skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really offering solutions. I'm pointing out the lack of a decent evaluation of how we got here and how we can fix it. Almost all net neutrality discussions are people that want to prevent large ISPs from enacting draconian restrictions on their networks vs the people that don't want any government regulation of anything. There doesn't seem to be much constructive discussion. Just people taking traditional 'liberal-vs-conservative' positions and digging in to duke it out on the canned talking points that traditionally follow.

The people that say "networks are private property and I don't want no government in my private property" are forgetting that most of those networks were built during periods of guaranteed profits (AT&T) or just regional monopolies (cable companies). It's not like these companies were little mom-n-pop shops that were built from nothing with no help from anyone, and now the 'big bad government' is coming in to kill them off by helping their competitors. These companies where weened off the government's teat.

The people that want to bring in the government to restrict the internet are forgetting that there is a whole can of worms that will be opened if the government starts getting their hands into the internet. Sure it could be just 'net neutrality' regulation now, but what you picture as what 'net neutrality' should be will not be what it looks like once an actual bill gets passed. Not to mention all the attempts to tack on 'child porn' filtering and crap (possibly creating some 'Internet Filter Czar' position in the Executive Branch).

Even solutions like: "the internet should be like the highways; built and run with tax-payer money." So the government now runs the major backbones of the internet in the US. This means:

1. Companies can easily become ISPs by hooking into
the backbone at reasonable rates
2. Congress will be salivating to pass bills to put filters
on these backbones to 'protect the children.'
3. The networks will be less secure as routers, servers,
etc are administered by incompetent administrators that
only have their positions because they know how to play
the government bureaucracy politicking games better than
more technically skilled colleagues.

The average consumer is stuck between a rock (the government) and a hard place (large corporations with vested interests). Neither solution is particularly palatable, and it's naive to say that one solution or the other will save us from all the evil in the world.
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Flash CS4 for the design parts and Flashdevelop for the code parts. And Notepad++ for the rest (Python, PHP, some HTML). I'm actually undecided between Scite and Notepad++, but I usually prefer the former.

Filezilla to upload files to the server, but the constant annoying popups ("a file appears to have changed, would you like to resend it?" and "this file is already open (hint: it's not), would you like to open it again?") are making me think about switching to something else.

Starting to use Git too, but I'm afraid of what will happen with the *.fla files (huge binary blobs).

I'm stuck with Windows because of Flash.
I suppose one would not derive deep, meaningful happiness from the button, because the happiness would have a hollow source. Sort of like the difference between the elation of scoring a goal, or the joy of reading a good book, or the merriment had when spending time with long-time friends, versus the high of taking drugs. Enriching fulfilment versus empty thrill.
Or there may not. Apple likes control. iTunes gives them this and I don't think that will change soon.

The way it ought to work is the devices should be sharable via Bonjour, just like any laptop or other smartphone, and you should be able to drag things between them.

Note that due to multiple uses of the 'should' word the above is about as likely to happen as me getting hit in the head by a lemon peel wrapped around a gold brick.
There is one critical flaw with the reasoning of all these opponents of Net Neutrality. They claim the ISPs should have the right to regulate traffic to remain 'competitive', and that users who aren't happy with the regulation can simply choose another ISP. That's how the free market works.

Except this isn't really a free market. In most locations, consumers only have a single choice for broadband access (or two at most). Most ISPs have a regional monopoly. So if your local cable provider decides to charge you extra to access wikipedia, you're SOL.

You can't appeal to the 'free market' when there really isn't one. Your only choice is to create one, which is exactly what net neutrality aims to do.
Just because someone owns property does not mean that they have unending rights to do with that property what they wish. Go buy a piece of land in the middle of the city, build a giant bonfire, and see what happens. Due to state "regulation," your landlord can't just barge in on his/her property whenever he/she wishes. Laws like this have existed to protect the weak or meek for ages.

