skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that's historically what caused the first introduction of such a system, in London some centuries ago: residents complained there were too many hackney carriages driving around the streets, and wanted them limited to a fixed number. (They also wanted them better maintained and more safely driven, which led to additional rules.)
Yes, but how hard is Apple going to chase those certs?

Unless someone is doing something big or strategic to Apple (and random app piracy doesn't qualify, IMO), I just don't see it. Chasing "rogue" enterprise certs is all cost (time, effort, energy, risk of angering legitimate enterprise customers) for little to no benefit.
I think google's culture has become quite of a joke, and only the people inside the company are still not aware of it. "Do no evil" has been replaced by "pay no tax".

They've launched two succesful products in their entire history (search engine and gmail), the rest has been bought or only work because they're given away for free.

An from what i've heard, internal culture with meetings that explain what should people at google think to really be a "googler" is turning into an orwelian nightmare ("but it's for the general good" isn't an answer to limited personnal opinion).
No, you were being racist.
I agree with many of your points, but

> started running out of 64 GB long time ago.

I started running out of 140 characters a long time ago, twitter isn't the place for a novel.

>Plus it lacks motion processor that monitors my movements

You're selling this as positive for the iPhone?
Is Rust Postgres async?
We gave Parse a spin, a few times actually. Mostly just for hobby projects. It was proposed for a production build but the general consensus on our team was "externalize anything you want except the core product...because we can't afford the implications of vendor lock-in there".
> A phone just under 6"

This is the only reason why I am not buying this shovel of a phone.
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This. Servers are moving to SSL everywhere. Why not have client ssl certs generated when you first install a browser? No cookies, like you said, AND the servers get client authentication built in.
According to the app site, the product is in Beta and you're only "allowing" Mashable readers to use it. I'm not a Mashable reader, so punt. Also, how is this at version 2.0.3 already with no version history?
Sorry for the fairly off-topic rant, but this is something I had on my chest for quite a while.

I love how, in the discussions around the NSA, nobody brings up the fact that American tax money are also used to pay for it (not to mention other shady shit going on in the US, like IRS, generalised police corruption, ridiculous military spending, etc). Wake the fuck up, people; you get irate when company X or Y doesn't go over the top to protect their users' privacy against the NSA, but totally disregard the actual problem of mass surveillance (and all the other "anti-terrorism" crap, that's been proven to work by the way). Things don't happen in a vacuum, NSA and PRISM didn't just magically appear, so let's at least start by naming names (I'll start, check out this fucking asshole: http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/13/fbi-apple-google-encryption-in...).

(For an eventual "uh, but what do you do about it, talking is easy, derpa derp", my day job is building (a|yet another) zero knowledge email service.)
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Ugh, I'm confused by those area conversions. Edited to 1.33 km^2. I believe it sounds right and puts scale into perspective.
An Alpha one too...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tadpole-ALPHAbook-1-OpenVMS-Alpha-...

(Note: I'm not linked to that auction, and it's over. It just happened to be the best set of pictures I could readily find of one)
It's kind of weird, seeing the same cookie cutter template that every damn startup seems to be using, except it fits like a glove.

Using Vessyl as contrast, who gives a crap if my cup has a "unique yet subtle presence on the tabletop"? Does it keep my coffee hot? Great, then it's worth at least 5 dollars to me.

For sunglasses, design is paramount. It's a fashion statement first and foremost. Even without the "gimmick" the price wouldn't seem too outlandish, but at the same time you can immediately see how it would be useful in everyday use. And you do need a gimmick in a market controlled 70% by one single incumbent (Luxottica).

Come to think of it, the typical startup design is very much an Apple-centric cargo cult -- maybe how well it fits is somehow related to how Apple-like your startup is? (That's probably overthinking it a bit...)
The point that observer1101 is almost certainly trying to make is that "Apps run operating systems" in the sense that deploying an app oten entails creating a VM for the sole or partial purpose of hosting that app. The app dictates the OS, not vice versa any more. And observer1101 is right - that trend may have had a minor beginning in 1999, but it has grown very strong since. Azure or AWS is basically the business of running operating systems in VMs on demand for apps.
From TFA

> import doesn't play nicely with compositors; making effects like transparent windows not render properly in the screenshot. maim, like scrot, uses imlib2 which isn't inflicted with this problem.

> maim can actually take screenshots with your cursor included in them! It does this using the XFixes extension. I don't think there's any other screenshooters that do this.

> For those of you with multiple monitors, maim is aware of which pixels are visible or not and will make off-screen pixels that are in screenshots black and transparent. Import and scrot both mindlessly include off-screen pixel data in their screenshots which is very often just garbage.
No?

edit: Indeed it was down.
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=gmail%20down&src=typ...
What annoys me the most: They only include one year of data before.

