skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I've ever asked of you is that you not say untrue things about Open Source software and the GPL license, because I believe it harms users and developers. You're trying to play the martyr here, but what you've said about the GPL here, and in other threads, is simply and demonstrably untrue. Those mistruths spread the confusion you claim to want to alleviate.
Good stuff Hipmunk. Looking forward to when I can modify by fare class and further customization.
I've used itasoftware.com almost since they started with a beta and I like the fact that I can do /f bc=w for example to price a specific fare class.
Profitable doesn't mean that it's more profitable then if the developer had written windows malware.

Afghani farmers can make a profit with saffron but they keep planting poppies because they make a bigger profit.
Want to own an eBook? Buy a DRM-free one. There are plenty of places that sell DRM-free eBooks, including fiction and technical reference.
I have an ING Direct account, and I've never been terribly happy with the allpoint ATM's. They tend to .. not look trustworthy. When you've got an awful looking ATM tucked away in a corner somewhere, I really don't want to give it all my account info.
Regulation that protects [competition] is good.

Not necessarily. There's no point in using regulation to preserve competition between buggy whip manufacturers. Creative destruction puts an end to many industries. And in some cases, its death throes can easily look like a market failure rather than market success.

In the end, who decides if it's a buggy whip industry? And who decides if a corporation is an oligopoly? Remember, it's likely that in any mature, regulated industry, the regulators are probably industry insiders themselves (see "Regulatory Capture", https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Regulatory_ca... ).
Pulling a fast one on Amazon is possible, sure, but does this maneuver violate the Amazon terms of service? Speaking of the TOS, it would be worth checking to see what is actually written.
I usually don't. W3Counter is big enough that it spreads itself, and if it grew any faster, I would probably have to hire someone to help me keep up with it.
Hemp is actually the most important and potentially disruptive element of cannabis legalization. Hemp can provide equivalent or superior alternatives to a wide variety of materials including cotton, lumber, fiberglass insulation, nylon, petroleum, and pharmaceuticals. That is, of course, a very wide range of industries who have significant investments in their current processes and are just as pleased maintaining the status quo. Not coincidentally, hemp is the least discussed angle of cannabis legalization in the US.
Yes, then there will only be meth labs, illegal airstrips for cocaine/heroin flights, etc. in backwoods locations, not outdoor pot farms.
Their testing methods were very imprecise.

To really confirm this they would need to monitor the network driver(s) on the phone and record the exact data amounts that are passed and then compare that to what AT&T reported.

Another option would be to emulate a cell tower, connect the device to it, and monitor traffic that way.

The thing I did find interesting was that they said some carriers round up transfer sizes. That could account for some big differences when you consider that this rounding could happen per transfer or session. To me that sounds like highway robbery akin to shaving pennies off interest.
You read the article, right? I mean the guy is a high school dropout.
Ask HN: What happens to old developers?
It seems like the overwhelming majority of engineers in the valley are guys in the 22-30 band. What happens at 30?

I'm three months away from the big 3-0 and I'd like to know what's going to happen.

Will I stop being employable?

Will I be expected to put on a tie and stop writing code?

I'm tempted to think that tech phenomenon is just so new that the median age of engineers hasn't had time to move up but that doesn't foot... all the guys who were 25 in 1996 are now in their 40s. Are they still writing code?
Awesome. What kind of stuff are you interested, in a general sense?

If you have any interest in learning Groovy and hacking some stuff that deals with the intersection of social-networking and information-retrieval, feel free to drop me a line... I run a project that could use some help.
Wherein I review How Children Fail, a book by John Holt
Best practice in this case would be to get your new cert from a new CA, then revoke the old one with the original CA once you've got the new cert in place. Plus, of course, announcing everything in advance. (I'd wait a month or so unless you had specific fear of the old one having been compromised).
"...would anyone mind telling me why Hype is better than Flash?... It only "fixes" the CPU hogging part of Flash (and, presumably, Flash's lack of mobile support)."

Seems like you answered your own question. Those are two major problems with Flash.
Not if it's distributed.
Your brain wouldn't be worth much without your body. You'd be surprised how much your body does. Think of typing for example. You couldn't do it without the exact nerve/muscle pathways in your hands. Hook up robot hands (even crudely modelled after your existing nervous/muscle/bone system in your current hands) and you'd basically have to relearn to do anything. You'd be a baby again.

I think you'd be surprised how much this applies to. Speech, even things like counting we rely on our bodies for.
see my article: http://www.victorsreviews.com/article/what-ebooks-publishers...

it makes all the difference.
That may be true of the body, although our nervous system in our body is quite large, not to mention the spinal chord. But it's certainly not true of the developmental environment. For one thing, simulating that would require simulated thousands of other human brains.
Ask HN: Are you considering buying an SSD? I would love to help you
I am working on a tool to make choosing between SSDs really easy.

