skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an individually owned rental store a few minutes from my house (the Blockbuster nearby closed, as well as the Hollywood Video), I always go there to get the new releases. I also have Netflix and Amazon Prime, but I actually enjoy wandering around the rental store, looking over movies. I occasionally find new releases I wasn't aware of.

There are a few perks with the store as well. The lady that runs it lets me get away with murder on returning movies late. There's a vast selection. Older movies (6 months+) are $1, and the rental lasts a week. For movies not available through Netflix and Prime, that deal kills the rental cost + term from the digital competition (as an example, I Am Legend is $1.99 on Amazon to rent for 24 hours). So in my household, I can watch the movie today, another person can watch it several days later; that nicely beats what Amazon & Co offer me.

Overall I find the store to be a positive experience, I'm glad it still exists.
Interesting. What is "Style management" in this context? I'm assuming the ability to modify a style once and have it applied to the whole document?
I imagine the proliferation of RedBox is due to a few points:

1) It promotes DVD purchasing (by encouraging DVD usage).
2) It is a complimentary service to your local 7-11/CVS/Safeway.
Pick up a box of popcorn with your movie.
3) RedBox buys DVDs in the same schema that Blockbuster
did -- a schema content producers are used to.
Not really. They're just saying "we have the manpower (and patience) to test on two different versions of each of these three browsers, and one of our own" rather than "we'll support however many different browser versions these vendors care to release in the past X months" - seems kinda prudent to me.
Author here. Yep, it's part of the country's infrastructure. This kind of restriction adds costs in a million little ways.
Which headline do you think is more informative to TechCrunch's audience?

Twitter Prices IPO At $26 Per Share

or

Twitter Prices IPO At $18 Billion Valuation
I hate to admit I'm mostly posting to remind myself of this comment but all of this advice is pure gold. You can almost never have too many metrics and you can always dial it back. Not knowing is the worst feeling and there's so many ways to track in apps like this, it always makes sense unless you pay per volume. Hitting that volume would most likely be a great problem to have anyway so there's very little to lose, I think.
It's the only data they'd offer me which contains the complete list of zip codes mapped to cities.
I like the sizing and composition of 2.

But one strength in 3-4 is contrast. The eye tends to gravitate to contrast, and I feel like the black in 3-4 gives the icon more punch.
Warning: default was False previously so this example is backwards

Think about this code:

class Missile(models.Model):
# we can only attack short countries
target = models.CharField(max_length=7)
should_launch = models.BooleanField()

def launch(self):
"""
pass launches the missile
"""
pass

You recently added a new missile:
# add new missile in case we have to attack Merica
# it won't be launched until we set should_launch to True
Missile.objects.create(target="Merica")

Then you have a view:

/missile/launch_missiles

with the code:

for missile in Missile.objects.filter(should_launch=True):
missile.launch()

You'll have the unexpected behavior of launching that missile you just added.
With the new behavior your missile wouldn't be launched until you told it to. Basically this update has everything to do with the missile above failing this conditional:

missile.should_launch is True

Since 'None is not True and None is not False', it is a sensible default for Booleans.
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They haven't enforced protecting their "proprietary business information" in the past, so I doubt this can hold up in court.

It other news, I think the USPS should double their rates for stamps. Less spam in my mailbox, and a push for a greener planet.
That's what I'd like to do. I wrote this in my FOIA request: that my intent is to take the data and make it as widely available as possible.
Kyriarchy
Those statistics are for the general population. The argument the parent comment was making that a lot of medium to larger sized corporations are still using IE <10.0 so Google is losing that market by not supporting those browsers.
NetMarketShare's stats are more accurate than any of the others listed there. The mere fact that W3Counter, StatCounter, and Wikimedia are listed there shows that whoever compiled it has no understanding of global web stats. Chrome is only the dominant browser in two countries and elsewhere only dominant amongst a specific subset of demographics.
I would love to know which sites work great in Opera but not at all in FF. Seriously, as a web dev, that would be very useful research material - please post some reference URLs if you can.
Twitter 2007: Who wants to post status messages which are limited to 140 characters

Twitter 2010: Who wants to invest in a company which limits status messages to 140 characters

Twitter 2013: Who thinks $26/share is a viable price for a company which limits what people say to 140 characters, has no photo albums, events and all of facebook's features (hint: Twitter is not Facebook)
$1.8 billion. 70 million shares at $26 a piece. Am I missing something?
I urge you to go to this page [1] and have a look at what other products are and what information they provide.

