skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem, as I see it, is that newspapers (print or online) operate very differently from other forms of media, like TV, radio and blogs, and make a very different product. Newspapers are the only media institutions that continually cover wide beats. They have a reporter in city hall whether or not something interesting is happening there, one in court, and one in Germany. This makes print reporters much more knowledgeable about their respective beats than other kinds of reporters, and that's why most breaking stories originate in newspapers.
TV, on the other hands, is usually a secondary news collection organization. It often lets the newspapers break a story before covering it themselves. This means that they can afford to send a reporter to Germany only when something interesting is going on there.

Newspapers have been able to support this model because their customers buy a package. They pay the same price every day because they have to buy the entire paper, though they are likely interested interested in a different story each time. This means that when there's news in Iraq, people buy the paper for the Iraq story, and that day the Iraq reporter subsidizes the supreme court reporter.

But this model is a problem for online journalism, because revenue is generated only from the articles that are actually read, and obviously, a single article generates less revenue than a complete package.

Unfortunately, this would make it very hard to keep reporters on the ground that slowly get to know their beats and wait for something interesting to happen. Unless media comes up with a new way to support regular beat reporters, we will lose the most essential information-gathering mechanism we have, and the news will be even more controlled by PR than it is today (and even today a large portion of the news is spoon-fed to the few reporters left by PR firms).
Sorry, I'm no expert but it seems there's a huge future and a heck of a lot of excitement around 3D printing. Supposedly they've sold 22,000 printers and a deal for $403 million is the equivalent of $18k per unit sold. Given units sell for about $2k, this seems to be a deal focusing heavily on the technology, future and potential rather than the business fundamentals (but, as always, a disclaimer.. I could be wrong ;-)).
This is a great strategy for gaming systems, a terrible strategy for accounts used as identity management and password recovery vectors.

Let's say JamesSmith@yahoo.com used this email address long ago as his ebay recovery address, but really doesn't use his @yahoo account any more. I can register JamesSmith@yahoo.com, and use ebay's account recovery option to assign the ebay account a new password for an ebay account I have now stolen.

This scenario isn't possible with an online game account name, as game accounts aren't used to recover bank passwords or other important account passwords.
TypeScript 0.9 Generics: What? And How to use them
Would YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal?

Without the option of counter-claiming, Youtube is a monarchy. I do expect a public company to have some sort of democracy, especially one who claims to follow "Do not be evil".
Maybe you missed the point entirely.

Person A installs the game. Then goes on a cruise ship, playing the installed game, giving the disc to Person B.

Person B takes the disc and can't install it because the code that came with the game has already been used. If he or she wants to play it without the disc then they need to buy a new code.

Person B plays the game as much as they want then lends the game to Person C. Person B can no longer play the game because they don't have the disc, but Person C can play the game as much as they want.

Not rocket science.
Umm just as anti-consumer as iTunes or...?
I've responded in more detail elsewhere, but this claim has no basis in reality. This is an extraordinary claim and needs a substantial amount of evidence to support it.
Sony Open SmartWatch Project: Arduino publishes tool chain (alpha)
IOS 7: Wolverine
It might have been a little dickish, but johnminton was right. People definitely have a tendency to overuse whom in a way they wouldn't with other pronouns.
I don't see the issue, for the most part PC games can be bought on disc as well as online. For the PC, the benefits of online have proven to outweigh the costs for a large amount of consumers. Requiring the Xbox One to prove that model is superior for consumers, instead of forcing it, can only help consumers. If it's no better for consumers and doesn't catch on, they have the disc based system as normal.

If Microsoft really had plans to make games cheaper online, they can still do that. In fact, they can do that, and then when people buy more games online because they're more price competitive, they look like the good guys, pushing the better model, and ultimately being right.

If. The great thing is consumers can't lose.
This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn't take care of:

- $100 more expensive than PS4.

- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.

- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.

Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it's supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn't a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it's supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.
I've owned a PS3 for while now (probably since about a year after they were released) and have always enjoyed it, despite a few issues like lagging XMB screens and random system hangs from time to time.

A few months ago, I purchased the Xbox360 after hearing nothing but great things about it. I have to say that it's been a complete disappointment for me: the lag on XBL is exactly the same as on PSN, the games are more or less the same, and the fact that I have to pay Microsoft for access to other subscription services (which makes absolutely no sense) is a complete turnoff for me. Sony got quite a bit of flack for not being as 'cool' as Xbox360, but I have to say that caring about your customers is really refreshing. Kind of sad that that's the state of gaming at this point!
Someone on HN suggested the theory that Microsoft was only announcing all of the digital restrictions because they were hoping Sony would do the same in this generation (since they aren't allowed to collude directly, and it seems a reasonable bet that Sony would up the ante on DRM, as they have historically). But, the theory was that if Sony didn't go that direction, they could always back out before the device goes on sale, since it only matters what the policy ends up being, not what it would have been.

