skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encode a timestamp. If they are running at the same time of day feed them a bag of dicks.
This story reminds me of exactly what recently happened to the company I work for.

About 2 years ago, a couple employees including myself began working at a new location with no wired internet access. They were given Verizon USB dongles to plug into their laptops. Including those dongles, company-wide there were only a handful of devices on this Verizon plan.

Over time, the company got more employees at the new location. We were provided a wireless hotspot (one of the verizon jetpack devices) for everyone in the office to use. Eventually we started getting messages from the company's IT department that we were using too much data. Turns out every single verizon device at the company shared a single 60 GB data cap. Our device alone used like 15-20 GB. It only takes a couple devices used like that to blow past the data cap.

Since the company was adding new employees at the new location, as well as giving out more dongles, we managed to get them to switch to a larger data plan. I think it was 80 GB. As you can probably guess, it didn't take long to go over the cap again. Finally, some time late last year we were told by IT that the company switched to an unlimited data plan. No more caps.

Fast forward to the last 3-6 months. Like clockwork towards the end of the month the internet is slow as hell in the office. I would clock it in the 20-70 kbps range. We check the display on the hotspot and the data usage section says "Data usage: 26 GB / unlimited". I call our IT department and am told, "that's really strange. Let me call Verizon."

The next day IT calls me back. I get told "You're not going to believe this. The company data plan is unlimited. Verizon has a per-device cap at 22 GB, and then they throttle the connection. They want such an exorbitant fee to increase the device cap that it was cheaper for me to order a hotspot for everyone in the office (about 4 or 5 new devices)." Since we had a bunch of local devices set up on the jetpack's LAN, now whenever we hit the 22 GB cap and get throttled, we just swap in a new SIM from another device.

It really makes me laugh though, because when we have a few devices using roughly 15-20 GB each, Verizon had no problem letting us blow past the 60 GB data cap. None of the devices throttled the connection. The company would just receive a bill with hefty per-GB overage charges each month. When we switched to the 'unlimited' plan, IT was just as surprised as we were with the throttling. That was the whole point of the 'unlimited' plan.

This is one anecdote. But the fire department's experience reminds me way too much of the experience at my company. It's possible that both the fire department IT and my company's IT didn't do their due diligence. But my instinct tells me that verizon doesn't always make it clear that "unlimited data plan" is "unlimited data plan with a per-device cap, and subsequent throttling," especially if you are switching from a capped multi-device plan to an 'unlimited' multi-device plan.
Food is perishable. The population rises exponentially. I don't personally believe anyone is purposely destroying food for political reasons that I'm aware of. A great deal is shipped to 3rd world countries in an attempt to help feed their populations where possible. And, even here at home many grocery stores attempt to redistribute food that is about to expire to homeless and poor communities. More can be and should be done. I don't mean to come off as confrontational. If you have some articles that point to this I'd like to read them. That is clearly wrong and shouldn't be happening if it is.

Edit: I'd like to point out though, it seems odd that you are arguing for limiting/destroying production by turning farmland into parks. But then go on to suggest that OECD countries are attempting to limit production unfairly? Very confusing.

Edit 2: My dad was also part of a charitable group that helped provide seeds and training to other countries in need in an attempt to help them to establish their own self-sustaining agricultural industry.
If you aren't familiar with this neighborhood, it is incredibly pedestrian friendly, not only can you walk to all of those stores, it is located next to a Caltrain station.
Man dies while trying to protect his girlfriend from three Muslims in Greece
Ting uses the theme music to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and I enjoy it.
IOW, taking past performance as indicative of future returns.
There are over 3,000 truck driver jobs in Chicago on Craigslist
From what I gather, the price of local generation has reached the point where it is less than the cost of high voltage transmission. Add to that battery storage will reach about 100kwh in the next two years and there's no reason anywhere should need to be connected to the massive grids we've known in the past.
You're misunderstanding.

If you do 0 work, you get $100 of welfare.

If you do $100-worth of work, you get your wages plus $75 of welfare. You net more money working than not working.

This is opposed to having benefits "fall off a cliff" if you earn above a certain threshold, which is very much a disincentive to work. Instead, the benefits gradually taper off so that each step toward more employment is always a net positive for the worker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_proliferation ?
Thorium/breeder reactors don't work for large booms, but would be fine for small booms and dirty bombs.
This is basically translated from the Shanghai Institute of Applied physics (www.sinap.ac.cn) press releases.