[1] https://www.usps.com/business/address-information-systems.ht...
Your situation may be different, but I personally would not even know where to start looking for a local dealer. Being a sheltered upper middle class youth has its disadvantages :)
Guy Says Hello In 33 Languages
http://api.zippopotam.us/us/ca/san%20francisco
Nice idea! Would it be crazy to just use an email address as the pointer? It's easier to remember than a random string of numbers and it means they don't have to worry about name spacing. They can initially verify it by emailing you, like everything else.

And who would curate the mapping? A government department? USPS/Royal Mail? And is it public information, or should some 'privacy' laws apply? If it's the latter, how is sharing that with e.g. FedEx going to be regulated? We don't want to recreate the zip/post code mess!
No, this is what long hours mean to someone who doesn't want to work long hours but does out of some obligation or feeling that they should or have to.

I've said it before, but these kinds of articles/blog posts always read as a justification on the part of the author for not working more.
Both are useful and necessary.
Why should one exclude the other? I talk about "improvements", not a random chosen word.

Also I scanned a lot of books myself, and scanners can easily go trivial over the next decade.

http://www.diybookscanner.org/
http://diybookscanner.eu/

And humans may even be not that necessary anymore
http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/automatic-book-scanning-desi...
Design Inspiration for Startups
Don't be shy, what was that post?
I, too am against illegal drugs like heroin, but I believe legalizing all drugs would help everyone, both the addicts and normal people. Taking away the black market would reduce crime and stop the flow of money into powerful crime organizations. The addict would benefit from cleaner drugs and would not have to break the law to get their fix.

I have seen heroin ruin people's lives and I wish with all my heart that it could be eradicated. However, this is just not possible, and we have to figure out how to live in a world that includes such terrible things. The only people who benefit from criminalization are law enforcement and prison owners.
Was unaware of this project, thanks for bringing it up. Just about to begin a major project of my own, and it will definitely come in handy.
I would like to add that they can be ripped so you can get a illegal copy without the fear that the MPAA will track down your IP.
> The app doesn't auto-update favorites yet. For now you can manually update via pull-to-refresh.

Just to let you know: I favorited a song (using menu bar) and then pulled to refresh in my favorites view. The song was shown twice on the list. Same after another refreshes. After restarting the app the song is shown only once, but after pulling to refresh it's doubled again. The second copy appears slightly after the first, so it's probably some list populating launched twice.

The app is awesome and I loved it at the first sight. Thank you! I didn't know Hype Machine before, but they seem to serve some good music.

You should provide links to iTunes & Amazon to allow easy purchases if someone would like to add songs to their music library.
If you don't love your job, then that's the whole point of having a social deal that it's perfectly okay to work 40 hour weeks + have a roof over your head + don't starve.
Maybe all the tech stock fans are cashing out in preparation to sink it all into Twitter...
#2 but that clip needs work. Something seems off with it... maybe lighten the gray a bit
While it's certainly possible, it seems somewhat less likely. He was sick for a few years, and his decline seemed much more gradual.

Not saying it's not possible, but seems less likely IMO.
Could anyone explain to me what the author may be alluding to as a 'regular lawyer' as opposed to 'your lawyer'?

"If you use your lawyer, you’ll get charged way more than if you used a regular lawyer"
Author of the blog post here.

Access to the API isn't automatic. You have to apply, which I did, and then was turned down. They only grant access if you're using the info to ship packages via the USPS. I was completely honest that I wanted the data to build open-government apps of different kinds, and they declined me.
> * A box for its use at every residence in the United States

There are plenty of places that don't have a box. That box is paid for privately and not required.

> A federal monopoly; it is unlawful for any company to carry a letter in the United States and charge a similar price to USPS rates.

You got that wrong, see here: http://about.usps.com/publications/pub542/pub542_ch1_001.htm...
By Android support I mean taking advantage of native resources -- camera, local storage (therefore autosaving), smooth UI, etc.
What makes Git different from any other software that does this?
I don't think the use of the word "safe" or any derivative of it is appropriate with the shares of any publicly-traded social media company.

That said, even though Twitter's valuation looks quite rich at $26/share from a financials perspective (to say the least), I think some investors who have (or want) positions in social media companies are considering Twitter's demographic profile, which also happens to be Facebook's biggest potential Achilles heel.

The fact that Twitter is seen by some as a benefactor of Facebook's growing teen attrition may not be a wise rationale for a Twitter investment, but if you're hell bent on taking a cruise on the Titanic, why not rearrange the deck chairs to get yourself a view that's more to your liking?
For consumers, "there's an app for that".

For businesses, "there's an API for that".
I suspect you need to put the bong down. Virtually nothing you're written here makes sense.
Isn't that approximately every Winamp visualization plugin ever created?
> Also, is it possible some of these browsers are running as x64 on macosX?

