skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't the Egyptians just have the Internet cut off? I'd say they're the biggest losers.
But the best succinct version I know comes from a friend I went to grad school with: "Don't be an asshole."

Another aspect: If you think you're so smart, that you can already know everyone else's ideas are stupid and don't matter, you're probably just being an asshole.
I spent some time improving on that concept using a stationary receiver:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/renewables/concentrator/

One of the most fun projects I did back in those days.

I still have the Stirling engine :) (a tiny one, store bought)

I thought that having the Stirling engines on a mobile parabolic mount was a design weakness and figured out a way to do it better.
IPcalypse Now — Less Than 4 days Until IPv4 Exhaustion
Git's hashing detects data corruption to an existing user, but to someone who hasn't downloaded the repository yet and is getting it for the first time you really have to remember that SHA1 is currently considered "broken". It is increasingly feasible for someone to generate a collision to an existing file, allowing them to forge a commit. This has been discussed on the git mailing list, for the record, and the response is generally "don't care, we don't claim this to be a security mechanism". This is even a problem if you use signed tags, as you are only signing the result of a broken hash function.
This really disturbs me. I just moved to Seattle where I signed up for Comcast internet. A couple of days later, my connection stopped working until I activated my account on comcast.com. I did, and the first thing I saw was

High-Speed Internet Data Usage: 17%
43GB of 250GB

They sure hide that fact when you signup, not that I have any options, as Comcast is the only provider where I live. This is a horrible direction we are heading. And, if you go over the limit, they call and warn you. If you go over again, they cancel your account.
"How do you come up with new project ideas?": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916801
Ok, here is what is happening in India. It's even more sinister. The ISPs have made some sites free and everything else paid. So, facebook for instance is free while your "littlesite dot com" is charged. The regulators are sleeping.
I said all races are equal under law, the Law of Return applies to ones religious status, and anyone can convert to Judaism. Besides immigration criteria does not effect discrimination of individuals as citizens since it's merely a selection criteria for citizenship in the first place.

Anyone can volunteer for the military. To argue that not being forced into military service is some sort of prejudicial discrimination is ludicrous.

> From that I can conclude that you are either ignorant or a liar. Because races are NOT equal in Israeli law. Either in theory OR practice.
In theory they are equal

Silly conclusion to jump to. You have no examples of legal discrimination as pointed out above and undoubtedly you have even less "practical" evidence. For example the Or report you mention isn't even on the same subject.
Where's the line?

That my friend is the central question of domestic politics. Right now 'the line' is at historically low levels, and we're facing massive budget deficits. And fresh from a US election year where everyone agreed the deficit is the most important issue facing us, the first thing the government did was vote to extend those historically low rates.
Hey, would it be possible to get these with absolute scale, not only the relative percentage? It will be interesting to see processes such as "baby-boom" over time.
The grades probably mean more, but that doesn't mean that the students in more elite universities in the US don't learn more than their counterparts at other schools.

At Cornell, all the classes were curved, and the curve was set (in most intro classes, somewhere between a C+ and a B). That meant if you wanted to get a B you had to beat at least half the people in the course. If those people got 1600 on their SATs and had gotten a 5 on their AP comp sci exam they're a bit more of a challenge than kids of lesser qualifications.
No. It depends on how much someone eat.

Imagine company, which has 10000 shareholders. You own 10% of company. Company needs some financial helps, e.g. $250M. How much you should pay? $100? $250M/10000?
This sounds like a feature to me. :)
After 7 years of work experience, certainly. But as students coming out right now can tell you, getting an entry level job is nigh impossible. Having the extra edge might be worth it.
You could think of it like the 'for Dummies' or 'for Total Idiots' series of how-to books. They're for beginners, but of course the title isn't intended to insult the target audience.
Your complaint seemed to be entirely based upon the difficulties in getting broadband in a sparsely populated area. And then some big telco coming in to try to undermine it. We've seen the same story again and again, over the globe. There is nothing unique to Canada in that.

As to Bell being a monopoly, that's a bit laughable of a concept now. I haven't used any Bell services for personal use in well over a decade, despite being in the center of Bell territory.

As to Canada's situation, it regularly ranks in the top tier of broadband penetration and broadband speeds. It sounds like you're the one using your anecdote inappropriately, because actual metrics refute you.

They'd gladly put their own infrastructure in to the ground, only they're not allowed to.

You're conflating issues. Because of the in-the-ground angle, companies are allowed to terminate twisted-pairs at the switching station, providing their own voice or data services. We recently hooked up a business backup high-speed ADSL line, the line provided by Bell, with the data provided by Cogent. Our primary data service, by the way, is provided by the electric company who have a distribution network of fiber.

