skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a terribly shortsighted comment.

> We do OWN the internet, because it is us who create the Internet.

That's a pretty serious mis-statement of fact right there. You don't OWN the internet because it was 'you' (whoever that is) that created it.

The internet is a connection of networks, each of those networks could operate by itself, the fact that we've partitioned the address space in a way that allows us to route packets from 'sharia' ruled countries to the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and all of the EU is to our mutual benefit.

To suggest that you 'can shove those Sharia countries domains...' is to add insult to injury, nobody there asked for American and EU entrepreneurial types to buy these domains and use them, they are primarily intended for use by those countries nations. To muddy the intentions of TLDs is a questionable practice, how would you feel if Wallmart started to sell stuff under a .edu domain?

Those domains are not worthless, they just are what they are, regional TLDs, specifically with the intent to enable each country to govern their own TLD as they see fit.

Please also notice that .us is the regional domain for the United States, and not .com , and that it too has its own set of rules.
He is using Wordpress so I assume PHP:
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];

http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

HTTP_REFERER
"The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this, and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it cannot really be trusted."
Their website is down.
<i>Some CEOs will benefit from this sort of knowledge, others will be damaged by it - there is no simple rule.</i>

Sure, but that's a pretty good test as to whether or not you should work for them.
I'm going to say what everyone else has said in way less breath: become action oriented and DO. Don't think about how you feel, how mushy your brain is, etc. Ignore obstacles and PLOW.

Get something done.
In the relief section, Google is asking among other things for ...

f. A declaration that the Oracle’s claims are barred by the doctrine of
unclean hands

They are also probably going to have to explain why they didn't even bother to make Dalvik Java-compatible.
A good location for Printing Flyer?
I have come across this company and was wondering if any of you guys had ever printed with them. I am after some simple flyers, but I am concerned their prices are much cheaper than any of their competitors. Please help!
caution: rabbit trail ahead...

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

(for a laugh: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://downforeveryoneorj...)
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Consumers who buy Android phones at retail obv.
An Amateur Investor's Tale of Favored Sums
Thanx - this is my current thinking as well though hoping to get some more feedback from folks who went through the same situation.
You can, actually. Just not in the .ch TLD.
Yes, and make sure to notify Google of the 301 from inside their Webmaster Tools site, as well. Also, run a Yahoo Site Explorer search to see who is linking to you, and email all those folks to have them change the links to your new domain.

A caveat: You may lose search engine rankings for a few weeks. My site was ranking #4 for a specific keyword and I changed the domain. Did everything right--301 redirect; notified Google. I have a service that checks my rankings every day. I noticed the site dropped from the rankings ENTIRELY for 3 weeks!

But then it came back with the new domain...and at #1 for that search term. :)

Just know that even doing everything right means you may still have a waiting period.

By the way, I'm shocked this guy just let his old domain name waste away. Fortunately, it appears he still has the name. If the OP is reading this, for Pete's sake, do a 301 before you lose all your Google juice!
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Am I the only one who thought he is really underpricing himself? Depends on the quality of his work I guess.
This an honest question: why do you have the goal to write "lots of blog posts", as opposed to focusing on quality and/or fun? Regarding your recent Ask HN about monetizing your blog that made you remove the ads, that can't be the reason.
Hey that's pretty cool, is the source open?
I might have some time tonight, found an error. I can fix it and pop it on github?
Try www.pearanalytics.com. We scan your website in 30 seconds - no signup or email required. (We optimized that process by running through HN before :)
uh... what?
Riverthe.net
Conceived by artist Ryan Trecartin and tumblr Founder David Karp, with creative programming by Nick Hasty and Sergio Pastor. Dubbed riverthe.net (currently at the temporary url http://www.riverofthe.net/), the online tool strings together 10 second videos uploaded by users through tag alone. Only three tags can be given to any video. And anyone can upload a video. Interesting, new way to watch online video.
I write to practice writing, not for ads (as you rightly say I dropped all external advertising from the site). I think you have to keep writing to get better at it and I don't believe it's an always monotonically increasing process of quality. Sometimes there'll be misses.

That's not to say I post anything. I doubt you care about my opinion of Katie Price.
Paypal will allow individuals to 'beam' sums of money (1999)
It's WP Greet Box and it's fairly controversial here [1]. I may remove it. I'm not entirely sure I see the problem with reminding HN users to vote for a piece of content if they found it interesting, but it's not a big deal so if people are going to boycott me over it, I'll dump it.

