skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an article two weeks ago about a similar effort in NY state which I thought had an unusually revealing quote:

Deborah Dorman, president of the Eastern New York Coalition of Auto Dealers, was at that meeting and said Tuesday Cuomo aides told the group the governor would sign the bill if it passes.

She said the bill was designed to protect consumers because it required companies to create a storefront in the state and was not directed at Tesla because it sold electric vehicles. Some environmentalists have claimed the bill unfairly targets electric car manufacturers.

“Everyone is selling electric cars, it has nothing to do with that,” she said. “If you allow someone to come into the market with no overhead, that's an unfair advantage,” she said.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/02/8540876...
Thank you! I'm surprised more people aren't able to pick up on how suspicious it is for the government to make it illegal to avoid a 3rd party.
Awesome way to design a product.
I wonder though, how the users reacted when they saw "dead end features". Were there any frustrated users when they saw it was mainly a "mock-up" web site ?
Cool, spent 15 minutes.
I'm becoming a "shavee" for St. Baldrick's, help me go bald
Actually you're right about Microsoft's solution... PowerShell.

But the technology is called Desired State Configuration which is PowerShell based.
It's not that bad. Vietnam isn't prison.
I didn't realize when I saw it that you didn't need an UP device to use the app. Very nice!
5 Mockup Tools You Must Know About For Your Product
That's actually better than MyISAM, because at least experiencing it is thrilling...
The "fourth estate" is traditionally the press. Unfortunately most of the press does a shit job in keeping the various elites accountable. Imagine if reporters could ask the kinds of questions we want them to ask: "Mr. President, should James Clapper be prosecuted for lying to congress, which is a felony?", "Mr. President, did you authorize waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay?", "Did the USA incite a coup in the Ukraine?"

Unfortunately nowadays if someone asks questions like these, their access to these people will be promptly removed, and they're likely to get fired from their news outlet for pissing off news sources.
Goodness gracious, what can't wearables do!?
Here are two interesting papers: http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.pdf http://faculty.som.yale.edu/FionaScottMorton/documents/State...

My only comment is that if Tesla gets to do direct selling then Ford should also be allowed.
30 minutes a day of video games. LOL. In lots of games, a single level or mission takes double that time. This is just ridiculous.
The problem is digital isn't "real". For example, imagine I create a product called a "pet rock". Let's say this product is simply... a rock. Anyone who has access to outside can basically make their own copy. Is it their fault for "copying" without paying? Or is it my fault for making a product that is extremely easy to copy?

U.S. IP law is so outdated and in need of major reforms.
QuiQui – Drone Delivered Pharmacy Items in SF
Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages
You can simply shoot some rays tangent to each curve in addition to the endpoints/vertices.
eh...installed it, tried it and uninstalled in within 60 seconds..

1. Some automagical signin process happens so fast I don't even know what happened or which twitter account I even got signed into
2. I press the run button and... nothing. What the hell did I just do to my account? what is being Favorited? Sorry, I simply don't trust your algorithm out of the box and right off the bat to just blindly let you favorite things without me seeing it...not in the beginning! If I am trying something for the first time, I need to know exactly what's going on.
3. How do I stop this thing once it's running?! No clue...uninstall.

On a more positive note, I just recently started thinking about my own twitter automation and think there is great value here. I love the idea and I'd love to see how you solve it. My most important criteria is to build a relevant and targeted following, who are relevant to me and to whom I am relevant. That is how I believe I can best promote my business.
Gratuitous title change. Original is Dead Madoff Executive Blamed for Deceptive Computer Code
The NSA agrees.
Snowden at SXSW
Well, locks are special beasts due to the security command class, which requires extra challenge/response round trips. My VeraLite-G (the cheap $135 one) is more than 50ft and a couple of dry walls away from the door and the overall latency is consistently around 1.4 seconds measured, while sending commands to the thermostats takes less than 0.2 seconds. It feels instant enough for me. The commands to the lock is routed through my thermostats and appliance module. I'm actually pleasantly surprised with how well the Z-wave mesh network worked. I need two Wifi APs to cover my house, if it were not for the second AP, the wifi signal at the door would be too weak to function reliably.

