jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> This is how net neutrality dies, if we're not careful.

Net neutrality has been dead for a long time. Honestly it was never a reality, and always more of an ideal. Transit agreements for CDNs and asymmetric peering arrangements have been commonplace since the mid-90s.

> For me, it's strict - the carrier is carrying bits and bytes, and doesn't know/care what they are.

I think a lot of people on the Internet also share this belief, but it is incompatible with the way residential broadband connections are currently priced and sold. Residential broadband uses a lot of traffic management tricks to deliver high-performance last-mile access -- and those traffic management tricks drive down operating costs dramatically to the point where it's possible to have a $60/mo broadband plan.

At least T-Mobile is being transparent here: they're using a network management trick to allow them to offer unlimited data to their customers at a lower cost. Consumer last-mile access is all about making these kinds of compromises, and at least T-Mobile is giving its customers a choice to opt-in to a network management scheme rather than just using a hard cap.

If you want totally net-neutral Internet access, it is available to you in the form of a commercial broadband connection (fiber / metro ethernet). It's also a lot more expensive because the ISPs can't oversubscribe their infrastructure in the same way and still meet their SLAs -- but those customers are paying for a higher level of service.
> And that's not necessarily true. It assumes that everyone mines bitcoin for the purpose of obtaining bitcoin, not to support the network.

Like someone is intentionally donating money in hardware and electricity in order to support the project? How many dollars a month would you personally spend to do this? Maybe there's some rich people involved who have the money to spare? At the current cost of mining, how many dollars a month are are required to keep the economy going (I have no idea), and would it be possible to get that much as "charity" donations to support the bitcoin project (I have no idea either)?
I don't know how that statement even supports their claim. The point of plant defense is to make whatever's eating them ill. That includes humans. Generally animals, including humans, avoid those plants unless they've found some way to either avoid the poison or use it to their advantage (i.e. the moth Utetheisa ornatrix uses poison it extracts from Crotalaria plants to defend itself.)
A Macromates employee? I was under the impression that Allan Odgaard _was_ Macromates.
Alternate method use https on Google searches:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/encrypt-web-https-ever...
What exactly do I get? There's a lot of breezy text talking about how great and cool this concept is, yet I can't find a concrete description of what I'm paying for. What types of stickies are included? How many of each?

A better approach might be to detail the contents, then demo the different types of projects I can apply this tool to. Present specific situations I can imagine myself in, and how the tool is saving me time.
why is "Rod"'s reply "dead"?

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How dare you criticize the status quo? Don't you know that the job market for top executives is perfectly efficient, and that their compensation reflects their contribution to the company they serve?
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Four decades ago, during the Nixon administration, the powers that be talked about the lack of technical talent in the United States. Clinton revived the discussion in the 1990s, and Obama talks about it now.

In the big defense contractors (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, etc) the most senior engineer makes less than the most junior manager. It does not matter if the senior engineer has a PhD from Caltech and the junior manager was a business major at Cal State.

This reality exists also in the Silicon Valley, but in a more subtle form. If the job market is efficient, then (in theory) the lack of qualified engineers should lead to an increase in pay for top engineering talent, right? Well, the job market is not efficient. Engineering is viewed by many as a blue-collar profession, and the pay gap exists to differentiate the ruling class from the working class.

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From the article:

Disclaimer: Post Co. chairman Donald E. Graham may appreciate these words, as he sits on Facebook's board of directors.
I've been living Paleo for a month an a half. I'm now down to a healthy weight for my height after losing 22 lbs. I feel great and have much more energy. Most importantly, as a type 1 diabetic with remaining beta cell function, I am no longer dependent on insulin.
Did we read the same article? The author definitely payed much less attention to "network effects" than most articles on this subject usually do, explaining that it is quite common for monopolies to be created for new technologies, as well as giving several other reasons, some of which you reiterated.
Thanks for the tip but browsing through the site I found a post stating that the maintainer is thinking on starting from scratch:

"...I am currently thinking of starting a completely new text editor that will not be a fork anymore, but a proper and independent software..."

http://www.fraiseapp.com/index.php?page=news&id=12

[EDIT] better link
$900 for a camera with, what, a $50 BOM? Sounds like a business opportunity for the HN crowd.
Guilty as charged. :-)

