skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They added that at the very bottom of the albeit short story.

Event the BBC aren't immune to baiting. Then again would I have read a story about drunk on plane arrested?
Amazon will settle or buy them out, they can't win this. I'm surprised they didn't foresee this and do something preemptively - like pick a different name.

Even if you want to say they didn't find them in the trademark database because of the spelling (doubtful, but possible), there is just no way they didn't check the domain name.
There are so many beautifully worded encapsulations of this idea, in so many languages, from so many ages. As close as one can get to proof that it is a universal fact of the human condition that nothing lasts forever
Ironically, Gurbaksh Chahal appeared on an episode of 'Secret Millionaire' where he gave a heavy check to a single mother of one who used to get beat up by her ex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAKwl1GW-I

117 times in half an hour! That's worse than what Chris Brown did to Rihanna. And he's planning to raise a $100 million IPO for RadiumOne? Pssh, I wouldn't invest a dime in a company, RadiumOne for example, whose CEO beats on women. I'm thinking that there's an unfortunate team over at RadiumOne trying to save his reputation by flooding social media with his inspirational messages.

I've just lost all respect for you, Gurbaksh. I am now going to waste time out of my morning to unfriend you from all of my social networks.
Oh I see, 'subscriptions' as a counterpart to 'circles'. That's not a bad idea, it would also translate pretty well to Youtube channels. I guess they didn't introduce it since it would confuse many users 'what's the difference between circles and channels?'. They could have made it as an optional feature for publishers, i.e. only shown to users who enable it in preferences.

edit: Users who subscribe to a feed would always see the feature if the publisher has enabled it of course
I'm a libertarian but i believe in public rights of way. I'm finw with a single provider of roads, provided they are not toll roads but rather "dumb" roads that let me go when and where I please. This is in contrast to government-sanctioned but opportunistically managed toll-roads with dynamic pricing that rips me off every time I have an important meeting to get to by turning into a "protection racket" for my important business.

The rest of the stuff about "fair" x or y is not really relevant. Markets are supposed to be "free" and not "rigged", but neither of these two concepts imply "fair" in the sense you are using it. Every company on the NYSE hasi its own cost of capital--is that 'fair'? no. its not fair to the owners. But that does not imply that the market is not free for capiral or that the market for capital is 'rigged'.

There are plenty of ways that government services can be provided to extend markets geographic reach, variety, and product depth without getting into some nasty discussion of socialism/totalitarianism etc. There are some services that are more-efficiently organized through the government. In that respect, a government entity is just like a non-profit that competes with a for-profit or private foundation entity (eg universities). And more ...
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Typically lawyers get on the order of 30%, so about $3400 per employee.
It's not about being first. It's about being the last.
Being coerced into joining a free social network that no one uses is nothing compared to the horrors offered by Comcast.
Plus more from other companies?
The Story of Sergey Brin
In the minds of most Finns, Nokia ceased to exist a long time ago.

Not saying that this was not personally significant for sirkneeland, and it's a nicely written piece. For myself, for the past few years, Nokia has ceased to exist a little bit more every day. This is just one more of those days.

Somehow, I feel this is appropriate here:

The computer center is empty,
Silent except for the whine of the cooling fans.
I walk the rows of CPUs,
My skin prickling with magnetic flux.
I open a door, cold and hard,
And watch the lights dancing on the panels.
A machine without soul, men call it,
But its soul is the sweat of my comrades,
Within it lie the years of our lives,
Disappointment, friendship, sadness, joy,
The algorithmic exultations,
The long nights filled with thankless toil,
I hear the echoes of sighs and laughter,
And in the darkened offices
The terminals shine like stars.

– Geoffrey James, The Zen of Programming (1988)
There is no mention of it in the deletion mail and both mails came from Amazon SES servers.
The thing that made me barely use Google+ is the lack of a posting API.

With FB, Twitter, etc. I can use one app to fill all of them with content. Can't do that with Google+ and only recently it started working for pages (which I have no need of).
What about developers working on commercial open source software? This would be an unbelievable deal for them!
This isn't about Python being a mess, it is about an Ubuntu release messing it up. You know there's a problem when you lose important features you'd get with ./configure; make; make install
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It gives me hope actually. There are more I'd like to see fall. Not out of spite, but to reduce their (near) monopoly.
Settlement seems low. Looks like every company involved ended up saving quite a bit of money, after all is said and done, with this little salary racket they had going.
About 10 minutes. Just had to check and see if we had an affected version.
The biggest problem for me is all the FAKE ACTIVITY you can find in the platform. I ended up not believing google+, and not doing any effort to publish anything there.

