skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, okay. That makes more sense. But I thought the standard way to phrase that restriction was something more like "Username may only contain letters, numbers, and the symbols _.@/- ."
I am having a hard time imagining what functionality you are missing in Android that Windows is providing? Not trying to defend either one of both, just being curious.
yes, that works too :)
if you follow ioerror and ggreenwald on twitter you probably have some idea of what forced this particular cache of articles.
Downtime is downtime - if you're measuring service reliability the planned or unplanned nature of it being offline doesn't really come into play. When people say five 9s, they don't mean "except for when you decide to take it offline".
I would be interested in seeing their capacity planning. That would tell us how long it'll take to fix up the system.

In the meantime, we (software developers) can help. Data is widely available. I made one info graphic:

http://vida.io/discussion/SuRAGDs7J78HCvoxE

Anyone is interested in building more tools?
The unsuccessful partnership with Motorola (& Cingular wireless) mentioned in the article was probably w/ the "Rokr"

See press release:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/09/07Apple-Motorola-Cin...
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"In the span of seven years, the iPhone and its iPad progeny have become among the most important innovations in Silicon Valley’s history. They transformed the stodgy cellphone industry. "

What other stodgy industry is there that Apple could easily disrupt? How about this: how does it make you feel when you use the DVR box that your cable / satellite company forces you to use, to watch tv? I know the answer for me. Seems like low hanging fruit with potentially enormous payoff for Apple.
Read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, if you haven't.
While i agree that xmonad is a bit of a pain to configure the first time around (especially if you're not used to writing code in haskell) I find that you can use the mouse pretty extensively with xmonad.

For example with this in my xmonad.hs:

((0,9), (\_ -> moveTo Next NonEmptyWS))
((0,8), (\_ -> moveTo Prev NonEmptyWS))

I can move between work spaces with only my mouse (In this case with the extra 2 buttons on the left).
Iran spends ~10bn/yr for the "on the books" part of their military. How much vulnerability research do you think $500MM buys? Answer: a lot.
Maybe he can find a firm that takes bitcons.
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The article currently says "Sandpit"
Hardcore gamers are far too small of a market, however. I really had hope that Valve would do some serious system integration that would you get you much more for less (effectively what the shortly to be released consoles do. PC wise they are a fantastic amount of power), but instead it's just apparently the same PC market, with the only novelty being the shape of the box.
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You literally connect Stripe to us, create a template, and then connect it with your ESP (SendGrid/Mailgun/Mandrill/etc). No code, I promise!
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> In one case, they said, Ulbricht paid $80,000 in bitcoins to have a former website employee tortured and killed after he was arrested. But according to prosecutors, the anonymity of Silk Road backfired on Ulbricht after he asked a purported drug smuggler to carry out the hit.

The smuggler was actually an undercover agent, the government said - the same agent who had arrested the employee.

Are there more details about this previous arrest?
>YC company-related submissions being boosted //

I missed the disclosure on this one, is it in the FAQ or somewhere else?
Nobody follows standards the W3C publish just because the W3C publish them. Indeed, if they have a good reason (or sometimes not so good reason) not to, they won't.

Publishing a standard that says "the user agent MUST support Ogg/Theora/Vorbis" doesn't change anything until you motivate the company that implementing that standard is more important than anything else. And as long as IE, Safari, and Chrome all supported H.264 (etc.) anyway, most web developers would just use H.264 thus giving MS, Apple, and Google no (external) motivation in terms of site-compatibility to support Ogg/Theora/Vorbis, and if the market (i.e., browser users) don't care about it — they won't add support.
Microsoft wants your phone to be a PC , then the embrace - extend - extinguish walk will be on, with all the dirty tricks,racketeering and blackmailing MS can do like it did for over 2 decades with it's OEM 'partner'.

And MS wonders why it has such a bad reputation now.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-connec...
> the definition of what "criminals" means is independent of the value judgement of the correctness of the state's laws.

Do you have proof which is not from a State-backed agency on this assertion?
To think about that a bit:

Actually, there have been several pretty brutal genocidal events in history that have points of comparison to the Holocaust. In no particular order, it is instructive to look at the Holodomr of Ukraine, Pol Pot, Stalin's purges, the Hutu-Tutsi conflict.

There's no sense in calling forum moderators nazis in general, which is why Godwin came about. But when considering large-scale genocide and surveillance societies, comparisons to Nazi Germany do become relevant.
Where are you getting that from? There is nothing at all about price, and we all know that the OEM cost of Windows is ~$50. Valve is going with Linux because it decouples them from being vulnerable to fits of Microsoft, not because that $50 whole system price somehow makes a $1200 nvidia Titan less expensive.
That would be great if Android would be a far better OS than WP8 which comparing the performance/hardware requirement ratio on both OSs doesn't seem to be the case.
A bit of info here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/feds-silkroad-bos... and commentary here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486718
It would be nice if this also showed how much money the shutdown has cost, being that it costs $12.5 million/hour.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101078145
I've been reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Having-Little-Means-Much/dp/0...

