skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm feeling old since I seem to have an innate aversion to vertical photos or video.
A great read is Titan, which follows his rise to the "Titan" he was. He was a genius with engineering (re-designing physical oil barrels), operations, finance, scale, industrialization, almost everything.

He is credited with creating modern medicinal research (though he detested it himself), and all around, was a highly unique character in history.

Not withstanding him destroying his competition and consolidating the market, with the goal of lowering kerosene (I may have the wrong oil-type here) by 95% as a goal for "giving to the masses."

Still many, many, many despicable acts, but a multi-dimensional man of course.

http://www.amazon.com/Titan-The-Life-John-Rockefeller/dp/140...
* While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.
Except it stopped snowing hours ago and the plows have already done their job. Still, there's snow on the ground, limited visibility of the painted lines, people driving like jerks, people sliding out on black ice, etc.

Some towns don't even plow non-major streets but if that's the street you live on, then you need to drive on it.
Great job guys. Hope to see this integrated in the iPhone.
As chc said, I wouldn't apply the same reasoning to elderly people. Also, the issue that most people were bringing up was that children specifically were being exploited, so the point is moot.
The Jumble of Chronic Mental Illness
From the Tech Crunch article [0]:
"Over the next six months, they set out to build an app where “there’s way less pressure to create because everyone is creating”, Reuben says."

I have never felt pressure to "create". Has anyone outside of the SV/SF bubble felt pressure to create?

[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/17/facebook-slingshot/
It'd be really cool to see a side by side comparison with, and without Horizon active
I wonder how much it would have cost to push out an update to all of the Symbian devices in the wild at the time. It wouldn't have been easy, and would have been a PR nightmare, but it could have been done.

The question is: would it have been worth it? I don't know, but hiding things rarely goes well. Then again, I don't know of any public instances where this has happened, but I'm sure Nokia aren't the only ones to have been hit by this.
In an age of ever-increasing landing page images, never-ending scrolling, this was a treat to navigate.
Looks really awesome, I'll await it's arrival.
Small nit-pick: "Pro-gun" is not an ideology, it's a position that might flow from an ideology e.g. libertarianism, or might just be a stand-alone position.
But that was because the Guild navigators needed the spice to fold space, to enable space travel.

Therefore, SpaceX.

(I can imagine Elon in a spice tank, with orange vapours).

(I include the British spelling since he's South African (he's also American and Canadian--do they say vapours in Canada?) Am I off-context enough yet?)
Thanks for this. First I've heard of Hugo. I've been minded to kick the tyres of a static site generator again for a while now, after an unsuccessful tinker with Octopress a year or so ago. Given I'm also looking for an excuse to hack around with learning a bit of Golang, Hugo looks like it might be ideal.
Ha! Couldn't figure out the connection until I re-read the title.
Me too. Even if I never use this font, I've gotten enough benefit from Font Awesome over the past year that I feel like I should support this guy in continuing to do awesome things.
Ok, thank you for pointing that out. However I still don't think it's right to "re-purpose" words. Remember what happened when people tried to re-purpose kilo for 1024 etc.
The Rap Test
I have experienced this on several spinning rust-based Macs (with multiple drives that pass SMART and several other types of tests) over the past decade as well as occasionally on SSDs. It's HFS+ or some sort of other OSX issue.
This is good -- choosing the right language is important. Cryptographers seem to be worse than average software engineers when it comes to designing interaction that is usable by mainstream users.
There's a great IFTTT trigger that takes betali.st startups and adds them into an email[1]. I have it directed to a folder in my mail which I go through once in a while to find good products I like.

[1]: https://ifttt.com/myrecipes/personal/678098
> We're not saying it's a police state. We're saying it is becoming one because of the very tools that these agencies possess and abuse without accountability

Right, this is my problem. I have no problem with posession of these tools. States possess much worse things, nuclear weapons spring to mind. And abuse of these tools in an unaccountable fashion is wrong, 100% with you on that. However it is not clear to me that such abuses have occurred, or are occurring in a systematic way. Are there any documented (to the extent possible) cases of this? I didn't think even the Snowden documents showed that. In fact, it looked like they were full of caveats about US and UK citizen surveillance being a problematic area, and stated requirements for legal reviews and checks in these cases?
"crappy licensing deal" doesn't really indicate an even article.

Basically same as everyone else they are siding with the labels and adapting their narrative.

