skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Putting GPS on cars that are paid for by the taxpayer and are used by people with more power than a regular citizen is hardly some far reaching nanny state, it is just good practice.

I'd go further and say that it's quite the opposite of a nanny state (or really, a surveillance state). I don't understand where chris_mahan is coming from, as this policy seems to allow the citizenry oversight over the government, instead of the other way around.
If we are going all conspiracy territory on why Play dropped a language in favor of another, it would seem much easier to say that the controlling company of Play decided to drop support of a somewhat competitive alternative language for the JVM. :) No need to bring the stewardship of groovy into it.
The argument that I have heard so far is that up until this point, when police enter a house and make an arrest, the jury doesn't see the accused until his lawyer gets to clean him up, put him in a suit, and get him to shut up. With ubiquitous cameras, the jury will now see the accused and his residence and will have that as their first impression of him.
You're right to doubt your personal evidence at this point. Almost everyone I know who has a Dropbox account pays for it.
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I know HTML/CSS from back in the day. I gotta catch up with the latest stuff, like responsive design, frameworks, javascript. Where is the best place to learn about this stuff? I like video learning
As an American that lived in Russia most of my life. It's not total BS but some of the points you mentioned contribute.

1. No one will help you - true. My group of friends would alway be targeted by skinheads and when we had to fight no one would ever help us. Not even the police.

2. People make eye contact a lot, it's a respect and dominance thing. Walking down the streets of Moscow with your head down is a good way to end up dead (seriously, be aware. My sister was picked up physically once and shoved into the trunk of a car - fast action saved her life).

3. Not all Russians are miserable but I agree on the cynical part. They don't trust anyone. (would you if you were lied too for that long.)

4."people are asshole to each other in public" its not so much about being assholes - people just have shit to do. I can't count how many times i was pushed by a sweet old babushka in the metro. They just assume you have no respect but they also realize you get nowhere by being passive.

Anyway, Russia is a very amazing place and it can be scary. Moscow is very racist and the youth is a big problem (violence).

Would I live there again? In a heartbeat. Never felt more alive.
It's hardly the most freaky, imho. The biggest one, to me, is how the enormous subsidies that US farmers receive directly contribute to global obesity and healthcare costs.

Here's a primer on what sugar (or more precisely, fructose) does by Dr Lustig (of UCSF, if memory serves):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

I wouldn't be surprised if US agribusinesses ultimately end up on the receiving end of lawsuits across the world -- much like tabacco companies did.
Yes that could possibly have a slight impact on the economy, but as I said, from an individual perspective increasing value is definitely a good thing.
Is there a way to arbitrage this difference?
For computing. For delivery they use various CDN's. delivery is the expensive part, for them
No. Public actors acting on the public in public should have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
The AFL here in Australia does the same thing, you can watch the games for a decent fee but only if you're not in Australia. There is an iOS app but it has had mixed reviews, and not all games are available on Free to air each week, especially if your team is not the local one.

Suffice to say that these dodgy streaming sites are often the easiest and most convenient way of watching a game.
You can formulate a list of best practices and advice, but I'm afraid this is the kind of situation where experience is the best school. It's hard to talk about solutions to pain points when the person hasn't experienced them personally. Consider this on your project.
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Obsolete? So What? You get Freedom. You don't need to apply on XY Store or Play Stuff in order to create applications with it. That's worth something.
Well, when you have no profit to speak of there's nothing to anchor the discussion. The hopeful talk about "growth" with the hazy implication that the company has a "profit" switch they will eventually flip into the "on" position. The cynical see a storm of speculation with no concrete anchor and walk out on what they see as a waste of time.

Which, I guess, is a long way of saying "I agree with you". I think my theory does at least fit the patterns of conversation, though.
>I've literally never heard of anyone, company or individual, paying for Dropbox

Hi. Nice to meet you.
Social networks are winner take all markets, whereas Dropbox is not in such a market. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are all trading at 20-40 times revenue based on the fact that they enjoy strong network effects.
Me too, I've just bought a HTC ChaCha! I was disappointed in my research that Android phones haven't been built with physical keyboards in years!

I don't like the sliding keyboard either.
This is never a positive thing to me. It helps when everyone has the same level of problems but it really sucks when you never need help from others. This is a personal problem with the open office I deal with now. I had a coworker that would make disruptions interesting and light hearted. Now its just me and a junior and his disruptions are everything from eating to talking to himself to having conversations with others at volume level 11. The last is not really his fault when someone else leads that charge but a fidgety person is not a great fit for an open floor office shared among 4 people. A much bigger open plan where that can be dissipated by the distance between others. Right now it just feels like someone is constantly in your ear eating potato chips loudly. I purposefully eat potato chips with my mouth closed and always think about my "audible footprint" but when someone else doesn't it's just so fucking annoying.
IPv4 and UPnP allows most of the P2P scenarios IPv6 does. Please clue me in as to how a P2P system is going to maintain always-on backups/storage of my personal photos.
> Paypal, for instance, is not a bank.

