skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having built scrapers working against some of these measures, you would be really surprised at how often they are accidental. Shared hosting providers often set them as defaults, at least as far as I see from the work I've done.

The real barrier I find is the current case law in the US, which seems to be the jurisdiction of choice for many web companies. It's currently a real possibility that you will be criminally in breach of the law and suffer the cost if you blatantly and knowingly continue after being notified of their ToS. Yes google and other big companies have nothing to fear, but it's pretty much a case of "how many people are dumb enough to pick a fight with mike Tyson?"

If you target your scraping to further your own business, and impinge on someone else's business model, your in water that is currently murky. It really needs to be settled but until another lawsuit rises to the Supreme Court in the US, we won't have that, so it's just a matter of being aware that while your not trying to be an evil criminal, you may still be viewed as such by someone you scrape.
Definitely not true. It handles add/removing displays, applying different color profiles to each monitor, etc.
Freedesktop is DE agnostic and many technologies there come or are inspired from KDE.
A couple environments that use Ruby but aren't listed in this article

RPG Maker (XP and VX) -http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/products/programs/rpg-maker-vx-ac...

Ruby Processing - https://github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing

Hackety Hack - http://hackety.com/
I turned a 1970s clock radio into a little piece of mechanical art
Hey! Engineer from Clinkle here.

"Upgrade your card" is about how there are next to no debit cards with rewards programs, free p2p, and budgeting/payments alerts.

Treats are indeed effectively rewards, and yes they are meant to be a little more than the altruistic than traditional rewards.

Sorry for the confusion; we're tightening up the copy as we go forward. Hoped to fly under the radar for another few weeks, but someone tipped off the press :(
Did you copy and paste the comment from ValleyWag?

He has been there for just a few months. I would bet that he is too busy for selfies.
Is a Microsoft TV dongle going to make Miracast mainstream?
The log-time concatenation may be the real win. Still though, why 4? Why not 2, or 8? Is this covered in some of the research?
> But reshape2::melt() requires a separate argument (factorsAsStrings) if you don't want automatic conversion, and with plyr::ldply() you can't prevent the index column conversion to a factor at all. So factors creep in periodically into my data frames and burns me every now and then.

Oh, wow, thanks for that. I generally prefer data.table to plyr, but I do use reshape2 of course so that's great to know.
What did you teach yourself in those 2 years, if you don't mind me asking?
where "well documented in the press" here means "rumors blogged about in the press". we've been working on Clinkle as a pre-paid card program with rewards since 2012.
I just realized recently the major distinction between the San Francisco tech scene and the South Bay/Silicon Valley tech scene: substance.

The South Bay has all these established players like Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, etc(to name the larger names). San Francisco has the revenue-earners and shit like Clinkle(I guess we have Uber and Airbnb but that story hasn't fully played out yet). Like Square and Dropbox are toast and both SF companies.

I guess it's a small distinction but an important one. The SF tech scene is much, much younger than it's South Bay counterpart.

Clinkle will definitely fail(that is it will never become an established player on it's own like South Bay companies like Apple/Google/Yahoo/etc.). It'll likely be acquired or maybe even crash and burn, regardless I sincerely question it's long-term potential as I do most SF-based tech companies.
Again, if you remember to include options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE) at the top of your scripts, they are transferable. With other R neophytes who only run code that I write, I tell them to run

cat("options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE)\n",file="~/.Rprofile",append=TRUE)

at the R console.
Why Is Box Taking So Long to Pull the IPO Trigger?
Netflix didn’t want to talk to me about their movie catalogue, leaving me to rely on the speculation of a couple of video store folks that the company’s DVD selection is shrinking most likely because it is not replacing damaged disks.

People often keep them, from a mix of greed and guilt (still haven't watched that classic film...but I really must...I'l do it next week...). Meantime, piracy has killed the market for new production runs of obscure films, so niche titles go out of print and stay out of print because no distributor wants to spend $10,000 on something that may only have a few hundred buyers.

