at, say, $100 a month is $60,000 a month or $720K a year. Kim, FedGov...Jesus or whoever should pay if they want to keep the servers idle. Leaseweb had more patience than I would have had.

As for evidence: My guess is that the Feds have enough preserved servers to make their case. You do not need them all unless you want to file 100++ million charges. If they have 10 servers and within them they have enough data about xxx violations of the law, that's good enough. He will be charged with them and that's it.

Low blow from Kim.
The quote has to do with the fact that most people engaging in evil don't even think about it. When a State says, "These are the bad guys. Go get them.", there's a sizable percentage of the population that can rationalize away the evil committed by "The Mission" because for whatever reason, they either lack the ability to reflect on what they're doing or they choose not to reflect on what they're doing.

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." -Hannah Arendt
Worked ok in Safari browser.

One wonders why more lawyers aren't humorous. Is it because it causes their clients harm? Or because they are afraid they can't generate fees if they don't look professional?

Here is another great example, between the Cleveland Browns and a fan. I cite Snopes, otherwise I wouldn't believe it to be true. http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/browns.asp
You can learn to draw enough to communicate ideas more effectively in 30 days.
You can learn to cycle as a transportation option in way less time.

You can learn to design to complement your skills for your existing job or to obtain a new one - I think that's the point; to get started on your design career, rather than to have the skills of a senior designer, in a shorter period of time and at less cost.
FBI/IC3 says online mug shot “extortion” a growing problem
enjoyable read.

i'm not a lawyer.. but i found myself wondering, if the Township followed with suit, this wouldn't also qualify as a SLAPP[1]?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publi...

edit: New Jersey hasn't enacted any anti-SLAPP legislation.
If you are paying off your loans, you aren't who is being discussed here. Every school has its upper quartiles and lower quartiles.
Humorous exchange between the Cleveland Browns and a lawyer (2011)
Up next, Kinect...
I'm not sure why you say that. You can have root inside a container and still not break out of it. You need an exploit that breaks you out of the container.
"ask who owned" not "ask whom owned". "whom" isn't just a word to put in to sound educated - it's used only when the "who" is an object. Here it is not.
Open API Bluetooth remote
A few of my friends are trying to get a device called Blumoo produced en masse via an Indiegogo campaign. They have several highly functional prototypes, and they want to open it up for anyone else to develop applications/functionality. They can already control their entire A/V systems with their phones. One guy's wife is an Android developer. Half of them either still or used to work for Garmin. "Silicon Prairie" startup.

Is this kind of thing even interesting to people? I love my PS3 remote that will control it from wherever without pointing it at the console...I imagine this doing the same.
The problem is when the public "owns" a space, this is the equivalent of no one owning it. This is why public bathrooms are among the most disgusting places you can visit. I remember visiting France where they charge to use the toilets, and they're waaaaay more pleasant to use.

Ownership=>care
It is, of course. Buses up on cinder-blocks is not the way to do it.
The page is loading really slowly, so here's the text:

Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience.

For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come. As is our heritage with Xbox, we designed a system that could take full advantage of advances in technology in order to deliver a breakthrough in game play and entertainment. We imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games. We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future.

Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback. I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One.

You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

So, today I am announcing the following changes to Xbox One and how you can play, share, lend, and resell your games exactly as you do today on Xbox 360. Here is what that means:

An internet connection will not be required to play offline Xbox One games – After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again. There is no 24 hour connection requirement and you can take your Xbox One anywhere you want and play your games, just like on Xbox 360.

Trade-in, lend, resell, gift, and rent disc based games just like you do today – There will be no limitations to using and sharing games, it will work just as it does today on Xbox 360.

In addition to buying a disc from a retailer, you can also download games from Xbox Live on day of release. If you choose to download your games, you will be able to play them offline just like you do today. Xbox One games will be playable on any Xbox One console -- there will be no regional restrictions.

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.

We appreciate your passion, support and willingness to challenge the assumptions of digital licensing and connectivity. While we believe that the majority of people will play games online and access the cloud for both games and entertainment, we will give consumers the choice of both physical and digital content. We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds.

Thank you again for your candid feedback. Our team remains committed to listening, taking feedback and delivering a great product for you later this year.
What will cycling the tesla's battery(or any electric car) do to its life expectancy? Also how much will a tv , fridge , pc , etc shave off my range in the morning.
Xbox One-80: Microsoft reverses Xbox One DRM features
Thanks for reminding me about Hakim Bey. Fun fact: (may not actually be a fact) Richard Stallman and the whole idea of copyleft, is borrowed from the works of Hakim Bey (which is where I read about it first).
First relevant result refers to the fact that customer's info is available for public viewing.

https://www.clkbank.com/viewTicket.htm?key=01.2C096591B7E11E...
Perhaps you should learn to make fewer non-absurd ad absurdiam arguments? It's fine that you have an ideology, but recognize that other people may disagree with your basic premises.
There are several ongoing projects to orchestrate deployment to a cluster of multiple docker hosts. Docker is designed to be easily dropped into a distributed system, which helps.