I have reasons to believe that most of the "follow" activity in google+ was managed by bots (google bots?) that took over zombie accounts just to simulate the community was alive.

I have a real example. Without doing much, other than being featured in another google+ profile with +500K followers (which happened to be sponsored by google); we end up getting 11K followers for our company profile.

All of our followers seemed to be zombie users with real names, but none of them had a real person behind them. We believe that since the +500K account was sponsored by google itself, most of the followers were fake and thus we end up having some of those followers too.

We tried to contact some of our followers, without never getting an answer. Once, we got as follower the sommelier (wine expert) of one of the best restaurants in the world which happens to be a few kilometers away from were we are. Since it was wery strange that a guy like him has interested in the google+ profile of a company focused in music and video distribution (our company), we also got in contact with him. As always, nobody answered.
You mean Apple? Or the vast array of organic-gourmet-breakfast-burrito-like eateries?

All jokes aside, you're right, the analogy has some flaws. Or maybe the tools supplier hasn't emerged yet. Talking about a big opportunity here!
Even with Nokia's recent shortcomings I still enjoyed reading the piece. It's worthwhile remembering the good a company has brought every so often.
The article text says "Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million". Google and Apple are just the ones that get the bad press in headlines.
I'd love to offer ChaCha20 server-side, but I am currently using the default package of OpenSSL from Debian Wheezy which doesn't support the cipher. Are there already official OpenSSL builds available with ChaCha20 enabled, or does it still require running the patch from the Chromium team? If available, it'd be nice if someone could backport it.
Huge respect! This company once built a mobile phone that everyone could buy. Cheap, works forever, does the job.

It is really surprising, and awesome to see that they built their products to last, not for a year like most companies today.
So much nonsense in this post. Google Reader users wanted Google Reader, not Reader in G+.

That would have changed nothing at all.
There's nothing like totally simple magic way to avoid fucking up G+.
Long Live Nokia.
Why does it imply regulation would not be needed? It's truly fair because appropriate regulations are in place and inappropriate regulations are not. There may still be minor flaws, but once a certain fidelity is reached, I think "truly fair" is an apropos descriptor of a system even if it isn't 100% perfect.
I'd like to propose a 26th principle:

Don't place a bandwidth limit on files that aren't in google docs format.
How are they hauling static content on Django? Any reference for that?

I thought everyone is using sendfile/x-accel and wrap CDN with static contents these days.
"Can I become famous and revered by hanging out at the right NYC parties, and immortalizing famous people in what is otherwise the visual equivalent to sampling?"

That sounds pretty like celebrity culture to me. Is that not more or less why people like Kim Kardashian are famous?
This will leave a bad taste in the mouth around these companies. Apple really sound like a disgusting corporation when you look behind their well orchestrated PR image.
You mean a mood-board; which is used to communicate a visual style. A lookbook is usually to give an overview of a single brand's season.

It is used extensively in all visual creative industries, like interior decoration, architecture and of course fashion and photography.

It's actually often one of the main deliverables early on in projects and thus also an important sales document (i.e. serious money is won or lost on the quality of the mood-board.)
Physics-exploiting axe splits wood in record time
The 'Great Work' is a term borrowed from Hermetic / Alchemical lore which predates Thelema by at least a thousand years. To understand how it found it's way into Levi's work and into Thelema you need to look back much further and examine to whatever degree you can the Mysteries of the ancient world

perhaps a place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetica
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take

I'll be watching you

"Every breath you take" by Sting
What can men do?
When I tried to register for G+ (I only tried it because my non-tech friends pestered me .. and none of them is still using it) it told me that I was not a person but a shop. And that I should please use their shop accounts or whatever. And the only way to tell it that I was not a shop but a person was to scan in a passport, which probably would have been read by someone later who would (maybe?!) have activated my account.

I cannot even start to describe the hate I had for G+ from that moment on. It only got worse when a friend of mine used an absolute fake name to register an account without any problems. What an UI experience. And if they didn't have insisted on "real names" it wouldn't have happened.
Of course, nothing wrong with creating a narrative, and of course the same facts can be seen different ways. But the point is you use the FACTS.

I've seen too much journalism, especially in tech, which has scant regard for the truth and focuses on pushing some line that the author thought would make a good story.
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Ok so it's loaded now.

I just tried it on my iPhone. This has to be the least mobile-friendly blog post I've seen in a very long time.
They got off lightly. What they really didn't want is for the truth about their repugnant behavior to come out. They broke the law so obviously, and have already essentially admitted it to the Justice Dept. I don't know why the lawyers didn't push for more.
Melancholia, an ode to Nokia.

