skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously don't EVER compare Bezos and Murdoch.

Murdoch is easily one of the most evil people to have ever walked on this planet. He enabled the Iraq war which has seen a mass loss of life for no real gain. He supported the widespread hacking of UK citizens. His meddling in politics and elections in the UK, US and Australia is unprecedented, brazen and has unquestionably undermined democracy.

Even now he flew over an Editor from the NY Post to Australia to influence the election here who already is shocking the political scene here.
Well, I don't expect The Customer Factory to be a philosophy book. Instead, I expect it to be full of practical ideas and tools. Most business books, even those about Lean, start from what I see as an alien perspective. Sure, I can glean some valuable insight and maybe put it into practice, but it doesn't speak my language. A practical book on business models that speaks my language would be a valuable thing indeed.
I think that this signals that Bezos is going into the fish and chips business.
I agree with you in the general case, but the Model X isn't targeted at the "average" SUV buyer. They need to appeal to younger, more active buyers -- people who are more likely than most SUV owners to hit the bike trails or ski slopes. We'll see, I guess.
It seems, from this translation, that removing .de and 0049 information is only a part of the process. They probably do something else, but it is probably impossible to filter out most German's info.
and he is spot on with artificial meat. The artificial meat impact on our civilization will be comparable with that of beginning of meat eating by apes 2M years ago.

Once more nutritious than natural, the artificial meat will allow to overcome the current energy limitation on our brain.

Once artificial meat becomes mainstream and eating natural meat become obsolete, the human race will be able to overcome obsolete concepts wrt. human/animal intelligence, which will have profound effect on social ethic and intelligence (the share of human civilization resources going into issues of violence, enforcement (of bad rules onto good people and good rules onto bad people), wars, etc... is staggering - more than half), and, in particular, as a side effect, will open our mentality to outside contact as well.
That's next generation content curation
http://slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/LJ56-2_M...
what does "… alien who has only a tangential in human affairs" even mean? he owns a huge commerce company and just bought a newspaper. isn't he trying to launch humans into space? didn't he recover the rockets from one of humanities greatest space exploits? doesn't he have a famous laugh?
I remember a similar speech given by a director of a certain tech company that acquired us. 10 minutes later people were being let go and shortly after 15% of the employees were told they would be getting 6 month contracts.
The sophistry isn't needed. If an NSA agent provides intel for use against a person in a criminal proceeding, he should have to explain his methodology, and the details of how the intel was obtained.

Consider this. Ptacek rents a car to travel from A to B. NSA/DEA/SOD tips off DPS officers to search Ptacek's car for drugs. Of course, they find drugs. At trial Ptacek's defense is "What drugs? I don't know anything about any drugs!" All the judge, prosecutor, defense knows is that you were pulled over, and you [consented, or PC was otherwise obtained] and lots of drugs were found.

Now, if the origin of the intel hadn't been concealed, Ptacek's defense atty could subpoena President Obama, sorry, I mean the SOD agent, who could testify as to the source of the intel. It might be discovered that there was no evidence to suggest that Ptacek was aware of the drugs concealed in his rental car. It might even be further discovered that hiding drugs in people's car without their knowledge is one of many ways that drug smugglers move contraband.

You completely miss the point of what it means to have a right to face one's accuser.
Anyone for a stem-cell burger?
Very well done. I can recommend this to anybody interested in programming.
That's exactly right, which is why you don't replace your crumple zones and roll cages (primary and secondary containment) with tin foil. That way, even if your brake lines are cut, you still have something protecting you.

Modern reactors are designed so that they will be passively safe. Even if the safety systems get shut down and the reactor core turns into a radioactive puddle of metal, it shouldn't be able to lose containment.
When you can't easily tell a label from a textarea from a button, you know the UI is crap.

