skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the 3-series, 5-series and 7-series are all cars. In particular, they are luxury cars of increasing size available in saloon/estate versions.

The Lumia 7879 tablet and Lumia 347334 smartphone are different things and 347334 > 7879 does not hold, or make any sense.
The missing profit is a blessing for Amazon.

None of the other titans are challenging Amazon. They can't because Amazon's Earnings Per Share are...

-0.23. Negative 0.23.

Investors often lump AMZN with GOOG and the like but GOOG's EPS is 33.59. TGT? 4.26. Walmart is 5.07.
No other company with a market cap (100+Bn) as large as AMZN is allowed to get away with negative EPS. The only one that comes close is Vodafone, with a tiny positive EPS (0.13).

It's important to note that if any other company spent until their EPS was negative, investors would flip.
Amazon is playing with razor thin margins while trying to scale up a platform to end all platforms that we might someday use for everything without thinking about it. If successful, on that day/year/eon dollar bills might as well be printed with Jeff Bezos' face on them.

Amazon won't be using UPS and Fedex trucks on that day. They'll be using Amazon trucks. You'll know that era when you see it, I think.

If you're Walmart or Target its hard to justify trying to do something similar at this point, the stock could take a major dive from such a risk. They're at the "Ask-questions" phase, and the questions are always "What's the profit?" because these are publicly traded companies. Amazon has been playing it risky since the get-go.
Bezos is in for a very long gamble, and that frustrates the hell out of some investors, but its lofty enough to still attract investment dollars while in the "build-first" stage. Hopefully they can pull it off for a few more years before the stock market shifts to asking questions.

So Amazon gets to play the long game that other companies are literally disallowed from playing because investors that have seen profits want more. Amazon gets to do something bold that would cause the mother of all stock dives in any other 100+Bn company. They get a free pass because Bezos is convincing and for Amazon its sort-of-always-been-this-way. Walmart/Target/Etc do not have either of those luxuries - the incredible (or believable) visionary and being a company that's still in burn (build) mode.

~~~

All that said, an interesting question I think: What can we do to make more companies like Amazon? And is there a way to allow the older giants (such as Target) to ever be as ambitious again, without huge stock punishment?
The mere fact of how soon this story got flagged off the front page proves that it is not high quality content.
How are the fonts with Ubuntu (Linux)? Last time I used it a year ago they were terrible.
Cheers :)

There's a good background to how CurrencyFair got started over on Forbes[1], if you're interested in reading more.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/dansimon/2013/10/18/entrepreneur...
It's not open sourced as I am debating how to either a) charge for it or b) provide more value with tools/sites to help with interview process and bank on affiliate money

It should work on any URL so as long as the job post is public, it should work :)
So rotate in one direction for vertical for consistency, and color-code the plug for everything that could benefit from it. Matching red/green is far easier than "which side has that mostly-invisible black piece of plastic".
Awesome! Some teams of my company are abandoning our version control, and I couldn't be happier. An "open" course would be hundreds of times better than the in-person training we've received on other corporate tools.
Submit seems to have been flag. Is hackernews really that anti Microsoft? Or is engadget now about link spam?

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft and my wife works for Nokia. So ya, ouch.
In the general cases there can be non-government controlled monopolies. In this particular case of online retail and "cloud" services the barriers to entry are quite low so your conclusion may be right although exposure is tricky for online retailing if everyone just searches Amazon.
are you looking for present (taking) or past (taken) classes? :)
my answer applies only to the past
VPN Provider Shuts Down After Lavabit Case Undermines Security
Try wajig:

Description: simple and unified package management for Debian
Wajig is a single commandline wrapper around apt, apt-cache, dpkg, /etc/init.d scripts and more, intended to be easy to use and providing extensive documentation for all of its
functions.
