skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No politician will ever come out and say they want to double or triple the defense budget, they usually do it after they get in office.

What usually happens is the candidate talks about reducing the military budget, only to increase it once in office. Obama would be a great example. He was opposed to the multiple wars the US was fighting, then once he got into office, he increased spending on various defense projects:

In Obama’s first year as president, his defense secretary, Robert Gates, ratcheted up spending on the F-35 as a compromise for halting production on the F-22, a larger, more expensive stealth aircraft. But the F-35 has turned out to be nearly as costly and considerably more troubled.

His budget for 2016 looks to increase the military budget:

Intriguingly, while the Pentagon’s “overview” briefing notes that it’s requesting a 4 percent increase in the total defense budget and a 21 percent reduction in the OCO accounts, it doesn’t express the base-budget increase in percentage terms, so let me do the math for you: It translates to an increase of 7.7 percent.

This is enormous.

source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...
The problem that you need a unique app to interact with every single service out there. How do you feel about random websites pushing you onto their application and then neglecting the web experience? It's fragmentation city.

This is the same problem, but for services (in the people doing things for other people sense) rather than hypertext.

Think of it as a glue layer that gets you around the need to have 50 different apps installed for 50 different services.
It's an arms race. The ones early out the gate really do reap huge benefit but the system eventually equalizes.
You really think Mr. Musk could take a month off starting tomorrow with no advance notice to SpaceX or Tesla with no ramifications? These are C Corps with boards, investors, and other stakeholders that wouldn't turn a blind eye to that. Musk is not a deity who can do whatever he wants. He can be fired just like anyone else who clocks in and out of a day job--only difference is who pulls the trigger.
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Website offers to cancel Comcast for $5 (ref to HN/YC)
I drive a Toyota Cavalier, which was built by Chevrolet to sell to the Japanese, who didn't buy them, so they all got exported to Australia and New Zealand.

It really is an odd car with questionable build quality and some baffling engineering decisions - the boot/trunk wouldn't open, which turned out to be due to the unlocking mechanism coming loose - but it was only connected to the lock by a single plastic clip, the kind you normally find securing upholstery.

Replacing it with a nut and bolt fixed that, but yeah.
I had a terrible experience with a NYT digital-only subscription, and I'll likely never subscribe again.

I had a subscription for a while that I hadn't been using. I only used their site when linked to it from another (like HN). I tried to cancel online, but there's no way to—you need to cancel over the phone. So, I did, sitting on hold for close to a half hour. Bad experience, but I wish it had ended there.

Fast-forward two months, and I started getting emails that my subscription was past-due. Then I come to realize that they had continued to bill me every 2 weeks, but the payments had just started failing because my card expired.

I emailed CS, mentioning that I had cancelled my subscription and I was being billed by mistake, and to make sure my account got cancelled this time. They "couldn't do anything about it" because my account was in their "grace period", and that I would continue to get the past due emails until the grace period ended.

I ended up filing chargebacks for each charge after I had originally cancelled. To my knowledge, they never replied to or contested the chargebacks (does the customer usually get this info, if they do? it's the first and only chargeback I'd ever filed).
Ref to HN in this article as a reason for the success:

"The site has been nearly overwhelmed with traffic -- the founders won't disclose how much -- since going live on Friday. To announce their service, St. Sauver and Pollak initially just posted a link on Hacker News, a popular site among techies run by venture capital firm Y Combinator. The news next spread to Reddit, prompting another wave of traffic."
I cannot begin to explain how terrible their pricing model has been.

My #1 gripe, which caused me to utterly refuse to pay for their subscriptions at any cost, was the fact that they double-charge you for web content. It goes like this, verified prices today:

* Web + smartphone = $3.75

* Web + tablet = $5

* "All Digital Access" (web+smartphone+tablet) = $3.75 + $5 = $8.75

That's right. Not only do they not provide an incentive (a per-unit discount) for buying multiple products, they actually charge you more money for buying all of their stuff. Obviously, it makes little sense to the average consumer to have to pay >$0 in order to add a smartphone to their web+tablet subscription, but the insistence that you pay again for the FULL web + smartphone cost just to add a smaller screen is asinine.

Second gripe has been they devalue their content so much by these stupid 99 cent teaser rates, which automatically tell me I don't want to do business with them.

Third gripe is that they are so dependent on dead-tree revenue that it's often cheaper to buy a print subscription and get free "free" internet content. I don't want to provide a nonstop stream of paper to the recycling bin just to get cheaper digital access.

