skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an argument (I'm not really sure how strong an argument) that this isn't Amazon management's problem, it's investors' problem.

Amazon have a strategy which they believe is for the long term good of the company. Sell cheap, grow market share, get more repeat/prime customers, expand (by investing) into new areas. They've been doing that for a good while now. They're profitable. They don't rely on They're growing. It's articulated and consistent. Investors who believe in it, are welcome to buy stock. Those who don't can sell (at a nice, high price)Evidently many do believe.

HN likes to bring up fiduciary duty in these cases, but I don't think that extends as far as some comments suggest. Management can't deceive or steal or funnel money to friends. The board has a responsibility to get rid of incompetent managers. None of that is going on here. When it comes to the strategy of the company and decisions like growing market share vs maximizing profits, I think investors vote with their position more than anything else. Another way of looking at it is that "investor" is not a set thing. Different investors have different philosophies and strategies. The ones that like Amazon's strategy are the ones that own the shares in Amazon.
Its a great IDE, but they don't accept bitcoin so their loss
>Costs will rise to the minimum that everyone is known to afford

Isn't the point to have a minimum that everyone can afford?

There's also an unstated (and wrong) assumption that however much food / apartments / transportation / etc is fixed and unchanging, rather than a variable that tracks the demand for these products - so presumably if you add a lot of money you will have to produce/spend however much energy it costs to extract rocks and wheat from the ground, but everything after that is mostly free since the infrastructure for turning rocks and wheat into iphones and pizza already exists.
I'm far from an electrical expert, but I don't understand how this will save power for the majority of people. Won't we just be converting from AC to DC one step further up the electrical chain? It's not like the power company is going to start sending me DC. I get that it will benefit people with solar, which is nice. But that's far from the majority of people.

Any electrician want to correct my ignorance on this?
I always remember the name as "PHPuppet" :(
> I think Prime is amazing.

It was until Amazon created the concept of 'Add-on Items', which they have retrospectively applied to thousands of items.

These items cannot be bought on their own, even if you wanted to pay for shipping. Not even by Prime members.
Well, No. I didn't say anything like that. In fact, I'm not quite sure how you got that interpretation from what I wrote (assuming you read the whole thing, and not just the first sentence).

For clarification, the problem is not that it's now being marketed, it's that it is marketed along with unverified medical claims.
Show HN: Jop - J language commands for Ruby
I didn't mean that the whole world should just adopt Apple's cable; instead, a new one could be developed, that is actually useful (i.e. as useful as Apple's cable).
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I'm used to it, so ignored it, but I really wish Lustig would drop the conspiracy talk. I get that he's outraged. But it doesn't help.

I've been called out for citing Micheal Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma). I was shocked. But apparently anything that challenges the status quo is suspect.
There might be problems in the CSS of the main website (apparently it's not one of the greatest WP Templates i've ever bought)
anyway...here's an image that shows you the prices options as they should be:

http://i.imgur.com/p6YzPHw.png
As someone point out, this is not a Firefox warning. This is a Java warning installed by Oracle. Please complain with them :)
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It's stunning how much rhetoric is founded in the politician's syllogism.
The difference? Be sure to point out why tricking you into installing it isn't malicious, why it's not malicious that after that it changes your default search provider to send your searches to them (privacy much?), and why it's not malicious that it's abnormally hard to remove (a quick Google will demonstrate the normal 'remove toolbar' steps don't work, even Wikipedia has a note and several links on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com ).

It tricks people to installing it, reports your search activity (maybe other data? I can't find details, not installing it myself), and takes major, unnecessary steps to make it hard to uninstall it. Sounds like malware to me.
Looks impressive. I'm a Ruby guy, but I would probably start with this if I was getting into Python/Django.
Startup Marketing = Cash + Commitment
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The only time I break out Safari is to watch these livestreams or file a bug report in radar
It's still usually the USB logo in that case. The one exception I've noticed is the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 mouse, which goes in with the Cyborg logo up.
I understand. I also agree. I'd love to see a new micro-USB replacement which is reversible.
Not really. Basic income will force companies that hire unskilled workers to automate their business processes aggressively that in turn may lower prices for basic products.

Rent control is much more prone to inefficient bureaucracy as the amount of regulation and border cases is higher.
"[...] using a connector included on all modern computers".
In addition to the other issues with this, a standard orientation would require either the PCB the connector's mounted on to be orientated a certain way (potentially having a knockon effect for other design decisions in the device) or require a whole load of different PCB mounted USB connectors. Both would add cost which the manufacturers would much rather do without. In the cheapest devices, the orientation of the USB port would probably be the first thing to go out the window, making the whole exercise redundant.