It will be interesting if China develops a complete Thorium fuel cycle and the reactor designs to take advantage of it.
This is the license below. I'm pretty sure this is going to be vague enough to cause problems with a ton of legal departments. They want to be the only ones hosting it and the the only ones you call in to help with it.

I get where the Redis folks are coming from, but this is basically a nail in the product and guarantees a fork if they don't turn back.

=== 8< ===

The Software is provided to you by the Licensor under the License, as defined below, subject to the following condition.

Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software.

For purposes of the foregoing, “Sell” means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software. Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Cause License Condition notice.
Consulting is explicitly called out as prohibited in their "Commons Clause":

> For purposes of the foregoing, “Sell” means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software.

(Emphasis mine)
While the tone of the entire post is unsettling, it does say that the core server is still BSD licensed.
>Independent third party media should be the fallback.

But "Independent third party media" is more directly controlled, propagandized and filled with lies than the mainstream media. You would have people fall back from the frying pan and into the fire.
Weird, I think it’s almost the opposite. I wouldn’t be in software if it didn’t at least allow for an upper-middle class lifestyle - I would probably have tried to either become a scientist, a brewer, or a banker. As a scientist I would maximize my mental interest and engagement in the work, as a brewer I would have the best lifestyle, and as a banker I would have the most money. Software right now is great because it does pretty well in all three categories, but if it paid just as well or a little more as being a scientist, I would have little reason to stick around in software.

Age is probably somewhat of a factor here since people who went into software before it was so highly paid likely didn’t have money as a huge motivator, compared to people who went into software more recently
Never read Goodkind. I don't think I could read Jordan anymore. Just kind of got over high fantasy a bit and don't find it all that rewarding. With Tolkien, I used to view "The Hobbit" as pretty good and TLOTR as his magnum opus. Now I'm convinced it's the other way round.

Generally, I'm very much the same. Let's set the scene quick and get the characters doing stuff. I used to see intricate scene dressing as a skill now I see it as an indulgence. There are too many period films, mini-series and series with beautiful sets and costumes etc if I really want that. There I can marvel at them without much addition time cost.
Consulting is specially called out in the actual license as a no-no: "including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software"
Wouldn't that be unethical of the lawyers and title companies?
So if you're a cloud provider that provides generic cloud VMs, with a button to "Install Redis onto VM", is that allowed? What if it's one of hundreds of similar buttons to install various software onto the VM?

What if there's no button, but a user can run `apt-get install redis`? Is that in violation?
> Makes me scratch my head when the people holding the infrastructure together get compensated so little.

Because they are very far away from where value is captured. That's a seriously annoying part of the way capitalism as we know it works: you only get paid a substantial fraction of the value created if you are near the point of value capture. That's why sales people tend to earn well.
Amazes me that occupational licensing laws will prevent these inmates after being released from working as firefighter (because CA won't let former criminals work for the government), while somehow CA is fine having them work as slaves for the government while incarcerated.
The physics involved in multi-rotor drones (or even counter rotating dual rotor toy-level RC helicopters) is significantly different from single rotor+stabilizer helicopters in that there is at least in theory point where the thing is dynamically stable.
Seed Financing, Cap Table and Terms Walk-Through
From Reason's perspective, the ironic part is that, even if Backpage is guilty, this is still a great case study for legalizing and regulating sex work. Even from a libertarian agenda, this is kind of an own goal for them.

The fact that any and all prostitution is illegal in the United States (outside of certain counties in Nevada in certain regulated and licensed brothels) means that running a service like Backpage requires people who are, ipso facto, willing to be accessories to criminal activity. One should not be surprised when it turns out that such people end up being accessories to even more criminal activity than originally bargained for!

If you outlaw online classified ads for sex workers, only outlaws will manage online classified ads for sex workers.
> Verizon didn't have to call it an unlimited plan, they chose to

They could have just chosen not to compete in a market with unregulated definitions. You are improperly hating the player and not the game as though it's reasonable for them to not use definitions their competitors use when competing.
Pragmatically, this is still open source software, because the software source is freely available.

It might not be Open Source Software now, perhaps according to some zealots like RMS et al.

> According to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), open source licensing cannot limit the scope of a license – it only applies conditions to exercising it. With this model, no one can stop you from doing whatever you want with the software, whether commercial or non-commercial, or (famously) good or evil. Therefore, the no-sale restriction imposed by Commons Clause means that any software under this new license is non-open source by definition. However, in practice, Commons Clause only adds a limitation concerning fair use, and we believe that both licensing approaches share the same core value of making software available for use by anyone.
You're right. In the future you may have a holiday home on the beach that you power using your car when you go on trips for the weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66D6spRemGk
I like to fool around with things on the internet, but I'm pretty lazy about signing up for things. Particularly things that want my email.

