skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think many of us here are the same way (or were at some point or sometimes still are). I love to argue. Often that comes from a good place, but often it comes from just that desire to win or to be difficult or whatever. I still have to push myself to really listen to the other view. Then my first step (when I'm in a better place) is to literally ask myself something like these questions, in roughly this order:

+ What does this person believe?

+ Why does this person believe those things?

+ What would I need to believe (first) in order to convince me of those things?

Try to short-circuit evaluation: don't judge the thoughts at all. Don't ask if you agree. Just figure out what they believe and why they might hold those beliefs. What other beliefs seem to be required? What other beliefs would make someone think that way? This already gets you fairly far into their mindset.
Gas is too cheap here. This will fix itself sooner or later.
> aggregator sites don't provide any value whatsoever because their only mission is to display ads and drive traffic by spamming Google's index

Tripadvisor has been really helpful to me and my wife, as in we don't go to any new hotel without first checking its ratings and comments on tripadvisor. You cannot have that on a hotel's website, objective reviews I mean, nor can you have actual non-photoshopped pictures taken inside said hotels.
With a coastal city like Tunis, there's the possibility of setting up comms with ships at anchor carrying hefty satellite equipment. Old fashioned satellite dishes could extend the range of such links to many dozens of miles.

I wonder about combining this idea with my idea of a balloon drone with equipment for aiming an antenna/laser link?

There was also a wireless networking technology developed at HP using the old Ethernet protocols, but instead of a wire, a patch of ceiling illuminated by infrared LED carried the signal instead. A network using such a technology and the side of a skyscraper could easily cover a large swath of a city and would be hard to detect.
A better way to do that would be to split() it first on '=' then, split() the left side on '.' and iterate the results. You don't want to evaluate just anything anyone puts in that second argument.
Hey deafcheese, I wrote a pretty comprehensive post on this topic a while back. It's specifically geared toward helping students find non-technical jobs. http://www.jasonshen.com/2010/get-a-startup-job-out-of-colle... Also, here's some more info about the kinds of non-technical jobs you could get: http://www.jasonshen.com/2010/what-kinds-of-jobs-exist-at-st...
http://customer.comcast.com/Pages/FAQViewer.aspx?Guid=3ca542...

The vast majority - more than 99% - of our customers will not be impacted by a 250 GB monthly data usage threshold. If you exceed more than 250 GB, you may receive a call from the Customer Security Assurance ("CSA") team to notify you of excessive use. At that time, we will tell you exactly how much data you used. When we call you, we try to help you identify the source of excessive use and ask you to moderate your usage, which the vast majority of our customers do voluntarily. If you exceed 250 GB again within six months of the first contact, your service will be subject to termination and you will not be eligible for either residential or commercial internet service for twelve (12) months. We know from experience that most customers curb their usage after our first call. If your account is terminated, after the twelve (12) month period expires, you may resume service by subscribing to a service plan appropriate to your needs.
I don't disagree. While Americans never come across as remotely curious about global affairs for the most part, not unless it directly involves them, perhaps it is because they have just never been exposed to a globally focused media.
Dropping out of a top ranked CS program b/c you can learn/do/achieve/earn more on your own = the new MS.
That's why it says they are listing interracial and interethnic marriages.
The EFF needs a more professional copy-writer.
If you liked this list, you might be interested in:

Language in Thought and Action http://www.amazon.com/Language-Thought-Action-S-I-Hayakawa/d...
by S I Hayakawa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_Hayakawa)

The Art of Conversation http://www.basicincome.com/bp/artofconv.htm

And Ben Franklin's Autobiography http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148
China is blocking coverage of Egypt protests on Twitter-like services
...the second page does go over those points (indirectly). To quote:

"As car-pooling has continued to decline, mass transit use has increased in the past decade. In the Washington area, it represents about 14 percent of commuters, compared with 11 percent in 2000, according to the data.

Another big change has been the number of people working from home at least one day a week, which has tripled since 1998, to about 600,000, according to Nicholas Ramfos, director of Commuter Connections, a network of agencies and local governments that coordinates ride-sharing programs. "
I think most people are saying the same thing, but the general idea is this:

-Get good grades. Grades definitely matter. I worked at a local startup during college and I thought it mattered more than my grades. I now regret not putting that effort towards my academic performance.

-Choose the best school you can afford and keep in mind that graduate school is becoming very common. If you have too much undergrad debt you may be forced to make a grad school decision based on finances.
An excellent comment by nostrademons on how to be an expert programmer:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185153
> Inside of 2 months I had better tools built for myself than anyone else had and it was a marked advantage. So it's possible it was just easy for me due to my background.

