skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure whether you're agreeing with me or not, and in a way that's why people shouldn't just use large numbers and then act like they've said something meaningful.

Ratios matter, large numbers without a relevant basis for comparison on the other hand are just misleading. There are roughly 116 million households in the US, saving the energy of 7,500 is not a big change.

You're solving roughly 1 - 15,466 th of the problem. And that's assuming that all the savings could even be applied to the US, which they most certainly couldn't.

That's not a big impact. Chances are no-one - even if they were looking - could notice the figurative needle move on a change that small at all the power-stations serving the aggregated demand.
My understanding is that the requirements of firing "for cause" get more stringent after 90 days. Before the 90 days they don't really have to prove that you did something wrong, they can just let you go for no-fault lack-of-fit. After 90 days they have to give a performance-related reason and have backup documentation or risk being sued for wrongful termination. Also, at a lot of places the benefits tend to kick in at 90 days.
Latitude is just being merged into G+. I can't see any features that are being killed.
haha, the carousel is moving to the next slide too fast to read fully -_-'
True, but by now the faceplate is cracked, and I need to replace the whole thing anyways.
You act like I don't use my Art degree. Not only did I program my apps, I designed them too. I think a lot of the work was useless and antiquated, and didn't prepare any of my classmates and I for a life in the age where software is everywhere. I noticed that every one of them would have the same degree as I, and with a better GPA, so I learned a new skill as well.

I use Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop just as much as I use Xcode in my professional life - and that's quite a bit.
Interesting. If whole population of HN did that, would it put a dent into NSA processing power/capabilities?
Most academics don't want to be teachers.

Many of my coworkers (in higher ed) would rather be teaching. But it just doesn't pay.

YMMV
Transcribing subtitles and diffusing is exactly like transcribing lyrics and diffusing them: making a derivative work and spreading it without permission infringes on the copyright of the song/movie the transcription was based on.

If it’s considered a crime or an offence depends on the scale and context of the infringement and probably on the country that you’re in.
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The law says very clearly that people who have their copyright violated are harmed, so that won't get your anywhere. You're right, the problem in the law. Trying to fix the law by making the police not enforce the bits we don't like is a recipe for an even more complex legal system.
... until China needs a favour from the WTO.

15 years ago I thought we'd fix this crap with technology. It didn't happen, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. Unfortunately, it's a political problem that we'll have to solve with good laws.
I've always been curious about these "less reputable" dedicated/colo providers. SoftLayer seems to have a great reputation, but it's also twice as expensive as, say, Incero or SecuredServers that you just mentioned. Are they reliable business partners?
That they went out of their way to make it a bad experience?

I'm not going to disagree with their assessment, but I'm more annoyed by them.
OVH are great as long as you don't need to get in touch with them - If one of their servers break, you're better migrating to a new box than trying to fix it.
How is that NOT screwed up?

I'm amazed at the ways the U.S. healthcare system is so much worse than most of the rest of the world's.

I guess there are humungous lobbying efforts and entrenched interests to make it stay the way it is.

The caveat being, it also has some of the most advanced medical technology and procedures too, but the day-to-day healthcare is surely the worst.

How it works here in Uruguay:

There are three levels of care

1) Universal (public) healthcare, you just show at the door and you're admitted. The quality is poor (although doctors are mostly good), and some hospital conditions are close to appalling, but it's 100% free (paid by taxpayers blablah), even up to cancer or AIDS treatment (yes, thousands of dollars). Time to treatment is also very bad for surgeries and other conditions.

2) Almost-universal healthcare in a co-op mode (Mutualism, "Mutualistas" and FONASA). Anybody who works or draws a pension has the right to one of those for himself and his children. Quality is decent, and there are some small costs associated (U$ 5 per doctor visit, and a few hundred dollars for major events). Medicine is provided by the hospital at an extreme discount (usually U$ 5 for any medicine, including the ones costing hundreds of dollars. Generics are mandatory whenever possible). The thing is, it's becoming a bit overcrowded and quality is going down, government is over-regulating IMO.

3) Private insurance, US-style. This one can replace 2) although 1) is still free to everybody (double coverage). That one gives access to the very best hospitals, doctors, etc... but it's the most expensive by far, and usually doesn't cover medicines outside of hospital stay.
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I like von Mises (to pieces) as much, if not more so than the next guy; but the rest of the world is well past the societal tipping point of a low-population growth inaccessible insular community.

