jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
6 - To paraphrase "ISPs should be free to put whatever they want in their contracts". The reality is that 'freedom of contract' is not fair when there is a huge difference in bargaining power, the markets can't sort it out for the reasons discussed above, and government intervention is appropriate.

Even if there actually is a huge difference in bargaining power, it does not follow that government intervention is appropriate. Existence of some sort of "unfairness" in the market does not mean (1) that restricting people from entering such contracts is moral and (2) that government intervention will result in a better outcome.

7 - To paraphrase, "Network operators own their equipment and should be able to do what they like with it". That is like saying gun owners should be able to do what they like with their gun, even shoot people. [...]

Not it is not. Shooting (innocent) people infringes on their rights. "Exploiting a market position", even if one believes it to be a reasonable issue, does not. The analogy does not apply at all.

The point here is that network operators to not have the obligation to use their own property to provide services to anyone, in the first place. There's nothing wrong if they decide to start offering those services for a ridiculously high price -- it's much better than no service at all. And there's nothing wrong if they also decide to offer bandwidth discounts to certain web sites.
I think "always use getLastError" is a poor general guideline. The "gotcha" at the heart of it is to know that mongodb syncs inserts to disk at a configurable interval (1 minute by default) - which means data can be lost. Calling getLastError (or setting safe => true in a lot of drivers) will force the write to disk.

However, one of the great things about MongoDB is that, in some cases, you can easily afford to lose 1 minute worth of inserts in exchange for huge performance gains. Large chunks of data that is used for analytics is a good example since lost data won't [likely] impact final aggregates/percentages.

Some of our inserts, like user registration we run with safe=>true. Others, like audit logs (which, for us aren't as important as they might be for others) we don't.
Try payloadz.com - they auto-link to paypal, basic account is free and your customer will be able to download book automatically, it cant get better than this :-) you can go on vacation and dont even have to check emails but pls keep checking bank account :-) --- alternatively you may also try selling your ebook thru clickbank.com ... GOOD LUCK
Dr. Elaine Ingham has done a lot of work on this, and talked about it a lot, too, at conferences and in videos. I had mentioned her and a brief gist of her work in an HN thread about no-till, some months ago, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828524

Her claims are huge. It would be great if they were true. And they may be, based on her arguments and research.

Check out her video, The Roots of Your Profits.
>> How soon before billionaires invest in digital land?
There's an entire MMO based on this concept called Entropia Universe. So I'd say it's already been in the works for nearly 20 years.
Plus just being curious. I once found an exploit in a large IAM vendor's multifactor auth flow by just playing around with the Inspect tool in my browser. I told my customer success manager and they fixed it. Too bad there was no bounty :(
if you are writing any kind of code using Tasks in C# you should use Coyote to test it.
Are we talking about both Signals, or just the non-profit Foundation here?

What about the LLC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation
IMO, would also be helpful to have the first name since there's Yoshua Bengio.
I was using the mouse to drag around letters, not the keyboard. It was my first time playing and I was still wrapping my head around basic game concepts, so it's unlikely that I was interacting quickly.
need gamepad control if not implemented already :D
Don't sell yourself short. You're a full stack developer currently. Your salary reflects that (and then some).
How many rounds of hashing did they use?
That's the "slow" feed, this is the fast one -- it includes all the items posted to Hacker News.
Twitter is a broadcast medium. It's not intended to do what you state above.

I personally use it when I'm curious what certain people think about an event I'm watching. It's fun sometimes knowing in real time what someone who's opinion you actually care about, thinks about an event you just witnessed.

NBA players are on it, some cool geeks and bloggers...maybe you're just not the intended audience.

That said, I do think twitter's importance is overstated.
The volume of ignorance and bilateral racism in the youtube comments astounds.
Or, as we say at the meetup:
"DMSDCRDBMSWMNRFTSAUAJOTSH"

Now, that is marketable.
> There is no value in being precise

Are you an engineer? I ask because I find it very hard to believe an engineer would write that.
I use it because it's part of RSS, and that's an RSS feed. :-)
More so, there was a recent legal hullabaloo in regards to anti-poaching that google, facebook, etc. had with each other. Now that those anti-poaching agreements are no longer in force, having been deemed illegal, those companies now have a much greater chance of losing their employees to their major competitors.
Never give away equity (future profit) for a utility. You should have learned this in Parker Brother's Monopoly.
>First, Apple is run more like an enormous startup.

So? There were turf-wars and in-fighting between product teams when Apple actually was a startup.

>Third, Steve wouldn't stand for it.