In the past few months, they experimented with their pricing model, and I ended up as a subscriber because they got rid of their double-charging system, and provided a fair, low, consistent rate.

Unfortunately, upon posting a screenshot on Facebook, I found out that nobody was able to replicate my success -- they seemed to be arbitrarily handing out different pricing models as a test when different people clicked on the same link. Many others were able to verify the non-double-charging pricing model, but nobody got as low a rate as I could manage.

Turns out they're back to their same old tricks -- I validated the above pricing today with a fresh browser.

I apologize for how vague I am about the exact "new" model I ended up with a couple of months ago, but I can't track down the screenshots of the different schemes I was offered.

Also, my apologies about the poor formatting. HN's help is not particularly helpful as it is grammatically vague about how to get newlines without a new paragraph.
In the articles' vision of utopia, people pay for downloading things, so putting misleading ads not only becomes unnecessary, but actually harmful for the content provider's bottom line.
Last I checked; thought leaders don't convey their thoughts in 140 characters or less.

Nothing of really value is that short. Sorry.

Unless you figure out the Theory of Everything... That'll be of value ;)
Join the Windows side. We have Dark mode.
I live in SEE. While we did have "work books" containing our employment history they were eliminated about 7 years ago. All that is now stored electronically in a central place. And it's used as evidence of payed benefits for x amount of time, eligibility for retirement and similar things.
it's also so he can be buried in Mars - a permanent vacation.
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It does make sense, from the perspective of the "Old Economy Steve" meme. The world really was different for Baby Boomers, and there's more than a grain of truth that a BA in any subject would be your (upper) middle class meal ticket. Of course that was due to the post war economic boom and a society in which inequality wasn't so sharp as it is today.
Unfortunately I don't have access to Lobsters but I'm replying to you in case others don't know what Lobsters is [1].

[1]: https://lobste.rs
The new midi support is a pretty big deal I would think that given that midi has lower audio latency than screen input having system level support for midi most likely means pretty low latency for midi synths.
Did you try to tell gilles, eric, and some other committers about your concerns in private, before posting on a public mailing list and then submitting your own post to HN?
My bet: The features not been fully completed, just roughed out.

I think this happened early when Uber announced pool (the day before lyft), for a short while no-one shared and you just got a cheaper ride (lyft had actual sharing from launch).

Obviously it was worth Uber fleshing out sharing asap, but maybe it just isn't with surge-notify. If hardly anyone is taking advantage of it... just having a delay of a few minutes may mean that most users impatiently go with the surge.
Terrorism as delivered by the media in the current time is Islamic related violence.
It's also possible that the documents outlining the closest collaborations are too sensitive for Greenwald et al. to publish. Snowden may be speaking generally based off of background which he has seen firsthand, but indicated to the journalists that it should be kept secret.

Hard to conjecture much farther without seeing everything. At this juncture, I'm going to continue assuming that the GCHQ equals the NSA.
Im currently studying Computer Science (1st year) and I see so many people that have no idea what they're doing or why they're there. Some of them just got in because their friends got in, and most of those friends got in because "they'll have a garuanteed job with a good paycheck after completing the course!"
It saddens me
Best thing is probably an iPod Touch or iPad Mini without cellular (I'm pro iOS vs. Android, mainly due to secure element and iOS > Android security; there's an argument you could use a secure element plus a new ROM on Android devices to surpass iOS), with a wifi or bt or usb link to an external wifi-4g modem or wifi-wifi router (mifi, portal, whatever).
I'm glad she was able to figure out that the team culture didn't fit her and leave for something more suitable to her preferences. Different people are different, and a single team cannot accommodate every style.
A million people out of a population of 1.5 billion is 0.07% of the web population. In most places that is a very select group and not the common denominator. Something that is some times missed is just how big a group you can reach with the web. Finding all of them can be a challenge but such groups tend to self organize around seeds.
I can't decide what to think about this pricing. Would a company pay $6k a year to almost not worry about hosting / ops? Actually, yeah, probably. Still seems like it's missing a lower tier though.
The emissions mode delivers lower power and worse mileage than they are currently getting.

That's the big issue, they sold them as emissions compliant vehicles that delivered some given performance/efficiency, and the software can't make both claims true at the same time.
That ad has nothing to do with student loan debt per se, and is a standard attack ad, the veracity of which I'm quick to doubt for being a 30 second sound bite.
> which was never a real problem in the first place...

