skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I'm the kind of guy who doesn't want to share his keychain if its not necessary, is why. Its not necessary unless I reason to share a keychain .. and .. having this choice being taken away from me would be a suitable reason to abandon the platform.
As Amazon doesn't offer an API for this, how's it done? Scraping? Hordes of low-wage folks filing orders manually? What's stopping Amazon from blocking this?
Totally agree. I just like to point out that transit systems do have a relationship with homelessness, but of course they are not suited to completely handle that social problem and there needs to be a more comprehensive approach to address social inequality.
This is what's good about DNSCurve; it provides value immediately and deploys incrementally without boiling the ocean, and it doesn't come with a whole new PKI that would (for instance) force every .LY app to trust the government of Libya.
No, I did not mean that. But blowing it all out of proportion is not good either. It was just a reminder that such uses happen. People don't have a balanced exposure to science.
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look at the left and right margins of the items in the center column, they are way off.
"My fellow mobile tethered sheep(See image-Wired <1>), ask not what your country can do for you, and don't even think about asking what the long term storage of your private metadata can do for security-cleared high-salary retires' revoving door into fear-mongering intel private enterprise, isn't it simply much more pleasant to just eat, keep oogling 'metamedia', and consume more? Ain't it great being a sheep"?

Munch, munch!

Please herewith be guided accordingly;

John F. Alexander

<1>
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/phew-it-was-just-metada...
You are quite correct and I understand the economics of bundling. But that's why I stated the comparison didn't work for me. But one day they will have to optimize for people like me because the group is growing and things suggest it will continue. It may take a while but it's inevitable, as you seem to agree with in your "today" comment.

Let it take a while, I'm quite happy with the current arrangement of me not paying any money for cable TV.
That's two governments out of 100+. And I'm not weighing in number of users per country because, in most cases, each country has it's independent government.
You are still overgeneralizing. I went to NYU over UC Berkeley and don't regret it one bit. Sure, if you are premed or prelaw and have the intention of going straight to grad school after finishing undergrad, your argument holds great weight. But that's not everyone; people have different goals. Some people want to go into finance and work on Wall Street, others want to act on broadway, etc. And for people with these types of ambitions, NYU is hands down the better option. Nowhere else can you have the opportunity to intern at pretty much any type of company imaginable, network, and have such rich cultural experiences all while being a college student (well, other than Columbia). Sure, NYU is more expensive, but it's an investment that can yield higher dividends. Case in point, NYU was substantially more expensive for me to attend than UC Berkeley; however, I will be starting work at a major Wall Street investment bank in the fall. Berkeley's placement onto Wall Street is nowhere near comparable, so the likelihood of me landing such a job had I went to Berkeley would have been pretty much nonexistent. So, while the cost of attending NYU was higher, the future cash flows I am generating as a result of attending NYU are much higher than what Berkeley would have generated, justifying the cost. And that doesn't even take into account intangible assets, like my overall happiness and how much I've grown from living in NYC. At the end of the day, you can't generalize; it comes down to the individual, his/her goals, and whether he/she takes full advantage of the opportunities presented to them.
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By "proprietary language" do you mean fully open sourced with a liberal patent covenant and a well documented hosting API that as a goal encourages its adoption and contributions, that's being developed in the open and is in the process of being standardized once released?
Has anyone ever noticed Scientology tends to use a type of Newspeak?

A lot of acronyms and initialisms and other obscure, the article states the appendix of 1984 “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” It will render dissent “literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

I wonder if old L Ron was a fan of 1984?
Your comment, to me, is more of a telling condition of the state of social programs in the US. When you have a major national party that believes that social programs are evil, it's clear that it's not an economic, but a political issue.
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Why 3D Printers will increase product longevity
That may be so, but that seems to be a different complaint than complaining about having to watch commercials despite a monthly subscription fee. Even though that's been the model for cable TV since the beginning.
JDK 8 is feature complete
As someone who has travelled throughout Germany, I can say that there is nothing in Germany that remotely resembles the scope of homelessness that exists in certain parts of the US. So, I can understand why you might find it amusing.
Tesla hints at battery swap that's faster than filling gas tank
Clickbank order details in plain view
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.

~ Neil Postman
I work in the field of unmanned aircraft. I'm always amazed by the enormous disconnect between public perception and what I see going on inside the industry.