In a sense, "property" does not exist. Property only exists because laws exist to protect it. If the country you live in is invaded by a more powerful nation, how much do you think your "property" matters at that time? It's just a set of limited rights granted to you by the government, not unlimited license to do whatever you wish.
Bittorrent invented P2P... Stopped reading when I hit that.

--edit--
Read it again and he says "developed p2p" which could be construed as further developed I suppose. Benefit of the doubt.
With all the downtime and seemingly permanent "Older tweets are temporary unavailable" messages why would anyone want to build on platforms they've created?

Maybe they have good ideas but I think part of the reason people are looking at Cassandra etc is because the high-profile sites using/developing these platforms actually work.
First thing I did was make a little js plugin for Wordpress, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frame-breaker-removes-di... . Same code as one used to use to break out of peoples frame based on-site navigation.
The reliance on the ever increasing bloat that is Itunes is one of the single biggest drawbacks.
Actually I'm not disagreeing. I'm saying that you probably don't need to read this (long-winded) article because it simply reiterates a well-known and well-worn position.
Emacs[org-mode, gnus, erc, many programming modes], Chrome, Mercurial and/or SVN and/or GIT (in that order!), a few random useful plugins &c...
IPhone OS 4.0: Multi-tasking & Multi-touch Certainly, HD Maybe Not
Yeah, because if I have a problem with my ISP, I'll just head to the bank, borrow a few hundred billion and build my own backbone.
"The Apple iPad. So simple, your 2-year-old can do it."

I can't decide whether most people would be affronted or happy. I know I would turn away from an ad like that, but on the other hand based on the explosion of IT'S SO EASY ads in every sector, I'm probably a minority.
What going home with a hooker taught me about my business
No what we need to do is enforce the terms on which that initial government intervention happened. And that is that in return for the government granting you monopolies subsidies and a lot of rights you agree to promote the public interest.
It's worth saying, that if the ISPs are taxing the content providers, and are totally free to do so on a discriminatory basis...

We actually have a much-less-free market for everyone except the ISPs, who operate in a totally-not-free market to begin with.

Way to go, free marketeers. Don't let those details fool you, just stick with the ideology.
Mytechne: a site to record the history of programming langauges you've used
I agree with this.

In the above mentioned cleanup procedure, one of my developers was convinced that git would commit all changes during an interactive rebase where he was splitting a changeset regardless of what he had staged.

I asked him the exact commands he used:

git rebase -i whatever
# select a thing to edit and split
git add -p # ...
git commit
git rebase --continue

Said it never split his change. Then I saw his transcript -- it included "git commit -a" Apparently he got so used to typing that that he just instinctively placed "-a" at the end of "git commit" because that's how you do it.

I'm pretty sure he wasted hours with the magic -a option (not counting the ones that required the commits to be split up in the first place).
My guess is that a lot of this infrastructure is to support them moving to new technologies while the old ones are in place. Changing the engine while the car is in motion requires a lot of piecemeal engineering work, and I think you're seeing that effort here.
Individuality and creativity are quotes from the article.
I like this idea too. Mind if I steal it? ;)
Somewhat related video (found on minimotivation.com):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjYoKCBYag
Does showers count?
Byzantine red-tape, corruption, a legal framework that makes the Talmud look like a minor collection of one-liners, add to that a somewhat xenophobic business environment and an economy that's moribund and you've got the least favorable place to start a business : Greece. (I speak from experience. I'm sure Kafka was Greek.)
The easiest, in my experience, is The Netherlands.
Top Misconceptions About Cancer
He has a point. For years his customers have been telling him to get some f-ing defence, but Cuban just won't listen. And lets face it, those 120-110 games the Mavericks keep coming up with are a lot of fun to watch. Especially if you are not really a Mavericks fan.
It would be useful what the memory usage is like to see if there's a speed/memory tradeoff between PyPy and C-Python.
Excellent initiative - lets get the energy flowing!
That's not an argument and it adds very little to the discussion. I don't know why you're being voted up.

