skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like their PR campaigns went well in both cases, did they? Windows 8 still fails to impress, and Mattrick was one of the backers of the "repeated online checks" that was cancelled by Microsoft recently following Internet/gamers pressure.

I am far from impressed by Mattrick's legacy within Microsoft. He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony.
Microsoft Also Challenges Government Surveillance Gag Order
With chalk. He "wrote" on public property with chalk. Are you in favor of prosecuting people for "Lost Dog" signs stapled to telephone poles too?

Good grief. Thankfully our courts have historically taken a rather broader view of the limits of political speech than you have. "Too stupid to deserve rights" indeed. That was just disgraceful, stop it.
I'll be the first to say it: what the fuck?

I've actually listened to this album and, uhh, yeah. This took some chutzpah. I'll give him that.
> even bury the whole issue from getting any traction.

Wasn't your site explicitly whitelisted?
Just yesterday this blog post was on r-bloggers that shows how to use it with R: http://things-about-r.tumblr.com/post/53690776834/time-is-on...
How Sony applied the lessons of the past in designing the PlayStation 4
Is PBR still cool? I'd think most of everyone has moved on to craft beer.
Hahaha, your username is entertaining and apropos.
Dethroning The Dollar: The Yuan, The Bitcoin, And Other 'Usurpers'
Oh, okay. Um. Yeah.
Source SDK 2013 brings Mac and Linux support
Perhaps more importantly, none of the many media there have been able to find him so exactly where he is is an open question. Not too many places to hide in an airport.
Hmm. The article is a bit ambiguous. Does he mean he started out with only 1,000 in capital? Or did he only have 1,000 dollars in sales.
> one-time chalk-on-sidewalk "incident"

It was 13 separate incidents over the course of 6 months. This is how the ridiculous 13 year sentence was derived, as the maximum penalty for each count of vandalism is 1 year.
My daughter's journey in the Australian Performing Arts.
Ideas are cheap. And so is making them happen.
The former is the defendant. The latter is the mayor, who commented on the case.
Don't forget to add a license file if you mean it to be open source (e.g. MIT/BSD, GPL).
You might have read this already. mebbe not.

"wall Street and the Rise of Hitler"

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0945001533

You can probably find it as a pdf someplace too, as it is a pretty old book. Read it and try to see the difference between the US industrialists and German industrialists in the dock at Nueremburg. Same sh*t, different piles imho.
Reading this stuff now, thanks for the links!
" I've probably listened to the album over a dozen times now, and with each spin I feel like I learn something."

That's sort of an awkward statement to make as the creator.
And Google doesn't delete your emails, either. Even if you click delete.

They own you.
"...I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce"

So this is what happens when you are "unemployed" with $200 million in the bank.
So, where does Linux fit into the post-PC world?
you guys really don't know?
New children’s privacy rules; lawmaker ‘disappointed’ in Google’s answers
I have never been a coffee drinker, nor a tobacco smoker.
I do, however, drink caffeine laden soft drinks, but I tend to not drink caffeinated beverages after sundown.

I often work on projects for 36, or more, hours at a time, but I do see a reduction in productivity when pushing myself to the limits, and often wonder at the things I've done while sleep deprived, in pride as well as shame.

There's a saying about habits which goes something like the following:

If you want to make something a habit make sure to repeat that act every day for two weeks, after which the act will become habitual.
Hardly convincing. I am American, and frequently edit my writing to remove extraneous "from"s and "that"s which make it into my sentences as a product of spoken habit. I usually try to make my writing habits a bit tighter than my speaking habits.
That aggregator uses OAuth everywhere.
Review: Learning Python on CodeAcademy
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Did he write on the sidewalk, or on the wall or entryway of the bank?
Nvidia delays Android-based Shield gaming handheld
He's channeling David Brent.
This is awesome. I don't care if the actual music sounds terrible, but the fact that there's a dude out there with millions of dollars and what he wants to do is record a educational business CD makes me happy.

This is the kind of eccentricity I think we should be lauding.
NSA whistleblower Snowden seeks asylum in India
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How They Sent Photos Across the Ocean Back in 1926
The first amendment was created to protect the rights of, among others, pamphleteers. This was a genuinely destructive activity at times.

This dude was using nondestructive chalk. No big deal, and certainly constitutionally protected.
I would say no in the case of geography. Qgis is a UI disaster as much as Arcgis. Where you are right, is that they sell people to install it for you, teach you, and very often, actually use the software for you (I have seen more than once).
Decentralized comments and the IndieWeb
Nice article. I've been following golang-dev on and off over the last couple of years, this helps many of the concepts that have went over my head previously click together.
Whatever site you are using to see the order book does not show it in its entirety. It really is a lot deeper than $2.2M. I know for a fact because there has always been sell orders at ridiculous amounts such as 1 BTC at 1 trillion dollar.

