skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Everyone including big content know that streaming is the future. But the thing is, if you look at the numbers (and believe me Big Content scrutinizes these very carefully) cable cutting hasn't made a dent yet, and neither has piracy. Content owners are going to milk the cow as long as they can, they aren't going to hasten the inevitable future because it is not one of more revenue for them. Barriers to both production and distribution are falling on a yearly basis, and this can only mean less money for them in the long run. That is why they drag their feet.
Yea, providing free services to well-off people is always complicated by poor people trying to take advantage of them.
Personal anecdote: it isn't price that is the problem, it is "convenience". Growing up, the only bus I could take came once an hour, and usually only took me halfway to my destination. So I walked, and often beat the bus.
Maybe, but a common API that can order millions of different products with reliable delivery/billing/returns seems like it would be very useful. Dealing with middleman distributors (who often want you to fax orders in) is a nightmare for many businesses.
Dokku: A small PaaS implementation
Microsoft reverses controversial game licensing policies
> "It was a solution to what?"

I'm going with what @scarmig says:

"confined space with a homeless person who is likely unhygienic, drugged up, or (non-exclusive) mentally unstable." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907142

Countless times I have seen homeless people harass commuters (particularly women), straight up threaten people, "soil" the bus seats, leave unsanitary waste and debris on buses, and occupy more space than a single person requires. Resolving situations typically involves the bus driver pulling over and waiting for a police officer to arrive, though typically situations go unresolved. This is not merely a matter of aesthetics; pervasive abuse of transit systems by homeless people interferes with a transit departments ability to do their job (which is providing safe, clean, and effective transportation to people with places to go).

By all means, dedicate all the effort that you want to solving homelessness. Just don't use transit as your tool, it is preoccupied trying to be transit.
The fact that you see a cannabis leaf and think "hippy" says way more about you then NORML. They're advocating for freedom to consume the plant after all, using that highly identifiable leaf makes it very clear what they are supporting.

> reputation risk

Do you really think donating to NORML could damage your career? Buffer it with donations to EFF,ACLU,etc. and it's unimpeachable political speech.
Youtube is becoming more entertaining than my cable
So MSE is good because it doesn't block YOUR VIRUSES? Not the most solid praise I've heard.
> their ability to make unilateral decisions about the language's future

So just like every language being developed today then?

At the moment the goal of the Dart language is to provide a structured language to help create large scale web applications with much faster Starup and runtime performance that's being developed by experienced language designers with input from skilled VM engineers who were on teams that's brought the worlds fastest language VMs: i.e. StrongTalk's VM (later acquired by Sun to form Java's fast Hotspot VM), V8 and are now working on Dart's VM. Google's goal for Dart is to provide a better language to develop, faster and richer web applications - I'm not sure which of their goals are harmed from being a Google Sponsored project.

Note the Dart team frequently asks for feedback on the Dart Mailing list and invites features and language enhancements on the projects issues list: https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/list
Speaking as someone who doesn't design much anymore, I think the key here is:

There was one key difference between me and many of the
other designers that gave me an edge: I knew how to work
with developers.

Being able to work with developers and being able to understand how their end of the process works will ultimately lead to much better design and UX (assuming you're working on web/mobile). There are too many designers that keep designing for web/mobile as if it were print and it bothers the hell out of me.

EDIT: Formatting.
For whatever reason, Seattle seems to have a particularly huge homeless population. They're far more noticeable (and more aggressive) there than they are in other cities I've lived in. Or maybe they're more concentrated or something, I dunno.

Anyway, although other cities have homeless problems, in Seattle it often seemed like public places would be swamped with virtual armies of them, and dealing with that is a real issue.

[Disclaimer: I haven't actually lived in Seattle for 20 years, and have only visited since.]
Stripe is a hit with developers because of their easy API and great documentation. It's not a surprise that other "by techies for techies" API startups are taking inspiration from a leader in the industry.
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If Mechanical Turk really is behind this, I imagine it might stop being amusing if the Turkers make mistakes and send you incorrect orders...
There's already very "desirable people" working as prostitutes. Most likely, if you're meeting up in a public bathroom, and it's not part of the thrill, it's because of economic issues.
The end-user is not clicking through a referral link, going to the Amazon site and making a purchase. How would Zinc earn the affiliate fee? If you're suggesting they negotiate a custom referral arrangement with Amazon, that's probably impossible at the MVP stage.
Funny how you said "day mood stabilizers", when marijuana would fit so much better. Except the roles are reversed - people want it, and the authorities are forbidding it.
Why would you send "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" to Norman Borlaug, the inventor of Dwarf Wheat? Is this some kind of hipster pranking?
Apple is in complete control over its version of Objective-C, the runtime, and the libraries. The fact that parts of this are contributed to open source projects makes it no less proprietary.
A 45-Page Handwritten Essay From an Amish Organic Farmer
It's not just oil subsidies that encourage private vehicles - parking is also massively subsidized [1], and of course all infrastructure is payed for from everyone's taxes.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.ht...
Are you proposing that unmanned aircraft can only be used for evil purposes?

