skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A recent HN thread had a spirited discussion on this a short while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033261).

My comment there makes the point now being emphasized by EFF:

"The FCC is way out of its league on this one. Basically, it is a creature of statute. It can do whatever Congress has authorized it to and no more. Nothing in its authorizing statute expressly permits it to impose the rules now known as net neutrality. Therefore, it sought to justify its ability to do so under the doctrine of so-called 'ancillary jurisdiction,' meaning that it had an implied power to do so in aid of its expressly granted powers. Unfortunately, a definitive federal appeals court ruling held that no such ancillary jurisdiction existed, leaving the matter for Congress to decide. Rather than deferring to Congress, the FCC chose to adopt a new rationale for its assertion of this authority. Congress overwhelmingly balked at the idea of any broad assertion of such authority and, in the back and forth, the FCC came up with the toe-in-the water approach just adopted to the satisfaction of almost no one. Even this assertion of jurisdiction will certainly be challenged in the courts in cases that will take years to decide, leaving this whole issue in a pathetic state of uncertainty for all concerned. Nothing good will come of this except for lots of employment for the lawyers who will be litigating whether this or that action is 'reasonable' and whether the internet is really like a public utility or not. All in all, a royal mess."
The CEO only accomplishes 1 thing by doing the dishes: He shames everyone who sees him doing their job.

He doesn't get my respect for it, especially if he does it more than once. It means he failed as a leader to get people to do their job, or even to have someone to do that job.

Sometimes, it's necessary to roll up your sleeves and get some work done, but if you are doing other peoples' jobs, it means you aren't doing your own.
You have a dispute with someone (small claim, divorce, ...). Instead of going with the gov't court you open an arbitration case on judge.me where you ask some internet user(s) to judge you. You agree to stick to the ruling, if not your public profile will mention that unwillingness and you won't be able to use judge.me again (social coercion) in disputes with anyone who "follows" the judges you ignore.

This is called kritarchy, rule by judges. The basis for this is not "law" by force, but voluntary cooperation so you don't get excluded from the community (subcommunities). The judges are the community leaders, what we today call politicians. The judges themselves compete for the arbitration cases by their price/efficiency/ideology, and whatever "market outcome" is the result of supply and demand becomes the "common law".

I expect most people not to accept certain judges. E.g. I would ignore a ruling by a communist judge that they can use my car and would prefer to be excluded from the communist communities. If the entire world would operate like this you'd get "polycentric law", i.e. instead of battling with promises of how good your ideology is in elections you compete with the results (standard of living) your ideology provides in practice.
CEO's need to lead; exceptional behavior creates a buzz. This is morale building advice, not socialism.

His motive? to show that no one is too good to do the hard stuff. Its a stunt, but its a lesson too. Everybody will get that.
I agree completely. I actually had to re-dial into a conference line the first time I used it because it took me too long to find the dial pad to type in my pin.
When my girlfriend made a Facebook account about a year ago, I was curious to see how this would unfold.

Her account name isn't her real name as she uses an alias in both her digital and real life (I don't think I even learned her real name for the first six months we were dating.

She won't post pictures of herself to her profile (and will remove any tags other people might add of her) and mostly uses Facebook to play games.

A few months ago she tried to log into her account from somewhere else, and was presented with the "identify yourself by naming your friends" screen and realized that almost all of her Facebook friends (who are mostly people she plays online games with) don't have actual pictures of themselves as their profile pic.
Now you're the dishwasher. You failed 'wanting to be a leader' when you didn't convince anyone to wash the dishes, which is why now you have to do it.
#cheeseAlert
That was a pretty profound lesson I just learned.
Ask HN: Any HNers going to Startup Weekend Los Angeles?
I'm planning on going to this with a friend of mine who is also starting a business. Anyone else in the area going to go? I'm coming from Riverside, to give you some perspective on how far I'm driving to get there. :)

http://la.startupweekend.org

It's February 18-20 at the CoLoft (920 Santa Monica Blvd.) Tickets are $99.
I think overall ticket prices would rise much more slowly.

First off, baggage fees are now tax free. That gives a huge incentive to maximize increases there.

Second, consumers will simply pick a flight based on lowest cost, not realizing the exorbitant baggage fees. Regular business customers will either already be using carry-on only, or the business will eat the cost. Consumers usually don't fly that much, so they'll fall prey to the misdirection, probably forget by the time they fly again, and will likely consider x bags a necessity.
Actually, "cloud" is the new VAXCluster.
Well played.

Pretty soon we're going to start hooking up those Arduinos to a monitor and having a USB Operating System (UOS), which will run 1 process in 1 memory space, and some company Minisoft will buy it and totally dominate some new market....
You know, the Perl community could just release Perl 6 finally so they had the "shiny new language" to point to whenever someone talks about the old days of Perl.
OK. Just making sure. Sometimes "the arts" get too much of a bad wrap here.
So let's just think about this for a moment.

