skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, it's a trade-off. Making the other side of the fence not impossible to reach, you just have to hop a little. Perl can easily be made nicer and Python can surely with ease be made more flexible.
Isn't it really easy to steel somebodys card? Isn't credit card theft a big problem in amerika? Dept cards are protected with a code so there not that easy to steal.

Im from europe and this is just how it is in my view of the Amerika but I draw my knowlage from movies and stuff so correct me.
Regarding #1, I found these statistics from: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-card-indu...

Approximately 74.9 percent of the U.S. families surveyed in 2004 had credit cards, and 58 percent of those families carried a balance. In 2001, 76.2 percent of families had credit cards, and 55 percent of those families carried a balance.

So, assuming the balance hasn't shifted too drastically, it's true that the majority of Americans need (or at least find convenient) the credit. But there's also clearly plenty of people who don't; 15 to 20 percent of Americans is a pretty big market.
Simple. Everyone standardizes on the same OS (Linux, or maybe Windows if you want .Net or MSSQL) and the same infrastructure (EC2 or equivalent). Then you run your apps on there.

Facebook and Twitter are becoming infrastructure too (or at least, their login systems are), but not necessarily profitable ones. Sure, they'll tell the advertisers that I'm a left-handed avocado farmer in New Orleans, but it will be the content providers who'll know when I'm looking for a book of funny kitten jokes
Spelling correction has nothing to do with "" being worse than +.

I think a lot of us would welcome spelling suggestions while we're using our + operator.
Thinking in the most simplistic form possible - how about engineers just doing what makes them the most happy? Forget about whether we could provide more value at an established company. Maybe building our own products is our passion. That alone will drive more value than doing something we're not passionate about. Just a thought.

Whether early stage startups are overvalued is a different topic to be discussed.
Very neat. Makes me kind of embarrassed that I never got around to actually solving this challenge. I've had the web page open on my laptop since it first showed up on HN.
He paints a picture of “Google pretending to be Switzerland, but doing back deals with everyone, and Apple being left alone to build the Deathstar.”Guess where that will leave most startups.

Nice analogy. Time to move to Dantooine and work on my X-wing startup.
Would this still affect the iPhone 4S though? If I understand this all correctly, I think that corporate IT would have to install the self-signed root cert on your phone for Siri to be MITM'd. There's no reason for your phone to trust it otherwise.
Mine from the weekend here:
http://ronilan.com/instagram-unshredder/
Actually ...

Roku has something with similar specs for $50 retail (which means they sell it to retailers at $30 at most). And Apple has something called "AppleTV", which has a little more hardware on it (wifi, power supply, ir remote receiver + remote, 8GB of flash), and sells for $90.
I don't want the Apple OS. Remove it completely from the hardware, make the firmware more friendly to non-Apple OS, then I'll buy more Apple hardware.

Other than NetBSD, I was not aware it's "easy" to run other OS's on Apple hardware. Knowing Apple, I'm still not sure I believe it.

But I will investigate. Thanks for the FYI.
I don't see what's wrong with larger companies having a hard time attracting talent.

A good read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

As transaction costs go down (in general), it makes less sense for us as a society to have production/value creation organized in larger organizations (firms, companies, etc) - instead in a bunch of independent smaller groups.

Companies only exist to minimize transaction costs.
What Sean left out was -- overfunded for whom? He implied it, but didn't say it: the bigger dogs in the fight (Facebook/Twitter/Google) have to compete for talent like everyone else.

The overfunding is mostly a problem for those larger tech companies, not the little guys.
My hunch is that the final price will be something slightly more, or else Broadcom is going to subsidize the project to some degree. They're already easying buyers into the idea of a $35 "Model B" version that has the ethernet magnetics on it and more memory etc.
$25? My two banks charge $40 and $50. Which banks charge only $25?
So I wonder if Sean Parker actually believes this, or if he is just frustrated by a lack of engineers available for his larger backed companies. Either way he doesn't look great making comments like this.
Could you explain how exactly the + operator is used incorrectly?

I know that personally i often end up with bizarre looking searches, purely because i know what i'm searching for. e.g. it might include purposeful spelling mistakes, requiring the plus to avoid autocorrection...but this doesn't mean i'm using the + incorrectly.

I just can't imagine somebody, potentially, understanding boolean logic, describing a search with it, and using it incorrectly. I can't even imagine the most naive usage being incorrect, unless you're sure that you know what they wanted to do somehow.
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Any transcript of the podcast available so that people at work can actually read what he's talking about?
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Take a step back though.

Why were you pursuing these loans in the first place?