I see huge potential for use in agriculture. I talk to wine growers in California and we figure out how much money they can save using one of our products instead of using a tractor. I see that as a good thing, but perhaps I am simply living the banality of evil.
I'd definitely buy your book about compiler construction.
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They do not have to pay a programmer to put in a back door who may one day talk about it. Fewer people need to know about the program in general.

By default a naturally occurring exploit probably upon inspection looks less intentional then one put there on purpose.
I have always felt that 1) public transportation should have basic hygiene requirements for all users. 2) one of the most important things that municipalities should provide are hygienic services; showers and scrubs / scrub-like free clothing to homeless.

Providing basic hygiene would go a long way to helping homeless and poor.

Finally, if you're going to provide these amenities, you need to staff for them appropriately - and have them maintained and supported with rules of use enforced.

Given the massive amount of financial waste we have, I don't accept "that's too expensive to do something like this". If it costs money, for things we need, take the money from the damn defense budget.
Do you have any source for this trial? I can't seem to find any trace of it when googling. Also Henry Ford died in 1947 and had cerebral issues before that, so if the trial did happen in the 50s it was either brought by his successors or Ford Motor Company.
Amazon Associate's TOS. You can't get affiliate fees for products you purchase (technically they are still the purchasing agent--you even contact Zinc for a return label).
>On NPR the other day they mentioned the drones used for border security are 18 million each.

The thing is, drone doesn't necessarily mean a full size unmanned aircraft with extended loiter times. A surveilance drone could be something massively cheaper and more targeted.

The RQ-11B Raven has a unit cost of around $35k, and honestly, even it's over-specced for a lot of what LEAs would want drones for.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/rq11-raven/

You can build something fairly similar with obviously reduced capability for under $1K. The most expensive component that law enforcement would be after would be thermal imaging, even adding that capability would be far cheaper than running a helicopter.
I think that image really says it all. Every aspect of city planning that caters to car culture is a detriment to nearly every other aspect of city life. Less space, more noise, more danger, more pollution, greater travel distances, etc.
No, that's 100% equivalent to tic tac toe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe#Variations)

(To see why no torus version exists: on a '3x3' torus, all squares are identical, so you have must four ways to get three in a row from each starting number. Also, the row/column/diagonal sum must be 15. However, starting with 9, there are only two ways to get 15 with: 1 and 5 and 2 and 4)

The variant with nine words, where selecting three words that share a letter wins the game, IMO is even better.
Interesting point on the risk compensation. I can see that causing more recklessness.

The first study you mention is also pretty interesting, however it only is measuring the efficacy of legislation on safety and is not measuring the efficacy of helmet wearing itself. Im not sure if legislation on its own is a good proxy for helmet wearing and the authors do state: "While helmets reduce the risk of head injuries and we encourage their use..."
Fewer people need to know about the program in general

. . . except for the outsider who mailed them about it and got paid a chunk of money as a result.
I hope this doesn't sound "unnecessarily rude" as an earlier poster characterized negative feedback, but I also found the design for Exec to be incredibly pedestrian. To be honest about my position, I do have a degree in design so I perhaps am biased.

That said though, I think the analysis is a bit glib. "Learn to draw"; "learn graphic design theory"; "learn how to write" - not really sure how this advice possibly can compare with the huge amount of lessons you accumulate from practicing design in college. The suggestion that reading "The Design of Everyday Things" is a significant step to becoming a practicing designer is overly simplistic. I would never presume that, for example, "Gardner's Art Through the Ages" makes you into a museum curator.

The idea that someone could become a designer in 6 months reminds me of things like get rich quick schemes, get ripped in 10 minutes a week videos, or as was cited in the article, "You Can Draw in 30 Days". It reminds me of this comic:

http://mccreavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/owl.jpg

You can't draw in 30 days. It is said that professional cyclists don't reach their peak for 10 years. This is also the nature of design.