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This idea did not sit well with VTM Group, the people serving as the
management, PR, legal, and membership and licensing department of the
USB Implementers Forum

The hands, the mouth and collector of thoughts cannot be separated from a thing and still be called a whole. Besides even the title says, "USB Implementers Forum Says No to Open Source"
This refers to the comments service IntenseDebate: http://intensedebate.com.

Changing the name in the title might make this less ambiguous.
> I wonder, however, if it could transmit the same amount of energy

The Thunderbolt cable is specced for 10W, which is more than existing USB standards (1.5A @5V for USB3 "Battery Charging Specification", previously 500~900mA @5V, leading many — including Apple — to perform proprietary power negotiation to allow sending >~10W to their devices).

But it is much less than the more recent USB Power Delivery spec (which I guess is the subject of the article), which allows up to 5A @20V
Let's just call it ThatThing2 and ThatThing3 in the hobby community :P
The real story is that Amazon is investing every dollar that could be realized as profit back into the company. Completely amazing given the scale. Imagine instead of sitting on a gargantuan pile of cash Apple could figure out how to efficiently invest $150B back into the company [and not through a buyback]. You can argue Amazon doesn't NEED to aggressively expand its warehousing infrastructure if the goal was to turn profit. It doesn't NEED to build AWS or the multitude of other smaller business lines, but it does.

A dream for many entrepreneurs is to start a fairly conservative line of business that buys freedom and a stable stream of revenue [consulting, online bookstore] and use the profits to fund a swing-for-the-fences idea. It's absolutely amazing that Amazon keeps that model going decades later.
If you implement your own bandit, there are ways to tweak it if you suspect that one arm rarely gives a large payout so that it gets sampled better.
Given the physical design of this vs. the Surface RT, I'd take the Nokia in a second.

The reality is, with umpteen-thousand RTs clogging the Microsoft warehouse, that'll be what they try and push.
A device has a Vendor ID (VID) and a Product ID (PID). For example, the following is output from lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 013: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

0a12 is the VID for CSR, and 0001 is CSR's PID for "Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)." You can find a list at:

http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

Microchip has paid USB Forum for its VID 04d8. If you build a USB peripheral with one of their microcontrollers, you can ask Microchip to allocate you a PID (since they have 64K of these), and let you use their VID:

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/APPLICATION%...
Somehow I have the feeling we aren't talking about the same warning.

It's french but I doubt the translation process would made the word count explode from 14 words to this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/202857/java.png

(and yes, it popped up on an up-to-date firefox with up-to-date java)
Your comment is full of factual errors, erroneous assumptions, and evidence of living in a privileged bubble.

Bicycles are not universally illegal on the sidewalk -- in fact, they're specifically legal on the sidewalk where I live, and yes it's in the US. Not that illegality stops people anywhere.

If you want permits, those are generally funded by fees. Talk about that, rather than a knee-jerk ban. As you've already indicated: Enforcement can be difficult. So how are you going to enforce a complete ban, anyway?

A lot of my money goes to things I don't like. For example, your protection by police, fire, military, and the courts. I'd very much like a refund on that. Just for the portion that covers you, you understand. I'm fine with it going to everyone else. Since you're just one person, that's well below your apparent threshold of 1% for number of people that actually matter, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?

Horses can be lawfully ridden on many if not most city streets, including New York City.

It is probable there is some motorized vehicle your son would be permitted to operate in Manhattan. Electric-assist bicycles are often legal on city streets. Not being able to ride an ATV is a consequence of regulation of vehicular traffic, rather than a blanket ban on wheeled transport, as you wish for RC aircraft. And certainly when your son reaches the appropriate age, he will be able to obtain a license to operate a wide variety of motorized vehicles in New York City and across the country. Again, regulation, not prohibition.

80% of the US population is urbanized. Suburbs are largely for a privileged class, and the extreme rural poor would generally be better served if they could live in a city.