If that was indeed Microsofts strategy, you can look at this press release as saying "OK, well Sony didn't go the way we thought, so we're backing off. No harm, no foul".

As evidence that they at least had this route as a contingency plan, you have to think this kind of massive about face in the tech would only be possible if they had built in a "TURN_OFF_CRAZY_DRM" flag or something, just in case.
I agree. I read A Brave New World as a kid, but being relatively young (22) it wasn't that long ago (maybe 7 years ago?) and it was post 9/11. It blew my mind how closely the culture of the society in the book resembled society today (at least in the USA).

Another book that I read around the same time as A Brave New World was Fahrenheit 451. Of course, people always associate that book with censorship issues, but there were also similar themes to A Brave New World, in respect to society being distracted and not caring about important stuff etc. There were a lot of interesting predictions in the book too. Whenever I see someone walking around with headphones on blocking out the world, I am always reminded of Fahrenheit 451 (especially when it's me!).

EDIT: some predictions in Fahrenheit 451:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/06/ray-bradbury-dead...
Thank you for your feedback. While we do not earn any commission on sales, we are considering moving to a fixed-fee system.

I also want to point out that Zinc is free if you are placing fewer than 10 orders/month, which is most of our users.
Sounds like an acqhire to me.
But countries can choose what they do to others, and sometimes those choices have blowback. I remain unconvinced that those who decide such things for us are acting in our interests, or that the problems they claim exist can only be solved the way they claim to solve them.
I think it would be really cool to have Dokku "add-ons" which behind the scenes map to the docker containers of your choice :)
It must be for the brand, because Stratasys already has the technology to make 3D printers. It's also defensive, because it's an all stock deal, so the acquired team has to stay at Stratasys for a while (and not be/work for the competition) to make this worth their while.

edit: actually I forgot to do the math. if they sold $44M of stuff already, 10x that for an obviously growing business is a pretty typical exit
And? Some people will take advantage of it, most won't because it's too much of a hassle.

Look at netflix back when it was just a disc-based service. Just get as many DVDs delivered as possible, rip them to your HD and then pop them back in the mail. Some people did that.

Most didn't.

Also, the Xbox One HD is only 500 GB, you can't install quite so many games (delivered on blu-ray) before it gets full.
Syntax:

The author in the article is complaining about 18 different ways to define a function. Of those 18, the ones which use postfix operators create a feature warning already and will stop being accepted without the appropriate flag in the future.

If you eliminate the ones which use additional but pointless curly braces (Really, what's the point? Why not add 5 curly braces instead of 1?), you are pretty much left with either a named variation (n =>) and an anonymous variation (_).
That seems pretty reasonable.

Features:

Compared to Java, Scala also removes a lot of stuff. Having read both language specs, I say Scala comes out as a winner, because the actual features it has are actually working and don't consist of tons of pointless cruft like in Java or C#.

Implicits:

Really, implicits seem to be a big deal for those people not using Scala. For actual users of Scala, they are not. I have never touched a codebase where implicit conversions posed such an issue as it is claimed in blogs. In practice, implicit conversions are pretty rare and mostly used for Java compatibility. The good thing is that you can get rid of the ones you don't like in Scala, which you cannot do in pretty much all other languages (where they are built into the language itself).
That's exactly what I first thought. The fact that they don't get this means that I will not be using their services at all going forward.
Obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
Microsoft was releasing a new console, with unimpressive hardware, focused on TV and family over games, at a higher price point.

Announcing a crazy DRM plan was a fantastic PR move. If people liked it, they can just go ahead with it. If they didn't, they end up burning lots of press time talking about something on their terms, instead of focusing on what Sony wants you to think about the actual hardware

No PS4 or XB1 units have been shipped. Except now, Sony has less time to make the real arguments against the XB, and already people can just accuse others of "complaining about everything on the Internet". MS wins points by "making a major change in response to consumers". More than if they had taken this position from the beginning.

A bit risky, but it'll pay off fantastically for MS.
I don’t code or design. Why am I at a tech startup?
My question would be, user or visitor? If user than I equal that to a logged in or known person and therefore I would store it in a cache of some sort that is also persisted for those times you have to reload.

If for a visitor, meaning you have no clue who they are then I'd store a cookie, and give them the option to skip out of the tour if they have already seen it.
> I was looking forward to buying a game and being able to play it completely offline without a disc.