Playing Snake until the death.
While some create ringtones.
It was an unbreakable phone.
I'll remember 'til my last breath.
Confide brings its beautiful self-destructing messages to Android
I'm trying to understand what this means. Does it mean that evozi has added spyware to the apks I've downloaded? I've used this to get all the apps that were not in F-droid, so I'm quite concerned.
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Wow, One of the amazing product (Nokia 1100) I experienced first. Thank you Nokia. You really transformed communication industry for developing countries where most of the people never saw/used apple devices as they saw/used yours.
> ...provided tax payers bail them out, at least that has been so in the recent past. So banks dont really protect your money.

In some theoretical sense, sure. On a practical level, I pay my taxes either way, in the banking system my money is insured, in the bitcoin system my money isn't insured.
> nobody will ever lend bitcoins out for productive uses.

that is not true. Checkout https://btcjam.com. Investors have funded over $4M in loans so far, growing quickly. Loans can be linked to USD (if your revenue is in Fiat) or BTC (if your revenue is in BTC, for example for a miner). In other words, you get a loan denominated in USD, but paid in BTC and you are removing any exposure to the volatility. If the BTC price has doubled when you repay your loan, simply pay half the amount of BTC.

The bitcoin price doesn't matter for the linked loans. Bitcoin is more than just a store of value - it is also a means of sending value across the world for very low fees - and in this case, giving credit to people who can't easily obtain it at affordable rates.

(disclosure: I work at BTCJam)
324M for 64000 employees in the class action lawsuit. That appears to be 5k per employee before legal fee which could be as high as 30% of the settlement. Hardly 2-3k for each employee, I think.

Very cheap for the companies. But at least a good precedent to discourage such practices in the future.
Thank you for the kind words. Yes, my Finnish friends (and thanks to Nokia I have many) have expressed similar sentiments about when Nokia "died" to them. But for me it hit me today, when as I walked out the doors of the office I realized that while I would walk out of the same doors ~24 hours later, I would never walk out the doors of Nokia ever again.
I wish this myth would die a well-deserved death. The Golden Ratio isn't a well-kept mathematical secret behind Greek architecture, art and typography. This is New Age nonsense masquerading as science.
Viruses and bacteria don't need to evolve "linearly", as you imagine. If two related viruses infect the same host, they can swap genes and the "airborne capability" gene can jump from E. Reston to E. Zair. The Reston strain doesn't have to "evolve deadlier symptoms".

It's a random process, and the rate of successful recombination is low, but it's the kind of dice you don't wanna let rolling... This is why more developed countries should start to give a fuck, because once we have a successful recombination it becomes everyone's problem!

(Along other lines, you seem to have the same "pretty wrong" idea of what evolution is and how it works that most people have... evolution is not a "directed" process, and it doesn't always work for the benefit of the "organism" or "species", it's a random search, and informationaly speaking it happens at at the genes level, which doesn't seem to mean much at our multi-cell organism level, but for bacteria and viruses it totally changes the game, as the "things that evolve" are actually the genes that not so infrequently jump "horizontally" from one strain to another... once you go down to the "micro" level, the way real world evolution works is pretty different from the "high school biology textbook definition" that most people have of it... and unfortunately and can produce very nasty results.)

EDIT: to make the prev paragraph clearer: if you have a bunch of species/strains that can share genes, then traits that are detrimental to any of the actual species/trains can actually be favored by evolution, if they increase the survival chances not of any species/strain but, but of a "cluster of genes" that manifests a particular feature, and it can be pretty mathematically complex and unintuitive to think of what makes a "cluster of genes" more "fit" (short term "gene cluster" fitness can be compatible with one of the strains "committing ecological suicide" by evolving capabilities that kill its host and limit it's spread in the process) ...the point is that at this level things work very differently than we imagine and we can't just hope that "evolution will work for the best and save our asses"!

EDIT2: this is not just theory, "gene jumping" happens all the time with flu strains and other viruses (for flu it's its main mechanism of evolution - or "the mechanism of evolution of the flu genes cluster"), but it's not dangerous because the viruses are all well adjusted to the human population and vice-versa ...Ebola, on the other hand, is a virus originating from animals, that hasn't had contact with that many human hosts in its evolutionary history, and also a large percent of the current human population hasn't had any recent ancestors that came in contact with this virus, so this is no "good ol' friend" like the flu, it's quite "alien" to modern humans and it can do lots of damage before achieving some sort of "ecological equilibrium" or before being exterminated by a vaccine and/or effective treatment.
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All about Perl Dancer – interview of SawyerX
Yes, I know.