I could see how vb6/"visual basic" would cause some irrelevant results to come up. It's probably good sometimes, but also really bad sometimes. I've recorded it in our list of motivational examples that we use to try to come up with improvements to our algorithm. Thanks, and sorry for your wasted productivity.
D3 is great - It has made a lot of things super easy to make pretty (mostly pretty realtime front ends to research demos). I wish they would add some more support for canvas drawing, but other than that, everything about it is just slick.
This is really awesome. I've been using this for a few days now and really like it. I've been programming in Go alot these days, so the fact that it's in Go is a big plus for me.
"...I do not believe that anyone expects privacy for an action that they perform within the sight of a cop"

Perhaps my age is showing here, but I remember when the first rule of the internet is that there are no secrets on the internet. The assumption was that, if you didn't want it broadcast on the nightly news, you didn't say it on the internet. It didn't have anything to do with the NSA. The assumption was just that the sysadmin would read your e-mails and monitor your chats if she was bored. It came down to the whole "my hard drive is my property and I have the right to read any e-mails stored on my property". However, it's clear that societal mores have changed, so I'm not sure that it's any more unreasonable to expect privacy in front of a cop.

For instance, maybe I don't want the government to have video of me at a urinal. Of course, cops are human, so they're going to have to use the bathroom. When the cop enters the bathroom and stands waits in line for a toilet, did the government get a right to record my urination? Heck, can I record other people at the urinal, or are those surveillance rights reserved for just the government? Can stores setup bathroom cameras? Okay, I'm getting unreasonably sarcastic here, but I had thought the obvious solution would be to have the cops turn off their camera when they go to the bathroom. However, the public opinion seems clear that we don't want the cops to have an off switch, so I'm a little confused no about who gets to record me in the bathroom.
At one point I was evaluating open source UML software for creating an overall diagram of our project to aid in understanding all the different moving parts at an overview level, but found most of them lacking. Especially in the area of generating UML from existing code.

Does anyone have a suggestion for software which better fills the project comprehension/overview role?
Apart from [3] which I don't have much idea of, the other two instances, the state acted within the framework of the law. Granted that, the orkut case the state cracked down disproportionately. But If i want to criticize sonia gandhi on a blog, I can as long as I keep the language civil. That's what I meant by my comment that my freedoms are fairly well protected.

We do have some very archaic laws and I woud like less censorship on the matters of religion and pornography but even within the current framework of laws a great deal can be done
Wislawa Szymborska.

Until I read her poems, I thought people that fawned over poetry were just making it up.

Here is the one that I read first http://bettinamay.com/poem/2008/10/view-with-a-grain-of-sand...
I have Golden State Warriors season tickets, and use both StubHub and Ticketmaster for ticket resales. Most of the secondary market liquidity is still found at Stubhub, but I would actually prefer that more exchanges occur through Ticketmaster.

Pricing:
From a seller perspective, selling through the official Ticketmaster channel provides significantly better pricing. For example, if a customer spends $10 on a ticket through Ticketmaster, I will net $9.50 from the sale (5% commission). On Stubhub, if a customer spends $10 on the same ticket, with the way their fee structure works, I would only net $6.01 (an effective 40% commission).

Security:
Tickets sold via Stubhub provide a pdf ticket that shows my actual name. Tickets sold via Ticketmaster reissue the original ticket in the purchaser's name.
Charles Baudelaire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire):

You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it
it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden
of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth,
you have to be continually drunk.

But on what?
Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
> I think that vim is loading an entire file in the memory while less just loads visible chunk

No, vim also only keeps part of the file loaded, however it will try to count how many lines the file has.
Not sure how willing they will be to hand this over given the recent events surrounding A/Swartz' suicide.
Allow users to add tags to posts. Make it possible to restrict the posts on the frontpage (when logged in) to a list of tags.
Sadly, I agree.

I've also noticed the same recently while reading a TechDirt article. If only they were more objective, it would really lend to their credibility.
Actually Latex does a pretty crappy job routinely producing widows and orphans. The only way to change this seems to screw up the pagebreaking.

When was the last time you saw a widow or orphan in a book? I'll bet never for one from a major printer.

There are many things done in books to hugely improve readability that all have to be re-learnt and redone.

Also, yes paperbacks can use the same formatting as the hardcover if the page proportions are the same. Just an FYI hardcovers usually have larger fonts and the page can sometimes simply be scaled down without screwing anything up. So yes, sometimes it is free.
Hell, if you don't watch sports, just Netflix will get you a long way to being cable-free.
Nope. I could take my brand new car to Jimbo's house of BBQ and Transmission repair if I wanted.
As the 'discussion draft' itself notes in its own words, "a compulsory license places an effective tax on certain conduct".