EDIT: Found a better link for the image I was referring to.
And get the Flashback trojan -- no user interaction required!
Petition to stop Kickstarter from funding sexual assault guide
It's a popular quote, but not one I find very accurate according to my interpretations of the two books. For example, in 1984 the government did a lot of censorship, but it's also true that there were very few people who would want to know the truth. This is why Winston is so alone. Presumably the censorship efforts would no longer be necessary if the government's goals of spreading Newspeak and eliminating the few remaining Winstons were accomplished. 1984 also featured a population "reduced to passivity and egotism" and truth was also drowned in a sea of irrelevance (namely, the persistant and perhaps partially fictional global war). A few of the differences are real, but most of the main points are false dichotomies.
No - not like JavaScript.

None of Google's goals are harmed by Dart. That's the point - it's there to serve their goals by diverting effort away from improving JavaScript - a project that benefits everyone towards supporting Dart - a project that benefits Google.
You can sell stuff on Amazon. You can have your orders be filled by Amazon. You can display your products for sale on Amazon on your web page. You can use Amazon to charge people money. The only thing preventing Amazon from being a complete white label web store is the fact that you can't hook it all together and run your own store front where people come to your site, and buy something without going through Amazon's site.
I had a feeling this would happen. It was either that or just let the competition walk away with a huge percentage of their customers without a fight. Seems like the obvious decision.
It's hard to concentrate, really concentrate on the bus.
This is terrible idea. People will be able to claim Yahoo IDs and use them to take over other people’s identities with a few password resets. I have a Yahoo email address simply as a backup for GMail. Just because I don't sign in very often doesn't mean that it is safe to hand over to someone else!
I secretly wish I had the background law knowledge to screw with people who attempt to send these letters. I get C&D letters from youtube because my videos allegedly contain copyright music. The funny part is that my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted.
You know, people did manage to navigate before the advent of GPS based navigation systems. They looked at a map, planned out their route, watched for the appropriate streets, and if they got lost, stopped and looked at the map again.

If you have the offline map, you can still do this even if you can't use the GPS navigation feature.
A bit-rot scrubber for non-ZFS file systems
Sadly, the letter is unreadable on Firefox Android. It's like everything is a widget these days, web pages are no longer self-contained, and usability, among other things, suffers.
Walmart Creating Massive Logistics to Catch Up With Amazon
But a year? Come on.
That doesn't make it not "tampering with evidence" it just makes it unlikely to be legally actionable.
Nice to see a shout out to the great man that was Norman Borlaug in their order.

And the book they chose looks like a fascinating read.
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They might be filling orders manually as some suggested. A Turker working for Zinc.io and placing the orders via their affiliate links would do the trick. No need for negotiations etc.
Also...

I used to ride around for years without a helmet despite laws that mandate that I wear one. Interestingly, even after two tickets I still rode around without a helmet because I perceived that I was an awesome cyclist with perfect judgement and not prone to human error at all, a typical attitude for my age at the time.

A few months after starting to wear a helmet because people were being judgmental, not because I thought I would ever need it, I got into an accident where I went flying off my bike. Short story, it saved my brain.

Ya ya, this is anecdotal, but what was important about that experience for me, is it made me realize that my perceptions of safety were totally off. Our own control over the world is actually minimal, and even we fail despite how perfect we think we are at assessing the situation.

I was stupid. Being a cyclist wasnt experience enough for me to assess my safety, I needed a couple of near misses to realize how wrong I was. I needed to physically experience how my head deals with its momentum and pavement. I needed to experience how flying through the air face first with my arms extended to cushion the blow results in my back hitting the pavement followed next by the back of my head. Some people need to learn these things through experience.

If I were to assume everyone was as dense as I was at the time, I would counter with something like "until you've had enough experience being in accidents and thrown into objects, your intuition regarding the safety of that activity is suspect"

I didnt used to listen to people like me either!
Homelessness is a problem for the homeless.

That is a matter of opinion. Other people think it is a problem of society.
my videos only contain my voice, which I'm pretty sure is not copyrighted

Your voice isn't copyrighted, but you might infringe if you were singing a copyrighted song.
Thanks to everyone for your comments and feedback. As we shared on our site, we've been automating ecommerce tasks for a while, but this is our first attempt to open our tools up to the public--and we're learning.

We recognize that our current pricing might not make us suitable for all uses, but we think it will work for enough applications to support us as we build out a killer product.

We really appreciate your feedback as we work to improve what we view as a very flawed ecommerce environment.
I was actually not expecting a complete reversal, just a loosening of restrictions (something like 2 week check-ins, like Steam does).