The OS X task manager lists Safari and FF as 64 bit, Chrome is 32 bit. I'm also seeing the same dramatic performance gap. Chrome is at 23k, whereas Safari and Firefox come in just under 16k.
I'm currently on a juice diet and consume(drink) kale everyday 3 times a day. Tastes awful on its own, but in a juice its not that bad.

First time I tried this whole juice diet thing I lost 38lbs in 2 months.
I'm an economics nerd, but this is just simplistic partisan drivel.
Can no one else raise an army or navy? I suppose it depends on your definition of "army" and "navy." Borrowing money on the credit of the US seems like a pretty obvious intrinsic monopoly.
That link just takes a lot of words to say a few things:

1) Helmets are built to pass a safety standard (which I've already said)

2) Better helmets need to be built (I said that too)

Your summary mischaracterises the article, which clearly says (more than once) that current helmets are good at saving lives.
The brazilian postal service claimed ownership of our postal codes a few years ago... Except that by our laws, nobody can claim ownership of data (you can't copyright, patent or trademark it). But the State has no reason to care about such mundane things, like laws.

By the way, here it's about $2,000/year, and if you sign the contract, you agree that the postal service owns the data. Or you can look at the internet for somebody that published it for free, and use it legally without a contract.
Relatedly, I was at sun in 2002 and went to one of the town halls that Johnathan Schwartz was doing in menlo park. Someone asked how we would make money from {thing} and he was told by Mr. Shwartz that engineers shouldn't worry about how to make money from things, they should focus on the code.

One of the many reasons our stock price went from $80 to $2 methinks...
Now that we have 1.6, what should we expect for 1.7?
Indeed. We see what the market price for delivering a letter quickly across the country is: about $20 from Fedex. USPS can only charge 46 cents by law, the cheapest first-class mail service in the world.
No, they're an independent government agency. Federal agencies that survive on non-appropriated funds aren't uncommon, for example, The Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Mint and several DoD NAFIs (e.g. the different exchanges and various MWR programs).
> Maybe in Mexico they do this.

It happens in England.
And in Russia they did a parallel investigation that shows no polonium. So as usual, every side of the conflict can pick its own narrative.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-palestinians-ar...
If that's true, maybe you could correct the Wikipedia article? Honestly, I'll hold my hands up: I don't have an in-depth understanding of how each of those stats companies gathers their data and, having heard widely-reported statements about Chrome exceeding IE's market share, my natural instinct was to accept the majority's figures over the minority. If I - and, no doubt, many others - are being misled, it would be nice to correct our misconceptions.
Here's another idea: why not use Namecoin [1] to keep the data? It's fair, no one owns it, and everyone can query it.

[1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternati...
Some state bars have decided that lawyers can no longer bill travel time to one client if the time is also spent billing work to another client. However, many states still accept this practice, because on its face, it is perfectly reasonable and ethical.

For example: if a client is being billed for time spent traveling on behalf of the client, the lawyer could do nothing while traveling and the time would still be billable to that client (as travel time). Even if the lawyer then does work for another client at the same time, the lawyer is still spending time traveling for the first client. (Note that travel time is frequently billed at lower rates or is otherwise discounted compared to normal billable work.) Curiously, however, it is not permissible to bill the same client for travel time and again for time spent working on that same client's case while traveling.
Its a con, not a scam. If that matters. But then again, a con is but a technique to scam someone. So, by this logic...
For "serious cyclist" think commute, not downhill. It's a completely different target, noone would wear a full face helmet while cycling to his/her office, and convenience/safety would reasonably be thought as a tradeoff, not picking security first.
Why is this? Could you make it work using, say, 2n instead of n? or n^2 instead of n?
Sorry to persist - how does it not reduce revenues? If the illegal restricted rate of a certain opiate is $1/mg, but the free-market, competitive rate is $0.10/mg, then the revenues will drop approximately to 1/10th.

In the slums, is Pepsi, alcohol and ibuprofen priced at obscene rates? Why or why not?

Either way, even if it doesn't benefit the poor class (because they're totally fucked either way), it doesn't harm them, and is the right thing to do. So it does seem simple to state: yes, legalize everything.
That's all fine and dandy but the proof of the pudding lies in a successful monetization strategy. From where I'm sitting, I just can't see how they're ever going to convince enough people to pony up (directly or indirectly) for what is, at its core, an artificially constrained public sms service (that thus far they've been accustomed to using for free).
Yeah, but I'd argue that Android XML layouts are a heck of a lot easier to work with than CSS. They have the benefit of being used for exactly the purpose they were originally designed for.
Not immediately, but you could probably find an entity to borrow them off, pretty quickly.