You obviously haven't worked on any legacy app built in jQuery.
Pretty sure that's the basis of removing the 140 char limit for DMs. Some people are way more likely to use Twitter than an 'SMS' type messenger that wants phone numbers that they don't know.
It's in the overton window, is what I mean. Obviously attack ads are not to be trusted.
Seriously, there is this thing called Google and Wikipedia, you might want to try it some time. This guy made a glossy version of something that had already been there for almost a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
I think one of the other problems is that people value the economics of software correctness using their gut, rather than empirical analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting

Everyone knows that bugs are problematic eventually, it just seems that they can't put that on a level playing field with the up front costs, be they in terms of time, features, or effectiveness.

As an example, if you asked Home Depot whether they were saving money with their self checkout machines, I'm sure the answer would be different before their data breach vs after. Even after being warned they simply couldn't properly discount the possibility of massive damage in the future when offered a short term benefit.
I suspect these kind of articles would be more useful if they were written by or summarizing advice by former CEOs who were in a similar position (multiple companies, lots of stress, regulatory uncertainty).
It's generally a security by obscurity claim. Which is strange coming from the OpenBSD guys. I don't think you can even log in with their own OpenSSHd from a default install.
Don’t base your business on a paid app
Please make sure you watch the documentary called "The True Cost"

You shall be horrifiee
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Sometimes the best ideas about X pop up when you're doing Y
This is an oversimplification.

Being 'the boss' means you work to meet often unrealistic expectations you've set for yourself. It doesn't relieve you from stress, fear, deadlines.

Founders often perceive this feeling as a representation that they are the sole driver of the company's successes and failures. That means vacation represents a period of regression. It makes taking one essentially a nonstarter.

Worse, this behavior can be cyclical. Take a weekend off and you feel 'behind.'. Then you work twice as long next week, perceiving it as barely catching up. Then even harder to get back to the pace you thought you were on before.

Add to that the pressures of having billions of dollars and the livelihood of thousands resting on your expertise and the eyes of millions watching your every move ...

It's a hard habit to break. Even if you enjoy your job, the stress of what you believe it should be can add emotional and physical stress.
I'd say the SPLC is a better example. There's still a lot of work to be done on racism, but the SPLC has gotten ridiculously expansive in their definition of hate and extremism to justify their desire for perpetual growth as an organization.
Not to be that guy - but did you test this?

parameters = {'hostname': self.hostname, 'myip': myip}

Change to:

parameters = {'hostname': self.hostname, 'myip': ip}

Change:

for host in hosts:
print(host)

To:

for host in hosts:
host.update(myip)
print(host)
I certainly hope so. It would be a far better discussion topic than D. Trump's hair, or gay marriage, or immigration, or the ACA.

Speaking on behalf of the entire middle class--and let me assure you that I am both qualified and authorized to do so--we are getting sick of working our asses off just to live our entire lives sunk up to our multiple chins in debt.

But no one is likely to lift a finger to do anything about it until after missing a few meals. Perhaps it will help when Mr. Khan and allied parties in the tech industry start to eat Academia's lunch. Thanks to the Internet, you don't absolutely need to pay $100k+ for a degree, and you don't even need to pay the "buck fifty in late charges from the public library," as suggested in the movie Good Will Hunting.

Once employers start de-prioritizing an accredited degree and start recognizing online coursework certifications, it will already be too late. Nobody will be going to college for anything short of calculus, law, medicine, or petroleum-related geology.

After all, if your art history degree isn't going to help you get a job anyway, you could just browse artists' pages on Wikipedia and visit museums instead.
In some cases, they can be discharged:
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancell...
Well, seeing how one is titled the "Chief Engineer" I wouldn't be too surprised that he represents an entire department (or many) and is the last stop before board of directors.
Yet another case where gateway firewalls can give you back some of the privacy that these companies attempt to wrench away from you.

PfSense is a free gateway firewall but the UI left much to be desired last I checked.
Another option is the Sophos UTM, which has a firewall, web filter, and VPN server built into one.

Gateway protections are your last resort when it comes to protecting yourself from shady behavior like this.
Well said. I've also got RP, though I've still got plenty of day vision left. It makes me glad to hear you're doing well.

