skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Blockbuster is a tarnished brand name IMO due to the way they treated customers

I've heard this a few times. Personally, I've never had a bad experience with Blockbuster. I'd been a card carrying member for over twenty years. Switched from Netflix to Blockbuster back when they were just DVD By Mail services because the added value Blockbuster had with the physical locations. I've not heard anything very specific about what types of things they did to those unhappy customers. The brand is not tarnished for me. I understand why they died. But it is still a little bit sad.
No, it's not. Formulas are good within reason because they give the average user a framework to navigate an application. That is why you have standard buttons, widgets, etc. in gui toolkits. It provides a consistency that people don't have to re-learn for each application.

Uniqueness has its place, but not every app should be a unique snowflake.
"Fizzbuzz for movies"
A movie from Tiptree's story Houston, Houston, Do You Read would be exactly what you mention.
Well, I agree I'd rather someone try it for another data point. However, this isn't just a random internet comment, it's a man who has probably written more compiler code than about anyone of recent times .
Ask HN: What are some of the esoteric futuristic technologies you know of
http://www.siemens.com/innovation/apps/pof_microsite/_pof-fall-2013/_html_en/scenario-2035.html

There seem to be so many hidden professions out there using technology in diverse esoteric ways. Please share your knowledge on non NDA 'underground' technology if you can
The First Step to Controlling Legal Spend
I was going to buy $300 worth when they were 30 cents each. I didn't, though, as it involved travel to a nearby town and I was working on a book and thought I should be practical and spend the weekend on that. Ah well, one less house.
I think the Bechdel test can be viewed as a first iteration or a MVP. It builds interest and gets people talking and thinking about the test and the issue. Then it can be iterated and improved upon.
Legal development/sideshow in the Twitter IPO story
My point was that there should be no bar to clear when making a movie (or writing a novel, story, etc.). Placing artificial limits like that is exactly the type of bias you're talking about, but swinging to the other direction.
Just curious, what software was this?
Fair enough, but according to Wikipedia's rough overview of contract law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract
(because we all know Wikipedia is the end-all be-all of authority on matters like this)

it appears the Gov't is in violation of their part of the contract, to wit the clause of AT LEAST the 4th Amendment (unreasonable searches and seizures; see the TSA, see most police conduct, see the crap with the NSA, etc etc ad nauseam). Therefor, I should be able to nullify and void this 'social contract' and (among other things, trying to keep it simple since we're arguing 'on the internet') not pay my taxes. We all know how well that will work out - fines, court summons, all culminating with large men with heavy clubs and guns knocking on my door to 'coerce' me to fulfill "my half" of the bargain.

If the deck is stacked so far against you there's no reasonable way to remedy your grievances, it ain't a 'contract' it's a 'coercion' or 'an offer you can't refuse'. The government is a bully with a very large, very powerful club, and we have no reasonable recourse against it. We try to play by the rules, they'll change the rulebook or completely change the game. Ergo, the grand-grand-grand-parent commenter who said "Taxes are an armed robbery" is essentially correct.

I'm not even going to get into the 'contracts made under duress aren't enforceable contracts' side of things.

And, apropos of nothing, while I personally don't mind paying most taxes, I'd like to see a way for individuals to pay 'their share' and indicate what programs their money would get allocated to "Humble Indie Bundle" style. A 'reasonable default' for the majority who don't care, but sliders and drop-downs with various degrees of detail for those who do. I'd like to be able to shunt all of my tax money into silos for 'road repair', 'public education', "fireman's fund", etc, and keep it away from things like "Department of Defense" "local police forces", and "NSA slush fund". tl; dr - A highly granular way to "vote with my dollar". I doubt that will get implemented in my lifetime (if ever), but a man can dream...
pg. 25 in this pdf (http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrs.pdf).

Found the source here: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_over.htm#methodology
Was talking to an extended family member a few months ago, who had built up a large marketing channel for a potential new game, and was frustrated because he couldn't find a developer to build the game at a price he was willing to pay.

So I would say, it's only true because Hacker News consists mostly of people who already know how to build software, but far fewer of us know how to market.
I'm vegetarian, but bacon still smells good.
Who holds that theory? As a farmer myself, I'm not really surprised at all and it was my immediate thought upon reading the headline. Most farm work is highly skilled, which: a) pushes for higher pay, allowing locals to compete. b) requires skills that will often not be easily obtained by those coming from poorer countries. The jobs that are easily handed to migrant workers are a relatively small segment of the industry, and I would expect a dwindling segment at that.