Getting out of an urban environment requires the parent to be privileged enough to have the time to do it, and the money to afford the car and gas. You may think this is no problem for most of the people who can afford to live in Manhattan, but Manhattan is not the only urban area in the US. Banning RC aircraft from urban areas covers many high-population areas that I don't believe you have visited or understand in the least.

Try spending some time outside wealthy uptown areas for a while. There's a country full of urban areas you have obviously not seen or experienced. People living lives vastly different from your own. People you want to rip privileges away from because you think Manhattan is America.
I used the EAP at home, they were great on ElementaryOS.
You're right on with #2 there. Amazon has a carefully orchestrated spending machine that gobbles up all the available free cash flow (that would normally be profits) for the sake of expanding old business lines like the Prime video library or creating new ones like Amazon Supply. Or in many cases, by buying up market share like when Amazon picked up w00t. Or buying up their primary robot supplier, Kiva, so that they're the first ones to get all the cool new warehouse equipment and ensuring that their competitors are a generation behind.

If you think about it, self-financing out of profits is a smart way to go about this empire building. If it was financed on bonds or loans they'd be under pressure to "turn a profit" on the investments and they'd have to pay some nominal interest rate. Selling more shares to raise the money would dilute everyone and if part of the plan is to enrich people through share price appreciation, that's not the way to do it. Plus it's easier for share prices to continue to go up on hopes and dreams of a wildly profitable future than based on actual earnings. Once you get into that you have to balance growth against reported profits.
Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols
This is huge: this definitely seems to be the seeds of a real movement and, if so, it would be one of the most important movements of our lifetime.
As far as I remember, only the logo is trademarked, not the phrase USB. So you could still state your product has USB, you just can't display the logo anywhere.
If you guys can somehow enable transferring between bitcoin and regular fiat that would be a game changer. Right now that's a laborious process and the closest thing to it is buying BTC in person. But this system with BTC as an option on one side of the transaction would be a wonderful way to get into and out of BTC-land.
We've discussed this here before.

I like to think I am progressive but I think this is the wrong approach.

Costs will rise to the minimum that everyone is known to afford (or higher to deny the minimum income).

So rent will go up, food costs will go up, clothing etc.

You are just transfering wealth from the state to a few individuals who own property and own chain stores.

Better to have rent control and other cost-of-living regulation.
As the gentleman who actually invented [citation needed], I think I need to also quote a very old (and now underused!) template - {{sofixit}} !!

Just because there is a non-neutral position doesn't mean that it shouldn't be altered.
07:00 — Honolulu, Hawaii
10:00 — San Francisco, California
13:00 — New York, New York
14:00 — São Paulo, Brazil
18:00 — London, England
19:00 — Rome, Italy
20:00 — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
21:00 — Moscow, Russia
22:30 — New Delhi, India
01:00 — Shanghai, China (October 23)
02:00 — Tokyo, Japan (October 23)
03:00 — Sydney, Australia (October 23)
it also works with most of the mobile browsers.
Since a USB device gets paired with a driver through a VID/PID pair, buying a single VID allows you access to 65536 PIDs for that VID. They give out the PIDs for free but hold on to the VID for themselves.

FTDI own a bunch of VIDs which are associated with "FTDI" devices. If you ask FTDI they'll reserve a small block of PIDs for you to use for your own products that use the FTDI USB chips. 8 PIDs cut out of a 65536 block is not a significant cost.

I'm surprised that VTM still allows them to do it though, maybe it's a special case because you're using their IC.

The problem is that VTM maintains an "official" list of VID/PID owners, so that they can keep drivers on seperate IDs and prevent clashes for users. Most hobbyists just pick a random VID/PID for their personal projects and hope for the best, but for small scale hobby releases it's problematic since "technically" they are going against the terms of service for the USB protocol. Sometimes there will be clashes if people pick random numbers, and VTM hates that.

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Knowledgebase/index.html?can...
I think they look good, I've been looking at them for hundreds of hours without complaining.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/sPmh5qd.png
Most likely dbus, if we leave a certain Linux vendor to decide.