What's needed is a robust connector with an easily visually determined orientation and the sort of power transmission capabilities that the new USB PD standard has.
Our site -- https://www.PikaPay.com, does Bitcoins via Twitter.

If you're interested please take a look. Still a lot of work to be done, but we welcome any requests, suggestions and criticisms you might have.

As announced at the San Jose Bitcoin Conference in May, we've built an enterprise API that's open to everyone. (See https://Github.com/PikaPay ) An integration with Coinbase is already in the works.
I was working on HA software in 1992. Specifically, I was working on the software from which Linux-HA copied all of its terminology and basic architecture. We ourselves were not the first, and often found ourselves copying things done even earlier at DEC, so I'm not complaining, but I want to make the point that this article from 2010 is actually a rehash of a much older conversation. As cute as the metaphor is, it gets two things seriously wrong.

(1) Fencing and STONITH are not the same thing. Fencing is shutting off access to a shared resource (e.g. a LUN on a disk array) from another possibly contending node. STONITH is shutting down the possibly contending node itself. They're quite different in both implementation and operational significance. Using the two terms as though they're interchangeable only sows confusion.

(2) You only need STONITH if you have the aforementioned possibly contending nodes - in other words, only if the same resource can be provided by/through either node. If the resources provided by each node are known to be different, as e.g. in any of the systems derived from Dynamo, then STONITH is not necessary.

To elaborate on that second point, the problem STONITH addresses is one of mutual exclusion. It might not be safe for the resource to be available through two nodes, because it could lead to inconsistency or because they can't both do a proper job of it simultaneously. As in other contexts, mutual exclusion is a useful primitive but often not the optimal one to use. In general it's better to avoid it by avoiding the kinds of resource sharing that make it necessary. That's why "shared nothing" is the most common model for such systems designed in the last decade or more, and they don't need STONITH unless they've screwed up by not fully distributing some component (such as a metadata server for a distributed filesystem).
I found my eyes kept trying to focus the image - especially the A - and I felt a visceral frustration when they couldn't do it.
I can't edit my message anymore so I reply here.

After reviewing the facts by discussing them with nknighthb it appears the warning message that prompted me to blame Mozilla for a confusing warning message was due to Oracle and their Java warning pop-up. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/202857/java.png

My apologies :], I am a little bit ashamed for not spotting it sooner.
I wouldn't consider this "looking good". Last time I checked you still had to put great amount of work to get them to look halfway decent [1].

[1] Screenshot from OSX: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4bwc3txkq71otd/Screenshot%202013-...
Thank you for puphpet! Great tool!
we are talking about Java , why do you want to talk about Flash? because you want your daily flash bashing fix?
So, with any luck, either the web developers will fix their websites or, one can dream, Oracle will actually start to pay attention to security :)
Here where I live, AMZ has partnered with some terrible delivery companies, and a lot of buyers are complaining about the awful shipping experience and are starting to look elsewhere. So I suppose that's correct, they need to handle that themselves.
Ok, now we just need to convince W3C.
Only when I want to do menu-things. The site mentions asking people to find content on the page - I would eventually check the menu-area (the correct answer is over on the right), but I would definitely tune it out until I'd exhausted the obviously-more-likely-to-be-useful areas.
Lumigrids – the LED projector that keeps cyclists out of potholes
Unless you french them and fry them in oil, then you just need two.
Left/right/back of screen is still the same direction. If it's counter-clockwise from green-up, it's green-left everywhere, including walls. On anything parallel with the floor you're right - so color-code the plug.
Because the date on the account tells you how long somebody's been lurking, or if they had previous accounts.

I have been lurking here since about 2 years before you created your account (see what I did there?), and while comparisons with Reddit may have been misplaced, comparisons with Slashdot look more and more apt to me.
Looks ok, but I feel this one is by far the cleanest, usable and extendable. https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/detail-admin-responsive-them...
I suppose someone could incorporate a procedure which strips down unnecessary strings from code files ("minifies"), especially comment blocks, during the deployment process, thus maintaining a nice development codebase while not having questions over performance.
The toxic masculinity of Breaking Bad
Storage is good for someone who is between apartments for whatever reason. I used it for when I moved across the country, and didn't have a permanent residence for several months, I was staying with friends and family.

