skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, again, what choice do they have?

Twisted-pair sucks, actually, and Bell's monopoly is on dead technology. We only use it as a backup line in a worst case situation. We actually had a number of options, which is what we used for our primary line.

Though I'm not even sure what your point is.

If that were really true don't you think these ISPs would switch to those competitors with their 'competitive options' instead of waging silly lawsuits?

IT IS TRUE. Accept that as a reality, because it is reality. If bandwidth is as cheap as you claim, they WOULD use those alternatives, now wouldn't they? They have an economic model based upon basically an agreement that was punitively pushed onto Bell because of their monopoly, back when being the big telco made them the top dog.

I'm not cheering on anything but reality. You have ignored or sidestepped every reality I have presented, and keep up with this ridiculous illusion that Bell has any ounce of a provider monopoly in Canada.
Wheras in enlightened california, we only pa a measly 40% of our income in taxes.
YouTube - Today Show January 1994...What is the Internet?
Seriously? I think if someone makes a movie about myself (or my company), I'd be LOLing too, and certainly flattered.

Zuck is also human you know? There's nothing special about him embracing the attention, there's no "tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part".

In the end, he's a hacker and hackers don't care too much about their personal brand or public appearance. Don't you think he would be a better public speaker a long time ago if he actually cared about it? He's not Paris Hilton, his "fame" is not driven by his public apparences.
Originally, for fun!

It gives you a chance to use Lisp's syntax and mentality if you're stuck with PHP on the backend. Moreover, you have features like macros and lexical scope, which can be useful.
I think there is a double standard that is being applied and it is rationalized and back-propagated from a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived criticism of Israel.

All of the sudden statistical significance and probability distribution come in to play. I doubt it if New York times wrote an article about 3 or 4 racially motivated attacks in New York and wondered if there is resurgence in racism, if everyone would accuse it for "intolerance" for not presenting a statistical derivation of its conclusion.
I don't know why discussing racism in a Middle East country is has to be such a touchy subject but it is.
I thought this line was particularly telling: "Although America remains near the top of the world in terms of entrepreneurial aspirations - that is, the percentage of people who want to start new things-in terms of actual start-up activity, our country has fallen behind not just Norway but also Canada, Denmark and Switzerland."

Yet any mention of figuring out what they're doing right (and what we're doing wrong) is SOCIALISM

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Reading this also reminded me of an interview I'd heard a few months ago: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/29/pm...

QUIGGIN: After I wrote the book, I saw the movie "Zombieland," and rule number two is double tap. You always have to hit them twice. I talk about the trickle down theory, that when you help the rich that helps everybody. I think a theory so convenient to powerful people is never going to be cured permanently.

RYSSDAL: And the theory about trickle-down economics is in some way coming back to the United States in this debate we're having about the Bush era tax cuts.

QUIGGIN: Absolutely. It's suggesting that keeping on giving tax cuts to the top 1 or 5 percent of the population is going to help everybody else. The evidence is very clear that that's not the case. That the vast majority of benefits of economic growth have gone to people in the top 10 percent of the income distribution. Within that 10 percent, the top 1 percent has done much better than the remaining 9 percent, and within that 1 percent, the top tenth of a percent has done even better.

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Moral of the story?: We've been had.
I think the various specific reasons can be generalized to the idea that money can buy happiness but it can't buy sanity.
> Are suicide rates higher among 'the rich and famous' than among average people? If not, this really has no merit.

Who said it has to be higher for this article to has merit? This article talks about "WHY the rich & famous commit suicide" not "IN WHAT NUMBERS the rich & famous commit suicide".

What makes the question interesting is that most intuitively believe that a "rich and famous" would have no reason to contemplate suicide.

> People kill themselves because they have mental health issues

Huh? Who said mental health issues are the only (or even a major) cause of suicide? In contrast to this, at least the article puts forward a reasoning, doesn't state its premise as a matter of fact.
> There are countless examples of people who felt there was nothing more (to live for), but luckily lived on to see they were wrong.

And also countless examples of the exact reverse...

> I've seen examples even here at HN.

If you seen them at HN, then they were right the first time.
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.

As you indicate, the Or report was a government inquiry into some riots that caused fatalities, and not about discrimination.

Yet as I said, it found that there was widespread discrimination against the Arab minority. It further indicated that this was one of the root causes of said riots.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel#Civil_R... for verification.
Who said anything about towers? Hiding them in attics and rooftops is precisely about making them expensive and time consuming to remove. Triangulating the precise location of such devices carries a certain cost to the authorities during a crisis. They will have limited equipment and manpower to conduct such searching as well as a need to provide security for the same.

