skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sludge.html is apparently "Suspiciously homogeneous substances."
Andbrand tech reviews are boring
Thank you guys for sharing this.

I noticed 30,000 failed charges in one year. I'm not sure if that's interactive failures, as in users actively trying to complete a transaction, which is much less important than the recurring failed charges, as in money you thought you were going to get but didn't, for no other reason than the payment network.

I hate seeing those failed charge notifications that go out every morning when you try to bill that day's batch for the next month of service. And then wondering how much that's pushing up your churn rate, how much effort should you spend trying to get updated billing info, etc. Buffer is mostly $10/mo, so I would imagine not much chasing is going on beyond a few automated emails... but it's enough to make you want to switch to ACH!

Does Stripe handle auto-updating credit card details when a card expires like some companies seem to be able to do? With the massive leaks lately, and so many card numbers getting cycled, it definitely hits the bottom line.
My impassioned case is for the Rule of Law.

Do the ends justify the means?
Thanks Matt that is more what I was thinking. There are 40,000+ companies that use Zendesk so estimating less than 5000 copies seems reasonable and I also agree 1000$ advance is unusually low.

Thanks for the advice!
That is completely false. Most IPv6 in use right now is statically assigned, not automated, and not all automated systems use MAC to make a unique IP.
I think you'll find most dictionaries list both definitions.
> "the plan was for what is now called Git to be the underlying implementation of a higher-level UI"

Some time around year 1960, the plan was to develop a language with syntax ("M-expressions") on top of the Lisp S-expressions.

We are still waiting, I guess.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node3.html
I wish the US would spend this much to promote IPv6.
I want to know whether or not this is more fatiguing than using the Thinkpad pointing stick, and whether or not people prefer the tactility of the rubber cap over the swiping gestures on hard keys.
"They remove the gatekeeper for financial services"

Hardly. Even if you ran your entire business on Bitcoin, you would still need to find an exchange when the tax man came around demanding fiat currency (unless you are dealing in such tiny amounts that you can rely on people you find online, but then your business is probably not very successful). Exchanges are the gatekeepers of cryptocurrencies; Bitcoin, Litecoin, and every other "coin" would have just been worthless toys if exchanges had not been set up.

There is also the reality of cryptocurrency use that must be considered: almost all businesses (legal and illegal) that "accept Bitcoin" actually "accept $NATIONAL_CURRENCY via a Bitcoin exchange/service." Illegal businesses try to decouple their Bitcoin payments from the exchange i.e. they attempt to launder their money (no surprises there); legal businesses proudly announce which Bitcoin service they are using to "accept Bitcoin." Those services and exchanges are gatekeepers in practice, and are increasingly compliant with money service laws and regulations (just like banks).
while i like LargeFiles, it's really not enough. Support for binary content (and indeed, history truncation) needs to be native. As it stands, LargeFiles can only be used on intranet networks, and if you've ever used it for any serious purpose, you'll run into corruption.

It's really disappointing to see 3.0 announced with no solution to this.
You may define a word whatever you please in your text, but you cannot state the definition for the common use of the word. This prerogative are for its users, as a group.

Dictionaries (which do not define, but only catalogs accepted meaning) defines "factoid" not only different than you do, but also in accordance to the intended meaning of the text [1][2][3].

Some people (specially engineering and math types, myself included) tend to put too much weight in a word morphology to extract its meaning. But linguistics is not that straightforward and meaning for a word can even change over time.

[1] Merriam Webster: "an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print", http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid

[2] "A brief or trivial item of news or information." and "An assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact." http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

[3] Cambridge: "an interesting piece of information" http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/factoi...
Don't be afraid to share your ideas early
Interesting to hear that extensions are your reason for sticking with Chrome. What sort of addons do you find lacking in Firefox?
Here's The Magic Word That Can Boost Your Post In Facebook's News Feed
you could click the buttons with your thumb behind the space bar. In fact, I guess for typing it would be better if you kept the fingers on the keyboard, so why not make the keyboard keys touch sensitive?
I paused integrating Ansible with Docker for the moment until I'm happy with my Ansible repo and Docker is stable.

I still think Ansible inside Docker is feasible, by
* using it to generate the initial base image
* receiving some sort of signal inside the container to update its playbook and run.