That was never going to happen. Did you mean "online"?
AngularJS Screencasts
You might be interested to know that NginX can even embed Lua internally as a scripting language in the configuration[1].

As for your goals of connecting NginX to serve your Lua project, well that's quite simple really. Unlike Apache or Lighttpd, NginX is not an application server. NginX is only a reverse proxying HTTP server that speaks HTTP, FastCGI, and UWSGI. To connect your Lua application to NginX, your Lua application will either need to speak HTTP, FastCGI, or UWSGI. I don't know anything about Lua so I can't really help you figure out which is best, but in terms of setting up with NginX, it mostly just changes which flavor of pass you will use.

[1]- http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule
The difference between asm.js and Dart is, as I mentioned before, that it is impossible to serve a Web app with asm.js that does not work in all modern browsers, due to the fact that asm.js is just JavaScript. With Dart, however, if you serve the Dart and don't include the corresponding JS, then your app only works in browsers that implement the Dart VM.
Makes sense. More money if you propose a fix!

Money well spent by Microsoft, and something that will be of value to Microsoft's customers, who are usually treated as the least important people on the planet. Good for Microsoft.
I thought they announced the new xbox wouldn't have ads on the home screen?
Being from Atlanta, this maps is drastically incorrect as to our wealth distribution. The locations on I20 East and just above 285/75on the south side have distinctly the lowest incomes and most crime. (Though, there is an amphitheater at the south hotspot)
Men’s Wearhouse’s Ouster of Founder Seen Hurting Brand
In the past I believe I've seen search ad links on DDG that included my IP address in the URL.
You're absolutely right. Other services view email as non-transferrable (the "recover my password" feature of almost every website with a login ever is evidence of this). Think of what someone could do if they had access to your email account, even if it's one you haven't used in years.

Someone could turn my life upside down if they had access to the hotmail account that I use to sign up for services that I know will spam me.
I can't reply to you drivebyacct... no idea why.

But the games for the Xbox One MUST be serializable, how else would it know the difference between a install of a disc on one console and another?

Put in disc. Installs to hdd, checks in with MS. Take out disc.

Something stops you just putting that disc in to a mates Xbox One. So obviously they do have something similar to Sony's patent. Or every disc has a unique serial written to the small inner sector of the disc?
If you liked this, consider checking out Mastering Nginx by Dimitri Aivaliotis. I was quite surprised how helpful this book was.

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Nginx-Dimitri-Aivaliotis/dp/...
You can get snapshots in JS just by structuring the code in a certain way (ala asm.js). You can get the same performance benefits by having a more limited subset (like Dart, no eval or dynamic code loading).

The real story is that Google wanted to go it alone rather than improve JS, and that's why there's Dart.
What are you doing?! I think you just gave me cancer!
Yes. :)

That and more are some exciting things on my mind.
My desire to really learn design has been slowly growing over the past year or so. I love programming, but I feel incomplete without being able to create an product with code, design, and copy that I'm proud of.

These tips will come in handy as I start my own design journey.
Or you can tell where university students are. Checking Atlanta, GA, you can see where Spellman college and Georgia Tech are. Check Seattle, WA, and you can see very clearly where UW is.

Also, in Savannah, GA, you can look and you'll see a lot of iPhones in the "projects".

This is a neat project, but it's not as clearcut as the author is trying to make it out to be.
Spam masquerading as an article. Flagged.
It was the article's idea to compare these two groups, not mine.
Jail time? I don't think so, but I could see MS making you sign an NDA to get the money. There may be other criteria they use in order to pay out.

Nevertheless, I don't see how this is a bad thing.
> Once they figure out how lucrative their equivalent of Steam sales can be, that should start driving the cost of games down

This seems pretty unlikely. Microsoft already has a large slice of its catalogue available for download on the 360 — and it's almost always cheaper to buy the disc. To illustrate, I will look up a random game that I did not know the price of before this. Saints Row: The Third costs $49 on the Xbox Marketplace. On Amazon, a new copy costs $29.

Discounting lucrative titles just isn't how game companies work, and it especially isn't how Microsoft works.
That FAQ is from last month. The update from today specifically states:

> 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.

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update
Clickbank is a joke! I remember year ago you could put in Google product name and "thank you" and you would find thank you page with direct download link.

EDIT: Someone even made CB product to protect thank you page: Fix My Thank You Page http://fixmythankyoupage.com/ only $97 LOL!
I would like to see data on whether these private prisons are unionized. It seems like the prison unions are out to keep their services needed.

http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/the-role-of-the-p...

http://www.policymic.com/articles/41531/union-of-the-snake-h...
I am confused here.