I'll add that it is striking how non-diverse rural areas tend to be. I can probably count on one hand the number of non-white people living in my rural community. That doesn't help with the numbers when hiring from the local worker pool.
I think you mean: If you didn't bet on the roulette ball balancing on the divider between numbers, would you say "God damnit I feel like an idiot, I should have bet on that!"

The odds of a cryptocurrency catching on the way Bitcoin has are very low. Buying BTCs (or other cryptocurrencies) back in the day would be like investing in penny stocks.

EDIT: For the record I agree with you - there's no point in looking back and saying "I should have done that!"
The majority of personal use sales are not conducted with a "gangster", true, but the small-time college ecstasy or coke dealer conducting those personal use sales IS making regular trips to the hood, purchasing from people who are hardened criminals. They expose themselves to a lot of risk in doing this.

You don't have to move far up the chain before you see some serious violence. Personal use weed dealer? Probably not going to get killed. But robbed? Yes, definitely, seen it happen many times. Personal use coke, ecstasy, heroin dealer? Much more likely to experience violence. The dealer one level above, supplying the personal use dealers? They get killed all the time, despite not being drug kingpins in any sense. It only costs 1000$-2000$ to have someone killed in many parts of the US, so that should say something about the chance of violence that small-time dealers face.

Silk Road was more than personal use sales, I'd bet the majority of its revenue came from pounds and half pounds of weed, sheets of LSD, and orders of 500+ ecstasy pills. Heroin and coke haven't caught on as much yet in the online scene, with prices still a little above what well-connected users can get on the streets, but give it time. Also keep in mind that the online drug scene is more than just SR/BMR/Sheep and that there are private forums that deal strictly in wholesale.
if they're illegal, they pertinent aren't counted in the BLS statistics.
At least the private-contractors are finally facing the consequences, in the beginning the outrage would have let you to believe that it was the President himself who was the one programming away the exchanges!
I guess that depends on a uniform distribution of the location of the jobs to the racial characteristics in said location.

For instance I would imagine there would be more vets in an area with more animals, perhaps a country or town border region. At the same time those areas might have a higher concentration of white people than the average (with other races preferring a more urban environment).
In my experience, the BeagleBone Black is much better all around. A few key reasons: a proper power supply connection, far more GPIO interfaces for connecting lights, sensors etc (raspberry pi has far fewer), 8 PwM outputs (pi has 1), 8 analog inputs (pi has none). From a cost point of view, you need to buy an SD card for a Pi, beaglebone has 2GB onboard and a far faster bus so booting and application performance is vastly better. If you add up all of the costs to put a project together (analog to digital converters, PWM breakout boards) + SD card, the pi actually costs more. That said, the pi does have 2 USB ports and BBB has 1, so that is a downside for some scenarios.
Technical documentation of the BBB is a world better than pi. 4 mounting holes at each corner and all io interfaces at 2 opposite ends of the board which make a Much better form factor as well.
There are more, but those the the main ones that come to mind. I hope that helps.
The issue is the mobile first approach where webdesigners forget to "enhance" non mobile experience.

Mobile First is not the problem, lazyness it.

And i agree about brand, and design in general, if i have to chose between 2 products with the same spec/ prices/user support:

- I will chose the one with a design I can remember. Not the one which look like a generic bootstrap design with POMO colors.

Webdesigners , used to seek experimentation , uniqueness , wow effect. While i dont care about the wow effect of a dashboard in a CRUD admin, seems to me that today's web is mostly boring and developpers are today's designers, and marketing is in charge of ergonomy( a forgotten word these days ).

About worrydream , while i'm not a fan of the design, I visited the website a few years ago and still remember it !

HOWEVER

Lot of wow and experimentation on mobile platerforms like IOS or Android,in native apps, with innovative touch interfaces, and risky designs , i like it.
An Intriguingly Detailed Animation of How People Move Around a City
Yes, and I've had decent-enough luck with it.
Upvote for making me literally lol
I second that VPM is quite good!
This transatlantic trade deal is a full-frontal assault on democracy
I love this idea. I did a quick pure-CSS implementation, not bullet-proof by any means - biggest downside is it's reliance on the `required` attribute: http://jsfiddle.net/thetron/qpsnH/
Am I the only one that is impressed that we are actually allowed to see the backend code?

