skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She didn't know the "market value of the service." She knew the market value of consumer 3G, assuredly, but I wouldn't expect anyone who wasn't a telecom contract negotiator to know what power companies would be paying. Thus, your last sentence is meaningless: I suspect that she would indeed have found this "too high" if she had known, but rather would have been willing to pay a consumer-rated fine.

Say I steal a car. This car has a child in the back seat, but I am not aware of that. In fact, I go on being unaware of this for the whole time I am in possession of the car (and the child is fine, somehow.) When I am caught, do I receive the punishment for kidnapping, or simply for grand theft auto?
Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It's possible...
I used both some time ago, vps.net didn't support 32bit kernels at that time which could mean less usable memory within the VPS.

For this reason I am using 32 bit kernels with linode for small instances.
they have already announced that they're working on xcode 4 integration, and just today one of the developers for MonoDevelop released a video showing that integration working.
As another 'Oracle guy' this is an interesting post. I have said before on here, if you pay for Oracle, and also pay for decent storage arrays, Oracle can shift a serious amount of data before it reaches its limit. In my opinion, it really seems to be an order of magnitude better than its closest open source competitor.
I thought of that, too, and yeah, you'd probably need a kill-switch for situations like that, but a panopticon for uniformed police strikes me as a great way to let everyone watch the watchmen, a badly needed check on an easily abusable authority. Maybe you're right, though, I guess real-time isn't really necessary.
Just be prepared to make up for what they lack. i.e. If they are a visionary, you better be prepared to work.
I think Mr Gates refuses to learn from history..

DO you know why originally Nuclear power was pushed as a safe energy source?

To make nuclear weapons, they needed a guaranteed supply of
raw fuel material. All nuclear plants with the exception of
some recent designs which get further away from this produce
nuclear material that is ideal to use in nuclear weapons.

It had very little due with any actual safety concerns.

It is one of the most extreme hazards forced on the world by the industrial-military complexes of all nations.

Lets stop calling it safe and call it what it is in reality..in fact a experimental way to generate energy
that is somewhat dangerous.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a bank?
First, some background: For as long as I've had a bank account it's been with a credit union in my hometown. I loved being able to call back and hear the local Midwest accent and know the names and faces of people I was talking to. However, my credit union recently merged with a larger entity, and their support for my lifestyle and needs is marginal.

So, what do you recommend? I love the credit union model but fear it can't provide everything I'm looking for. Ideally the features I'm looking for:
- easy access to local branches (in San Francisco now, but maybe elsewhere)
- awesome online interface; bill-payment is a must
- good service with good rates and low fees
- easy to transfer money in and out

I hope BankSimple will do all this, but what do you recommend until then?
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Heh, yeah. It is hilarious at first sight, but this misconception is actually common.
I'm really glad to see IPv6. I dearly love Linode. But only one address?
I have this code:

$.fn.setAttr = function(attr, bool) {
if(bool)
this.attr(attr, attr);
else
this.removeAttr(attr);

return this;
}

$.fn.disabled = function(bool) {
return this.setAttr('disabled', bool);
}

$.fn.checked = function(bool) {
return this.setAttr('checked', bool);
}

I assume I should change all attr to prop?

I think you should add two more helpers (like .val):

.checked() and .disabled() - with no parameters they return a boolean, and with a parameter you can pass in true/false to set the property.

Those two are probably the most commonly used properties and if you had them most people could probably ignore attr vs prop.
Perhaps I was hoping for too much when I thought I had found her.
Agreed--there is way too much of this. A member of my family has Asperger's, is on medication and regularly sees a psychiatrist. It's insulting to him and everyone who has a clinical diagnosis when people throw the term around like that.
If your new, Eclipse is great to get you jumpstarted; however, I find IntelliJ much faster and reliable then Eclipse. I started Android development with Eclipse and only found IntlliJ later, I have not looked back since.
The amount calculated as damages affects the kind of crime that it's categorized as though, which is why it's relevant. In the U.S. at least, if you cause $50 of damage, that's a different crime than if you cause $50,000 of damage, with different sentence ranges (same with theft, which has various categories based on dollar thresholds, and can actually switch it between a misdemeanor and felony).

That might not be the right way to do it, but it's the way it's currently done, anyway, which means that courts have to inquire into the "true" damages sustained in order to determine what crime the person should be charged with.

A solution could be not to take damages into account in cases like this, so the crime would just be "stealing a meter's SIM card and using it", which would be the same crime regardless of how much money that cost the utility.
I would say it was.