Both of the new machines (Xbox One, PS4) still allow third party publisher DRM (such as EA's 'Project Five Dollar') though, and if the console market moves towards digital distribution the way the PC market has, the used games point might be moot.
Needs a discussion on "efficiency." Transit can be profitable without being socially beneficial - simply cut out everything but the sure wins from your routes. The population of low-volume regions will be under-served, but your company will have a good balance sheet.
It is still 1.70 pesos. Just getting on a cab is 10 pesos, parking is between 15-20 pesos the hour.

Buses have their ups and downs here. They are too irregular and unpredictable (you can wait up to 1h for a bus that exists its station every 15 mins). There are many ill maintained ones.

1.70 is ridicolously low in relative terms to other expenditures. A liter of gas is almost 10 pesos. Compared to the base salary with is around 2k, is still a very low part of the wage.

Long time ago, differential buses were common. They cost 3x, but you would always travel seated, with AC and mostly on time.

Bottom line is that for mobility, people LOVE the subway, although it has its issues as well.
So your plan is to give someone a PSD and then ask them how it went after 10 days? Good luck.
I have literally never heard it called anything else, even before it started getting traction. I'm curious how you've heard it said before?
Stratasys to Acquire MakerBot
We need only consider the difference in freedom between now and before 9/11. How many more attacks or Bushes before 1984? It's a finite Number, and on my opinion low.
https://iamexec.com/mobile the icon is low res on high dpi mobile. But seriously, the post is super encouraging and helpful, however many mistakes there are on their website.
The first time the page displayed for me, the response was shown as a 400 Bad Request Nginx error, which would have been a great response to this kind of C&D letter.
What if the person doesn't have access to the internet for a year?
The problem was that some average developer was lazy and do whatever that worked, with no concern about potential security implications.
If Google charged money to the users instead of the advertisers, their only incentive would be to collect data to make their services better.

As it is, they also have a very strong incentive to collect data to make their advertising better, and to analyze the data they collect for this end.
That was the first thing I tried too. I expected the window to popup and say something along the lines of "You need to be logged in...". Nope. Insta-update.
Grandfather Paradox
Dimple - visualization API based on d3
Also unreadable where i work where scribd is basically useless. Would be nice if people linked to pdfs instead of scribd.
Bellgrau deserves the right to know that there was a challenge to his paper, even to answer questions raised in the refutation, but it should all be done in the open after some point.
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”

― Bill Hicks

God I love Bill Hicks.
They already offer a white-label web store service: http://webstore.amazon.com/
I am not going to go digging for this information for you but essentially the way bike helmets are tested is a weight is dropped onto the helmet traveling at a certain velocity and the result is recorded. It is not representative of the real world and it is only valid for speeds between 11 and 14 mph.

There are no well-supported "facts" that helmets reduce serious head injury. In fact, among the cycling community, it is a very hot point of contention.
One thing I would recommend is searching for deals on LowEndBox[1] blog. Most of the popular VPS's are ridiculously overpriced compared to what you can find on LowEndBox. It's a good site to get advice and reviews of various VPS providers, too.

[1] - http://www.lowendbox.com/
Sounds like a reason to improve the homeless shelters.
It's not clear to me what the change will be, or how it will be an actual win for consumers. The region locking being dropped would definitely be a win for the minority of potential customers outside of the privileged regions, but the fact is that the DRM scheme that they proposed, while never explained very well, was probably better than leaving how one-time-use-codes should work to manufacturers (EA Online Passes spring to mind)
This indeed is a great response. The domain owner is pissed an understandably so.
I hate LMGTFY. It's slow and condescending, especially for something like this where slow and condescending don't add anything. Is it not possible to just submit a Google search link? Or use a text-only post?
It was a joke but I didn't know that (hence my secret desire to learn more about law). They are simple computer tutorials.
Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot
I have played around with Dart - very nice to use the same language on client and server. I have a small client server example: http://blog.markwatson.com/2013/05/complete-but-small-dart-c...

I stopped playing with Dart when I "discovered" Meteor recently. That said, the Dart language is very nice and I might still use it on a real project.
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No free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box
That's not irrational at all - Google tracks almost everything you do on the web via the Google analytics code and Adsense code that are on the web pages you visit, not just via your searches.
It is legal here in the UK. I have heard that it is common for women working as prostitutes to declare themselves unemployed in order to get free housing.

They use this free housing as their "business premesis".
Your voice may not be subject to performance copyright violations, but it can assuredly invoke lyrical copyright violations. edit, cached, i lost the race.
Looks like a fascinating product. What do you envisage a typical use case to be?
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