So what if it takes them just two days for something to be removed? Those two days of comms for the activists have been highly valuable, and there should be many other units still operating and hopefully others in reserve to activate.

I think there is a place for mobile solutions, however. How about suspending equipment with enough power to operate for a week from weather balloons anchored by monofilament? Set up a sensor, such that an unauthorized drop in altitude will trigger releasing the anchor? This way, if the authorities are trying to reel the unit back in, it will at least have another 1/2 hour of transmitting time. I'd also add some switches to trigger erasure of the keys for the encrypted hard drive and overwriting memory in the even of unauthorized opening of the case.
Electronic Frontier Foundation Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations
I think it is widely accepted that state-sponsored segregation and institutional racism are wrong, and should be removed.

However, its a lot harder to make the case that it is wrong for people to freely choose to separate themselves into ethnic ghettos in the absence of government controls.

To make a comparison to America, consider an Italian living in a "Little Italy"-style enclave, who believes it would be best for him or her to marry Italian-Americans.

Are they a troubling group? Do we perhaps need UN intervention to ease the tension between them and other near by ethnic enclaves?
Infiltrating North Korea
Poor Washington got Greece
In USA, start-ups say yes to DoD money...
me too - warsaw, stuck in corporation, planning escape :)
fwiw these are not the same thing in this context. the example doesn't actually declare appview in the window namespace, possibly intentionally. i agree it's a bit unclear though.
I'm in no way trying to hijack the thread, but where I live, I pay $45/month for a 4 GB cap and 2$ per extra gigabyte. Theoretically, I should get 512kbits per second. Practically, however, I'm getting an average of 300kb and a 200ms latency to US and EU servers. You want to know the cool part? I'm doing just fine. That is to say, if you take a step back and think about it, you could probably live off 25 GBs per months. Think of the poor souls half way around the world, that could probably help!
This is why DIY kits/plans/software are valuable.
19 part series on traveling to N Korea as an American from a few years back.
What, nobody else knows a woman named Jeffany?
45% of college students show no significant learning
$15k to 20k will probably get two to three founders four months the bay area when you consider additional expenditures such as moving, equipment, business costs, etc. Some YC founders are lucky enough to have savings or family to fall back on, but we weren't. We ended up having to focus on revenue before it would have been optimal; we had to consider raising before it would have been optimal. $150k would have probably meant better terms for us later and would have allowed us to focus 100% on our product during our YC months.

Regarding the terms, they are fantastic. Because there is no cap on the note, the debt converts at whatever valuation you get in future funding. That means that you can receive this and pursue the proverbial fantastic deal from Sequoia later on without any cost (aside from the actual equity that you will spend on the deals). Effectively, it's not possible for there to be a "better" offer, because the note is as good as whatever other funding you take.
Disgusting and racist.
Read Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma by Nick Morgan. It's a really good book, and touches upon that point very nicely. It might seem paradoxical, but EVERYONE who's in the spotlight is trained to act "genuine and charismatic." Some people learn faster than others, but in the end, before you do something like host SNL, you will have received a lot of coaching.
The first thing I learned is that Norwegians don't think about taxes the way we do. Whereas most Americans see taxes as a burden, Norwegian entrepreneurs tend to see them as a purchase, an exchange of cash for services. "I look at it as a lifelong investment," says Davor Sutija, CEO of Thinfilm[...].
> Yet any mention of figuring out what they're doing right (and what we're doing wrong) is SOCIALISM

I don't understand this. Just because some Americans consider "socialism" to be a poor fit for their country, doesn't mean we shouldn't accept it when other countries self-describe their actions as "socialism". To do so, would be to adapt language to pander to the American world view (e.g. we think something is good, so avoid calling it socialism so Americans may adopt it without bias) rather than retain concise accuracy in discussion.
Agreed - I was dealing with the data and thought - "Hmm - HN might be interested in a graph of this" so I knocked one out quickly. The scales don't really matter. It covers from 2002 to 2010, and really there's not much else you need to know.

In case you want, the raw data are here:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/RawSpamCount.html?HN

The first field is the number of emails, the last two are year and month. The others are meaningless.
No, it doesn't. There's a genocide on the order of millions going on there. Not really a fair comparison to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

And for the third time, I don't think it's a good test and I don't really like being put in the position of defending it. My mention of it was descriptive, not prescriptive.
What a flat out terrible article. The ability to flag submissions such as this are the sole reason I aspire to gain more karma.