Which has some excellent insights into this sort of behavior. Basically if you don't have enough money you are willing to borrow against a future payout for an extortionate rate (say 5% if you pay it back in a month which is an annualized rate of 60% interest). But what it really means it that the 5% you paid to get early access to money is a huge chunk of your future income. Lets say you make $1000/month and you're always behind so you're always getting a payday loan with a 5% rate which you pay back when you get paid. Over 12 months you've paid 12 * $50 or $600 for that privileged which is nearly an entire month's pay. Great for the lender, sucks for you.

Not surprisingly the principle is pretty general. I found when reading it that I could exchange "time" for "money" (which is to say making poor time choices when I felt time was scarce which would only cause me to have even less time in the future)
If the price you are paying for that is your privacy and security (i.e. proliferation of DRM), then the price is not $7.99 a month. You are just fooled to believe it's such. It's the same misleading perception people have, when they say that Facebook is "free". No, they are paying with their personal data for it.

So, the argument that it's "cheap" is invalid, and a separate question to ask is, how much do you value your privacy?
It probably penalizes them, assuming the no-fires-for-100m-miles was not a fluke. There's no way to know for sure without knowing the true distribution of fires per mile.
actually, despite its reputation as a bad opensource citizen, NVIDIA proprietary drives are the best for linux gaming. Their performance are on par with windows.
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There's enough interesting IP out there for running Android apps on other OSes that I could see MS adding that as a subsystem on WinPhone, but it looks like this is more about dual-boot. I find dual booting a phone to be silly, but could see the draw in having an Android VM for app use in WinPhone.
The chance goes from 0.000000010 to 0.000000020

If I had the cash I would still purchase a Tesla after the second fire as well.
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I am curious about the enclosure they've built to minimize heat and noise coming from the GPU and the 450W PSU.

A couple of years ago I built a small AMD Llano based computer using a small enclosure sold by Mini-Box and an 80W fanless Pico Power Supply also sold on the site.

Case - http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure

PSU - http://www.mini-box.com/picoPSU-80

It is much quieter than an Xbox 360, but also can't play any XBox level games on it (I use it as an HTPC). I'd be curious to see what I can do today with the same amount of power using Haswell, some 28nm GPU and SteamOS.
A study by UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto actually showed that luxury car owners were by far the most aggressive drivers, and the least likely to stop for other road users.

http://www.bankrate.com/financing/cars/study-bmw-drivers-are...

For whatever reason BMW stood out most of all as the worst of the worst in this study, but 'expensive car drivers are better drivers' has been proven to not be an assertion you can make from common sense or intuition.
You can't use the proceeds of crime to fund your defense.

If he can't show income then he gets a public defender.

Also this is a federal defender and my understanding (I'm a Brit watching from afar) is they are like our QC's (Queens Counsel - essentially very good and experienced legal professionals) rather than the stereotypical "plead to everything and go to lunch" public defenders.
I think rather than negativity and "triumph at someone's mistakes", it may be a combination of:

1. They are comparing themselves to a successful commercial product (the iPhone / iPad) which was orders of magnitude more polished and performant when it was released. This is complete rubbish and is going to raise the hackles of people who have worked on and delivered decent product.

2. There are pull requests on their repo three months old that have not been merged. People are fixing problems for them, but these fixes are not being merged -- not even the simple typo fix ones.

3. This site is supposed to be a guide for acquiring something you are legally required to have (or you face a financial penalty). The bar for usability for such a site should be way higher than "redirect to a a phone line every time we get a lot of traffic".
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Mythbusters tested the "shoot a car's gas tank and make it explode" myth. A punctured gas tank may not explode... but it will leak. And a puddle of gas on the ground around the car can catch fire more easily. And then things get worse from there.
"Unfortunately , we were not able to find any good way to discover a new hidden service or to find where a known hidden service is hosted. For more discussion, see sections 7.2.2, Locating known hidden services and 7.3, Discovering unknown hidden services."

Yet there was an attack (on an older version of Tor) published openly not long before this paper was written. (http://www.onion-router.net/Publications/locating-hidden-ser...)
The name on the forum thread is sandipt. This is what happens when lazy non-journalists fail to do the most basic detail checking. Or seek a more credible source. Or seek an official comment.
This is true, and is an argument for pragmatism over strict adherence to the spec.