When Facebook introduced the Feed back in 2006, hundreds of thousands of people protest. Hundreds of thousands. They even had a physical protest outside on their lawn. I think many of you will agree, The Feed is Facebook.

Then they made some other tweaks in 2009 with Top News and MILLIONS of people protested in groups.

Need I talk about Apple and floppy drives?

To date, there are 397 people protesting on http://www.facebook.com/betterSkype5

You can't please everyone all the time at scale.
Here's pre-launch invitation to setNight - it's not cool, it's awesome.
So there's one person! ;)

I haven't downgraded either, I keep thinking that I'll get used to it and it will get better.
Do you "owe" your employees a career path? In a word, no.

But having a career path is something you can pitch to prospective employees as an additional reason for working at your company.

Besides that, the jump from "lead engineer" to "frontline manager" should be something that's not just "be at the right place at the right time" or "sucking up to the right upper level manager" I think corporations universally handle this transition poorly, probably due to looking at people as "human resources".
When I first started at my job I was alarmed at the number of people that were fired. Over time I have come to value managements willingness to do what they do. People in key positions come up with a target when they are hired and generally receive all the resources they need. If they do what they said they would then they stay. If not, they go.
After the housing bust, I'm thinking you could find plenty of construction workers with necessary and/or relevant skills.
It requires management as well. A nearby, locally owned, not a chain, shop went bust recently. There wasn't a professional manager there covering when the owner was absent. Things went downhill quickly.
I don't really care about bloatware on a computer -- at least I have the option to remove it or reinstall, or even install another OS. Every time that City ID app pops up on my Droid telling me that my trial is running out I am insulted. Like anyone is wants to pay a monthly fee for a buggy, less functional caller ID -- and if I don't want it, well too bad because it's just going to sit there taking up space because the carrier thinks they have a captured audience.

Sure I can root it but why should I have to void a warranty to remove this crap? The wireless industry in this country is a joke. I'll take my free McAfee trial, thanks. At least the OEM and software vendor have a measure of respect for the end user.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2192180
As an independent consultant for decades, I've found the opposite to be true. Clients don't care about my age since I'm just passing through. I've never taken a programming course, but a Mathematics education has really helped. It also helps that today's programmers are often semi-literate, so I look positively Shakespearan by comparison.
I normally agree with you, but this is such a drastic change for the worse. I was excited about the new features, but so turned off by the UI, I downgraded. There will be more negative feedback once it is out of Beta, assuming they don't make drastic changes.
His numbers aren't right. I flew United (US Airways) last week and 1 checked bag was $23 not $50.
Same here, I've heard (almost) entirely criticism. Plus, I am a paid Skype customer. It is a little different when you're using a free app like Adium or a free website like Facebook or Digg.
Paying people to make stuff isn't a bad idea, if your government would be doing public works (e.g. roads) anyway, you just get to do that stuff a bit quicker.

Paying people to do made-up jobs (e.g. most of the UK public sector) just destroys wealth.
I agree that net neutrality, as the FCC is currently trying to impose it anyway, isn't a good idea.

On the other hand, I disagree that some things the major ISPs have done is a simple result of lack of competition. Of course, the ISP market is in bed with the government. Of course, they get away with things they probably wouldn't in a less monopolistic market.

On the other hand, if the market were more open, who's to say favoring content or metered billing or whatever wouldn't emerge as optimal strategies. There are "private content network" companies out there who do precisely that - favor content on their networks - and the idea does not strike me as an inherently bad one.

Look at the problem posed by Netflix. They are a key driver in many of these discussions, because the bandwidth consumed by their online video services almost certainly is more costly than what they actually pay (and hence they can get away with charging customers far less than the cost of delivery). Yet, the government says ISPs can't "discriminate" against Netflix traffic by charging Netflix higher rates. What will end up happening is that the ISPs will just charge all of their users higher prices to make up for the bandwidth Netflix is using (see here for a good discussion: http://seekingalpha.com/article/238107-netflix-now-we-re-coo...)

Is that really the best solution? What if users had the ability to access an ISP who solely provided Netflix content and perhaps a few other services, and blocked traffic for anything else? In that case, they might pay for a basic internet subscription, and then some amount more for access to the private network. At least in that case, only the users who want access to Netflix content would pay more for it. I am sure the commenters here could think of many other problems with that business model, but it would be better than having everyone pay higher rates so that high bandwidth users can avoid "discrimination."
I see your Slate article quoting a market research report with another Slate article from someone who actually built a coffee shop, and raise you with a question and an observation.

