skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the bell website: "Additional local minutes and Canadian long distance minutes are $0.45/minute"

And yeah I'm paying that for any call made to outside the current city in which I am located. Cell to cell its both ways (so I'm told), and the fact that I have a number from a different city means OH WAIT -- Everything is long distance.

I don't change my number because I'm a student and to change my number is $20 at the store + $35 on my bill, twice a year since I go home for the summers. Which basically means I make very few phone calls outside of my unlimited nationwide. Yeah I'm paying out the a to have a plan with unlimited text and nation wide fab 5.

Something else cute -- its $12 to add voicemail and caller id to that $50 package. Is this the same in NZ or do packages come with this sort of thing?
Priorities are like arms; if you have more than a couple, you’re lying or crazy.
I am also a huge Hobo devotee. I have been in Rails for about 5 years, and Hobo provides amazing leverage and power. It lets you think more about users and less about conventional code worries.
They don't, so far.

In the future, they will sell analytics, access to be included and potentially ads.
On the subject of 3D printing and Cory Doctorow I expected to see Makers mentioned, not printcrime. http://craphound.com/?p=2371
Is something like this possible to produce on mass scale? http://www.shapeways.com/model/25846/ora.html
we used to have that, and while the service of providing roads, electricity, or sewerage hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, telecommunications certainly has. while networks might lend themselves to natural monopolies, government sponsored telecommunications monopolies couldn't keep up with the pace of innovation these days and as a result consumers would be left paying high rates for antiquated service.
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The best is when you mix filename expansion and brace expansion :

> ls *.{png,jpg,bmp,gif}

But this gives error if there is no jpg files. In bash, you can activate the extglob mode with "shopt -s extglob" and do this :

> ls *.@(png|jpg|bmp|gif)

http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_35.html
Hold the phone, motor vehicle insurance isn't mandatory in the US?
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Write to B. Ask him if he's made any decisions and re-iterate your interest. Treat it as another cover letter - another (very brief) chance to tell him/her why you're a great fit. Good luck!
It is evidence against such an explanation, but it's very weak evidence. It shows other factors are involved, which no one disputes, but it does not rule out genetics as a factor.

The core of my argument is that other factors have been shown to dominate underrepresentation for some time. While other factors persist and dominate, it is scientifically incorrect, and ethically irresponsible, to continually make reference to innate differences and outmoded, procrustean interpretations of how talent fits a curve.

It is genuinely too early, if not simply too brutal, to claim a group's intellectual inferiority. The evidence is flimsy, the mathematical framework naive, the conceptual underpinnings insufficiently examined, the data is simply not in.

Worse, people use tiny differences in group performance as justification for wildly unfair stereotypes, as applied to individuals. Even if those supposed group differences withstood criticism at the level of rigor exceeding that accorded to physics or mathematics, it still would be ethically irresponsible to make it publicly and commonly known, or the focus of so much discussion.
As developer of Typus I've followed the development of RailsAdmin and ActiveAdmin and I'm very impressed on how they have positioned the product into the market. Many of the customization problems people find with RailsAdmin and ActiveAdmin, are those who I've tried to solve during the last 5 years while developing Typus, and with people feedback.

Last version of Typus is fully compatible with Rails 3.1 and there are also branches compatibles with Rails 2.3 and 3.0, MIT-License, bla bla bla ...

Documents: http://docs.typuscmf.com/

Demo: http://demo.typuscmf.com/

Code: http://github.com/fesplugas/typus
You have to give 99 Designs very clear guidelines and a lot of feedback to get a good result. You may want to call or email your contact person there and tell them you were dissatisfied - they may be able to help.

Also, did you "guarantee" your contest (commit to choosing a winner)? I got 3-4x as many entries after I did that.
I wonder why Skype In (Skype Online Number) - where people call a POTS number and get your skype account, isn't available in canada.

What is stopping everyone from making calls from mobile phones over data networks? surely skype is available for iphone and android?
What Marshall's saying here is important. However, I don't think he said it as well as he could have, or as well as the topic deserves. I go through similar (if less extreme) cycles, and the depressive state can be debilitating. I looked at this as a serious affliction and set about "curing" myself about a year ago. I was ultimately successful after about a few months of concerted effort, at which point I became mediocre and may have blown my chances at moving directly to Stanford next year.

I've since reverted (because I couldn't take how bad I felt that I was subjectively accomplishing so little), and am in the process of studying this personality type to try and find a better answer. I think I'll draft an analysis myself in response to Marshall's and submit it if it comes out decently.

