skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, textbook pricing is totally out of whack. Also, the need to legitimize the higher sticker prices forces publishers to make books that are bloated, repetitive, and waaay too long. Who has time to read 1000+ pages? The textbook racket and bad quality of explanations is precisely why I started a publishing company: we make science textbooks that don't suck.

[1] No bullshit guide to math & physics => http://www.lulu.com/shop/ivan-savov/no-bullshit-guide-to-mat... (recently released v5.1)

[2] No bullshit guide to linear algebra => http://gum.co/noBSLA

There are also really good free books out there, with my favourite "gems" being really old books like this one on basic math https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41568/41568-pdf.pdf#page=3 and this one on calculus http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf#page=3 The calculus book is tiny, yet it covers the same material as a mainstream calculus book.
Introducing WebSockets: Bringing Sockets to the Web (2010)
Unsolvable automatically, using technologies currently available. I am not proposing despair, just saying I don't think the existence of automatic tools for identifying some kinds of copyright infringement gives much reason to think we could build automatic tools for identifying product placement.
You won't like the $100 fines for not wearing your seatbelt, thanks to laws that were passed dishonestly (many states got seatbelt laws on the books by promising they would only be enforced with another violation such as speeding).
Building a Scalable Postgres Metrics Backend Using the Citus Extension
I wonder if they'll really save money right away doing this. I imagine they'll spend a lot on inspections and getting things 100% right.

Either way, it's an amazing achievement.
You're like the only person I know who is a Windows Phone fanboy. Perhaps you missed the part where none of the competitors were open source, or cheap to license, and shipped years later (Windows Phone in 2010, Android in 2008). The world is flooded with Android for the same reason it's flooded with Linux now, and not Windows kernel devices.

Perhaps if Ballmer had stopped trying to make OS licensing a profit center on mobile, history would have been different.
Was it really Terminator 1 before any other films came out, though?
Great news for the 2.5 million homeless kids in the US.

http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20141117/homeless-ch...
The Physical Web
30W LED Corn Light with Cover E26/E27/E40
You don't get to decide, unilaterally, that someone else's speech constitutes "transgression". Transgression of what? I'm curious what you think the state or society should do to someone who isn't breaking any laws.

Do you really think the state should get involved if someone ignores your demand to stop talking to you?
This is not an acceptable comment on Hacker News. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12386468 and marked it off-topic.
It may not have been your choice to get fired from the job you had back when you decided you were stable enough to have kids.

Jesus you're a prick.
I think if google (verified with ssl cert etc) is asking for my password, there was a certain expectation there, but you're right, I should be less trusting ;)

Here is the demonstration url from the report
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&contin...

My point isn't about 'open redirects' not being a security issue, it's that the report should be valid because it's a whitelist bypass.

continue=yahoo.com is blocked
but continue=https://www.google.com/amp/yahoo.com is not blocked.

both do the same thing as far as the end user is concerned.
No. This predates that by decades. Also, our constitution clearly states the specific name of the country in English and Irish. This might seem like a small thing, but it' actually a very important issue to Irish people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Irish_state

It's intended as quite the opposite of a token of respect: the purpose of referring to Ireland as 'Eire' (omitting the accent on the initial 'é' too) is to delegitimise the use of the term 'Ireland' to refer to the Irish state.

If actual Irish people wanted the state to be referred to as 'Éire' in English, it'd be one thing, but we don't. In English, it's name is 'Ireland', and in Irish, it's name is 'Éire'. There's also a diplomatic fudge in that there's an 'official description of the state', which is 'Republic of Ireland', which isn't its official name, but which is an acceptable substitute. And yet, incorrect terminology is still used to refer to the Irish state, such as 'Éire' (being used in English) or 'Irish Republic', and sometimes you find particularly ignorant types refer to it as 'Southern Ireland' (which was the name of a failed attempt at a counterpart to Northern Ireland within the UK, but which never gained any legitimacy) and 'The Freestate' (which carries the implication of British dominion over Ireland).

The norm is to use 'native' names where those people want those names to be used. Both Ireland and Éire are native names of Ireland, just in two different languages.
I often hear people screaming, children playing or, more often, people calling for me as I'm entering sleep. About once a month I hear my grandmother falling, which has happened before, so I have to get up and respond to it no matter what.
Your brain tries to match sensory data with things, so you hear two noises in the background, something in your head says that sounds familiar, then your brain goes over it until it comes to the conclusion that it's a tiger or food or the intro to Funkytown. Once your brain makes the association, it thinks the song is relevant and tries to make more associations keeping it in your thoughts.