I'd be interested in reading about that.
How Apple and Google will kill the password
I don't know what constitutes "basic welfare" in Norway, but were the U.S. Dept. of Commerce to reimburse the health care premiums of anyone starting a new business, up to 100 weeks, I believe you would see a marked increase in the creation of new businesses in this country.

If anything, it would grease the rails to becoming "ramen profitable."
Sorry for offtopic, but (with all due respect to author and content) why da heck 95'ish buttons in website menu? They are burning my eyeballs and make me feel old.
But FibeTV is bits over their private infrastructure... they can choose how to charge that, no?

The other bits that they are charging for are ones that go "outside" of their network.

Usage based charging will become the norm, just like with electricity, water, oil/natural gas, food. Some supermarkets carry loss leaders, why should Bell.ca not be allowed to too?
jiganti, as I mentioned it is your perogative to not out this user. However, I have done some poking around and posted my findings here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158590
This thread is pretty great and inspiring.
It'd be bad because I want the news, I don't care who is giving it to me as long as its accurate and up to date. In fact I think media personalities are bad for the news.
From the research I have done there are three major types of git server buyers:

1) We are so small that we don't even think twice and buy some private repos on GitHub. (i.e. no market there)

2) We are so big that we can't possibly even fathom the idea of having our code on someone else's server so GitHub.com is out of the question. Sadly GitHub:Fi is per/user and because we are really big that means we have lots of devs so it is too expensive in most cases. (i.e. enterprise sale yuck)

3) For medium sized companies that either have some devs (more then 5) or a ton of repos or large repos they want an alternative to github. Many are slapping up gitolite which while good is a far cry from github.

Like I mentioned I already have found companies that want this solution and they are using GitHaven. The real question is if this market is too small or should I just move on to another project, open source GitHaven and let everyone (who wants to) slap it up as a frontend to their existing gitolite installs?
Can you elaborate? Users have to pay to visit littlesite.com, but access to facebook is free?
TooShort(Rubygem) Persistent short URLs for Rails (No DB required)
The reply of icegreentea to brudgers in this thread appears as [dead] and greyed, which is strange as icegreentea seems to have high karma and avg and the comment itself is useful. Does anyone know what's going on?
This is a very sad day for objective journalism. My family is from Iran and I've spent plenty of time watching it over satellite. I liken them to CNN in the 90s before they too started getting politically charged.

I'm angry that Al Jazeera has such a bad rap in the states, but frankly, I think we'd believe Nickelodeon was evil too if Fox News caught them broadcasting a single frame with both Bin Laden and their network emblem.
1) Doing a fifth year Masters at the same University is a waste. It is better to go to a different school.

...

2) If you are not rich and do not get into a top-10 school, taking on a 100K in debt for college is a bad idea.

One caveat to those two - if you are not rich, and do get into a top 10 school, doing the fifth year Masters is very compelling, if only for the tuition you'd save + starting earning income a year earlier.
From the CRTC website (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/INFO_SHT/t1003.htm):
"The CRTC does not regulate rates, quality of service issues or business practices of Internet service providers as they relate to retail customers. This is because there is enough competition in the market that retail customers can shop around for service packages."

Yet they've completely paved the way for competition to be swallowed into oblivion. They're standing aside saying "it wasn't us - it's not our fault" and yet snickering behind our backs while they rake in the dough.

Disgraceful.
'at best' is an incomplete picture. Redistributing wealth is zero or negative-sum, yes, but utility is not linear in wealth. It's logarithmic or less (wealth diminishing marginal utility).

To be opposed to redistribution despite the obvious fact that it would create utility, one has to bring in additional concepts. For example, one might take some sort of ethical stand on redistribution being Pareto-inefficient. Or one might argue that the additional growth from inequality will eventually outweigh the disutility of respecting wealth inequality. (Either of these might not apply during depressed economic periods.)
Hey Scriptor, neat project!

What are the major differences between Pharen and Lisphp?

(covered here:)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488160
That was inadvertent, not clever. The person who sent me the link did it via mobile phone, so he used the mobile link, and I didn't see it when it was posted previously.
Right. When given the choice between carpooling, taking the bus, or driving alone, I choose to take the bus. The bus has advantages from both of the other options - its more flexible than carpooling, and it gets to use the HOV lanes that are unavailable for regular drivers.

Rather than continuing to dump resources into a failed experiment (i.e. carpooling), urban planners should be working to increase the availability of mass transit.
Our phones would become our keys and passwords, and I am assuming they would be the devices that read our biometric ID and then allow access to other devices and services.

Only problem, and one preventing this becoming a real solution is the fact that people lose and forget their phones. If I can't have access to my daily services and devices without my phone then I am stuck in a worse position than I was before passwords.

