skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that this trend stretches back well before "Save the Cat" or even Syd Field or Joseph Campbell, all the way to Aristotle. This isn't really new stuff.

A few years ago I was backpacking through the Gobi desert and stayed with a Mongolian family. On the floor next to my bed I found a copy of Syd Field's famous guide to screenwriting. Until that moment, I hadn't realized just how widespread this philosophy of storytelling had become.
XBox has made far less money than a stock buy back plan would have therefore it was a bad idea. I don't know the specifics on Azure but it's still in the rounding error stage.
I've had a Fastmail account for about 10 years and the spam filtering is nowhere near as good as Gmail. There are some days I'll see 20-30 spam messages in my inbox.
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writer%27s_Journey:_Mythic_...
Secret court renewed power to seek telephone records
This structure goes all the way back to the ancient greeks.
It went through for me so try now.
Oh my gosh, thanks for posting that! I went to a Montessori school and must have used those, but never knew it was a thing with a name.

I see arithmetic in visual terms like those rods. Like to add 18 + 12:

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I actually "see" the numbers fitting together like that spatially to make the sum. Must have learned this when I was too young to consciously remember, and the most likely way that happened was with these Cuisenaire rods or some such physical objects. Amazing to suddenly learn now that that's a known and defined device.
All those wars, all for naught.

"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you." - Nietzsche
It's interesting I was trying to download xcode commandline tools for setting up my new mac, the website was down but you can still download it in xcode download panel. (assuming you already have xcode installed).
I like that you are doing this. I also like that I think you're probably a Starter League graduate based on your email and you're trying to put yourself out there for experience.

Best of luck. If you don't get flooded with requests, I'll take you up on your offer with a reasonable MVP spec.
It says "New York Times: The Opinion Pages" at the top.

The headline of the article is "OP-ED COLUMNIST/Hitting China’s Wall."

At the bottom of the article it says "A version of this op-ed appeared in print on July 19, 2013"
I'm questioning the validity of using the general population as an authoritative source of film critique. Although it's probably silly to ask for an artistic critique of an action film at all.
Excite your customers
Not sure I see the point. Or the complaints people are having here.

The author really should have a backup plan in place. He still doesn't, even though this software lets him sleep easy at night. He's still riding the edge of disaster if a file ever becomes corrupted and then synced. Ut oh. Incremental backups, folks. It's really not that hard.

On the open source side of things, Dropbox and BT Sync aren't really that interesting. You could whip up similar functionality with a bash script, inotify, and rsync in a matter of hours. Dropbox is only relevant because they give you off-site always online dumb storage. There will never be an open source or "trustworthy" solution to a cloud storage service. This Raspberry Pi idea is pretty neat, though. But local encryption is always the answer.

Also, if you have important data that should be encrypted, then it's a pretty stupid thing to have it synced all over the place. You don't want every device acting as a possible point of compromise. Principle of least privilege, and all that.
That strikes me as a really bizarre argument.

The price of a single share is utterly irrelevant to the risk of an investment. Whether you own 200 shares @ $25 or 10 shares @ $500, a 10% drop in the stock price is a 10% in the stock price.

Microsoft stock is up 25% over the last 5 years. The NASDAQ is up 56%. Apple is up 160%, even after the large drop over the past year.

Microsoft currently has a P/E of 16, Apple has a P/E of 10.
Hi, this is Jeff with Orbs CCG. Here's a direct link to the Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/919406593/orbs-ccg-the-a...
The write lost me completely when he complained about the main character of the Oz movie being the main character of the book on which it's based.

That's just stupid. I want my three minutes back.
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Makes me wonder what they think of us.

Who are we? Aliens?
Where are we coming from? Space?
What is all this weird technology? UFOs?

They must have a story of "visitors" they tell to each generation. It started a long time ago. They came in weird boats and wore weird cloths. Over time, they would appear again and again. Different weird boats and different weird clothes every time. Sometimes they had white skin, sometimes they had brown skin, sometimes maybe even with pale skin with slanted eyes. They always looked different and weird. They always carry different weird looking weapons. Recently, they come a lot. They fly in weird boats with wings. They fly in weird boats with spinning blades.
If you're using chrome you can just open an incognito window and view it there.
Grow Detroit founder discusses reviving Detroit as a startup city
Note this story was also near the top of /r/news on Reddit, but has since been removed.

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1in7p5/president_obama...
Apple Inc. buys Toronto-based location data startup company Locationary
My first thought was that Herbert's estate was suing Lucas.
TDK was mentioned for a having a villain that gets caught on purpose. I think TDK did it well, but doesn't change the fact that so many are applying it like a formula and failing.
> > Because belief isn't all-or-nothing.

