skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of it is that the most of the Walmart employees probably couldn't afford a prolonged strike. The company would hire scabs and wait them out. And the news would portray those people as being "entitled" and "whiny". In America, it's seen as if businesses are allowed to do everything they want, and if you don't like it, then you should quit. Even if what the business is doing is illegal.
When I did RC planes, not even automated drones, the common repeated expression was, "spectators are almost always a bad idea."

Edit: which makes for a lonely hobby.
I know Microsoft apparently has changed, but just to play devil's advocate:

[x] embrace

[x] extend

[ ] extinguish
Beyond: Our Future in Space [excerpt]
1) You have to be careful with your definition of "local". The major reason that housing prices are so high is that many more people would like to be SF locals than currently can be.

2) Buying an investment home in SF is basically a bet that the authorities will continue to keep housing supply growing much slower than demand, causing prices to rise. Speculation just causes current prices to better match expected future prices.
Not if the safety device is reusable.
The direct link isn't end-user friendly: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi...

Consider a better integration with the download button/page.
Sounds like they should have been developing for PC instead of mobile. The average mobile user plays exploitative "freemium" garbage to kill time in lines. How can you expect them to appreciate the art behind it?

Meanwhile, "retro"-style games are doing gangbusters on Steam, selling to people that actually appreciate those styles of art, music, and game design.
Samsung and Arduino = IoT
Hi, if you could email me at sneakeracc@gmail.com. I have a few questions.
20 Reasons Good Design [Really] Matters to Your Business
The accompanying article by the developers has a really good explanation of how they pulled this off and font hacking in general. And if one was so inclined, it outlines all the steps necessary to add more buzzwords to the font.

http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

Here's the git if you want to play around with it:

https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans
Pixel art games nowadays all look more or less the same. Actual games from the 90s didn't look alike at all. Also most games use pixel art as an excuse for lazy animations with a little amount of frames. I really wonder why everyone likes it so much and I often think maybe something is wrong with my taste :/
Neither of your examples are even close to monopolies.
The battery packs on those things have quite a bit of heft to them, hit anything at terminal velocity and it's gonna be pretty devastating.
It was designed specifically for web browsers and never specifically optimized for other use cases, but yes this will have a huge effect on REST services as well. Server push is going to dramatically change architectures. You can essentially implement HATEOAS with a single round trip.
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> its not pointless

It is entirely pointless to not redirect. There's no reason the URL posted shouldn't redirect to the www version.
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The problem with the way JXcore did the SpiderMonkey port is their extensive use of C++ macros - not unlike NAN for Node.js. This makes the code hard to debug and maintain. The Microsoft Chakra Node port is more elegant because they've mimicked the V8 C++ API making it much more likely that it will be merged into Node.js and IO.js. In time I suspect Mozilla and other javascript engines will make V8-compatible API shims similar to what Microsoft did:

https://github.com/Microsoft/node/tree/ch0.12.2/deps/chakras...
Proprietary software and live in a select group of countries and pay a fee that isn't cheap for everyone.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-first-wife-explain...
Now we just need to apply a couple of tweaks like this to cassowaries and we'll really be getting somewhere.
Well with a few years of hindsight I'd say I agree with you. If we had figured out a business model ElectNext would still be around.

(After I left my partner did keep the company alive by pivoting into reader engagement for online news, but in my opinion the vision of helping voters was abandoned.)

Business models we considered:

- Letting politicians pay to get more control over their profile on our site.

- Letting politicians pay to turn on voter engagement features, so that voters could sign up for a mailing list, sign up to volunteer, etc.

- We actually got paid by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia to license our tech for some kiosks in their exhibit, but the integration effort wasn't really worth what they paid us.

- We had some media companies interested in an embeddable "widget" based on our technology. I think the Economist and the Philadelphia Inquirer used us. This eventually led to the pivot.

- There were plenty of other ideas, but it was all a long time ago. We were very dedicated to protecting our users' privacy, and also to protecting our own reputation as unbiased, so that took many ideas off the table. Taking politician money at all felt super risky, but who else are you going to sell to? EDIT: Also, you have to have a lot more users than we achieved, with a much more vibrant community, for any politician to even care. And unbiased politics is pretty dry. These days I think of politics mostly as entertainment, and we weren't entertaining.