Music finds it evolutionary beneficial so songs have evolved to become earworms that you'll sometimes spread to other hosts. It's not really detrimental to humans, so there's no impetus to weed it out.
Have you read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"? The book is about to celebrate its 80th birthday, but the advice is truly timeless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
Perhaps it'd be better as a series of progressive informational pages than described in terms of certificate rejection. The central idea is that the site will become gradually less usable.

If a CA is being revoked, that's pretty close to the maximum pain they'll feel. But suddenly revoking a CA will cause users the most pain - I'm trying to make that gradual. A competent site would react in the first week when a few users got a mild warning, get a certificate from a new CA, then hopefully complain to the original CA demanding a refund and whatnot.
It's fine, I'm pretty sure I know the guy. I think he's an engineering manager. Managers like him are why so few are willing to speak up. People get defensive real quick. See the video posted below.

He knows my facebook account so I don't see how he thinks I'm trying to stay anonymous. Though I'm flattered he read thousands of my tweets to find the four or five about Redfin.
Add a step 0: flip coin for who cuts
This crosses the line into personal attack, which is not allowed on HN. I'm sorry I didn't see it sooner, while the thread was still in high dudgeon.

An internet forum in rage mode provides nothing close to due process, so when people start to target individuals here, I start to feel queasy if not outright sick. The bloodthirsty side of the hivemind is quite capable of jumping to wrong conclusions, indeed routinely does so. HN needs safeguards against this. One safeguard is users reminding one another that witch hunts are a thing, and a bad one—I wish I'd seen more such comments in the current thread, but at least there were some. Another safeguard is moderators drawing lines when the discussion gets nasty.

Some of you will object that exploitation and fraud are also bad things. Indeed they are. All of these are bad things, and an internet thread based on a blog post doesn't have nearly enough information to sort through who did how much of which of them. Therefore we should all curb our impulses.

I've flagged several other comments that target individuals and have closed this thread to new accounts, which have run suspiciously rampant in this discussion. If anyone wants to read the full thread including all the flagged/dead comments, you can do so by browsing HN with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in your user profile.

I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12380121 and marked it off-topic.
FWIW, a few bits of the Java source are generated from other languages. So if JD-GUI produces something that looks just freaky bizarre, the answer might well be that the actual Java source really does look like that, but that's not what "the original" file is written in, if that makes sense. Like 95% of the project is maintained in straight up Java, but things dealing with different crypto implementations, or features not available in the public release, are sometimes maintained "one level up".

Full disclosure: I'm a contractor, not a DoD employee; as the maintainer I can safely speak for what the project was and is. But as to what the project will do in the future, all I can do is give you my best Magic Eight Ball guess. Namely: if it happens, it probably won't be soon. Most of us on the project are big believers in open source but convincing the higher-ups that it would be worth doing that for EW is a looooooooong undertaking.

Going open source -- or making any other change to policy, or management, or whatever -- has to help the DoD solve the problems which this software was created to solve. It's not that the entire organization is against the idea of libre software -- AFRL is a research group, they get how good software development works -- it's just that their default position is "make no change" and any other approach has to show a demonstrable, concrete benefit over what they're already getting.

In the meantime... well, the EW-Public license specifically allows decompiling, which everybody was going to do anyhow. :-) It's not the same, but it makes looking for vulnerabilities way easier.
thanks. i do remember seeing that, and it's effectively useless. I can scale up my icons to be 500px across, and I get a choice of anywhere from 11-16pt font? gee, thanks apple... :/
Stripe has transformed the world. In 1999, I was asked to look into how to setup credit card processing for our company. I contacted Authorize.net for technical help. They just asked me to fax some information to them. Two months later my boss receives a bill for $3,000 claiming we had signed a contract agreeing to that fee. I think Stripe has made CC processing a lot easier for everyone.
The Undermining of American Charity
If they wanted to they could target high triple digit growth because it is all fiction.

China's diminishing growth, and a current, global energy oversupply are not flawed assumptions, they are global economic realities. I provided credible, current references to support this point in my previous post.

You can beat the drum about growth, urbanization or broad assumptions, but you fail to address the primary problem that this merely propaganda not grounded in credible, objective data.

I was more concerned my comment about China in hindsight and your out of date references would be misconstrued as contradictory. Your reference was out of date and already proven false and thus irrelevant. China can only be viewed in hindsight because it takes years to disprove the current propaganda.
Service is Europe is not poor. Not by a long shot.

When talking about service you have to consider cultural differences too. I'm american, in the country that I studied abroad in the service expectations were different from cashiers than American cashiers and neither are tipped.