1. See discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1738183
Well, suppose that you do give them the unencrypted file. They already have the encrypted file and presumably are aware of the encryption scheme you used, so (this could be totally wrong, as I don't know enough about encryption) they should be able to figure out the encryption key.
Wow that just made me think: why isn't there a facebook for families only? Surely, some people would pay for it.
Trying to juggle gchat, work, email, and HN never ends well. I'm going to try this. Thanks.
Just view source, it's not obfuscated. If there's interest I can post the erlang code for the server on github.
Final Thesis Submission
The submission of the final thesis will bring about a sigh of pleasure from many students. However, there is much work which needs to be done prior to this. The process of submitting you final thesis should be clear to ensure that you have done all that is necessary to ensure a good thesis.
>>These registrations appear to relate to versions of certain Sun Java materials that were released as open-sourced software in 2006 and 2007.

I'm not a lawyer (and even Groklaw goes over my head most of the time), but it seems like this is the crux. If the lawsuit is based entirely around items that are open-sourced, then there's no lawsuit. But there's no real way to tell, since Oracle hasn't specified what exactly is being infringed.

And from a comment below:

>>Oracle wanted Java more open when it worked better for them, now it doesn't. They are allowed to change their minds, aren't they?

Yes, Oracle is perfectly welcome to change it's mind and say "We don't want this open source anymore." However, they can't (I believe) un-open-source things that have already been released. They can remove the license, take down the Java.com downloads, and continue developing Java under a proprietary license, but the whole point of OS is that the community could take their last OS release and fork it themselves.

This also means that a company can't open-source software or development tools, wait until they're implemented in various systems, then turn around and "un-open-source" them and sue for infringement.
I refused to learn JavaScript until JQuery came along. Why would I want to waste my time on some unevenly supported scripting language that (pre-AJAX) was mostly used for silly animations or client-side form validation? JQuery has since made learning JavaScript enjoyable.
I also gave up on Ubuntu. I had Dell D800 and Ubuntu was working just fine including suspend/hibernate. Now I got a new ASUS, where suspend/hibernate does not work. I decided to stick with Windows 7, it is more reliable for me when it comes to that issue. Although, I miss Ubuntu, for me it is a much better OS. Hopefully on day, before I am dead, they will fix this issue.
It is not a tutorial. It's a reference guide.
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Should we pretend that companies don't act selfishly?

As I've said in another comment, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like real people. For example, corporations can exercise human rights.

Corporations can even be convicted of criminal offences, and it would be stupid to not hold them to the same standards as real people.

I don't know were this trend is coming from (that companies shouldn't be accountable for anything other than making money) but it doesn't do any good.
First off, great weekend project.

While Twilio would be a surefire way to do it. You can also hack up a small script that will use sms gateways to send the email, but then you would have to know the person's carrier in advance. I find this way more interesting, but not nearly as robust. You can do some interesting things when you are sending text messages through gateways.
i thought so too but I guess it depends on location too.
Market research is generally extremely difficult to do well. And for consumer products its less clear how useful it is. Most people use consuer products and Apple engineers/designers are probably fairly close to their target market, which are early adopters (others fall in line after early adopters).

And we should also be clear, Apple has tons of market data. These Apple stores I'm sure supply them tons of data, as an example. While they may not do targeted focus groups, I'm certain that they go into meetings where they say things like, "Verizon would expand our user base by x%, but likely add these additional costs".
From what I have read Google forked Apache Harmony which has a field of use restriction that includes mobile phones. They were aware of this restriction but proceeded anyway, correctly assuming that Sun would never sue them. Oracle bought Sun and that backfired.

Now I don't think software patents are valid but Google winning this case won't somehow invalidate software patents. In fact it would probably be better if they lost because it will bring the issue into the light for more people and encourage Google to campaign harder against software patents despite their own large holdings.
I wonder why this post didn't get a single vote:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1763429

even though it was submitted earlier and basicly states the same thing?
Take two masses A and B, place them at rest near each other. They should collide and be at rest at some point between them. However, based on the inaccuracy in the way the simulation works if one of those particles is really huge they sometimes gain a lot of energy and fly past each other.
Well, that's a question I'd loved to see answered. Simply put, I don't know if you can be 'more open source', and then simply change your mind on such a thing.

Perhaps this situation isn't really reflective of what I'm talking about, but I don't think that you can un-GPL code that's already been opened that way or, even if you can, I don't think you can restrict those who are using the version you originally licensed as GPL in any way other than how you licensed it.