It was a joke referencing that discussion.
What killed mixi was losing it's mixi-ness, unique features that made it a success in the first place in an attempt to be more like FB or Twitter. I know Facebook has the mixi "footprints" feature internally since it uses it to target "people you may know".
Smart way to use current events for some PR for his next start-up!
Even Nokia's mobile phones business was on the chopping block for a time. Boston Consulting Group did a thorough assessment of Nokia's business in 1991 and came to the conclusion that the company wouldn't be able to compete with Motorola and the Japanese mobile makers.

> From the cross-linked article, on "what could not be done"

Amazing...
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> "New York didn’t care about Chicago, but Chicago was where the hogs were being slaughtered. Now New York doesn’t care about San Francisco, but today the hogs are being slaughtered in San Francisco.” What Turner meant is that these are the charnel grounds of the new economy, and that there isn’t anything all that new about the new economy.

Who writes this kind of over-dramatizing bullshit? Nobody forces these people to follow their grandiose visions. They could just do useful work like the rest of us, which isn't quite as romantic, but is doing the world as a whole better than another failing "product" (which is the moniker for a useless website that people in 1999 would have put together in 2 weekends without extorting $20000 of VC money).
Google may bestow Wi-Fi in its Google Fiber cities – CNET
> Very cheap for the companies. But at least a good precedent to discourage such practices in the future.

These two sentences don't mix well with each other. Either it's cheap for companies and worth the expense or it's a good precedent that discourages these practices in the future.

Cheap doesn't discourage.
Any one of the numerous federal antitrust laws that prohibit collusive behavior, such as the Sherman Act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Li...

Section 2 describes it as a felony.
Everything I order from Amazon I have delivered to work, because I never know which carrier service is going to get it, and I don't like not knowing if they're going to just dump it on my doorstep, leave it with my apartment's leasing office, take it back to some depot on the edge of town, or what.

Though it does mean I think twice about ordering things on Thursday or Friday. I once had a package shipped via Prime go missing for half a week, because I ordered it on Friday and Amazon decided to pleasantly surprise me with one-day shipping instead of two. That backfired immensely. I would have been perfectly happy with a Monday delivery.

When no one was at the office to sign on Saturday morning, the package went back to some mysterious depot and they didn't re-attempt delivery until the middle of the next week. Except they marked the tracking as "delivered" that Saturday - probably so they wouldn't get in trouble with Amazon for not meeting the two-day shipping window. I was freaking out about where the package could have gone, because if it was supposedly delivered, then where was it? Where could they have even delivered it? No one was here! You can't even get in the building on Saturday without an access card. Then suddenly the tracking re-updated on Wednesday to say it was at the depot and I got it later that day.

I wish I could remember which carrier that was now.
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It's a little ironic that Brendan Eich had to step down over a $1,000 donation to a political cause nearly a decade ago, but the Valley so far has no problem with "G" hitting a woman 117 times in 30 minutes on video (after which he tried to smother her with a pillow). If he indeed suffers no significant professional fallout from what he did - and as of this moment there are no signs that he will - then the Valley is truly a disturbing place with priorities that are completely out of sync with the rest of humanity.
> there are also strong physical laws that imply the scarcity of gold.

Heavy elements are scarce because of the way they are formed. But they are even more scarce in the earth's crust because heavier elements tend to sink to the core during planet formation. This means that gold and other heavy elements are probably a lot less scarce in metallic asteroids.

Now if I see that NASA is planning to capture a small asteroid in a few years[1] and there are private companies thinking about asteroid mining[2], then I start to wonder whether gold is still going to be valuable in a decade or two.

[1] http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-04-05/news/os-nasa-...

[2] http://www.planetaryresources.com/
Netflix Roulette API
Sub query vs Inner join
> Very cheap for the companies. But at least a good precedent to discourage such practices in the future.

does not compute
That's a good idea but the main reason google+ failed is a lot simpler than that it just alienated all the geeks and early adopters by forcing it down their throught too much.

If they would have allowed it to grow naturally and wouldn't have forced people to use it whether they wanted to or not attempted to make it more user friendly and intuitive the would have succeeded.
It's not the Fiber that's the fee earner. By having more people connected with faster, more stable connections they can continue pushing the envelope with things like higher definition on YouTube and suchlike but this is the razzle-dazzle that people will see without noting the true purpose; you're accessing the net through their service so they can now pin all of your surfing habits to a physical person driving more benefit to their primary Ad business.
A "no" is significantly better than a "contingent yes", because it lets you move in and focus your time and energy on getting a real yes.