OTOH, I'm too somewhat disappointed at the quality, security and the development of the MiOS, but we as hackers can at least do something about it.
I'm downvoting your comment because on technical posts the top rated comment is damn near always of zero value and only serves to make the commenter try to sound smarter than the post author. The more in-depth and complicated the post the more those type of comments appear.

This is a nice little post that reasonably describes a technique that has been used by a fair number of professional, commercial products. That anyone would try to downplay it to make themselves feel superior is silly.

To provide some actual value, most of the the images in the post are actually interactive. It's pretty cool. I somehow read the whole thing and didn't notice.
Both parties take money from auto-dealers, and sadly "small government" doesn't seem to mean the same thing to everyone.
"According to Inge, she pursued some of these options, but was turned off by the no-guarantee nature of the wait-lists, and felt she was entitled to stay where she was."

So she voluntarily did not use resources designed to help her out. That lands credibility to landlords story.

If I lived on fixed income, I would definitely move out of Bay Area somewhere cheaper.
If GM wants to do direct sales, they should buy out the franchisee. Tesla never sold away its franchise rights, so should be allowed to sell direct.
Here's a question for you: if your VPS would die today, what would it take to get a new one up and running? Create a user? Install some packages? Add an nginx config file? Maybe add a line or 2 to ~/.ssh/authorize_keys?

If you didn't have a checklist, could you remember all the steps to get the machine back to its current state? If not, you probably should have a checklist. Chef/Anisble/Puppet lets you make such a checklist, but that checklist is actually runnable so that if you needed to bring up a new box it's just one command line away.

So, are you missing out? Maybe. It depends on how complicated your setup is. My experience is that over time, the complexity tends to go up. It seems like extra work up front to make all your configuration changes in some weird extra layer, but as your changes grow and grow it becomes nicer and nicer to have them all listed and documented.

An analogy: it's kind of like programming with no source control. You can do it, especially if you're not collaborating, but as time goes on it becomes more and more cumbersome to work without it.
Easy to implement in an AI as well. Could try various permutations and see which works best fairly trivially then too, eg up down left right / up left down right / up left right down etc...
Is this something RightSignature can do?
> The current president promised them that there would be accountability for the torture, but that campaign promise went the way of so many others.

That is the part that just kills me. One of the planks in Obama's campaigns (or at least the first) was anti-torture (at least that is how I perceived it at the time, and I believe that is how I was intended to perceive it.) So the public voted for a representative who would curtail torture, but the representative they voted for was a liar.

I don't have much faith that the other major candidate was any more honest, so what really is the general public to do? Vote third party perhaps, but they would still lack any assurance whatsoever that their third party candidate was not a liar. How can a representative democracy function when all the candidate representatives are liars?

They aren't actually representing the people that elect them, so my conclusion is that whatever our system of government may be, it is not actually a representative democracy.

(Yeah yeah, technically we vote for people, not for platforms... except that the unbelievably vast majority of voters have never met these candidates, so they "know" the candidate only through the candidates portrayal of their platform. The reality is that the general public votes for platforms (or cynically, attractive faces...).)
Wow, after nearly 5 hours I managed to win it. Great game. :)
Though this article is likely dead I'll respond anyways. As the author notes, when cabin altitude reaches 13,500 ft, oxygen masks automatically deploy. This pretty much destroys the entire theory.

I agree about detecting hypoxia, it is very hard.
Choo choo, all aboard! From what I've seen in recent comparisons to other engines, Cryengine remains the best in "photorealism" and graphics quality, so this is great news. I hope that means they will offer great support for Oculus Rift, too, in the near future.
Absolutely. Certainly the hypothetical cameraman has no inherent right to be paid to do whatever they want to do, I only assert that the so-called utopian pirate market is incapable of sustaining cinema without drastic changes to the business.

