skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or do the figures given in the article not add up? They're calculating the current revenue of ESPN based on customers paying an average of $70 a month for all the networks, but then when they compare the supposed unbundled cost based on those figures with the current bundling they're saying that the average consumer only pays $40 a month for all the networks bundled together.
The chart and reasoning for the headline are horribly explained, but here's the line of reasoning:

ESPN currently makes $6/sub a month, and there are 100m subscribers, which leads to the $7.2 billion in revenue for ESPN from subscriptions.

Needham estimates that only 20m of the current subscribers would subscribe to ESPN. In order for ESPN to maintain current revenue, they would need to charge 5 times as much per subscriber per month, leading to the $30/mo number.
Anonymous hacks FEMA
I kept the old version on my iPhone ever since it got pulled from the store. Made sure to not delete it. :)

> native Dropbox integration

> background audio playback

This is awesome.
Opposition politician Navalny subject of half a million VK posts in one hour
The old VLC for iOS used iTunes's transfer capabilities rather than presenting an HTTP server.

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/cRwg8Rr.jpg

Not quite as slick as the context menu you're suggesting though.
Using the rope isn't even needed for most trees. When you learn how to fell a tree with an axe or saw, you'll learn that you can alter where you make your first cut to account for the tree's center of mass, lean, asymmetric branches, and other obstacles.

For example, if the tree is leaning strongly in one direction and you want it to fall somewhere else 10 degrees away, you basically make your first cut a full 20 degrees away so that it'll split the difference.

If you want a really unsafe way to fell a tree, you can attach a grip hoist 15-20 feet up the trunk and anchor the other end to the bottom of another tree near where you want it to fall. Once you start tightening up the grip hoist, you put enormous torque on the trunk and pull it over. Or the trunk snaps in two. Or your grip hoist breaks.

Disclaimer: if you're learning how to fell a tree from a cigarette card or comments on the Internet, you'd better know a good surgeon.
I will not argue with that, for I see the truth of your words.
They forgot the most obvious reason of all:

Increasing prevalence of tight-fitting clothing for both genders.
The new one has the HTTP server...

I've added it...
They claim 3000 workers. A typical B&A plant has about 4000 employees and produces 3000 cars per week, and Tesla is building about 500. I'd say the CTO is blowing smoke.

I also don't understand the point about software. Very few car defects are related to software. It is stuff like rattles, and wind noise (NVH) that are common problems due to build issues. It is quite hard to fix a dashboard rattle with a firmware change.
$70 cable bill of which $40 goes to the networks as subscriber fees
I agree -- I'm really glad that enraged_camel linked that article. It makes some very good points, and mentions various tax benefits and the like that I had forgotten about.

I think the best lesson from the epilogue is that your mileage may vary. Whether it's financially better to rent or buy depends on the market where you want to live. I had implied this, but not nearly as well. It's critical to take that into account when weighing the additional value you get from owning (namely that you can do what you want TO the property). Sometimes that's worth paying extra for, sometimes it's not, and it's ultimately up to you.

I also liked the commentary about mobility that people made here. It's very true: selling a house and then actually buying one is a dance I still don't understand how to do smoothly.
Also, even if you're not interested in our service, another tip:

Applying (in the traditional way) should be your last resort. A much better option is to try to establish an internal advocate at the company in question, and have them recommend you to the hiring manager.

This isn't has hard as it may sound. Find the profile of someone on LinkedIn (or the company website itself) who looks like they might be your peer if you got the job. Figure out their email, or simply ask them to connect on LinkedIn, and put a message in the 'include a personal note' field to the effect of:

"Hey, I saw a position at your company that I'm interested in, but I don't want to waste anyones time with an application unless I'm pretty sure it's a good fit. Do you have a minute to talk with me on the phone about your experience there?"

This works wonders, especially for those whose skill sets are in demand. Plus it works to the incentives the many employees are subject to: referral bonuses. If they recommend you (instead of you applying), they may get a nice little check.
Can Quantum Mechanics Produce a Universe from Nothing?
ah, so that's why my insulin pump looks and acts like a pager from the 90s? I suppose that makes sense. Better an ugly pager than an accidental 10x bolus.
really like this kind of articles I don't like

What's to like or not like about it? It's information on correlation of an aspect of reasoning with creativity.

What's does "follow what these studies say" even mean?
Can you comment on the technical details on how this works at the network level? How secure is this?
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But you could go one step further, and ask "Why is their default considered so good by a broad audience?"

This could be attributed to how they identify (what they consider) the most important options, focus entirely on those, and implement them well.

The complexity of a system can go up exponentially with the number of features. If development resources were infinite, this wouldn't be a problem. But it is finite, and more complexity can lead to more bugs, more confusing interfaces, less maintainable code, and a host of other pitfalls.