> Why not?

There a point that can be reached in a discussion where you realize that (assuming the other participant is honest, without which there are other insurmountable problems) you just don't have the requisite common understanding of reality to have a fruitful discussion.

The point at which you question the idea that belief, in general, isn't necessarily absolute is that point, for me, in this discussion.
Digital Ocean is worth 15.6 billion so ut's not exactly a small company. Edit nm wrong company.
A lot of that is a demonstration in why microbenchmarks are usually worthless for determining real world performance.

Xenos has a unified shader architecture while RSX does not. That means that during microbenchmarks, it can dedicate all of its shaders to that task, and put up relatively impressive numbers. In reality, that means that those shaders can't be used for anything else, meaning your real world performance will look nothing like the microbenchmark. AA performance is almost entirely due to the on-package EDRAM. While that was a smart design decision, it's not indicative of some huge overall power advantage.

Look, Microsoft made a number of very smart design choices with the 360 that have allowed developers to squeeze a lot out of the hardware, there's no doubting that. I think it's also fair to say that Xenos is a bit faster than the RSX -- as was the case with that generation of discrete GPUs from ATI and Nvidia -- but throwing around things like twice as powerful and "crushes" is getting into hyperbole territory if you're looking at actual performance from the hardware.
suggestion: every company that receives one of these things should incorporate in nigeria or something, till US lawmakers wake the fuck up.
Anyone else getting strange emails to Reset Apple ID Password? I received two today
Why a blowjob get more outcry than.ignoring the constitution repeatedly in US? As non US person I don't get it.
It sounds like a good way to bootstrap a movie script. If someone came up with the same type of framework but for web development, would we end up with a lot of formulaic startups?
Yes, that is perfectly understandable. Do not advertise those guys but there might be people who wish to do the same, also there might be other monetizations methods that can be used.
By my non-lawyerly understanding, no. The question of when standing to sue exists is a question of common law, not statutory law.

Had they decided that standing exists, then they would have had opportunity to rule on the law itself.
This is a kind of "New True Scotsman" argument where, presumably, any example of an unsafe driving situation will be countered with with some failure of driver certification. Be specific. How many people do you think we should try to get off the road, in order to increase the speed limit (implicitly, by not enforcing the one we have now)? How should we select those people?
Alex Southern is one of the go to people on startups in Detroit. Most of the startup founders see Detroit's bankruptcy as a positive event.
Check the news, in France we've just reach this point. This year the State is getting a decrease in tax revenue despite a tax increase. Heh, at least they would have accomplished something useful: they proved an old theory right!
"Dumbed down" programming is still programming, just like dumbed down mathematics (2+2=4) is still mathematics, or dumbed down painting (finger painting) is still painting.

In each case, children are simply being presented with a limited subset of the entire subject, to accomodate the real physical differences between children and adults (less complex mental models, less fine motor skills, etc).

We can argue about which specific subset we should start with, but the fact that it's a subset is not inherently wrong.
To save everyone from having to look it up:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I have not but I'll be sure to check it out, thanks!
I think we, the more informed individuals, have realized it. IMO there is a large chunk of the American population that either doesn't care, doesn't know or actually thinks this is in their best interest.

A few voices on the internet don't have any leverage vs a whole silence country.
Spot on. It's really strange that enormous companies like Microsoft can't see why consumers choose Apple. Maybe they do see it, but can't execute their plan, but I doubt that's the case with Microsoft. What would stop them? They have the money, marketing, talented people in place. There's no excuse.
You are right and i'm asking since years: are microsoft investors blind? Why they not make any pressure on the directors board to change the ceo? How much time they need again? Or are they trusting the "reorganize reorganize reorganize" that is now ballmer motto?
How Hard Can You Work?
I'm not sure I lost anything by not watching it.
The purpose of the kickstarter is to raise money to finish it up, including getting 240 pieces of high quality art.
No idea why BitTorrent Sync bothered to release a client that wasn't open source. People who care about their security won't use closed-source programs; and people who don't use Dropbox.

Perhaps we could use git-annex for this?
The aesthetics of the app are going to improve.

The card art is pretty high quality, and I disagree with whoever said it was high school art. They're professional artists doing a good job.

That being said, the app's UX is actually really usable and what people expect when playing. It's evolved to the way it is currently based on user testing. It doesn't look as pretty as it could, but it's very easy and natural to use.
I used to work at Microsoft from 1996 to 2006. Here is a pattern that I've seen, which explains so much of the problem with Balmer.