>If he or she wants to play it without the disc then they need to buy a new code.

From who? A used game code? Or a new one? How is that any different from the rules announced at E3 with no used games?

>Person B plays the game as much as they want then lends the game to Person C. Person B can no longer play the game because they don't have the disc, but Person C can play the game as much as they want.

So the disc is required to play? Like in the new rules?
Today You Learn that is because the original package maintainer of the NginX package in Debian (and thus later, Ubuntu) simply copied the structure of the Apache package. It's most useless because there is no script to manage the sites available like with apache.

I have been complaining about this for years!

On FreeBSD and all my client's sites (whether they run Linux or what), I always set mine to include sites/*.conf and delete those apache-isms.
That is because they source results from Bing and Yandex(and also their own index).

I wish them all the best. Prosper DDG!

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399
Immoral earnings? Based on who'se morals? I hope it's not actually worded that way.
At least this served as a reminder of the possibility of such action from Oracle.
Maybe I'm just having a tough time figuring out the use case for your free tier, but if I make less than 10 orders/month, exactly why would I go to the trouble of implementing an API?
That's probably because you were trying to come up with a system this is more restrictive than the traditional physical media system (where you could share or sell a single physical item), but with concessions.

There is a very simple and obvious solution - internet connection required on activation or deactivation (for trade). I have not read a single good argument against this system anywhere.
Lessons learned from Google's hiring methods
What about non-intensive purposes? :-)
So:

1) You still have to have the Kinect, and so long as the console is on it, too, will always be on. (And apparently even when the console is off it will still be listening for the "turn on" command. This has implications I'm not comfortable with.)

2) Independent developers will still be prohibited from participating in the Marketplace.

3) It will still be $100 more than the PS4.

I've been a 360 owner for several years now. At this time it doesn't look like I'll be getting the next generation model.
Yes, Yahoo attempting to do this makes me seriously question their trustworthiness. I know they are trying hard to reinvent themselves, but this is a serious misstep unless they've got a magic trick to somehow deal with these issues that I am unaware of.

At the very least it will cause confusion. At worst, accounts will get hacked.
What sort of IP does MakerBot have? Its a reprap (fully opensource) that needs slightly-less-constant maintenance, and they've iterated on the extruder about 10 times. There's also some software.

If $400,000,000 (possibly $600,000,000) isn't a big enough budget to develop a low end 3D printer, what are the development budgets of their industrial grade printers?
Not surprising. I'm generally shocked that the people that comment on youtube videos are actually able to turn on a computer considering the quality of their writing.
They sold $22MM worth of 3D printers in the last 9 months (3 quarters) - nearly matching their revenue over the previous 3 years, are a household name in the industry, and led by a "rockstar" in the 3d printing world.

So, sounds a lot like "hockeystick" and "hot property" in the software world, no?
This is fantastic, thank you! The way it's written is great because it doesn't treat me like an idiot (I get why books do that, but it can grow tiresome). I wish more tech books were written like this.

While we're picking nits, I thought this might be worth mentioning:

> The default port for the internet is 80

I'd change that to:

> The default port for the web is 80

Again, wonderful guide!
If you can't afford an employee who can lead a decent life and take care of himself when sick, you can't afford an employee. Don't expect the public to subsidize the cost, and don't blame voters for your poor decision-making. This is how it always should have been.
Kipling put it well:

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
I instantly thought of your article when I saw this one. I also defended NginX's documentation and linked to the actual documentation, which I think most people forget exists over at http://nginx.org/en/docs/.
Makerbot jumps the chasm and then sells to Stratasys
I consider that an excellent written response to a tricky situation. Props to them.
Next all we need is for the government to do an about face for the things people are fussing over!
This is a great project. I am currently trying to help progrium to fix a bug that is keeping the Python buildpack to work. So if you want to help, here's the GH issue:

https://github.com/progrium/dokku/issues/13

Also, be welcome to drop by at #dokku @freenode.
Isn't running a database in a container sort of bad practice? Especially if it does a lot of io
Are You Okay With Comcast Sharing Your Home Wi-Fi With Everyone?
That's what they are doing. Combining New and old.
My thought was that they are doing this so that people will actually buy their console and subscribe to their services, giving them money in the process. Guess the reason Microsoft is doing this _is_ what I think it is.
San Francisco, CA offers free bus passes to the homeless population, making busses essentially free. Source: I was homeless in San Francisco for a bit.
The Truth Curve
Oddly enough, prostitution is illegal in Reno, Navada and Las Vegas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Nevada

Which probably increases the amount of illegal prostitution in those areas.