I personally think the streaming service is great, notwithstanding the spotty coverage. It also makes a great deal more sense as a long-term revenue model than discs. I don't see a way of guaranteeing availability without compulsory licensing, though.
> wouldn't that qualify as legitimate use of a backup copy?

The archival copy privilege as an exception to the usual rules that copyright excludes anyone from making copies without specific permission from the copyright holder [1] applies only to works classified as "computer programs" under the law. While DVDs do include computer programs, the main element of a DVD is an audiovisual work and likely wouldn't be included in the exception, so even if it would be a legitimate use of a backup copy, the kind of work isn't one in which there is any right under copyright law to create such a backup.

[1] 17 USC Sec. 117(a)
"The longer answer is yes, but ... it would confuse more people that it would help."

Can you describe a scenario where replacing the word "Indian" with "Native-American" in the headline of this article will confuse more people than the original version? None of what you said to support your assertion seems to make that case.
Mmm, we haven't pivoted at all! Prepaid card with rewards program has been in the works since 2012 and was part of the pitch to investors. Rumors in the press really lead the public astray tho :(
nice! much needed. http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/sweetback

0 results. So his problem still holds but it still doesn't demonstrate that Netflix is less and less an option.
I assume (mentioned in the article) they get sent back for warranty RMA.
Towards the end of the program, a "jumper cable" was carried to get around that:

The cable would connect an avionics bay in Discovery's middeck with the
controls one level up on its flight deck, effectively allowing flight
controllers in Houston to perform landing activities currently done by
shuttle astronauts.

Those manual activities include starting the shuttle's auxiliary power units,
deploying an air data probe, unstowing the orbiter's landing gear and
releasing its drag chute after landing, Herring said.

[1] http://www.space.com/2560-shuttle-carry-tools-repair-remote-...
Samsung drives come with Samsung Magician, which is a pretty nice utility.
you are so encouraging thanks!
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> More specifically, the original has text like "Each collision releases a burst of gamma rays and scattered particles." while the quoted text on that site uses the conditional mood "Each collision would release a burst of gamma rays and scattered particles."

Check: the book contains the second form.

Also, the end in the original is "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests ..." while the blog uses "Major League Baseball Rule 6.08( b) suggests ..."; and the order of the baseball fusion zone images have been swapped.

Check: the book contains the second form.

To me, this suggests that the blog content was scanned out of the book and converted to text using OCR (except the images). I am not saying this is so, only that this is the appearance.

> (However, had the material on that blog been identical to xkcd.com then I believe there would not be an infringement.)

I agree, but before my initial post I had established that at least some of the text came from the book (I spot-checked a few passages from my copy). Again -- why would Houghton Mifflin release a book containing the content of a bunch of Web pages that are free to copy? The publishing business is difficult enough as things stand, even with fully protected content.

> Could you check to see if that matches the book?

I haven't compared the entire blog, but after the above comparisons I read more content than I had earlier. The first few paragraphs are word-for-word in correspondence with book. The graphics appear in the same order in both the blog and book, and are identical.

Maybe the blog's author is confused, since the online content is free to copy. Again, I doubt that a bricks and mortar publisher would be willing to publish a book that has no copy protection.

I am particularly sensitive about this, because until the past few years people would regularly scrape my Website's articles and either present them as their own or wholesale copy with attribution but with no pretense of commentary or other rationale. This is why there are hyperlinks, a feature of the Web people seem to have forgotten.

Randall Munroe is in a unique and deserved position -- when people copy his articles, they want the origin to be known. I don't have that privilege. :)
Gnome is practically only usable through extensions. If you want an example of Gnome 3 done right, look at Zorin - which is a Gnome reskin designed to emulate modern Windows.