Out of curiosity (and to satisfy my hopeful hunch), are there many other HN users with behavioral patterns like this? I'm hoping to find similarly impassioned individuals on my way out towards Palo Alto/Stanford.
Good post; nirvana is referring to the link about equity splits at the beginning of the post.
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It's worth a mention that this is a common complaint in the UK. We've even had a few government ads run railing against "benefits fraud."
the need to compare prices for airline tickets is a real problem, no matter if there's 4-5 airlines. the need to find the best deal among 4-5 deal sites? Not so much... deal fatigue is a real issue but traveling is something a ton of people do daily. Aggregation is something anyone can do as well and I find it hard to believe a sustainable long term business can be built upon this model.. I mean seriously, take a moment to think about this without any bias? A business? A legit business? Aggregation of deals?.. really? really?
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I'm not making excuses for Netflix - whose is, after all, financing more episodes of a show fans love. I'm sticking up for the copyright holder who is, after all, making more episodes of a show fans love and getting flack for not getting an international distribution deal set up fast enough.
That's a good write-up on the benefits of law school. My biggest problem with the current structure of JD programs isn't that they're useless, but that they're mandatory.

For instance, you can make a case that majoring in Computer Science is a better than majoring in Math if you want to be a programmer, but you can't legally prohibit math majors from writing code.

I'd like to see alternatives to JD programs. I think that a lot of the core skills you described are certainly developed in good law schools, but they are also developed well in lots of different academic paths. For instance, suppose someone double majored in mathematics and english literature with exceptional grades, followed it up with a grad degree. Should that person be forced to go through three years of law school? If this person were allowed to pass the bar and was able to do so, should we deny him or her the right to enter the profession? Would this person be ready with a one year course of study (maybe a master's degree)? Even if it would be "better" for this person to do the full JD, is it worth the additional time and money (and deterrence)? Are we better off as a society if this person gives up on law? (People who hold JDs are probably better off, which of course has a lot to do with how rigorously the JD is enforced as barrier to entry).

There's a big difference between defending the JD as a good way to prepare for a career in law and defending the JD as the only way to enter the legal profession.
This is on the front page right now ....

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258442
I would love to have an idea of what we CAN do.

This is the one thing in my life where I can't vote with my wallet. I only really have three viable choices for wireless right now: Rogers, Bell, and Telus.
I think that one of the most interesting projects is http://groupocracy.org/

this is much better, honest and at the same time, technical take on the process of democratic elections and 4-5 years that follow after elections. Better than what? Better than https://www.votizen.com
Another thing to keep in mind is the use case for
RailsAdmin - it is pretty much an automatic backend,
that you’re not supposed to modify a lot. In its spirit
it’s very close to what Django’s admin backend is."

I can only reason that the author has never spent more than a few minutes with django's admin.
computer forensics is currently in much the same state that arson forensics was at the time Texas sentenced Willingham to death. as far as I know, it hasn't killed anyone, yet...
Not necessarily the case, especially if the interviewers are engineers or engineering managers at a startup. IME, they're usually overloaded with work.
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There are better complaints than yours. I can't whip up some. I can't even imagine them. But, that doesn't mean they can't exist.

This is your bizarro logic in action.

"Something better surely exists".

Well, no shit Sherlock.

Either 1) do something, 2) propose something better than someone else can implement, or 3) shut up.

Your comments are idiotic. Who told you that there aren't real people out there trying to implement something better than Emacs?

XCode 4's use of an actual parser's AST for code completion, refactoring and syntax highlighting comes to mind. Or Visual Studio's overall integration. Or even Eclipse meta-platform extensibility. Subethaedit's concurrent editing ability. And a lot more stuff, besides...

"Where are my robot ponies and flying-cars, they just have to be" is idiotic.
For the most part, maybe. Tell that to the Bell customers who deal with Indian call centres when they need tech support. I know I did, years back (haven't dealt with Bell in a while).
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As a foreigner it is absolutely fascinating to me how sound the basic tenets of the American justice system are and yet the system itself manages to be flawed and bizarrely vindictive. These arson convictions sure take a very interesting view of the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt."
I am a big fan of ender, you can build a framework out of smaller specialized libraries, the Jeesh is very close to jQuery API, add reqwest and morpheus to the stack and you have the missing ajax functionality (with a cleaner interface) and a very nice and fast css tweener based upon MooTools.Tween.
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Yeah, we read your other comments. You don't use Emacs and Vim either, and are proud of it. We get it.
"""Why do we keep having to be subjected to Emacs/Vi love letters on the front page of HN? """

Because we like reading them, stupid. This is a community driven site.
Ask HN: Finding informal mentors/advisors for your startup?
Does anyone have any advice on how to go about informally approaching potential advisors/mentors for your startup? Care to share some stories?
Well, we disagree about that then.