Did you really need to get a car loan or did you just not have the cash to buy the car that you wanted. Could you have bought a little less car, paid cash, and have been payment free? Or could you have stayed in what you had, saved up, and then paid cash.

Same with a home. Did you need to buy a home? Or did you want to buy a home.

My point here isn't to indict your decision making, so please don't take my questioning as a personal attack.

My point is that this idea of borrowing money to make purchases has become so engrained in our thinking that very few people stop and question it.

There are cases where a clear need exists and sometimes the only way is to borrow money. I've been there. But the messages we hear on a daily basis don't talk about borrowing to satisfy needs; rather they serve to support the idea of borrowing to satisfy wants.
Sadly, Parrot sucks. It doesn't have a stable bytecode, its assembly is buggy and too high-level, it only recently got a generational (but still m&s stop-the-world) GC and has no useful object system.

I've tried implementing Python3 on it for GSoC and failed.
The US, Russia, and China all have proven anti-satellite weapon systems. IIRC they are very similar to missiles designed to intercept ICBMs.
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> wrap all the outgoing URLs in click-tracking garbage then uses JavaScript in an attempt to hide it, with no way to opt-out

Speaking of which, is there any way to disable or bypass that kind of crap? (e.g. with a user-script or something?) It's incredibly obnoxious. And sadly Google's not the only on that does it.

Frankly, it seems like a major design mistake from my perspective that Javascript is allowed to manipulate the status bar at all. It'd be nice to be able to remove that ability, if not "un-wrap" the links entirely.
I wish I read the comments here first.
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PyPy is growing a nice concurrent GC (and a solution to the GIL). I believe Rubinius also has a work-in-progress concurrent GC.
1) has on numerous occasions taken me to wrong places
2) has likewise wasted a lot of my time

Why have to put us with this? Who benefits, apart from Google?

"And tell me again why this belongs on HackerNews?"

Perhaps because one of the most important decisions for anyone initiating a net presence is to choose the right domain name? Perhaps because many young enterpreneurs here don't really want to waste their precious time and resources on lawsuits arising from domain name duplications?
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to get battlefield 3 working on ma friends windows vista pc i had to install 215 updates. it took 6 hours. why? because the machine had to have IE9 installed even though that wasn't his default browser and wasn't the browser started when origin kicked off battlefield. so for sure this is cool in theory. the idea is certainly plausible and fun to talk about, but melding the complexity of web apps with the complexity of system apps makes me shudder.
There's a link to EFF's "contact your rep" page relating to this bill, where you can send a message to your rep.

I sent that message.

You should too.
Trust is important. Go with your instinct (this is why a face to face meeting, if only initially, is so important - you cannot evaluate someone virtually, the nuances get airbrushed over). Basically, if we were to screw a client, the grapevine would know. Relationships are everything and that is why we get work that others could do 80 to 90 percent of.

We do sign NDAs from time to time. But really most of those NDAs are to protect the client from us revealing we did the work.

Truly unique ideas, you will need to build your own trusted network. And sell the developers on the idea (they will not commit just for money, you want to capture their heart).
Hiring experienced generalists with some web development background is a better approach. I would argue strong Javascript skills are more important than ever having used RoRs even if RoRs is the primary stack you use. RoRs is just not that difficult to learn and use.
One company sold an asset to another company, and kept normal records of the sale. I don't consider that the "black market." It's just the natural secondary market. (Yes, I'm only making a semantic distinction, but I think it's misleading to use the same term to refer to, say, the cocaine economy and the above-board sale of IP addresses.)
We also use Java/Jetty with raw servlets, a custom DSL, and JDOM for the REST endpoints.

As for performance, our customer-facing sites are quite a bit faster then a typical DB-coupled site because page objects are fetched from a local memory cache that is invalidated by MQ processing.

Our application is not small, but not large, either. For a large application, Amazon.com is well-known for also using a SOA architecture to deliver customer-facing sites, none of which directly call the DB.
Maybe that sounded more callous than it was meant to. It's not about pride. I would talk to the student and explain why they didn't succeed. But I wouldn't give them a pass for ignoring the assignment.

Not carrying out the task assigned doesn't necessarily indicate interest or competence to me. Anybody can carry out a random task of their own choosing. The ability to successfully complete a problem put before you is much more valuable than the ability to complete some problem.

In particular, this assignment appears to have been as much about analyzing stack traces as anything else. He didn't demonstrate any competence in that area.

Personally, this is something I came to appreciate from my teachers. The ones who would let me just get away with anything as long as I made it look fancy bored me. I could literally get an A without knowing half the course material just by putting on a grand show. The ones who actually challenged me taught me a lot more. I can accomplish so much more when I'm not busy being an arrogant jerkoff.
I would prefer real names, or at least the name(s) I know them by.