I also would prefer to have much less fake friendliness.
You forgot to mention the one weird trick that Kid Rock uses to help keep ticket prices for his shows lower -- he plays a lot of shows.
They are circumventing the legal issues by limiting to 54 cents per mile, which is the IRS standard mileage rate: https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/2016-standard-mileage-rates.... That is, at this rate it's just considered a reimbursement for gas/wear and tear on the vehicle, not actual income for services provided.
Can Docker be ousted?
Imagine you're the author, and you have to explain derivatives in 100 pages, because your boss asked you to make the book 1000+ pages long. Including definitions, formulas, examples, and problems, you could get to 30 pages. You'd think it's impossible to write 70pp of padding, yet somehow they make it happen...

So students are double the victims: they pay through the nose, and they get 100pp of crappy explanations, where 30pp would do.
Argh, HN totally didn't honor my line breaks on this one and I have no way of editing it now. The anti-procrastination setting was successful in locking me out after I posted it. I came back now to edit it and it is too late.
Unfortunately, you are mistaken. Minimum wage for tipping jobs is much less than normal, in all of the 4 provinces I've lived in (AB, SK, ON, QC).
Do the cost of living comparison. 120k in KC is about equivalent to 225k in SF.
Mod, if you are reading this, could you please edit my post and fix the line breaks?
Google will absorb Nest developers in new restructuring
Okay, it seems like knowing how much gas each API call uses is rather critical to deciding on a strategy. Shouldn't that be documented?

(At first I thought "gas" was just an in-game resource. Didn't realize it was literally Ethereum gas.)
Handwriting Doesn't Matter Really?
The second trick is being Kid Rock.
I noticed that too. The more often you search for someone and click on their profile, the more facebook will promote the connection both ways.

I think it's kind of interesting to 'figure out' how the facebook machine works. How a simple interaction, a location, a conversation or even a purchase on amazon shapes your news feed and the feed of people around you.
"FiOS" is a Verizon trademark, not a general term. Fiber to the home is an entirely different matter from commercial and municipal fiber optic links, mainly in that they do not have to reach almost every single address. They connect only businesses, government buildings such as town hall, schools and a community center, cellular base stations, etc. The most expensive portion of the physical manifestation of the Internet is the "last mile" between neighborhood hubs and residential modems. Hence why ISPs re-use existing cabling such as copper twisted pair and coaxial cable originally laid for telephony and television respectively. Large capital expenditures are required to get in the game and barriers to entry such as pole access regulations, customers expectation of a bundled TV service, telephone service regulations, customer support staffing, etc. make it hard for plucky startups to get a foothold. Some states have even banned publicly owned ISPs! Of course once an ISP is big enough and is one of the duopoly it can raise rates annually and cap, throttle and assess overage fees.
Probably, you and I shouldn't go on any dates. We'd probably run into this a lot: I thought it was absurd enough that the joke was unmistakable, but maybe not with everyone.
How to Setup an IPython Parallel Cluster on Google Compute Engine
A 3 month job search for an experienced developer would be insane in Kansas City. I'd probably start freaking out if it took more than a month, because that's a long time here. I'd expect about 2 weeks, and mostly just because it takes time to get the word out and do an interview or two and negotiate at the place where you eventually accept an offer.

Oh, uh. Wait. I mean there are no jobs here. We definitely do not have tons of nice starter 3br homes under 200K. Do not move here, other experience developers!
To me, the reason to form a Delaware C Corporation is to facilitate investment from the type of investors who normally invest in Delaware C Corporations, such as the well known investors from Silicon Valley. A Delaware C Corporation structures a company for a particular life cycle and a particular financial structure that is attractive to particular types of investors...including founders with particular goals.

Roughly speaking, those investors are seeking returns via compounded growth in the value of their equity over a period of several years.

Likewise, an LLC may also be attractive to a different particular classes of founders and investors. In general these will be investors who are seeking return on equity via periodic cash flows. Structuring an LLC as a pass through tax vehicle facilitates returns via cash flow at the expense of compounding equity growth.

To me, tax strategy is a bit of a red herring. A higher tax on a more money often is better than a lower rate on less money for the same reasons that less equity in a big company is often worth more than more equity in a small one.

Of course, in the end it all depends on the company and the founder's objectives.

Good luck.
I realize this is self promotion for your textbook company (who's goals I laud! Acessible knowledge is a good thing), but the idea that a text book is "too long" is...odd. I've never been expected to read a textbook cover to cover before, and all the extra content a textbook has makes it a remarkable resource for referencing even after the class has finished. While the basics of knowledge can be disseminated in far fewer pages, the upsides of having extra examples and asides in a textbook pretty easily outweighs the downsides (unless you count pricing).
A Google search for the terms

antibiotic resistance livestock

turns up:

http://www.cdc.gov/narms/animals.html, http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-..., and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17600481 on the first page.