Most accounts I've heard are that Steve was a driving force in that early in-fighting. Of course, he's 25 years older and has probably matured some, but I don't know that I agree with the assessment that he wouldn't tolerate it.
Great article, particularly like the Top, Bottom or Somewhere in the Middle section. I had never considered how the position of e.preventDefault() would make a difference.
Reminds me of an awkward moment dad had early on. He'd been reading textbooks with big thrust/drag/lift/weight arrows for so long that he was startled during a takeoff that he couldn't see them in reality. Despite studying engineering, he hadn't quite reconciled himself to being kept alive by invisible forces.
It's not just meat, it's food in general. Try for example growing your own tomatoes and compare the taste to the supermarket ones - light years of difference.
I am concerned with the request for credentials. An argument should stand on its own, whether proposed by a credentialed person or not.
It is possible to create class dynamically in C#. Although I don't know whether this library is doing it.
I'm pretty sure dropbox does file versioning, so you should be able to revert to an earlier (uncorrupted) version of your file. Tell me if that works for you, b/c I use dropbox+truecrypt for hosting my super important docs...
I would recommend PhantomJS: http://www.phantomjs.org/

It's not a crawler per-se, but you can fairly easily build one based on it. It supports everything that modern browsers do - it's a headless WebKit, driven from JavaScript, after all.
how do we know that the Toxo parasite isn't making you say that? ;)
I forget the exact context, but Joel wrote about this exact same thing a while back. By lowering the barrier for users to leave (and take their stuff with them), they will be more likely to join. You keep them with service, not lock-in.
These are amazing times indeed!
> You are talking about the $30 that you could get but miss the point

I think you missed his: it's pretty unlikely that anyone on HN will do that.
This is the case where the first competitor to make a standard, and have more than a couple legitimate vendors following a standard, will dominate the market.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-ZOITE.
Sorry, but I couldn't resist changing "Programming" to "Sex" to see what would happen...

Sex Is Not Fun

Then you're doing it wrong.

Most Sex Is Boring

Find a new partner.

It's the Same Thrust, Over and Over Again

That's how it's supposed to work.

Lack of a Sex-Centric Career Path

Then make it your hobby.

Everyone Seems to Suck

Are you bragging or complaining?

Women Are Clueless, and They Make Unreasonable Demands

Take a Viagra.

Isolation

Your hand is your friend.

Things Change Too Fast

You took too many Viagra.

No Free Time

Do 2 things at once.

Lack of Recognition

"Oh, you're so good! You're so good!" Happy?

Your wife is a WellspringOfNegativity

Thrust deeper.

You're Surrounded by a Bunch of Geeks

Get better curtains.

You Never Feel Like You Accomplish Anything

Turn her over.

Fun is not an attribute of sex

Get some toys.

Sex Is Not Fun without Philosophy

Read the Kama Sutra.

Work in Sex Only If You're Hardcore

No argument here.
"His laptop is encrypted and the text messages and call history on his phones are encrypted. He declined to provide his password when agents asked him for it."

Crypto for the win! I wish we'd hear about more cases of this happening.
* 5 million people dead in the Congo, stealing rare minerals and putting them in your iPhone.

* Destroying our earth with a pathetically broad plan for stopping (read: we won't).

* We're creating technological systems that pose the greatest threat against freedom ever.

* We're killing hundreds of thousands in the middle east because they pose threats to our Saudi oil fields.

Yay, productivity.

What I'm saying here, is that it doesn't have to be this way. Capitalism drives a population to productivity in the same way meth does: destructively.
Using the GP's example, it would take a huge amount of effort to make an online image editor accessible to the blind. I'm not sure that would be time well spent.

All the GP is saying is that the trade-offs will depend on your audience.
Some founders doesn't have the goal to grow the company their goal is to bring in a change in the lives of people :)
A surprising fact about wood is that large-section wooden beams can perform better in a fire when there's a lot of flammable material around. They burn slowly from the outside so they take a long time to fail, making it safer for firemen to walk around inside. In comparison, steel fails by softening and that can happen much faster just by conducting heat through the whole section.

Bricks are a problem in earthquake prone regions. Even brick cladding on wooden frames tends to fall off and hit people on the head.
So well spent that it didn't even feel like 20 minutes. This is what videos should be like-- not essays delivered more slowly and painfully, but real useful things presented visually in a way that takes full advantage of the medium.
That's on the Mac, not on a mobile devices with a higher latency cellular connection.
I understand what they thought they were selling me. It had no bearing on how frustrated I was sitting there thinking ``Really? I'm paying money to see this?''
Sorry, that's just what I saw on Newegg for 8GB sticks. I did not intend to mislead.