Likewise, KDE is highly modular and configurable - you can develop whatever widgets you want and drop them in wherever you want. That is how they now have a mobile and desktop variant of Plasma. And the configuration means you can do everything from featureless software rendered uncomposited desktop to exploding windows and spinning cubes in OpenGL.

The thing is highly extensible means more space use, and LXDE / XFCE in part originate in a desire for smaller footprint installs. They also use less memory on average, albeit the usage of Gnome / KDE and them is minute relative to modern memory footprints (XFCE might use 100MB, KDE sans semantic desktop search might use 200).
As relevant as ever: https://twitter.com/mrgan/status/384780273721696256

@mrgan

—"I'd like to, uh… "pay with clinkle."

—"Excuse me?"

—"Uh, pay with… clinkle?"

—"Do you need the key to the restroom?"

—"Pay… with… clinkle"
The intel failed to reach the petabyte mark.

This is interesting because many datacenters use the intel.
"Native American" is a well understood term in everyday and (especially) journalistic writing. There's literally no scenario where the headline (and the article) itself will not gain in clarity by replacing the term Indian with "Native American".
The guy to his left probably spent an extra 30 seconds recording his "silly" face.
FWIW, Clinkle was housed in Mountain View for quite a while. While I generally agree with you on the distinction between established players vs startups, I don't think the geographic classification is clear cut as you make it.
Could you link an example? Some tiling window manager users just don't care much about appearances (my general approach to window decoration is to get rid of it), but it should be possible to approximate the appearance of windows under any desktop environment via configuration tweaking (eg Firefox themes, font settings, GTK/Qt themes).

You are likely to find that a stand-alone WM requires more manual configuration than a DE. Most DEs have more-or-less unified settings managers, but those settings are really for many disparate components of the environment that a WM won't even try to control. It might be possible to recover some convenience by using a third-party settings manager like the previously mentioned lxappearance (I find the Arch Linux wiki a useful resource in this regard even though I don't run Arch).

Alternatively, you can use xmonad with Xfce (or another DE). That's what I did before completely switching to xmonad and it does make settings management easier.
I really don't understand how any serious developer can use Gnome 3. I have tried for the past couple of months to use the out-of-the-box Gnome setup under Fedora (with the Adwaita theme) and the whole experience was maddening. I've finally switched back to KDE (which I haven't used for almost 5 years) and if this doesn't work out I'll go back to XFCE (which is what I used in-between).

Some problems include:

* Focused and unfocused windows look almost identical

* Expected features like tray icons, virtual desktops, alt+drag to move/resize windows, even alt+tab don't work out-of-the-box

* Window focus seems completely broken

* Eclipse looks terrible (and I spend much of my time there) - I'm told "no, that's an SWT issue", but it looks great under KDE

* IntelliJ's menus don't track the moue properly - again, probably a Java issue, but still works great under KDE

* Having to "drag" the screensaver thing away is annoying

* gkrellm seems to make all of my window focus issues even worse

I know most of the issues can be blamed on application/third-party framework bugs, but the fact is that I just want to get my work done and KDE/XFCE both work great.

Go look at some of the Gnome source code comments and Bugzillas and you will see the very opinionated "do it my way" thinking that the Gnome developers have. In some cases, it's almost hostile.

If I wanted a desktop that valued form over function, I'd use a Mac.
Yeah I'd use the hell out of a python version of this.
Unfortunately, there is a very low probability of the mismatch until we have effectively seen every device. As our linking service expands, that percentage gets lower and lower. In our experience, the user experience and analytics insight benefit far outweighs the consequence of a mismatch because they are so rare. We encourage our developers not to bundle sensitive data into the links if they use this base case.