I wouldn't have thought it would affect the overall shorting effect too much either.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/062905.asp
And if you read the full article, there's a solution to the problem from the census bureau....

Of course the author can't use that because it's not updated daily, like FOIA'ing the ZIP codes would get you daily updates anyway...
Isn't two scoops also dedicated to Malcolm Tredinnick?
> If you look at those patents, you'll see that they are bizarrely trivial.

They may or may not be trivial, but I've only known the patent numbers for an hour, and you only knew them for 15 minutes when you posted--and it is not possible to have read them in sufficient detail to make such a judgement in that time.

To find out what a patent actually covers you have to read more than just the title and the abstract. The title and abstract are mostly useful for determining what a patent does not cover rather than determining what it covers.

The title just tells you the broad area the patent is in, and the abstract narrows that down a bit, but both will cover a lot of ground. That's why they are most useful for exclusion, not inclusion.

To find out what the patent actually covers, it is the claims that matter. The claims are interpreted in light of the specification, so you must read that to understand the claims.

For instance, a patent might have a title of "Acoustic Repelling of Mosquitoes", which seems really broad, but when you read the specification and claims, it might turn out that the patent only applies when the mosquitoes are a specific species, exactly three sound generators are being used, they are arranged in an equilateral triangle, the temperature is above 95F, and it is daylight.

(Actually, to really tell what is covered, you need to check the file for the patent from the patent office. The examiner and the applicant often go back and forth arguing over whether a claim should be allowed. The arguments and concessions the applicant makes to convince the examiner to allow the claim become limits on the claim).
> mathematician make errors. I want something that can be checked formally.

So you mean math?
That's a really bad long-term strategy.
There is no need for a "tool" (which will only add to code bloat and be circumvented anyway). Just don't accept 3rd-party cookies and be done with it. All browsers already have this setting, it just needs to be enabled by default.

I invite all who haven't done so yet to change their browser's settings right now to refuse 3rd party cookies. They have almost no legitimate use anyway. The only breakage of a useful site I'm aware of pertains to active Disqus logins, a price well worth paying in my opinion.

The 3rd party cookie tracking problem is worse than most people think. For instance, every time your browser pulls a file from a CDN, you're tracked.
The judiciary should always have an adversarial relationship with the Intelligence community in order to have checks and balances. I think FISA could work with more and varied members on it's committee.

Feinstein is a joke and obviously isn't well informed on the subject matter she's supposedly overlooking.
The double blind study is to rule out other factors - are tackles more aggressive when players are wearing armour, and thus more risky?

So, with helmets: Do they increase risk of neck and spinal injury by causing weird head movements during impact with floors? and etc.
They're selling 70M shares, aiming to raise approx. $1.8B. However, there are over 700M fully diluted shares. At $26 a piece this makes a total valuation of $18B.
Ok, maybe? But do you really think that's what's happening? More likely, I think a generally underwhelming earnings season has deflated a few of these momo stocks.
Things that surprised me in PyCharm
now this is completely and utterly fucked up
One of the reasons that IE marketshare is so hard to measure is that it depends on whether business users visit the site. You can see this if you can get data that isn't filtered. The only public data I know like that is Clicky [1]. Note the sawtooth wave caused by users who use IE7/8 (and now IE9) during the week but some other browser during the weekend. So IE8 marketshare is almost 2x higher during the week than on weekends.

http://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/internet-e...
Perhaps you can clue me in: What was Sun's plan with Java? For a company that sold hardware, making a runtime that works everywhere, and has cross-platformness as a core feature seems sort of counterproductive. Did Sparc offer some sort of competitive advantage, hardware wise (like hardware assisted GC) or something?

Edit: In Microsoft's case with the CLR, I can see the cross-platform goals being mainly technical, but MS sells software and developer tools. So it makes sense for them to get everyone using their platform. Did Sun have an aggressive plan to control the ecosystem and sell tooling and whatnot around it?
What? People already pay to advertise on the service, the convincing is happening right now.
Ah, thank you for clarifying!
Zero-Car Families on the Rise
Office Depot Sends World's Worst DMCA Notice To Reddit
I loved that thing. Read both articles because of it. It even got me to check out Groove and bookmark them.
> Whatever the cause is, it's still Google's fault/problem.

Why is it that no matter what the cause is, you feel that Google is to blame?
Considering that this material is supposed to degrade quickly - to find the amount they did after so long in the ground is incredible sleuth work.