First you have to search for information about where to get the source and where to submit patches. Sometimes even this can be annoying.

Then systems like SVN makes it complicated when you want to work on it, try things out, etc., i.e. when you want to produce a patch-series where you could also revert some stuff. I.e. all non-trivial work. You need a system where you can make offline-commits.

Then there is some extra work to generate the patch, zip it and attach it to some report somewhere.

On GitHub, you just fork, work on it and make a pull request.
Flashbacks are very rare, possibly even mythological. (A psyconaut friend of mine has reported only one 'flashback'-- it was a fraction of a second on the bus when she thought her hair had turned into a snake.)

There are some effects (often visual effects) that persist. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percept...
Reality trumps imagination. Of course, but especially because it's easier to measure.

Creativity, innovation and the like are difficult for humans to quantify. So we get in arguments like "ideas are worthless" and debates over the importance of design.

But our economy is becoming much more based on intellectual property, and I don't believe this kind of thinking, will help us in the future.
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>“I was shocked,” Mr. Hill said. “I thought maybe it was a joke or something to scare me. I didn’t know the picture was copyrighted.”

I highly doubt the verity of his claim to ignorance of the law in this respect. I suspect it to be more like "I thought I wouldn't get caught". If he didn't know that images like this would be protected by copyright law then why would he need to post a disclaimer alongside the content?
They already offer a free version that you can use to try out the platform before you commit to purchase it, so I don't see what giving refunds would solve.
I agree with you.
If a designer can not do the HTML/CSS Stuff you need an extra guy only for that :-)
Not really. Ipv6 support has been an open and much-discussed wishlist feature on the Linode forums for ages, and a few months ago they finally committed to providing it ASAP.
#13 on my list has 305 points while #12 has 3. Links aren't ordered in the same way as comments (they rise to the top) so I don't think you can compare the two.
How do you get access to this type of data?
Same. I guess it's a re-branding exercise and they'll do most of the heavy lifting for us.
The most important concern we had about Mixpanel was cost: at the volume of data we collect, their tracking would be quite expensive. It also doesn't support as flexible of segment comparisons as our analytics tools, and requires you to send all events to them over unencrypted HTTP.

But really, we considered this important enough to do in-house. The ease of working with MongoDB made it feasible.
I'd also like to hear a reasonable answer to that question.

For me, the only advantages of stored Procs over straight SQL (generate or hand coded) are:

* Security - you can revoke rights to directly access / change the tables from the app layer, making all access be through procs. However, in general you can probably create a similar security setup using views.

* Many SQL calls that need to be run as a set to give a single answer - this avoids the round trip latency of firing many SQL calls from the application.

I'd am genuinely interested to hear of more advantages.
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Exactly, so in this case the consequences to the convicted woman was a double whammy: the huge bill exaggerated the scale of her crime, which meant the uncompassionate legal system punished her with a jail term to match the "damages".

The legal system failed both in its discretionary punishment and in regulating the telco enough to avoid this situation and protect consumers.
And it's not just academic, consider if you want to run lots of https and support browsers that don't support https on one address. Not to mention all the applications for many addresses that should develop if/when ipv6 is widespread.

As a further datapoint, I have two systems with native ipv6, and each have a /64.
He's indicated before somewhere that he is good with $1mm/year for operating costs (I think he said something along the lines of "If KA has $1mm/yr in revenue we’re good!", think it was in the Globe and Mail).

His lectures are hosted on YouTube (free) and he could crowd-source dev, design and QA. Also I think he is always going to be the only teacher - he seems to believe (not passing judgment here, just making an observation from what I 'sensed') that he's got a captivating charisma that people respond to, hence he’s best suited for conducting the lectures. I have enjoyed every lecture of his and think he has a point; he really is a good teacher.

Also, from his TED talk I got that his vision is a universal classroom - very noble. He might need translation, but again, that can be crowd-sourced too.
> If I write a blog post about going to the grocer's, should I post it to HN with the title "hacker infiltrates local business, lives to tell the tale"?

If you want to get a lot of points on HN, then I guess that's what you should do. Alternatively, here are some other ideas:

* Why a startup is like X/X for startups

* Why founders should X

* XDD - X Driven Development

Here's an example:

* Brushing your teeth, for startups

* Why founders should brush their teeth

* TDD - Toothpaste Driven Development
And what you are saying is that there is no possibility that such a feature network-wide (Email to main account holder: "Your phone bill has risen above $1,000 this month. Please make sure that this is not accidental.") would be useful to anyone else, ever.