Everybody kept the social peace, because the cost of breaking it was too high: nowhere to go to escape societal retribution, everyone "knew" everyone else or could pick you out as a stranger in the local community if you moved around the island and would get your back-story eventually.
Are we already throwing U.S. citizens into secret trials now?

If so that would be a far graver threat to liberty than mere surveillance. Where's the outrage over that then?
Thanks. There are a manual ways to do it (through booting off a live-cd) and there are some companies selling it as a service, but we are aiming for quick, painless but useful..

Would love to hear your thoughts (humans@phish5.com)
Everyone's Kepner-Tregoe Decision Analysis weights requirements differently, and convenience is a powerful requirement for many people. Performance is for others.

Say what you will about how awful shared hosting is, but the one-click installer of Wordpress et al has proven that a market exists where people are happy to pay to host things in the most convenient manner possible. Of course, in a more technical community, performance is part of a factor.
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This is pretty much how Google+ is going to work. They're merging Latitude with it at the moment so you can share your location to the 'family' circle and see where people are. They've got google docs which has identity integration already etc.

They're not too far away really. G+ is their plan to do this.
This is pretty much the exact path I took. It becomes really interesting when it finally dawns on you that there's very little difference between building and selling a 3 to 4 figure / mo SaaS and offering a value-oriented consulting retainer to a few clients. (See http://draft.nu/revise/)

While retainers aren't exactly turnkey (they'll generally require human effort per account per month), the same positioning, marketing, and pricing rules you'll encounter selling software apply.
Author here. Nope :) and I admit he looks similar to me. I had alternatives, but this one was the best.
When you are developing the project further how would you like to value adding new functionalities to the project using the value based pricing model?
Thanks for the link, we have gone through iorad before. "RUN" is the key in whatfix.com. It is not only the builder for snapshots. By RUN, help is shown inside actual webpage & drives you through to complete the action/guide.
This is incorrect. Procedure codes are standardized across the industry (CPT codes, HCFA codes, etc.). Don't confuse figuring out the correct code to bill for a procedure with determining some proprietary code for each insurance company; that is simply false.
... which is exactly the problem some / many ? people have with Google these days. You are forced to use + for features that had been stand-alone.
Who loses out when fans provide subtitles for films? My partner's native tongue is Spanish and so we often want to watch films with Spanish subtitles. Unfortunately it seems incredibly rare that subtitles are provided through legal channels. I can't tell you the number of times I've paid for a film in iTunes only to discover that there are no subtitles available in _any_ language. There's subler but the timing usually doesn't match which means I'm forced to go to the pirate bay to download a film that we can watch that I've already paid for. The fans are filling a gap here which, speaking personally, I'm extremely grateful for and incredulous that film companies don't provide themselves. To shut people down when they're effectively doing your job for you (and the fans aren't taking any money) is infuriating to say the least. /rant
Another item to add to the list is: you can never make the thing slow enough for your average visitor to actually read the thing. Maybe this was in there, I'm not sure because each slide whizzed by too fast.
> Subtitles are a derivative work of that which they are created from and should be covered by that copyright.

Even if the subtitles are a translation?

There are usually many possible translations, and the words in translated subtitles were most likely never written anywhere by the dialog copyright holders. [and based on what I've seen, subtitles are often a rather .... loose ... translation to boot...]
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Yeah, I also kind of find it funny when companies charge for very simple invoice tools, when they could opensource it, and focus on their next mini-project instead. They could built a suite of tools that way, but hey "instant profit" is seductive.
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> Google+ is first and foremost meant to be a serious competitor to Facebook

Complete nonsense. Google aren't competing with Facebook directly at all! What they are doing is making Google+ the backend for any person to person interaction across their services. Instead of caring about massive amounts of features, they're just enabling all of their existing products, slimming and integrating them where possible.

