skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also part of why many older guitars sound better than newer ones. Back in the day all they had for spray-on finishes was nitrocellulose, which is nasty stuff and a pain to work with but dries quite thin. These days most lower end instruments are sprayed with some sort of poly or other heavier laquer.
I think people who are doing nothing right now, or have their own ad-hoc organization scheme using email will love Inbox. People who have a more disciplined system for calendar/todos/emails will not want to use the reminder/pinning features. But I still found it nicer than traditional Gmail for quick triaging.
Does CrashPlan+ have a mobile app to auto upload photos and such?
You have no problem. Many states are at-will employment, which means you can leave for any reason or no reason. If they have not paid you anything, then you own them nothing - employment is about the money, and until money changes hands, there's no obligation.

This is an extremely common occurrence. Folks take jobs all the time and never show up. My old boss at Intermec complained that 1/3 or more of the people he 'hired' never showed.
That video was extremely painful to watch because of the music.
Why would participating in a broken democratic system automatically imply you believe it isn't broken? It's all you can do to have even the tiniest amount of influence. Sure, your vote might not be worth much now, but that influence accumulates. It's literally the only thing you can do that has any impact at all, but you don't want to? Refusing to participate is not going to change anything, it's not going to fix the system.

As to your first point: "I don't vote, because not enough people vote for what I want" is a self-defeating argument. It's a dangerous argument, too, because it just reinforces the status quo even more. If you're unhappy with the current numbers, the very least you can do is make your tiny part of a percentage change.
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Do authors not have control over their blogspot theme? I though they used to.

Or if not, maybe more people need to be told not to use blogspot. Second article I've read in a week that was broken by this "improvement".
>The one thing the Valley works very well at is self-congratulation, especially among the wealthy.

Yup, this is why everything that comes out of the Y Combinator's mouth should be inherently suspect: they have an incentive in romanticizing Silicon Valley because they profit off of your drinking the kool-aid.
Yes, I'm voting. (Minnesota, 2nd district) I think voting is the bare minimum. The real important part is to get involved in primary races to help shape who the candidates will be. People are always bitching about the candidates, but don't participate in choosing them. Be politically active, not just on election day, but all year!
I am trying to determine if this can be used for video storage as well. The documentation does not make that clear but it does state "rules" on video uploads in terms of length, file format and size.
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Things like geo data, people, dresses can all be detected and used to suggest various products.
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Alan Alda has done a great job of bringing charisma and humor to science shows without dumbing anything down. The key is to find a comedian/actor/whatever who has a genuine interest in the material.
http://trinitycore.org

Great project, no documentation whatsoever..
I think the point is that cold weather imposes different trade-offs on a pure electric than it does on a conventional car. This is largely expressed in decreased range -- but then again, an IC engine will also be less efficient in Winnipeg than LA.
Only $0.99/print shipping, what a deal.

http://www.snapfish.com/snapfish/helppricing
Boring/right answer - the language other employees know and can support when you get hit by a bus?
That's all classical economics, but it assumes people spending money is the whole economy. These days, it isn't. We're a pimple on the spreadsheet of America.
Do they have a good way to stream videos that you upload? If so, I may just upload all of my movies and use it like a plex server.
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Nope, their mobile app is used as a file manager for your backups.

Crashplan has a desktop app that backs up your photos indefinitely though. It backups your external devices as well, been using them for years and I can't tell you how many times it's saved me.
Have the Nigerian 419 scams gotten more sophisticated?

"Your email must contain:
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- Your bank account details to receive the $300,000 prize."
It's how you use Twitter though. Many people forget about Lists. I have a list dedicated to News tweets, such as the BBC, and Reuters, and NY Times...things like that.

Then I have another list for Tech news, and put several different tech websites feeds on it. Then one just for tech journalists (where yes, sometimes you see off-subject tweets, but I _know_ that I may see that sometimes, but you can have a quick interaction on what they say.

I open up a multi-pane client like TweetBot or TweetDeck, then have different lists per pane. I can go through a lot of information in a short amount of time this way.
Yes, I will be voting. I live in south-east Michigan.

I will be voting because although my vote is statistically insignificant for the larger elections, it carries more weight for local elections.

To the people that say "Don't vote, it's a broken system", I say why not go an write in NOBODY. Do something, because nobody sees not voting as any kind of protest. It's lazy, and you'll never change anything at all by staying home.
Sorry to sabotage this thread, but I want to be a freelancer.

I have a lot of experience with ruby/rails(have maintained good gems and all that jazz) but I work for a major media company, currently in high scale apps, here in my country and I make about ~$30h/hour.