I've talked directly to members of several police departments about why they want unmanned aircraft. In Brevard county FL, for example, they want infrared cameras to help find patients with Alzheimer's disease that have wandered away from home. Several police departments want a cheap way to take aerial photographs of accident scenes so they can move wreckage and debris off the roads faster and keep traffic flowing. In general, it's for surprisingly mundane tasks. I happen to live in Colorado, and I'd love to use our products to help with forest fires, but the FAA won't let us.

Of course, any tool can be abused. It seems like that's the primary fear that people have with this new technology.
White Papers on Horizontal Partitioning of Databases?
Hey HN, I was wondering if anyone has ever come across a good paper on scaling horizontally (Sharding) a survey of strategies used in the field. I am a beginner and I am trying to build a scalable image store for fast retrieval and slow writes, and data integrity.
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I'm curious about why Amazon doesn't have an API for this.
Ok. Note that I didn't argue against any of that.
Reasonable. Let's see what Kim has to say to that.
I didn't think it was possible that I could dislike fb more. I see now I was wrong.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx
Yes, there is a tendency to believe that the most recent thing published represents "the last word" on the subject. A balanced exposure to science would include an historical view of the contingency of scientific knowledge. But this could only be acquired by reviewing all the published literature.
Yes, because none of that will have any effect on Google's control over what runtime goes into Chrome and their ability to make unilateral decisions about the language's future. It's fully owned and controlled by Google.
Considering it's 5% per order, filing orders manually seems likely.
I'm surprised they're not able to give you money off on each order. Amazon gives up to 8.5% of each order to affiliates (and at least 4%).
Asterank is a scientific and economic database of over 600,000 asteroids
Hat sales will SKYROCKET.
Why Tesla Thinks It Can Make Battery Swapping Work
URL should be: https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/235adb5...
Tesla Announces Fast Battery Swapping
I know you hate the "they are making a profit" argument, but please consider the economic forces at play. This is a cohort that has almost no voice with which to protest their treatment, so every effort is likely to be made to drive down costs. Private prison oversight is fraught with problems. It's also not great for staff. It's a bad place to have "market forces" Take some prison manager who needs to fill beds to get his income up, what can he do? Increase reporting of crime inside the prison (assaults, contraband, etc) or find some county/state with extra inmates. What if they don't have any? Get them to "find some" It happens. These folks cover some of it at least for Texas. http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/
Totally agree -- my pricing can't sustain the cost per-user in this model. Any my site's usage is very seasonal, easily up to 10x at different times of year, and it isn't clear how dynamic the plans are.

Possibly my pricing is wrong, but simply per-user seems like a very blunt instrument. Not sure what a better way of measuring the 'value' here is though. Ideally % of total hosting bill would seem 'fair', but if a service is going to cost 30-50% of the hosting costs then it needs to provide an awful lot.
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Unfortunately, I cannot think of such a service. But your question leads me to imagine an annotation system for the Google Art Project that could be rather interesting. It would be great to be able to select a piece of artwork and then see particular parts of it analyzed / critiqued upon by professors, art historians, other artists, anyone who has something to share &c. (obviously these annotations would be hidden by default as not to mar the beauty of the piece in question).

Personally, I think such annotation systems could be the future of internet sharing / collaboration. It would be very useful, to me at least, to be able to visit a site, whether it be a text article or image gallery and see interesting annotations. Such a thing could be implemented as a browser plug-in tying back to an online service - i.e., you can make annotations in your browser but then visit the main site and search for pages and see annotations others have made. The "pinning" of annotations could also lend itself well to the Pintrest format / formula.
A similar mismatch with 1984's also smoothed also as well, in my opinion: I found one of the most oddly salient features of that society was the absent (the "free"d) proletariat - even as far outnumbering those of perceived relevance as they might be. As it is they're still swept into our rhetoric: a far more interesting equivalence needs just a bit more time for the status quo to establish itself.
Would it make you feel better if the U.S. just required the phone companies to store all of that data for however long the NSA would normally have stored it, and provide a PRISM-like system for the NSA to make the search as needed when they receive the same type of warrant they say they require now?

That seems like a way to get essentially the same effect as what the NSA has now, except that now the phone companies have to pay for the upkeep instead of NSA. But then it would all be legal.

