skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a gameplay mechanism. If you want actual realism, then every 'day' in the game should take 12 or so hours to complete, you should have a meal break and regimented toilet breaks, so on and so forth.

I mean, no-one believes that a border crossing is only open for a few minutes only per day, any more than they believe there's an all-powerful control after yours. It's like how the Sims put in toilet requirements for simulation purposes, but it turns out that your character can go without the toilet for a couple of days, then miss half a shift at work because of a visit.
(4 + 4 + 8 + 16) + (32 + 64 + 128 + 256) + (512 + 1024 + 2048 + 4096) + (8,192 + 16,384 + 32,768 + 65,536)

You are correct good sir, in the analysis above I eliminated luck whatsoever and set all numbers appearing to 2 make an argument. My analysis still holds with that restriction.

I've seen numbers as large as 128 appearing, so if we go that route greatest winnable version would be even higher. I suspect that maximum number appearing is based on max number on the board now, so while we are speculating, it could be possible to make endless game by dynamically adjusting window of appearing numbers.
"primarily a semi-auto .22 rifle with a silencer. They are virtually completely silent and can pierce car doors and other light armor."

Complete and utter bullshit. They won't penetrate a car doors, nor will they penetrate light armor. Conventional wisdom is that they will struggle to stop an adrenaline filled grown man, the combined experience of 100,000s of hunters says they won't stop mid sized game.

And don't start with "but if you head shot" nonsense.
You can speed read some things because they are highly redundant and mostly puffery. You can't speed-read an article which cares more about a clear and concise argument than padding itself with lots of fluff.

Of course, you're more likely to run into the former. The education system seems to lean toward articles people pretend to write, written for people who pretend to read them. I guess speed reading is useful, if it teaches you what teachers will be using to read your work. You'll know why it's so important to put your main argument in the topic sentences; and why flaccid padding in the rest is OK.

> A tool is useful if the person using it finds it useful, not if somebody can scientifically prove it.

This is a horrible criteria. People found blood letting useful as a treatment.
Is Google making a reasonable deal? I.e. if they didn't have an advertising business to subsidize this with, would the terms still make business sense?
Simple, "at fault" takes on a different meaning in driving. Often it's a cluster of mistakes that causes an accident, mistakes by either vehicle or even mistakes by someone not a part of the collision itself. If I'm 51% at fault should I go to jail?

But also everyone makes mistakes occasionally behind the wheel, most often nothing bad happens. And by everyone I mean every single driver without exception. That's why the law mostly operates with concept of Mens Rea, a guilty mind. Negligence only comes into play under a reasonable person standard and since we know those reasonable persons are also making same mistakes... it goes to civil court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea#Criminal_negligence :

"There is credible subjective evidence that the particular accused neither foresaw nor desired the particular outcome, thus potentially excluding both intention and recklessness. But a reasonable person with the same abilities and skills as the accused would have foreseen and taken precautions to prevent the loss and damage being sustained"
New Alexa design
Wish they would unbundle the stupid video stuff I don't want. ;/
Almost any volume makes it worthwhile. 40hr*$60/hr = 2400 /.02 = 120,000 . So more or less since they saved 2% they could justify it if they had $120,000 flowing through, which is a pretty minimal transactional volume (your local corner store almost certainly does well north of $500k a year in sales volume through kitkat and beer sales alone) (Of course they decided to further their competitive advantage and lower fees, but that is also perfectly rational)

This is why any business model that involves taking a percentage cut off the top of things is great if you can get almost any adoption. It really does add up incredibly fast.
> I can imagine plenty of people making mistakes during maintenance and flight checks because they're tired, having trouble with at home with the family, etc. but that's why we have so many levels of review and confirmation, checking to make sure it all goes according to plan. If the airline (the asset/floor managers specifically) don't enforce a culture that takes safety and aircraft operation seriously, no amount of reviewers will help them and when things fall apart, they do so in spades.

If that was really the case, planes would be failing every single day and air crashes would be as common as train wrecks and car accidents. It's far from being the case, so it says a lot as to how reliable planes are made to be, and how serious the maintenance is done on planes. Besides, companies have no incentive to skip on safety checks because they know a crash would have immediate, and serious impact on their image and direct sales of tickets.
These title changes are getting ridiculous. The original title was actually descriptive. I have no idea what this article is about without going to the comments or clicking on it. The whole point of a link title is to describe the link.
Netflix IT would be an odd group to ask about the deal, probably wouldn't have made sense in this article
I've zombied myself through a few chapters on countless occasions. Sometimes I get into this mode where I'm just processing information and moving on to the next sentence like it's an entirely new work: process, understand, toss out, go on to next thing.