What is changing is if Bogent terminated that line, but instead of providing their own infrastructure they simply leached off of Bell's. That was put in during the "Soviet style" control.

Again, this is all a bunch of people inventing a reality where they can have their free lunch. It is a tiny percentage of people making a loud noise, trying to burn it all down to get their way. I'll happily endure the down-arrows while a rallying mob tries to construct some ridiculous perception of reality.
> but surely Bell has the right to charge however they like. In the linked article, The Tyee's conspiracy theory that they wanted to force people back to television seemed inane.

Bell infrastructure (phone lines) is basically a regulated monopoly the same way that a water utility is. They certainly shouldn't have the right to charge whatever they like and crush competition as they please, making things worse for everybody except themselves.

There was this quote in the Globe & Mail today (national paper):

"download caps in Canada have become so low that they are beginning to look less like traffic management measures and more like a defensive manoeuvre, by which companies such as Bell, Rogers and Shaw try to protect profits at their TV distribution and broadcasting units."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/int...
Yep. Most online services that have a presence in Canadian market will start to see cuts in their revenue. I was using NetFlix, but no longer. Many of my friends and co-workers are not using Dropbox for backup anymore. It makes no sense. Many went back to good old fashioned portable drives.

In addition to purchasing less of online services, many people that I know refuse to buy anything from Bell and Rogers. No cable, no landline phone, no satellite tv. In fact, with the new mobile companies popping up in the last 12 months, you can save quite a bundle.

There is an angst growing amongst customers that spreads like wildfire. In past few years, I converted almost every one of my friends and relatives to Teksavvy internet. At that moment in time, it made sense. It no longer does and I wish that this turns up the heat enough to make it an election issue. It is, pardon my french, a fucking racket.
I was going to say "But wait! They have an experimental plant in Southern California!" I guess I haven't followed things too closely, looks like the whole plan fell apart in late 2009[1].

[1]http://www.solarfeeds.com/greentech-media/15471-so-cal-ediso...
>Segregation is a real fact in every day Israeli life

Are you referring to the fact that Jewish and Arab populations live mostly separate towns and cities? This isn't segregation, since this is by choice of what communities people there want to live in. Unless you want to argue semantics and say something like "well technically they are segregated even if it's by choice so therefore it's racist."

Evidence of this communal separation and anecdotes of individuals with prejudice does not amount to systematized racism in Israel.
Even tough he is being harsh I guess he is right. I am not a ninja Javascript programmer and this is my first library. Thanks for the tips. I have a lot to learn. Also, this is a toy project made in one night that I had no internet access. If you don't like it, don't use it. I'm not selling it as the ultimate solution to all problems. It's my personal play and I learned with it and had no intentions of being so serious. If you noticed, I have the following on the README.md:
"I'm sleepy. Don't know if this is too useful yet... Playing with Unicorns.(Unicodes)"
As an American, I'm not very familiar with the telco situation in Canada. Is Bell related to AT&T (the old one)? Do they have a approved monopoly over all phone service, ala AT&T way back when (by this I mean do they carry all calls at some point, even if its only as a wholesale co)?
Repeating this, once again: Criticism of the Israeli government's policies is not antisemitic.
Criticism of the Israeli government's policies does not question Israel's right to exist.

One should not blindly support one's government. We all know how that turned out in Europe in the 30s.
If all you're doing on your server is git, then the first two points you make are covered basic apt-get usage. It's super easy.

point 3 isn't that necessary if all you're doing is git over ssh. All the people that have a checked out copy have a backup of your repo. Also, if you're only doing git over ssh then it's not hard to make the box relatively secure. ssh will be hte only open port, and it won't be on the standard port.
I would think so since censorship is a topic that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
easy.

1) get a distro with 5 years support.

2) when it's out of date, buy a new $20/month vps, install git and ssh. Move your repo and turn off the old server. This might take 2 hours, every 5 years. Not a big deal.
I do that to be able to do:
ƒ('ul li:nth-child(2n)', 'style.background = "black"').
I'm a Tesksavvy customer and I got a email about this yesterday.

Until now I thought it was crazy that Austrlia was getting a censored internet and wondered how such a thing could happen in a pretty modern democracy. But now I feel like something worse has happened here... While new internet applications that use more and more data are coming out all the time and the cost of moving a byte on the net is going down rapidly, caps are getting smaller and smaller here just so the big telecoms can protect their on-demand TV businesses and keep internet service minimal without having to worry about competition.

