skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think that site design has something to do with it though. Like the article says, there's only a "like" button on facebook, no "hate" button. I find it interesting how seemingly subtle differences between facebook's "like", HN's down vote rep threshold, and slashdot's variation in types of up vote create very different cultures.
I've started a family in Silicon Valley, and it is tough financially. We were lucky to find housing a below-market rent, and it's come with some hassles but overall it has been a godsend. Other expenses like health insurance really add up -- you should see the cost of preschools on the Peninsula. I like living here but it is expensive.
I am on their fastest tested network in Canada, Rogers. Just few months ago, Rogers upped our prices and dropped our monthly quota to 60 gb/month. That means I can use up my monthly quota by watching Netflix for about 3-4 days.

Yeah, we are getting raped either way. It's pretty much impossible to win this argument as a consumer, even if Netflix wins their with the ISPs.

I used to be with Teksavvy where 200 gb/ month was the norm. I just might have to convince my g/f and get her to switch.

Just to compare, Rogers is $59 for 60 gb/ month, Teksavvy is $29.99 for 200 gb.
I can't peer into the mind of David Foster Wallace any more than any of the rest of us, but is it possible that he wrote this essay borne out of his own battles with depression? What I mean to say is, did his own depression cloud his view of television making other people depressed?

(I'm not asking you, the parent poster. Merely wondering aloud, I suppose.)
The recent buzz about DoJ putting backdoors in OpenBSD's IPSEC stack was, even if you buy the totally unsubstantiated and bogus buzz, in order for DoJ to monitor their own networks; ie, even if you believe the crazy people spreading that FUD, there's no claim that there's a public-facing backdoor in OpenBSD.

It doesn't seem reasonable to me that we should spend months up in arms about the government backdooring projects every time someone 5 degrees of separation away from a major project makes a claim.
"Netflix has no way of knowing what level of service a customer has paid for"

I think that partially explains the clump of RBOCs in the 1,800 - 2,000 band.

I manage a network that has several hundred subscribers wholesaled off of AT&T's legacy DSL network in the midwest.

Many of our users can't get speeds beyond that range because of line errors. The copper plant is degrading. Those RBOCs primarily use ADSL. Their speeds will probably degrade until someone overbuilds with FTTH.
> "In fairness, neither is yours. "

That's what I said. At least,that's what I meant to say.

Trying again:
My post is not and was not meant to be 'evidence'. It's just a (somewhat exasperated) refusal to swallow Greenspun's characterization of 'unemployment==party time' without any support.

> "For the unemployed young I've known, it is "party time.""

And from the outside, many knowledge jobs can appear to be "party time" too. If I had a nickle for every time I heard someone characterize my job as "just sitting at a desk" or "surfing the internet all day", I could enjoy some party-time. The point being: if someone is going to cast aspersions from the outside, they should probably bring more than some selective reporting highlights and appeals to "what we all know".
Google Chrome's Heap Profiler and Memory Timeline explained
Well, it's not as if you can just squeak by with mediocrity with a startup, either:-)

I think the point is merely that aspiring hackers should consider what they really want to do, and what they're best at. PG popularized the idea of startups for hackers in a good way, but I think people should also keep in mind examples like Torvalds, Andrew Tridgell, Guido van Rossum, and others who seem to like to really concentrate on their tech, and leave the money making to others.
Fan pages don't work like that, at least not for normal users. Unless they have some special authentication system set up for Zuck's personal page, someone gaining access to his Facebook account should gain access to his fan page.

Or if his personal account is not an admin on the page, but again I find that unlikely.

Still, I believe them when they say it was an API bug. I don't see why they would lie and claim it was something else on the day they roll out a fix for the problem.
“There’s no reason for Google to throttle search results for our trademarks, including BitTorrent, µTorrent and torrent. Indeed, they do still enable autocomplete for many third-party clients that use the BitTorrent protocol, including BitComet, BitLord, and even sites like The Pirate Bay and Isohunt.”

so you'll be more successful in terms of search traffic if your client doesn't contain the word torrent!
What's wrong with using double floats as the only numerical type?
You haven't heard of any other accounts having weird status updates posted to them? Really? ;)

See http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=12747194
What We Really Need Right Now is a Serious Critique of Net Activism
> NetFlix is flexing its muscle a bit here to show it can redirect customers to choose different ISPs and affect their bottom line.