Several of the proposals listed involve creating broader IP rights ('hot news'; statutory truncations of traditional 'fair use'; a new statutory licensing scheme), or antitrust exemptions, all to allow favored traditional newsgathers the ability to demand payment from aggregators. In common parlance, that's enough like a 'tax' to make the description accurate in a popular account.

(The Washington Times didn't even highlight one of the most egregious ideas listed -- a $5-$7 fee per subscriber on all ISPs, collected and distributed by the federal Copyright Office.)

The least honest part of the WT coverage is calling the document a "draft proposal". As you note, it's just a laundry list of ideas. (In the document's own subheading, "potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism".)

But it's fair of the WT to suggest these ideas are being considered, and to alert those who might find them disconcerting before the proposals become any more concrete. And the ideas are heavy on new taxes, new licensing fees, new IP rights for old-line industries, and new government subsidies -- as should be expected from an agency looking for something to do.
"I'm sure somewhere in Jobs' head he thinks that if he had been running Apple instead of John Sculley, the Mac could have out-innovated and out-marketed Microsoft through the late eighties and early nineties, and kept Windows from dominating the planet."

Actually I believe this myself. It's hard to say exactly how well he would have done at fending off Microsoft, but it would have been a closer race than it was. Apple seemed totally lost during that period.
printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up. Couldn't you do this on Print Shop and an Apple IIe? Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable. He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about.
I'm not sure I agree. 538 is the only political blog I read, but I still feel like I understand everything that's discussed.
It seems that some people will never learn that going for market share first isn't always the path to maximizing profit. I could understand these arguments when Apple wasn't doing so well, but now it's just silly; Apple has, for ages, been extremely consistent in prioritizing margins over market share. By all measures, it's working brilliantly for them.

Success through high margins is less visible and less obvious than success through high market share, and I'm guessing that contributes to the strange idea that Apple is somehow making a mistake with a high-margin lower volume strategy, but come on, they make more money selling cell phones than almost any other company in the world.

Apple could certainly license their OS to other vendors. But in doing so, they would be throwing out an extremely successful business model for one that eliminates their biggest differentiation from their competitors: the polish and quality they can provide by having complete control over all aspects of their products.
Using a generic name for a product sucks in general in terms of finding information about it. People don't tend to say "Apple Pages" in every reference to the app. "Windows" is an exception because it was huge before the idea of Web search hit the mainstream ;-)
It is available on the ITU website. You will have satellite names (which should be similar to what you'll see in space-track, most of the time). I believe you need to pay to have access to those, but when you have a direct link to a specific satellite anybody can read it.

Also note that this shows licences, not actual use. You can have a satellite licenced to a particular frequency but not using it.
Go Map!! (https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/go-map/id592990211?l=en) is a full fledged editor for OSM on iOS.
They really have dropped off since 1999: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Insertion_of_leap_s...
You should pay all employees to learn.
Point 4 is hard to believe, and without it you're describing a well functioning system that promotes investment in new technology.
Chromecast is just a web browser - so I imagine that's due to the client (which each service has their own, I think). Not sure what exactly they're doing for audio casting, but I imagine it's dependent on the service to implement properly
"Gypsy" may also refer to (Irish) Travellers, thanks to their similar lifestyles. A significant population of Travellers emigrated to the US during times of economic hardship in Ireland and the UK, and local police departments in the US will still issue general crime alerts when a migrating band of Travellers is expected to be in the area.

These often take the form of "Please don't make our municipality look like an easy score. Lock up everything not bolted down. And also please put locking nuts on your bolts." (paraphrased)

They are a distinct, non-integrating cultural enclave in the US, and seem to subsist largely on exploiting legal loopholes in life insurance policies, and by working trades with inconsistent demand, like asphalt paving.

Either way, both Romany and Travellers seem to have a universally bad reputation for trustworthiness and respect for unattended personal property, which seems to be not entirely unearned.

But despite this, it is inappropriate to refer to an individual by a group identity that person has not specifically invoked, so the non-racist alternative of "gyp" would be "con", "cheat", "reneg", "deceive", or "defraud", depending on the context. Take care to not use "welch", because that could be similarly offensive to Welshmen.
"Moving around more" actually does significantly lower your risk of death from cardiovascular events (at the very least). http://healthland.time.com/2013/12/19/how-many-steps-does-it...

Common sense, while harder to study in a lab than a new specific medicine XYZ, actually can serve us well in the messy real world.
I do this with a raspberry pi. I set up an AirPlay service on it, and added a tiny USB wifi dongle and put it in a nice white casing. Works great and cheaper than airport express that will do what you need also.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/44918/raspberry-pi-airplay-tuto...
Have you seen which permissions those kind of apps require?