For example bitcoincharts.com now truncates the order book (2 or 3 months ago it was showing everything, on the sell side at least).
No features come to mind, but I'd really like to see the UI improved. For instance, cramping all those rows of subject lines so close without any line spacing sucks.

I tried figuring out the CSS needed to fix it, but was unable to locate any real documentation on it.
I thought it said proprietary system with the key stored in a US bank? :(
> He started with $1000 and grew to $912 Million over 43 years

try measuring the cumulative revenue over those 43 years, i.e. the integral instead of the first derivative.
Where can I get a discount coupon for the purchase of this?
DIY Matrix bullet time slice rig with fan and GoPro
> There's no telling what would have happened without Pearl Harbor; the U.S. may never have joined the war against Germany at all, in fact.

The US would have joined the war. By 1940, the US was practically involved in the war, just without men. German U-Boats were sinking American convoys, and American ships were destroying German U-Boats.

It was only a matter of time before the US would have joined the war, Pearl Harbor or not. FDR was prepared to fight it without the approval of Congress.

The US entry into the First World War was primarily to be a participant in the peace negotiations, so Wilson could present his 14 points, create the League of Nations and ensure American dominance in world politics (something the USA has refrained from participating in prior to the First World War, despite its economical power).

The Second World War pretty much started with American involvement, but it was not until Pearl Harbor that the USA could finally - publicly - commit its entire arsenal. But regardless, you would have found a way to join the war. Japan just did you a favour.
What would have happened if that dog owner had rolled up the windows enough to allow air flow and still kept the dog confined within the car, and then exited the car to speak with the police?

You don't have to fully engage the ignition in order to roll up the windows to the point where a large dog cannot exit through said windows.

I have visions of the dog not being shot by police.

Don't act like an ass. The police were far enough away that the dog owner could have exited his vehicle without triggering the response which you infer.
Jan Goldsmith needs a new job.
One would think that but...
This seems very, very strange but seems to be at least tolerated in the Physics world. It was published in a serious journal and has been presented at seminars and meetings. I could not find any discussion - everyone may think it is crazy or wrong or untestable but I just couldn't find anything in writing.
But it will be banned eventually. There is a reason why car entertainment systems arent allowed to playback visual media while driving, mobile phone use is banned etc. Its about distracting the driver and as soon as these devices get more popular they will be included in these laws, thats certain.
The display is only on when you activate it. The alternative isn't glass or nothing, it's glass or what people currently do which is often looking down at their phone for directions. Directions on glass are far less distracting than any other navigation setup I've seen.
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Ive met Jack and had conversations with him a few times. He is in the DC area often since an office is out there as well as the government.

He is a humble go getter just like you would imagine Steve Wozniak. He doesn't seem to talk about his money nor does he really care. What I have taken away from our few talks is that he actually does care about the customer and thats why I believe he keeps winning.

The software at version 1 was poorly written and sadly still poorly maintained. But since 2005 or so, its been improving ever since.

Ps. They are hiring folks of all types in the DC area.
Bolivia. Move to Bulo Bulo o Guayaramerin, you will _never_ be found. Buy some land, some cattle, stay low and live a peaceful life in a quite town in the jungle.
This reminds me of the strategy for getting Linux help. Just wander around near the cubicles with penguins on them and say, "It's too bad Linux doesn't support foo." You'll have energetic Linux hackers proving you wrong instantly.
And weird territory is what humanity is all about :)

Do you have a link to the larynx transplant paper? That sounds fascinating. I was actually more thinking about very understood practical lines like I know my personality is drastically different (according to friends) on certain medications. With the role even common hormones like testosterone have and the various feedback loops that could come down to the genetics of body cell lines, I can't imagine a person's personality not changing, at least in a time/environment dependent way. Seasonal depressive disorders come to mind, as those seem to have partially somatic causes.

Another interesting question is to what degree does the body (i.e. muscle memory) assist or modify how memories are "pulled up" and processed? Perhaps there will be random unavoidable "corruptions" in the fusing process that result in the signals for stimuli changing (i.e. sensitivity to heat and cold is probably somatic) and the brain pulling up inappropriate emotions or responses?

Is it still your identity if chemical mismatches change your interpretation of your memories over the long term or are you now a hybrid that, due to the transplant, has the extreme fortune of experiencing life and even epistemology in an entirely different way?
I've done a lot with both ESRI and the open source alternatives. I created zigGIS. With that said, the side you dont read about is that Mr. Dangermond - outside the ESRI compound - is generally considered a very cutthroat personality. Often his success is more attributed to this than most anything else.
> Yes, and? Did Europe intervene in the American Civil War, or in any of the multitude of conflicts in the Americas, East Asia, or Africa over the past 200 years? Even the rest of Europe abandoned Austria and Czechoslovakia to the Germans before Poland fell.