If you are considering buying one, please let me know (or contact me - email in profile) - I would love to get ~10-20 people who I could get feedback from along the way as I work on the tool.

If you already own an SSD or aren't considering buying one right now, please let me know what features you think the app should have!

And before I forget - any suggestions on the domain name? I already own www.ssdapp.com (and have set up a very basic MVP there already - next version will be made with rails)
Seems like a pretty extreme judgement and based on what he's been doing recently a bit unfounded.
WebP: A new image format for the Web
Why you should not build an open source startup
This article is a canonical example of regulatory capture. Large pharma companies and licensed pharmacists alike do not like the idea of overseas pharmacies selling into the US market. Each large pharma company was forced to pay about a billion dollars per drug for a license from the FDA, so they have an incentive to recoup costs. And the FDA also has an incentive to play policeman and thump its chest about "safety" to justify a budget increase.

In reality, removing the FDA from the equation would be much better than eliminating online pharmacies. Open it up and let the buyer beware, just like they already do about every other internet site they visit.
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I guess I haven't really been following Gruber long enough to have been exposed to those arguments, and he doesn't really seem to have linked back to them (they are pretty old).

That said, I'm not sure I follow his arguments.

The first one seems to be that the Mac community is less tolerant of malware/crapware. But as the market expands, especially to former Windows users, doesn't this become less true by definition? It's an explanation for why there hasn't been much malware on Macs, but not really one for why there couldn't or won't be.

The second was isn't an argument so much as an assertion. Though this might be a case again of me not being familiar enough with his writing historically and his audience. Maybe he's speaking from the assumption that his audience understands technical details about Mac OS architecture/design that makes this true?

You're right, though, it does indeed seem like Mac App Store exclusivity is where Apple is headed. And that does seem likely to make the OS fundamentally more secure than others, mostly reducing potential exploits to third party app/web.
From Dispersed Creativity to Monetizing with Modular Innovation
I just mostly can't get it in me to write long comments when there are so many more short comments that I can easily reply to. I also feel like if I do have something long/complicated/insightful to say, no one will see it anyways. I also have no idea who anyone is anymore -- but yes, early on, Hacker News was a bunch of friends, and now it's a really popular site on the internet that everyone knows about. It's way past my Dunbar number.
Private Browsing Mode is for browsing without storing information on your computer. It has nothing to do with websites tracking you; that's what the Do Not Track feature is. We do require that add-ons respect Private Browsing Mode, and our privacy team is working on a recommendation (not a requirement) that add-ons also honor the user's Do Not Track preferences.

As the person who implemented Private Browsing describes:
Private Browsing aims to help you make sure that your web browsing activities don't leave any trace on your own computer. It is very important to note that Private Browsing is not a tool to keep you anonymous from websites or your ISP, or for example protect you from all kinds of spyware applications which use sophisticated techniques to intercept your online traffic. Private Browsing is only about making sure that Firefox doesn't store any data which can be used to trace your online activities, no more, no less.

http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2008-11-04/dont-leave-trace-pri...
Apple triggers 'religious' reaction in fans' brains, report says
Your original post struck a very anti-net neutrality tone. My point was that government regulation in that area, as well as others, can protect both consumers and innovation. If we let any company merge with any other, we would soon have monopolies that stifle competition and gouge consumers.

Not all regulation is bad, just like not all effects of slavish adherence to free market ideals are good. The free market is good in aggregate, but there are many cases where government intervention is beneficial.
If your public library offers the Books24x7 service, you might just borrow these too. KCLS offers it and it's great. http://www.kcls.org/downloads/

Not necessarily O'Reilly, but many popular publishers -- Apress, Cengage, Cambridge University, Wrox Press, etc.
The brilliant thing about super/hyper injunctions is that you could be breaking them without even knowing it, because you have no idea that they existed. What a complete perversion of the justice system.
> Their testing methods were very imprecise.

I agree. The article states that a custom web server was used, but the web server has no means of tracking protocol overhead.
My company is SproutRobot.com. It's in my profile. You should check out what I'm building and by all means if it's not interesting to you avoid applying for a job. :)

I would never ask people to work without compensation. And I would never ask people to work "ungodly" hours. But I do want to work with people who are really excited about tech and about home gardens, and about making stuff that was impossible possible. Not many companies offer the chance to work on a problem like that, and for some people it's really exciting.

And they should talk to me. I've already had several people offer to work on the project for free just because it interests them and they're looking to explore other career paths.