Does anybody that is in around ~$50/100 hourly rate want to get me aboard freelancing? I would gadly share some of my rate.

Cheers
Twitter can serve as a replacement for a subset of RSS functionality, but even allowing for Twitter to grow that subset, the biggest difference is architectural:

Tweets all run through twitter.com and your ability to retrieve the tweets you want or for the content owners to provide the information they wish depends on Twitter's continued willingness to provide the tools and/or API to do so and to allow you both to keep your accounts. Even assuming they will always want to facilitate this sort of thing and that neither you nor the content owners will do something to get kicked off Twitter, you can be sure that the tools and API will change relatively rapidly over the years ahead.

Meanwhile RSS is (usually) hosted on the content owner's server. The format has been stable for 15+ years at this point. Tools that worked for aggregating and dealing with RSS in 2000 still work today. And only your ISP could potentially stop you from retrieving the content you wish, when you want it, how you want to.
Because twitter is a big setup which is hold together by paste, glue and dirty caches? :o)
> I don't have to do any fancy interferometry or statistical inference to be aware of the cat

You do though, you're just not consciously aware of it.
One problem with Crashplan is that it seems to be all-or-nothing.

I've got it running on my desktop at home; I've got gigs and gigs of photos there. My macbook doesn't have enough free disk space to store all of them - and Crashplan doesn't let me store and sync just the 2014 photos.
one more way to lock in that recurring Prime revenue :)
Agree with Dave Winer on this:

> Amazon talks about ways of accessing photos, but does not include an API, or even RSS. Why?? What a waste.

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/529637391951495168

I have looked at so many photo services and nothing is providing the tools or sustainable business plan that I am looking for.
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This is not news, it's a story. In a story it's important to draw you in and take you on a journey. Facts don't do that on their own.
I got it from a repeated ignoring of the basic issue, and an attempt to redirect the conversation away from the topic. That's pretty close to denial.

And I'd have to disagree - anyone who is acting out in public has certainly got some mental problem, pretty much by definition. Whether its a persistent illness is between them and their doctor. But from the coffee shop's point of view, they gotta be dealt with, period.
Great question for such an important lock-in mechanism. Perhaps a 30-day grace period? No media release so far that I can find references the conditions to keep data beyond the free 5GB Cloud Drive limit.
There isn't any other employees that know any bit of coding. We're a small business
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That is why they have the different driving modes (normal, sport and insane).
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Agreed. Everyone here saying that nothing could have stopped Netflix from triumphing needs to go read the second article you mention. According to it, seeing Blockbuster's demise as inevitable is a fiction born of hindsight.

http://daindunston.com/blockbuster-the-customer-owns-your-pu...
"Even when you follow great people, you still have to wade through tweets that have little or nothing to do with news."

Kottke is not a great example of this. He has separate personal and professional accounts. His professional account is essentially just an RSS feed of his blog. Complaining about personal tweets junking up the personal account is silly in this case.

Account he should folllow: https://twitter.com/kottke
I think there's an unspoken rule on the internet: any piece of personal data will eventually be used for ad targeting.

The response rates for display ads are so abysmal that any edge can make a difference. CTRs (click-through rates) hover around 0.1%, so if you increased CTR by a slim 0.1%, you'd double the revenue!
They seem to have made the bug report private overnight.
I can blame them. I am ready and willing to blame them and hold them accountable.
> Until the baby boomers and older literally die off the whole thing has no purpose at all

This is just ridiculous. You know why the boomers dictate so much of what happens in the country? Because they actually go vote! They show up.
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I was just thinking that. "It's still flat design but now with these usability enhancing shadows, let's call it Material Design and this whole project a Quest!"

It's a drop shadow and I spent days figuring out how do to the way our design guy wanted it done in C and Assembler almost 30 years ago.
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The first thing that greeted me when I signed in (with my existing Prime membership) was an upload window titled "Drag photos and videos here".
This computer predicted the 1952 election so perfectly that nobody believed it
Another example of the scientific community's natural resistance to paradigm shifts, per Thomas Khun's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
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You are allowed to change your mind just make sure you are doing it for yourself and not looking through recruiters tinted glasses.
Small world, I was an editor at memepool. Good to see you're still around in the trenches here after the big delicious sale.
The closed form will become inaccurate at some point. However, there is a way to calculate Fibonacci accurately with O(log(n)) time (ignoring the time to multiply - otherwise O(M(n) log(n)) where M(n) is the time to multiply two numbers of n digits).
It's a bit misleading of a conclusion to make, because most of those changes likely aren't non-compatible changes.

For instance, maybe a chip goes out of manufacturing, and they can no longer get it supplied, but a successor product from the same supplier meets all the same requirements.