Sometimes that results in noticing that I don't even remember the last two or three chapters and have to reread.
Sonos is too expensive, I'm using my existing speakers with "audio|acacia"
Just dropped ya a note, if you're in Japan that is. I assume this means existing users can offer new users invites, though I could be mistaken. :-)

Edit: Ah I see, each new user also gets 3 invites after downloading it themselves: http://discuss.atom.io/t/had-an-invitation-but-cannot-access...
I really don't think you need to use NAPTR here. Using TXT works just fine, if you do a sort, if you prepend line numbers to the records. Alas, you still have to do a sort. It would be wonderful if there was a hack that involved not using the sort. Here's one I just added: dig txt art.ten7.com |sort
Inside sources: they only have $15m or so of insurance and it's all self insured. Not nearly enough to cover what they claim as "fully insured".
I'm sure you're right. All sorts of biomedical horrors are coming our way.
Managing LeanPub book's Markdown content using GitHub (synced via DropBox)
It's not even slippery. It's a high-powered conveyor-belt. The people in power _know_ this was always their ultimate goal. They don't care about you, or your child's, safety. It's all about amassing more power, more control, more influence.
It's ironic. Peking was considered a beautiful city of clean air (except dust storm season) full of bicyclists during the oppressive communist era.

Now in the time of industrial crony capitalism, it's famous as the most polluted capital in the world. The streets are dangerous and cars have replaced bikes making the powerful insiders even more oppressive against individuals because now they can kill people with impunity.

Surely this is better than communism, but unlike the Taiwanese the Red China capitalists have imported every Western vice tenfold.

Only during the Dèng era was Peking open to new ideas and businesses, full of pedestrians and bicycles free from fear, and able to look up to clear skies.
The $800 million would only happen if one quarter of the prime users left, that isn't certain, just an if. It doesn't make sense to add and subtract them. The $150 million is certain due to price increases unless people leave. If you were the business deciding things you'd actually have to multiply the 800 by the probability of it happening to get the expected value, for example, and of course there's the factor that people leaving cut into the effectiveness of the price raise as well. I think they did it simplest just by stating the two numbers separately.
It's odd that whenever I see an update from Soylent I already assume that it is an 'Soylent will be ready next month maybe' email.

I'm hoping to be surprised in April, but then I was also today, last month, January... etc.
But just think about how pleasant an internet that would be... daydreaming
The context of what's happening in Russia is very important. And very sad:

1. Lenta.ru, one of the biggest Russian news websites (600 thousand visitors daily) mentioned in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenta.ru
Although Wikipedia says "39 employees out of the total 84 lost their jobs" it is known that they were not fired but were leaving the company together with fired Editor-in-Chief Galina Timchenko as an act against censorship. Some links:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26543464

http://en.rsf.org/russia-lenta-ru-website-is-latest-13-03-20...

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/03/12/russian-news-...

2. And this is what happened with TV Rain news channel. It will be closed soon most probably.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/russian-news-ch...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/02/asking...

3. Echo Moskvy. "The head of one of Russia's few remaining independent broadcasters, Ekho Moskvy, has been dismissed and replaced by an editor from state media.", "Its editor said it was an "unjust" and "totally political decision" aimed at changing editorial policy."

http://www.rferl.org/content/gazprom_wants_to_dismiss_radio_...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26239715

4. The New Times started a paid subscription to protect itself from censorship a few months ago. This is the only link, in Russian, couldn't find any sources in English: http://www.newtimes.ru/obrashenie-avtora/
This reminds me of how when Apple created the UI for the Lisa (and then the Mac), they thought that on the original Xerox Alto, windows could overlap, so Quickdraw had to handle overlapping windows [0]: “Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get them to repaint, and programs couldn't draw into partially obscured windows. Bill Atkinson did not know this, so he invented regions as the basis of QuickDraw and the Window Manager so that he could quickly draw in covered windows and repaint portions of windows brought to the front.”

I thought I read somewhere that Jobs specifically asked for this, (mis)remembering having seen it at PARC, but I cannot find the quote at the moment.

[0] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Wearables Beware
A driver paying full attention will still have that attention divided among several tasks. He should be monitoring what is happening behind the car. He should be checking the instrument panel. Even looking forward has subtasks. His forward scan should spend some time on things nearby, and some time looking far down the road.
I have severe RSI pain when I type too much on Macbook's keyboard.

Switching between Macbook and Kinesis Advantage pro(as external keyboard) and couldn't be happier.