In that case, if a lack of options is allowing Apple to a product that's better overall for most of its users, that's a definite feature.
Based on the words you used and the order in which you wrote them, that is how I took your comment. If that was not your point, then maybe I am being obtuse and over reactionary? But when you posted what you did, closing with a criticism of Carter being a "coot" -- you certainly appeared to me to be making the point: "The USG has always been thinly veiled totalitarianism disguised as democracy, and as such one should certainly not be surprised, nor objectionable to the current version of the same-old-same-old"

These actions, now and in hte past, are unacceptable. Period - under any government in any era.
That was my thought. "How much of my cable bill is going to ESPN?"

What's really outrageous is with Comcast I have to get a whole host of channels I don't care about to get anything in HD, which I do care about. I only watch a few channels. If I could get the main networks, HBO, AMC, Comedy Central, and BBC America all in HD, that would be enough. I could accept about $60 per month for those.
Which sounds retarded to anyone who has ever created a /var partition for log

Oh, but don't you know? You shouldn't need more than one partition; they're getting rid of separate /var (I only half joke; after they broke separate /usr by linking boot/system things to it, they declared separate /usr to be "deprecated").

If you support more than one operating system,

Another one of Poettering's favorite ideas is that nothing besides Linux matters. I may agree with him for my own personal computing setup, I think it's flat out unprofessional to eschew portability and cross-platform standards. Even ignoring the obvious benefits, making things portable can reveal bugs and unstated assumptions in your design which will trip you up later.

It doesn't seem like there is any need to remove syslog. The guy just wants it to disappear.

If there's one thing that strikes me about Lennart (and others, such as those working on Wayland), it's what appears to be a severe case of myopia, or just flat out willful ignorance, of systems that have come before. The egotism is astounding.

Granted, sound under Linux was far from perfect (so I've heard; it has always just worked for me), and PulseAudio eventually got stable and efficient enough to be be acceptable. That being said, it does feel a whole lot like "here's how we're going to do it, shut up and take it." It would be more palatable if they identified problems, proposed solutions, and then canvassed the community. Hell, even just proposing solutions as patches or wholly separate projects and letting the community vote with their feet would be preferable to this dictatorship mentality.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I distrust Lennart (and Sievers') approach to system software because they don't seem to think of the bigger picture or be aware of the past. Do you know why so many people are attached to the "legacy" "deprecated" ways of doing things? Because they work, across multiple platforms, multiple OSes and multiple paradigms (embedded, server, desktop, cluster, mobile, and future ones we can't even imagine). Because other ways have been tried (eg, binary logging on Windows) and failed. Yes, some things could be improved (dependency based boot is a good idea). But other things, such as the core modularity principle in UNIX, are there for a reason, and should not be lightly tossed aside.
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We do have a hidden code_roulette feature. We do a bad job of explaining privacy or potentially the lack thereof to our users. Once we get that figured out, we can add more social features.

As for the barn raising, its not too uncommon for ggreer or I to spot bugs in other peoples code on Floobits. There is probably an entirely different business somewhere in there.
Source Code: https://github.com/brianhou/YouTubeRadio
Canadian here: Electrical bill of $60-80 every two months in a 600sqft condo on the third floor of a west by south west facing unit. It's also possible to rent a room or small basement suite for $600/mo and have all utilities included.

If you're on minimum wage, internet is easily accessible from a library, McDonalds, or Starbucks. Or find a landlord offering it bundled.

Cheap cell plans from $20 upwards do exist.

I'm not saying this is ideal, but then again, we're talking about minimum wage. I used to work at McDonalds in Canada and one of my co-workers worked her way up to manager and managed to go to college part time. Granted, she was also living at home with her parents and our post-secondary education is heavily subsidized up here.
How is Loom different/better than the other offerings out there?
> they're not just beta testing, they're buying a significant luxury good.

I would disagree. I'd say they're paying to get early developer access which could give them a significant advantage in the market.
I'm proud of all of you who have had some hand in pushing back. Basic transparency measures are the right place to begin, and with them, a rudimentary accounting by the public can commence.

There's no reason why everyone here who's at the helm of a tech company or investment firm, large or small, doesn't sign onto these initiatives/letters and demand accountability for these electronic surveillance programs. I'm aware many of you have boards. Bring this up with them, and make it an imperative!

In case you missed it, you can spread this widely (and sign, of course): https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/provide-more-trans...
Better unless you live in the same broadcast market as the team you want to watch. In all leagues that I am aware of those games are blacked out and TV is your only option.
By the way, journalctl already has some built-in filtering, e.g.

journalctl PRIORITY=3 _SYSTEMD_UNIT=xxx.service
yes, it's. that is the wayGoogle, Facebook, Twitter.. use it
I did found a great one eventually, but in this case, I (and I said I god damn it) would rather have it Apple's way even if it's not perfect, it works if you do it their way.