Man here's me hoping that I hate the flat UI because it is new and not because it makes different behaviors so indistinguishable in the name of being flat.
Yep, that's because it's just being hidden and not stopped. It's a bug I need to fix :)
As a couter example, I grew up in small town Texas near the TX-LA border and never heard of stories this draconian during my time there. On the contrary, I heard numerous stories of cops basically dumping out small amounts of marijuana from teenagers pipes after traffic stops and telling them to go home an to make better decisions. And no, this was not in relation to well-to-do rich, white, kids.

Obviously my anecdote doesn't prove anything, but it's healthly to keep in mind that broad brush labeling of the whole region as having draconian law enforcement can do a disservice to those that don't fit that label.
What I don't know is whether or not the person in that email is equipped with what he or she needs to actually be able to figure out how to incorporate Stripe.

Are you at all confident that you have taught people how to research and understand what they are looking at?

I've known plenty of people who can follow patterns and regurgitate what they have seen, but have little to no ability to actually create. If what they want to do deviates just a little, they are toast.
Full text search for attachments with Rails and Elasticsearch
Not sample rate, but rather the unrelated concept of "film speed" [1], a measurement of the light sensitivity of a piece of film.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed
The breakthrough claimed is that only one side (the router side) is equipped with a qubit detector, and end nodes only have quantum transmitters, and therefore the cost of deployment for each end node is much lower. This tech doesn't change the basic limitations of what quantum cryptography requiring trusted nodes can achieve: It only secures fiber links, and every router along a path still has to be trusted (ISPs have to be trusted and incorruptible, for instance). It also doesn't help prevent typical hacking, where nodes are attacked, not network links.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVzRbU6y7Ks for the quantum key exchange protocol. The protocol doesn't need a quantum back-channel. What has been "declassified" about this approach?

Whenever you purchase something online and you hit the ‘buy’ button and your computer seems to buffer, taking its sweet time to present you with the order confirmation page and you begin to doubt that the order went through successfully, “that’s because of the cryptography,” says Hughes. It takes time to create a secure line to transmit sensitive information, like your card number, between your laptop, eBay, and your bank. But “in our case that just wouldn’t happen,” says Hughes, “in principle [our invention] could speed up the Internet.”

Bad journalism. That quote is probably taken way out of context. Website delays usually have very little to do with cryptography, and everything to do with the web apps and backend databases or credit card processors being slow to process orders. The slow part of SSL encryption (key exchange) isn't that slow, and is probably already done before you submit an order, if the site uses a ssl session cache.
Letter from Don Graham about the sale of the Post
Brave words but those make you a non-average citizen. For every one like you - who is willing to stand up - there are another 1000 who will tell you to have apathy and frown upon your actions.
Stop. I have to breath :)
I'm just saying how we do it in my oil producing town. The oil you get from your production or from a town producer in the local mill is for salads, toasts, etc. Oil bought in packs of 3-5l in the supermarket (extra-virgin brands) is what we use for frying.

It is so much like that, that now that I live abroad I'm flying with 8l packs of my town's oil at least twice a year.
Great idea. That will make a lot of things easier. A lot of people struggle with obtaining the right dependencies as many people don't already have mercurial and bazaar.
Video explaining how to say no. It has 4 years so I don´t know if is still valid:
http://youtu.be/qIsSyP4Xq1M
I believe this has huge upside, this can turn into a "One Month" brand that teaches everything under the sun. At the moment it's about technology and coding, but the brand is so much more versatile than peepcode or codeschool to name a few.
A/B Testing Ideas
Off-topic but I've noticed you've racked up a lot of karma in a short period of time:

created:	9 days ago

karma:	549

avg:	2.34

Has to be a record.
Why would a multi-cultural society cause governance problems?
Archaeology and GitHub
Quoting Jay-Z, I see...
That's a thing already. Related: It's really annoying. Nobody does it just to genuinely help you - you get spammed halfway to hell. Oh, and maybe a connection or two.
Agreed, andrewcooke's link (repeating here) is a better account: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514581/government-lab-r....
"It's not stupid because it's a conspiracy theory, it's stupid because it's stupid."