Which is funny, because it's more or less standard in the UK, and most of the EU.
Frankly, for most people in that situation, (highly educated, working in a low-paid contract job doing menial tasks unrelated to their education or interests) their first, if not only priority is going to be finding a real job.
I repeatedly gave instructions, like: If I don't specify it, I want you to come up with something that works. It will be my fault if I don't tell you. I want you to act with maximum initiative.

I still got massive amounts of my time wasted by assistants not completing things and asking me "cover your ass" questions.

I totally agree that it's a specialized skill set.
Most certainly. I'm just pointing out that $200,000 is, in fact, consistent with the prevailing market rates if you choose to download terabytes worth of data on your 3G modem.
> he's allowing somebody who couldn't otherwise afford it to buy a long-lasting machine like yours.

Only very slightly. He's selling it for almost the same price he bought it for, but happens to have a student discount that makes it 15% cheaper.
What phone? The devices being billed aren't phones. There are no "phone bills" involved here.
Where DVCS-Autosync uses XMPP, the current version of SparkleShare uses a public IRC channel: https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Private-notificat...
It doesn't look to me like the detention time involved here was computed from the damages. The two issues are orthogonal. We appear to agree on this point.
Show HN: Alpha release of Write Daily, an app for "daily pages" and drafting
The research on skill development says it's practice, not talent. Creativity experts agree that you have to put the work in to get results. You have to write a million words before you find your voice. Focusing on quantity produces better results than focusing on quality.

To manage that process for writers, I'm creating Write Daily: http://www.writedailyapp.com

It's in alpha currently, just freshly released. It's only been tested in Chrome on OS X, so I'm sure it will break in other browsers -- but if you have Chrome I'd love for you to give it a whirl.

It's built with Rails, jQuery, Underscore.js, and Backbone.js. It's my first more-Javascript-than-back-end-code project, so the JS is quite disorganized at the moment -- that aside, Backbone+Rails is a great combination.

I'd love any feedback on the idea or the execution to date, and would be happy to answer any questions.
On being a rational anarchist:
"I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
What carriers are providing 'Carrier-Grade NAT'? IPv4 WILL turn into a ghetto, and with good reason.
Clickable: http://www.writedailyapp.com
thanks for the detailed response. really appreciate it and i'm going to check out the lynda.com videos tonight when i get home.

cheers
I agree you can't try to 3rd-degree murder someone and accidentally 1st-degree murder them, but you can try to non-fatally injure someone and, due to being mistaken about the facts, end up killing them (e.g. because you were mistaken about the effects of a poison you used). In that case, you do indeed get convicted of a lesser crime, if the court/jury believe you.

In the theft and criminal damages context, you could have an analog, though we don't currently, where being judged guilty of one of the more major theft or damages offenses (like "theft over $X") requires an intent to cause that level of theft or damages. If you meant to cause $50 in damages and actually caused $50k, that could be a lesser offense than if you meant to cause $50k in damages. You'd be found guilty of essentially "damage over $X but with intent to only cause damage under $X", the way 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter are lesser offenses due to the lack of intent to cause death, even when there was intent to violently injure non-fatally.
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You know the unsubsidized cost of the phone is about $800-$900 right? Those people you're selling to are buying it at one third the price.
I've benefited before from eBay flukes so I always set a reasonable reserve price. I wouldn't suggest setting it too high but I think people understand there is a minimum price you're willing to sell at. I also usually set a buy it now price, requiring immediate payment, at about a 5-10% discount of other recently completed auctions for the same item. If someone is willing to save me the hassle of answering tons of questions, or re-listing the item when inevitably the first few buyers don't pay, I'm happy to give them a discount. In my experience with eBay in the last few years don't be surprised at all if you have to list the item several times before you find a paying buyer.
Good to know, but poking around the monotouch website I don't see anything about this. I'd think this would be on the frontpage or the news section at the very least. Nothing about it in community either. Little things like this (not being able to find valuable info) really does kill motivation to work on this otherwise fun/interesting platform.
I did not see giving up and using past tense terms to describe OpenOffice when Oracle bought Sun and things did not go the way the community wanted. The community simply routed around. What makes Mono different?

I think the difference is that OpenOffice is done. It is more or less complete and usable right now (if arguably far from ideal). The Mono Project still many missing pieces (like tools for finding memory leaks or documentation). Compared to OpenOffice's, Mono's situation rides much more how much people expect that it will be maintained, adopted and get "traction" in the future.