So, assuming they would have shown US and California data for, say, 5 years before legalization, and during that time, there would have been a strong correlation between the two, in the numbers shown. And then a sudden split (decrease in correlation) in the two years following, it would have been much more convincing.
By default in Gnome.
On one hand, traditional regulation keeps small or part-time players out of the market, because regulatory overhead is too high.

I suppose it discourages some, but it's not like there aren't small or part-time players in property rental. There are a lot of them! Small-time landlords who own a few rental units are everywhere; I know two such people in my circle of friends who do that. You can either do it as a part-time job, or hire a management company for a fee to oversee the actual management. The difference is that they do it legally. They own apartments in buildings where it's legal to rent out the units, and they rent them out legally.
Another guy saying he still uses his:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8431951
Seems nice , but would be interesting to read more articles on :

>>When the tool is activated after a natural disaster

1)What all disasters count as natural disaster ?

>>and if you’re in the affected area,

2)how does FB get data on radius of affected regions all over the world?Or how is affected region measured for each type of disaster

>> you’ll receive a Facebook notification asking if you’re safe.

3)Priorities in times of disaster and connectivity questions .Lets say connectivity is disrupted and even if the person is safe ,b/c he/she did not respond to notification would it mark that person as unsafe or unknown ?
> Lets hope the number is 5x the current VM limits.

Why, let's open they are unlimited. :)
>The Airbnb landlord had multiple apartments to rent. So they are the same old taxi drivers and motel owners. We are just paying less because it's illegal.

I've never been to San Francisco but AIUI Uber's main innovation in its original market was in being a taxi service that would actually come if you booked them. This has come up multiple times, from multiple people; it's like Google not having customer service or Amazon having no non assholes in management, except maybe in AWS.
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The minority is publically listed, for sure, but and ltd or llc I would expect is fairly bog-standard.
"If they are so smart and creative, why do they need Google?"

Because not everybody wants to build a company.

I made my own company,in the end I become greatly successful, but it took a lot of work, my savings, risks, people around(friends and family), telling me I was crazy, that I should be working for the man because it was safe.

It is not for everybody. I have people working for me that are smarter and more creative than me, but they don't want to be leaders, or do public speaking, or go out of the lab, talk to the customer, or making risks.

If you make a company, or if you work for yourself, you need to do all those things and more in a competent way.
> maim has no --exec or naming features. This is because maim follows the unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well". These features are things that should be handled by the shell.

That seems to run counter to

> Allows you to take a screenshot of your desktop and save it in any format.

which would suggest maim only take 32b (RGBA) PNG (which incidentally is what OSX's integrated screenshotting does — using the keyboard/UI anyway, the CLI tool can generate multiple formats)
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I do not see how compact matters much here. As far as I understand, the basic reaction used is the same, so that compact design will produce the same number of neutrons per Watt produced as a large one.

Wouldn't the effect of its smaller mass be that the container will have to be replaced more often, more or less in the ratio of the masses of the machines?
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Well let us be honest, if your renting out that often your not a private homeowner, you are the landlord. Which type of landlord you are depends on your rental frequency and as such which laws apply. I don't know the threshold, that is up to local regulation. So if you rent once a month you fall under typical renter regulations, if your weekly or daily rentals then your a hotel/motel?

In the end this boils down to a rights issue. We have lost our rights. The feds and the courts have adopted this twisted version of rights where they separate us from our property where convenient. When they cannot charge us they charge our property (see nsa/civil forfeiture) with a crime and seize it otherwise they charge the person or worse the customer. Its all about skirting the intent of the Constitution. Property tax laws insure no one truly owns the land besides the government, we effectively are all just renters.

So it comes down to, who has ultimate authority of a piece of land or improvements on it. Currently that has become government.
Considering the Xiaomi Mi Pad 64GB costs only $35 more[] than the 16GB version, I doubt those are OEM prices.

[] http://www.xiaomishop.com/31-xiaomi-mipad
Not every app 'clicks' instantly with users. Sending them directly to itunes might not be the best way to convert them. Have you tried sending folks to a landing page first (so can prime them on the idea, show them a cool video, etc)?

The other advantage of this method is that once users are on your site (instead of the itunes store), you can get better analytics and behavior tracking (to understand when/why/where users are exiting the conversion funnel). Additionally, once your landing page is setup you can run more traditional marketing campaigns (adwords etc) to that site, and try all kinds of different ways to pitch the product to the potential users.

Don't give up man, marketing isn't easy.
That's true as far as it goes, but it's not the problem I was actually thinking of.