If you disagree with his points, state your reasons.
Also, a thought, if you do start this, be ready for at least 5 years of hard work before you either quit or are a success. This kind of radical new stuff takes time. So that's your 20s right there. (or 30s. or 40s).
It's complicated :) PyPy's objects are significantly smaller than CPython ones, however the the assembly the JIT generates, plus the bookeeping and profiling data it stores take up space.
Why is everyone giving him such a hard time? Ok, he should have used a word other than 'civilization', but is it really that controversial/does it need that much proof to state that the Middle East is the region where religion plays a bigger part in people's lives than elsewhere in the world? Without looking at specific places/occasions, I agreed with the statement right away. C'mon, if he had said that Africa was the poorest region in the world, would everyone be asking for proof?
Yahoo buying Foursquare for $100 million? Let’s check in
I've come to like Textmate and Git a lot recently. Still, I often miss vim :(
This is one of the very few if not only tech books I cherish and would never let go of. I'm not a C guru, I did a lot of C in school, but since then almost none.

I've been wondering when or if I can get this on the iPad. Even though I own the hardcopy, it has seen better days and it's starting to lose it's binding.
Math is not linear, so why do we teach it like that?
AOL dumps $850M Bebo acquisition - Why big M&A rarely works
Is Dual-Boot the Best Option For a Google Machine?
Useful article from Makeuseof.com - How to Convert a PDF File to a Word Doc
"Can you easily convert a PDF file to a word doc for free?" Yes, Makeuseof.com answered the question. Here is a review of AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter from makeuseof.com.
Great example of the power of django and piano to quickly build and deploy sites.
what's piano?
nice site, bad font choice, not very useful
Normal publishers give 15 percent or less. A traditional publishing contract is one of the gloomiest documents you'll ever set eyes on.
Since the lack of broadband competition may be caused by government regulation, the author would prefer total deregulation rather than Net Neutrality or the status quo: "The key to competition in the Internet is less regulation, not the added regulation entailed by net neutrality. ... We must undo the relatively few controls already placed on the Internet..."
This is such a cynical and short-sighted comment. Did twitter have scalability problems? Yes. Does this mean that any and all technology that comes out of the company is junk? On the contrary. If anything, getting battle tested software that was built in response to solve massive scalability issues is going to be better than not.

Clearly they've worked through a lot of their problems at this point; I'd imagine this is some of the code that let them do so.

Nevermind the fact that a reply like this is disrespectful towards people who are giving you the fruits of their labor for free. Shame on you.
Myriad Pro or the retro line printer typeface "printf"?
"Going home with a hooker" is linkbait, as while this is what literally happened, it's not what that expression means.

TLDR - sell something people want and charge them money for it.
All those AOL'ers who were laid off during 2008-2010 must be so glad the money saved on the reduced headcount payroll went to investments such as this.
a typo of pinax
The courts have generally only required a minimum of creativity to make something copyrightable. Also sentences are surprisingly easy to mke unique- see http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009/11/uniqueness-of-sent...
2 seconds? The 'copter was allegedly a mile away, which means at the M230's muzzle velocity of 805m/s, the bullet would strike 2 seconds after firing. You can't just wait for him to draw and aim, and then shoot at him. He'd likely have long enough to fire the thing.
Here's a plot of the aluminum/silver/gold reflectance spectra, fwiw (visible range is ~390-750 nm): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image-Metal-reflectan...
Government control of private property - this is how some public utilities operate. Private industry builds the infrastructure, but the government aims to bring stability through regulation to what a large part of the general population sees as an essential service.

This article makes the analogy to the printing press; that the Internet is changing our worldwide society dramatically. Those who are for net neutrality (myself included) would likely agree - that this transformation is a positive thing and should move towards becoming an essential service.