Thanks a lot! What if more than 64K people have asked for a PID?
You can't easily stop wget. It's impossible to distinguish between Firefox accessing the image, and wget / curl / whatever accessing the image with Firefox's user agent string (and changing the user agent string in these utilities is just a simple flag)
I think you hit the nail on the head where Amazon needs to go. Logistics and shipping are pretty much where that company must go to continue its path. I wouldnt be surprised if Amazon did try to venture into that arena by acquisition/merger.
The problem with this is two-fold. First - I shouldn't have to care about battery chemistry. Second - what if they're wired up in series [1]?

From personal experience, I've seen that laptop & mobile batteries list watt-hours as well. I'd prefer if that number was advertised instead.

[1]With two LiPo 3.7V 3Ah cells, you can have either 7.4V 3Ah or 3.7V 6Ah.
Thank you for putting so much work into this, but it's not Python 3!
I've been using PhpStorm for a few years now. After going through several time-wasting periods of trying out every IDE I could get my hands on to see what I liked, I ended up and have stayed with PhpStorm because it is hands down the most feature-full, fast, stable and up-to-date IDE for PHP (and HTML/JS!) development.

It also does not hurt that they're going on a Vagrant rampage and have been showing off my app, https://puphpet.com :)
Congratulations, you've just lambasted Mozilla for a Java message. Java pops up that same message for applets in all browsers. Go talk to Oracle, it has absolutely nothing to do with Mozilla or Firefox.
Kate's Law - Could this be a solution to bullying? Fourstateshomepage.com
That's one thing that has always bugged me about some developers. Some have the attitude that they should never pay for anything, and that "I could code this in a few days myself" instead of paying $20 and have it implemented in an hour.
Lol! Some are indeed designed to remove an article from the Google search results entirely!
> So rotate in one direction for vertical for consistency

There is no consistency, your USB port may be on the left, right or back of your screen, what's the useful thing to standardize then? And it can jut out from a wall. And on a desktop tower, the USB port can be on the front or the back, and the user may install the machine so it is accessed from the left, the right or either.
I find this somewhat hilarious because of all the discussion within the AngularJS circles about whether to include data- or x- to all the custom Angular directives. Well, I guess no more breath needs to be wasted on that particular topic.
You need to get a sense of humor.
Remember, the internets are for lulz!
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Heh. I guess that makes me a malware writer as I worked on the Ask Toolbar for Firefox when I worked at Ask.com.
(It should also be noted that the GEMA distribution scheme is fundamentally flawed and that it overproportionally compensates well established "big" artists while neglecting young and upcoming artists. But that is another story)
It has been going up.
Argh! Internet should say "Interest"
For comparison, Dutch students receive between 200-400 euro monthly (and do pay a heavily discounted 1800 euro college tuition), "bijstand" (which is sort of a last resort income) is 600-700 euro, unemployment compensation is 70% of the last earned wage for a limited amount of months.

People above the 65 receive a "basic income" called "AOW" (algemene ouderdoms wet) which is between 750 and 1400 euros (in addition to a pension).

Minimum wage for a fulltime job is around 1400 euro (1200-1300 after taxes). A starts position for someone without college pays around 10-13 euro per hour before taxes.

With the current high un-employment numbers a lot of students and young people have to life on a income of 400-800 euro per month which is incredible tight.

1000 euro is a lot of money, I guess I could support something like a 400-600 "basic income" with strong incentive for people to work.

Then again the AOW is incredible high and although I do support the idea behind it I do wonder how we're going to support AOW payments with the coming demographic shift.
More expensive, more complicated, patent encumbered, and difficult/expensive to licence.

As much as I would like a reversible USB cable I'd prefer micro-USB which is just universal at this point (and cheap) to an expensive cable supported by one manufacturer.

Plus Apple Lightning is not really smaller than a micro-USB.
They'd just buy up another VID, the names associated with VIDs don't need to be unique.
bluehost + wordpress + did not expect to have these many visits.