I'd say that an "anti-crystal" conspiracy is stupid not because it is stupid (which is just a tautology) but rather because there is no actual evidence for it. In order to not be written off as a "crazy conspiracy theory", you are going to need more than weak circumstantial evidence on par with newspaper clippings haphazardly pinned to a wall with spiderwebs of red yard.
Actually, another thing. It was well known that the whole reason the earth is warmer than the moon was due to the "greenhouse" effect. The idea that we could safely increase the amount of our main greenhouse forcing gas by 70% without any impact, would be the one that was derided.
As if the NSA needs Germany to get at emails on yahoo and google!
Sorry, no it was not sarcasm.
It was from nomorerack not beyond the rack. I did not pay for shipping, not sure about the brand, etc...

it's an item equivalent to this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141025286801?hlp=false&var=

not sure if same brand or not, it was tagged at ~$40 on nomorerack, with the special deal at $12.

it works well and I'm really happy with it :)
If you're looking for things to A/B test, please check out my post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6163397

It details 19 A/B test ideas that have worked for us in the past. I hope HN finds it useful!
How do you know your current design is excluding the right people? The people who are buying your product now might just be reacting to your current color scheme (or lack thereof) or word order.
I was amazed they did that. To admit almost anything was very un-Appley.

I wouldn't mind them opening up a little more.
Funny that all the Google product managers I know personally are ex-Microsoft guys.
Prism was not a day later. From the very article linked to above:

Although the Guardian and the Post published nearly simultaneously on the PRISM story, it looks like the Post may have beaten the Guardian, only just, in getting the story live.

I believe what you are referring to is the initial Verizon FISA story that started the whole thing.
But I fail to see how a pix online would help. Given how easy it is to run a search as is.
Motorola Gives Friends and Family a Free Moto X
Yeah, well, OS X has been using this system to encrypt loginwindow, Finder.app, Dock.app, and iTunes.app, so this doesn't seem like much to write home about.
This is a joke ? WebM and SPDY aren't some altruistic gifts to the world.

WebM is just an pointless nuisance. The world already has a open, video standard that is widely supported, technically superior and stewarded by a wide array of competing companies. And it's only royalty free because nobody can be bothered to sue them yet. It definitely is patent encumbered (see MPEG-LA's recent 'gift' of patents to VP8).

SPDY was another technology that was developed by Google unilaterally instead of working through the existing IETF process. If Google didn't own Chrome it simply would have never taken of.
At some point they must cycle (with TAs?), right? How else to amortize fixed costs?
You're right. I have a 32-bit build, since I get:

* (log most-positive-fixnum 2)
29.0

Thanks.
I wrote that contrived example to show off computed properties. In idiomatic Ember.js, I would have written the template as follows, with no Computed Property (indeed, no explicit Controller) needed:

{{#if name}}Hello, {{name}}{{/if}}
I know :) I've been part of their beta programme. I love this product. It's exactly what I need to design a quick website without needing to: a) learn html and css; and b) deal with another human being.
Honestly, stock options never crossed my mind as a valid reason to stay. They are a nice to have for sure - but they played no role in me wanting to stay. I understand for some people this is a huge incentive, but just not for me.
I've been buying California Olive Ranch oil for a while, after reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/dining/californias-olive-o... . It's about $16 – $17 for 750ml or about $20 – $21 for 1 liter. That's more expensive than generic olive oil but less expensive than many of the alternatives.
Web design returns to its roots -- The Geo Bootstrap theme from Divshot
For some reason this blows my mind. Man, it would be so cool to own the paper that paid the guys that broke Watergate. But it seems so...weird that it would be Bezos. I'd love to see the first meeting.
If I was in charge of Toptal's marketing department I would have responded with a new set of ads featuring shirtless Fabio lookalikes.
A successful technical consultant who makes double what any company could reasonably offer him save the largest. True, this isn't technically "unemployed" but they're practically the same thing - not owned by a competitor, and hirable if you can seduce them.