I need to raise my expectations...
Relatively low cost, and relatively illegal. Movie theaters are draconian precisely because it'd be so easy to usurp them if they weren't.
Over the past 5 years, U.S. presidents have been 100% black. That's a stunning statistic. :)
I love your landing page. I know exactly what it does, how it provides value, and will look it up again if I ever find myself creating lots of Github issues.
"Wrote it for myself, the others in its class sucked" sounds like the key to your success. Poor competition, which is always helpful. A solid understanding of the customers' needs, because you were one of them. And a very large market.
I trust more Bitcoin than dollar, oranges or woods to save my money.
Excellent ! Thank you for sharing !
Here's what I've used: http://www.makomk.com/~aidan/wallet-recover-0.3-linux.tar.gz

Put this on a bootable usb with ubuntu or something and run it against the drive in question. Let it run overnight, and in the morning, you may find yourself with a windfall.

Here's the thread with more info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0

After it runs, it will create a wallet.dat file that you will load with bitcoin-qt. If it works and you have the private keys, I would recommend exporting them into a better format, like an electrum or armory wallet.
It stopped being broken just now.
My reaction was the opposite, I thought it would be more effective to just have the small labels from the start and no animation when you start entering a value. I'm pretty anti-animation on forms though. Just seems gratuitous.
The benchmark above is testing Impala with SequenceFiles compressed with GZIP, against RedShift, which is not a fair comparison.

In the "What's next?" section, they say they want to re-do the Impala tests using Parquet, which is a columnar format based on the Dremel whitepaper (http://parquet.io/).
Yep I had about the same amount, when they were worth around 7-8$ a coin. Bummer, 40,000$ would be nice right about now.
Why even bother selling when it dropped to 6? Were you really that hard up for a few dollars?
Web design is a communication art. When norms/formulas are created they convey a message users understand. It is easier to default on the norms so that prevails for most situations. Sometimes new norms are created with new platforms, i.e. touch, scroll changes. But in the end you are trying to communicate a message and being too different is a certain kind of message.
> It doesn't really matter. As a web-designer your job is not to invent a new aesthetic

Generic ,dull webdesigns hurt new brands by making them forgetable. I chosed Heroku years ago , partly because i liked the japanese / monsters /robot design , and i though it was cool and risky, now it just look like Bootstrap though their brand is well established.

Dont under estimate the power of aesthetic.
http://btc.ondn.net/search
Really lame to attempt to name and shame someone by (ultimately) mocking their credentials and linking to code without context. Sure, some of that JS is bad, but I've seen much worse code that has been successfully deployed to solve problems.
How Much Does Color Define A Logo?
Right, exactly, it's a supply and demand thing. You have X shares trading on the market, and all of a sudden you have something like 3 or 4 * X shares trading hands. Unless there are, all of a sudden, a commensurate number of new share purchasers, it'll drive the price down.
Read the first comment of the yc link[0]

> (1) Microsoft is a US Corporation
> (2) With the Skype acquisition, Microsoft (arguably) becomes a telecommunications carrier.
> (3) CALEA passed in 1994, "requiring telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure they have built-in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic in real-time."

Again, your original comment might be 100% accurate, but there's just no proof of that. Also, telecommunication companies are required to provide the means to intercept communications.

I guess I'm just wary of comments and articles that make claims that can't be substantiated. It dilutes the value of correct (substantiated) information.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254925
Yeah, but she said "no" when they were priced at $20-30.

I fully understand the risks involved. Heck, my Economics degree makes me 1% more qualified than most people here to talk about how bubbles work.

If I'd bought BTC, I'd have been more worried about technical problems. I don't claim to understand the system in depth, but I know that crypto-fails happen all the time.

If an exploit is ever discovered, I wonder what we'd do with all that surplus bitcoin mining hardware?
Much of mainstream hard core porn passes that test.
^^ That was my point as well. I didn't miss your point, Jacque; I just thought it was ridiculous. I've never seen HN comments continue this long; good job.
I am not. Please keep in mind that Google even early google was aesthetical.

Don't confuse personal aesthetic with what sell in general.
At this point it is way too volatile for use as as long-term wealth storage. The current state of Bitcoing only makes it suitable for high-risk, high-reward investing, which is not conducive to saving.
Sales is the process of overcoming objections.

If your marketing isn't helping you overcome objections, you need better marketing, because your marketing isn't selling.
If my landlord breaks the terms of my lease I am more than free to move, but I don't get to stay there for free just because he broke the contract.

You can nullify the contract by leaving any time you like. Or you can attempt to hold the government to the contract using a little known facet of our democratic process called "The Legislative Branch."
Thailand's Bubble Economy Is Heading For A 1997-Style Crash
Yes, your text is too small.
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The US patent term is 20 years from filing as of June 8, 1995. Previous to that it worked as you describe, with a term of 17 years from issuance.