So when you want to update the container, you're not tearing it down but instead telling the container to perform some sort of "soft reset".
Thank you. Now someone please take on "set up"/"setup" and "back up"/"backup".
That's not a source demonstrating that many feminists are afraid of being raped. Its a piece of evidence that a woman fears this, and a lot of women agree with her. By conflating their gender with the feminist movement, you're intentionally conflating the two, and implying that non-feminist women are not afraid of being raped, and further that feminism is itself at the root of their fear.
This is generally true in Gecko as well, although neither Gecko nor WebKit are guaranteed to run animations on the compositor if they decide that it isn't worth it in some circumstance.
Well, from my anecdotal experience, running and cycling don't help (but running a bit will make walking later more powerful, and cycling very slowly can help). And yes, a podcast would prevent the effect.

Anyway, make your own opinion. It's a huge effect, you'll perceive it if you try. It's so big an effect that it's on folklore for as long as people started documenting such things.
> biggest problem

Sound like an opportunity for a startup
Investigations and prosecutions of fraud --- OCP includes criminal prosecutions --- are part of the rule of law. Meanwhile, banks profit directly from fraud by collecting transaction fees. The banking lobby wants to convince the government thank the banks will self-police, but the issue at hand is an externality to the banks.

What I'd like to know is, why are EFF and Reason casting this as suppression of pornography? It's the payday lenders and prepaid card scams that are driving the lobbying effort.
Amazon streaming is down
and for who is wondering what 6002 means is a silverlight error
"6002
The license acquisition failed. This error occurs when the MediaElement is in the AcquiringLicense MediaElementState. One possible reason for this error is that the Silverlight Client cannot connect to the license server."

more here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838192(v=vs.95).aspx
Advocacy Journalism: How Passion Will Drive the News You Read
Not only that, but outdated changes aren't shared by clone or pull unless you explicitly ask for them. The full history stays on the server but intermediate commits slowly fade away as users hardly ever pull them.
Advertising a food as GMO free is banned for good reason. Labeling is supposed to be informative to the consumer, and alert them to nutritional information about the food which could impact their health--and GMO foods have decisively been shown to have no health impact.

If food manufacturers were free to advertise the absence of irrelevant nutrients, they would immediately begin barraging consumers with useless or harmful information--

"now free of pyridoxal phosphate!"
"no phylloquinone used in the production of this cereal!"

Should the average consume have to know that these are actually vitamin K and B6? Of course not, the nutrition facts are there to inform them, and the FDA makes sure it cannot be used just for branding purposes or to confuse the consumer. Since GMO food is unequivocally proven safe, the manufacturer will not be helping the consumer make an informed decision by advertising the absence.
HN discussion on the Mi.Mu:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7570361
The problem with the implementation demonstrated in the video is that the gesture is recognised, and then the action happens.

There is no one-to-one mapping between the gesture in progress and action on screen, so I suspect it will not feel anywhere near as nice as a trackpad or touchscreen.
like volvo? http://www.sartre-project.eu/en/Sidor/default.aspx
Thanks for posting this! I know I can just google it, but since the link from this item does absolutely nothing to just say what the hell Tails actually is, I probably wouldn't have bothered. Glad you posted this because it's actually good stuff to know about!
I rigged one of these up with a theremin and a laptop back in 2007.
I should tell you to just google it, but you're also right. Lots of stuff that ends up on HN is actually really opaque about what the hell it actually is. See also, this item currently near the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669449
I agree. Excessive romanticization of science in the mass media is one of the greatest problems facing science today.

Perhaps people are so used to religion that they think science works just like religion, expecting it to offer answers to questions like "what is the meaning of life?" and whatnot.

The ouroboros diagram at the end of the article is an accurate description of not only science but pretty much every human endeavor. We cannot reach "pure unadulterated reality", only a reflection of our beliefs and biases, on the basis of which we form other beliefs and biases.

Fortunately, reflections depend not only on what is reflected but also on the reflector's own properties. Nature is our reflector, so we can indeed make progress over long time scales. To think that science will help us overcome our very human weaknesses, however, is not only arrogant but dangerous. After all, the only way to realize this flawed ideal of pure science would be to eliminate all traces of our humanity. What good is a "light in the darkness", as you said, if the light is so bright it blinds the person who wanted to see?
umm... tumblr dude. geez
Lawrence Lessig to receive Lifetime Achievement Webby Award
Even 20kW will only get you 40-50 miles per hour of charging a Tesla.