Many of my friends are Asian and have several "names", most not on their birth certificate or passport. Despite trying, there is no way I can pronounce or even remember many of my Thai friends' names and most of my Chinese friends usually use their English first name that they adopted, rather than were given.
this did a decent job of not pushing the company too hard. Sometimes these posts read like a press release.

I like hearing about people experiences and how different companies actually work.
IMO - there is something here, at least with respect to handhelds/mobile devices the user experience is what counts. However things such as battery life still matter since they directly tie in with user experience. Also processor specs could indicate potential video performance or some some such thing that people care about.

Slightly off-topic but the OP left out this portion of the same gizmodo article referenced :

"After the event, I got a chance to play with the Nook Tablet some more. Maybe the first device was glitching or running too many apps in the background, but the second unit was much more fluid and responsive. It still had some lagginess, and web browsing wasn't amazing, but it was definitely better. eBooks and magazines especially. Long story short, it was much more in line for what's expected in a $250 device."
Great job! Excellent coding style btw.
I love it when someone who no longer has to participate in the rat race is admonishing others to stay in it. So easy for them to say this..
"Check cards", or whatever name is used for bank cards that you can use as a credit card (instead of only with a PIN) are unequivocally a worse deal for consumers. You don't get any of the benefits (cash back/miles, insurance, etc) and in the case of fraud, the money is gone until the claim is processed. The physical form (card) is irrelevant, but it will be very hard for any system to compete with rewards credit cards. Since the card companies do not allow the merchants to pass on the fees to the consumer, unless you can make a system so pervasive that merchants can afford to _not_ accept credit cards, I don't see how you can compete on the basis of low fees. You have to give at least 1% back to the consumer (more to get people to switch), and then you have only removed a tiny bit from the status quo. The people who subsidize the rewards cards, those who carry a balance, probably aren't interested in a system that doesn't offer credit.
TLDL; Jobs biography not fawning enough for Apple fanboys.

The complaints include that Isaacson used "spike it" in reference to killing a story, without explaining it, and that Isaacson wrote "ATM machine" in the book - which if not originally correct, is clearly in popular use today (see also "PIN number").

Clear, penetrating, insightful grammar criticism from Gruber.
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Can't agree enough this. I'm pretty sure user interface research has shown that it's incredibly frustrating to users when you tell a computer to do one thing and it does something else. The suggestions are helpful, but it should default to what I tell the fucking thing to search for!
The are diffrent because the can be avoided easly. Visa/Mastercard are not really doing much but the suck lots of cash out of the real economy and you think thats fine because other people/things suck out money too. We should the consomer keep paying for this when it can be avoided. If there are other silent cost you too should do a start up to help avoid those.
I suspect he means that investors are overvaluing small startups (relative to their chances of becoming successful). The consequence he worries about is that having too much funding available makes the opportunity too appealing to the best engineers, making it harder for ventures that will succeed to keep/attract talent.
A rating that turns out negative for people that have never needed any credit is a silly rating. Let me guess, indirectly it's the credit card companies doing the rating?
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if you do pay $10k/month for entry level skills my email is....

:P
My favorite part:

"... Now, Mr. Peltz sits on the boards of Heinz and Wendy's, which his holding company, Triarc Cos., bought in 2008.

"Mr. Peltz declines through a spokesman to comment on the packaging change, saying it wouldn't be appropriate since he's on the boards of both companies.

"Since a supply spat between Heinz and McDonald's that arose during a 1973 tomato shortage, Heinz, the country's largest ketchup producer, has been locked out of most McDonald's U.S. locations."
It definitely is harder.

I've done my shared of such web-application using GWT.

This technique, known as the "single page application" is like writing a desktop-app but with additional complexity such as maintaining a history on your own and deciding what "back" button action means depending on the context.

The other additional complexity is the "offline" mode. Now suddenly you have sync issues.

Pretty difficult even with frameworks.
On Windows, you have to do Alt+0172 to get a ¬ unless there's some shortcut I don't know offhand.
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Each day, I thank god for all these useful idiots in SV. They're madly running a rat race to build the next social widget. Throwing off useful technology I can use to serve the vast wasteland ignored by them.