I, too, like that Netflix is giving out this kind of information, but let's remember that in the USA many people have two or even just one choice. I have my choice of Comcast cable or AT&T DSL for broadband. That's it. And I'm not 100% sure that AT&T DSL would actually work in my building, and it's top speed is 6Mb/s compared to Comcast's 12Mb/s (or maybe 15Mb/s, I forget). Plus, AT&T: the only company I can think of with worse customer service than Comcast.

So while I like that they're giving out this information I'm not sure it's going to be a good idea to piss off ISPs with this near monopoly situation in many parts of the USA.
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The most interesting aspect of this is that starting salaries follow a bimodal distribution, with one cluster around $50K and another around $165K. This is very unusual. You would think that lawyers would follow a normal distribution, peaking in the middle, but instead the salaries suggest that there are a bunch of stars and a bunch of laggards, with very few falling between the two extremes. Bottom line: law school is very risky. If you don't reach the $165K starting peak, you fall off the cliff.
Check out: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/

There is obviously no replacement for situation specific legal advice from a real live lawyer.
Oh, and this: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Copy_and_paste_between_Vim_instanc... has various other solutions. Including something I did not know about: You can save and load vim's state in .viminfo, so conceivably, you could yank what you want to yank, :wv in that vim, then :rv! in the other vim and paste from the exact same register or registers. Cute.. and useful for syncing up two vim windows in general.
32-bit operating systems do have a hard limit of 4GB of RAM but that's per process. See PAE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
east of england (Colchester), and yes, it was/is way cheaper even with train ticket.
Sure - if you make it to the interview.
I am somewhat miserable. I will not feel unmanly through appearing miserable and vulnerable on facebook, but...

I see everything in life as something which helps or hinders me in getting laid. Used properly, facebook can be a help.

So that's why I don't let myself appear miserable on facebook. I have a cheeky, "attractive" wall/profile, even if it is somewhat unrepresentative. If it makes girls feel inadequate because I'm too cool for them, mission accomplished.
There's nothing inherently manly or unmanly about paid-only or freemium apps. If you're smart about your funnel, and have a paid version of a free app, you can make just as much (if not a lot more) than a paid-only app. Two different approaches: one has little to no scalability issues (paid), while one generates a much larger audience to sell to (freemium).
This social network will be greatask anything, really..
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There's a great book on this, and related Pentagon initiatives called The Watchers:

http://www.amazon.com/Watchers-Rise-Americas-Surveillance-St...
Apple App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads
"A single, lifelong customer who lives his life spending the way you want him to is worth six or seven figures. A single one."

Let's say that "lifelong customer" spans 47 years (aged 18-65). In order for him to spend seven figures s/he would have to spend $1750/month. And, depending on what they're paying for, a lot of that won't be profit...

So not sure why it's worded as if everyone should realise that a single life-long customer is worth a huge amount, chances are, for most companies/people, they won't be.
Ask a few questions, and this argument is revealed to be nonsense.

How does unpaid ditch digging help unemployed find employment?

What is the effect of unpaid ditch diggers on employed earthmovers/DMV workers?

What happens if the unemployed are laid-off earthmovers/DMV workers?

This is just another conservative/libnerdtarian [sic] anti-social rant against lower-class people. Ditch-digging doesn't work, neither does job training. If the government doesn't want to interfere in job creation, the most viable alternative to prevent mass social unrest is to just give people money. The real waste comes from trying to spend it on ditch-digging and job training welfare programs.

Read Gordon Lafer's The Job Training Charade for the statistics, to understand what will happen to the US in the next 20 years, and for an answer to tptacek's original question (spoiler alert: such a program doesn't exist, because it's impossible).