Politics is a tough space, and lots of VCs told us they flat out didn't invest in politics startups. I can't say I really blame them. For all the money in that space, it's not easy capturing it in a way that lets you sleep at night. The voters aren't the ones paying. Media companies are all struggling not to go bankrupt. Also a four-year business cycle is pretty rough.
We live in a society with motor vehicles. They are here to stay. It doesn't matter what their safety record may be or under which parameters they are operated. Drones are an entirely separate issue. We do not live in a society with drones. Period. Now if we would like to introduce them into our society it doesn't matter what laws or regulations are established for their safe operation without on-board fail safes their introduction is unlikely. How do I know? I'll just pose this question: Are you OK with any drone dropping out of the sky and landing on top of your new born infants soft little squishy skull? Find me a person that will say yes to that question.
If you have experience in another language, and once you've gotten the Ruby syntax loaded into your brain (e.g. procs, lambdas, if/unless as a modifier, case statements, define a class, how optional parens work) I can recommend two options:

1. The Pickaxe Book (Programming Ruby by PragDave). You can read the book itself, but one thing I love is that it explains the entire stdlib in an appendix. I learned a lot just by keeping it near the bathroom and flipping through that appendix a few times each day.

2. POODR by Sandi Metz (referenced above) is about OO but you will also get a sense of how to write non-web, pure Ruby applications in a general sense.
Each to their own I guess. I wouldn’t say it’s the most incredible hack in the history of computing. Still a fun experiment IMHO.
It's true in SF, NY and few other places in US where cost of housing is determined by ability to pay. In the rest of the country cost of housing is a cost of building a house/rental property with a reasonable margin on top - with almost no correlation with local ability to pay (as long as it's higher than cost of building or maintaining a housing unit). If you increase property taxes, it will increase rental prices.
Just because a literal gun isn't used doesn't mean there isn't force involved. If you're not going to be able to pay rent without that job, then that is definitely force.
Removable batteries would likely also hamper the ruggedness (IP67 rating).
But you still have to pay council tax and councils can change absentee owners more.

But compared to the USA the taxes are very low even for a 20 million penthouse.
@jgmmo
You raise an interesting question about software patents.
Many people think that physical hardware devices, like an improved portable GPS device for my car, or a police radar gun, should be patent eligible. Many of those same people think that an app that performs the same functions in a mobile device should not be patent eligible. It could be argued, however, that in these cases, the hardware and software are really implementations of the same "invention."
"We see DRM in general as profoundly hostile to all three of: users, open source software, and browser vendors who aren’t also DRM vendors." https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/

"We very much want to see a different system. Unfortunately, Mozilla alone cannot change the industry on DRM at this point. In the past Firefox has changed the industry, and we intend to do so again. Today, however, we cannot cause the change we want regarding DRM." https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen...

"this is a radical, disheartening development in the history of the organisation" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-cl...

So no, it's not really more subtle than reported. This is Firefox fighting and losing.
The two keys to understanding whatsapp valuation are that they had established ubiquitous cheap all-you-can-whatsapp packages with telecoms in developing markets, which quickly became all-you-can-whatsapp-and-Facebook, and are now being parlayed somewhat clumsily into Internet.org.

The second thing is the growth of messaging-as-platform in markets like China, where everyone is using wechat to query bank balances, order tickets, etc. It's a commercial platform, and to talk to young people in Shenzhen who's primary (maybe only) computer is a smartphone, the idea of having these interactions through a website is comical. It's really something to witness, and totally unexpected for those of us who grew up on desktop computers and laptops. FB is trying to turn messenger into a platform now in the U.S., and they have the whatsapp platform to fall back on or develop in other countries. Whatsapp could have become a threat to FB's growth in developing markets by adopting wechat's platform and timeline features, so the valuation was defensive. Time will tell if there is potential for messaging as a revenue generating platform outside of China/Asia.

The best counter-argument to the valuation is that Whatsapp had something like 20 engineers on staff when they were acquired. It's hard to imagine a future where a global messaging platform doesn't continue to need less employees to manage it. I figure that eventually, such important, but cheap-to-run infrastructure seems like something that will end up being run by a Mozilla/Wikimedia style foundation on donations.
Reliability needs to be way higher then what we're currently seeing with google now and siri due to the inherit danger of what ur controlling.
I did that too.

In particular, it doesn't seem to distinguish capitalization right. It appropriately turned the line "We must monetize our assets" into "We must BULLSHIT our assets," but left the capitalized versions ("Monetize our assets") alone.
I often wondered if indie games tend to like pixel art because its cheaper and faster to produce.
Source Code Resources for Web Pros
This is a strange comment. Google indexes and searches lots of things you eventually have to pay for. Google's a search product. Seems to me the perfectly natural state is "free organic traffic" from Google and the WSJ getting paid.
Founder here... we just launched.