Paypal is a bank in Europe. A paypal account is legally a bank account here.
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http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements-update-cable-ops...
>Considering that Dropbox are completely dependant on Amazon for their service ...

They aren't. If they switched tomorrow or supplemented AWS with their own data-centers, you'd never notice a difference.
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I don't know much of anything about company valuations, but in terms of what the following two companies mean to me and what I believe they means to the world: if Dropbox is valued at $8B, I no longer have any reservations whatsoever with Tesla's valuation based on its stock price. (I do recognize that its price is being corrected this month, but I suspect it will eventually trend back upward.)

From my point of view, Tesla brings me at least ten times the value of Dropbox. I don't even think Dropbox represents a problem that should exist long-term assuming a re-disintermediated Internet, which is where I am optimistic we're heading eventually. Storing and sharing my data using someone else's service is retrograde.
Sure -- it's a double edged sword, but the point is that Vimeo does not represent a potential YouTube replacement.
This might change after enough bitcoin applications implement CoinJoin, a type of mixer.
Right, hence what I said (which is somewhat inaccurate) about a "100% reserve requirement". The bank could lend any amount up to its total deposits, but not above.

This is very different than how banking works today. Banks (in the US) can lend up to 1000% of their current deposits. This is a core feature of the fractional reserve system, and is clearly impossible under a pure bitcoin alternative.
I've never bought a phone with out a physical qwerty keyboard, and don't plan on changing that trend any time soon.
So ... your argument is that Dropbox's valuation is ridiculous because Amazon could completely destroy AWS and take out Dropbox in the process. Because that is what would happen if they did this. Everyone else who does anything important with AWS would drop whatever they were doing and start migrating off of it immediately.

But, yes, I suppose "my supplier could lose their mind and destroy the product I buy from them" is a concern that needs to be evaluated.
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"I guess the number of poor people in the US are not large enough for that to happen?"

More like: they've a long and entrenched track record of voting against their own interests, on the basis of keeping a hypothetical fable called the American Dream alive.
“If I take my cruiser and I meet [reluctant witnesses] to talk, eventually they can follow me and say, 'Why were you in a back dark street for 45 minutes?'

What's this guy mean? Does he currently spend time meeting witnesses that his department doesn't know about and wouldn't approve of if they did, or that he somehow needs to keep secret from the rest of the department?
Sadly, I worried about older folks. I bet you could get some metal "bit coins" like those in numerous pictures and go door to door selling them for several hundred dollars to some people. It'd be easy o come up with a story as to why you're selling them.
The theory is that since they have high gross margin they are only losing money while they ramp up to scale. In some time in the near future, they should employ economies of scale to have decent operating margins.

Selling dollars for 90 cents would be a negative gross margin business. Any business with negative gross margin should be valued as worthless
1 Bitcoin = 1000 US dollars
Hey Guys. Coinbase is having some issues (they are probably under a lot of load) but we will make sure we redeem everyone!

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> how a P2P system is going to maintain always-on backups/storage of my personal photos.

A client to something like OceanStore.
You don't need the Play Store to make apps in Android, either.
Dropbox is very social. Go see how a lot of students in University share files with each other. A lot of them just assume that the other person has a Dropbox account. It's certainly how teams keep their projects aligned.
I'd love to know what browser / os you're using. I'm running a galaxy s3 in 'tablet mode' (lcd density set to 160 from 320) and the text renders nicely.
Does the Hola unblocker work for the streaming pass? https://hola.org
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Good thing Coinbase is down...
I run native IPv6 at home in San Francisco on Comcast. It just works after some screwing around. Every now and then I'll notice that my web browser selects the AAAA record for google.com, facebook.com or something else.

It'd be nice if they gave out a proper prefix delegation. Instead the best I can get allocated is a /60. Pretty sure the RFC recommends /48's to be allocated to customers.
Tiny open source SBC runs Linux on i.MX6 SoC
BTC correction happening?
The folks most likely to want the open aspect are also most likely to appreciate the physical keyboard. Heck, they'll probably type faster on them.
The article doesn't mention gender.
related: http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-bernanke-on-bitcoin-2013-...
BERNANKE: Bitcoin 'May Hold Long-Term Promise'
Argue it's obsolete if you want, but it isn't progress to require me to use a touchscreen with my giant fat fingers
Have you ever told your mom (or any non-technical) person to go onto github and install something from there on a server?