It would work, but not be perfect, if you just did it the way of any of those other apps you tried.
The reason for the suit was that SmithKline allegedly knew that 30% of people were predisposed to having an incurable adverse reaction, and failed to disclose or warn of that fact after it became known, and that SmithKline also failed to disclose the fact that (frequent) periodic boosters were required to maintain immunity.

http://www3.jsonline.com/bym/news/ap/jul03/ap-lyme-vaccine-s...
>Europeans didn't feel threatened by the USSR.

Some Europeans certainly didn't, but many of them, in fact, did feel threatened by the USSR: the ruling classes.

Also, opinions on the USSR were quite divided even on the left, with (Moscow-sponsored) hardcore Communist parties being on very different terms with it than traditional Socialist movements.
Wait.

usesthis talks about "What do people use to get stuff done?"

and the article about "Hardware and Software you should use today"

If you see the results in the graphs, I don't understand how "Hackers" can come to your mind for the title.

:-)

Regards.
AFAIK this has been happening since way before 9/11, now it's just picked up more pace. If you remember (I don't because I wasn't alive then) during Truman's presidency and up until around the 1990s, the U.S. consistently, without failure, used Communism as a scapegoat for instilling fear into the masses and making an international statement. It was only oh-so-convenient that Communist regimes tended to be oppressive -- Stalin, Mao, Khrushchev -- why not lead the public to believe ALL Communist regimes are that way?

Let's prevent freedom of thought, and lead the public to believe that while we actually feel threatened by the idea of communal sharing and the concept of Marxism, which we feel is harmful to the kickbacks that we receive from corporations to do what we want, Communism is actually just another word for an oppressive regime, and not a political concept derived by a highly intelligent German philosopher that has enormous benefits worldwide.

So, here's the plan: we invade 'Nam. If they're the first communist regime that actually works, the public will know we've been lying to them.

Shit, that didn't work. Okay, so there's this pretty harmless socialist dude running for office in Chile, let's call him a communist and make an example out of him. All right, let's get OUR candidate out, and-- HOLY SHIT, HE'S WON! We have succeeded. Even though Pinochet is an oppressive dictator and a mockery of democracy, let's keep him there anyway, because HE'S NOT COMMUNIST! Thank the lord. Thank, the, lord. Because he isn't communist, the public will never know that Chile is now oppressed!

So, reestablishing my point once again -- this has been going on long before 9/11, it's just that 9/11 has supercharged the process by giving the U.S. government a boost in doing so. There's a difference, though -- now we actually KNOW that the U.S. government is corrupt. It's no longer "you're with us or with the communists" or "you're with us or with the terrorists." What matters is how hard we push these people. The only way to do that is to educate. Mainstream media is a waste of time, and while Al Jazeera tends to be far more accurate and unbiased in its reporting, I don't know how well Americans will take to watching an Arabic-sponsored channel.

More high-profile names like Soledad O'Brien, and it should be enough.
This seems... hazardous.
Reading the Mars Trilogy first is probably a good idea, because it sets the pace: the hard science fiction nature of these books means you get long technical descriptions and character analysis. It's awesome, I think, but you definitely have to get in the right zone.
There is a huge difference between figuring out what the best balance of stats is for min-maxing compared to the actual exploration that takes place in EVE. Seriously, it's no comparison.
Can I just point out, for all the Lennart-haters, that he doesn't have the final word in what gets implemented in a distro. It's not like he's shutting down any syslog projects either, or threatening to kill the maintainers' cats if they don't use his software. Distro maintainers move to his software because they think it's an improvement over what they had before.

Case in point: Lennart works for Red Hat, but Arch is actually further along than Fedora in adopting the Journal.

Personally, I removed my syslog daemon about two months ago, and haven't missed it. I also switched to Fedora back in the new year (from Ubuntu) specifically because I wanted to try out Gnome 3 and Systemd. Loving it so far :).
Certainly can.
I don't see get how the LGPL solves the problem the GPL had with Apple's policy. Particularly, 6.a of the LGPL cannot be met simultaneously with Apple's code signing mechanism; so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library.
Cry me a river.

> All-or-nothing proclamations

They are merely changing the default. Sites can always request users to enable it. How is it all or nothing?

> Third-party cookies are an essential part of the Internet content supply chain

Citation needed.

> Mozilla’s active, prominent promotion of Adblock Plus suggests a value system hostile to advertising and the businesses and people dependent on it.

Active? Prominent? It really is the most popular add-on. Why do you expect mozilla to favor you against the express will of their users?

> Last July, for example, she said, “Whatever standard the W3C produces will put a number of third parties out of business, but that is okay because that will be a good day for privacy.”

I see nothing wrong with that. Businesses don't have a right of survival. Users do have a right to privacy.

> Mozilla or the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, which appear to be those of elitist organizations that hide under the shield of populism to make value judgments about who is worthy of earning a living in the digital age.