But if we take that route at what point do we start telling people they're doing it wrong or that they're API isn't _really_ RESTful?

I'm inclined to think the answer is "never" and just encourage people to create APIs that are appropriate for the actual circumstances.

There are generally practical reasons to be RESTy, but "a foolish consistency" and all that comes into play as well.
I would counter with, "How dare you assume that all Tesla drivers have disposable income to throw around". I happen to be close to buying one and know a few other owners who are average middleish class people who normally would have bought a porsche or a tesla. I work in tech and as a result am paid pretty decent. Do I have disposable money (or my friends) to buy a Tesla Model S? No! However, given where I live and where I want to drive + the recharging stations, Tesla is a good option for me.

Do not assume just because someone is able to get enough money to buy something expensive,that they have tons of money. By that same logic, anyone who is able to buy a home is clearly flush with cash and able to throw it all around. Completely ridiculous.
Those little blocks look packed full of electronics. Only simple when you put a skin on it.
Wow, you linked a homeopathic reference. This doesn't really deserve a response but I'll give it anyways.

It's anecdotal, but for the first 3 days after a major timezone travel difference (6+ hours), I take 2 pills (I think 6mg?) for the first 3 days after I travel about an hour before sleeping, then drink a couple cups of coffee in the morning.

I guess it depends on how you define "remedy" but this helps me sleep all the way through the night, and the caffeine helps keep me awake during the day.

This combination takes my jetlag from debilitating to annoying.

On the 4th day I have 0 jetlag related issues.
> but when I click the link in the email it pulls up a page that says "We could find any account with the information you provided" - yes, with the information I provided from their own link. Have done that three times.

Frequently when I see that sort of thing it's because they're escaping/stripping characters out - often using myemail+tag@gmail.com will result in myemailtag@gmail.com or myemail%2btag@gmail.com and the resulting lookup will fail if it isn't de-escaped correctly.
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On https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/ they show an image that indicates all sorts of GitHub activity: http://imgur.com/Cx93Y2U

Isn't that the default image? Their real graphs show only 1 contributor and 1 commit.
As a user of both I like the experience on WP8 way better. I don't know about OC but I would be missing Xbox music, Office, Skydrive, Live Tiles and People Hub. Here in Canada there are not really an alternative to Xbox Music (Nokia music maybe), Google Docs doesn't provide the same experience as Office and between DropBox and Skydrive I prefer the last one.
I've reached the same conclusion myself. I always find the lists of "sleep hygiene" suggestions to be incredibly misguided. Proper sleep hygiene is important, but I've come to believe that blue light is the most important "zeitgeber" (an environmental cue that influences the circadian rhythm) and it seems to be very rarely mentioned.
This reminds me of a VMWare acquisition last year of a cloud automation firm DynamicOps. It turns out that DynamicOps was actually a spinoff from one of bulge bracket investment bank Credit Suisse's IT groups. The bank appears to have been quite supportive, complete with venture funding. Quite an interesting story of how tech innovation can come from some unexpected places.
thank you, sounds interesting about brainstem BIOS/etc... , while other staff (i looked up from Wikipedia):

" The federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs.[3] Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in sovereign, gated housing developments. ... . The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the dynamic society around them."

sounds very similar to USSR/Russia around 1989-92. It were a fun times :)
Initial attempts to douse the fire were unsuccessful. “The fire appeared to be extinguished, then reignited underneath the vehicle,” the report said. Firefighters had to use a jack to turn the Model S on its side, and then cut a hole in the car to apply water to the burning battery.

He seemed to skip that last bit. (?)
> If you're fine with criminalizing the sale of contaminated meat

I'm fine with criminalizing any form of fraud. Selling contaminated meat as good meat is fraud. If someone sold aspirin with heroin in it but didn't label it as such, they'd be guilty of fraud also.

> You'd better serve your interests

If my interests aren't in line with my principles, that would make me more of a hypocrite than we're already forced to be at times.
Point of technicality, it's not "essential," it's "exempt from furlough."

There are plenty of government functions that are "essential" that have been mothballed for the shutdown. For example, there's no money for Federal Highway Grants, so the people who manage Federal Highway Grants are furloughed. When there's no funding, there's a lot fewer people needed.

The "exempt from furlough" employees constitute a much smaller pool of activities: those that can not be stopped. For example, FEMA employees that are responding to TS Karen, Border Patrol agents, TSA employees, VA Hospital workers.
That's a really good suggestion, but some top shops won't waste their time.