SaaS and tech consulting are really trendy right now because there are a lot of successful role models for these things. That said, a lot of magnificent failures and wannabes...but that comes with anything.

Add to this the fact that the companies who really understand how valuable good, skilled engineers are will make generous offers with benefits and vacations and conferences and food and luxury and and and...and you see why it becomes difficult to find the really sexy workers.
I like some of your platform, but your post seems to be completely unrelated to the article. If anything this specific article details story of very widespread scale corruption among state and municipal government.
Here's a couple notes from a Canadian founder who's lived in the US for 3 years but has been back for a while due to visa issues. To be fair I haven't dug in that much to the tech community here, but I've checked it out a bit.

Developers in Toronto are very cheap compared to large cities in the US like NYC and SF. A lot of really good Canadian developers move to the US because they get paid 2-3x as much.

There is very little "startup tech culture" in Toronto itself which is good or bad depending on what you want. That being said Kitchener/Waterloo, although very small, is actually closest feeling I've seen to SV with regards to engineering focus and community. It's about 2 hours outside of Toronto.

Most early stage startup investing in Canada is done by BDC (or Business Development Canada). Even with incubators like Extreme Ventures, the company she is working at in the article did Extreme, the majority of the money they invest is from the government of Canada. Canadian founders I know who have taken Canadian money always say that you are better off taking money from investors in the US.

Canadians, in general, are more risk averse. Even Americans who wouldn't start a company understand what entrepreneurship is about as it is kind of baked into the American raison-d'etre -- but this is not the case in Canada.
I don't believe in the "labor shortage should result in higher wages" argument. Usually we are talking about a baseline. If companies believed, they could make more profit by doubling the salary and thus maybe attracting more talent, they would do so.

Supply/demand is all the economics most people understand. But it's not just about the labor market, but what the company is doing with the labor.
I'm still amazed that as reputed institute as Washington Post where shapes opinion of millions of people could be bought out at 1/4th of the price of Instagram.
I'm not sure how a "pro-state" party is going to solve the problems detailed in the article. It seemed that much of the abuse stemmed from state & local entities.

We need a government that protects individual liberties at at all levels: from federal down to local.
Well, the fact that Nobel specified that the prize should be awarded "for work done in the preceding year" certainly argues that he didn't intend to wait for the judgement of history.
For more on this, see the New Yorker's 2007 article "Slippery Business: The trade in adulterated olive oil" at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_....

I'm surprised "they" haven't worked to further regulate the field; apparently one problem is that developing chemical tests to reliably discern real from fake olive oil is very difficult.
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One Bilderberger sells paper to another Bilderberger.

> He is also a member of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Recognition

> He is also an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended conference meetings in Greece 2009,[4] and Spain 2010 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Graham#Other_roles
I'm really interested in this. As a New Yorker, I don't find this principle. Is it superbly difficult to commute to the Bay Area from a less urban surrounding? In New York City, if you don't have the money to pay for an urban apartment you can live in the Bronx or Westchester and easily commute to the city.
Seconding this. It also tastes somewhat different, which is a matter of preference admittedly. I personally love the typical flavor of oil from Kalamata olives, which makes up a large part of the Greek-labeled production (i.e. bottled as Greek olive oil, rather than exported for blending).

Greek marketing and distribution has been poor, however, and very slowly improving. The traditional place to buy it in the U.S. has been in 5-liter tins at Mediterranean grocery stores catering to immigrants (depending on the region, these might be "Greek", "Lebanese", "Turkish", or "Arab" supermarkets). These are a great deal, especially if you cook with it, but off the radar of most regular shoppers. Lately I have been seeing it in smaller bottles in normal grocery stores more often. Trader Joe's now has a house brand of 100% Greek Kalamata olive oil, which they buy in bulk and bottle, and is very good for the price.