If people can't be bothered to open an app and tap on the screen a few times then really nobody should be aiming at that market. Wanting a system where you just mash a button on your phone and it magically works is detrimental to actual useful features.
I'm pretty sure it's intentional. Even most native speakers would have trouble with some of those last few slides: the ones with lots of text.
Years ago, in days of old, when magic filled the air, I wrote a Slashdot troll post generator. It eventually produced some pretty hilarious posts, but I never closed the loop by allowing it to post. It would make a fun project for learning a new language; perhaps I'll install Dart and give it a shot.
Actually, that's explicitly allowed by copyright law (EDIT: so long as you're in the accessibility business): http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#121

(Granted, that the "phonorecord" must be in a "specialized format exclusively for use by blind" is fuzzy.)
No. Google has enough money for lengthy court cases and lobbyism.
There are commandline tools for this :). Should be available on nearly every UNIX OS.

script and scriptreplay.

"The script command appeared in 3.0BSD"

http://linux.die.net/man/1/script
http://linux.die.net/man/1/scriptreplay
> "It frustrated me that it didn't paused when my mouse was over the slide"

Even if you did this, your mobile users will still be mad, because they cannot hover.

The question isn't if you or your clients are happy with them. The question is if your users are happy with them, and if they generate better business results (conversion, clickthrough, whatever is relevant to you) than the simpler, less Javascripty, less timing-based, less gotcha-with-the-mouse-hover implementation.

I sincerely hope you A/B tested this.
With the exception of image gallery carousels for mobile devices. Those can work great.
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CSS Noise: a thing I want
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Hi, author here. I've been carefully considering flooding and hijacking of democratic forums since the idea popped into my mind in April 2012. We have solutions for it.
Cool concept. Given the quantity of programming/tech tutorials out there I can definitely see a tool like this being useful. Kind of a midway point between text and a screencast. Good luck.
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I would also add the inconsistency in how they are coded. Some allow pausing on the slide, others do not. Sometimes you can click the pagination buttons to get to the next slide, sometimes you can't. Some have arrows for moving to the next slide, some won't have pagination, and others are just a timed slide show - which is by far the worst.

It's a user's nightmare anytime you're presented with a carousels since you never know what functionality, if any you're going to get. I'm thinking this is why so many people simply discard them entirely now.

They've become the most useless web dressing ever.
Which is a different sort of thing, asks you to hand out a lot more data about yourself, is of questionable use and - cannot be used for quite a number of people I know, me included (I'm one of the 'Hey, don't use anything but your full name or we'll ban you' victims, with no way to use that product ever again without begging, neeling, bending over and first finding someone that resembles support anyway - if I would like to in the first place).

So, the feature's gone.
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Exactly. I was just going to raise the same issue as #1.

From freelancer/agency point of view: why are we supposed to charge less only because we have skills to do things faster?

From client point of view: what's their motivation to do things as fast as they can? I'm paying them for each and every hour anyway so why would they rush?
Yeah, poorly implemented UI elements generally are. So, at best it's a joke, but doesn't really try to solve anything.

It's ego stroking.
I highly doubt Heroku pays list price for their servers. Any public EC2 price change is probably mostly irrelevant to them, other than as a baseline for their negotiations.
We have a large media industry focused on indoctrinating people to be entertained by drama, yet fooled for profit thus critical thinking is looked down upon. Any surprise it turns out that way?
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Exactly. From the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/usere...)

"Avoid using your launch image as an opportunity to provide:

- An “app entry experience,” such as a splash screen
- An About window
- Branding elements, unless they are a static part of your app’s first screen

Because users are likely to switch among apps frequently, you should make every effort to cut launch time to a minimum, and you should design a launch image that downplays the experience rather than drawing attention to it.

Generally, design a launch image that is identical to the first screen of the app."
A calm, thorough, carefully-proofread writeup free of legal threats and temper-tantrums sent to Secunia, and posted to FD, the VideoLAN development list, and the VideoLAN website, explaining VideoLAN's position. Direct future inquiries on the subject that don't proffer new information to that response.

Anything else is a gross overreaction to a garden-variety disagreement or misunderstanding.
Amazon 1 : Consumers 0

and another great ruling. let's wait for that monopoly around ebooks to fully develop until it's too late.
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Thanks, that was useful. I'm very surprised by the "it leaves when you arrive" bit in the second quote in that article. Is it something like an evacuated moving walkway, then?
Essentially, they are running a coal mine by instructing miners to only use their drills on coal layers.
Don't teach your kids to write code
I didn't realize this, no. And it wasn't meant like that.

> I'm suspicious of people with mixed case usernames on HN.

