skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stability of this appears questionable. Anything at high speed looks dangerous - for example: tight cornering, and hard breaking. At $1000 I'm wondering why I'd be compelled to purchase a less versatile bike (than say, a Kona cross country bike) at a higher price with the promise of increased risk of an accident. The other main problem I have with this bike is the wheel size. Obviously this part is critical to the design, but does it not contribute to a bumpier ride? I like being able to ride over cobblestone without getting shaken down for my lunch money. Also being able to ride up onto curbs is something I probably take for granted.

I think the design is pretty cool, and the reduced size of the bike (it's main selling point I'm sure) could very useful in certain situations - but personally I don't see it as enough of an improvement on my current bike (or most bikes in the same price range) to justify the purchase.
That's the way of OS releases these days. OS X isn't much different.
I get it that hipsters attract a lot of hate, but a tricycle that you can only pedal standing up is a rather cruel punishment.
The only question that rings to me anymore about these stories: What can I do?

What code can I write? What broker can I call? What form can I sign? How can I register my civic will so as to undo this blight?

For me, this is the most embarrassing thing about being a United States citizen.
A hero slider with gigantic images, where by the time the image loads, it's ready to scroll to the next blank gray area while another gigantic image loads. No text at all. Ouch what a horrible website. And, it's not a half-bike, it's a tricycle... for adults, apparently.
What does it do when there's 10k items? Is there a search or are you scrolling through all of them to find what you want? Is each expansion a network request to get the fields of the child?

I've been thinking a lot about how to solve this and I don't really have any answers. Curious if you're doing something different.
The average consumer isn't who they are trying to convince, it's the security conscious who take measures to protect their privacy. They are the people who need to be tricked into thinking the iphone's passkey is bulletproof.
As we know from 'Operation Valkyrie', high-level officials in the Nazi party wanted to surrender to the allies days after the Normandy landing. The problem is they were not high-level enough, and out-numbered.

And as we can all agree, the emperor played at least as central a role to the Japanese leadership's legitimacy as the Fuhrer did to his.

What the atomic bombs did was made the emperor himself call on his people to surrender. This removed the ability for more hawkish parts of the Japanese leadership to continue a resistance effort, which some surely would have pursued.

Given the sprawling nature of Japanese positions, its deep cultural divides even between army/navy, its hard to know exactly who could authorize a peace treaty and if all other factions would listen to him.
Indeed! That's why the latest release version of Guile has a compressed source that takes only 7.2 MB (gzipped).
It is kind of analogous to the segway ;)
They don't need money; they already get millions (maybe billions?) from American taxes.
There are hundreds of thousands of voters participating on /r/all content. Your vote isn't going to matter whatsoever except in the critical time between when something is first submitted and when it falls off of the new submissions page (and rising page, and controversial page).

A ten minute conversation with the average voter will repel you from the idea that eveyone should want to listen to what 51% of most people would upvote, or should dislike what 51% of people would downvote. But your frontpage will be filled with the former, and you'll never be able to find the gems in the latter without serious time investment.

Upvote isn't enough. Hence, moderation.
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In favor of Reddit managing the ledger centrally? That doesn't allow for the public transparency that they would like, and it would probably be much harder legally (they would be stuck doing a bunch of KYC/AML stuff, which doesn't really make sense for a company like Reddit to need to deal with).
Kickstarter Goal: $80,000, funding hit: $81,769.

1 $7,000 pledge with a "trip to meet the team" reward.

Hmmmm..
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> Smartphone communication is “going to be the preferred method of the pedophile and the criminal. We are going to lose a lot of investigative opportunities.”

Wow, the think of the children lines are so overused, I wonder why they aren't obnoxious for regular folks. And I'm a father of a 4-year old and I can really understand the natural urge to protect children from pedophiles, but this is becoming ridiculous, plus as a father I also don't want my child to grow up in a world in which he has no privacy rights. If a device for reading one's mind would be invented, it would instantly be used by government agencies, because investigative opportunities and if law enforcement could do that, than so could criminals and oligarchs - yet our laptops and phones are an extension of our mind and we really aren't far from such a dystopian future.

These people act as if this technology existed since the dawn of men. What on earth did people do before being able to snoop on our digital footprint? And is there any evidence that these investigative opportunities are lowering criminality or are we talking hypothetically?
Is running the same OS across all device factors not a big enough accomplishment?

Develop a single application, that relies on the same API set and runs across,

PC, Phone, XBOX, Micro...
aka
Desktop, Mobile, TV, Everything Else...

I would say that's pretty impressive if they pull it off, considering how many customers and scenarios that will span.

[1] http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/09/30/universal-w...
Hopefully this will also include the re-introduction of the "hotdog stand" color scheme.
"decreased" risk of an accident?
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Bitcoin-Indexing the world's valuable information
Just watching these being ridden makes my lower back feel sore.