I don't want to allow these apps to read my history, share my contacts, or expose the current running apps just to cast some media ..
Actually Ian, Scala has all the things you mention ( It isn't as nice for direct memory manipulation as C, but you can do it ). Not that everything in that list is important or necessary, It kind of like saying you can't get a car that has a maximum speed of 200mph and a fuel economy of 100+ MPG, and is also a reusable space launch vehicle. Yeah each of those exist, and we could make something that checked all those boxes, but even if we could would it be wise to design said vehicle just to meet an arbitrary set of features, not taking into account any trade offs that would make it better at any single task ?
Don't judge a book by its cover :)
Well put.

Don Draper doesn't need Powerpoint.
You don't measure the wave function, you measure the state of the underlying system (qubits or whatever).

When a measurement is made, the wave function, which gives the probability of finding the system in any particular state, "collapses" so all the probability mass is on the state you just measured.

If you keep measuring the system quickly (relative to the time it would take to change significantly) you actually stop if from evolving the way it would have if you'd left it alone, as if you dropped a ball and kept staring at it and it dangled in the air instead of falling.
How about the design part? Did you use free graphics? Some of the Unity bundles? Did it yourself?

I often have the feeling, that games are the only type of "Software" that has enough developers but never enough designers...
If even a little bit of this is true, it is absolutely appalling. People involved in this activity need to be brought to justice. I don't care what the motive for said behavior is.
Interesting that Optimizely is positioning themselves as the over arching discipline as "Statistics reinvented for the internet age". My guess is to parry against the onslaught of A/B testing and optimization platforms for web and mobile from all directions. Of course with their stable of PHD statisticians and data scientists, Optimizely is the answer.
Recall that in semantic versions you can ADD really nice sugar in a 1.1 version that will make life easier. I think Some 1.x release this year will make the language much more approachable.

Especially regarding closures, they are really painful to use because nothing is properly inferred. You can easily improve type inference by just improving the compiler, this is almost not even a language issue. But it's a real quality of life issue.

So after 1.0 is out you will see a lot of RFCs for things like variadic generics, higher kinded types, etc. that will make someone's life easier (and remove really ugly hacks due to the lack of said things) but are completely backwards compatible.
Tigers are spread through out India from North to South. About 50% of world's tiger population is in India (based on numbers in 90s) so a 30% increase in the population in India bodes very well for the over all tiger population.
There is almost certainly a penalty applied to imgur links. Either it was lifted in this case due to relevance or it just got that much momentum from votes.
Thanks for the post Michael. We are excited to be able to tell the world about our system! Look for site updates over the next few days as we post videos and get our Indiegogo campaign going.

We have working iOS & OS X clients that proved that the technicals work but those apps are not of delivery quality.

Our Indiegogo will be all about getting open source docs put together along with working & deliverable clients. Meantime we are looking for commentary on our technical methods that are elaborated on at our website.
> Cantor proved that an infinite number of others can't be identified at all, because they outnumber all possible descriptions.

I'm tempted to say that that definition places those examples in a unique set, thus at least unambiguously identifying the set to which they belong.
> -file permissions, users, and processes on Linux.

Available from most GUI file browser.

> -environmental variables

Available on GUI.

> -package management

Synaptic, or some package management GUI.

> -what a daemon is

There's GUI for Service management.

> -possibly how to use a "real" editor such as emacs or vim

I didn't Emacs and Vim does not have GUI version.

> More importantly, this kids will never be afraid on the command line

That's only important if you value being able to use command line, it's circular reasoning.
I was thinking it is weird that 90% computer games (non-casual ones) are about war, which in our life is around 0%. I also looked down on the military.

Now the war in the Ukraine is happening, and it's an eye-opener (even for those in neighbouring countries). Yes, war is rare nowdays, but when it's on, it trumps everything. Every card you have in your hand, war beats.

When armed and organized people come, money and business and culture bow to them.

It is really that important how games show to us.
As a Windows and Linux user, I was expecting some technical information about what made him quit. There wasn't anything specific as to why those problems occurred.

My brother had his first Macbook Air a few months back and he didn't do the Yosemite upgrade as well. When I ask him, why? He replied, "I don't think the update have anything for me."
In the Netherlands we have a "Guild" of front-end developers: http://fronteers.nl We set this up for recognition of the trade, and honestly, it's helped. Not everything is a ploy.

That being said, excellent narrative.
There was a time when the YouTube “recommended” list was quite good (around 2011-2013), that’s how I discovered lots of very interesting music back then. In the meantime things have gone considerably downhill.