Not to say those changes aren't currently necessary, only that if everyone chose to pirate rather than pay then all of Hollywood would likely just shut down rather than keep throwing $100+m AAA blockbusters into a financial abyss.
> I wouldn't be surprised if she was targeted because she was a conniving blocker

It makes total sense!you may be close to the truth here.
So much jelly in this comment. They obviously made good product decisions to get to this point. A few blips along the way will happen, when you are focusing on much more important things.

Your entire SMS history is available to any app with permissions. Most people don't even know that, or are not bothered by it. This is literally feature parity with default SMS. WhatsApp is about messaging that is simple and functional. Security is not even a main selling point.

If you want security, there are apps for that. Good luck getting your friends to use it.
Whoever downvoted me, please provide reference. AFAIK, there is no weakness found in Z-Wave protocol itself but a specific implementation in a specific brand of lock, which is demonstrated by the z-force hack.

The "just like SSL" comment is justified, AFAICT.
They can't read your mind... oh wait...
Awesome feedback -- this is definitely the current problem with the v1. It needs to be more transparent about exactly what it's doing.

I'll be making these changes within the next day or two. Thanks again.
I have question as someone that is still fairly new to node. The article recommends using npm for running tasks (for instance starting the application), but others recommend an external tool like grunt. Is it more idiomatic to use grunt or npm for these tasks?
"seriously misled"

you'll never hear the word "lied" because it's politically incorrect when referring to those in power.
Malaysia Airlines mystery: US issued warnings over Boeing 777 'weak spot'
Surely "hype" involves some sort of unrealised promise. As far as I can see, the SteamOS is going to be a success. As to whether it is a runaway success remains to be seen but you can't deny its potential. Cross platform dev is not so hard if you commit to it from the get go.
the NSA stuff may be more vague, it's intended to be, but it's no less illegal.

Instead of minimizing their disregard for the law in the case of illegal spying, please consider your wording.
Why we love repetition in music
Inge has an amalgam of health issues, the most serious of which is her high glucose levels. She has to take daily insulin shots, which must be chilled on ice.

That might have been good advice 30 years ago, but it certainly isn't now. Modern insulin preparations should be kept at room temperature while in use for up to 30 days -- keeping it refrigerated while in use is contraindicated due to the potential for thermal cycling to result in inaccurate dosing -- and keeping insulin "on ice" is never recommended due to the risk of the insulin being damaged by freezing.
Does anyone have the source for the Romero quote on the third page?

John Romero, co-creator of the game Doom, says Flappy Bird
is "a reaction against prevailing design the way grunge
was a reaction to metal."
That's great news but I'd love some Mac support too.
Well, the fourth estate is owned by the elites.
Planet Money did a piece on the difficulty in selling cars directly to consumers.

Short version: the auto dealers are a powerful lobby group that prevent this from happening.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...
Agreed. In case it helps anyone, I've previously compiled a non-exhaustive list of mostly LAMP stack companies near Boulder:
https://gist.github.com/brianhaveri/22fef960747e38a0a7b3
The game isn't a stacked deck in that the outcome can be determined but there is a specific point in the game where you are guaranteed to only have a few tiles available (ex: 1024 + 512 + 256 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 yields half the board) and you may or may not need a 2 to continue when the random selects a 4 locking your 2 in a corner or other similar manner.

I can't speak on statistics but I had best luck when following a set of heuristic rules that minimized the chances of locking valuable tiles in an unreachable location. If you stack the higher value blocks to a corner you're less likely to trap them with lower value blocks that are almost impossible to reach.