The solution to access and protection shouldn't come from a change in the key, but a change in the lock.
Dear API developers, some new Mashape updates
Objective, factual journalism is the cornerstone of our society. News should not be a product and the content should reflect reality and not the desires of a particular demographic or the fantasies of a particular political group.
A more technical look at the subject:

http://www.ongreen.com/news/stfc-rutherford-appleton-lab-spi...

If you have access to academic journals (university accounts etc.) then the paper can be found here:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp107871v
The Internet was designed to be immune to such things.

It wasn't. That's a common misconception. The Internet Protocol was designed to be a simple, easy to route protocol that would push computational load towards the edge of the network and away from its center. Resistance to damage wasn't a design consideration.
Exactly. I've been living in Norway for over a decade, and I've never heard anyone complain about their taxes, or paying $9/gallon for gas.
My mail server does primary MX for a couple of small domains (5 or so people) and relays a few domains for friends to gmail.

I've been doing some crude graphing for the last couple of years based on specific text entries in Exim's log:

http://cmsj.net/stats/mail.png

Note: I moved the mail delivery to a new machine about 3 weeks ago which might have upset things, but the spam levels had collapsed before that. I'm somewhat tempted to filter out the peak level because it hides so much nuance in the rest of the graph.
> Mr. Greenspun is quite adept in deleting comments that do not agree with his sentiment.

Happened to me a number of times. A major reason I unsubscribed - if I'm going to read economic and technological musings, I'd rather read something like _Marginal Revolution_ where the posters will give the same glib economist answers but will also consider how they fail.
How about this: all wifi routers sold will have to also contain a low-bandwidth public mesh interface that cannot be configured or turned-off.

That means that as people buy wifi routers, they also set up a very-low bandwidth p2p net around their house. Any person with independent net capabilities -- say those using a sat connection or packet radio -- would naturally provide pass-through very low bandwidth to lots of other folks without having to set anything up (Without being able to help it, actually)

Not a perfect solution, but something that can be done easily from this end and it would cause a lot of consternation among those trying to totally control information flow.
Salaries in the Realm of Design
This is why the "Internet Kill Switch" is a bad idea. Also, ISPs need to say no to the government more often.
I know you're excited, but before you get too far on the coding, do some research. I can guarantee you that your idea/product, while possibly genius, doesn't 100% match up with what people need (will pay for), and if you code before talking to real potential customers, you will either a) waste time building features no one actually wants (will pay for), b) not build features that make people do want (will pay for). Notice a trend here. ;) So...

- Talk to 10-20 people in your target market who are not your friends to verify that there are people out there who will actually pay money for what you're building

- when people say they will pay, ask them what specifically makes it worth paying for

- when people say no, ask them specifically what is missing that would make them pay for it

- look for similar ideas that have failed/succeeded and look at why they failed/succeeded (wrong features? poor marketing? no real market? poor timing? etc.)

Few other things...

Product is important, but so are marketing and distribution.

If you ever get the urge to make an investor deck, stop yourself. Make yourself a sales deck instead. It'll work either way, and sales are much more important.

Mentorship can be more valuable as money.

Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster ride, man. So prepare yourself for that, and reach out to others for help when you hit the dark spots. We're here for you.

Most of all, GOOD LUCK!
Don't forget to run it through HipHop to compile the PHP down to C++. :)
If this actually passes, any sentiments I had about moving to Canada would evaporate. Good job guys, you're keeping the techies out.
How many alternative providers do you have access to? If providers can actually make a decent profit from charging you $39 for that bandwidth, TekSavvy's competitors should be knocking down your door to split the difference. In theory.

EDIT: I just read in another comment that it's Bell Canada metering charges for bandwidth resellers. That's a bit more complicated. Hm.
First, you could not possibly have picked a worse analogy than a supermarket. The grocery business in Canada is one of the most brutally competitive anywhere, with low margins and a large number of players.

But back to the issue at hand: it should not be allowed because it's anticompetitive and flies in the face of the entire idea of net neutrality. Can Netflix get around the caps? iTunes? No. But because Bell is both in the business of content and in the business of infrastructure, they are in a unique position to abuse their power. And they are doing so.

Further to that is the example of third-parties being forced to pass on Bell's usage-based-billing. They make use of the last mile infrastructure, graciously provided to Bell courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer, but are responsible for providing their own DSLAMs and peering arrangements. Why should Bell be able to dictate terms to third-party ISPs? How does that promote competition?

A lot of public money went into building out the infrastructure that Bell apparently believes it owns. Internet infrastructure, especially the last mile, greatly lends itself to a monopoly or at most duopoly. This is bad for Canada in a mindboggling number of ways - the internet is an economic necessity, and our digital economy is just barely starting to turn into something with real legs. Just like we regulate electricity, water, oil/natural gas, and food, we should be regulating this.
I believe that technological solution is better than the political solution, primary because we don't have to get everyone interested in anti-censorship tech.