Perhaps a bracket goes out of manufacture, but an almost identical bracket is sourced from a different supplier.

This would qualify as a hardware modification, but is a non-breaking change.
Apparently not Americans - because we have no actual vote in how they're run. Congress doesn't either. So that leaves the Executive branch - which comes down to 1 (one) American.
"It is perfectly possible that the NSA really do need to damage human rights in order to fight terrorism"

This is the first sentence of your comment.

"the only answer the government have is to take away even more privacy"

Is in there too.

If the government doesn't have alternative ways readily available, then you are saying violating privacy is the only way to fight terrorism we have right now. This is demonstrably not true, since they do use a lot of better ways. There are many more ways to combat terrorism that they haven't even tried on any scale yet (at least publicly). The very premise that the NSA's actions are justified because the threat mandates it is flawed.
I want to see pressure to provide a better photo service. (API's, organizational tools, sharing, privacy controls,etc) All we are getting is a race to the bottom and worse services.
Whether space tourism is frivolous or not is question of personal taste and values.

But this opinion piece is definitely very frivolous indeed, in that it misses (by light years) the main argument against space tourism -- the amount of energy and resources needed (both in flight, and in on-ground support), is far greater than that of land-based travel, and will necessarily always be so (whatever improvements may be seen in terms of industrial efficiency, a gravitational well is still a gravitational well).

The article doesn't even mention carbon footprint, in fact. As if the author is unaware of the fact that even regular air travel is seen by many experts as an essentially unsustainable industry, in terms of carbon impact (on the scale that it exists, and in the unrestricted, no-penalties sense as we know it today).
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They are totally dissonant channels that have some overlap. Expecting Twitter to replace controlled curation is a recipe for noise. The value in RSS is some process or person is curating a defined set of data - the reliability of even organizational Twitter accounts doing that is such that doesn't work.

Further, the buy-in on using Twitter as a transmission medium hasn't really reached the saturation point that RSS did at its peak.

And finally, relying on a third-party - especially one with as dubious a history as Twitter - to maintain your data in foreseeable perpetuity is a bad plan in general. The benefit of RSS was that it was a standard, not a service itself.
There are 4 candidates running for each of the statewide positions, do none of them share your views? Have you seen this? http://www.lwvtexas.org/voters%20guide/2014gevg/gevg2014.pdf
is this a project by the people at Face.com? I know they were acquired by fb some time ago so it would be neat to know they are still working on related stuff post-acquisition
>A third of the population in the richest nation on earth lives in poverty.

It's not 1/3, and poverty is a relative term, but really the fraction doesn't matter.

"The Census Bureau today released data indicating that the overall poverty rate in 2013 was 14.5 percent – a decrease from 15.0 percent in 2012. This change was the first decrease since
2006."
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/14/PovertyAndIncomeEst/ib_poverty201...

The US poverty rate does not include the price of non-cash government benefits. The average cost per Medicaid enrollee, which all people at the poverty line qualify for by income, in all states, is $5,563. It doesn't include food assistance. It doesn't include housing subsidies. These vary, but are widely received.

>What kind of callous person could look around at all the suffering and think this system's working great?

What kind of callous person could think helping a person with more money in a country that provides them numerous benefits is better than helping a person with less money?

"Or do you not look around at all, holed up in a tacky mansion of your own?"
I have traveled the world many times over the past 20 years. The positive change I have seen world-wide is perhaps invisible to you because you choose to focus on actions which cause others to consider you to be helpful, instead of actions which are actually helpful.

My house may be slightly tacky.
Exactly. I work in publishing and I often wondered why established authors don't just self publish. The answer: not all authors are Tim Ferris. They love having a staff cater to them, market their books, and editorial help. They are not really entrepreneurs like Ferris. They don't want to do too much more than write or whatever else they do (many authors are celebrities in other fields and are busy doing that, like most chefs on the food network).
Error Correction Coding is hardly mundane and in modern communication systems far from trivial. There is a lot more to ECC than Reed-Solomon. Basically nothing in our digital world today would work very long without it. You think of it as mundane only because it just works.
Here's the source https://github.com/iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io/tree/master... although it's not terribly beautiful...
There are several JavaScript projects that aim to let you connect your own storage from a varity of locations. They are still pretty early on in development, though.

1. http://remotestorage.io/

2. http://cloud-rail.com/

3. https://github.com/diafygi/byoFS

Disclosure: I maintain byoFS.
The point is, if you don't verify ssl certificates, you might as well use http. Https with self signed certs provides you no security in any circumstances downloading public software.

Self-signed certificates and http connections are trivially intercepted and forged (ever used wifi in a public place?)