I'm not personally sure I would feel safer shifting NSA-types of duties off on profit-driven civilian companies. As least I know that someone in Congress and the judiciary are being briefed on what's going on now... we won't have that same assurance if the phone companies are all compelled to do it.
Let's just say that Tony Morris doesn't mince words on the Scala MLs.....
Enough with the news-readers – it’s time to support media that really matters
Why would they need one? Amazon (in terms of the shopping site) is geared to consumers. Even if she could, why would my mother write a script to order things from Amazon? By using the site, you are exposed to their attempts to convince you to buy other products, or a more expensive version of their current product.
If those people can't be legal prostitutes because they are out competed, that doesn't mean that they will continue being illegal prostitutes in public bathrooms. It's certainly plausible that having legal and more desirable options will drastically reduce the number of them using free toilets.
Elevator pitch from real... elevator;)
The Boss Stops Here
Cryptocueva
It's all anon, fun and games until the SWAT team shows up :-)

In all seriousness, any package as complex as Windows and Office is bound to have bugs, many, many bugs.
Free busrides for everyone in Corvallis, OR. Not a big city but it's a start.
PRISM itself is an automated way to do what used to be highly-manual before. It's like people complaining about robotic car factories or how we use EFT to direct deposit paychecks instead of handing out paper checks every 2 weeks.
That's awesome! Love that team.
Direct search link: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aclkbank.com%2ForderDe...

Well, this is pretty egregious and makes me rather happy I don't use them. From the looks of things you can also change the email associated with an order and send yourself the info all over again. This means for some things, like online services or say application licenses, you can resend the info to yourself and probably steal the actual customers product.

Additionally, I'm willing to bet quite a few of these people have used the listed email and last 4 for other things online and/or for verification of identify places.

Also, how is this PCI compliant?
As far as I can tell by their ping-pong server example it would be possible to implement some kind of virtual API for BSD sockets on top of megapipe and make it relatively easy for everyone.
Are the prices really so bad? Those fees seem comparable to a payment service provider. This is a different service with presumably lower risks, but if you have to buy stuff and this service replaces a significant portion of an FTE it could definitely be a "reasonable cost of doing business".
No, it's not 100% speculation. Although that's an amusing claim, because your own parent post would fall under your same position of being 100% speculation if you were in fact right.

However, your premise requires a world in which nothing can truly be known for certain and all outcomes are equally likely. Such is not the case; not even remotely the case.

Rates cannot stay at 0% for the next 10 years, the math involved won't allow for that scenario. The Fed is already having their hand forced right now, as is easily demonstrated by the huge spike in bond yields, oil being at $100, housing and stock prices skyrocketing due to asset inflation generated intentionally by the Fed (as they openly said they wanted to have happen). It's a repeat of the last asset bubbles they brewed, and for exactly the same reasons, only this time it's 100% intentional. The clock is rapidly running out on their fraudulent game. They're already being wedged between a rock and a hard place; continue the policies of cheap money, and assets go so high they rip the economy apart upon implosion, again; stop the policies, and the economy implodes instantly. Rates skyrocket either way, as the bond buyers begin demanding higher yields to compensate for worsening inflation with continued QE; or rates skyrocket as the Fed stops QE and stops artificially holding down rates.

You might as well claim that rates can stay at 0% forever, or for 1,000 years, or for 100 years. Again, your position requires the premise that all outcomes are equally possible, and that is not true.

It's obvious the era of cheap money is ending. The era of expensive money is about to begin, as it must by the basic laws of economics (which is in fact a science, despite the many witch doctors in the field).
Well, me, I had never talked or heard anyone talk in "real"-life about nginx before up until one month ago and apparently, it's pronounced that way.

Look here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Pronunciation
It was a solution to what? You encountering people that offend you by their very existence? It's not a solution to anything, just a way of making a problem more invisible. One could argue the reverse actually, that the more visible and pervasive and nuisance-causing homeless people are, the more likely it is that actual solutions will be offered (housing first policies, wrap-around social services, etc) (Indeed, this has been explored as a hypothesis: http://www.bridgewaypartners.com/Portals/0/Documents/leverag... )
There's an ongoing issue for this [1]. The script is currently hosted on an S3 bucket which doesn't support SSL access via the CNAME. We're migrating it to a separate server.

[1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/648
And you can edit the email address without being logged in
A capitalist system is supposed to make the buyer and seller into winners, while all other potential buyers (and potential sellers) get nothing.
Filing via MechTurk would be really amusing.
do they want to go bankrupt? ;)
Hypothetically, if Kim Dotcom found the money to run those servers, would he have been allowed to pay LeaseWeb to keep them unwiped?
It's possible, but I would hate to assume that. I would guess that an article on HN wouldn't really be "overwheling user feedback" anyway, at least not for Facebook. During that event, it also came out that several other organizations did the same thing (Google and Hacker News, to name two) and that this was a known event. Surely reaching out to Facebook before setting their headquarters on fire would have been reasonable.