In our early days, we would have done this at DarwinApps - now, we need to know the long-term is there before we start investing our time and thoughts behind the efforts.
Public defenders range from quite good to incompetent, but almost all of them are over-worked because of the large number of things made illegal in our bloated legal system. So, many public defenders encourage their clients to plea guilty for crimes they did not commit. Sadly this happens far too often in the US. HBO did a documentary about this recently: www.hbo.com/documentaries/gideons-army
You can't compare the browser situation however many years ago and the Maps calamity. Google's app was hardly a "shitty" alternative, but as others have indicated the Apple response is mostly due to other reasons. How many iOS users rejoiced when Google Maps got rereleased?
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You're missing the point - he's not actually making that argument, he's showing how easy it is to make any argument if you back it up with anecdotal conjecture rather than data.
Do not assume just because someone is able to get enough money to buy something expensive,that they have tons of money.

Or sense. Or street smarts. That was the OP's point.
n=2, see my response to chmars
I spent 5 minutes writing a Hacker News comment and even qualified my assumption with the word "probably". At best, I get a bit of karma.

Musk is speaking definitively, and has literally a billion dollars at stake with this post.

My point wasn't necessarily that I'm right -- much like you, I'm just arguing that the logic isn't as simple as it's made out to be.
The learning curve is very steep. I'm still learning how to play it after 1+ years with it. For me, the big deal is that it is a new genre (for me) and I also love that it forces teamwork and strategy with players that play a 'support' role which their sole goal is to help a 'carry' win his lane. Check out highlights of Dendi from Navi in Dota 2 International 2013.

It's basically a game of chess.
Also, it's fair for any U.S. citizen to critique the site, since we are paying for it.
I'd like to read a sample chapter, or just a section, or something. Choose a topic relevant to HN, like selecting new employees, or taking control of an existing project team, or pricing your services (or a new app). I'll probably back it at the hardcover level if you show me that.
So.... $1.2 B or $78 M?
Well, even non-U.S. citizens who work in the U.S. on visas pay for the site through their taxes. In fact, they also pay for Social Security and Medicare without generally being eligible to receive either of those benefits.
Yes!

But so long as it is merely a means to an end, we don't call them tech companies.

UPS is a shipping/logistics solutions company, even though they have massive Databases.

GM is a car company, even if they write lots of CAD/CAM.
I've tried both high and low dose, and many different brands. Effects are the same either way. I usually go with the high dose since I'll only be taking it for one night anyway.
It would be cool if on the bar chart the two bars for each agency could be combined; make the furloughed employees in blue and show the rest of the agency in grey-blue or something like that, so it more visually shows how the agencies are diminished.
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I don't think that's the whole story. It's true that companies often buy cost-effective but unsexy computer hardware for their employees (viz. Dell). But back when the Macintosh was getting its market-share crushed by good-enough Win95 PCs, consumers were behaving in a similar price-conscious way. (Though the crashiness of late System 7 probably helped to loosen emotional attachments to the Mac as well.) In fact the Mac had famous bulwarks of continued demand in the institutional education market and among graphics and other "creative" professionals.

However, the situation is different in some ways that favour Apple this time. The shift to smaller, portable devices like the iPod, iPhone and iPad really seems to help Apple to sell premium products, because probably many more people are tempted to choose their phone on emotional (or quality) grounds than their PC. First, people tend to associate the PC with 'work' - in particular, with grinding office documents for work - or with utilitarian duty as a thinnish client for the Web. And unlike a desktop box which sits mostly hidden under your desk, you touch, lift and look at your phone's hardware many times every day. You also take it to public places where other people will get to know about and admire your lifestyle choice. (A laptop is roughly halfway between a phone and a desktop computer in these respects.) And a smartphone still generally costs less than a PC - the price of a whole iPhone after subsidy can easily be less than the price premium for a Mac over a PC. (Back in '96 a desktop computer cost even more than it does now, and better hardware specs could make a big difference to the quality of the user experience, so buyers had a compelling motivation to save their money and/or spend it on specs rather than OS polish or brand mystique.) In the iPhone Apple can sell a glowing, no-compromises 'perfect thing' and at the same time sell it for a lot less.

Which isn't to say that the march of good-enough Android isn't going to squeeze Apple in future: I think it will.
There have been many more serious road accidents with Teslas. Just ones with more mundane causes.
Author here. You bring up a very good point. How do you enforce the 15 minute rule?

Part of it is incentive structure. That is, detecting when a team implicitly rewards augering in on a problem when stuck. After that, showing that there's no loss of credibility for asking questions and that answering reasonable questions is part of the job.

After that, subsequently rewarding people who "try and ask", which will net out to more productivity anyway.

Wow. Yeah. There are many paragraphs to write about this. Thanks for the food for thought!