So if we can invent a censorship mesh network(pardon my ignorance), two geeks can set it up and connect to each other. Then, another geek come along, and connect his node to their. Next week, doubled the geeks come. Next week, double the geeks come, but also documentation on how to build such a wireless mesh node. Well, you get the idea.

Once a lot of people is interested, geeks that manufactured anti-censorship kit can achieve an economy of scale.

Empower one individual; empower an entire crowd.
Amazon leaks details of Netflix-compete, Free for prime members
Carpooling is just a crutch to migitate the effects of the abismal city planning that has happened in America during the last few decades. Building cities that are totally dependent on cars is just an aweful idea. From what I've heard it's hardly possible to do even such elementary things as grocery shopping without driving twenty minutes on each way.
If that was what they truly thought then there would be no reason to use force to collect taxes, they could just have a recommended donation and collect that. For some reason, I don't think that would work.

This form of mental gymnastics, is very comparable to Nietzsche's analysis of the slave morality - where one alters their values in reaction oppression, so that it becomes moral, or even desirable, to act in a subservient way.
Also, this account seems associated with it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BrianHolt

I too invite BrianHolt/pinksoda/sinkfloat to come forth and explain this. If this is all a mistake, I apologize in advance.
Well... Actually I do.
hit post too early...other notes:
- yes, I do sender verification. no, I am not prepared to debate it with you, live with it ;)
- I've always been a bit surprised that there aren't more malware rejections. Either ClamAV sucks or people aren't trying very hard to give me viruses.
- I find it interesting that the 'blunderbus' approach of sending to all imaginable addresses (i.e. the blue section of the graph) has diminished significantly over time.
"They're rolling out 100mbps broadband in the UK."

Not quite yet.
http://www.eclipse.net.uk/fibre-broadband/what-is-fttc-
Under stress, men tend to withdraw socially while women seek emotional support
Evolutionary Mechanics: engineering principles for flexibility given uncertainty
I think it really depends on you. More specifically, it depends on your learning style, how self-motivated you are, and how outgoing you are. There are big pros and big cons on both sides.

I have a high school education. I've also been an extremely motivated self-learner and voracious reader since early childhood. I'm one of those who learned programming on my own, from books, at age 12, and then spent most of my waking life over the next 8 years writing code and reading about software development. And yes, for me it is something I truly love from the core of my being, and will never, ever be just a job. Although somewhat introverted, I tend to be very enthusiastic and aggressive while job-hunting.

I started my software career at 20 and advanced very quickly during the dot-com boom. I just finished a 5-year stint at Microsoft. I don't think I could have landed a job at Google 5 years ago, but I've been contacted by their recruiters since leaving MS, and I believe I'd have a shot if I really poured myself into reviewing/studying the right subject matter.

As I see it, the main advantage of my route is that I've never had any significant debt, but I still made the senior dev salary and the bonuses. More importantly, this has made it very easy for me to take time off between jobs to work on the side-projects that keep my love of programming strong. I'm on my second full-blown sabbatical in 10 years, working happily on my own dime, bootstrapping a one-man game development 'studio'.

The main disadvantage is that I usually feel like I have to work to initially convince people that I'm good, and I do actively wonder whether I can get hired at certain companies.

Conversely, I've worked with lots of people with Ivy League degrees. All those I've met are still paying off the loans, even in their late 20's - even at 30 (but as loans go, the interest is pretty low and the payments are small compared to their income). But on the office grapevine, when someone mentions that X went to Yale or Y went to Princeton, it's obvious that this sets up a positive expectation. Colleagues and managers start off expecting that they're good. I find I have to build a good reputation over time _first_, before people start talking about me that way. Also, these people always know lots of people working at other top employers, where I generally have to go out and meet people cold to find new opportunities (which I don't mind).

So I'd say it depends on which of those trade-offs sounds more appealing to you, based on your personality and inclinations.
Actually, I wish my local news actually only reported local news. I get the feeling that to survive in the next decade, the successful ones will do just that.

As to the national networks, if it doesn't happen on the coasts or in Texas, it pretty much is ignored unless it is a natural disaster. Heck, the coverage of Nashville flooding was pathetic compared to the dollar cost of the damage. Drew Curtis's (of Fark fame) book has a chapter on it and some interesting stories from Fark.
The big one is that Lisphp is an interpreter while Pharen is a compiler. Lisphp takes source code and just runs it, which means that it's lisp code running on Lisphp, which in turn is running on the PHP interpreter.

Pharen generates regular PHP source files that you can then throw wherever PHP works.
Another item for this thread, not a HN thread specifically but more like another version of this one:

http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html

It's a curated list of the best 'Ask HN' threads collected over many years, first by Gabriel Weinberg, now maintained by Michael Fairley.