If you're a conservative and steam starts coming out of your ears at the thought of the undeserving welfare queens getting your tax dollar hand-outs, think of it this way: they're going to have the freedom to spend it on whatever they want, no big government telling them what to do to keep their welfare check. Isn't that the essence of economic liberty?
What percentage of entrepreneurs are wealthy?
Please don't use "raped" like that.
Or: it's on the list of automatic hack scripts that all the scriptkiddies use and it's being fired off as an attack because its on the list and not because there's something relevant actually happening.
But Grooveshark is available in countries where Pandora (sadly) isn't.
Since I was rather young at the time, my access to anything better was limited. Talking about mode X does make me nostalgic, though I used Allegro instead of writing my own low-level init code.
What is the best HTML5 game engine?
Searching around for HTML5 game engines and wonder which one is considered the best?
'R'elevant. Good question.
Speaking of Fluid - which should rightly have been in the list as a decent and free Mailplane substitute when combined with a few extensions/userscripts - why oh why is it so slow when compared to the same website running in Chrome. I was under the impression they used the same JS engine under the hood...
Moral hazard is not a fake "libnerdtarian" canard.
StrongLifts "fitness for geeks" 5x5 Guide (.pdf)
I would be interested in some papers on generating hard mazes, e.g. mazes that take the maximum amount of resources to solve. Is every maze solvable in logspace? Probably so, right, because Connectivity is in logspace iirc.
A lot of people I've heard from in rural areas have much better Internet connections than I can affordably get living in San Diego.
Yeah, I applied as a mature student to an MSc program and was accepted. At the time I had a first class IT and Philosophy BA, 4-ish years commercial programming experience, and an E grade at AS level Psychology.
Ask HN: Essential features in a to-do app?
The team at Task Ave. (taskave.com) just recently launched our location-aware, task management app for the iPhone. We've had some great success (mostly in Canada, where we were featured by Apple) so far. But now we're working on v1.1 and we want to know:

Which features do you consider essential in a good to-do app? Anything you'd particularly want, considering our focus on location?
Oh, please:) Tell me overwhelming majority never operated an internal combustion engine under influence. I didn't say I don't take other people's lives seriously. I said I got caught. Now, holding a belief that this somehow causes a reduction in my performance to create something that humans like, is indeed a limiting belief. Forget about causality, one would be hard pressed to display co-existence in that domain. I would expect the co-existence to point to the inverse: increased intoxicating chemical consumption co-exists with increased creativity (probably, mainly because pure creativity is not exactly human).
Mobile devices are the Gutenberg presses of our Generation
But see they have no muscle. I'll happily eat my words if this leads to some kind of mass exodus but I don't see it happening. Because in my admittedly anecdotal experience most people already don't like their ISP but are forced into the relationship because of various circumstances.

So while this information would have been worth its weight in gold as a threat to the ISPs its now released where it can do all the damage its going to do. If the impact is found to be negligible than Netflix has lost what little leverage it has over the ISPs.
I believe that vim sources env files rather than rc. For example, any aliases placed in my zshenv are available in vim but those in zshrc are not. I would imagine that applies to other shells as well.
If you believe that unemployment benefits habituate people to unemployment lifestyles, then reducing wages and increasing employment has the effect of "unsticking" people who would otherwise be locked into unemployment. That's the difference.

There isn't really a controversy about whether unemployment benefits incentivize unemployment. They clearly do. In the absence of beneits, people would very rapidly find ways of obtaining income. The point of unemployment benefits is to allow them to find better income streams; ie, not by selling blood. If all unemployment benefits do is delay the inevitable trip to the blood bank, they are indeed a poor idea.
Clickable links:

- Our site: http://taskave.com
- iTunes: http://itunes.com/app/taskave/
The First Three Bookmarks
Are you using a dns provider like opendns or google? I am and it drastically affects streaming rates because you get sent to the wrong place in the cdn. I changed my streaming box's dns server to my isp's and got much better service from Netflix.
There is no evidence of mass abuse, but that doesn't mean there wasn't the potential for it. If a security hole affected one fan page, it seems likely that it affected every fan page.
As the name suggests, really only works in WebKit. I initially tried it in my current browser of choice, the latest Opera, and sure enough doesn't render properly. Tried it in Chrome and looks great. Good job.
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing.

I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to load and rather fat now, but I'm talking solely about the editing functionality.

With vim, I have to climb an amazing learning curve, regularly practicing all sorts of commands to achieve basic productivity. With VS, any command I don't recall is readily available through the menus. As I access it in the menus, I'm reminded of the keyboard shortcut, so it seems like a much more natural leaning experience to me.
Did you read the article? The reason it's bimodal is because there are two distinct, significant employer types that make up the endpoints: large, prestigious firms with fixed $160k starting salaries on one end and the government on the other end. Small firms and independent attorneys fill the gaps in the range.
A BIG fight is brewing, and NetFlix is summoning allies to its cause. If they don't, the ISPs will eventually have their way anyway. So, while I agree, I think NetFlix has almost no choice but to go down this path.
To be clear, "It's not evidence" was meant to refer to my original post.