For example, there is an Openstack integration [1], Hipache and Nginx integration for load balancing [2] [3], and I know several people are exploring integration with Apache Mesos and Zookeeper. There's also a Velociraptor/Docker integration [4].

Lastly, I've seen a lot of ops teams plug docker into their own deployment tools, but those are generally not open-source.

Feel free to drop by the IRC channel (#docker@freenode) to chat some more!

[1] http://github.com/dotcloud/openstack-docker
[2] http://index.docker.io/u/samalba/hipache
[3] http://github.com/dotcloud/hipache
[4] https://bitbucket.org/yougov/velociraptor
I hope this doesn't sound pedantic but we aren't talking about a basic competency lesson here; the article seems to purport that one can become a professional this way.

I hope this doesn't sound snarky - it isn't intended to - but the site in question looks worse than a WordPress template, design-school-freshman-quality stuff. I don't mean to be mean-spirited - this is just simply my impression of the design level.
I really enjoyed reading the Something Awful legal threats (although I didn't read the site itself):

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/legal-threats/

It's unclear if Lowtax just got bored of responding or people stopped sending them.
This was a great article, I can't wait to attend this Thursday's talk by Paul Degnan of Marvel
The FBI won't be looking for Alzheimer's patients.
"Oogling", eh? I like that! A combination of ogling and googling.
Slightly off-topic, but I'm sad that people still use apt-get. aptitude is pretty much just better[1].

Also, if you're reading this article you probably don't need the slightly better performance/throughput of nginx. Nginx's configuration is just terrible. You can cause segfaults and all sorts of unexpected behavior with the If directive[2]. And who came up with the idea that rewrite[3] should sometimes redirect instead of rewriting?

If the replacement string begins with http:// then the client will be redirected, and any further rewrite directives are terminated.

Apache's configuration might be ugly and unwieldy and the community might be horribly infested, but at least the configuration makes sense. Lighttpd has none of the above problems, though.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/93437/

[2] http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil

[3] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule#rewrite
I had a look at a few of them, and they are mostly scam payments. Like $30 membership for a website where you "get paid to answer surveys".
Microsoft Modifies Used Game, DRM and Online Policies
The author suggests one of the remedies to the monopolies is "At the federal level, this means vigorous antitrust enforcement"

That's a great idea, really. Sadly it's unlikely that the feds will bust monopolies when those same monopolies are so damn convenient for them for spying.

We've got a problem here. The government, which is supposed to be trustworthy, isn't. And that means that some of the other checks and balances that the government is supposed to provide will be defeated internally. And we're stuck with the consequences. Rad.
The purpose of a language isn't to divert effort away from a language it compiles to as a first-class concept. That's actually not a goal, that's just someones cynical view of a potential side-effect when trying to invent a new more productive language for the web without JS deficiencies, with better language semantics, faster start-up and predictable run-time performance.

In Lars and Kasper Google I/O talk, they explain that V8 has become an extremely complex code-base, now weighing more than 500k LOC, with advanced compiler tricks to achieve the leading performance it currently has. The V8 designers think they're nearing the max performance ceiling possible with JS where it's unlikely they'll be able to get a further 2x perf improvement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huawCRlo9H4

Which is in contrast to Dart which was developed with the input of VM engineers, is a much smaller and simpler code-base that is able to support proper classes, real integers and SIMD support which is already capable of delivering 10x faster startup times (with snapshots) and 2x faster and more predictable runtime performance which is still in beta and has yet to receive anywhere near the engineering effort V8 has.

Google is big enough to attempt 2 competing strategies to improve web development and performance, i.e. a faster JavaScript being led by the Standards committee that's enhancing JavaScript at a comittees pace and by introducing a completely new language for the web built from the ground up to be faster, structured and more consistent: http://infrequently.org/2011/09/google-the-future-of-javascr...
Campaign is here, if you want to see it: http://igg.me/at/blumoo/x/2131638
I'm now terrified about what 7-year old accounts I have that used an @yahoo for password resets. Bank: clear. Facebook: clear. Gmail: clear. Guess it won't be too bad.

I thought about snagging something short and nice (like my initials) just for kicks, but...am really not sure what I'd do with the account after I had it.
I'm not certain, but it seems from the article that they implemented MegaPipe to run alongside the BSD API. You do have to keep the BSD sockets API alongside the new implementation. Not only because there is a lot of existing code that depends on it, but also because abstracting a socket as a file is actually useful in many cases.
I always thought that the top ones were rich, they just made their money elsewhere, like books and TV. Am I wrong?
3-D Printer Company MakerBot Acquired for $403 Million
Actually I am excited about the new Kinect for personal hacks. According to MS, you will be able to turn off the Kinect, if not, its nothing some tape can't fix.
You don't have to be a dick about it. I thought 'whom' was right because the subject of the sentence was 'someone'.
I can't agree that cable tv quality has gone down recently. Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad? This stuff is not only the highest quality TV we've probably ever seen but higher quality than film as well.
Of course, just different variates of soma: one for omega, other for alpha. And other varieties of soma for all people in between, nothing new here.
Men's Wearhouse ousts founder, pitchman Zimmer
I'm actually annoyed with these changes; they have reverted back to the Xbox 360 way of doings things;

* Disk must be in the drive to play

* Share games by lending the disk.