Yes, if Youtube can't licence the music the videos will get flagged by ContentID, which means they gets "blocked" because they don't have the license to show them, it's a semantics play and circular logic that the labels are offering and as with most attacks on Google the media has lapped it up.

As to the actual term we only have the labels' word on it and they are an interested party in the midst of negotiations.

Edit:

This spells out that it's a "renegotiation" process, the labels want more from the free streaming to agree to the paid one:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27891883

And: "content from artists signed to independent labels will remain available on YouTube via channels such as Vevo".
Let's say you're the CEO of an ISP. Netflix pays your company $x million to access a fast lane. You can either spend the money on (a) building $x million of extra infrastructure or (b) giving yourself an $x million raise.

Which do you think will lead to the CEO getting a bigger raise?
FWIW on Linux (Google Chrome stable) I get the $12.95 / $26.95 / $39.95 pricing.

But then if I open it in Incognito mode, I get the cheaper pricing. I'm thinking either they recently updated their pricing and the cache is clearing out, or they're doing multi-armed bandit price testing.
At least for the IRS, you can deduct money paid out for ransom, blackmail, or other forms of theft.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch25.html#en_US_2011_pub...
Can you access the API without authenticating? I just want some basic song info, not play anything.
I'm not sure I understand the allure of this; perhaps I'm missing something. So I have to send a video/photo in response to someone who sent me one, in order to see what they sent? It seems like there would be a massive disparity in interesting activities between two parties at any given time to make this concept work. If one of my buddies is having a riot at Coachella and sends me a crazy festival pic for instance, and I'm just sitting at my desk doing work, what am I supposed to do? Send them back a pic of my coffee mug or something? Seems like they felt they had to do something to distinguish themselves from Snapchat but I'm not sure this is the answer. Time till tell though, I guess.
What Instacart taught us
>> ""Over the next six months, they set out to build an app where “there’s way less pressure to create because everyone is creating”"

WHAT? How do they go from that to: "We should force people to create and send images, even if they don't want to, just so they can see what they've been send!"
> they will prefer children in developing countries starve and go blind

Please don't use inflammatory language like this when arguing on HN. It's unsubstantive (because it overstates things for agitation effect) and tends to provoke low-quality subthreads.

Here's something PG once wrote that clarifies this principle:

[HN comments] should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
Bitcoin for taking political contributions
614 revolutions per minute on the tire, assuming a 17" wheel, is still pretty impressive.
It wasn't actually Helsinki police (this didn't even happen in Helsinki), but the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP).
Indeed! more like: " Assess whether a better deal might become available during the period."
Good catch ;-)
That is an entirely different part of the world with an entirely different culture and set of existing problems. It is entirely possible that "golden bananas" might actually be helpful in some African countries...
So, one thing you completely fail to take into account:

Land is a limited, scarce resource. Ideas are infinitely reproducible, mutable, and changeable.

I can copy your words and you've still got them.
The EC2 client class allows you to do it.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSRubySDK/latest/AWS/EC2/Client/...
brainfuck has no procedures, so no can do. :)
User testing our video editor; when the plan meets reality
Building the Part of Facebook No One Ever Sees
I think people were reading "this is treating a symptom of larger problems" and thinking you meant "We should not be treating symptoms but should be focusing on the root cause."

This makes sense when you have only a few minds working on the problem and the root cause can be tackled directly and simply. However, there are many minds with many different specialties and the root cause is complex enough that it makes sense to divide it into individual problems. Especially since those symptoms contribute to the cause. Obesity causes joint pain and joint pain causes lack of exercise. And so it sometimes sounds silly to criticize someone for just dealing with joint pain rather than the larger problem.

But it now sounds like you are actually saying "We shouldn't forget that there are also other problems to solve here." And this is very true.
You could have spent the 5 minutes on their website that I did to find the endpoint reference which shows that yes, you can get to quite a bit of the API without authenticating:

https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/endpoint-reference/
Assuming you could even reflash the firmware key.
I have many replies, good answers, etc. But I don't speak for the company, and that's a touchy subject I wouldn't want to go near.

I can say this: if I felt that the company wasn't doing a good job of working to improve the lives of associates in the warehouses, I wouldn't work here.
I think that is a good question. And if there were ever a case of surveillance being used to suppress government opposition, that would be terrible. But this has not occurred, and opposition to the government is a protected and valued right of every citizen of both the UK and the US. There are even entire organisations devoted to the opposition of the current government, some in the UK even go as far as having a 'shadow' group that mirrors the current ruling cabinet, to contest their decisions publicly.
The problem with cryptography is that if a human is supposed to remember the key, the key is probably weak and could be brute-forced, and if a computer remembers the key, the computer could be compromised and the key stolen.