How this is accomplished - either through private industry or government ownership - is really just a matter of culture. Many countries have significant government ownership of network infrastructure.
I expected the same thing and was disappointed that there was no CRT involved.
Shy And Introverted Process The World Differently
What you are suggesting depends entirely on the source of rights. If rights are granted by men and can be removed then you're right. If your rights are inherent or granted by God then you are incorrect.

If my rights are granted by God (and included in those rights is the right to private ownership) then if someone invades my land they are violating God's law.

Private property is the basic requirement of wealth. It is defined by law to codify what existed for the protection and benefit of everyone. I'm basically quoting Aristotle here.
Actually, Apple ended up going with the standard lithium ion batteries instead of the thermonuclear reactor for the iPad.

Pretty weak if you ask me. Any money that the HP Slate will have a 50MW unit.
Right now i have these softwares open :
Omnigraffle (UML design), Transmit (yes, poor me i need an FTP client), Google Quick Search Box, TinyGrab (Dead simple tool for sending screenshots. highly recommended), MacVim.

For versionning i use Git and for Project Management i use my own web app. (soon to be shown here)
For screenshots, I use an free alternative for Windows(which in my case is much much better): http://pokit.etf.ba
Damn, that’s cool. Everybody always told me that as elements get more massive, they get less stable. Turns out that doesn’t have to be the case. Heavier elements could actually get stabler, they speculate that there could be yet heavier elements out there with day or year long half-lifes. Element 117 doesn’t seem to get you as far, though. More like a few milliseconds.

So, I guess, don’t let chemists tell you anything, there still might be room for Unobtainium (that doesn’t decay within milliseconds) in the periodic table :)
What Yelp Has to Say For Itself
In my personal opinion, because of Windows' position in the market place, they do not need or want glam and glitz and 'gushing reviews'. The best result for them is the silent, global adoption of a product that simply does it's job, and does it well. No one raves about *nix, but it dominates the server market, and encapsules the high-end computing market almost entirely.

flash-bang-whiz is a hallmark of the underdog, the has-been, the also-ran.

It could be said, for someone in their position, no news is the best news.

(Some flash can be useful; see the 80's and 90's, with hot sports cars working to bring average Joe's into the showroom to buy other things. Similar concept to loss-leaders, except it functions through image instead of discounts.)
I really really expected this to be an Onion-style parody of the posts following the formula: "What UNRELATED BUT SHOCKING ACTIVITY taught me about my business".
It's weird, my twins are almost 3 and they have yet to play with a computer except the couple of times I had some Elmo episodes up on Youtube. Most of their play comes with the old fashioned puzzles and dolls and other assorted toys. I figured they wouldn't know what to do with a computer, but clearly I need to revisit that. What kind of things can a 3 year old do with a computer? I admit I haven't the foggiest idea of how to introduce a child to a computer.
Maybe they nailed everything with Gizzard, but it'd be more convincing if their scalability and other problems were actually solved. I'm not sure why you alluded to those problems in the past tense - http://status.twitter.com/.

If I wanted to be disrespectful I'd have said their problems are still very real and very often and for that you'd have to be retarded to assume they've gotten anything but marketing right so far.

Would you build on gizzard right now? Their status blog is full of very recent reasons why it's premature for them to release anything and even more so why it's premature to trust or be grateful to them for doing so.
Don't let the title fool you, this is applicable to web apps and the like as well. If you get one thing out of it, get the bit about funnel optimization. Multiplicatively effective improvements are almost as powerful as compound interest, which is itself the most creative/destructive force known to man prior to splitting the atom.
Honestly, it's good to hear. I really like Windows 7, and I appreciate that a lot of work has gone into making me more efficient as a user. I'm a Mac/Windows/Gnome user currently and I have to say Windows 7 is my favorite desktop OS so far (except for web development, I like a native *nix shell).