The Volt weighs an entire thousand pounds less than the Tesla, and it gets a much better watts-to-mile ratio. Even then, the Volt's generator is all the way up in the 55kW range.

That's a far cry from gas or diesel, where a five gallon can can be transported by a friend in any vehicle, poured into any car in a matter of minutes, and will get you 100-200 miles.

Towing to the nearest fixed rapid charging station seems more practical than the generator vehicle in many cases, provided tow companies will tow the vehicle.

One interesting idea might be for Tesla to provide a "towing mode" that raises the ground clearance as the batteries are dying in order to make it easier to load the car onto a flatbed - that, along with education of tow companies, could be very beneficial to improving the outcome of these "stranding" situations.
Looks like it has a Command key to me.
I imagine that eventually cars will park themselves in dedicated areas or move on to another job and most of us won't leave a car in a particular place and expect it to be there when we return.

Most apartment owners would probably elect to use their parking space for a storage capsule and then subscribe to a robo-car service. The car would be waiting when they got downstairs and leave to go elsewhere when it returned them home.

Eventually, street parking will disappear. If I still want to be driven to work, the car will drop me at the front door and then head elsewhere. In the evening, a different car will likely arrive for pick-up.

Any cars not on a job or driving to a job would head to a depot for charging, service or storage.
Revocation still doesn't work
Can someone explain to me - are containers based on a base OS, or are they capable of running on any OS? I see the 'run anywhere' taglines and it just doesn't make sense to me.

I imagine that docker containers have to be provisioned in some way, and if you're provisioning with `apt-get` then it's not going to work when deploying to a redhat OS.

Essentially, I understand Docker containers to be lightweight virtual machines rather than applications that can be deployed to anything running the docker service. Am I on the right track?
2 miles, more or less, at least that's what I get eyeballing it: http://goo.gl/maps/QQKqa
I use http://www.paymo.biz/ and a spreadsheet to invoice.

I also use a shared spreadsheet to track TO DO items and provide rough estimates.

My need is minor - almost anything would do.
Smalltalk, Forth and Lisp are mentioned specifically and in some detail in the Avail docs, see e.g. [0]. The designer apparently has had extensive experience with all of them. I can't find the reference now but at some point in the stuff I was reading last night was a mini-diatribe about Lisp, to the effect that it has "no syntax" and although it can indeed describe any problem, when you finish the solution doesn't "look like" the problem statement in any way.

[0]https://www.availlang.org/about-avail/history/index.html
You know very well if the DoJ was "containing" problems through legit fraud prosecutions nobody would be raising a huge fuss.

(ADDED: one wonder how many of these prosecutions are legit vs. "the process is the punishment" well nigh unlimited budget DoJ vs. likely small fry.)

It's the lawless abuse of regulatory powers---e.g. why the FDIC is part of the operation---to try to shut down entire sectors of the finance industry that has people figuratively up in arms.
Support Internet Explorer
Not too many critical extensions, but a few: Motorola Connect, Google Hangouts, and Hacker News Enhancement Suite.

The real reason I stick with Chrome is because it works so well with my Google accounts and syncs everything I do to my phone.

I could partially move to Firefox if I could find a good way to do bi-directional bookmarks sync between the browsers. I tried XMarks but it would totally fuck up all of my Chrome bookmarks once in a while.
The ESC key, and all the function keys, on my Mac laptop are half height keys. Personally, I'd rather just have an ESC gesture, for example.
Don't conflate the Universal Service Obligation with door-to-door delivery; my dad has to go to the post office to pick up his mail. Of course, he lives on the Big Island of Hawai'i so it's a small price to pay.
Yes sadly the sales guy thinks like this i) Tell him the car is not here they don't come chance of sale = 0%. ii) Tell them the car is here then it's not here but maybe sell them something else = 10%.
It is easy for a few reasons (I am not saying all these are 100% sound just presenting a few of them):

* FDA and the supposed agencies entrusted by public to protect the public from poisons in the food have deemed to have failed many times. There is a revolving door between large agribusinesses and FDA. Department heads and CEO/COOs play musical chairs back and forth between. Trusting FDA to police the industry is like trusting the industry to police itself at this point.

* People are not educated enough to understand what is what. They see strange things on the labels and get scared.