It's a complicated scenario, for sure, but I'd like to hear whether or not the sort of bait-and-switch I described is something that can be done, or if there are any precedents either way.
your paypal redirects to yoursite.co.uk instead of a thank you page! I hope you get around to doing this, cause it looks like an interesting project.
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You should come visit a real one here in Italy - drinks are on me, and it's a lot more fun than HN in many ways. If you want to expense it in terms of research for cool geek things, Padova was Galileo's home for the 'happiest years of his life', and there is a tower he supposedly used for observations. Also, the first operating theater was built in Padova in 1594. Other illustrious people associated with the University here include Fallopio (yes, that one), and Federico Faggin - pulled out of my head at random.
As a matter of fact, I am at this point unfamiliar with any of these tools you mentioned above so your impression was correct. I'm pretty green in this field (other than the fact I've been bashing at design of various iPad's apps for quite some time now).

If you are in a great hurry, then I don't think it's worth wasting your time. We could always arrange it so that you keep working your designs, but give me concrete goals and a deadline. Should I succeed, great, if not, you have still your own work to rely on.
Poll: Are you using SSDs?
How is it going with the Solid State Disk revolution? Are you already using SSDs? If you are what is your experience so far? Happy with the performance? Happy with the price/performance?
not using SSDs
experimenting with SSDs
Using SSDs for production in selected cases
switched over completely
The trouble with fast breeders is that you need a huge fissile inventory to get one started.

A study of the PRISM design, a modern fast breeder that uses integral reprocessing to reduce the inventory of plutonium that's sitting around, not fissioning, indicates that if we reprocessed all spent fuel in the U.S. today, we'd have enough Pu to power about 33 MWe worth of breeders, about 1/3 of the current fleet.

It comes down to energy vs power. "Fast" breeders can tap a huge energy resource, but they can only produce a low level of power because they tap that energy slowly. That's the whole reason they use highly reactive sodium as a coolant; to reduce fissile inventory per unit of power, you need a coolant with incredibly high heat conductivity. Lead is a much easier material to handle, but a lead-cooled fast reactor has 1/3 the power density of a sodium reactor, which means 3x the fissile inventory.

Fast breeders, therefore, can sustain energy production over a long period of time, but they can't drive a rapid expansion of nuclear energy, like the 5-fold increase we'd need to replace fossil fuels and stop global warming -- it becomes hard to justify the economics of a plutonium economy in the same way... You have to be thinking more than "seven generations" ahead to see the economic boon.

Thermal reactors effectively trade a moderator material (water, graphite, etc.) for (relatively scarce) fissile material. Thermal reactors (even today's LWR) extract 10-20x as much power from fuel than do fast reactors with less aggressive design (although the LWR extracts only 2% as much energy, in the long term, as a breeder could.)

A thermal breeder, based on thorium, could provide the best of worlds. With small inventory, it's possible to meet high power requirements, but by using abundant thorium instead of rare U-235, be able to sustain that power for thousands of years.
I would add the Great Depression Constitution. With changes in things like turning the Commerce Clause on its head that lead to cases like Wickard v. Filburn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn) I can't really say we're living under the same constitutional order as the post-antebellum one.

The Progressives also made some significant changes (popular election of Senators, income tax), but one can at least argue that was done through the system by the amendment process. By the time of FDR, only fig leafs were required (e.g. the effective ban on private ownership of machine guns through a $3,250 "tax" (in today's dollars, or "The switch in time that saved nine" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_in_time_that_saved_nine )) ... during the Great Depression). Now, D.C. doesn't even bother with the fig leafs ... one might seriously question how much we really live under the rule of law today, but its pretty clear that's long been an issue (one could start with e.g. the frankly unconstitutional and very early Alien and Sedition Acts, although they didn't last very long).

Mexico is also a ... strange case to cite, when one party held power for more than 70 years starting in 1929 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Revolucionario_Instituc...) ... it's name, in English, is rather suggestive: "Institutional Revolutionary Party". That said, starting sometime around then didn't it/the party provide a fairly stable form of government, and most notably they were willing to give up power peacefully (more or less) fairly recently.
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Is an Email Address a Promise to Answer?
This has a nice feel to it. Sort of like how I use disqus to follow my favorite commenters. Great job.
As findm hinted, I am not from the U.S and have mostly dealt with the clients locally.
Very interesting quote, thank you!
What would be really great is if the companies responsible (i.e. Operating System and desktop software vendors) for bad code were required to foot the bill of quarantine and clean up.
Cardboard PC case reviewed, didn't catch fire
I know you say you love the job, but how do you feel about the specific projects that you're asked to work on? Are they interesting to you?
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Because jgrahamc is a well known member of this community and prolific contributor, and so his stuff gets upvoted more easily.
From the article: The US Federal Reserve still continues to print dollars to finance skyrocketing government debt. The fact that this erodes the value of the US currency is something that the Americans seem not to care about.