So no, I wouldn't say it's more likely. Possible, yes, but the question of 'more likely' depends on how quickly you think large companies like Facebook and Oracle are willing to change course based on a very minor PR event. I doubt it would affect their bottom line at all. The more likely event seems to be that it was us that got it wrong, not the other way around.
Braintree is available outside the US, and they offer the client-side JS to you can control the experience and dodge PCI requirements.
More specifically it's:

ADD <folder/on/sourcedir> </mount/point/on/image>

When <sourcedir> is the directory you're passing to 'docker build', eg. "docker build ./myapp"
After an Easy Hearing, the NSA and FBI are Ready for a Drink
the 3% and 5% fees seem like complete BS
No, if that's the cost of my 12 channels then I will continue to say no thanks. Currently I get nothing, save my $100, and I'm quite content with that.

I'm not sure I agree with your last point though. Because it seems the cable TV industry's idea is that the only thing to do is to increase costs for their customers over time regardless of the quality of the product. I stipulate that the quality of cable TV has gotten worse over the years even with the 300 channels they now offer. You're just paying more and more for low-quality noise you never watch.
Because we live int this shiny Brave New World in sea of irrelevance and nobody knows/cares about We.

And because BNW is clearly plagiarism of We, that adds another quite ironic dimension.
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I was thinking the same thing. Why isn't this a free service that collects an affiliate fee instead. Seems like it would lower the barrier for adoption.
print version
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/06/fares/print
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Why Aren't Top Journalists Rich?
DuckDuckGo Changes Homepage Logo, Links to StopWatching.Us Call Campaign
I think what your remember went something like this:

"if every particle in the universe was used to encode a digit of pi, there would be a 50% chance of finding an arbitrary 300 digit number therein"

I can infer this means you think its highly improbable that pi contains every number, let alone Hamlet.

If your convert "Hamlet" into binary we get this sequence of numbers:

01001000 01100001 01101101 01101100 01100101 01110100 00001101 00001010

You could test yourself to see if these set of numbers combined exist in pi. Although I think you will have a higher chance if you convert into the Ascii decimal values:
72 97 109 108 101 116 13 10
I'd guess it violates the affiliate program TOS.
Dell and lenovo does not manufacture anything that requires even a driver. And the stuff they do manufacture they choose providers that actually are pretty good on providing linux support.
I would be willing to believe that they are planning on this change and just happened to accidentally release the change too early (and therefore can legitimately call it a bug). I would doubt they would go through all of the legal and organizational red tape just to revert the change when a couple hundred customers complained. Oracle can't and wouldn't back down that quickly.
> 1) Are privately run prisons better for the good of society than publicly run prisons? What does the research say? How biased is the research? etc.

Prisons in general are bad for society. Prison stays are highly deleterious to people and the communities they will return to. Non-violent crimes should certainly not result in prison time, there is no productive reason for that to happen. Property crimes (e.g. theft) are come about from how society is structured and we would be better off addressing social inequality than investing in increasing incarceration. Violent crimes may be better handled with systems that are structurally different from the current prison system.

> 2) More importantly, regardless of whether they are private or public prisons, how do we get less people to be living in them? What are our other options?

War on drugs must end. Social inequality with regards to poverty and homelessness need to be seriously tackled. Racism and sexism need to be addressed from a systemic aspect. Finally for those violent crimes that do require some kind of social response alternatives to the current prison system should be explored.
I don't assume anything about your mother, but if she ran a business that (1) had some sort of computerized record-keeping and (2) used Amazon-appropriate supplies at a rate that was fairly predictable from those records (although not necessarily predictable per time period), a script targeting this service could save her a lot of time.

Now, Amazon might feel like they don't make enough money from such an unimaginative customer to justify the cost of the service. I don't see how it would steal sales from them, however, until it starts using other suppliers as well. Maybe they'll acquire before that gets turned on?
if it walks like a ... ; can be portrayed as a clever stab at the competitor.
It's a step in the right direction - integrating a variety of information sources has always been a key component of our product, Datadog. http://www.datadog.com

It's very important to bring the relevant numbers together to get a cohesive view of the current state, as well as be able to correlate between sources to paint the bigger picture.
I think they fill out the Amazon order forms manually so they're just trying to recoup costs.
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