There's a third project, the Digital Attack Map. All three were announced together yesterday: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-free-expression-t...
Not a plugin but a windows program (don't know if it works on win7, I run linux now) called faststone capture can move the scrollbar and take screenshots. The current version (7.6) is paid:

http://www.faststone.org/FSCapturerDownload.htm

but an old version (5.3) that always worked well for me is free:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775
Do You Know Where Your Data Is And Who Reads It?
I feel the complete opposite. Rent/price controls never worked well (too many unintended consequences), it's time to try something new.
you've clearly ripped off themes from wrapbootstrap http://wrapbootstrap.com/

identical icons, graphs, colors, animations.
Many hobby things with USB ports are using the default VID/PID from the chip vendor (generally FTDI's USB-to-Serial converter chips, or the on-chip USB controller of Atmel/Microchip/etc's microcontrollers).

Using your own VID/PID allows you to write and distribute a driver that can be tied to your gadget rather than using a generic driver. Widely distributing products (even if they are "hobby stuff") that re-use the microcontroller's default VID/PID is also usually against the license agreement with the chip vendor and can lead to problems down the road.
Because Engadget is such a crappy tech site now? Disgusting.
June 11?

For Melbourne, Australia (same timezone as Sydney), it's at 4am (4 hours from now).

This site shows the hours until the event: http://www.macrumors.com/
> I just hope we don't go overboard removing AC.

I don't think builders will risk alienating users of non low-power appliances (a fridge, a hoover or an electric kettle).

Plus it's not like drawing two cables (AC and DC) and installing mixed wall plugs (with both AC and DC/USB sockets) is more complex than just single cable and AC sockets.
Lots of them are available. I haven't used any of these, but you may want to give one of them a shot: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/mail-parcel-forwarding-services...
If I was hiring, I would hire homosexual Martian Nazis if they made good employees. The few African colleagues I have had were skilled and pleasant. The trouble is that, at least in the U.S., that they are very rare.

I suspect that a lot of what you were seeing in France was selection bias. The most talented third-worlders immigrate at a very high rate to the former imperial states. France gets the Africans because they colonized Africa extensively and were not especially vicious. If you moved your company to Rwanda, you would find that very very few locals would be trainable for engineering work.
I had a look at the mozilla website and the english phrasing seems okay to me. I think the french is too verbose (and it adds nuances that are confusing like "some versions of the plugin is disabled", "trusted sites": does it mean sites that are guaranteed to be trusted because of a certificate or sthg or sites I trust because I know who coded it or it's so universally known (eg: google) that I should trust it anyway ?) even ignoring the fact french is de facto more verbose than english.

Anyway, this is the warning my user was given : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/202857/java.png

Unmovable window, can't close firefox without first actioning something in it, one checkbox+one butotn to allow "something scary" to run (something that wasn't scary yesterday). This is what prompted my user to google the warning.
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Or if some manufacturers (Apple) print a USB logo on one side and an Apple logo in the same colour and size on the other.

http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/us...
sigh

I hope there will be an about:config override for this. It seems like any time one of these browser authors does something "for security", it ends up being a perpetual pain in my ass and the ass of the users I support.
You might be right, but your reasoning is not good. Only in a (local) minimum you can improve by choosing any direction; otherwise, you might go down as well as up. If rent/price controls are not working, it doesn't follow that basic income will improve the social inequality and reduce poverty.
You should update your comment to reflect the reality learned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591531
> Delays and increased suffering for patients are all but certain consequences

If the product you are building is not future proof it is your problem not Mozilla's.

Dont blame Mozilla for your poor technology choices. Applets will eventually stop working, and you'll be responsible if your product fails , not Mozilla.

Dont blame anybody else but you. You broke the medical staff instruments by choosing or maintaining a dead technology thus putting patient lives in danger. Do you think they'll sue you ? or Mozilla if there is an accident? You are responsible.