skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which simply means that he now has a content asset that he can license back to Amazon for distribution if he wishes. It's seems like it could be a lot like a business owner buying a building under a different company name only to lease it back to their primary business for a variety of benefits.
- Mr. Bezos, we've bought Washington Post as you ordered.

- Good. I hope it's a fresh issue?

- ...issue!?
Job motivation - What's yours?
I'm not sure if the intentions are true to form, but that's a very beautifully crafted letter.
As long as Germany allows the construction of huge NSA surveillance centers within its borders, I will consider this country NSAland.
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▶ NEW YORK PAEDO ATTACKED IN ISRAEL
Lots of cynicism around here.

Nobody is saying that Bezos will be a steward of good journalism (I can't see him doing much worse as the head of a major news medium than Rupert Murdoch, though) and has reasons to buy the paper that go beyond, ultimately, making more money.

But from a technology enthusiast standpoint, it can't be denied that the guy has a amazing track record of innovating the sectors he has been involved in, and personally I'm curious to see how he will tackle this one.

The main takeaway from the story, in my opinion, is seeing a steady trend of the "new" technology companies trying to get in a position of influence, like Facebook interested in getting into politics, Google having already plenty of lobbying/funding activities, and now Amazon getting its own paper...
Does anyone believe or trust in the American propaganda machine (i.e. mainstream media)? We live in a world of stories that seem to be in a perpetual loop. When we eliminate news for the sake of ratings or the number of papers/magazines sold, then we return to a time when the media will resume reporting on things that matter. The "news" in the US is a dumbed down version of TMZ and that's being nice.
Slick letter, by paragraph:

1. Transfer credibility from previous owners.
2. Reassure the readers.
3. Reassure the employees.
4. Prepare people for change.
5. Turn focus to being part of something bigger so they don't rock the boat.
6. End on a positive note.
Sorry, I thought we were talking about Yegge, I knew Wall's speech was not meant to be serious... wasn't sure about Yegge's post.
Which just goes to show if a safety system can be disabled it might be disabled. Brick walls on the other hand are hard to turn off.
Can't have a 2013 HN discussion thread without "Snowden" or "Google Reader". It's a machine-verifiable stamp of authenticity.
I think this is a bold move by Bezos. One of the interesting data points in the world of Journalism has been the transition of the New York Time from mostly paper to being mostly digital. Something Jeff is profoundly aware of.

Every morning while I eat my breakfast I download the Wall Street Journal and times to my iPad, and on the train to work scan them and this weeks Economist for interesting stories of the day, combined with this month's Scientific American, Smithsonian, and Science News.

If I could use Evernote with those "publications" on the iPad I could be very efficient in my collection of various inputs on news of the day. For now, I'm constrained to making notes to myself in my notebook.

To pull an interesting analogy here, Google sees everything through the lens of "You will be connected 100% of the time to the network." which is their future point that they are building systems around, sometimes today they seem ungainly or even useless when no network is available. Jeff (and Amazon) seems to see everything through the lens of "You will consume all of your media on a tablet like device." and building around the complete media experience there.
The Guardian broke most of the leaks.
You need to come up with a new name for your thought anti-pattern, because in English, "conspiracy theory" technically means a theory that there is a conspiracy, and there _are_ conspiracies. Some conspiracy theories turn out to be correct.

By trying to re-use a pre-existing word, you not only incense people who are alleging conspiracies, you prevent wider recognition of the idea you are fighting to have recognized.
One question, sorry for hijacking the discussion.

Is this the same course offered on Udemy? (https://www.udemy.com/how-to-teach-yourself-to-code/)

Potential suggestion: add a syllabus or at least a (more) concrete summary of what course takers will learn/build. I read the 'Sign up for this course and you'll learn' section and it's very thin on the specifics. The Udemy page is much better in this aspect, IMHO.
If someone in the government wanted to be rid of Hastings wouldn't it be far simpler to have him "just disappear"? You could always claim you didn't know where he was and there's nothing to investigate. Since he claimed to be going underground for a while, no one would even start asking soon enough to gather evidence.

So I'm skeptical of this crash being an assassination simply because it's one of the harder ways to pull it off and it's inviting investigation. This crash being a way for Hastings to disappear would be much more plausible.
As a father and sole-founder I would most certainly agree and say that a family helps you focus and re-balance while lack of money is putting pressure on both. So bottom-line lack of money is a bigger problem than having a family (which should not be a problem at all)
Declassified: The US Government’s Quantum Internet
Jeff Bezos is easily one of the CEOs I respect most in this world.
I am only upvoting you because I find your comment actually funny!