This might get more attention if you didn't need to sign up to find out about the product.
+1. I want a book that walks me through a real, well designed, functional (if you pardon the pun), useful piece of software, end to end. All these FP books are too enamored with language features, instead of showing you how a programmer proficient in the language would solve practical problems in it.
The second paragraph of the article specifically includes consulting and support.
To be fair, Redis itself still remains BSD licensed.

The other modules for Redis developed by RedisLabs [1] are under the new Commons Clause license.

The big 3 cloud providers provide Redis as a cache service and don't use these modules anyway, so their offerings will remain unaffected.

[1] https://redislabs.com/community/oss-projects/
My interpretation is you can't charge extra for clicking that button (not a lawyer)
Chronic Sickness on producthunt
To learn to build it is one thing; you could have a dozen highly trained engineers assemble it at their leisure and have a near perfect car every time. But to build the same car at scale on a production line is going to be an entirely different kettle of fish, with all new lessons to be learnt.

It seems to me that it would be an entertaining albeit high pressure job/problem sorting that out. You would of course try to engineer as much of the solution ahead of time, but in production scenarios, shit most definitely happens.
For what it's worth many toy RC helis exist with collective pitch tail rotor setups and full feedback stabilization - it started with tailrotor yaw hold automation and now they can stabilize in all axes. Check out something like Blade mCPx
It's both vague and combined with an open license which it may expressly contradict. Lazy proprietary software vendors need to write their own proprietary license and not just throw a proprietary modification on top of an FOSS license.

You are causing confusion, and if you are trying to maintain some kind of positive vibes from the dev community by keeping an open license underneath the proprietary wrapper, I don't think that's going to work.
A lot of blogs do just this... use Hacker News, Reddit or Twitter as their comments. Comments on blogs have become less relevant as time goes on.

That being said, there are some decent Open Source Disqus clones out there you could probably use!
There's also an implied reasonableness test. That duffel bag I pulled out in the Olive Garden after purchasing the unlimited salads and breadsticks was disallowed. Not saying they are exactly comparable, but it's amazing how many of us can grasp that it's not truly unlimited but always think others are so easily fooled.
What am I missing?

The shack-dwellers have no land or strata title or security, often reduced access to utilities and services (or none at all), and thereby live in a state of relative fear and insecurity.

Often owing to this situation they also periodically lose what little they have to thug-teams called in to clear illegal dwellings, and even if they can hold on tend to lack access to education for their children who grow up with stigma and reduced opportunities which results in a cycle of poverty.

Simplistically, you can look at slum-dwellers as landless peasants.
I wasn't actually endorsing mass murder. Dumbass white people have idiotic libertarian beliefs like "This exists probably in all countries. I also don't quite get the message out of these pictures. Or if it is even a matter which needs to be solved. If it is, redistribution of wealth is not practical IMO."

You haven't seen actual suffering. In them minds of the wealthy, they'd rather hold on to their wealth than have a portion of it aid those in need. They fight so hard to hold on to their wealth, it's unreal. If you are so resistent to helping the poor that you make convoluted philosophical arguments like "ooooo wealth redistribution" ooo "not a real problem", why not just kill them? End the generation of impoverishment. That to me is much less cruel than letting it persist for 10 more generations.
That is allowed and fine. What you can't do is, if you are Amazon, release "AWS Sdejt" which is simply a managed wrapper around Redis.
I worked with a guy who was on a state fire crew (not California). The pay was super low, but he didn't care. Being outdoors in the smoke was way better than being in a cell and the time off for being good was worth quite a bit to him. He was totally happy with the arrangement and it sounded like many others were too. The state had lots of similar programs, roofing government buildings, etc.

I thought I'd share how he felt because it wasn't all all what I expected to hear. I expected he'd rip on it and all I heard was good.
Practically, since the core still doesn't have this clause, I imagine cloud providers will still offer hosted Redis, but will develop their own modules to install or allow people to install them themselves, since they can't offer the ones developed by RedisLabs on their own
Here too, all on ultraportable laptop docked to large screen.
[2017] Firebase Costs Increased by 7,000%
Show HN: Hands-On Digital Communication Using Your Soundcard
I made colormind.io - it makes about 200 a month. Here are some concrete steps you can follow:

1. market research:
think about a field or niche you're interested in. Type some keywords into Google keyword planner to gauge search traffic, pick one with at least 10k hits per month. For me this was "color palette generator"

2. build:
type the keyword into google and check out the competition. What kind of content are they serving? Could you do better? You want to make something genuinely good, novel or interesting so people will link to you. For me this was the "AI" angle. Key point: use the exact keywords to refer to your site, to prime the discussion when others talk about it.