My original post was never intended to be taken as "evidence" and I absolutely agree that it isn't.
Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation.

Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. It can only persist, with whatever suffering and injustice that it entails, as long as it is possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an infinite garbage can.

At this stage of history either one of two things is possible. Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity, sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control. As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set policy in the special interests that it serves.

But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole, and by now that means the global community. The question is whether privileged elite should dominate mass communication and should use this power as they tell us they must -- namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena.

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

~Noam Chomsky, from "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media" 1992
I remember reading about this issue in chapter dedicated the Challager disaster in 'What Do You Care What Other People Think? '. Even in the begining of the shuttle program, the landing was controlled by computer with exception of two things: astronauts had to load the tape with landing instructions into the computer (there was several tapes for various scenarios) and lower the landing gear before touching the ground.
Thanks for taking a look. We are using a CDN for the bandwidth otherwise it would be impossible.
I don't fully agree with your math. Mine is potentially no better, but:

A single customer, spending $500/year on whatever it is you do, wherein you make 5% compounding profit off of their $500/year, nets $100,000 in 45 years. I feel that's a bit more realistic of an approach.
"They managed to build an elegant, scalable, closed system. Google is attempting to do something with a completely different approach."

Surprised he didn't want to clarify that...
Ah gotcha. Certainly you can hire your own. A small industry of people who want to edit and willing to work for less than the big names seems to be cropping up around the self-publishing industry.

What's really going to be fun is to see how many OTHER business opportunities crop up around those who wish to self publish. As I go through my own writing and beyond I'll certainly be looking at areas that beg for such.
Actually I've worked both in Portugal and Spain, and I find the latter better than the former in many aspects. Never had a problem with English and Spaniards never struck me as party animals, at least no more than elsewhere.
@endtime: There's no full changelog unfortunately, we have to change this in the future. For a list of changes from 2.0 to 2.1, read http://bit.ly/e2lyep. From beta3 it's just a very long list of (in some case serious) bug fixes.
Furniture, movers, and entrepreneurship.
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According to wikipedia:

A database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily.

I don't think calling Voldemort is wholly inaccurate, but I suppose you could make the case that it doesn't do the system justice due to the connotation of the word database (which usually makes people think of a SQL database).
I have. Unfortunately, they're 2-3 times slower than the 4.2.2.x servers for me, depending upon cache status:

# first request to google
$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.bradlanders.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.bradlanders.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20999
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.bradlanders.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.bradlanders.com.	14400	IN	A	69.163.164.23

;; Query time: 272 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 27 16:01:23 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 53

# first request to L3
$ dig @4.2.2.2 www.bradlanders.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @4.2.2.2 www.bradlanders.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62436
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.bradlanders.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.bradlanders.com.	14400	IN	A	69.163.164.23

;; Query time: 111 msec
;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 27 16:01:31 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 53

# second request to google
$ dig @8.8.8.8 www.bradlanders.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.bradlanders.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58197
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.bradlanders.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.bradlanders.com.	14400	IN	A	69.163.164.23

;; Query time: 171 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 27 16:02:47 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 53

# second request to L3
$ dig @4.2.2.2 www.bradlanders.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @4.2.2.2 www.bradlanders.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7408
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.bradlanders.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.bradlanders.com.	14317	IN	A	69.163.164.23

;; Query time: 35 msec
;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 27 16:02:54 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 53
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I wrote something similar for Python. Not quite as robust, but on a similar path.

DictShield: https://github.com/j2labs/dictshield
I always imagined philosophy as the study of things beyond the realm of science. By saying that its the study of things science hasn't yet solved, you're saying that philosophy is speculation about things that science will possibly solve, but speculation without taking science to date into account, and without empiricism. That just sounds like bad science. Am I misunderstanding your point? In fact, your last three lines sound exactly like the scientific method + uninformed speculation. The difference seems to be that science insists on a way to invalidate your speculations, whereas philosophy does not.
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I just had my own run in with their legal department, so I would imagine its a matter of time.
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