I actually have never done the "let's do a trial weekend/week contract gig" thing, although I don't understand why you're so vociferously against that approach. Even if it limits me to people who are freelancers.... there are a lot of freelancers out there! And I'm not an unreasonable guy. If someone was excited about SproutRobot I would do everything I could to find a way to get them on board!

But if someone doesn't give a shit, and can't rearrange a couple days, or a weekend to figure out if we're a good fit.... I don't see how I'm a totally evil slavedriver boss if I think that's an indication of a poor fit for my company.

What's so terrible about wanting to hire people who want to go out of their way to work for me?

Edit: And what would you think about a company that required you to fly out for a weekend to do two days of interviews? You wouldn't even get paid for that! You must think that kind of demand is abhorrent if you think hiring someone for two days to get paid to work on the product is evil.
I think for most people and especially increasingly over time the choice is going to just be a checkbox when they buy a new computer. Eventually it'll be a recommended upgrade, then it'll be the default.

I would avoid looking at the component level and look beyond SSD at the entire technical purchasing process - buying an Android phone or tablet's a retarded journey through Google and Amazon reviews, if that's what buying a PC or laptop is like for "normal people" then target the entire process of buying a new [tech/gadget/etc] instead.
They can visit the web site and look a the product. I think it's a really exciting and unique product. I want to work with people who feel the same way.
The statement was "confusing" because it was a "lie". As in, people could be confused by what kenjackson said, because the words he wrote were not true.

I'm not interpreting it as an attack. It is an attack, and relatively common type of attack regularly employed by folks who dislike the GPL (as I mentioned, Microsoft once used it with regularity, but they aren't the only ones, and they've been off that particular horse for a while, I think). I'm merely calling it out. I've been involved in Open Source software long enough to have seen a lot of FUD from a lot of different angles. Sometimes it is subtle, sometimes it is obvious. This one is an old dead horse that's been beaten to a pulp, but folks still like to trot it out now and then (or roll it out in a wheelbarrow, or something).
it may be just me, but I don't see how losing ev williams, jack dorsey is really at Square even though they say he's still there (I wonder what really his involvement at twitter is or more of a morale thing) and now loss of Greg Pass, is positive for twitter. For such a huge, emerging quasi startup/business, it smells like trouble to me when everyone responsible for building the site is jumping ship so early.

they are just now focusing on making money, and the man running twitter gave us the dickbar. Just none of this sounds promising to me.
Not starting soon enough - but then again would have missed out on a helluva ride. Embraced, enjoyed, and lived each phase to the fullest. Feel a little behind now but if I didn't then I'd probably procrastinate, so it's a nice fire-under-my-ass. :) All in all despite not getting straight there, no regrets because the journey itself has been great!
I've compared the network usage as reported on the iphone with the one AT&T measures, and it's not the same. I've paid over-usage fees at times when according to the iphone reading I had 20 MB left.
Now it all makes sense...
Some move to management, some move to architecture but there are plenty of "old" software developers.

Look up "neckbeard"... or here http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neckbeard
Items 2 and 6.

I think as you get older, you seem to go lower on the stack and find yourself building software that others use to build software, or get tied up in the abstract with your own ideas for a language, algorithms, etc.

... but I'm only 32, so I'm not sure.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568942
They aren't competing with their customers - you cannot book a flight on the site. You have to take the booking information ITA provides and call the airline yourself.
How God is managing the 2011 rapture
The problems included failing to require a doctor's prescription, improperly selling controlled substances or peddling fake or tainted drugs. Many illicit pharmacies appear to be based in Canada but often ship drugs from places like India, Barbados or China, according to the FDA.

Regulatory capture. Right. That's what this is about. The ideological debate over whether any drugs should be regulated. Sure.
I'm a little hurt that you're calling me misguided. Have you looked at my business? It's a mission-driven business. The mission is extremely clear. Dozens of people a week tell me they LOVE the mission after spending 1 minute with the site. This isn't some obscure chat client or something. I'm trying to do something real. Anyone who doesn't get excited about that right away is not a good fit. I don't think that's misguided.
CSS is actually a complicated thing. have you read PBrowser's papers on it and checked out their formalized subset BSS?
Victor - I'm the co-founder of likealittle.com; Curious to hear about how you saw our growth, and your experiences in the dating market. Would love to get in touch: myprasanna@gmail.com
While I understand your thinking, what you're suggesting is not the correct methodology. General Relativity makes a specific, quantitative prediction for an effect. The prediction is not trivial, in the sense that the most reasonable alternative theory -- Newtonian dynamics -- predicts there should be no effect at all. (This is the null hypothesis if you will.)

The GP-B experiment measured this effect and found agreement with the GR prediction. This does not prove that GR is correct; rather, it is a piece of evidence that implies GR is more likely to be a correct description of gravity than what we previously believed [1]. Because the prediction was quantitative, it is unlikely that the result is caused by something else, which makes the evidence in favor of GR that much stronger.