This is so anti-competitive that it sickens me.
A favorite passage about argument from Robert Nozick's Philosophical Explanations.[1] It's a long quotation, but worth it, I think:

The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premises you have to or must believe the conclusion, some arguments do not carry much punch, and so forth. A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A successful philosophical argument, a strong argument, forces someone to a belief.

Though philosophy is carried on as a coercive activity, the penalty philosophers wield is, after all, rather weak. If the other person is willing to bear the label of "irrational" or "having the worse arguments," he can skip away happily maintaining his previous belief. He will be trailed, of course, by the philosopher furiously hurling philosophical imprecations: "What do you mean, you're willing to be irrational? You shouldn't be irrational because..." And although the philosopher is embarrassed by his inability to complete this sentence in a noncircular fasion - he can only produce reasons for accepting reasons - still, he is unwilling to let his adversary go.

Wouldn't it be better if philosophical arguments lef the person no possible answer at all, reducing him to impotent silence? Even then, he might sit there silently, smiling, Buddhalike. Perhaps philosophers need arguments so powerful they set up reverbarations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the conclusion, he dies. How's that for a powerful argument. Yet, as with other physical threats ("your money or your life"), he can choose defiance. A "perfect" philosophical argument would leave no choice. (All emphases Nozick's.)

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=N4zH86WogYwC&lpg=PP1...
> Do they have a approved monopoly over all phone service, ala AT&T way back when (by this I mean do they carry all calls at some point, even if its only as a wholesale co)?

Not any more, as far as I know. But because there are plenty of restrictions on infrastructure installations and because Bell simply owns all the infrastructure that was invested in in the past Bell effectively has a finger in every pie and as a provider it is almost impossible to get around them.
Does Google capture and use data on which of its search links people actually click on ? It seems like that information would be a very useful adjunct to PageRank for ranking search results.

They could then determine an optimal ranking by maximizing the likelihood that the user will click on the top result presented.
And you can be sure that in the areas of the world where interference free internet is most needed the laws will ban the sale or ownership of any such devices.
My thoughts exactly... It'd be more useful if these were plotted against each other... as in, which places have a disproportionate percentage of turk workers
I agree. I think the first thing we need to do to bring about your utopia is to bring back personal liability and eliminate the corporate entity (which after all is a construction of government). Then if a businessman's activities injured someone, we could be sure that a court could strip them of their personal assets in order to compensate the victims of their negligence.
This definitely looks interesting to me. Although I only occasionally write webapps, the web developers who sit near me regularly seem to have to spend a lot of time dealing with problems like jQuery event handler race conditions, JS and server-side state mismatch and so on.

All of it made me wonder if HTML and JS (with jQuery et al) were really the right tools for developing rich user interfaces, or if it was time to look at an alternatives for apps in the browser - although Flash, Adobe Air and Silverlight all seem to be highly unpalatable choices.

(as for me, I'm generally happy with unstyled well-formed XHTML and doing all the work on the server with form submits and page reloads - but that's why I'm not doing webapps for a living!)
Ask HN: Will using Creative Commons text in your site affect your rights?
For example, you have a website that is made up of mostly your own original text, some explicitly commercial (and therefore limited) licensed photos, and then you go and add blocks of text to the site in various places that are adjacent to the other content, and that text was licensed under the Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode). Is your whole site, or any portion of the site that was not originally taken from a Creative Commons licensed source now free for the taking? Or is it only the case that any modifications to the text that you used are free to be used by others? Does the entire site constitute a derivative work? Where are the lines drawn?
FYI in australia the pricing is pretty similar: 1.00 AUD = 0.994493 CAD, $40AUD = 40GB, $80AUD = 250GB, $100AUD = 350GB
Where did the information come from?
Here is one possibility.

Suppose that you're planning to bootstrap. Then there will be no future round where you get the loan magically paid off, and this becomes just a loan with a not very great interest rate.
At the same time, you shouldn't confuse a regulatory system that gives corporations whatever they want with socialism. If there was no crtc, they would already be billing this way. It's a lot harder for a free market to curb monopolies in Canada, as we are a vast and comparatively sparsely populated country. I would imagine the cost of setting up an infrastructure across the country for so few users would not be viable for a small startup company. If it were not for the crtc, bell would never ever have shared their infrastructure with smaller companies and the free market would have delivered us a monopoly for sure.
Hmm. I can't imagine what advantage there is to having tight restrictions on building out infrastructure. It seems like it could only help.
Depends if the aggregator has reviews from previous customers or not, if they do then I would say it's a better source of information than the hotel website itself. Google probably thinks your more likely to be searching for reputation information on a particular hotel than stuff like "address" e.t.c.
Please fork. Let me know those good practices.
Nothing. The breach is over. And they should force user password changes. I'll say it again. I'm simply disagreeing with the phrasing of the title painting this as protecting users.
Ask HN: How to join a startup after college as a liberal arts major?
It seems like everyone is looking for rockstars. What if you're just "hacker friendly"?
Instead of taking the usual 10 seconds to read each comment, it's now going to take 10 minutes (assuming you skim through the entire thread each person links to).