Ultimately I think the game is a better comparison to minesweeper where there are rules that will help you progress but at some point you're forced to guess and hope the outcome is in your favor.
I believe he's talking about PewDiePie, who's actually Swedish.
The ES6 module tag
7 Open Source Contributions in 7 Days
There is a global version of the BBC iPlayer for viewers in some European countries

http://europe.bbcentertainment.com/about-iplayer/

It's downloadable from the iTunes store and you have to pay to watch. I have no idea what content they provide: I presume it's what they consider most likely to sell or appeal to a mass audience. If you're after interesting or specialised BBC documentaries, you might be out of luck.

Regarding radio, all the BBC radio stations can be listened to live if you're outside the UK (but not through iPlayer catch-up). There's also a podcasts directory

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
Interesting. I wonder if the "SSL/TLS" part matters, or if you could get the same result with "XRK/QNQ" or other random strings.
The whole point was that the Senate staff could only look at these (classified) documents in a secure room / network provided by the CIA.

Why this procedure is flawed is left as an exercise for the reader
Call me cold, but after reading this I come away with almost no sympathy for the evicted senior citizen. She comes across as very entitled.
Things That Bother Me
> I disagree, the tools (or, well, Ansible, which is the only one I'm familiar with) are declarative, as he describes. He says "these tools are not enough", then goes on to say that you need stateless package management, through a non-sequitur.

There is a fundamental difference between Ansible and co. and NixOS. These tools take you from an unknown state, look at the part of this state you configured in the Ansible files, and apply the modifications necessary. NixOS will take its cue from a single file (possibly with includes) describing the entire machine.

Concretely, if you tell Ansible "package X should be present", apply the configuration and then remove this line before reapplying the configuration, package X will still be present, even though it's not listed in the configuration. I don't mean that as a criticism of Ansible, for my purpose it's about as good as it gets, but it's two different paradigms.
If new tiles are inserted randomly, you have to defend adequately against the worst case.
Avoid-death always has a very good expected value, relatively.

So minimax is probably right in many cases and close enough to being right in most cases.
At my job, I asked what they were paying in rent. It came to around $500 per employee per month. For $1000 per employee, they could have private offices for everyone. So, if private offices are a 5-10% productivity boost, private offices are better than an open plan office.

At one former job, they switched the managers from private offices to cubicles. That really made it hard to have a decent technical discussion, squeezed in their cubicle.
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Dealerships generally have exclusive rights to a region. In a state with these laws, this exclusivity may have been implicit rather than explicitly in the contract, which does make things tricky.
Making The World Better One Data Scientist at a Time
Yeah, it's a cute idea, but it seems like if you really want to see how caffeine is affecting your sleep you need UP....smart marketing move by Jawbone.
If only NJ offered the best of both worlds: ultra-low gas taxes and a state that trusts its citizens are able to figure out how to work a gas pump.
It seems like the business-as-a-startup failed, but remained as a normal cleaning company: the kind that might provide a perfectly good living to someone motivated to manage a herd of cleaners, but not a massively-growing software-based company.
I haven't seen ANY Unity devs commit to making native linux ports rather than just using Unity. Until SteamOS can make it as simple as Unity, it's going to be a tough sell to anyone who is already using Unity.
A need? I'm not sure... but compiling all this data on how caffeine affects different peoples sleep Would be interesting.
Paul Brookes: Surviving as an Outed Whistleblower
Yes but let's be clear, he was making $50k/day with no effort of his own besides the work he did last year. There was no chase or action to give up, so his motives lied elsewhere.
How good is the fulltext search? Comparable with Solr, better or does it depend on your needs?
FYI, XMBC works great as a media server running on a Raspberry PI
You didn't read very carefully if you missed that everything was interactive.

"Today, I will show you how to make something like this:
(move your mouse around in the box below)"

"The demo below just draws a bunch of line segments and tracks your mouse position."