(Please do not get rid of any Snowden comments/posts on HN until the Police State is dismantled, hopefully by mid-next week.
How about "too many chefs, not enough cooks"
Kubrick was shooting on Kodak 5254, pushed one stop to ASA 200.

Today, you could shoot the same scene at ASA 800 with an f/1.4 lens, which is readily available.
Given the traditional separation of editorial and business in newspapers, I wouldn't be shocked if the Post ran an Amazon hit piece just to test the boundaries.
>At the time they could maybe reliably shoot at the equivalent of ISO 800? (some historically informed cinematographer, please feel free to correct me.

It would be unusual to shoot on film stock as fast as ISO 800. In most cases 500 would be the highest. The scenes in Barry Lyndon shot on the f0.7 lenses were actually filmed on ISO 200 stock, partly to avoid too much grain.

Standard film stocks would be 50, 200, 250, and 500 ISO. I know that nowadays Kodak don't produce 35mm film stock greater than ISO 500 (unless as part of a special order).
This. I came here just to say that.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Please do not consent to any random searches. Cops can only do it legally if you consent. They will word it like you should consent, but please exercise your right to not not be searched! You can say no. While I have nothing illegal in my car I don't want cops rooting around in it on principal.

I am amazed how many people don't know they can and should decline a request to search. A friend of mine got pulled over for speeding and he told me "I had to let them search my car for drugs otherwise they were going to impound it."
And in the worst case we have new material for a Citizen Kane remake.
Dear Employees:

You're all going on minimum wage. Don't like it - we are ready to deploy JournalistBot 1.0.

Oh, and we're moving to North Carolina so we can fire you anytime.

Love, Jeff.
First, the idea of expecting technical skill out of someone willing to do cold calling is... laughable. Are you willing to cold call folks? I'm not. It's unpleasant. If you have technical skill, you can get a job doing something rather less scummy, and deal with people who don't hate dealing with you.
Most business owners try to maximize profit. Bezos is clearly not doing this for the money, so the paper will be less beholden to corporate/revenue interests and more beholden to Bezos himself. How that works out depends on how close to Plato's "benevolent dictator" Bezos ends up being; the statement says that he's planning to try.
If technical recruiters did actually have technical experience, they could make much more money being programmers rather than working as recruiters. Therefor, there are few to no technically experienced recruiters. This isn't a problem that's going to fix itself, unless companies start valuing recruiters by paying the good ones a lot more. Clearly, this isn't happening widely, if at all. So instead of bitching about bad recruiters, startup founders could put their money where their mouths are and hire technically experienced people to recruit for them.
Geeky tangent:

Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. - H2G2
This is not a power grab - this is the natural effect of gravity - the last twenty years saw an almost cataclismlc shift in strategic leverage from non-Internet to Internet businesses, and now all that cash is exerting its pull - and power is sliding over the table.

Just watch as the rest of the baby boomer generation die off and hand over their assets.
Doesn't matter, it's a global market.
saying flat design is a danger to tablets is thinking wrong. They aren't thinking like a user, where all the pretty little pictures do something and you can interact in the tablet in new and exciting ways. We don't need a scrollbar to tell us the list can scroll, we should be able to figure it out by the way it runs off the page. We don't need a 3d-esque button to know that clicking on the box labeled "send" (or the little paper airplane icon) will ship off our letters. Everything is touchable and does something. If someone sits down at your app and doesn't realize that they can interact with the element, or tries to interact only to find out that they can't, flat design hasn't failed you - good Design has failed you.
There are many kinds of olive varieties, some of them growing in the span of one or two towns. Saying it is supposed to taste like this or like that without saying from which kind of olives it was made sounds kind of nonsensical.

Another matter is that of honesty. Italy is known to export more olive oil than it produces and it is buying production from quite a lot of towns in my country and then mixing it and packaging it with oils from other places.

If you want good olive oil, try to find small productions, ensure that it was stored in the dark if possible and taste it first (dipping bread on the oil not just sprinkling, it should be quite soaked). Supermarket olive oil of any price is only suitable for frying, that much is known.
It's not sadistically low in comparison to the rest of the UK, £40,000 will put you in the top 10% of earners in the country.

Obviously it's not amazing pay, seeing as the average wage here is around £26k, it's not awfully bad.
Good to know that. I was trying that code in GHCi, which explains a few things now.
Just because you don't find businessmen to be worthy of looking up, doesn't mean somebody else doesn't. There's plenty of room on HN for differing beliefs, even if you find it nauseating.