What erosion? US inflation has been below 3% for all this year, and in 2009 we actually had deflation. (http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/curren...)
Any country that opens up its national TLD is in fact explicitly asking outsiders to "buy these domains and use them". Indeed, many national TLDs are marketed mostly to non-nationals. The government of Tuvalu apparently makes 10 percent of its revenue from the .tv domain (and wishes it had a better deal with Verisign so that was even larger). It is surely important to the countries who make this choice to maintain good relations with the "American and EU entrepreneurial types". Otherwise why did they bother?
I had a similar idea around something I called 'deadmansknob', a number of timed releases when you don't check in to a webservice for some period of time.
It's hard to tell if momentum is being conserved or not with so many particle, but in the example you mention there is one particle moving to the right, which is the OMFG.

So to make the test simpler, let's start with a single particle. This particle is initially at rest, just as with the protodisk, and nothing happens if we wait for a while. Adding in another particle of the same mass, we see the two particles move towards each other and meet in the middle, implying momentum is conserved. So I am thinking momentum is probably conserved for all cases, to some degree of accuracy
What is the sales cycle like? Do you take on more than one client at a time? If so, on average, how many? Are you looking for new gigs even while in the midst of implementing something for a given client?

Should my blog be about tech-related stuff only?

Do you always sign a contract before taking a gig?

Is fixed-price or hourly-rate work harder to get? I always see professional freelance devs using hourly rates, but I really prefer to take fixed price gigs (with payment milestones if I don't know the client well).

I occasionally see contractors complain that they have to much work. I'd love to be subcontracted for some of that work (seems like a pretty straightforward proposition - I'll do your extra work for a bit cheaper and you can keep the difference), but would that hurt me long-term because I wouldn't develop relationships with end-clients? Is this even a reasonable strategy for getting work?
Isn't this called "leaving a will"?
My netbook contains SSD.. so far no complaints, a bit faster in startup.
Fun, new online video streaming site conceived by artist Ryan Trecartin and tumblr Founder David Karp, with programming by Nick Hasty and Sergio Pastor. It strings together 10 second videos uploaded by users through tag alone. Only three tags can be given to any video. Anyone can throw video into the river. Watch the stream of the collective unconscious!

It's also going to be projected on a wall at a show at the New Museum: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/429/free
Facebook iPhone app shares all your phone numbers
Also, I timed my submission to hit when the US East Coast was awake. My submission hit around 0930 Eastern whereas that submission was two hours earlier.
Ask HN: Utilities / Techniques for transferring installed applications
A relative of mine just bought a new laptop to replace their previous one (that is now heavily damaged, but barely usable). They have Microsoft Office and Intuit Quickbooks (among other things) but have long since lost the installation media. They asked if I could help them transfer the software to the new computer. Despite all the system recoveries I've done, I've never actually transferred complete applications from one machine to another. I'm betting it's a lot more involved than copying directories, as there must be countless registry settings that can't be copied directly.

Are there any recommendations on how to go about doing this? I have a couple of weeks to get it done and I don't mind buying a fairly inexpensive tool if I can get it quickly. I read about Move Me, but I'm wandering if there's a better (or DIY) alternative.
> If you were paying for them you wouldn't be bitching on whatever social media sites are still up about the other site being down. If you were paying you'd be calling their support line, just like you do in the real world, remember?

Ha ha, what? I tried to convert this into a coherent sane syllogism, but failed. You need some bizarre premises like 'paid services can instantly solve their problems if you just call them' or 'ad-supported services spend downtime lounging around and laughing at the users'.
As a developer of custom business webapps, I have been in this situation many times and I desperately wish I could take this advice. Really, I do.

But when a client makes a request like this, often unaware of what may actually be easy or fast or simple or consistent, I can't say no to it. Saying that we need to take more time to write tests and document it properly would likely come across as similarly unprofessional and reflect badly on the company. And the consequences are every bit as bad as you say they are: the code rots and becomes volatile and obnoxious to maintain.

That's why it hurts to read this post--it feels so painfully true. I'm lucky in that at my company, my project managers are coders themselves who understand the programmatic constraints and the danger of software rot--but my clients usually aren't. I have no solution for this; it's a fine line to walk.
Well the Internet did help raise a generation of people who are full of sense of entitlement, who think everything is supposed to be free yet brag about ad blocking and piracy, and when they finally do get a few cents out of their pocket think that what they are doing is "rewarding the developer" instead of simply fulfilling their obligation in the free market.
I own both a German .de as well as a .nl from the Netherlands and the hoops I had to jump to get the German domain was insane while the .nl took the same effort as registering a standard .com for me.