If a developer does want 100% match, we have a separate option that can be used with a slightly degraded user experience which pops the browser open really quickly to check the cookie, then returning to the app with the URI scheme.
Potentially, yes. Would you want to spend the next decade fighting that lawsuit up to the Supreme Court, hoping that the case goes your way? I think the odds would be in their favor but am even more confident that the movie industry would see the threat of an expensive lawsuit as a great lever to extort higher royalties.
> piracy has killed the market for new production runs of obscure films

Source?
First thing I thought of!
Designing a Heroic Robot
No, but feel free to use it (it already has the meaning you intens to give it. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality)
OpenSUSE still exists. It is a pretty beast KDE desktop. There is a lot of effort around Netrunner / Manjaro / Chakra to make some good KDE desktop based on Arch, but that has never come to fruition mostly in my mind due to NIH and no pooled effort.

And Kubuntu is still solid and stable. If I were pushing Linux in an office environment, 14.04 LTS Kubuntu would almost certainly be my pick for its stability.
The IDFA has been blessed for this. All of our partners have been submitting their apps with that option checked without issue.
It's more of a hypothesis than a matter of fact. I do find it interesting that they moved to SF. Perhaps it was because companies like Clinkle can't hack it in the South Bay because engineers in the South Bay don't want to work for that crap(no long-term potential).

I'm based in SF so I have no preference for the South Bay, it's just something I've noticed.
Why is Dropbox failing? Is Square failing because of Apple pay?
CRDTs: Distributed Semilattices
Both will fail because of the Apple/Google conglomerate. Unless they have an ace up their sleeve I'm seeing acquisitions on both parts within a ~year.
Well, they could still improve.

My Macbook's SSD died in a blaze of reallocated sectors and write failures just last week, and that thing was just around 2 years old.

For comparison, I've only had 2 spinning hard drives fail on me (I've owned around 25), and those were >10 years old and mostly decommissioned.

It could be a statistical fluke, and the sheer speed of SSDs means that even now, a higher failure rate is acceptable, but SSDs in general don't have the longevity of older magnetic hard drives.
This is great news. I have been looking for a compelling pre-paid debit card ever since my Kardashian Kard was abruptly removed from my life[1] and this looks like it fits the bill.

I hope Dogecoin integration is coming soon. If I could load my Clinkle with Dogecoin, I would finally be able to ditch my Amex Centurion.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/29/pf/kardashian_kard_terminate...
My understanding is that 4 is a relatively sweet spot for allowing efficient consing/deconsing of the finger nodes. I became fascinated by fingertrees a few years ago and created several toy implementations. I recall that the size of the fingers did impact the performance of various operations though I no longer remember.

Sadly I do recall that the constant factors were prohibitively high which made finger trees rather unsuited as an every day list/array data structure for most applications. It would certainly simplify programming to have one sequential collection type that is adequately performant at everything.
… and bitrates are more of an issue for things like HD action movies. That old French movie from the 70s which hasn't been professionally retouched is probably going to be fine.
> According to your definition of "freedom", Microsoft Windows is just as Free as Linux. After all, Microsoft gives you the "source code" on the CD itself! All you have to do is start flipping bits here and there, and...

Wha?

> Wait, what's that? Editing compiler-generated assembly code is too hard for you? Well, that's clearly your problem, since you can't expect Microsoft to bend over backwards and write code for you the way you wanted it!

Umm. no. That's Microsoft bending over backwards NOT to give you the source code, as defined very clearly by the FSF and the OSD.

More importantly, in the case of Microsoft's proprietary software (they do actually have some open source stuff which isn't encumbered like this), it's literally a violation of their license agreement for you to edit that code yourself.

Am I through the looking glass or am I being trolled?

Free software means you can't restrict anyone from going ahead and making whatever changes they might want to to software, distributing it to the world, and potentially garnering mindshare in the process.
1. I started to cook to save cash on "healthy" food. "Healthy" and high in protein food tend to be expensive, and I was just starting to take my daily macros on fitness more seriously. After spending time on cooking, I learned to enjoy cooking, is like crafting food.

2. I don't usually plan my meals, but there are times I find out about a new recipe I want to try but have to wait till the weekend to buy the ingredients at the supermarket.