First, the article: http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/

Second, the question: does that "10% failure rate" stat include Starbucks, Seattle's Best, Caribou, Peets, or Tully's? The rest of Mintel's stats do.

Finally, the observation: the margin on coffee beans doesn't determine the margin of a coffee house. Coffee beans aren't the dominant expense of a coffee house. Wages, followed by rent, are instead. You'll like that Slate article; it has math, and everything.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the EFF has given up on net neutrality and has arrived at the same position as the TLF crowd: since any regulation will inevitably be captured by ISPs, better to just give up.
There's always been a continuum of anonymity on the internet. Outside Facebook, participants in online communities have to decide on a case-by-case basis how much of their 'real' identity to make available. Because almost all online activity has traditionally been open, indexed, and publicly accessible, this has been the primary way that people have 'protected' themselves.

Facebook inverts this: it requires you to use your real identity at all times, but partitions the online social space into a set of closed, private chambers. Security comes from isolation rather than anonymity.

Facebook has been increasingly successful at working its way into the mechanics of online communities in general, and I think this is a real threat to the unique potential of the internet as a social space. When physical boundaries are irrelevant and people are free to choose how to participate - not just how much - communities emerge that are qualitatively different from the ones we live in offline. But when Facebook's model applies the social constraints of the offline world to the internet, we lose that uniqueness.
What happens after revolution?
Since the main thing we care about is the people, you'd either have to lie or be genuinely good.
Out of interest, what kind of evidence/due-diligence/etc. do you need to make your case for dismissal?

Do you have issues with people attempting to sue for unfair dismissal?
Hidden in the graphic and thus far unmentioned in the comment thread is the staggeringly stupid fact that IRS made revenue from baggage fees tax-free in January 2010.

This has to rank as the stupidest IRS decision of all time.
I've got people coming to me to "repair" or do something about their computers all the time. It has gotten so bad that I actually have a teeshirt saying "I won't fix your PC".

Consumers care, they just delegate this particular task to others.

So please PC manufacturers, save my life because I can't take it anymore.

They don't care if it takes 45 seconds to load the desktop

Except that in my experience it takes 5 minutes on average (between power-on and being able to work).

I don't know who came up with that "45 seconds" figure, but it's totally bullshit.
Why I feel good about staying with RSS
Meet the Biggest Threat to Google, AOL, and Microsoft: Ronald Reagan
Lol. My surprises of the day were toogeo and talkik. I think I have a knack for finding these. I should charge. :) Ooh, talkic is even better. It's like talk and topic!
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Seriously, why is it so problematic if people use names they chose for themselves? There are even countries where it's a very bad idea to go online with your real name for fear of government persecution or other repercussions. Is Facebook going to enforce ID papers on, say, Egyptian dissidents as well? Sure they like to link all accounts with physical persons as intimately as possible, but it's not exactly in the best interest of their users.
No other comment I have ever read on HN has made me as angry as this one.

My last emotional response comment wasn't such a good idea, so I'll leave you to your bigotry.
Critical update for Internet Explorer that affects all versions now out.
The tiny blue print says "Prices listed are based on round-trip..."

The $23 instead of $25 each way must be the online discount
Friend of mine said, my night is set with setNight.com ... not sure what that means yet but hearing about the hype for this site from others :) Pretty excited
Maybe I'm just a picky hacker, but if I had a machine with OSX I'd spend hours customizing it and removing crap.
I like the list, but I wouldn't dismiss paid advertising so quickly. Set up a testing budget and keep testing until you make it work. Groupon, LivingSocial, etc are seeing tremendous growth from their AdWords campaigns.

Investors and potential acquirers are goig to be a lot more excited about a scalable user acquisition model like AdWords than fleeting success on social media.
The obvious solution is temping - there's no expectation that you stick around anyway.
nice. django. I approve!
Well, there's only like 300 Mac users ;-) That's more than half!

All joking aside, a lot of Mac users are just sticking to the older 2.x series for their Skype client rather than upgrading, so if a 160 people decided it was worth their time to complain on the Skype forums there are probably many more!
Yes, I can see your point there.

While the final, deplorable behavior is disregard for the social cost of ones own gain, one cannot discount the germination and growth of greed as an otherwise upright man is slowly corrupted by the gains he makes, and his priorities shift towards higher gain as concern for the damage done to others falls by the wayside. The quote "for the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" did not arise from a vacuum, nor did "absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Ultimately, one can argue that it is a weakness of character, but thus far it's been incredibly rare to see those with great power (through gains) remain uncorrupted for long.
`In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”` - The Great Gatsby
hm, I am a woman too. to be honest I have not observed a real discrimination at any time in my life...:)
1 point given
I used to work (a few years ago) at Sainte-Geneviève library (in Paris), and it was as you said: inspirational. You simply "had to" work once there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Sainte-Genevi...
For any piece of real estate that is ideal as a coffee shop setting, one of Starbucks, Peets, Caribou, or Seattle's Best is bound to be the top bidder. The exceptions to this rule are dense metro areas where virtually every corner retail space is an ideal coffee shop location; the problem with this exception is that these spots are spectacularly expensive and serve markets already saturated with coffee shops.
I wonder what Valuation Facebook would have it it were Mac only?