Yes, this one is kind of expensive but mine is 6yrs old already and still going strong.
Ah, thank you! I'll definitely be signing up there, then. I'm not in the UK, and our version (craigslist) doesn't really have the userbase for language lessons, but I might try posting a want ad.
In my town and the towns around me (suburbs of NYC in New Jersey) there are a lot of deaths from people being hit by commuter trains. It's quite possible that we have more people dying that way than in traffic accidents, especially if you don't count deaths on the highways in the area which don't have any pedestrians.

The problem here is that the trains mostly run at ground level, and the stations are mostly completely open. It's very easy to walk around behind of or in front of the train while it's still in the station or approaching the station. We've had incidents where individuals or groups of commuters who just got off the train try to cross the track behind the train, assuming that the gates are down because the train hadn't left yet, only to be struck by a train arriving on the other track. There was a big public education campaign after the last incident like that, but the town had to resort to a police officer stationed there during rush hour handing out jay-walking tickets before people would stop trying to cross while the gates were down.

There's also a strong suspicion that a lot of these deaths are suicides, but that's pretty hard to prove.
Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA
LOL. So funny that people always say things like this, that the real reason is its simpler.

Bullshit. The real reason is it is MUCH, MUCH cheaper.

And it works. That's the reason I use it. I am an honest person though, so most people probably won't share the same viewpoint.
Have: Microsoft Ergo 4000.
Want: Ergo keyboard+mechanical keys+backlit.
I don't know if this really answers your question, but supposedly about half the times when a pedestrian gets hit by a car, the pedestrian is intoxicated at the time.

Anecdotally, there are few situations I find more stressful as a motorist than driving in the vicinity of a university on a Friday night.
The consistency of a UI is quite distinct from the quality or the usability of a UI. You're incorrectly blurring these very different concepts.

I never claimed that all UIs back then were "perfect", or that there weren't "badly designed" UIs. I was very clearly talking about consistency between different applications running on the same system.

When using applications from that period of time, one could expect to find a menu bar and menus that were quite similar to those of other applications. Of course there were application-specific menus and items, but there was at least a common subset shared by nearly all applications, especially any that were designed with even the minimal level of care.

The same held true for toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, common dialogs, and so forth. There were also general conventions for how the application-specific parts of UIs looked and behaved. While not everyone followed these conventions, of course, most of the major and seriously-designed applications did.

We have lost much of that today. It's particularly bad when it comes to mobile apps, and getting worse when it comes to desktop applications. Yes, Microsoft and Apple themselves are to blame, to some extent. But it goes much beyond that these days. Inconsistency is the norm, and that does lead to inefficiency.
> re: fastsrping

> "You have the option to pay either 8.9% flat or 5.9% plus $.95 per transaction. "

> Wowza, thats steep!

FastSpring customer here.

First, they handle lots of boring and complicated stuff for you, not just taxes. How much would it cost you to accept all major credit cards, PayPal, checks and (international) wire transfers, and provide customer service for all of those transaction types?

Second, if you sell the more expensive B2B stuff like we do, and/or sell lots of your stuff through them, you can ask for a custom rate.
No expert, but I did it all before a fair while ago in isCommerce too.

The gorilla in the room is Magento, owned by eBay these days. Community edition is fine but it's a demanding piece of PHP software built on Zend Framework. Sucks CPU and current version is stuck with MySQL as far as I know.

Lighter alternative is PrestaShop, a French outfit who just secured some lending recently. Probably worth looking at.

ZenCart, WooCommerce plus Drupal with the eCommerce module are in there too.

Just some hints.
http://www.shopify.com/

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't see you wanted an open source option.
I'd further consider

- downloading the pluggable transports bundle: https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en...

- and getting some bridges: https://bridges.torproject.org/

just to have all this ready in case they decide to do some more nasty stuff later on.
No. Google will drop Drive just like they dropped their other products. I'm sure of it.
The article/interviewee suggests it was the first mainstream optical mouse, launched in 2000. Didn't the Intellimouse have it around 1999, plus a scrollwheel? I remember using a range of Microsoft mice going back many years and they were pretty well known.

Actually, the Wheel Mouse Optical I still use today is from late-2000, I think. For a while in the middle, I used one of the darker grey Explorers before returning to the lighter and older version.

Anyone else remember round/puck mice from before that Apple one, mid-1990s? First encountered that shape of mouse in a Unix lab.
We pay for 100gb, I got notification that we were automatically moving to the cheaper rate.
Well, on an immediate level.