Also, with the single, vertical handle-bar... that seems weird. How easy is it to drive with one hand?Why not just have an optional seat post.
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Is it true? I have been told (by an ecologist) that it can use up nutrients and overwhelm a stream, killing a lot of the original inhabitants. Apparently its "invasive behavior" is an interesting response to a lack of nutrients – it undergoes explosive growth in an effort to search for nutrients. I can see where that might be an undesirable run-away process.
German native speaker here. They don't really sound that similar.
Hope os disk space usage will become sensible and winsxs is fixed or gone.
Your vote isn't supposed to matter, not any more than anyone else's vote. That's the entire premise of democracy, in fact, a fact that's completely and utterly ruined by the arbitrary nature of moderation.

The idea that you'd ever go to reddit.com or reddit.com/r/foo and see nothing but gems is a pipe dream. You're asking other people to do your work for you. You are the one who's supposed to contribute your up/downvote.
If you fill out a LIR application for ARIN or RIPE you're probably going to get repurposed AFRINIC or APNIC IPv4 IPs (anywhere from 20 /25's to a /22 to a /16 ). Globally Ipv4 is pretty much exhausted (no large blocks) but some regions have more and there's a black/grey market for IPs that all the large hosts are part of.
> Access is great as a personal, single-user database, but how much software has been written to expand it past that limitation in small businesses?

There were (and in all probability still are) many multi-user Access projects in use by small businesses.

> I don't entirely disagree with your comment, but I do think there's room and demand in the market for something like AirTable.

So you don't entirely disagree with a bunch of people who have failed to find this imaginary demand, but you think the demand is there? There is demand for business applications for verticals, and for general ERP functions like timesheets and payroll. The demand for an Access-like or "better spreadsheet" product is all of the "Oh yeah, it sounds cool" variety that never results in sales.
Such innovation?
This is a really interesting idea. I wonder if there were a way to track per-reddit karma, and only allow redditors to vote in a certain subreddit once their karma reaches a threshold or account age. (Just like HN, but per-subreddit.)
What url do you have for the bad images?

A good image url is: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/1280_720/images/live/p0/2...
For the shortest commutes this design could be a winner. Greater range than the Razor scooters, but smaller than a bike.

At least in the Pacific Northwest, add fenders, and urban buyers will appear.
Just today I had to send a reminder for payment for the first time. The rules/guidelines presented here would have been a real time saver.

But I'm missing some steps here. Rather than immediately urging payment start friendly and become more strict after multiple messages. From now on I plan to:

1) Remind friendly over phone (informal)

2) Send formal reminder some time after

3) Send payment reminder with listed consequences.

4) Send final warning

All the while logging each step in case things don't work out.
Your point, as I understood it, was that jailing children for children pornography is an exception from normal routine because US has strange views on sex. My point is that US views on privacy ("nothing to hide") are also strange (relative to my viewpoint), so that will also be an "exception", and you shouldn't be surprised when these strange views will be applied in the courtroom.
Why in god's name would you take these as references when discussing generics?
Personally, the biggest improvement to Windows for me would be the ability to install the same copy of the OS multiple times, personally, for a reasonable price. I have a laptop, desktop, and I'd also love to run a couple of virtual machines as well. I think having multiple personal uses is pretty common, and they need to change their licensing to be more flexible for that type of environment, without needing a separate license for each installation...
A very good point. Local police will likely be able to access the device but only after calling up the chain. Previous versions of iOS and other smartphones had forensics kits that made it trivial for local law enforcement to grab data out of memory (via DMA/firewire for example) or by device management services. I expect those kits to continue working for devices that have not been powered off.
"the remedy is not providing opportunities to less qualified people"

You keep saying this like it is a fact or that anyone is arguing for this. It is a complete fallacy.
It's not hard to set up a Tor relay. However, to run a good relay, you need a stable internet connection with at least 20KByte/s of symmetric bandwidth. I think that you also need ports to be forwarded (manually, or with uPnP/PMP) in order to run a relay. It's not likely that you'll get stability or port forwarding by piggy-backing on some business' wifi. What's more, I suspect that the Tor community would frown upon this sort of activity.
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It's in the intent. I don't think anyone is denying that Apple and Google are doing this to make it harder for police to search through user files. They could have implemented this at any point since the inception of AES, and are doing it now because of the backlash against PRISM. They want to demonstrate to users that they care more about them as individuals than they do about their role in a democratic society.

Notice also that your comment, and others respondents to me in this thread, are not disputing my actual point, i.e., that bundling crypto features in products is meant to put individuals above the reach of the democratic legal system.
That could have been wyn-wyn.
You are wrong. Wealth has nothing whatsoever to do with behaving as a civilized member of society. Not one bit. I don't know about you but I have travelled a bunch and feel pretty comfortable saying that we have huge cultural holes others do not. I love my country enough to attempt to be honest about who we are and who we are not.