Signed certificates provide limited proof of identity true, but they can't be forged by jokers hijacking the wifi in a coffee shop.
Not Goldman Sachs specifically, but without financial companies in general, specialized companies could not grow or persist for very long.
In that case: python/flask, python/pylons, rust/iron, js/node, ...
Am I just being cynical when I think that all new free photo storage just means that automated image recognition software has gotten good enough that companies want to process all my images and target me better? Is this like gmail where they get to machine read all your emails or is this the type of cloud that is just storage?
All I want is cheap shipping.
I had the same experience and I hated it. Although, a friend sent a book to me from that list on my birthday but overall it is a disconcerting experience.
I wonder how much effort it would be to subject the images to some simple and reversible transform to foil that sort of thing. (e.g., extract every odd-numbered pixel to its own layer, rotate it by 180 degrees, and merge.)
Those are just trends, designers aren't trying to rewrite the rules with that. Besides that: I think any thoughtful (interaction) designers would cringe at the idea of a rulebook (at least, at the idea of a prescriptive rulebook such as this example).
Circle masks are part of Material Design, but I haven't seen anything with draggable Floating Action Buttons (prior to making this). Obviously they've had a draggable circle for the insecure lock screen for a while, but (to me) it never felt as good.

As I mentioned in the notes, Facebook Home was my main inspiration for this work. It's kind of a mash-up of that and Material...
Well it's called Remote Storage [1] but I guess we can't expect companies like Google, Apple, Amazon or DropBox to actually embrace that, isnt it?

[1] http://remotestorage.io/
It's a value add to make it feel better when you realize the Prime price is often the price + shipping.
I was laughing and giggling the whole time myself - I'm pretty sure I had a similar look on my face. In fact almost everyone else in the video had a similar goofy look at one point or another!

It's one thing to know that this will happen, it's another entirely to see it happen.
I love the idea. It could change the way we interact with computers.
I don't either. Although Prime is getting to the tipping point for me. Before I didn't order enough packages or watch enough tv for it to be worth it.
Using the right tone with customers
Any chance I can buy the whole book in that format?
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For me the "weird"/unusual/interesting thing is seeing the feathers bounce after hitting the ground.
Monospace fonts are fixed-width too and they don't look bad. The thing is that they're full-width.
If you use a Mac or an Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more
Dropbox would lose money on you if you used the whole TB. The whole business plan replies on people not using their whole quotas.
Can't space tourism be seen as an investment? Sure, the carbon footprint is huge, but the money spent on space tourism is going towards the space industry, which could result in cleaner sources of energy. (Imagine huge solar collectors beaming power down to surface collectors in the desert. Doesn't get much cleaner than that, after everything is manufactured and launched - unless I'm grossly underestimating the maintenance.)
Yeah, sure it's further along. But these kinds of planes fly at 100-200mph.

But mach4 is at least 1000mph or more (depending on altitude). So while the envelope of feasibility might be doable at 100mph or 200mph to go from 100mph->1000mph requires 100x the amount of power. Going from 200mph to 1000mph requires 25x the amount of power.

So here's the rub: not only are your power requirements going up but also your total energy requirements are going up. This is why the Concorde stopped flying. We're too cheap to go fast. Using energy at 100x the rate to go 10x as fast means that your total energy budget has to somehow miraculously go up 10x and 10x more batteries could easily keep a plane from flying.

As battery tech gets better we might find it's possible to do really useful stuff with electric planes. But until really major breakthroughs happen we won't see electric cargo jets or electric-to-launch-orbit. It's not nay-saying that will prevent this but basic physics.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/04/three-alternatives-ubuntu...

Copy looks promising.
If you're willing to pay you use a service like rsync.net, or if you're willing to do a bit of setup you can just use any old shared hosting or VPS service. Or owncloud for some sugar.
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Haha, nice! :) Thanks!
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There is no indication that SHA-2 is threatened in any practical way.

SHA-1 and SHA-2 are similar at an architectural level, in some of the same ways that two mid-1990s Feistel ciphers might be similar, and share building blocks, but they aren't the same hash function. They are much more different than, say, DES and 3DES.

SHA-2 remains the best practical choice for most systems today. The truncated variants (like SHA2-512/256) even break length extension exploits.
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No one is saying get rid of finance, just put it back in its cage and hit it with sticks when it gets too uppity.
Thanks! Regarding the copyright - would that be alright if I use parts of it on a project as long as I attribute the source to you?
just pointing out that you should check your spelling for the word "relevant" on your site
But the system still has to commit for the amount of allocated memory, which may deny memory allocations to the rest of the system.