Edit: In the off-chance this is about the media conspiracy theory thing...

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/feeding-antibiotic...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46016296/ns/technology_and_science...

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/11/16/kids-drug-resistant...

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/07/11/infection-experts-w...
He's moved on to bigger and better things, but authority (http://nathanbarry.com/authority/) is supposedly the definative guide to this topic. I haven't read it yet because he removed the eBook only option (this, as I understand it, is part of the trick to making money self publishing: present everything as a premium package instead of a boring old book).
After three accidental ad-clicks and a scrolling ad on mobile, I gave up on reading the article.
s/fairly difficult/impossible/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
The article doesn't really make clear that this is really shared carpooling (which has existed for decades), NOT driving for hire a la Uber and Lyft. The reason for the 54c/mile limit is that is the IRS standard mileage rate, so anything that and below is not considered drive-for-hire.
Calculus books also fall in the same ball park: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/491544/ref=pd_zg... some of them are almost $300, OMG...
I did upvote you, i thought you contributed thoughtful responses :)

"but I think most people who suggest programming to be tought as a universal skill don't expect everyone to become a professional programmer"

wow, that moment when you realize it is possible that you have misunderstood an entire ongoing, industry-wide conversation.

"but I think it's far less important as a basic skill nowadays"

That's true, the average person does not need to make their own chairs anymore. And programming would be more useful to more people. But I sometimes like to think of high school as sampling things that you might be interested in pursuing further. Though I think we could get rid of one shop elective for a mandatory basics of computer programming type course.

Also, it is still a job, projected job growth 2014-2024 is 6%, which is average. [1]

"Like, soldering simple circuits, that kind of stuff"

Oh cool, we didnt have that. We did have metalworking classes, but I went with the computer ones. We had some cool stuff in middle school, like using radio broadcasting equipment.

"I think so. And in any case, I think that teaching a proprietary product in public schools is completely inacceptable, pretty much no matter how useful a skill it currently might be. Schools always should teach generic, transferable skills, not products."

I see your position, but I have seen so many people who think of using a program in a step by step manner who would need this. Perhaps a basics of computers/programming type course would fix the "navigate the program like a maze" mindset? Perhaps we are experiencing a filter bubble like effect where we have lost touch with people who are not into software, and how they do not just grasp things like we do?

1. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/carpenter...
Just wanted to say that the phrase "flight-proven" is genius marketing.
There's a study for treating gonorrhea with solithromycin going on right now [0]. It's a single dose, too (alleviating fears of not finishing the entire run).

[0] http://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/antimicrobials/news...
So, cities like Pittsburgh are so much better that the founder of ModCloth relocated the whole way across the country after having founded the company in Pittsburgh while at Carnegie Mellon.

Ummmmmmmm ... yeah ... seems like the people making these decisions speak with their feet.

In addition, Austin actually seems to be in a big venture capital slowdown right now. So, VC's already there don't seem to share the sentiment.

I'll believe these partners when they start forking out big checks rather than just blathering words.

And I don't think I even need to comment about the cities that have to deal with the political problems of being in a red state.

Sure, if you're white, heterosexual, christian, and have a wife mostly interested in spawning burb-rats, the midwest is awesome.

If you miss on any of those categories, even God won't help you.
I highly doubt that this is true for gonorrhea.
Silicon Valley Circa 1982
This is genius. It's even better than No Man's Sky!
mee too
I have coworkers' phone numbers on my phone so I assume that's how Facebook is recommending them to me. I like my coworkers but this is kind of creepy. Wish there was a way to turn it off, both directions.
There was a freakonomics episode on this. People believe they have control, but it turns out that , even if the amount people tip differs per person, people basically never change how much they tip.
Posting that crosses into personal attack and that is not allowed on HN. Please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379833 and marked it off-topic.
It seems like the article is missing a possible situation (which I believe is likely). Suppose
-The ticket price is the market price and a raise would drive away a lot of buyers
-A small portion of buyers do not do the full ticket research and are happy with $265 tickets.

Their conclusion that "Demand and Supply is out of balance" seems to assume that each buyer is the same and has some probability of buying at a given price. Instead, there are a few people who buy at the bigger price without thinking. The fact that these people exist does not mean that raising the price won't decrease the number of buyers.
Not really a fanboy, just... finally no longer fighting with my phone. It's faster, it's more secure, it's supported properly by the developer. I'd honestly probably rather an Ubuntu phone or a Tizen phone or something, but Windows is the only third option I currently have on my carrier.

And there's plenty of open source options out there now too, but it requires people step away from the coddled embrace of the existing monopolist.
I mean, it is a signal of extra-terrestrial origin...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12347558