The problem is related to how you get rid of the post-fusion products. ITER is designed with divertor plates in the floor to scoop off the fusion ash and shunt them outside the core. My understanding is that these plates have to be a) solid, and b) capable of withstanding contact with absurdly high temperature plasma. There are some candidate materials which are hypothesised to be able to stand up to temperatures somewhere near what's required, but to my knowledge (which admittedly might be out of date) nothing's actually known to be suitable.

The reason I don't think the neutron absorption issue is such a problem here or on Polywell is because with a smaller reactor, replacing the vessel when it stops working is a far less terrifying prospect, even if you have to do so every few months. And even this is far less insane than some of the proposals for how you might do commercial laser fusion. That's just bananas.

Beyond that, you actually want some fast neutrons from the reaction to give you a tritium source.
But you explained it pretty well in three sentences! Doesn't seem that hard to explain. People cope with SD cards in PCs and laptops and they are subject to the same restrictions / problems, and everyone appears to cope with them.

Heck, even USB sticks can be removed whilst they are in the middle of writing (and I've seen people do it), and the OS will typically warn you. We haven't seen the removal of USB ports from machines with the same defence (although some PC manufacturers like to put clusters of USB ports all together so you can't actually plug in two USB sticks next to each other...)
You can do the latter with Wine. Unfortunately, there's no "Line" equivalent on Windows.
I agree with you on the treatment of Ireland, and the subsequent criticism of the country over corporate tax issues, often implying that the country was implicit in this, was rubbing salt in the wounds. Those tax structures were in place long before the crisis.

I'm torn on whether Iceland's approach was better however (for them), time will tell.
That's a much better link.

Even though Breast Cancer Campaign receive funding from Roche they place the blame pretty squarely on Roche for unrealistic pricing.

Of course NICE rejected this medication - one of the functions of NICE is to drive costs of medication down. There was, and still is, a problem where drug companies make drugs that offer a few months of extra life and who then fund patient activist groups to advocate for those drugs to be prescribed. (This drug provides a bit less than six months of extra life so it's pretty good. Other drugs were about as expensive and it wasn't clear whether they offered a week or so extra life, or none.)

The drug is still available through the cancer drugs fund. And even if the price dropped to a point that NICE would recommend it it would still be so expensive that it would be available through specialist commissioning.

http://donate.breastcancercampaign.org/document.doc?id=82
> Arguably, what we need is a corporate AMT and a lower top tax bracket.

AMT is a farce created by people who don't understand math. Here's the simplest example: Suppose you have a company with a billion dollars in revenue and a billion dollars in expenses. It has no profit. It will pay no taxes. AMT will only cause it to fold because expenses + taxes now exceeds revenue. The same will be true of any company with net profit less than the minimum tax rate.

The same applies to personal income AMT, the only reason it hasn't imploded in on itself in the same way is that rich individuals typically have a higher percentage of "disposable income" than business entities, so instead the AMT "only" makes rich people donate less money to charity and other causes we considered sufficiently worthy to make tax deductible until the AMT decided to put them back on the same footing as yachts and caviar.
The sorts of disturbances produced by cosmic ray particles are too small to be detectable by a capacitive touchscreen; if they were sensitive enough, it wouldn't function so well as a touchscreen - imagine suddenly occurring, mysterious ghost touches.

(If they were sensitive enough the hardware would probably filter these out anyway.)
I don't know, if the 20% time is part of Google's core principles, then claiming that 20% time will / should trump deadlines.
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Would you then argue that if a specific racial group were statistically much more likely to offer poor taxi service in a particular country, this fact should not be disseminated as it would constitute racism? Or do you consider it racism because you believe he was making an unfounded generalisation, implying that all middle-eastern taxi drivers were unreliable when in fact he only had a sample size of one?
As far as routine: When I was serious about calorie counting I carried a small notepad (about the size of an index card) and pen in my back pocket at all times. I'd jot down every single thing I ate, right when I ate it (or else I'd forget).

When I'd get home for the day, after I had my last meal I'd pull out my notepad, go to the tracker and tediously enter everything. Just once a day. This worked for me because I snacked a lot, and pulling out the laptop/phone for every single snack just seemed ridiculous. But the notepad was easy and nobody seemed to notice.
Nope, you can tag yourself "anonymous" but they still want you to register with real data which I don't trust them to have.
Nah, I think it's neither age nor coffee. As much as I love what Google is doing, I get this distinct impression that they're starting to get infected with bullshit language (which usually leads to bullshit thinking). The presentation is full of "wooden language". It's like it was made for some corporate managers or something.