Dropbox makes it dead easy. People now Dropbox files to each other instead of email.
My argument is that first the police, then firefighters. Then teachers, then schoolchildren, then all government vehicles, then all government administrators, then all government workers, then a few major corporations, then all major corporations, then small businesses, then all businesses, then students in college, then library patrons, buss-pass holders, then ex-convicts, then children, then people collecting unemployment, then people who are receiving disability payments, then retirees, then... Did I miss anyone?

The slippery slope is called slippery _because_ it is slippery...
what if there are corrupt cops in your department and they review your cars GPS logs?
What is a good file manager for Linux?
This is a relatively very new bug in Mozilla world it seems. :)

See this for example, a 12.5 years old Firefox bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414
Almost all major browsers suffered from this at a time, but the rest of them fixed it. The only important update they've done so far about this bug is to block unhappy users to even comment on it ;)
I eventually found the cheatsheet and it remains useful to this day. But, my specific point was trying to dissect what survey respondents were looking for when asking for more documentation, because each item I listed has a different possible solution.

Documenting function inputs and outputs could use core.typed's annotations to enhance the docs.

Documenting expected behavior leans towards adding content and examples, where the examples can be manually curated or pulled from available opensource code. (Similar to getclojure.org, but bigger.)

Solving bad discovery could be approached by improving the search/organization/unification of the clojure.github.io, the cheatsheet, clojuredocs.org, clojure-toolbox.org and clojure-doc.org.

So, what did they want exactly?
Second anti-patent-troll bill shows up as splits emerge on the first
sold 35 at 189 after buying em at 150 half a year ago.

so much cringe
I like the JVM but I really don't think the general population of programmers would call it fashionable. I have a friend who never visits HN but has a distrust for it even though his exposure to it was decades ago. The hardware back then was just not ready for it and it probably left some lasting scars.

I find that Java and the JVM is just something that you don't talk about, which is why it's never going to be fashionable. Useful yes. Fashionable, I'm not sure.
And the correction begins
Just dropped $200 and I can't do anything about it.
It's refreshing that the overall tone of the hearing is not one of 'we don't understand this cryptocurrency thing, we need to shut it down', but rather, 'this thing is happening, we have some concerns, but we need to adapt so we aren't left behind'.
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Speculators may get rich in BTC, but high prices do not validate bitcoin as a currency. High volatility is not a desirable trait in a trade medium.
High risk transactions
Cancelled orders on CoinBase is going to kill their business. New customers are unhappy and the post does not make sense as the users are verified and money is withdrawn from their account.
I wish I could say that I bought 1000 btc few years back and sold it for $900 yesterday.. but no
> It'd be nice if they gave out a proper prefix delegation. Instead the best I can get allocated is a /60. Pretty sure the RFC recommends /48's to be allocated to customers.

Out of curiosity, what's your use case for more than 16 subnets? I agree on principle they should give you a /48 if you ask for it, but the truth is that I'm extremely grateful they rethought their original stance, which was that a measly /64 was enough for anyone! That would have been extremely harmful and short-sighted; I feel pretty comfortable with a /60.

On that note, does anyone know what Time Warner's maximum prefix delegation size is?
Yeah, but you can't code directly in Android to develop your ANdroid app, as far as I know. You need a separate PC.
The lock-in with DropBox is huge - I have eleven shared folders that I use to keep other people up to date with files, and I have never had a request to share files with anybody on anything other than Dropbox.

I trust dropbox. Dropbox has a great track record (with me). Dropbox is installed on all my tablets/smartphones/desktops/laptops. And, at $100/year, it's cheap enough that I'm not really inspired to bother price shopping.

This is clearly a case where Dropbox came in and won - and now it's time for them to invest aggressively, and make sure nobody else enters this market.

Now - I am not saying that people aren't using other systems - obviously Microsoft and Google have their products, and both Google Drive and Microsoft Skydrive are excellent products, that are technically comparable to what dropbox is offering. Apple's icloud is just annoying for knowledge workers, so I'm not going to include that in the same class - but, in terms of a generalized folder Sync Product - Dropbox has won.
Thank you for making me feel less curmudgeonly!

I've thought the same thing for the longest while. I love that people of all ages are starting to learn about electronics & firmware. At the same time, the desire to build something sophisticated has people skipping large steps and as a result, build insanely complicated systems that a little knowledge would let them do in a much simpler fashion.

They're learning, but with enormous gaps in knowledge.
I am new users of CoinBase. I personally have almost all my orders cancelled since last Monday. Customer service is not responding.
It feels like the NFL is making every effort possible for me to be unable to watch games these days.

Good

Maybe it'll put an end to head-injury peddling, rape-festooned garbage pit that is American Football.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/14/2777431/maryville...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/head-injuries-make-...
You are not using that word like they were. So stop.
I am fully aware of the issues with Mozilla's bug tracker, that's why I asked if there was a proper way.