Katrina vs. Japan Tsunami
Exactly. The new Start menu looks like something you'd prefer to be blocked by an ad blocker (and I don't even use ad blockers in my browsers!) than like something you'd like to see every time you try to start an application.

The reason "start screen" was annoying compared to the "start menu" was that the "screen" removed everything you worked at up to that point. They managed to do nearly the same in the demo screens of the new "start menu." Talented.
>'Why would anyone subject themselves to this torture?'

It wasn't at Apple or anything approaching it, but I had years of similar treatment - expectations of 24/7 availability, continuous last minute, personal service to executives and never-ending crunch time.

I didn't have kids or a mortgage to worry about and I had enough in the bank that I could probably have spent a year or more unemployed without much concern for money.

For me, it was several things.

* Pride in being dependable and capable of delivering on whatever was asked of me.

* A not entirely conscious expectation that I would eventually be rewarded for such sacrifice.

* Genuine enjoyment of much of the work I was doing.

Needless to say, my outlook has changed a bit in the years since, but looking back, I don’t think it was having a child or any other responsibility that did it.

More than anything it’s probably the simple realization that deriving enjoyment from something doesn't negate its cost. Moderation is straightforward for things which are easy to categorize. The difficulty in categorizing ‘enjoyable work’ is implicit.

I think that saying to the effect of ‘find a job you love and never work a day in your life’ is only talking about a certain part of your mind. Your body and all the unconscious and unobvious bits that make up your life are not immune to wear and tear by virtue of your positive perception.

Next would be understanding the diminishing returns and potential negatives of hard work. In short, if you’re going to work hard for someone else, aim high, help that person succeed and see that their success is tied to yours. Being too valuable to someone with low aspirations is career poison.
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Hetzner if you plan on using it fairly regularly: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

Rackspace Cloud for relatively cheap compute once in a blue moon
Four charged with stealing Army helicopter training software
Set dork level to stun.
After considering this and other comments saying the same I would tend to agree. There could certainly be a PR angle to the whole thing.
I advise those that get misty eyed over Hiroshima and Nagasaki to look into Unit 731: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
NT 3.1 made sense because it was a compliment to Windows 3.x.

Windows 2000 kind of makes sense too, since we had Windows 95 and 98. Or at least 2000 would have made sense if ME didn't exist.

I always thought XP was an odd name though, but 10 is definitely the worst thus far because, rightly or wrongly, people have certain expectations with version numbering and Windows 10 break that (just look at how damning people were towards KDE because they had high exceptions from version 4.0 despite developers repeatedly warning users that it was still a beta and that the version number wasn't a statement about KDE's stability)
But this isn't just about the FBI. It's about all of law enforcement. Sure, the FBI may be practiced enough to hide the facts of discovery, but will every law enforcement agency in the US be as adept. If Apple is lying, or law enforcement finds a way to circumvent the encryption, it will most likely leak at some point, an leaks are becoming more and more common, especially with highly visible targets like Apple and Google (both blackhats and white hats are itching to show up the tech giants).
First case of Ebola diagnosed in the US
Really you need to read a bit of everything. Each news source will have its bias in certain topics, so you can't really stick to one.
> It's extremely difficult to implement cryptography correctly

The smartest CS undergrad at any vaguely reputable school could probably do this correctly. It shouldn't be a problem at all for one of the biggest companies in America if they actually care.

> then cryptography != security != privacy

Which is a more interesting point and assuming the left side was taken care of we could rapidly approach the right side by doing things like providing more granular permissions to applications.
Actually, no, that was just a prediction. I am making an assumption - and maybe not a fair one - that because Google mines user data on the web that they also mine user data on the phone.

Skepticism seems warranted. With Apple, I try to be skeptical, but with Google, I always assume that I am the product until they demonstrate otherwise.
I threw one together for seven that almost works for eight as well over at http://www.h3m3.com/hot-dog-stand/HotDogStand.themepack?attr... . Hopefully, it should work for ten too.
Mostly because HN doesn't have a /showerthoughts
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My daughter has something like this. We call it the big wheel.
They are not added yet, but location tagging is on our list of features that we want to see in Moo.do.
I've always wondered how folks handle the Parcelable[1] interface with libraries like this. If you have a realm object that you want to have in memory between activity destroy/create how do you handle this? For instance if I rotate the screen the activity is destroyed and recreated for the new orientation. As I understand it the Parcelable interface and Bundle[2] is the way to handle this but how can you do this if you're using third party classes/objects?

Thanks!