3. "Healthy" and high in protein meals or desserts. Or just something I feel like trying out, like Thai food.

4. I just try to reach my daily grams of protein per lbs of bodyweight intake, and try to keep my carbs moderate.

5.
Tip #1. Before starting to cook, plan out what to do first to save time. Start with the stuff you have to wait later on: e.g.: prepare and start boiling the chicken first, and while it's cooking, proceed to cut the veggies.

Tip #2. Start washing your dishes while are waiting for something to cook.

Tip #3. Cook in bulk to save time and money. I usually cook enough food for 2 or 3 days, prepare the extra portions in containers and leave them on the fridge.

Tip #4. Learn to taste your food and experiment, don't just follow the recipe. After cooking something new for the first time, taste it, learn to identify what is missing or if there is too much of anything.
I severely doubt anyone actually doing any of these things would have the self-awareness required to realize they're doing them and stop doing them.

I still think it was a funny and informative blog post though.
I consider myself a serious developer and I'm perfectly happy with Gnome 3. It's clean, simple and allows me to focus on what's really important -- my editor and terminal.

Having your own opinions is fine but please do not generalize.
Same - in fact, it was the very first exposure to computers I had (a Microbee) and I was hooked. I've recently been hacking away at a logo interpreter based on the manual for Apple Logo II.
And the only time I've lost a drive was due to a Magician firmware upgrade that was wrong. I now avoid it out of general fear.
Sorry, I meant to say full forward compatibility.
The key thing here is they promised people something, and failed to honour that promise.

This is extremely good for bitcoin, for tech and for the unaware consumer.

Bitcoin loses a company thats hurt it's reputation. Shedding dead weight.

Tech sees more evidence that traditional consumer protection mechanisms aren't afraid to act in their sector, so no one thinks they can get away with it.

Unaware consumers have less to fear.
Wouldn't the chance get higher and higher as the service expands? It seems as though there would be more existing fingerprints that might collide.
> You have to fork, it's the only way to make a new process.

I think he was presuming you already have all the processes you need, and this is just about getting them architected right.
Also consider international, same thing. Even streaming is not available in many countries. Even if you want to pay - you can't, while the pirated files are one click away.
Was jquery.com compromised?
So not entering read only mode after life end seams like a very dangerus bug that is not realy accepteble.

Sidenote:
Articles like this always scares the shit out of me I have a kingston ssd that has been in my main server for almost 3 years now.

The smart data seams to say that it is 100% fine but as it has been on for 24* 365*3 hours that seams unlikely.
It's the correct attitude. They are not responsible for you having the nouse to install a GTK Theme application like lxappearance and fixing how your Firefox looks.
Still, probably proportionally less layoffs in MSR than the rest of the company overall during these cuts. The insinuation was that Microsoft is shuttering Research entirely, which is very far from true.
That was my comment. :)
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The problem is that your revenue is capped at $8/mo:

http://www.netflixreview.com/netflix_plans.html

Netflix has already built out great infrastructure for this but clearly didn't find it profitable enough to focus on it. I'd be very hesitant assuming that you've seen a market which they haven't.
Well, it's not as if all the FISA judges are themselves appointed by a single judge, or anything. They're trying to meet us halfway. Let's be reasonable here.

/s
It also depends where you live. Every day I pass a Wendy's in Redwood City with a big sign advertising a $10.15 starting pay (which is still only $1.15 over CA minimum wage).
But how do you measure that it doesn't hurt your profit? Conversion rate may go up, but if those not buying because they felt lured with a lower price, through negative mouth-to-mouth advertising, make fewer new potential customers visit your site in a few months time, profit could eventually go down.
> Then why can't it offer a stable interface that lets me swap out e.g. udev with eudev, like I could before?

I'm not sure it can't.... To the extent it _doesn't_, I imagine it is not much of a priority, since eudev is a fork from udev, and is lacking the enhancements to udev the systemd project has been working on.