Also good for college kids who go abroad, home for summer, co-op, etc...
Having worked in the aerospace side of software dev, I'd actually be cool with this. Outside of software, real engineers have real liability when their systems fail [1]. PEs [2] are held accountable in most countries that license engineers when they sign off on things that should not have been signed off on. Too many people on the software side, even in safety critical systems, play fast and loose with the "engineering" aspect. We know how to design sound software, we know how to analyze it, we know how to test it. Deliberate, systematic approaches to these tasks can bring orders of magnitude greater confidence in the systems we produce, we just choose not to do it. Technically, in aerospace, we have DO-178C, which provides guidelines on artefacts that need to be produced, but too often these artefacts are created after the fact, rather than prior/concurrent to the development (where they belong). Criminal liability, career ruined by loss of licensure, these are risks that might actually temper some of the recklessness in the industry.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse#... - no criminal penalties, but civil penalties and lost their license to practice.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId...
I originally thought it was something about the NSA ('Intense debate about privacy')
That's fugly, not looking good.
Is this even the 3rd string?
You might be surprised to see the degree with which you can assert behaviour using typing in haskell. Given the strict environment it presents.

Types in Haskell are used not just to represent data, but represent data as it is transformed and processed.

So often a type error in haskell represents an error in thinking, rather than an error in typing. This is one aspect of the language I really like.
Yes, Mozilla has been pretty clear on this. If you want more stability, you need the ESR release, and if that's not enough, you're out of luck. Mainline Firefox is simply not intended for use within organizations that demand the kind of stability you want.

You need to evaluate the ESR release, and/or find a different browser entirely. IE may indeed be the best option if you only support Windows clients. Though Microsoft hasn't exactly been shy about forcing IE along more quickly of late, either.
i don't think so.

Plus: I HATE TEMPLATE MARKETPLACES.
They are starting to ridiculously rip developers off with their fees.

Wrapbootstrap can legally steal up to 75% (seventy five percent) of the earned amount.
Making a developer earn 25% (twenty five percent) of a product that he ENTIRELY made and market (created images, advertising material, etc.).

It's freaking ridiculous.
>They liked Soylent because it was "garage" and then didn't when it became popular...

sigh I can only conclude that you read the first sentence of my comment, and fired off a response before bothering to read the rest.

It's fine if you want to argue against one of my opinions, but at least make it about an opinion that I actually hold! ;)
From what I understand they clone existing VIDs because their functionality is exactly the same. If you have new functionality and need a new driver I don't think you can do that.
Playing around with GoAngular
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This is more complex than that:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388
Here’s why the feds didn’t have more skilled programmers for HealthCare.gov
Here's a screen shot. http://sdrv.ms/16sGL2Z

I'm using FF24. When turning off box shadow or opacity the handles show fine.

I have a feeling it could be a rendering issue with the GPU?
If anyone is using typescript, there is the unofficial channel #typescript on freenode. Would be great to have more people to discuss TS with.
Communist countries tried to do this in the 20th century and failed.
Thanks for the link.

<= 10g/meal, or <= 30g/day.

Half the typical consumption.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2525476/

I'm reasonably certain that I'm hitting 30g/day eating fresh fruit. No HFCS required.
Nowhere in there it says that information was lost. It just says that to reverse the process it requires introducing energy to the system and that the impossibility resides in that the changes occurred in an "not easily predictable". So it's a practical impossibility, not theoretical.

The Universe doesn't lose information. The one thing that made physicists believe for a moment that it did, was something about blackholes, but it was then proven to be wrong.
Costs will rise to the minimum that everyone is known to afford (or higher to deny the minimum income).

How do you support such a claim? If I was a business and all my competitors did this, I would undercut them and make a killing!

Basic income (or something similar) is an inevitable outcome of our development as a civilization. As technology continues to drive up productivity, the demand for labour falls. As the demand for labour falls, so does employment and consequently the demand for goods and services fall as well.

It may be a very rough transition to get there but eventually we will have a society where robots make everything we need and we are forced to devise a system for allocating these products to the people.
A lot of the HFT high-frequencyness comes from lots of orders beng sent to market. Only a very small number of these orders result in transactions. A transaction fee would not affect most of the order flow which never gets executed.
I bought a fan last week that is powered by USB (it was on clearance).

I was thinking there is no way 5 volts at half an amp is going to make a fan that puts out any kind of decent airflow.

But it works pretty darn well to my surprise.

They are getting better at making low voltage devices.

The great thing is next time we lose power here for a week, I won't be overheating.
...and how many of these people's own government are doing the same thing as the NSA? I abhor what the NSA is going, but goodness, I bet 90% of the nation's governments do the same thing.
You could get clever by testing on the server whether the other headers are consistent with the User Agent (e.g. Accept).

But yeah, ultimately it's a losing game because you're trusting the client not to be compromised.
There already are trading fees. Each exchange charges a small fee for every trade. It's how they make money and is why they have an incentive to increase volume. For example, on the CME futures exchange the fee per energy contract is usually 50 cents. Of course, those are only for trades that are actually filled. For quoting there are no transaction costs, but there are often rules to limit quoting (transactions/fills under a certain threshold, a total number of transactions per day, etc.). If these rules are broken, they often come with a fine.
I'd love to see something like this but as a magic method for iPython Notebooks.