3: promote:
post on relevant subreddits/producthunt/hn. If you're lucky a major general-interest blog or news source picks it up, otherwise you'll have to put in some legwork and do some link building.

4: monetize:
it usually takes 6 months or so for organic traffic to trickle in, though it could be sooner. Once you have traffic, you can start to monetize. This is the easy part - google ads/carbon are good options. Affiliate links are less consistent - it depends on your niche and what the affiliate is.

if you're not good with design just use a nice looking free template.
Private prisons house a tiny fraction of US inmates, an estimated 8% in 2015[0] and the federal numbers are exclusively for the detention of foreigners illegally in the country.

[0]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/11/u-s-private-...
I'm pretty sure they should have been fighting fires instead of surfing. What did firemen do 20 years age without iPhones?
Modern anything wouldn’t have anything.
Look at the parking in several of the early pictures. The development there is clearly much lower density than the shacks. They have yards and shared greenspace and driveways and garages and so on.
Not to be confused with pilot wave theory.
I support the idea of content filters for children where appropriate... just not as a matter of law.
As near as I can tell, this complaint sounds like an offshoot of SovCit approach. Very similar approach.

In any case, I strongly favor discarding deeds, title search fussery, in favor of a national title registry - the decentralized approach seems, today, to be pointless. Maybe MERS should be nationalized and turned into the Standard Property Registry. It should be as simple as checking the database view to see the title, liens, claims, etc.

edit: I read each and every single document I signed for the 30 year conventional mortgage, both in the run-up and in the grand finale. Law is like code, but executed by courts and lawyers with a "virtual machine" of the great Anglo-American legal tradition governing it. Anyone competent to write code and read manuals should be able to read their mortgage documents.
Instead via the old method of phone, they're texting about the bills instead. It seems that's what people are more responsive to today. All communication is private. It has nothing to do with social media.
Way off topic, but I have noticed that Medium is now doing that "you have 4 free articles.." garbage now too, which is very disappointing.

The article you linked to has 2 parts, and while it was interesting, there went 2 of my 3 "free" articles.

I cannot afford $5/mo at 15 different websites that I visit infrequently.

maybe I'd spend my UBI on websites asking for money. Who knows.
And then the interviewer responds "Haha, No. No job for you."

And then they move on to only interview someone who is will to screw themselves in the negotiation game.

I don't see anything immoral about punishing companies that use sleazy negotiation tactics with your own sleazy negotiation tacts. Kinda like how it is morally ok for police to use force to arrest criminals, even though "force" in general is wrong.

But in this case, replace "force" with "counter sleazy negotiation tactics".

Your stance is equivalent to someone saying "I am a pacifist, and oppose all force no matter the purpose or who it is used against, even if it is the legal authority using the force, or someone using force in self defense." Its negotiation pacifism.
"Critical emergency services fix now! Huge problem! wait what? It costs $60? Well.... Let me see..."

It never ceases to amaze me how worked up people can get over an outage, yet still balk at tiny costs. This puts me in the unenviable position of defending Verizon here. People are painting this as Verizon being usurious, and not as a lack of proper capacity planning on the fire departments part. What is the actual problem here?

- Verizon wasn't price gouging or changing the terms during a time of emergency.

- The emergency services certainly are important, which is precisely why they should be buying the appropriate services for their needs. Rather than blaming Verizon for not giving them a free ride.

Verizon has stated terms on their service levels, and what can be expected. They offered to change the service level instantly for the published price. No penalties or special fees etc... While their "Unlimited" verbiage may be misleading to the uninformed, any professional ops person would understand and expect this.

Consumer level services built on light usage are a constant thorn in the side of operations people everywhere. It creates extremely flawed expectations on the business side for what reliable/high usage systems cost. I guarantee there was someone in the chain who wanted proper planning on this wireless data service, and was shut down with "whatever, I don't care about all your tech babble just get the $40 plan it works fine for [other use case]." Now rather than take responsibility for the operational failure, the organization blames a vendor for not providing free additional services.
Kettle logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic
This is true, but that's the punishment that's been handed down having been convicted of a crime.

Not being paid for things that you're otherwise also not paid for isn't a punishment, that's just normal every day life in general.
May be an NDA issue