I am under the impression that most of Google's index is still served out of ram. Certainly I never saw any announcements to the contrary. The other poster also pointed out that sub-millisecond latencies are pretty unlikely. Considering all the diverse sets of data they need to pull from, it would be similarly difficult to believe that tens or hundreds of disk seeks could be carried out in a timely manner for each query to yield a 200 ms total calculation time. If I had to guess they have probably just started taking factors into account that they did not before. For example, perhaps they are measuring total internal latency rather than just the latency of a particular sub-system. Or maybe there are components that go to disk while the posting list lookups are done in RAM.
I didn't really agree with this idea initially, but the argument was persuasive. Certainly I don't think any of them have the kind of monopoly that AT&T had, but Facebook might be close as they continue sinking their Facebook Connect hooks in.

The trouble is that monopolies are not good or bad per se. Google and Facebook are still mostly innovating and adding value. At some point the landscape starts to change, and that's when they get scared and start getting anti-competitive and the balances start to tip.

The tricky thing is determining when this is. Certainly the government is ill-equipped to figure it out, because it's all sound bites and popular opinion by an apathetic voter base. So the rationale for why a monopoly should be broken up gets sanded down to a slogan about monopolies being bad, and pretty soon politicians are jumping on the monopoly-busting bandwagon without any kind of legitimate rationale.

This is why, I really value the old-school intellectual movement that Chomsky represents of standing outside and speaking truth to power. Even if a lot of his analysis is flawed and ideas ultimately wrong, the honesty with which he pursues them is admirable and we need many more like him to keep America honest. The rich won't do it (as a group they are too fearful), the powerful won't do it, and government is certainly too awash in lobbyists and bureaucracy to have any hope.
I think that's a rose-colored view on Gandhi. Maybe eventually most of the country followed Gandhi, but I doubt that was the case immediately. Any disobedience campaign takes time to develop.
Ahem. You don't happen have that .tex template hanging around that was used to produce the .pdf? Because it's absolutely beautiful and I would like to co-opt the template for my NaNoWriMo novel :D.
I was fired at 19 years old, while I was being groomed to be in sales for the company I worked for. They decided that I didn't have "it" and would never make it in sales, so they didn't bother to train me or give me a shot. I then got a tool dealer (selling wrenches and screwdrivers) franchise and was 8th of 430 the next year for sales. I ended up making more than the partners of the firm that fired me (I had done the payroll, so I knew).

When I was 30, I was "reduced in force" which is a fancy way to get fired, and was fairly devastated. I had been with the company for 10 years and it was my whole life. I had also been top sales person for 2 of the last 3 years- unfortunately not the year before the R.I.F... Now I am 41 and the last 10 years have been the most profitable of all. Even with the recession carving a chunk of my investments I am better off - because I started a couple of my own companies and did it myself. I learned how to manage people, how to manage the books and how to understand that much of the time you are flying blind and the only choice is to make the best decisions you can at the time. It has been great.

So go out and get fired. Just do it for the right things. I was let go at 19 (and 30) for telling the boss how it should be done, and how I would do it better. What have you been fired for?
It's not about market, although I'll be selling a physical copy. The digital will be free, as per Zed's example.

I care deeply about programming, and about preventing software from turning into a mass cargo-cult profession. I want more systems-knowledgeable people out there who understand how things are and could be built.
I'm biased as I'm the creator of Whirl, but one my favorite 99-bottles implementations might just be this one: http://bigzaphod.org/whirl/kang-99.html And of course, there's the one I did for another of my silly languages, Taxi: http://bigzaphod.org/taxi/99.txt :) [edit: To clarify, I didn't write the one done in Whirl, that was sent to me by Kang Seonghoon.)
Of the zero successful terrorist incidents in the last quarter-billion US flights in the past 9 years, how many would this technology and procedure have stopped?

How much money do we need to spend to prevent these zero events from occurring in the next 9 years?

And how much did extra was spent on preventing the third of a million motor deaths that occurred during the same period?

There is a huge lack of rationality in the middle of this issue for far too many people. The spending and procedures are way out of proportion to the risks, quite apart from how poorly allocated the spending is. The guy who used to run the TSA (Chertoff) now works for the guys selling these machines.
One major argument I'm hearing is that by giving these coding projects, competent developers should be more interested because this guarantees the people they work with will be competent.