That's how you want them to look like. It's not about your right to make money. It's about users' default expectation of not being tracked.

I couldn't read the rest of the post considering such fundamental disagreements.
Exactly. Especially since it's in a place where %90+ of the readership has a Dropbox account (which is more than adequate for at least smartphone phots/videos), I'd hoped to understand how this differentiates itself.
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Well, at least you now you know we take data very seriously :)
The upgrade button doesn't work, and nobody is going to hover long enough to see the "Not Available Yet" title. And the current 10 requests isn't even enough to test with.

I'm excited to try this.. so figure out a way to take my money soon.
I didn't read Carter saying that it has never been worse in America, or even that it is worse now than at any previous moment in history, but that seems to be the sort of claim you're arguing against in this entire comment.
Right, Planck! (It stands corrected)
That pitch was a little thick and quite slow. 6/10.
> what does happen from time to time is that f will look for custom methods on v that are at least logically equivalent to the static interface type f is declared to expect.

Interesting. This kinda sounds good in practice, assuming programmers respect the interface's semantics when downcasting. But from a language design point of view it strikes me as a bit hacky al least, and at odds with the "Tell, Don't Ask" principle.

Couldn't this need for downcasting be avoided by allowing something like default method implementations in interfaces? I'm asking this without any practical knowledge of the Go language; i'm sure different approaches have been considered, but i'm interested in understanding the reasons behind the preference for downcasting :)

Imagine the Reader interface declared, besides the Read method, a WriteTo method with a default implementation:

type Reader interface {
Read(p []byte) (n int, err error)
WriteTo(w Writer) (n int64, err error) {
// Default implementation in terms of Read and w.Write
// using a buffer just like io.Copy
}
}

Then any type with a Read([]byte) (int, err) could still be referenced as a Reader, and when seen as a Reader one could call the convenient WriteTo method without downcasting. io.Copy could then tell the objects what to do instead of asking them what they are:

func Copy(dst Writer, src Reader) (written int64, err error) {
return src.WriteTo(dst)
}

A type that complies with the Reader interface could also implement a specific version of WriteTo if needed for performance reasons.

This way not only programmers could avoid resorting to downcasting, but the interfaces would become more explicit: instead Reader being "something with a Read method... and maybe a WriteTo if you want to, but this is not declared in Reader itself" it'd be "something with a Read method and a default WriteTo mehod".

The downsides of this would be that the dispatch semantics become a bit more complex for having to consider the default implementations, and maybe the interfaces could become more "bloated" (though i think that's subjective, as the semantics of an interface like Reader are implicitly mixed up with things like WriterTo; having all the methods in Reader would make that existing coupling more explicit).
Since she doesn't have a job in the industry, are they still called 'side projects'? I agree with the sentiment though, that she should focus on building a portfolio of code that she can use as evidence that she knows what she is doing.
Trying to install in sublime I see:

Package Control: Error downloading package. URL error unknown url type: https downloading http://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime/archive/0.17.5.z....
Life as a Spanish Colony wasn't so hot. Anyways, these areas were granted U.S. citizenship and autonomy soon after.

Earlier, Simon Bolivar, who liberated most of Latin America from Spanish control and laid their democratic foundations, loved the American founding fathers, especially Jefferson, and even sent his nephew to the University of Virginia.
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VLC app used to drain my battery. I moved to Plex and Tonido after the removal. Hopefully this release doesn't drain the battery.
It's definitely the humidity. I was able to bike my 8 mile commute to/from work while in Portland, OR in the middle of a 100+ F heat wave a couple of years ago. On the other hand, I'm currently dying in this Toronto heat wave that's 90F's during the day and 80F's at night. For me the real difference is the humidity. Portland, is super dry during the summer, and wet during the fall, winter, and spring.
Does mono support RX and LINQ? That would be reason enought to think about switching from Obj-C.
Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
Tight fitting clothing is not a new idea. There was a time when both pickpockets and tight clothes were in style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim-fit_pants#The_1980s
Until i clicked the link i thought i was going to find out some behind the scenes info about the 1990 videogame. That was a fun game.
I remember seeing Harry In Your Pocket when I was 13 and I was mesmerized.
The point of this approach was not to keep the whole tube humming (that would have almost as much friction loss as just circulating all the air in the whole loop), but rather just send waves in small bundles.

If you read my post it has nothing to do with vacuums and instead somewhat counter-intuitively keeps the vehicle within the densest part of the sound wave the entire time.
I have been a prismatic web user for a few months now, and I think it's a pretty slick app (can't talk about iPhone b/c I don't have one). That being said, I have never seen a story in my feed from the NY Times, WSJ, Economist, or any of the major newswires. Not all of these publishers sit behind paywalls. Can anyone explain why they are not aggregating these sources like Google News and many others are?