Have you considered that business people actually end up doing [their jobs] out of an underlying passion? Everyone doesn't have the same value system as you.
The screencasts with the kids are great. Aaditya's code walkthrough (http://ruby4kids.com/ruby4kids/videos/show_and_tell/aaditya_...) was especially fun. He mentions many modern programming techniques such as working around a bug and using copy-paste.
A total OT, but is "pardon my French" at all PC in Canada? Serious question!
So he's mad he can't be The Star?
Same story from several sources a couple of weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118460 <- This has lots of comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116404

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115727
I'm tempted to say 150k is not a bold risk for this guy. Neither is 150k * 50. Small cost to expand your portfolio... and you just need one homerun.
Yup. What frequently happens is that companies in an Oligopoly are able to collude to raise the barriers of entry, keeping out new competitors: sometimes with "help" of government regulations, sometimes because of lack of government regulation. As long as there are only a couple of them (< 4 controlling > 80 percent of the industry), they can keep prices artificially higher than they need to be.

When there's no actual competition and little threat of new competitors entering the market, their incentive to innovate or become more efficient is diminished. Consumers end up paying too much for mediocre goods/services.
"Over all, black Hispanics and American Indians have the highest rates of intermarriage."

I am thrilled to see they are recognizing black Hispanics as a bonafide group. Being forced to choose between the two gets old quick.

I don't know that I consider black hispanic/african american marriages interracial however...
Assuming of course that there are no specific reasons unrelated to money that could drive people to blackest despair. That a person is rich and famous is likely to be, in my humble and unexpert opinion, tangential to the problems that might make them suicidal. The tendency toward suicide is too complicated to generalize to a point about riches, I think.
(Article is about weight loss)
I wish someone had introduced me to code at 10-years-old. I had computer lab, but we just practiced Mavis Teaches Typing and played Oregon Trail. The closest I ever got to this was a circuit board, and I can remember how proud I was at the end--I practically slept with it. I wish I'd built more things as a kid. You know, figured out how stuff works. I think sometime in high school I must have decided there'd always be someone else to solve my problems. And when I got to college, we talked more about the depth and various dimensions/degrees of problems than about fixing them. Now I'm stilted. I have bookmarks and bookshelves of HTML, CSS, and Java tutorials and I can't bring myself to even read the Table of Contents.
I don't know much about Yuri, but I've never met anyone who regretted taking money from Ron Conway/SV Angel. He's one of the nicest and most founder-friendly investors in the valley.
If you're curious about the regulatory history of this issue - and who isn't, really - then CRTC decisions 2010-255 (http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-255.htm) and (http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-44.htm) 2011-44 may be of interest to you. The former is the final in a series of decisions relating to Bell's request to allow them to move independent ISPs onto usage-based billing, and the latter is the recent decision on (effectively) an appeal of that decision.

If you don't care to skim the whole thing, the bottom line is that Bell is now able to force usage-based billing onto third-party ISPs, but must offer them a discount of 15% under the retail price at which Bell sells those services directly to customers.

Some other interesting tidbits found in there:

Unsurprisingly, Bell was against the idea of any discount, saying that even without a discount it would still be possible for independent ISPs to differentiate their services on price and "other methods". It's not clear how they'd actually do this, however. Oh, and PS there's way to determine an acceptable discount rate even if those assertions weren't true, so we shouldn't have one.

There's a nice note in there that "[the] Commission also received a large number of comments, mostly from individuals, that almost unanimously opposed the Bell companies' applications [to force usage-based billing]" - thanks for pointing that out, CRTC.

Bell is only required to provide third-party access to their legacy ATM networks, and not their new fiber-optic networks. This makes sense - as I've never seen the service advertised - but I hadn't seen that in writing anywhere.

If Bell ever does some form of promotion where they let people sign up on unlimited plans, they have to let third-party ISPs do this as well - although the mechanics are unstated ("[The] Commission finds that...to the extent that each company chooses not to charge UBB rates to any existing or new retail customer, it is required to treat GAS ISPs on an equivalent basis.").

Bell was about ambitious as you can get in the list of things they requested from the CRTC in these decisions. I'm not saying that I like this decision (as of March 1st I'll be paying TekSavvy more for less), but the CRTC did OK for the little guy when you see what else Bell wanted.

No one - not Bell, not the CRTC - says this is a technical issue. It's not that Bell can't handle all the bandwidth people use (which require a technical ITMP, in CRTC-ese), but that they see this as a way to increase profits by charging people who use more bandwidth more money (hence it's an economic ITMP).
I know plenty of hackers who are obsessed with their personal brands. Every niche has their celebrities. And in turn, every niche has their Paris Hiltons.
The more interesting idea to explore is why people disagree in the first place. Most arguments that I witness are more about relationship positing than trying to prove a point. This includes jockeying for a better spot in the dominance hierarchy or identifying yourself as a part of a group.
One more from my N Korea bookmarks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158524
Also I'm curious what it is made from - the atoms have to come from somewhere, right?
Michael Jackson The Experience
they aren't on the internet anymore, so no, they aren't the biggest losers on the internet
P versus NP for dummies:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605415
This is very true, and the real root of the problem is abstraction and voter apathy. Of course it doesn't help any when Rogers and Bell own many of our major media outlets who might otherwise draw more attention to the issue.