I actually agree with your point, but comparing Facebook users (fraction of 500 million) to Skype for Mac users (unknown to me, but I would suggest less) is not a straight comparison.
Yeah. I think that. You have to admit your ticket price. In advance, not at check-in when it's too late to back out.
I suspect Kylekramer is reacting to the inflammatory HN headline.
The rise of baggage fees incentivizes passengers to carry on as much luggage as possible. It seems that the fight for overhead bin space is getting more intense, and it is taking longer to complete the boarding process. I would have thought the airlines would have wanted to incentivize passengers to check bags, as that makes the whole process more efficient, so I would have expected them to assess fees on carry on bags.
You could argue that the level of service isn't commensurate with what you'd get on a Delta or AA so its not the same product

The people who would argue this are probably the ones who also earned status on a legacy carrier before they started really turning the screws on people in 2008, and thus have been immune to all the bag charges and seat fees all along.

But, if you have no status on AA/Delta/United, you'll probably find you'd get a better level of service on Southwest, at least based on my experiences from having flown them recently.
I upvoted you, thanks for the correction. I'm a little embarrassed I wrote that. Maybe I should drink my coffee first...
Maybe they flew into such a rage they were travelling at relativistic speeds.
The Four Elements of Web Performance: Weight, Time, Processing & Perception
It is out of beta. And no, they didn't make an drastic changes.
Cool, rock on. Will test soon.
> So that leaves the author with three choices: government-imposed competition (open access regulation), government-imposed net neutrality (network management regulation) or laissez-faire (which he implies is problematic in its current state). Pick your poison.

Well, there's network regulation and there's network regulation. For example, what would happen if the FCC simply declared all ISPs and cellular broadband companies to be common carriers?
> It means he failed as a leader to get people to do their job, or even to have someone to do that job.

No, it means he's trying to get people to do their job and take pride. He's not failed, he just hasn't yet succeeded completely.
I find it very hard to understand how an employer could not know what they want or need in a new employee

Oh, that's easy. The manager you'd be working for, the budget holder he reports to, and the person who writes the ad don't know each other, have never met, and have never spoken or even communicated except via filling in forms designed by HR people who know HR but know nothing about the industry.
The cost and monthly fee for a cell modem is pretty negligible compared to the benefit of a rent-free workspace.
Facebook is a social network that makes it easy for people to group together and complain about the thing they are using.

For someone to complain about the Skype UI it is much harder, they would actually have to seek out a forum and register with the forum.

So 397 folks actively seeking out and registering + 160 registering to Skype's own forum does say something, no?

I wonder how many people really don't like it, but are living with it because they can't be bothered to seek out and register to complain!
Huff & Puff It Down -- Calls for revolt against HuffPost purchase
"one time a woman asked me to troubleshoot her connectivity issues. Sorry, lady, but I’m trying to work here."

I stopped reading at that point.
To borrow a phrase, since this government came into power, people seem to know the waste of everything and the value of nothing.
I mostly agree, but not entirely with the last sentence. A CEO's job is to manage the affairs of the company such that it runs well, and if that means doing the dishes multiple times, then that's what that means.

I agree that it's a public shaming if he does it right in front of everyone else, but sometimes you just have to buckle down and do what has to be done, even if the work is perceived to be below your station. Obviously work should be invested in hiring a permanent dishwasher, but it is conceivable that occasionally you may not be able to find one, especially if you're intent on abiding immigration laws.
Yet another reason to fly Southwest whenever you can.
re: 2.

http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html
(I'm assuming you're doing the above for security)

It's hard to make a call what you should do without being more specific about the app, especially (i) purpose of the uploads e.g. image sharing can probably be restrictive, and (ii) level of trust - public vs intranet, sharing with known people vs strangers, etc.

Regardless, if you want to go liberal (option #1), I'd use the following logic:

1. serve all files so that the browser will save the file instead of opening it

2. optional: have a whitelist of exceptions to the above e.g. images

3. optional: block (or fix) executables e.g. .exe, .vbs etc which the user could still run after download
Parallel Computing - It's All About the SynchronizationContext
Pissed that your tax dollars provide computer access to people without computers? You don't approve of the sites they visit, so would you also complain if the books they read didn't meet your approval?

Not everyone in the library should have to read Shakespeare, ya know.