Now, control groups are often used in life sciences fields. For example when you test a drug, you have a control group that takes placebo. It's not my field but as far as I understand this is done for two reasons. First, there is no quantitative prediction regarding how effective the drug should be, because drugs are not understood so precisely. So the prediction you're testing is much weaker; it's just a boolean. Second, there is a known effect -- the placebo effect -- that can affect results. In other words your null hypothesis is that there may be some effect. These things mean that, without a control group, the evidence in favor of a drug's effectiveness is not very strong.

[1] That is not to say that we believed GR was wrong, but we can never be 100% sure, and every piece of positive evidence strengthens the case.
France Surrenders To Invading Boyscouts
Now points represent a "personal Everest". The motivation to post is pure.

With the old system, I often found myself motivated to post b/c I saw that a snarky comment had gotten a lot of points and wanted to one-up it. It was an ugly, ugly emotion and thankfully PG has eradicated it from HN.
The precision they manufactured those things was pretty epic, too.
The law says you break the law when you lend a book to the public. That phrasing could imply you can still lend it to people you know personally. (That's how it works in Poland.)
I'm sorry but I do not want the "buyer beware" system when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs. The last thing doctors and patients need to worry about is whether the drug they are prescribing/taking is legitimate. The money companies have to pay the FDA goes towards testing the drug which I am glad that they do.
Sex chat bots that pass the turing test?
Where did it say you had 20MB left? Were you using ATT's evaluation? Or a third-part app? Or, the iPhone's operating system, itself.

If you're using the iPhone's operating system, ATT may be calculating space, and rounding up in a different way from Apple. (Examples of this exist in other child-comments of the OP)
No. Running as debit (w/ PIN) still incurs fees, though they are usually less than the credit card fees. If you gave a merchant a debit card and gave them the choice of running it 'as a debit' or 'as a credit' card, they would choose debit.
please do not complain about downvoting, it does nothing to contribute to discourse, and litters up the site.
An "epic" was originally a very long story in the form of a poem. As an experiment lasting 47 years, this certainly qualifies.
You're probably better off with innotop http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/files/
I think it's something like the plot of the Logan's Run movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(1976_film)
Why didn't this researcher run tcpdump on all of the iPhone's network interfaces or use sysctl to measure actual data usage?
Oh, actually he was working with the Little Grey Guy guy. He did not actually own a cute gr[e|a]y cat.
An experiment spanning decades and involving the creation of the most perfect spheres created by man can rightly be called epic. Not sure why you're so down on this.

Also I'd be interested in sources, as well as genuinely curious what missions would be more important.
It's not the same thing. In neither case do you own the copyright to the book, but when buying a physical book you legally own that copy of the book. The key difference here being illustrated by that fiasco a couple of years back when Amazon revoked people's access to the copies of 1984 they had on their Kindles. With a physical book they are not allowed to do that (and physically cannot do it anyway).
Music is already 99 cents. It can't get more disposable than that. Apps in the iphone and Android stores are also very cheap (most are under $10).

Piracy hasn't slowed down.
This is the strategy of cornering the market and according to wikipedia [1] "very few attempts to corner the market have ever succeeded; instead, most of these attempted corners have tended to break themselves spontaneously"

In fact, I think such attack would only create a short term volatility spike but make bitcoin market sturdier in a long term.

In first phase of the attack you would pour in huge amounts of liquidity which would attract more people to bitcoin market.

In the selling phase of the attack you would cause a temporary market panic but only for as long as you sell. And if bitcoin market players managed to find out about what you are doing, they would profit from it.

Finally, when you are out of money, the market would return to its normal course.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market
Doesn't seem very practical for torrents, but it looks like it works great for downloading rapidshare files - especially the annoying ones, divided into 20 x 100mb files.
I'm about to turn 30 in a month. I find myself coding less and spending more time reviewing code and systems designs. I work with other, younger devs (hopefully) teaching how to structure applications and organize them for easier deployment. I'm still always on the lookout new ideas, tools, language patterns, etc. That part of the job never stops. I also get to think about higher level systems architecture, scalability/availability. Fun stuff :) If you wanna stay elbow deep in code and not manage people or go to meetings all day then work with a small startup where every developer has to pitch in.
30 is a common age to start a family these days, you don't stop programming but your priorities certainly change.
I would like to talk to you about how you approached and/or worked with sales people to get your project going.

Do you mind if I contact you off-site?
What's the big deal about BankSimple? They look about the same as most credit unions. My credit union has a good website & iPhone app, and doesn't charge hidden fees. They pay interest on my checking account.
Michael Nielsen - Notes on Expander Graphs