Using those you can integrate bash, R, Ruby, SQL, etc. into the same notebook and pass data between them all.

EDIT: Here's a link to most known magic extensions: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/Extensions-Index
You may have missed the part where he said after browning the meat he baked it for 40 minutes. That is pretty near an hour. But I can't say what level it was being run for that near hour. And shipping is included in my Soylent order.
> Isn't the point to have a minimum that everyone can afford?

The right way to do that is to expand cities and build community housing. The correct assumption is that costs will rise above the minimum everyone can afford, keeping inequalities at bay.
My flag was not nearly enough and it had nothing to do with endgaged, but with thread quality.
Nifty, always nice to save a little time on future installs
Great insight. I suppose such extensive admins require a really specific UI to be usable, and can only be solved on a case-by-case basis, while maintaining a constant feedback from the front-end user and the back-end data provider. Generic templates usually need both a visually attractive UI and easy-to-configure widgets to be marketable and sold. But it's worth trying developing a more intricate and data-focused interface.

I will remember your scenario while developing my Boostrap admin template. Thanks.
Oops, copied and pasted from an old thread. Fixed, thanks!
Someone care to explain this and its implications like I'm 5?
That's the humorous part of the whole discussion that the VTM group is trying to preserve revenue by ignoring the hobbyists and sticking with the people who think nothing of falsifying UL registry, falsifying FCC certifications, and violating patents, but I'm sure those guys would never turn against the VTM group and illegally use the USB trademark without permission, LOL.

Whereas the hobbyists, if you don't intentionally try to screw them over like they're trying to do, would probably be ridiculously loyal and obedient in comparison.

Fundamentally despite the "hate opensource" and "revenue generating middlemen" story, some of which probably is true, the fundamental problem is likely the lack of a point of contact. They probably like knowing there's a directory of real world contact information such that identification number 0x123456 is clearly a product of such and such for debugging purposes and interoperability and lack of duplicate IDs and the like.

Something similar happens with ethernet MAC addresses. Legendarily it was HP (or was it sun?) who shipped a whole batch of ethernet cards accidentally in the 90s with the same MAC address, boy was that a nightmare to figure out the hard way.
Ah, I wouldn't go as far as "lambasted" but it is indeed not Mozilla's wrongdoing in any way.

Maybe I got caught by the fact I had never seen that pop-up before and Firefox just seemed to have been updated the day before.

While we are on the topic: that makes a lot of clicking to get an applet running for the first time.
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Anyone venture any guesses as to what would be presented? The new Mac Pro? Updates to iPad and Macbook Pros?
First of all: NO, and guess what?
I can prove it with my nice bitbucket commits history.

Second: I won't prove it to someone that is clearly not able to spot the difference between original and ripped-off versions of products.
Agreed, there seem to be good decks for Anki that follow different books or courses (Skritter does this too).

With regards to Whizz Learning, we definitely looked at Anki, Skritter, SuperMemo, etc. to see how they help people remember things. I felt like the the management of their own deck (or copying a bad one) can turn someone off from the beginning. We tried to make it simpler in how we grow the deck.

The system itself does try to break characters down into simpler components or symbols. It came from a neurolinguist that created the system to help stroke victims to relearn Chinese. There is some interesting science behind it that we are going to post about soon.

We just submitted to the Apple store for our first version. I would love to get your thoughts on it when we are approved.

Any other thoughts you have on Anki or other learning products are very interesting to us.
In that case expect to see a multitude of world-wide, multi-year lawsuits about how Apple owns this idea and how its patented and yadda yadda yadda.

In this current US-led lawyerocracy, it's better to play it safe and just not poke the dragon with a stick.

USB is a ubiquitous standard by now. Sure it could have been a better standard, but at least now we have a standard (sans Apple). That is definitely a change for the better.
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If we are talking about refrigerating the left overs then that would be after the fact. Lots of meals that people cook will need to be refrigerated if there is left overs. I think that is a wash. The Soylent itself does not require refrigeration.
Pity that cooldeals and recoiledsnake don't even bother showing up these days. They had quite a few examples where articles that were favorable (or heck, even non-negative) to Microsoft consistently got flagged off the front page. There's a pretty strong anti-MS voting contingent on here, and they'd call it out every time it happened.

And for that they'd be accused of being, I kid you not, "Microsoft zealots"!
Font Awesome stuff fails to load for me in firefox 24 for this site. If you are associated with the site, this might be the problem. http://wpvkp.com/font-awesome-doesnt-display-in-firefox-maxc...
I think this is a good idea. However, this does seem dangerous for drug addicts.