Were you worried about passing it (RP) on? Apologies if this too personal for HN, I am just curious.
> terrorist organizations never use terrorism as a last resort and seldom seize opportunities to become productive nonviolent political parties

If you look at Colombia, the Colombian establishment, and US government, have never respected the will of the average Colombian, or Colombia's sovereignty for that matter. Obama's guards going off to sleep with prostitutes (and stiff them at that) is a great symbol for the US/Colombian relationship.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán looked like he was going to become president of Colombia in 1948, so he was murdered by someone supporting the Colombian establishment. This led over time to a series of events (and US intervention) which caused FARC to arise. In 1984, FARC desired to stop its armed campaign, which had wide support among southern Colombian peasants, and enter politics. This was not something desired by Colombia's establishment or Reagan, and thousands of left-wingers were murdered in Colombia, including all left wing presidential candidates. In 1987, FARC picked up the armed struggle. The Colombian elite and US response to leftists in Colombia entering politics is to murder them. Just like when leftists in Chile were murdered like Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The Chilean establishment and US answer even elected government's like Allende's with violence and murder.

The mujahideen is another example. Sylvester Stallone dedicated Rambo III to the mujahideen in a movie glorifying them as freedom fighters, as did the US political establishment and almost all of the pundits, outside of maybe The Nation. Now Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the Taliban are supposed to be awful people, whereas the Taliban used to make friendly visits to the White House. It's complete hypocrisy.
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While we await public release of the final TPP text, here is a review of a draft IP chapter, http://www.freezenet.ca/an-analysis-of-the-latest-tpp-leak/. We need specialists and journalists to present credible analysis for the hundreds of millions of people who would be bound by the proposed laws.

"... breaking a copyright protection system (i.e. DRM, TPM, etc.) would land you in hot water ... if you need to circumvent a DRM for personal use, you are now liable for criminal penalties. Traditionally, for many jurisdictions, circumventing DRM is typically reserved for civil penalties. Criminal penalties implies that the government would foot the bill for enforcement. In civil cases, it is typically rights holders that go after individuals.

... civil damages do apply. How much are civil damages if an alleged infringer is found guilty? Well, that is up to rights holders, not a judge. Prosecution is able to determine the damages and a judge would have to accept whatever number comes out regardless of evidence to the contrary. A good example might be that a song may be sold for 99 cents, but the damages sought could be in the millions for all the prosecutors are concerned.

... an act of copyright infringement as set forth in this “trade” agreement doesn’t actually have to occur before the authorities are sent after you. There just has to be evidence that infringement is taking place or is about to take place.

... if you have a cell phone, and you have something on it that could be considered infringing, authorities have the right to seize it because you are suspected of trafficking. Of course, you could also be liable for civil and criminal penalties as earlier outlined and could be fined any amount copyright holders feel like.

... you could be fined on the spot because of your cell phone on top of it all. No need for a judge here. Also, no, you may not get your cell phone back. It could be destroyed ... Who gets to pay for all of this? According to page 77, you do."
I'll start, terrorism is a violence of any kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The problem is when a party is so certain in their superiority they are unwilling to acknowledge the possibility that they might be wrong.

Which is a straw-man argument, as you're asserting something which might or might not happen in a hypothetical exchange based on my preconceived notions regarding a typically violent, intolerant group of people to be reality.
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That's a strange coincidence, I'm tall (6 feet 2) and their clothes hit the sweet spot for me fit-wise, I know of a handful of others the same. Personally I hope they stay open purely so I can keep ordering their hoodies and long sleeve tshirts
There are tools that can adjust screen colors and brightness automatically on rooted devices (e.g. I believe Twilight is one for Android; F.lux is available for most other platforms).
Yeah, I'm so used to the pricing tiers used by Digital Ocean, Amazon, and Google Apps that I'm looking at this and going "Wait, the $995 a month tier isn't for enterprise?"

Everyone else is almost in a sort of pricing war, so it really feels very much against the current.
And that is the problem in a nutshell. Imagine you want to be part of that group, so you google the leader of the group and all the top hits are him dressing down idiots. You say to yourself, "Ok then I see how this ship is run." and you take on the same modus operandi.

It doesn't matter if 90% of the interactions are civil and supportive, those top links "set the tone".

The only way to fix it is to have Linus disavow the behavior, call it out as bad in forums, and have the top 10 links when you Google him be him dressing down kernel maintainers who treat others like children to be scolded and shamed. The behavior of his followers will change to mimic that instead.
It's a conversation that's been going on for a long time now over various channels but has/had mostly stagnated into a disappointing lull of complacency. The Quayls results were a big wake up to that, and my own finding yesterday was the final straw: fresh ideas and voices on how to carry the project toward maturation are quite necessary, as well as smart folks like yourself becoming interested in reviewing the source code.