This is one thing the Italians got way out front of the Greeks on. Both Italians and Greeks at home will not typically buy small glass bottles of olive oil; the 5-L tin is the typical container. Partly that's because it's used in cooking, not just to sprinkle on salads or pasta. Especially in Greece and southern Italy, it's the main cooking fat, since butter, lard, canola oil, sunflower-seed oil, etc. are not widely used. But Italians realized that selling smaller bottles to the boutique export market was a good business, while Greeks only realized later that there was this market for premium-priced oil in a 500-mL bottle, aimed at people who use it for smaller-volume things (i.e. not for cooking imam baildi or French fries).

It does last a long time, though, so if you want a good deal, find your local Mediterranean market and pick up a tin, then transfer portions to a more convenient bottle with a funnel. Kept in a cool, dark place, you should get several years of shelf life.

edit: Everywhere I said 5-L above, substitute 3-L. Misremembered the size. The tins are rectangular and look like this: http://www.thegoodfoodnetwork.com/shop/images/26713/Iliada-p...
Yes, like most successful software companies were built by one man: Microsoft, Apple, Google... oh wait...
Just say no.

It is important to remember that the police has an adversarial relationship to you. Their job is to look for reasons to arrest you. Asserting your rights or looking suspicious is not a crime.

> Above all, stay calm, friendly, and respectful, all while standing firm.

This advice cannot be repeated enough. Most of us deal with the police so infrequently that, in that adversarial context, we have very little practice on how to do it effectively. Worse yet, asserting your rights appears to violate many of the social strictures on not being rude and respecting authority. Quoting Sen no Rikyu, "that must be set aside".
> Things are getting worse.

I can see why you might feel that way but, in the long-term big picture, no, they're really not. There was a time when law enforcement wasn't required to recognize your right to be silent, for example, and most of the civil rights advances of the sixties still hold. Civil forfeiture is dangerous and relatively new, but there was plenty of dangerous stuff back in the day.

Now, the fact that things could be a lot worse is depressing in a whole different way...
The Union Square Whole Foods has a good selection. See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6162695.
"down 40% or so this year"

What is your best guess as to what is causing that? Is it primarily penguin/panda related?
My friend just told me this made it to the front page of HN and I feel I should add a quick follow up that a year later I haven't been happier about the decision. I actually decided to start my own company a couple months ago with a friend and former classmate, and we are actually part of the current YC batch (www.amulyte.com) and I couldn't be more excited about how things have turned out :)
He removed the dash last week.
I don't think it's worse than the models for SCCS, RCS, and CVS, which I used in various projects before SVN. ;)
Interesting. Warren Buffet has always gobbled up a large chunk of newspapers (albeit not directly as an individual (ala Bezos), rather, through Berkshire Hathaway):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-13/buffett-poised-to-a...

Buffett, 81, has been expanding Berkshire’s media operations in the past year as he wagers that publications focused on local communities can withstand the shift of readers and advertisers to the Internet. The billionaire’s firm bought the publisher of his hometown paper, the Omaha World-Herald Co., in December, and acquired 63 daily and weekly newspapers from Media General Inc. (MEG) for $142 million last month.

Local papers vs something larger like WaPo.

And note:
While Buffett’s firm holds the largest stake in Washington Post Co. (WPO) and has shares of Gannett Co., he said Berkshire is less likely to make more stock market investments in the industry.
Can this be easily exported to Wordpress?
Indian IT firm accused of discrimination against “stupid Americans”
I agree. I'm afraid if we want to keep lots of high quality journalism around, some of it is going to have to be subsidized in one way or another. Rich patrons are one way of doing that.
It may be true that many who buy pickaxes won't find gold, but if you don't buy a pickaxe or make your own (as you did), you definitely aren't going to find gold!

Besides, the canonical Ruby book is the "Pickaxe Book." What other metaphor fits?
So logically, someone probably has.