I regard earning money in a productive fashion and without the use of force to be one of the greatest things a person can do. That's my belief, and I don't force anybody else to agree with me.
That is ridiculously rude. I've had that happen to me at my current job. Way to leave a good impression, slimy recruiters.
> I can't see him doing much worse as the head of a major news medium than Rupert Murdoch

Worst compliment ever.
Sure. As I said, we will produce every way we can. Talking about the long term.
Really? You fire out a whole screed with pretensions of expertise and now it's up to me to provide figures?

Ok. World energy consumption is about 15 Terawatts.

Solar energy incoming is about 174,000 Terawatts.

Therefore, the percentage increase in energy output if we took all....actually, I'm sure you can work the rest out for yourself.
As a matter of fact, that's the way many successful startup founders operate - lots of them say they get their best hires by referrals from existing hires.
Great idea!

A couple of quick thoughts:

- Add a sign-up form for being notified when new cities come online.

- I did a sample search https://www.cameralends.com/gear?utf8=%E2%9C%93&brand=nikon&... and just got a blank page. No other details on what went wrong.

- A rented "Kit" category option would be helpful. I don't really want to deal with two separate people/pick-ups/etc on the transaction and would rather get a body and lens from one person.
Not particularly.

I can reframe the issue by pointing out that programming is hard, and it's something we've only recently been seriously doing. I analogize it to reading and writing as "we haven't even found the phonetic alphabet" (or at least agreed that Lisp is that :-).

Going further, that means a lot of aspiring programmers have no chance whatsoever of being good programmers, and a lot just fake it. Going back to the writing analogy, perhaps they write prose good enough for an online comment, but they'll never write a competent novel or serious nonfiction book that a publisher might accept.

But still, they view themselves as programmers, and too many outfits don't check to see if they can really program before making a job offer, and often for some time afterwords. Or they otherwise manage to hold onto positions, at least for a while.
How BBC News implements it's Image Enhancer for responsive images
You mean Page or Brin, no?

The article specially excludes Amazon as being involved and this is specifically a Bezos purchase alone, not an Amazon "acquisition". It may seem like splitting hairs, but this does bring in a non-trivial set of differences.
If that's a profitable investment I'm sure it will be done.
When decisions are tough, it pays to think as a colony
> As far as I know, he has no experience in reporting the unbiased truth and a lot of experience in selling stuff.

Yea, I hope his boss doesn't put him on a reporting job.
Why do I need to sign up? The "You are just a few clicks away from..." shows me that you don't have my best interests in mind. Please let me pick three books, provide a recommendation and then offer me to create an account.

Now I'm going to close my browser, get some sleep and completely forget about your supposedly awesome book recommendations.
If that was the goal he would have had Amazon buy the company. Instead it's a "personal" acquisition.

It's possible this is an elaborate ruse to fool the Graham family into selling their crown jewel (reputationally, at least. The Kaplan test preparation unit is the tail that now wags the profit dog at Washington Post, Inc., as I understand it.). However, that seems like a stretch. I'd much rather have a paper run as a hobby by a man (even a profoundly eccentric one) who can afford it than a board desperate to maximize quarterly earnings.
I've seen people claim that the Nexus 4 has bad battery life, and just don't understand it. I charge my Nexus 4 roughly every other day. And not because it runs out of charge at that point, but because I don't like to have the battery go much under about 40% or so. In my normal usage, the battery would easily last at least 3 days. (I've got a screenshot of the battery being at 25% after 4 days since last recharge).

My use case is roughly:

- About half an hour of screen on per day, mostly web browsing

- About 2h of audio playback per day

- About 3-4h on HSPA every day, on WiFi for the rest of the day

- Several kinds of automatic syncing going on (for example all default Google services, Google Now enabled, automated podcast polling + downloads)

Now, that might not be the heaviest workload in the world. But it's certainly realistic, and at least compared to any other Android phones I've used the battery life is nothing short of amazing.
Can you imagine a new logo with Googley colours?
I did this course a few months back when it was on Skillshare and met Mattan at General Assembly in NYC - he's a sharp guy and very pleasant to talk to. The course is a great introduction for anyone new to programming to get from zero to app in a short period of time. It also allows people to determine if this is something they really want to dive into.
People do not vote for parties - at least technically - they vote for people.

>>> that swing voters hold a disproportionate amount of power

How is it a bad thing? You say people that actually look at the issues at hand and not just mindlessly pull the lever for "our guy" whoever he is hold "disproportionate amount of power". I say they should hold 100% of the power - or 100% of the voters should be like this. The fact that they aren't is exactly the problem!

>>> given that the swing voters are usually not as politically interested as bloc supporters.