And don't get me started on pictrues in the presentation. It really feels like clip-arts all over again. I just hope they don't add them to Google Docs.
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Works great in Asia, Thailand - No problems so far.
I wear a 30 waist and fairly tight pants and I have no problem fitting the 6 plus in my front pocket.
Could somebody please translate this using layman's terms?
Wow! I did not expect this. It's fantastic to see that people are actually interested in this project, so here comes the story of Rustful:

It all began at the beginning 2014. I had a university project where I should build some kind of website with a database and I wanted to build it in Rust. The problem what that there was no good frameworks out there and those who existed did not compile, so I decided to roll my own. I would just need the basic routing and request handling, so it wasn't hard. I played with some words and came up with the name Rustful (combination of Rust and RESTful, but you did probably guess that) and hated it, but my friends told me that it was a great name and I thought that, well, it's silly enough to actually work. It grew on me over time.

Anyway, time passed and I finished my project. I thought that I could keep developing Rustful and use it for my own website and so on. I thought that I should keep it small and simple and "out of the way", because I do personally get annoyed by things that tries to control my work flow too much. There is no "The Rustful Way (tm)" to do things and it shouldn't be.

Time kept passing, as usual, and other frameworks started to pop up and gain followers and users. Some, like Iron, had a whole team behind them and it became hard to keep up and, at the same time, complete my studies. This eventually lead to me putting the project on ice during the summer.

Fast forwards to this morning. I get a mail about someone asking what the difference between Iron and Rustful is and I think "why do people still keep linking to this thing?" and then I see the torrent of stars on Github. This is when I create my HN account to write this.

Now I'm thinking: "Is it time to revive Rustful?"
Didn't get much attention when I posted it last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8459192
I hope not! All that rubbish we put in RAM doesn't need permanently storing! That's why the distinction exists, plus writing to non-volatile permanent storage systems is slower. Much slower.
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b0b_d0e is right. You can read the whole story in my main comment, but in short: There were no good alternatives and I needed it.
I beleive public libraries that support kindle use a system like this with books.
>Flaunting the law and making a large set of people make light of the rule of law is a bad thing, and nobody should celebrate the savings from this.

This assumes the law is in some way just in the first place. Many here would for instance argue that marihuana-prohibition laws are unjust, and that ignoring and bringing ridicule to such laws is a good thing. The same applies to laws prohibiting gay marriage, and many others.

Acting morally is a good thing, but what's legal isn't necessarily what's moral.
I thought it was generally accepted now that the pyramids weren't built by slaves.
That might make sense for things like "Freedom to a smoke free school", which should be just as true for cannabis as tobacco, but when somebody can't use cannabis in their own home it's hard to frame it like this.
I try not to ask for raises without some evidence of my worth/other-options. The easiest way to do that is follow the path you're already on and just line up another job. Get a firm offer, tell the new firm you need to a few weeks to think about it. Take the offer to your current employer and be blunt: This is what I'm worth and I'm leaving unless you feel the same way. Allow them to think about it and make a counter-offer. If they say "we can't afford...blah blah blah..." then walk away and into your new life.

You don't owe them anything...but it's courteous to give them the opportunity to counter-offer.
Well, it's using imlib2, so support for multiple formats comes "for free". There's no point in artificially restricting functionality if the code complexity is there anyway.
Nah, I never looked at it. :)
Well, either the corporation is a separate legal person from its shareholders, in which case it should pay its taxes like everyone else, or it's not, in which case things like limited liability and the corporate veil have no foundation. Can't have it both ways. (Or shouldn't, anyway.)
Guess you'll just have to live with the fact that you spent half a coffee on supporting an independent developer to create something you use every day. You monster.
Well, there's still Couchsurfing and Zimride/Craigslist. My experience as a consumer and provider on these services has been that people are genuinely sharing what they have. Of course, it's not as polished an experience.
Given how there's a huge trade going on in CO2 emission rights (at least in Europe), that's already a thing. Less CO2 emissions (catching them, filtering, etc) means they can sell off their CO2 emission rights to other companies. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emission_trading )
Interesting how on slide 15 when describing characteristics of smart creatives, out of technical knowledge, business expertise and creativity it is business expertise that is associated with needing brain power.
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Amrc also supports display of the sidebar. Swipe from right to left and there it is, 4th item under the Subreddit section.
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Why? That slave labour was used to build pyramids is a popular but unfounded belief. There is evidence suggesting that some pyramids were built by well-paid government contractors.

Also apparently American-type slavery was a historical abberation. A typical slave in the past was not unlike a salaried employee today. He was well-treated, earned good money for his services and was able to free himself after accumulating enough of it, which is not unlike the FU money many a startup founder wants to have.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_t...

[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/Stuff/manumission.pdf