The strategy in 1990's was that software was sold in stored (EggHead). People would compare the BULLETs or CHECKMARKS on two competing packages. Microsoft's goal was to always have more and better checkmarks. That sold more software in the 1990's.

Notice their newest re-org. They are making two big pushes DEVICES and SERVICES. The entire company is becoming "functional" (devs vs testers vs program managers, etc.). They all report to Balmer. Balmer is trying to be like Steve Jobs.

Balmer talked about having "efforts" selected by him and execs in his office. Those would be the major efforts of products. This is the same as picking FEATURE BULLETS for the back of packaged software.

Microsoft does NOT have a strategy. They focus on packing feature bullets, like it is a box of software. Watch them do that with XBox ONE, Windows Phone, Windows 8, etc. Until they pick a strategy, they won't find a way to use leverage to pull ahead.
That's just confirmation bias. The number of very much unsexy tech companies that consistently make billions of dollars hand over fist vastly outnumbers that of the tiny handful of "sexy" tech companies. Is Foxconn sexy?
How to use your own Docker Registry
"You can't sue about being unconstitutionally searched unless you can prove it happened."

I thought the current lawsuits claim to prove this by asserting that:

- The NSA got access to all of Verizon's customer metadata (as indicated by a leaked FISA Court decision).

- The plaintiffs are customers of Verizon.

- Therefore the plaintiffs' metadata was provided to the NSA.
Why is this relevant to the discussion?
Short version: they have propaganda down to a science here. The blowjob scandal came out of a massive PR campaign and courtroom circus created by Republicans for political gain; meanwhile, most members of both parties are supporting the spying program, with the implication that most of them already knew about it.

Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" pretty much captures the way that America's democracy has been hacked.
>The incidents of legally recognized marriage are very real and very significant. I've met many families separated (or threatened with separation) by immigration law that didn't recognize same-sex couples.

A real-world example of this with a name HN readers will recognize is Glenn Greenwald.

Greenwald has lived in Brazil for the past several years because his partner is Brazilian and Brazil recognizes same-sex relationships for immigration purposes while the United States does not.
Federal law doesn't recognize a "reporter's privilege" to refuse testimony about sources. Some states do (this is a federal case, not a state one) but those protections are often qualified, for instance preventing reporters from being forced to testify as a "first resort", but requiring testimony if all other investigative avenues are exhausted.
Many leaks are authorized. The White House leaks all the time.
Robots clean depths of Sydney Harbour Bridge
How does authentication work with Docker Registry? Can I set a HTTP Basic username/password on the server and the client?
Thanks for the info, I'll look into it : )
So one could send out a bunch of dummy encryption files, get caught, get in jail, then show that the files were empty, then sue?

Sounds easy, just hope one doesn't land in gitmo!
I'm not surprised because courts have been holding reporters in contempt for decades for attempting to assert a privilege against outing sources that the law does not recognize.
Playing devils-advocate here, but this isn't really new -- the fourth estate flourished because of journalists who vowed to go to prison rather than reveal sources, and it became a game of chicken that Journalists won in that era. Now it's the Government that has decided not to blink and the weakened resolve of news organizations has made it easy for them to trample over hard-won gains of decades past.

There, to my knowledge, have never been codified protections for journalists -- just standards.
The Importance Of Startup Social Responsibility
The article is about setting up your own simple syncing service for non-mission-critical data like notes. I don't think you see the point 'cos:

a) You didn't read the article.
b) Tinkering with technology to do fun things is of no interest to you.
Just compile it to native code with a native Java compiler, or NGEN/Mono AOT on the CLR side.
look kids, the system is rigged. you dont organize, you dont form voting groups based on your issues, you dont get involved in politics, and when the rules bend the odds vehemently against you, you go to a social media website and bitch about it.

when are you losers going to wake the hell up?

and oh yeah, Aaron Shwartz, never forget.

edit: you know theres a business opportunity right there. you know crowd funding? how about crowd voting? that'll teach em.
Congress in this instance has not made any law prohibiting a reporter from publishing a story, and reporters being required to testify is just one of a myriad of circumstances in which parties to controversies can be required to testify in one way or another.
Yes-- but those native applications are using JSON as their data transport back to whatever servers.
Orin Kerr (law professor at George Washington University) has written on the subject of whether the collection of phone metadata violates the 4th Amendment, given the history of Supreme Court opinions on the matter:

http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/17/metadata-the-nsa-and-the-fo...