It's great to see progression and what MS is capable of in the face of competition.
Yeah but his fans also want a championship, and not early round playoff exits.
During March Madness, they pitched Windows 7 with the feature "shake a window and all the other windows minimize". It's not really related to this article but I just felt it was very odd from them.
Hopefully this means they won't make god-awful internal music videos like that Bruce Springsteen one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU I feel dirty linking to it.
55% is a large cut... for self-publishing.
try winscp instead of filezilla.
http://searchyc.com/submissions/ask+hn+tools?sort=by_points

Modify the kw's and you can get some good info.
Except that it's not created by government regulation, tt just doesn't make economic sense. Broadband is very much a natural monopoly, like electricity or water. In a free market, the first few incumbents (usually the phone provider and the cable provider) who have already built out their infrastructure for old services (phone and cable TV) have a huge advantage over any other company, which would have to spend billions to lay their own wires. Thus market forces prevent any other company from entering the market.

Furthermore, it's not really clear that the socially desirable outcome is to promote competition at the line level. Because each producer has to spend billions on infrastructure to serve fewer people (because the more providers there are, the fewer customers for each), costs will be higher and profits lower the more companies enter the market.

The best solution is in fact government regulation. Instead of promoting competition at the line-level, governments should (and most OECD countries do, with the exception of Mexico, the Slovak Republic and...the US) require local-loop unbundling, whereby the incumbent telco is given a monopoly on laying lines to houses but is required to lease their lines to competitors at a set price.

For more information, read the Berkman Center's Broadband report, which was commissioned by the FCC and is presently the more thorough empirical look at these topics. It's available here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/broadband/.
OpenBSD +Xcfe
People want multi-tasking for non-interactive tasks. They want to compose email while streaming music, or browse the web while chatting on IRC. So switching doesn't matter much; that's easy with or without multitasking.
Read-eval-print loops for Javascript & CSS, SQL, Rails, Haskell, etc. Emacs, and infrequently Eclipse. Git, screen+ssh. EC2. Bugzilla.
plus screen
Yeah, if I thought I was worth $100k (and that they were going to offer me that), my aggressive # might be $150k or $200k. It's unlikely that they'd say, "Well gosh-- he really likes us, so let's offer him $80k".

There's also a lot of powerful psychology about saying that you really want to work with them rather than playing hard to get. By saying, "you're my favorite!" (truth or not), you're establishing with them (in their minds) that you're an exceptional judge of character. :-)
I've never heard of it in that context. Gateway drug usually refers to drugs in a stepping stone manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory
- Mac OS X
- textmate
- instapaper
- bpython
- Chrome
- Linode Servers + S3
- SSH + Screen
- Zsh
- GitHub
- Sequel Pro
- Transmit
- Things
- Ulysees
- Google support for ActiveSync for Appointment and Contacts management
- MediaTemple
+ Redmine. Absolutely essential.
fuck basecamp. i want wikis.
IDEA, svn, TeamCity (continuous integration), Jira (bug tracking), Confluence (info sharing), Basecamp (file sharing - though I wish we had nothing to do with it - it's generally painful)
I'll take large corporations with vested interests over the government. At least those interests are maintaining a profit and answering to the market. I can pick between a few different COMPETING mega-corps (if they are a monopoly, break them up via anti-trust). With the government I will have no choices and I can see them chomping at the bit to take away liberty "for the children."
I have a suggestion:

Have a description of each tool and a "Best of" list. I don't want 50 domain tools. I want to know the 5 best ones.
Sorry. I didn't notice your TLDR tag.
I'm reading it for the first time right now, and without nostalgia, at 100 pages in I'm very impressed.
Awesome, I didn't even think about having a feelbad.txt list! I might need to do that too, attacking the problem from both sides.
I was surprised the domain wasn't cubeofm.
Very cool vid. We haven't gotten these in Australia yet so I'm wondering what (if they exist) the parental controls are like for the iPad?

I'd be curious about purchasing another one for a nephew.
In the 80's we used to say: "You can't compare Pascal to C. It's like comparing a bicycle with training wheels to a ten-speed racing cycle."