* Everyone only has only one life + the life of their children to experiment on. So while a "rational" argument to "we don't know if it will poison us", is let's apply "science" and do an "experiment". Ok who wants to ingest this new formulation to be the guinea pig? Who wants to give to their infant son or daughter to later monitor and find out if they'll get cancer by the time their are 5 or not... Because the thing is, you don't get a do-over like you do with other things. "Oh the program segfaulted. Darn,..., fix bug, recompile and restart".

Those are a few of the reasons. So as the article points out people try to figure out it on their own and kind of feel around in the dark. Facebook groups. Friend of a friend found out about this new superfood item or something. Or I read on Facebook that pickles have lead in them. Whole Foods type place and other "health" food places take advantage of this fear and uncertainty. Others make fun that. Gee so and so is such a hippie eating sprouted beans or thinking GMOs are going to kill you. They don't know science, haha! The other side is making fun of those that don't eat organic hand massaged free range cows and how they are poisoning their kids with pesticides.

There are those who want to live the libertarian dream. Just abolish the FDA and let everyone go shopping with a radiological, chemical and bacteriological assay kit. Gee I would buy this cabbage but my portable DNA sequencer shows its DNA structures has been modified and it has been spliced with a DNA of a frog. I am afraid, I'll have to find another seller. Funny thing is -- these places exist. Just go to any poor country where government regulation is even more non-existent. That is the above dystopia. You want to buy baby formula? Ah well. It could be baby formula or could be chalk mixed with water and poisons chemical that someone packaged in a basement. Who knows, you decide.
what about the third option? neither.

less is more when it comes to the web. it really is.
To answer my own question, I found Vultr offers FreeBSD for $5/month:

https://www.vultr.com/faq/
Not super relevant to the design, but does anyone know which browser (Chrome or Firefox) uses less memory on a Mac these days? Not talking about base footprint, but let's say I have 25 tabs open. Chrome uses ~100MB per tab, more for long-running tabs with a lot going on like GMail. Seems totally insane to me, a website that's not a complicated web app should have a tiny memory footprint. If Firefox could significantly improve this I'd move.
It's not a double negative...denying non-FFs != allowing FFs.
Charging more than the cheaper default. Doubt it will be as much as the depreciation, registration, insurance and servicing of a car.

Right now, my wife and I have two cars. One of them is only used 2-3 days of the week. The other is only used for a small portion of each day.

If taxis weren't needing to cover wage costs, I'd already be better off switching from the second car to using a taxi to get to and from work. Registration, insurance and servicing for the second car is $2-3k/year.
2nd post for me
www.landinggear.me
Food is advertised as GMO free. Were you lying about a ban or just mistaken? Here is an example. http://i.imgur.com/9I5aPHe.jpg
That's the use case of Whonix.

http://whonix.org
This you might find useful:

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/72392/handle-move...
Same problem here. Scrolling a little caused it to stop flickering so quickly, and portrait mode finally got it to stop misbehaving completely for me.
This explains why I have such crappy bananas, do cocaine, and fight so much.
I do not know that very well. In fact, I don't think that's true at all.
I don't know what the space looks like now but 10 years ago they were not hard to find. They were just really expensive. Too expensive for me for a side project/experiment at the time.
I had always assumed it just came from the fact that something is literally logging the fact that you have logged in/signed in/starting using the service/whatever.

Always seemed rational enough to me!
Paging Oona Räisänen... It's been posted here before, but that helicopter signal decoding was quite a feat. [1]

1: http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt...
I currently have 62 tabs open (in this tab group; more in the background, but they're not loaded), and Firefox is using 1.41 GB, which is ~23 MB/tab. That also includes a bunch of videos, pictures and Flash.
Or tell my why "front end" is more common than "frontend", while "backend" is more common than "back end".
Come to think about it--the easiest hack-- is just a piggback battery. Lets say the Tesla power-source is 500 pounds. 1/10th would be 50 pounds. Assuming replacement of the battery is $15K at cost, that would be a $1500 asset. 4x of them would add ~$6K per charging depot (<~5% of planned capital outlay). Transport to site by 3rd pary service using a pickup truck (ie, no fancy gear needed).

Volumne would be the size of a a carry-on wheelie bag. The engineering solution would be to have a second charging point internal to the passenger/trunk--perhaps in the 2.0 version of the Tesla models currently on the board. The only engineering consideration would be that the li-ion powertrain would need to operate during charge (like a laptop or cell phone) but would presumably overcome.
There's not really a strong distinction in the mindshare. People use them interchangeably.
Are you serious? That's amazing if you are.