"Politically interested" can mean different thing. If bloc voters' only interest is getting "their guy" in power, and keep him there whatever happens, I don't have any sympathy for such kind of political interest. And if you want to see how well it works for those bloc voters, see how well it worked for voters in Detroit or Chicago, who are constantly voting in crooks and mob men.
> Really? I thought bay area salaries were more around 80k+ to take into account cost of living.

Generally yes, but ~$60k salaries are not totally unheard of - particularly in poorly funded startups hiring on equity and/or for junior roles. They are probably outliers.
Per the C99 standard, long long is guaranteed to be at least 64 bits, but is allowed to be larger.
Yup, even if you're totally innocent you can be held in jail for 3 days if a cop decides they don't like you. Once you get before a judge, the pretext charges are dropped and you're free to go. This happened to a friend.

At that point you can counter-sue and you would eventually win, but not without a potentially expensive legal battle. Organizations like the ACLU can only work so many case, so they're pretty ruthless about prioritizing the ones likely to make a media impact.

The worst thing is you can't avoid the police in Texas if you need to drive for work/life. There are mandatory immigration checkpoints miles away from the border. Everyone is stopped and questioned.

It's not just Texas. I was illegally detained and had my car searched despite refusing on the interstate in KS. But it seems to get progressively worse the closer you get to the border with Mexico.
So, perl's design makes it impossible to process perl code from other languages or even with perl sans execution.

No, it doesn't. Anyone who told you so was fibbing. Perl's design allows you to add your own keywords to the language in such a way that the parser knows their arity and any contextual coercions--in other words, as if they were operators defined in the parser itself. This is rare (it doesn't happen often) and it's almost never ambiguous, but because the language used to define these custom keywords is Turing complete, it's possible to create pathological cases which depend on random factors to define a keyword in one of multiple ways...

... but no one ever does that except to prove that it's possible.
Sure was! Click on the "Play with Demo" button at the top of the page and you'll be able to edit the Webflow homepage in Webflow.
I think that's an appropriate analysis; however, it would hold true for most people able to buy a newspaper and I have no specific fears heading in. That's pretty good given the current political climate.
I may be wrong, but I think it's the 1st time the course is being offered, I don't personally remember seeing it before in their course list.
It's like "solving" the odd-numbered problems with the help of the textbook's answer key.
Rubber hose jokes and Strange Fruit did not come from nowhere.
£35-40k is actually very high for a university graduate in the UK.
More like $100k - $150k+ in my experience, depending on what kind of work you're doing.
This is exactly the sort of analysis that conspiracy theorists often never do.

"Drones the size of 747's and several tons of thermite"? Why not just actually hijack a plane?

"More reliable backup shooter on the grassy knoll"? Why not just put that shooter in the book depository in the first place?

"Pacifying the masses by systematically poisoning the air with 'chemtrails' and the water with fluorine"? Why not just reality television, and cushy lives?
I wonder what his "rosebud" is
"1 of about 200" so the pay is probably £37k rather then usual 35.
The sad thing is that people on both sides of the political spectrum complain only about the other side, failing to realize that their own side is equally responsible. I see a lot of people declaring, "This is not the country it used to be," but it's in regards to both PRISM, civil forfeiture, and the Patriot Act; and Obamacare, FHA Loans, and Welfare.

The true problem though is government, both altogether and the increase in the Federal government at the expense of local or State governments. Both the Democratic and Republican parties stand only to lose power by embracing either libertarian or state values. Consequently, a party that weakens itself with its own values, will always fail against a party that strengthens itself. Additionally, when the backlash from Bush's increase in government became too severe on the right, Obama stepped in to increase the size and reach of the government on the left. Until Democrats and Republicans acknowledge this, the political system will continue to use us against each other to enrich themselves and rob us of our liberties.

This is the issue of our generation: the gross overreach of government institutionalized by politicians pitting opposing mass ideologies against each other while empowering themselves. Neither Democrats nor Republicans will ever surrender their party values for fear the other will abuse the opportunity to seize more power.

We need a pro-state or libertarian party. I suspect a pro-state party would generate far greater support, likely because it is part of our historical/constitutional DNA.

EDIT: Sorry for the seemingly tenuous relation to the article. The reason this relates is that all of the justification given by local law enforcement for violating our for Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were Federal precedents and Executive Orders. In other words when the Federal government consistently violates federal (constitutional) laws, local governments are emboldened to do the same. Additionally, the size and power of the federal government itself emboldens it to violate its own (constitutional) accountabilities to the people.
The public loses when a news source losses all credibility for being unbiased. We need more news organizations that are doing real hard hitting journalism and fewer media mouth pieces...long term this is not a good thing...