Ah, I see.
The only problem with value pricing is its not for every client. Its very hard to sell a client on value - especially if they are skeptical. And if your work doesn't increase value then your in a sticky situation.
I've seen so many sites that are just the bootstrap template, vanilla CSS. It looks terribly ugly. I mean it's alright if you're prototyping, you don't want to waste time coding boring ole html and css if your focus is entirely on something else.

I hate it when people use it lazily. I love it when people customize it and truly make it beautiful to a point where you can't tell its bootstrap, which is the entire point seeing as its a framework.
This. Don't put text on a carousel slide unless it's the title of a book, and even then, limit it to one capitalized word per second that the slide will be shown.

(You can use other text of comparable length, but make sure that, if you were to capitalize it like a book title, it would still fit the rule).
Have you tried Laravel out?
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Related question: What's the legal aspect of fan-translations of video games e.g. good old SNES RPGs (jap-to-eng)?
But do they? I've worked with clients who are, at some degree, just normal web users who now want their own website. And "how about a carousel?" is a very common request...I think that end users may get annoyed by them when actually trying to use them but as passive viewers of most webpages ("Oh there's a carousel. That's a pretty picture. OK time to do a search query for the shoe brand I'm looking for") they probably don't give them any mind...which is, of course, dangerous if you're the site owner...but end users themselves shouldn't really care because they just don't use the carousel.
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Still a derivative work. In the same way that you can take a copyrighted novel and rephrase all the scenes in your own words - and the result is still a derivative, and still can't be distributed without the permission of the copyright holder on the original.
The problem with AWS is that it's neither fast nor particularly convenient or user-friendly.
I'm from Europe myself, but I'm only marginally crushed to see it go. The feature provided you with an offline map of an area, to be sure, but you couldn't navigate using it as calculating routes is done online. On a small phone screen, figuring out which route to take is not an easy task.

So I used the feature, of course, but only to figure out where I was in very limited geographical areas, in other words, mostly for small hikes.
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More caches:

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Part 2 - http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com.nyud.net/technical/chri...

Part 3 - http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com.nyud.net/technical/chri...

Technical information about the shot-in-the-corner patch - http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com.nyud.net/technical/chri...

Photo album - http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com.nyud.net/technical/chri...
...at night.
Of course, if such a thing were ever built, you'd wait so long in security and lines to pay off every mouth in the national security theater pork barrel trough that it'd have been faster to drive.

The best thing about driving in the USA is that oil companies, manufacturers, the UAW, the AAA, the AASHTO, and the rest have established a lobbying network that can blow down even the most sensible limits on driving. They whine like a toddler even at tiny inconveniences that would benefit them in the long run like raising the gas tax enough to keep highways and bridges from falling down. And the government bows and submits and the motorcar industry gets even steeper outrageous subsidies while high speed rail, public transit, and air travelers get whacked with a bat in the teeth. Usually it's the national security complex that wields the bat but it could just as easily be an overpaid transit union.
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hey, it's not about shortage, but rather looking for the best people to join our team, no matter where they're from. :-)
Be sure to check out alternatives such as Foundation (http://foundation.zurb.com).
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It seems to say that "it is not an infringement of copyright for an _authorized entity_ to reproduce..."
Brilliant move. Then when nobody uses it they can suspend it through lack of interest.
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Yeah, they are exaggerating a bit there. No "Skype-level" successes, but things are starting to happen here. A lot of my friends (myself included) are looking into some sort of startup option.
French Parliament votes a law that gives priority to Free Software
I second that.. infact all of the Adam Curtis documentaries are worth a peek
I'd love to see an improvement on speech recognition + translation to display automatic subtitles.
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I partially understand it, but I can't accept it as long as I'm unable to get the media I want with the subtitles I want.
I'm perfectly willing to pay, but all too often I simply can't.
The answer of VLC about Secunia
Scripts are copyrighted. The dialog is just the script, so of course it's copyrighted. It doesn't matter how you sourced the script. If you thought crowd sourcing dialog was legal then you were simply wrong, and I'm sure there was some level of interaction required where takedowns were issued before the police were willing to get involved. I'm not outraged, I just think the site owners were clueless. You can't invent your own laws or ignore existing ones no matter how passionate you may feel about your cause.
Thank you. I was surprised to see Firefox asking permission to install a plugin at first. (So I denied access). What about a little firefox plugin icon or a little visual hint what to expect?
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Are you referring to the same video? I can't see it in the description. The video I posted isn't the one from the article.