For your bug, there's a proof of concept patch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78414#c657
Ok, are they businesses or individuals? What are they using it for?
I'm not sure how LightTable works, but I can talk about how it works in Cursive. There's really not a lot of magic but there are a lot of tricky details. It seems like you're mostly talking about object method calls there - you're right that in the most common case (start typing the method name without putting the object after it first) you really can't do much. Currently in that case we propose all methods for all available classes, which is everything in java.lang and everything that's imported - I think most Clojure solutions do this. However this still misses some cases like (warning: totally invented api):

(let [entry (.getEntry my-map)
key (.getK|

Here you can't easily tell that you want the key of your map entry here since the MapEntry class isn't imported. I'm planning some improvements where I'll walk up the AST from the completion point and get the types of all variables on the way and propose all methods from them, but that requires type inference which I don't have yet (although it's on the list). IntelliJ has also really shown how you can push the bar here with some lateral thinking, they propose chained method calls etc based on the type, so there's a lot of cleverness you can do with a little thought (and a good test suite).

Completion for functions etc is obviously easier although in the case of protocols the problem is similar - you'll get all the protocol methods suggested since they're just fancy functions, but you won't get proper context-sensitive completion unless you've put the object implementing the protocol after the symbol you're completing - the most you can hope for is some sort of error message later that what you've entered doesn't look consistent.

Edit: one thing I forgot to mention is that in the completion list for methods we show the full signature as well as the list of all classes that have a method with that signature, which helps a lot in choosing the right method.
I mean, I agree with you, but just because you are 'on duty' doesn't mean that you become an automaton of the state. You are still a person with privileges, rights, and responsibilities. If anything, since your responsibilities increase, your privileges should as well. Cops, no matter how corrupt or bad, are still people just like you and me.

EDIT: I should explain myself more. Cops are people too. That we have a system that automatically prioritizes their word above all others is that problem here. Dashcams and monitoring every trip to the doughnut shop is a symptom of that. Maybe we should treat the root cause, not the symptoms. Maybe the system is in need of some TLC, not more rules and exceptions.
Russians do not teach their children to smile at people to be polite or for any other reason, so smile only comes as a genuine emotion. But Americans do, and not just smile, but also show teeth. I'm not sure why though, probably has something to do with dental advertisements.
You are full of conspiracies...please stop posting.
That is a terrible analogy, Italians are one of the most xenophobic and racist people out there.
There were a couple of Android phones in Japan with sliding keyboards, but they were kind of crap...
That's a good point.

But let me give you an example. Here in Brazil we had our own kind of holocaust. Very mechanical, and very cruel. But it was only last year that I have found out about it. From a documentary made about it's victims (one that is still alive today).

In contrast, I spent a lot of time in school learning about the holocaust. I watched a dozen movies about it. And I have lost count of the books I've read about it.

It was a cruelty beyond belief. But there are more recent genocides that don't get even a fraction of the attention. And why don't we learn about them?

Why the holocaust is treated as the worst human genocide in history when it clearly is not?

Even in our own (Brazilian) history there are genocides made by the empire that are very close to the mechanical cruelty of the holocaust. And we don't even learn about them on school. Why?

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Note: I'm not arguing about the importance of learning about holocaust. I'm just saying that we should make room to learn about other mistakes that we made in our history. That's the only way we'll keep from making them again.
Almost everyone I work with pays for their dropbox account. You start working with the free account for a few years, and then, eventually, you build a lot of business processes and data management flows - and discover you get $100/year of value out of it.

Also - a combination of Dropbox + ARQ + Backblaze/Crashplan + SuperDuper gives you a pretty rock solid backup system.
They're not quite raising an objection, but rather using the opportunity to draw attention (and support) to their cause.

"...That's why we hope police officers will join us in demanding that the state legislature pass forward-looking privacy protections to ensure that if the government wants to track a private citizen—by license plate reader, GPS device, or cell phone—it needs to first get a warrant"

Note that it refers to 'private citizen' not police officers.
CNN and Fox News are already cable only... ?

Also, I'm not sure I've ever been to a bar or restaurant with a TV that was OTA only (without a cable or satellite hookup).
As a staffer who works down the hall from this hearing, I am glad to see all the anti-Congress sentiment usually expressed on HN digressed for true discussion of subject matter.
Note that iOS has the same issue, except there's no way to change the relevant setting (AFAIK), and in general 8k keys are likely to be prohibitively slow on mobile.
Once you start to share files with a lot of other people, you very, very quickly use up the initial quota that you get with your free account.

That's the Dropbox strategy - if you use it as an individual, you probably won't use that much. But, once you start using it in a social way - you quickly need to pay for a pro account.
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