The 19th century's balance of power was essentially established by intervening in other countries so as to not plunge the entire continent into war. During the Spring of Nations in 1848, Austria, Prussia and France intervened in several smaller European countries (as well as internally) to crush uprisings.

During the American Civil War, there were a couple of wars in Europe, which were much more interesting to Europeans, as these were part of the German and Italian unification wars. Besides, the USA was nowhere as powerful during the 1860s as Europe was in the 1910s, so the comparison is not really useful.

Remember, states don't have friends, they have interests. Why would the Europeans intervene in a civil war of yours? But besides that, the Europeans did intervene in several conflicts around the world, particularly in places where they had interests. Such as the Latin American independence wars (as well as other wars in Latin America), African revolts (remember the 19th century was the scramble for Africa) and East Asia wars that threatened their trading ports (such as the Boer War).
I don't know about the laws in your jurisdiction, but in my state, we have a law regarding dogs known as, "Liability, dog owner."

This law deals with irresponsible dog ownership.

Who here will attest to the fact that this dog owner maintained complete control of his dog?

Don't mistake my position for being pro-police, look at the facts of the matter.

That dog would never have been shot by the police if the dog had been properly constrained within the vehicle.
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So spin off the profitable parts and restructure the non-profitable ones. Or, I don't know, keep riding the failure train right off the side of the cliff. Whichever is easier.
I can be anywhere in the world I want whenever I want
Edward Snowden's letter to the president of Ecuador – full text
I find it most interesting, and perhaps frightening, that Snowden's passport was revoked. I've been thinking quite a bit about it since that bit of news broke, and since it's referenced in this statement, it's back in my head.

I winced a bit at the claim of being a stateless person, as I'd previously understood that to mean lacking citizenship anywhere, not being without a passport for travel. Perhaps I've been wrong about that all these years.

I'm still researching, but so far, I've found the following passport-revocation authorities:

1. Obtained illegally or through fraud

2. Altered or misused (no definition yet on 'misused')

3. Issued to persons whose citizenship is cancelled

4. Non-payment of child support

5. Non-repayment of repatriation loan

6. Persons convicted of sex tourism

7. Persons convicted of drug trafficking

8. [based on comment below] Standing warrants for arrest (and other standing legal/court orders against the bearer)

Interestingly enough, 22 USC § 2721 states that:

> A passport may not be denied issuance, revoked, restricted, or otherwise limited because of any speech, activity, belief, affiliation, or membership, within or outside the United States, which, if held or conducted within the United States, would be protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

I've yet to find an authority to revoke a passport from a citizen who is openly seeking political asylum.

However, there is 22 USC § 217a:

>A passport shall be valid for a period of ten years from the date of issue, except that the Secretary of State may limit the validity of a passport to a period of less than ten years in an individual case or on a general basis pursuant to regulation.

So, there's that. Perhaps this is one such individual case.

Additionally, the law requires the DOS to send the passport owner written notification of revocation. I wonder if the US is considering a press statement to be such written notice?

Any lawyers versed in passport issues know whether revoking a passport in a situation like this runs afoul of law or established precedent?

[edit: formatting failure on my part]
I completely agree. And to all the people making fun of him: when's the last time you've put yourself out there and sang in front of other people? There, hate the music if you like, but at least he's doing what he wants to do.
Well, truth be told. Every war can practically be explained by economics. And even if that wasn't the prevailing argument, without economics as a backup argument, the war would be hard to justify. Denmark's entry into the Thirty Years' War had little to do with protecting Protestants' freedoms, but rather to secure more money for Denmark.
Naturally a site making it's money off of ads is going to give them an above-the-fold and prominent position. Just scroll down...

Google penalizes sites with above-the-fold ads. It doesn't take much at all to earn the penalty. I think that's one reason why people are miffed with Google's excessive ATF advertising on their SERPs.
"The Miltz brothers learned the hard way that cheating Reddit doesn’t pay."

Well, actually...
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A set of use cases I put together for our company on how you can use jasmine spies while testing.
I guess Mason read "The 4-hour workweek" -- they say educational crap err CDs etc. are the highest-margin, easiest to sell product.
Or they saw a CNN special report on internet hackers and think they know what it is.
If anyone finds a Spotify link, please post it.
Given the average level of morale and motivation of Groupon's employees right now, I'm not sure why I would want to follow Mason's advice...
Hah U mad bro? :D
Not sure which, if any, were broken, but here's a quick rundown of existing rules I've found thus far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976018

I'm rather out of my depth where passport laws are concerned, though.
900+ million with 9000 employees means around 100,000 per employee. That sounds a bit low for revenue per employee.
> if the ETF can be redeemed freely

Not just freely, but without any substantive delay.

> If the ETF price is $60/BTC and the spot is $85/BTC, there's a huge incentive for investors to buy ETF and redeem and then sell in the spot market, even if it takes days.