History of the HiFi product this was built up from here: http://blog.roonlabs.com/what-a-journey/

I always wanted to post our product on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7629177 "My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player" We solve almost every concern posted, especially about music metadata organization.

Any questions? We want to hear your issues with music software.
"The jet will also have its nose-mounted, 30-millimeter cannon removed, opening up more space for scientific instruments."

http://blog.ametsoc.org/uncategorized/plane-has-combative-at...

Given that it's an A-10, it might be more accurate to say that the cannon is having its aircraft removed.
It's not about hurting the business. It's not just "wishes". That's the legal framework, also laid out in their terms of service.

You're breaking the contract that the content "value" is provided in exchange for something, either attention on ads or cash, depending on the publisher. This is what makes it wrong.

The real issue is that the internet does not allow for effective policing and capture of contract offenders. It's wrongs being committed with no consequence, but this does not justify it being done.
I'm going to start building 'No Drones' signs and selling them to ski resorts in anticipation of how annoying these will be when every 13 year old has one.
Also that the product on this page, Think Kit, isn't mentioned until the 5th panel, and even then it isn't stated that this is the product. I was also expecting this to be an in-app purchase, but it's free.

Makes a little more sense if you start from http://fiftythree.com/paper , but this style of web design is beautiful and frustrating and overbranded for the product's simplicity (Paper and Think Kit and Innovation Engine).

I use Paper a lot, btw, and expect to use the new tools as well - just as I was straying, trying out alternatives that have guided drawing and layers. (Paper still doesn't have layers.)
> the states with the most billionaires per capita are... Oklahoma, Oregon, and Ohio. New York comes in at #4.

In residence, perhaps.

Yet how many own a pied-à-terre in New York, while residing primarily elsewhere?
I think that the "formal" rules for pixel art have become more well defined with increased access to the internet, and you now see more of a tendency towards Japanese / console style pixel art (compare with Deluxe Paint-style pixel art seen in old PC games). I think that there is also a huge amount of "abuse" in these rules, some of which are definitely universally applicable as applied to pixel art, IMO - namely, using the same pixel size, and perhaps keeping the palette reduced as far as reasonable. There is quite a large amount of "bad" pixel art, probably more so than "good" pixel art, so it is easy to come to dislike the genre nowdays. But pixel art (at least "good" pixel art) is much harder to produce than vector art or unrestricted raster art, especially when it comes to animation (unless you are just rotating limbs, which is a "no-no" in pixel art rules).
If the author is determined to replace food with gloop the could try any of the very many existing food replacement products that were on the market for many years before Soylent was created.

Point 2 is just baffling. Fruit and veg doesn't go from great to rotten over night just because you delayed a meal for a day. Learn to use a freezer and buy some of the very good quality frozen fruit and veg.
Yes, we do. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r... has links to the following:

1) Instructions for disabling the DRM bit without uninstalling it.

2) Instructions for uninstalling the DRM bit (and having Firefox never install it again).

3) A link to a version of Firefox 38 that doesn't have the DRM bits.

It's worth reading the whole blog post, but the tl;dr is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm and http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi... (with the latter sadly not as user-friendly as it might be).
This reminds me of "BullFighter" which doesn't exist anymore - it was a BS-detector plugin for MS Word made by Deloitte (ironically).

Here is archive.org's version of the old website:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130827041102/http://www.fightth...
That's a pretty obvious yes isn't it? I thought that's why a lot of indie games are pixel games, just like why a lot of indy games are side scrollers.

It's so much quicker to do.
>When building policies are reasonable developers target wider swaths of the market.

The only guarantee one has is that developers will build what generates the most profit for them. That's basic economics. If the most profit is found in housing for locals, then locals get housing. If it's in pied-à-terres, then they don't.
Universal security [pdf]
I can understand why the Project leader felt slighted. It's their job to know the status of the project and to present that. If someone comes in and bypasses them, you're kinda saying that they're not needed.
"paradigm shift" gets turned into "BULLFUCKINGSHIT," so I guess you need the full phrase to trigger it.
I guess you didn't read the part of the article about over-the-LAN syncing.
Enterprise Architecture Beyond the Perimeter [video]
What do you mean 'allowed?', it's virtually mandated.