No, not a conspiracy theory. If you're a publicly traded company capable of creating more wealth for your shareholders by creating an agreeable political environment it would be practically unethical to your shareholders not to take advantage of it... Regardless of the long term impact to your customers. After all, it's pretty hard to convince your board that you shouldn't do something that may negatively impact your customer base in 20 years, and should instead settle for less profit today.

So pretty much the same game as the states.
Direct link to the same article on the author's own web site was submitted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158529
Riches and suicidal problems aren't orthogonal issues. If you have enough money, then there are no external checks on your behavior. This allows negative traits to expand and if the wealthy person does not have a high enough level of reflectivity to self modify, then in many cases negative traits lead to internal dissonance and self destructive behavior.
It's fantastic that the kids have their own accounts on github.
Concurrency in Go: A Better Call Center Tutorial
Small correction, as I just got around to reading the CRTC decision itself - which is surprisingly clear, considering it comes from a government body - as opposed to just reports:

Bell has to give a 15% discount over the standard retail rates to its wholesale customers (meaning third-party ISPs). They wanted to be able to sell it at retail, but the CRTC decided that would be too bad for competition, so they imposed an arbitrary discount. This still allows them to set a price floor, but a slightly lower one than I originally thought.
Do people still hitchhike in Alaska?
Well in the original examples I responded to, I thought the syntax was considerably nicer, that's what I was commenting on. In the different examples (shifting goalposts...) someone responded to me with, the benefit was less pronounced. In general, jQuery has absolutely horrible syntax (IMO), so I can understand someone building a library to make a few small improvements like normal assignment statements.
If you have less to lose, you're more willing to take risks.

Thus having the government take care of basic welfare and health care benefits frees people to be entrepreneurial, in a sense.

Compare to the US, where people are tied to a job based on the benefits they have through that job, and before the health care legislation's removal of preexisting conditions clauses, if you had a medical condition and lost your job, you could very easily end up in financial distress.

Personally, I would have transitioned to being independent a full year earlier if it wasn't for health care coverage issues.
Bring something to the table. It doesn't really matter what it is as long as it is valuable to the team in some way, shape or form.
They don't hide hotel name and usually you can google hotel website easily using that.
Agreed, and I flagged it for you.
Personal essay- Time To Discover Yourself
Personal essays are excellent essays to write as they help the students to write their college entrance essays. This type of essay is also good to enable the students to analyze themselves and discover their true selves. Writing this essay is an easy task.
"It would make a refreshing change to see people queueing up on a Saturday night, desperate to pay their tax."

The poor would be giving all of their income and the rich would just keep theirs.
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My impression is that at 'big name' schools you don't really have much interaction with your professors, until you are at least at graduate level (and even then the doctoral students who get the attention, not the lowly masters students).

In my opinion, what you are paying for at college is one on one time with intelligent people. Your peers and your professors. If the classes at the school consist of sitting through gigantic lectures, I feel like you are kind of missing out.

There is currently a glut of talent competing for teaching jobs at universities, even at a slightly below top-tier school, you are likely to find capable, intelligent professors (as well as students). And at a smaller school you will get one on one time with those professors much more readily.

You do, however, also want to make sure that the caliber of other students around you is high. It is hard to be motivated in an environment where you can simply breeze through everything that your classmate struggle with.

I don't know about what to do in terms of landing a job. It seems to me that landing a first job is one thing (aided by a 'big-name' school, but having the appropriate skills to develop an entire career is entirely different (no one care where you got your degree once they hire you).

My preference would be with the career developing skills, rather than the job-acquiring piece of paper.

Others probably have different experiences. The important thing is to really consider your options and decide what is best for you. (You might not even like CS by the time you graduate).
How Facebook killed spam
Wow. I didn't know that. I yield all my comment's karma to the man whose comment is actually correct.

I think I missed this because portability doesn't guarantee issuance of individual (non-group) health insurance. It's a very good thing for people who change jobs, but not a very good thing for people who want to start companies.
If a country ever trips an internet kill switch, it has just tipped its hand and revealed that it's a de facto oppressive regime.

Right now, the US relies heavily on the perception that it is a free democracy.