On a less direct level, I'm not sure the economics of using a heavily subsidized shipping service to the increasing exclusion of local retailers while they get you hooked on the concept and then incrementally raise the price over time are completely legible.
Edit: you removed your long comment so I removed my smart-ass remark about it.
The reason why the customer service at most ISPs sucks is because arbitrary rules are imposed on them by local governments. For example, if the average call can't be over 9 minutes long, don't expect help with a problem that takes half an hour to diagnose. If the same rules aren't being imposed on Google, then there's a problem.
And what happens when they will remove your files, say after 1 year of shutting down the service? Where will the users with TB of data flock to?
2048 with cocos2d on android
Breakr – Location-Based Anonymous Chatroom App
because pictures of ocean must be otherwise incredibly popular.
Slate... definitely not improving your tabloid image with this kind of articles.
Sometimes I wonder how I used git before magit.
I live in a suburban town that's mostly single-family homes, with lots of children. I also work in the area and often drive home for lunch, so I'm driving around a lot when the children are out. I've had a bunch of close calls over the years with kids wandering out in front of me without looking to see if there's any traffic in the street.

The closest was a teenage girl who literally walked into the side of my car by the passenger-side front wheel just as I was about to make a right turn. I looked right, I was clear. I looked left, I was clear. I looked right again and took my foot off the brake to start my turn, and there she was with her hands on my hood and a surprised look on her face. We're both very lucky her feet weren't under my wheel.
There is a difference between human error and deliberate crimes.
What is the benefit of this over uuencode or base64/base85 encoding to perform the same use?
They built chaos monkey - software agents that randomly go through all their infrastructure on aws and randomly take things down. Network jitter, computer hangs, removing drives, and taking down availability zones.

They do that to themselves so that when it actually happens, they are prepared and the end user (almost) never sees it.
This is great analysis. My opposition to using drugs follows that logic: by using them, you are implicitly supporting the predatory system.

Your mention of "market" in that way makes me think of viaticals[1], where the life insurance policies of people near death are bought for a profit. In a way, the people who now own the policies have an interest in the death of the other.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatical_settlement. A great book on this subject and how the prevalence of markets has degraded norms is What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel (http://www.amazon.com/What-Money-Cant-Buy-Markets/dp/0374203...).
16 addresses? Or 16 /64's?
Recently though, lacking a direct and physical, interface to the bioware, "firmware-management" plans have been ramped up with both extreme speed and remarkable efficiency.

One of the most complex programming methods ever discovered, managing the overall environment in which the wetware develops from birth to deployment has been a massive undertaking.

Ensuring that the self-programming options available to the node are either limited, controlled or invalidated is the primary drive of the system as a whole.

Nodes must be new-enough models, with limited networking so as to ensure their primary perceived preferred path is that of servicing the delivery of control-policies via physical means where the illusive and intangible rewards to their self-image is valued higher than that of real-world financial gains.

In parallel, control of the code creep and systemic awareness of all other nodes must be either tightly managed or swiftly controlled with impunity.

....

Watch this:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/human-resources/
Bioacoustics: Why Your Skin Is a “Wearable”
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>All of this sucks - but it's the price we pay for being able to move a long distance quickly, something that seems to be a net benefit to society. (How many lives are saved by ambulances each year? How about by being able to easily visit a doctor?)

They are not mutually exclusives. You could ban private cars but still have ambulances. Or make the speed limits absurdly slow or something like that. I'm not saying that we should do this, but we are definitely choosing to sacrifice lives for our convenience.
I'm disliking this design decision so far; maybe I'm just too used to the 7.0 behavior, but the new shift button seems wrong.

It looks fine in isolation on this web page - left is empty, right is full - but on the keyboard sits right next to a WHITE button with BLACK lettering that matches the "on" image pretty well. Why, when toggled on, does it become MORE like the unpressed buttons next to it?

If there was at least a black outline on the arrow when empty, it would indicate off (empty) and on (full) better.
The "don't depend on a small gem" fallacy
On top of that, Google Drive makes sense to Google for their multi-devices/Google Access Everywhere kind of strategy. When you have tablets or phones with limited memory but network access, Google Drive plays well in that space to extend the capabilities of the said devices.

Dropbox, on the contrary, only has a SINGLE service to rely on, and they could be made obsolete by pricing, features, integration or other stuff like that. It's not good to rely on a single service for your bottom line, and Dropbox is no longer a small startup just beginning on the market.
Oh, I definitely don't do that. I remember doing it in high school, with very boring readings. I've never had it with reading I choose to do.

I think mindfulness helps, by training you to keep focus.

(I want to be clear that I'm not talking about any special "speed reading" here. I just read fast normally)