The previous scheme, while it would not be befinical to some due to the 24 hour requirement, did allow for some exciting new ideas (which we've got used to with Steam);

* Access my games anywhere without needing a disk

* Share the game with my family who live away from me
Works fine on my stock Android browser. Android 4.2.2 on a Nexus 7.
It might be the type of lighting that makes it much harder to find a vein to inject, making it much less useful for taking drugs.
Interesting, as C&D letters or as DMCA takedowns sent to YouTube?
PostgreSQL performance monitoring, alerting, charts, analytics
Pre-built scripts allow you to monitor PostgreSQL metrics and include these popular metrics out of the box: Index rows fetched, Commits, Locks,
Rollbacks, and Blocks hit. Monitor via SaaS, great for AWS, cloud deployments.
Map the iPhone Users In Any City, And You Know Where the Rich Live
There's a tradeoff between discless play and used games; allowing both leads to massive piracy (in somebody's mind). It looks like MS has gone from one extreme to the other.
I think you're absolutely right that the price is going to keep dropping, and that's the scariest part to me.

Wait till criminals start using weaponized drones. Then life's going to get really interesting.
I don't get the negative response to this. They made a mistake (admittedly being too greedy), and now they're correcting it. People didn't like the DRM, SO THEY TOOK IT OUT! Get over holding a grudge; the Xbox has a lot of very good exclusives and has always been a solid console. It just goes to show you that you can never make the internet happy.
But these are closer to end results. The contrasts being drawn between Orwell and Huxley are about the means toward those results -- fear, force, violence vs. drowning entertainment, drugs and distraction.

I think the point is that if we can recognize which is which we're better able to resist going down a dark road.
Wasn't the family sharing stuff only on the same console?
How is it not clear? You can play games without checking-in every 24 hours, and if you want to share or sell a game, you transfer the physical media you purchased. Downloaded games cannot be shared.
Whomever you are, you sound condescending rather than helpful.
WOW Alert - A jQuery plugin to override native alert() method
We help people make stuff
That's a shame, on both accounts. It looks nice and the right way to abstract out SQL, but admittedly, I would not use it if it won't let you drop down to SQL for something that needs it.
Nothing is free. Somebody will have to wake up in the morning and work to pay for the "free" ticket!
Years ago, someone taught me a very handy trick for determining whether to use the subject or object form: rephrase the sentence somehow so instead of who/whom, you're using he/him (or she/her, if you're so inclined). If "she" sounds right, use "who"; if "him" sounds right, it's "whom".
To this day in D.C., the Metrorail system doesn't even come close to meeting its operating budget using fares. And it's already more expensive to ride Metrorail than to drive in a surprising number of situations.
But what do these drug dealers turn their attentions to? Most of them don't have the education to make similar quantities of money in a 'straight' industry.
What a total breach of customer privacy. I can't imagine customers want it to be searchable that they purchased a "Customized Fat Loss Program"

https://www.clkbank.com/viewTicket.htm?key=01.71E027164BE509...
SemVer: A Technical Solution to a Social Problem
High end.

I had a lower-end BMW model from a dealer that also sold other luxury brands (and Honda).

Whenever I needed a loaner from the service department, I got a Honda. When I had the car in for service and the service rep could see I had more than 100,000 miles on the car, I still got a Honda. When I sold the car I bought...a Toyota.

A perfect sales opportunity completely lost.
209 days ago I said this:

Re: next big markets--retail is an interesting one and it occurred to me that Walmart is going to have a RIM like crisis of its own over the next decade. E-commerce growth probably will continue as consumers grow increasingly comfortable with it, and the economics make so much more sense than building walmart's everywhere. I suppose they will start getting rid of their stores and moving to online, finding themselves looking like Amazon at the end of it, or out of business.

I guess I figured they'd get rid of their stores rather than turn them into shipping centers, but maybe this is just the first step in what would be a hell of a pivot if they can pull it off...
But it has a TRUSTe online privacy certification...
Stop Taking Orwell's Name in Vain
Lobster - A New Game Programming Language
Perhaps they asked "to whom the site belonged?".
If this is true, there isn't going to be the announced "Family Share plan" or the "Disc-less" operation. Also, the fact that a few consoles might not be connected to the Internet means, MS can't really do cloud processing as it claimed (since it would lead to variable experiences of the same game).

I see this as a step-backward than a step ahead. Sure there will always be a vocal minority, but rather than provide them an alternative, they've just gimped an online console.