Once you think this through, you will come to the conclusion that the mean-squared deviation of the (spot-ETF) is related to the speed at which the shares can be redeemed. Modern investors quickly lose faith in any derivative that does not track the underlying.

If you want an example: Shorting of bank stocks was banned by the SEC during the Lehman meltdown. The bank index ETFs went nuts, and the levered ones never really recovered. (See SKF. Those of us who predicted the meltdown made a lot less money because of it.)
chicken = 0 and chicken = chicken/0 are both declarative which will break your chicken loop. Also, anything divided by 0 is undefined. Try:

chicken(chicken = 0; chicken < chicken/chicken; chicken++){

chicken chicken;

}

Which in pure chicken chicken would be:

chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken

chicken chicken chicken

chicken

[Edit: Add chicken chicken interpretation]
"Google doesn't want to be a commodity. Hangouts is their secret sauce. What do they gain by being open?"

The support of many geeks worldwide (and subsequently their friends and customers), just as it happened until recently when their "do no evil" transformed in "screw you".
Google (gmail, gtalk etc) would have never risen to this level of popularity without them.
It was flagged to death by users.
>> embedding C-as-a-string in more C
>Um. OpenCL/Cuda look absolutely nothing like that.

Absolutely right. You can also include an external C file from C++ [1]; that makes it so much prettier.

[1] http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/heterogeneous-comput...
I guess his understanding is that trading algorithmically means trading a lot (it doesn't); at low volumes transaction costs dominate.
This post does not contain a single criticism that indicates a fatal flaw in the platform. Design flaws and analytics can all be improved.

What he fails to mention is how Medium is actually moving web publishing forward. It's not supposed to be like your personal blog. Instead, it's a collection of stuff from all kinds of people on the same/similar topics.

svbtle is the new 9rules. Medium is a different animal.
Okay, so what's your favorite track?

"Risin' Above the Pack" and K.I.S.S stand out for me so far.

(I love this kind of eccentricity.)
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https://play.spotify.com/album/3HXowkOX2qi5WmK1nb65A0
Wrong. I do think school is broken and needs to change, however nowhere did I say that it should be optimized for my needs at the original commenters expense.

Have you not considered the possibility that a school could be optimized for more than one set of needs at the same time?
Interestingly, there have been multiple speculations on US's involvement in WW2:

One is the good democratic fight versus the bad facists. US were hampered by the isolationist views held by quite a number of senators at the time, hence there was no direct involvement until after Pearl Harbour attack, which resulted in an almost uniform senatorial agreement on declaration of war.

Another is that US could have kept maintaining the profit stream from arms-dealing to both sides (Germany still imported American arms prior to 1941 or so, if I'm not mistaken) but got unwillingly dragged into the war.

Yet another more cynical view is that after the huge Axis loss at USSR, US just saw the opportunity to join in and mope up what's left of the Axis since winners get to dictate the terms. The Pearl Harbour event was a surprising but timely excuse.
>"merriam-webster defines..." line. God, I can't stand that!

A Kindred spirit!
This is one of the big reasons why I really want the EU to become a federation: Each country alone, even Germany, is too little on the World stage. Divide et impera.
> You don't have to fully engage the ignition

I know. That's why I didn't say that. But after being signaled by the police, getting into the driver's seat and putting the keys into the ignition more than reasonably qualifies as a furtive gesture. It could easily be misconstrued as an attempt to flee, and once cops think you're fleeing, all bets are off. Now it isn't just about your dog that might get shot, but your own well-being is at stake.

I did not intend to be an ass. It's perfectly plausible that if he did that, the cops would be at him before he could secure the car, and they'd have shot the dog anyway as it tried to escape from the driver's door or perhaps the windows if they weren't rolled up quickly enough. And you'd be on here saying that he should have just held onto the dog and carefully transferred it to an officer so that they could secure it.

None of this changes the fact that you're engaging in a classic blame-the-victim argument. The onus is not on the victim to "be smart" and get out of the aggressor's way. The onus is on the aggressor to, you know, not aggress.

If you want to thumb your nose at the stupidity of the victim in this case, then fine. But don't pretend that he was in any way responsible for another human being using lethal force on a clear power trip by the authorities. When you are given special privileges and powers by society, you ought to be held culpable for anything that happens when you unnecessarily escalate the situation.
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Any latest news on their current average morale? I mean, many people were balking at groupon as much as two years ago... How are people still wanting to work there?
For the record, as someone who has read a few articles about the guy, seen a couple pictures, and in all honesty was leaning more towards not liking him more than I do, this news has excavated a nice, temporary soft spot in my heart for the guy. Funny stuff.
I give him credit for doing awesome stuff after being ousted at Groupon. Takes strength to brush your shoulders off after a hard fall and do something like this.