Thank you Sean Parker.
I'm reading and it's good so far, what is everyone complaining about? So far it seems unbiased, instead of the typical heroic novel you get in most other biographies.
I think the implied point in the article is that in this case Microsoft and Nortel had to disclose the sale details, but in most other circumstances, the would not have done that. It seems that the author implies that this sale is an indication that a black market is forming, not that this was a black market transaction.
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Volunia, much more than a search engine
OK, thanks - makes me feel a little better. I was originially thinking "Where do people get 100 hours in a weekend? Wives/children/pets must be on vacation...". But I realize it's probably more like weekends, plural. I've got a side project going to learn Django and Python - you're work inspired me to throw Bootstrap in there too.

Anyway, nice job!
I'm at a conference and can't easily get on our internal VPN from here, but I'll try to remember to circle back around when I can get on our VPN.

But in general, you see a lot of stuff that looks like semi-random punctuation just sprinkled at the beginning of the query or throughout the query, things that look like people are using plus instead of space as if they're copying from an address bar, etc.
The post to shipping ratio is low.
I said almost the exact same thing in December when my first android app only made $150 in 5 months.

Hang in there. I took that as education time, improved my marketing and added a new app, and now its more like 350/m avg. Its no business but not bad for a few weekends building apps I wanted for myself.
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Judging by how tight some of those discretes are packed on the board, Apple also has some serious pick and place machines.
It sounds like some people were looking for a hagiography. I for one very much liked the biography - the fact that Isaacson made efforts to present all sides of the story is greatly valuable even though it makes the book a bit depressing to read.

I think the other issue is that the book being a bit too factual and multifaceted doesn't go well with the opinionated audience.
This doesn't make a lot of sense for Manhattan, because the grid doesn't have a center point; there's no numbering convention for streets south of Houston or avenues east of York/A. It would make more sense for cities like Miami or Salt Lake City, where there is a quadrant system and (for the most part) consistent spacing of streets
These are "Legacy" IPv4 addresses, that were allocated before the formation of any RIR
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196377
As many have mentioned this is just whining from a guy who has a vested interested in a big company spending lots on payroll and acq-hires.

The flip-side this creates a better market for younger or less-experienced engineers who are looking to learn and grow. This group of people will never be able to get a job with Facebook, but can certainly join a company who is willing to grow with them.
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I learned something new today. thanks.
Thoughtful post on a complex topic.

I think free EC2 + Tor is a net good thing, but it won't surprise me if it gets abused and disallowed by Amazon. With the rising threat of censorship it Tor and hidden services more important.

It's a shame that abusive Tor behavior (spamming, bandwidth hogging, ) can't be easily dealt with without violating anonymity or giving too much censorship power. Or, like what Slashdot did, block whole exit nodes.
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This challenge is the first real life program I wrote with Haskell.

https://github.com/Mgccl/mgccl-haskell/blob/master/random/un...
(so it seems I don't like to specify the type of my functions...)

Explanation is here: http://chaoxuprime.com/2011/11/a-solution-to-Instagram-engin...
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The gist of the complaints seem to be that the bio is about Steve Jobs and not more about specific Apple events (maybe they missed the title?) and that Isaacson's editors didn't catch a few typos in their rush to publish soon after the death of Jobs.
Could you not add a hacker mode? Put it at google.com/h or something and remove all the cuddly fuzziness that drives us power users completely mad. I'm sure your intentions are good and that the latest changes are helpful for many or most users. But I for one have always enjoyed Googles assumption that the user is intelligent and therefore never autocorrected me, countrary to for instance MS office. Suggesting corrections does not interrupt my flow and are generally helpful. Auto-corrections are in great part highly disruptive for me. Please don't deviate from this very sound principle, at least not for us power users.
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As a former .NET guy, I was just going to comment on the fact that the Enterprise adoption of Java nearly exactly mirrors the Enterprise adoption of .NET. All of the complains and justifications sound exactly the same.
Pretty much the same here. Then again I'm targeting cross-stitchers (pretty small market) and went with iAd over any form of payment. All things considered the fact that it's made any money at all is kind of astonishing.

Was a bit of a letdown to figure out that Apple had sent me a check at one point and I didn't notice it until two months later.
> TLDL; Jobs biography not fawning enough
> for Apple fanboys.

FYI, that book is anything but fawning.
Can't find a transcript, but on the podcast (http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42) the biography talk starts at about 18:00
Ah ok that makes sense, thanks. I'm just mainly surprised at how little usage there was of the operator to begin with. I use it (used to use it) probably 20+ times a day, and would've assumed that it's common enough, at least in certain circles (academia etc).
Siracusa's chief complaint is that Isaacson doesn't have enough insight into the tech world, or technology in general.

The book also just not outstandingly written. The first half is also stuff that's pretty much known from other books or sources, so if you've read a lot about Apple or Steve Jobs, there's nothing really new.