"Here's what all that math looks like: (move your mouse over the box)"
I expect that $50k/day drops off pretty quickly (most I know stopped playing after a few days), if he give got that - it was after all a estimate.
Pardon my lack of encyclopedic thoroughness in a casual discussion.
Not all of it, but certainly the bits that are permitted to have access to people like the president are; and those are the parts that really count.
As long as the video is in a supported format you should be able to: http://bolivar.tumblr.com/post/79222932441/popcorn-time-chro...
I feel the exact same way. Yesterday there were a bunch of questions about what happens to middle age programmers and those were depressing too. The answer for me (and sounds like you too) absolutely has been to save as much as possible and be able to "never need to work again" as fast as possible. I'll probably be mid-30s at that point too and I'll feel much much better about my life knowing that I don't need a job to survive.
I follow up but never a response. Do you think its good to bug them following up more and more?
I wondered the same thing. Seems like they're collecting a lot of data about people who aren't actually UP users. Like I said...great marketing.
"Still a citizen of Germany, she has the option of repatriating to her homeland, which has a free program for nationals wishing to relocate. She’d be able to get off the plane, connect with social services, and get subsidized housing and medical coverage. But for 50 years, she has built a life for herself in San Francisco, and that’s something she doesn’t want to give up."
> DR-DOS actually came with the first PC I bought and it was for all effects a MS-DOS clone, hence a DOS clone, like PC-DOS from IBM and a few others on those days.

Under this argumentation GNU/Linux or even OS X is a UNIX clone and both should be abbreviated to UNIX (or UN*X to avoid trademark violations ;-) ). Indeed both originate from UNIX clones - but then new features were added that made them better than the original in a sense. The same happened to DR-DOS. Read DR-DOS' wikipedia article to read about features that DR-DOS added over Microsoft's original.
It's not easy for people to just pack up and move. What if you've lived there your whole life? What if your friends and family lived there? What if your job was there?

I guess you say "Sorry poor trash, but you gotta be this rich to live here. If you can't cut it, kindly leave the city you've known your whole life, abandon your friends, and get a new job." But that seems cold, doesn't it?
Stylometric analysis points to Nick Szabo as Bitcoin author
I've been using WhatsApp for years and seen many selling points, but security has never been one. A link would help because I've never gotten the impression that they were trying to sell security.
The reality is, you can usually pump your own gas without the attendants giving you a problem. They may come over and take-over the pumping after you've gotten it started - but I've never has any of them get upset at me for taking the initiative.
Even worse- "Still a citizen of Germany, she has the option of repatriating to her homeland, which has a free program for nationals wishing to relocate. She’d be able to get off the plane, connect with social services, and get subsidized housing and medical coverage."

She has a golden ticket to a vast array of social services, but she's tied to a community in one of the most expensive cities in the USA.
I don't know what Obama's campaign promise was, but I am certain he never promised to go on a witch hunt arresting people in the prior administration. I know that is standard operating procedure in many countries, I am just glad I don't live in one of those countries.

The current allegations are against his own administration. He is obligated to investigate the claims or he should be impeached by his own party.
Tips for startups: think 'mobile commerce'
Having lived in Oregon (where motorists are put on a pedestal and actually served by gas station attendants) and then California, I don't understand the masses clamoring to pump their own gas. Is this supposed to be a privilege, getting out of the car in potentially inclement weather and messing around with flammable liquids?
nodemon (restart the server automatically when your backend scripts change) + node-inspector (debug Node apps from Chrome Dev Tools)(yes, it's as awesome as it sounds) + concurrent (start multiple servers from a single Grunt task) is also a slice of heaven for Node developers, but I don't seem them mentioned often.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-nodemon

[2]: https://www.npmjs.org/package/node-inspector

[3]: https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-concurrent

Edit: here is an example configuration: https://github.com/ChrisWren/grunt-nodemon#advanced-usage
https://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie
Might still be better than the large temp fluctuation of a car interior though.
Did that, got stuck like that, pretty unfortunate.

http://puu.sh/7rKEF.png