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Parcelable...
[2]: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecy...
Read above. We are discussing a hypothetical system that provides a PayPal-like guarantees layer on top of bitcoin. As you point out, bitcoin transactions are always irreversible. That's what could make it more expensive in my view. The service would always be reimbursing buyers involved in failed transactions at its own expense.
AWS. (obviously)

For an instance you run only rarely the somewhat higher cost of EC2 instances compared to other providers should be fairly irrelevant. You'll find options from about 30 to 80 cents an hour.
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Considering one of Apple's core axioms is "no comment", entirely sensible & expected that they close that venue for anyone, however influential, to compel Apple to say anything they don't specifically intend to.
I don't think sex and privacy come anywhere near each other, in terms of deviation from the global norm. The US doesn't have any particularly deviant view on privacy from the rest of the world, unlike sex.
If it isn't a crime then they aren't criminals.
This looks like a nice gig to have too, running an app-store for a (literally) captive market of over a million people:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-14/the-apple-of...
But they're wrong. The United States is, whether you like it or not, a democracy. Voters can be influenced, but they still decide the outcome. Everything backends to them.

If you disagree with that, there are legal avenues. This is an example of an extralegal avenue of political change.
Are you using ghostery? I was seeing something similar until I allowed Brightcove to load through ghostery
Depends on the value of "occasional", but did you try asking your friends?

I've seen that being done around here, since the hardware you're describing really is pretty close to a beefy desktop/home server which usually spend their lives idly spinning their fans.
I know some people don't think hosting a website on S3 is a good idea. I'm going with it as it allows me to iterate my website faster. Since I'm trying use ELB to load balance, I have an AMI with my API code on it. If the website were on the AMI, then I'd have to spend time creating a new AMI when the website changes. That takes way more time then pushing the code to an S3 bucket.

My only issue with the S3 hosting is figuring out how to get the googlebot to crawl my website.
Operating systems are feature-complete. There's nothing more to add.

So instead they're bundling services into the OS and calling it a feature. Expect this trend to continue.
Don't worry dude it's probably not loaded.

cue cries of "every gun is always loaded"
100% agree. it's a break through not because of the problem it's trying to solve, but the approach.
Most people go to reddit to hear about news or see what's popular, not to sift through new submissions for gems. If reddit cared only about democracy, it would solve the problem of an incredible submission being buried by a measly five to ten downvotes in its first twenty minutes regardless of how many people would have liked it overall. Personally, I have neither the time nor the incentive to try to influence groupthink. (I was very careful in my choice of "groupthink." A democratized frontpage that hundreds of thousands of people influence is almost equivalent to literal groupthink. And that's not terrible in and of itself, but if you're going to argue that mods should be stripped of their tools, then it becomes quite the dilemma.)

HN, on the other hand, seems much truer to the overall thrust of your argument, because there are no downvotes for submissions, and only two upvotes are needed for a story to reach the first or second page of HN. But HN only works because there are exceptionally smart and prudent moderators who are constantly curating the singular frontpage.
That's a funny quip, but a moment's reflection reminds me how shockingly incredible that is. The obsessive need to be backwards compatible combined with the pathological need to change (and by hopeful extension improve) must take a simply astonishing amount of manpower and ingenuity. I mean, usually the two seem mutually exclusive. I have no idea if it's worth it, but it's definitely an awe-inspiring machine.

Getting Windows to function across so many platforms can only cubicly raise the difficulty of maintaining compatibility. If that's not the yawning abyss of a long-term tech support hell, I don't know what is.
X-Tag author here.

A big part of their switch seems to be a result of interpersonal issues with the X-Tag creators. After I left on less-than-good-terms with a handful of folks at Mozilla, they decided to ditch a library that makes components small, modular, and DRY, for what appears to be spite. The new Brick code base is over 2x heavier (despite being billed as a "lightening" move), each component is 40-60% larger (with a ton of repetition and use of X-Tag code), and the browser compat range has been reduced greatly.

They never reached out to the X-Tag team before posting this - it contains glaring inaccuracies and negative sentiment toward X-Tag.

I'm deeply disappointed by their poor open source behavior, and general lack of courtesy.
The first questions that came to mind were: a) how did this person become exposed to Ebola and b) how did they end up in Dallas, Texas?
That's an M1911. They're designed to be carried in condition one, which means that the hammer is cocked and the manual safety is engaged, otherwise known as "cocked and locked."

His trigger discipline is still inexcusable.
Microsoft was always the continuity OS company. The fact that they need a concerted effort to get closer to what Apple has maintained is ridiculous. That they had separate and incompatible desktop, gaming, tablet and phone OSes is a monstrous error that puts them behind, again, for years.
Actually, Vista was 6.0, 7 was 6.1, 8 was 6.2, and 8.1 was 6.3.