To me, that's the biggest issue.
You might not need them but consider this for a moment:

When I was a kid, there was a boy in my class who was mute. He carried a chalkboard and flashcards to facilitate communication. Eventually, he was chosen to pilot a device that was sort of like a keyboard with oversized keys. Each key had a pictograph on it[0].

Wouldn't it be nice for him if the flashcards and keyboard device had a consistent set of characters that were easily recognizable not only by him but by the people with whom he was communicating?

Now, would he ever need "MAN IN SUIT LEVITATING"? Probably not (you never know!) but I'm glad there is a standard set of otherwise useful pictographs for people like him.

[0] - I'm in my late 20s but this was when few families owned computers, let alone super-helpful handheld devices. Also worth mentioning that this boy knew ASL but attended a regular public school where few students and faculty could so the chalkboard and flashcards were infinitely more practical.
One interesting thing I've noticed is facebook has been making a lot of new apps and widgets.

Messenger, Paper, Slingshot.

Seems to me that they are trying to increase engagement with the "new" factor. I think it's pretty smart.
Harnessing the Value of UX
I think you're talking about https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1227. It hasn't been fixed yet, and is a big deal for many multitenancy users.

I'll bump it up in the roadmap -- sorry it's taking so long to get this fixed. It turns out that everyone only needs 5% of RethinkDB features, but it's always a different 5%. That makes product roadmaps really hard. I think in this sense databases are a bit like word processors :)
>>It tried being a financial city in the 80s, then a tech city in the 90s, all the while it was growing as a medical city.

You make it sound as if these trends were inauthentic. I think they were, in fact, organic outgrowths of the city's strengths. As long as Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are there, there will always be a strength in tech and medicine. I was a bit too young to be much of an observer of the 80s as they happened, but finance was most likely a strength due to Pittsburgh's prior status as headquarters for a significant number of Fortune 500 companies and banks: PNC, Mellon Bank, Gulf Oil, US Steel, Alcoa, HJ Heinz, Westinghouse... At the tail end of the postwar industrial boom, there must have been a good deal of money in Pittsburgh, ready to create a financial hub.
The concept kind of reminds me of Facebook poke wars, which are mildly entertaining in and of itself.
1. This may be true, but the article doesn't offer a strong rebuttal, nor does it stop there before throwing around a bunch of other arguments against Uber as a business.

2. Uber is extremely profitable and growing a ton. The only argument here is about whether its profitability or growth is not sustainable because drivers are getting a bum deal, or merely a run-of-the-mill deal, while all appearances are to the contrary. It's pretty easy to tell when people are happy. Groupon was generally hated by small businesses, while Uber is loved by operators of limos and taxis. People aren't idiots; they know when a service is good for their bottom line and when it isn't.

3. Raising a big round doesn't in itself mean a company is a strong or weak business, though it will increase debate about it.
We need more league players... It's really fun folks, come on in!
"They directly address some of the arguments against JS crypto:"

And in the very first 5 words, "End-To-End is a Chrome extension" (emphasis mine), they take themselves out of the domain of the original post, which is 90% about Javascript included in web pages, not Javascript in general.
> It's a family of sound cards from the Win 9X era.

As the Wikipedia article you cite notes, SB isn't from the Win 9X era, it was a de facto standard prior to the Win 9X (i.e., late DOS era.)
Nginx usage patterns in the wild
Yes, judge me based on my account age, because you have half a year history of making "hostile" comments, and I have just half a day.

Outstanding work, detective. Here's a medal.
It has. There are a number of FOSS mods, but some of the best ones aren't.
Recruiters who suck mostly suck because that's what their customers want.

When you get a call from some shady recruiter asking you about a 6 month contract in Omaha, you're getting that call because a company or government agency decided to start doing strategic sourcing and procure people the same way they buy any other commodity.

So two things explain the poor quality -- they are literally squeezing every penny out of the process and are hiring idiots

The other thing is that they don't want to find candidates. They want to have low rates of success -- they're just engaging in a recruitment process to justify hiring workers on guest visas who can be more effectively exploited. If you look in an industry "trade rag", you'll usually find a page with some hard to read, small print job postings -- those are "compliance" advertisements purchased for the same purpose.
Great, I hope it's a good fit!