In short, these legal actions have a hard journey ahead of them.
I think read receipts are a terrible UI concept in some of the interfaces we have to deal with daily. Taking for example a chat (like Facebook's), if you have to respond to someone's message but you don't really feel like responding as soon as you receive it, you'll be forced to do it as soon as you realize that the other person knows you've seen it and they might think you're pretending you haven't seen it. It's extremely annoying when you're trying to get work done and you have someone sending you a message. You want to answer, just not right now, but you can't, otherwise the other person might become upset or annoyed.
JavaFX, Swing, AWT, SWT, Windows Forms, WPF, XAML,....

Webkit, blah.
I am a forum/news-site technology massive lurker and i can guarantee to you that win8 is much much more hated that vista was and for obvious reasons: w8 is a totally new interface proposition while vista was just an "upgrade" over the xp ui, but still looks familiar.
I found Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (http://leanpub.com/hpmor) way more fun. However, it isn't finished yet.

I also liked Ender's game.
So you think you know what porn is?
To any grad student about to give his or her first invited lecture, I would recommend McCall Smith's The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Finer-Points-Sausage-Dogs/dp/14000...

In the first chapter, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, renowed scholar of Portuguese linguistics, travels to America to give a lecture. But due to a mixup, his hosts believed they were inviting an expert on sausage dogs. Too shy to correct them, von Igelfeld makes up his mind to speak about sausage dogs...

When I read it I doubled over in laughter. But at the end of the day it reminds you far better than any "serious" book what makes for an effective presentation: humility, confidence, and putting yourself in your audience's head.
Miller disclosed her source after being released.
> The question of when standing to sue exists is a question of common law, not statutory law.

Standing has both Constitutional elements and prudential elements (the latter could be referred to as "common law"); the actual injury element is Constitutional, but the prohibition on generalized rather than particular injury is prudential.

Here, a particularized injury is raised but the problem is that the injury is speculative rather than actual, so the problem would be with Constitutional requirements for standing, not the prudential elements.
AFAIK if you're a corporation, you must be represented by a lawyer in the US.

If you're not a corporation, AFAIK you can go pro se (be your own defense attorney), but in that route you're not just risking the business -- if you lose and the damages are more than the business can pay, they'll be able to seize your house, your car, and your kids' college fund. And your credit rating will be ruined if you have to declare bankruptcy personally, so you might not be able to get credit cards for a decade or two afterwards.
It talks about the lack of spending power of consumer because of low wages, and gains all flood into elite class and national enterprises. My observation is that it's seemed almost like "directed" or "forced" consumption to stimulate economy - a consumption without average consumers, or people really have very little role to it. Prove is that the real-estate expansion bubble, empty buildings and cities. It's like a hack of economy for super growth with very little risk. I think it's a complete violation of nature, but effects can vary... my prediction of one significant effect is that there will be very little innovation come out from China for next 20 years. I think they've thought of it, and don't care as it is not a primary concern for them at this point in time. And I don't think this hack is as good as it is thought to be, the risk has been reduced in the short-term, but it's somewhat cumulative, and it's going to be very dangerous in long-term.

Back to topic of this article... I can see the wall, but it's so huge that distance cannot be determined. Maybe when China about to hit, they might come up with something. After all, control is their weapon, and it can be extremely effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cfxv8Pq-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk-I85A5-hU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Why not intentionally put someone in the "surveillance spotlight"? Have them checkout on the wrong books from the library, join the wrong forums, frequently make phone calls to foreign malign actors overseas. Then lay all of this information bare to the public and say "Either I am being surveilled by the NSA or they are utterly incompetent to the point of not being effective in their charge". If then you still don't have standing, at least sue them for not doing their jobs. (Disclaimer: IANAL)
Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook need to make this insurance happen.

They all want to help erase software patent abuse anyway, right? Are they serious about it?

If so, they could put together this insurance at reasonable/subsidized rates for startups, and immediately get the opportunity to fight 90%+ of all patent troll cases relevant to their interests.
Ballmer is ideal material as a COO but he is in no way CEO material.

He didn't even join the board until he got made CEO.

He has done a pretty good job with maintaining the lines that make Microsoft the bulk of its revenue but in new areas he is very fucking useless.

Bill Gates did some masterful work at making Windows the dominant force that it is but Balmer has done nothing but waste money on Windows Phone and Surface.

If only Balmer was smart enough to realize he needs someone else to get new shit off the ground, then Microsoft would have half a chance.
Have you tried search recently? Curious if this opinion is on the old search features or the recently updated search.
Posting a new made-up number is the opposite of a citation. Just FYI.

Also, I'm going to be straight with you... There's not one bit of me that believes that number.
Do you find that hard shutters on the exterior work better than thick drapes on the interior?