That said, I don't know enough to say if Mono is "dead" or not.

Edit: I think this is also a quality of development frameworks as opposed to end-user applications. This is why developers were rightly concerned about the future when Nokia changed its development plans.
In a startup, most of the time you do not even know what the variables are that can affect the outcome; so you have to guess and hope for the best. The learning comes from examining the outcome and then discovering all the variables you never even knew existed - so you go back and change your hypothesis or product to deal with the new variables. And so it goes...
So then how do you express the sentiment? I felt very uncomfortable hearing about the "celebrations" occurring after bin Laden's death. How do you say something like, "dude, death sucks, no matter who's on the receiving end of it," without coming off as playing the moral-superiority card?

On a side note, your post has a bit of a holier-than-thou feel to it.
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That's a smokescreen. You will not find many people on HN who who think sentencing shouldn't be modified due to mitigating factors. I certainly don't think that.

But the arguments on this thread aren't only about going easy on someone simply because they're poor. They're also about how it's "highway robbery" for someone to go to jail and pay six figures for stealing a SIM card.
Mono contributor (circa 2005-2006) here. They didn't axe the entire team. Still going strong. Mono had a number of people working on different sides and only part of the team was let go as part of Attachmate restructuring of the SuSE group.
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I love how fast jQuery is progressing, but it does seem that ultimately the separations of various disciplines (particularly this .attr() and .prop() debate) is a step away from the convenience of jQuery-past.

It's understandable though, because helpers and abstractions add bloat and latency to interactions with the various DOM interfaces. And this latency is the price we have to pay for the benefits these abstractions give us - which include a unified interface to the DOM of many browsers.

The balance of speed vs convenience is very difficult for frameworks like jQuery looking to work for as many people as possible... if you want the convenience at the sacrifice of speed or conversely prefer the speed to the convenience you have one option: build a library specific to your app or your needs.

The rest of us will use jQuery ;)
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This what she eventually did, but in the beginning, she seemed enthusiastic about having some kind of part time work. In just about the time she spent almost arranging a meeting, she could have just gone ahead and arranged it. I think acting on your own initiative is something not everyone quite knows how to do.
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the only active site I can think of is studentdoctornetwork. they have some subforums related to what you are talking about but aren't as busy as hn.
Because I can go on 99designs and find a few designers to do work dirt cheap and fast... elance for programming & complicated stuff... not so much. now i'd pay more for someone in house and coming to the office no doubt... but giving up any meaningful % of company to designer, no disrespect, but unlikely... imho.
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Jason,

Tell me why I should stay on slicehost instead of moving to linode or somewhere else. How does this move benefit me? In what ways does this move make your product better than linode's?

>disconnect Slicehost from Rackspace's cloud roadmap

What is Rackspace's cloud roadmap? To be direct: I don't care, at all, about rackspace's "cloud roadmap" and it sounds like we're all going to be eating the cost of either a poor engineering decision decision on slicehost's part, or a poor business decision on rackspace's part.

As somebody that's been a loyal customer of yours for about a year and a half, and has recommended your service to countless people, that kindof hurts, man.

Maybe it's just the phrasing, but what it sounds like you're effectively saying is "We're shuting slicehost down. Please please please pretty please sign up for rackspace instead because that would be good for us."

(I'm sorry, this comment comes across as a bit rude. I think I might just be a little unclear how this will affect me.)
Do you know of any other open source projects that take a mentor/mentee approach?
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I really hope it is some sort of mistake, arpnetworks give you a /48 but I believe you are limited to /64 by default.

Even so though tunnel brokers give out /64's and having to pay for that with native support would be rather silly.
...meanwhile, neither 1% nor 100% of damages serves society's goal of deterring crime.

I would tend to disagree with this. Having to repay damages removes the benefit associated with the crime, so for ordinary sane people, it would act as a deterrent. In my opinion, jail is more appropriate for crimes where the criminal is likely to be an ongoing danger to society and no other option (probation, mandatory classes, etc.) would have the desired effect.
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Of course it would be easy to "discover" the Pythagorean theorem if you went back in time---you already know it.

Now, go back in time and <em>take away all your knowledge</em> (and the knowledge that there was a theorom to be discovered in the first place) and see how easy it would be for you to discover that theorom.
Speaking as a denizen of the US, making coffee is more complex than we've been socialized to think in N. America. We've been socialized to accept the mediocre result of stale grounds and water that's too cool. (Which makes for an easier time dealing with UL)