The trouble, of course, is that we're still in that window. A patent filed in 1994 but not issued for many years thereafter may still be in effect.
This is good news if you want to be able to purchase movies on the cheap. When a Blockbuster closing a few years ago where I lived they sold off all their movies. I think it got down to $2 per Blu-ray movie by the end and I picked up more than I care to say.
They need EMTs just about everywhere (92% white).
1-2. I got a mobo and graphics card for free and mined lightcoin sometime last year. bought some usb asic's and sold all but one for break even, then bought 10 more at the final ASICminer wholesale price. I've mined those to breakeven.

now I have a coin, some anachronistic blinking doo-dads, and a slightly firmer grasp on my own ubuntu box and btc as a whole. had fun to boot. I did buy a usb hub for 50... but now it holds my blinking doodads!
Yeah, not a false positive: "Looking at the length of the encrypted password, your password is between 8 and 15 characters long." (it's actually 20 characters -- maybe Adobe does password truncation?)
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Now that sounds very interesting!
Unix had this right decades ago, in the form of text-in-text-out commands, pipes in between + text-based terminals in between machines. OS's like Windows broke that. It's good to see the philosophy returning. As long as everything is represented as structured text!

And an side: API's should not be patentable or copyrightable, no more than a language is. Because that's exactly what API's are. Common languages for machines to speak to each other.
It's a rating system. Next you'll be accusing Roger Ebert of censorship.
He was probably thinking to better sell it at 6 than 0. That's quite a few cups of coffee anyways.
ARP cache poisoning (or: In ur connection, sniffing ur packets)
Maybe if feminists (part of the parasitic political class) spent less time being resentful of what others have built and built something themselves they'd have less reason to be resentful in the first place. Now we're living not just with the reactive feminist losers, but the reactive-reactive super-loser MRA types.
I was forgetting for a moment the key part of wavetable was the sweep/interpolation. Silly me! The name of the Wolfgang Palm App is the Wavegenerator I mentioned above -- been playing with it a while, v. v. cool, but (as per your original comment) I can't stray to far from presets without sounding horribly metallic.
Out of assumption and thin air, apparently. Thanks for the clarification on "polonium deaths in Israel" :-)
No. What you meant to say was that a random selection from a population of 10K white and black balls in the ratio 80% white balls & 20% black balls should be expected to be about 80% white.

People aren't black or white balls. Other factors (e.g., education, IQ, health, social class, and racism, etc.) are what make the difference.
To imply that the difference is attributable purely to racism is naive and wrong-headed.
Using wordplay doesn't make your point more interesting.

Slaves can't enter contracts, by birth or otherwise.

Minors can't enter contracts, either, so your parents entered you on your behalf when you were born. You maintain it by staying here.

You had an 18 year head start to decide before most of the social contract even takes affect, while using services largely tax-free.

You're welcome to leave whenever you like.
Another Hammer Drops On Prenda Law
It's disappointing that they’re not (at very least) crediting Allie Brosh, despite the fact that they're using her artwork.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2010/06/this-is-why-ill...
Microsoft Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps
The arrival of Jason and David's book, Remote, is fantastic and I can't wait to read it. I think it is crystal clear that, if done properly, many people would lead much happier livers if they had the ability to choose where they worked from. People could still collaborate online with colleagues, probably lead healthier lives, be more productive, and be judged based on execution rather than whether they are at their desk earlier or later than others, even if they are just sitting there on, Faceboo or Reddit…. or HN ;-).

There are many companies of all sizes that support employees domestically and internationally working remotely. IBM, HP, Kaplan, The US Government, a number of major insurance companies, and many other organizations hire remotely. This gives access to a much broader talent pool.

Also, "The Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the entire five-year cost of implementing telework throughout government ($30 million) is less than a third of the cost of lost productivity from a single day shut down of federal offices in Washington DC due to snow ($100 million). - See more at: http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statis...

I've always found it time consuming to filter through all the crappy jobs when searching for good opportunities that allow you to work remotely. I'm actually working on creating a curated search experience specifically for jobs in all industries where people are able to work remotely. We're not quite set to launch yet but for anyone interested in staying updated I'd love you to register here. http://klearsearch.com/

Feedback from this community when we launch would be really great.
I happen to agree, and haven't said anything to the contrary. My point is that forced labor isn't fair, and it wouldn't magically become more fair if prison management neglected to campaign for more prisoners. They're two separate issues.