I'm definitely holding onto this super thread, though, as it may well become the unofficial threads of threads.
The same problem occurs in Chrome on Windows.
You really are mistaken. The hearsay of some hackernews posts amounts to zero evidence, while you can verify the legal equality of races in Israel in any decent book. Unless of course, you want to grasp at straws like another poster here and argue that semantically a Law of Return is racist (even though many acknowledged non-racist countries have the same laws) or Arabs having the option to opt out of the draft is racist (which should speak for itself.)
I don't know who keeps modding you down, you certainly are 'adding to the conversation', sorry about that.

> Your complaint seemed to be entirely based upon the difficulties in getting broadband in a sparsely populated area.

No, it is mostly centered around Bell playing dirty. Getting broadband in a sparsely populated area is just an example of how they use their resources. Using the legal system to put the squeeze on other ISPs is another.

> And then some big telco coming in to try to undermine it.

If the big telco is the only game in town then that changes matters considerably.

> We've seen the same story again and again, over the globe. There is nothing unique to Canada in that.

I live in a rural European area right now, where I live I can choose from > 10 broadband providers with packages up to 20 Mbit/sec.

> As to Bell being a monopoly, that's a bit laughable of a concept now.

Bell still has an effective monopoly on infrastructure and that is what this article is about, charges that Bell levies on ISPs that are more or less forced to do business with Bell, we're not talking about a consumer monopoly, even though they still profit plenty from their former monopoly in that field.

> As to Canada's situation, it regularly ranks in the top tier of broadband penetration and broadband speeds.

The situation here is somewhat skewed because a large amount of the Canadian population lives in a very small total area of the country.

> It sounds like you're the one using your anecdote inappropriately, because actual metrics refute you.

No, it just underscores the issue. For the record, I've also lived in Toronto (King Street) and it is the contrast between the two that strikes me as placing the rural areas at a deliberate disadvantage. If anything Bell should do everything in its power to level the playing field given the monetary advantages they've been allowed to have.

> You're conflating issues. Because of the in-the-ground angle, companies are allowed to terminate twisted-pairs at the switching station, providing their own voice or data services. We recently hooked up a backup high-speed ADSL line, the line provided by Bell, with the data provided by Cogent. There is nothing changing in that.

Exactly. So how much choice did cogent have in using Bell infrastructure in order to reach you?

> What is changing is if Bogent terminated that line, but instead of providing their own infrastructure they simply leached off of Bell's. That was put in during the "Soviet style" control.

They did not 'leach of Bells', they have very little choice. Bell owns the roads, if you want your cars on them you'll have to pay toll.

> Again, this is all a bunch of people inventing a reality where they can have their free lunch.

I really disagree with you there, if they were free to lay their own fiber then that would be one thing but as long as they have no way around Bell they should not be squeezed like this.
+1 for both comments. Some of the best advice ever given on HN.
The biggest issue with licensing is the upfront - generally the people you're licensing from will want a guaranteed minimum paid in advance against future royalties.

The second biggest issue with licensing is dealing with the people you're licensing from, who are rightly concerned about the impact of your game on their brand.

Third biggest issue is the legal fees - you'll need a lawyer who knows their way around such contracts.

I've got no idea whether Y Combinator's reputation would help with content licensing or not.
The situation is much more complicated than that. Smaller ISPs only piggy back on Bell's telephone lines only in the so-called last mile of the connection. The resellers have their own DSLAM equipment at the switchboards and they have to make their own peering arrangements to the rest of the internet. Bell's telephone lines have been (still are) heavily subsidized by the government, which is why the government is requiring Bell to share the last mile in the first place.
This last bit of regulation nullifies any pro-competitive effects of sharing the last mile.

Owning critical communications infrastructure is not Bell Canada's god given right.
Lots of Americans can't find US on a map. Not surprised about Fox News on Egypt
Phone, Internet, TV … And Gas?
Why? Keith Olberman isn't a journalist by most objective measures, he's a partisan talking head.
Very, very cool.

I love that the kids are having fun with this. Sometimes, in the argument of whether NoSQL is better than RDBMS or if Backbone.js is too little for too much, it seems like we collectively forget the joy that it is to program :)