Most zoning laws force people to park real estate, walk around anywhere in SF, and look up, the lack of an additional 55 floors are 'parked' condos that aren't even allowed to exist, let alone sit empty.
You would think so, and yet... http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/01/new_york_...
Rather ironic, considering that Michael Chrichton thought Global Warming wasn't a big deal[1]:

> At the end of the book, Crichton gives us an author’s message. In it, he re-iterates the main points of his thesis, that there are some who go too far to drum up support (and I have some sympathy with this), and that because we don’t know everything, we actually know nothing (here, I beg to differ). He also gives us his estimate, ~0.8 C for the global warming that will occur over the next century and claims that, since models differ by 400% in their estimates, his guess is as good as theirs. This is not true. (...)

> Finally, in an appendix, Crichton uses a rather curious train of logic to compare global warming to the 19th Century eugenics movement. He argues, that since eugenics was studied in prestigious universities and supported by charitable foundations, and now, so is global warming, they must somehow be related. Presumably, the author doesn’t actually believe that foundation-supported academic research ipso facto is evil and mis-guided, but that is an impression that is left.

Kind of makes me wonder how much I can trust Crichton on anything. :)

[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/michae...
Amazing. Lily is like half the price of the rest. Where did you get the $ price? Right now it's $500, no real options, right?

The price just seems unbelievably low compared to all the other options.
That is almost the opposite of I would expect.

Podcasts have a clear analouge in radio, and radio made lots of money for advertisers for many decades. It is much more difficult to tune out ads when listening.

Although, perhaps the profitability of radio was an artifact of supply restriction. Podcasts are easy enough that anyone can do them, and when you have more supply much harder to stand out and make money.

But has anyone really figured out web advertising on random content yet (sites on which there is no purchasing intent, and no logged in user)? Is there information out there on how a site like Vox is really doing?
They are very open that this is not their plan here. They are _temporarily_ forking Node.js to add support for their JS engine. They want to extend Node to abstract away the JS engine so that it doesn't rely on V8 or Chakra or SpiderMonkey but can sit on any one of them.

It's actually exactly the opposite. Their API abstraction work will only increase competition, especially since they aren't trying to run a competing fork. Despite their history, those in favor of a more open Node.js platform should commend this.
Just read this article from 2014 a few days ago - pretty crazy the way they set property values:

"For instance, when former Citigroup Inc. Chairman Sanford Weill sold that 6,744-square-foot condo at 15 Central Park West for $88 million, the city valued it at only $2.8 million. The entire 201-unit building, which is also home to rock musician Sting and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, was valued at $242.6 million."

source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-10/nyc-proper...

Man, talk about letting huge amounts of tax revenue walk out the door.
A bigger issue to me is what do you do with Lily after it has run out of battery. I don't think I want to carry it for the rest of the day on the ski fields, mountain biking, trail running or anything else, it is fairly cumbersome. And I wonder how tough it is when it is in a back pack and I fall and land on it.

Very cool device and it would have a lot of practical uses, but not sure it will ever be that useful for the masses.
Outstanding. Now if they can just get behind the burning at the stake part of my idea we'll be in business.
You could make a kind of 'set and forget' Tinder.

What if you made it say yes to everyone. Then it takes only the ones who matched. Then you could start culling people by with the word 'YOLO' or hashtags or instagram accounts in their bio or some shit. Then start running facial recognition based on manually selected ideals. Then it could send an opener line from a list. And then finally, it could send you an alert if the match replies to your automatic opener, as well as recording all their details.

Make some fake facebook accounts and start running it in different cities etc to collect a bigger data set, you could find your own personalised statistically most successful pick up line, by age group, 'likes' etc.

We can call it "Fear of Rejection"

Edit:
I have no idea what im doing, how can you make it reply to a received message? https://github.com/zachlatta/pyre/compare/master...MichaelYo...
There is some back and forth about it in the Firefox 38 story that was on the front page earlier in the day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9532417

I'm having trouble writing a summary that avoids sarcasm.
If you look at the attached list of telegraph abbreviations, which is alphabetized by the long form of each word, you will see that U abbreviates "you" (as we would all expect) and Tr abbreviates "there." Are you there?
Genius. And a startup idea to boot. Let's build the mobile app: "Uber for passive aggression."
Stopping cars and then walking drug dogs to generate cause for a search is no longer constitutional.
That's flawed logic, as it's $100M + $1417/mo.

If you asked me if I wanted to rent that place for $1417 I would absolutely say yes. But I don't happen to have $100M lying around.