My response is that you can find out the competence of an individual without wasting 5 hours of their time on a pre-interview puzzles. If they pass your phone screen and interview, you should be fairly confident that they are a competent programmer. I'm hard pressed to believe that someone who passes famously difficult interviews (for example Palantir) would find the puzzle anything more than busy work.
So the iPhone is the only one to warn the user, but did it shut itself off or malfunction?
BMW for example uses also radar and infrared. These sensors can "see" even in foggy german weather when the human driver would be almost blind. Also we have the technology (RANGE-R) to detect humans even behind massive objects (walls, cars). So we could make cars a lot safer for childs and pets that "dart out of nowhere".
> More than likely, the first tribes that started becoming farmers did so because the area they lived in become bad for obtaining food

We know where early agriculture and husbandry developed, and it wasn't in "naturally inhospitable areas" in either case. Even if so, making an area with poor food into one with better food is quite obviously an example of acting based on a desire to get more than you can as a hunter-gatherer, so accepting your own argument here disproves your claim that hunter-gatherers were content with what they got and didn't seek to get more.

> I'm merely trying to get you to realize that there are many reasons for technological progress (esp. the adoption of agriculture), the least of all being that "it's human nature to want more".

But your own defense of that position has been to present an argument that boils down to the motivation being exactly to get more.
You pull an excerpt from a quote that I included from the parent comment to my post. I'm not sure if the "you" is generic or directed at me, but I didn't say "don't do it unless you're sure you dislike yourself."
The one valid definition of success for a programming language is that it looks pretty and thus the most successful programming language is Piet ( http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html )

I mean, joking aside, it's always fascinating when people can't wrap their minds around the idea that their criteria for success or quality or goodness are subjective and not universal.
Compilers and logic programming
clickstream logs to build recommendation systems.
This could be easily solved (if it is a problem) by making the icons scroll vertically instead of horizontally.

I don't understand the problem though how many people use a phone one-handed all the time? I can see for some things but all the time so much that it's a problem reaching the upper left corner (if right handed).

It's funny though I was just looking through some old phones today my old N95, Nexus One and my current one an S5 a difference of seven years (2007 to 2014). https://i.imgur.com/3cjBkxH.jpg
It appears that the Android app is made with Cordova. I wonder if a lot of the problems are due to it not being a native Android app?

The UI also looks like an ancient iOS app which doesn't give a good first impression either.
And spinning rims. Don't forget about "dem spinning rings".
That's your standard slippery slope argument. Which isn't automatically invalid, but you need to show that the slope will be slipped down, and that action needs to be taken now to stop it, rather than simply reversing it if and when you slip down.

If a significant number of people dislike these systems, some insurance company will find a competitive advantage by catering to them. If the number isn't significant... is it right to legislate just for them?
It means owning and controlling your own hardware. It's really, really nice to be able to reason about real hardware when doing performance optimization or deep bug analysis. If you're stuck in the public cloud ghetto there's only so deep you can go before throwing up your hands and saying, "eh, I guess Amazon is having a bad day..."
I don't think anyone has claimed that the decline in Apple's software quality was unprecedented. Even if it happens every three years, there is nothing wrong with begging for a stable release once in a while. 10.8 will stop being supported soon and then we will be left with the choice between 10.9.5, 10.10.x and a brand new, unstable 10.11.0. High time for a stable release.
comparing emacs to xcode/idea made me lol
What a brilliant bit of book marketing! How much did this cost? :)
personal growth would be challenging to attain at B because the culture is sure to throw hurdles in the way.

B = 150K base + options (not yet awarded)

commute is not an issue in this case. thanks for bringing it up though
I foresee another French revolution if the rich keep this up I can hear the pitch forks already being sharpened.

Realistically this system is designed to make the rich richer and the middle class poorer however the rich are underestimating their effect and the effect of automation and cut through CEO's on the general population.

Automation is making a lot of jobs obsolete earning the people who own the systems more money for less cut through CEO's are pushing to reduce employment costs at any price and the rich are the only ones capable of investing the large sums required to get the huge returns the global market can give you.
Now the New York state AG, too. What's left of Radio Shack probably isn't going to get away with this.
A lot of kids fall for the 'text this number to y' scam, which turns out to be a subscription to some $2 / tick text messaging service.

I think that's way across the line but it actually is legal in plenty of places. How do you feel about such an operation ?
Lots of goodies here: https://github.com/MarcWeber
There are enough companies that won't launch on SpaceX because SpaceX is a competitor and enough companies that spread their launch contracts as a kind of insurance that a second vendor could stay viable. But with Blue Origin, ULA, Ariane and Roscosmos fighting for that second spot thats a small number of launches spread over quite a few vendors...
They have actual customers signed up to launch their satellites on New Glenn [0][1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn#Launch_service_custo...

[1] (german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn#Geplante_Starts
Touche. Your satire was pretty funny.