If not, please let us know about any sticking points either through the mailing list, switchboarddev _at_ librelist.com, or the GitHub issues page.
The cable companies last mile generally runs over copper so you need to look into the initial subsidies when it was first laid down, the most common being a local monopoly.

The sad thing is local, state, and federal 'broadband' subsidies are ongoing. Read up on http://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2014/nineteenth-quarterly-sta... for some federal info, state level subsides are more complex.

PS: Some of this is hard to pin down, there are 'taxes' designed so cable companies can advertise lower prices than they actually charge. http://www.alternet.org/story/148785/cable_companies'_$46%2B...
anymore is a regional thing; you'll hear it in pockets of Appalachia from western PA down to Kentucky and Tennessee.
As someone who regularly writes RTL for FPGAs during their day job, I like the idea, but am skeptical about the follow through.

For years now, various companies have tried to make cross compilers to be able to synthesize C style code into RTL. The name for this basic idea is "High Level Synthesis" (HLS). For applications like digital signal processing, HSL is actually decent. Having a stream of data moving through some transform is easy to express in C (and OpenCL), and easy to translate into a relatively efficient data pipeline in RTL when compared with making one "by hand". But this isn't the only thing that is going on within the FPGA. It is clunky and inefficient to create state machines or controllers, interact with inbuilt memory blocks, or interface with other modules not built in the HLS language.

Since inefficiencies cost resources, you end up trading your decreased development time through using HLS for possibly increased device costs, and some ambiguity in terms of the architecture of the hardware your synthesize. Since these tools haven't been broadly embraced by the FPGA coding community, the support for them doesn't tend to last long either.
It mirrors how a flamewar works.
> Send them back a pic of my coffee mug or something?

I love getting job pictures on Snapchat so I'm not so sure it will always be a case where something is more interesting than the other.
If I talk to a hundred drivers and pretty much every one is happy, then I'm going to be skeptical of a rough spreadsheet that's supposed to say they're getting financially shafted and are going to quit.
I didn't realize it when watching the promo video but you're actually spot on.
Population density alone isn't a great measure of how "urban" an area is.

I got Lester, IA which apparently has an off the charts population density of 464,912 people per square mile! Total population is only 294 though...
And at the time Nokia was a major part of the entire finish economy - sounds like gross incompetence on the finish authorities.
This reflects my thoughts on NYC perfectly. Even though every time I leave the city I end up complaining about how my apartment is the size of somebody's living room, when push comes to shove I wouldn't dream of trading my Manhattan shoebox for a big house in the suburbs.

The culture part really rings true for me. I was born in Asia, immigrated to Canada at a very young age, and now I'm in the US. I find it difficult and oftentimes annoying to live in places without this sort of diversity. I've been to, for lack of a better term, "whiter" parts of the US and have always been a bit uncomfortable. I've met very few hostile "real" racists, but in these parts of the country I feel like every time I meet someone I have to first break through the stereotypes attached to my skin color.

"Where are you from?" "Canada" (I speak with no trace of an Asian accent) "No, where are you REALLY from?"

In NYC the answer is "Cool, which part of Canada?"

Nevermind the people who just have to sneak in the "good at math" joke somewhere in there. Nobody ever means any harm, but it is profoundly annoying to go through life being the "other". In big cities this is never a problem - when I meet new people I'm treated as an individual first, not the sum perceptions of my race.
I would love to see an Emacs package management system that copies the best parts of other, already established package managers instead of creating something from scratch.

Homebrew is a joy to use. APT is beautiful. Arch Linux is doing interesting things with pacman. Every scripting language that matters uses a standard, widely known packaging recipe (setup.py, Gemfile, package.json, etc.) that developers can understand in about 15 minutes.

Emacs? Emacs doesn't introduce its package management system until Chapter 47 in the manual. The default repo has so few packages I thought there was an error the first time I saw it. The entire packaging ecosystem screams "this is an afterthought!"

It isn't 1994 anymore. Package management may not be a "solved problem," but it isn't exactly a new problem, either.

I know the Emacs shibboleth is to do everything in Emacs, but we can't be afraid of other options if they've proven themselves to be better.
Be careful if you're using headphones, scared me to death.
A bit surprised that the backer awards do not include a tie.
@dkhenry -- Thanks for all your work on the Java driver!
How to Build a Home-Brew Radon Detector: Measure Radiation with a Webcam
HackerNews guys & gals are probably not the audience of the app, but the audience Facebook's aiming at will love it.
What's with the downvotes? That feedback is not helpful!