I do no see a reasonable way to weave that remark into this post, I do not see any claim that this is even remotely an attempt to write the full history of WebKit, and I notice that, for those who do not know what WebKit is, the first occurrence of the term in the blog post links to WebKit.org, which says:

"WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE."

I think that should be sufficient acknowledgement for anybody releasing code under the LGPL license.
Good point. You either have to move the warm plastic or the print head and its positioning mechanism... :-/

Engineering is full of unsatisfactory choices...
why would it matter what the server was? isn't the attack against the TCP/IP stack? (low rate DOS fools TCP's flow control into over-restricting transmission afaict).
I actually only learned that ctrl-A works in bash 3-4 months ago, and haven't yet picked a new screen/tmux escape and retrained to it. Mainly because these days, I only use screen when I WFH or am traveling, when I ssh into my workstation. Almost nobody has ssh rights to a production machine, so I'm actually struggling to think when I would use it from my workstation.
> [...] my cofounder is the one putting forth this
> thesis [...] that we're too smart to be successful.
> [...] For instance, I do tend to over engineer, over
> optimize, and under execute.

Surely, knowing up to what point optimization has tangible benefits constitutes a crucial part of being "smart." I realize that defining smartness as whatever makes you successful may steer us towards boring tautology territory, but your rationalization seems self-serving.
It's totally legitimate for you to write this according to your own taste and use it. I don't think it's bad for Python, or anything like that. You are not an idiot and I am sure you can write interesting and useful programs in Python.

But I do agree that it is not 'Pythonic' - except maybe in the trivial sense that it's written in Python.

I would be happy to go into more detail if you really want it.
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I think the difference is that if a US law maker said "but wont this have a bad effect on the poor?" everybody else in congress bursts out laughing!

Technically insurance isn't mandatory in the US if you are rich enough. At least in Ca if you could show enough assets you can self-insure
Not according to Andy Rubin: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/dec/07/androi...
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Data costs in canada are even higher than voice costs!

skype is only available on some androids and charges calls against your voice minutes.
What are your biggest problems with creating a pitch deck?
Here's a gist comparing the Moka front page example to a slightly more typical Python way of doing things:

https://gist.github.com/1380898

EDIT: using the timeit module on these, the Moka version is about 18 times slower on my machine... not that this matters much if it's a much nicer way of expressing the program
I can't get through the whole piece at the moment. (My apologies to Sebastian and others.) I have my own issue: Atypical Cystic Fibrosis. This is associated with heat issues (people with CF are often warm-natured, though I was always cold-natured until I got my anemia under control). Anecdotally, there is an association between genetic disorders and high IQ. There is also an association between high IQ and various issues, like ADD, ADHD, OCD and a few others. The association is strong enough that some people refer to such issues as "co-morbidities" of very high IQ (presumably for lack of a better term and also to indicate that high IQ can and does frequently come with a host of issues and is not all upside).

FWIW: When I was very, very ill and in a lot of pain and on all kinds of drugs, I did all kinds of crap I would never do "while in my right mind". Although I have no reason to believe I am manic-depressive, I do experiences crashes of a sort because I have physical limitations and simply run out of energy. Getting myself fundamentally healthier has take a lot of the edge off my emotional reactivity, reduced the depths of crashes, and made productive times more grounded, saner, healthier, more sustainable experiences.

I am off to piddle around with a game. Again, my apologies for not myself being in good enough shape to really do this topic justice. I am posting anyway in large part because HN moves extremely fast, so if I don't do it now, the opportunity will be lost, likely before I am up to doing the topic justice.

Peace.
People rebind it. I bind it to ^o.

# put this in your .screenrc
escape ^Oo
Thank the CRTC for that, there's a lot of complicated regulations regarding the telecom industry and the requirement for Canadian ownership. Which is ironic because we welcome foreign entities to setup and drill our oil but opening up the telecom industry to foreigners is a big no-no.
Rehearsal dinner invitations suggestions .
There's always room for competition. You just need to find the right audience and pricing structure. BTW there is an iPad based app for mockups that does iPad/iPhone mockups - iMockups.
And nobody in Victoria drives at more than 30km/h !
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The problem is so many of those inclined to oppose the government-protected big 3 cartel are also the same sort who think the solution to every problem is a government monopoly. Any push for change would not move to a more open system, but would at most replace it with a Crown Corporation.
From the page summary on Google:

LDoS = low rate denial of service (I didn't know, did you?).

Now the article doesn't load, anyone has the text?
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Yup, it seems Viridis3D are the ones doing the actual printing and firing. I thought it was done in-house by Shapeways.
I love how the "boss" is sitting on the floor while most everyone is seated on the couch.

"...and if we can't do that, then we outta go broke"
Just to advance that thought from my own perspective: she may have believed that language is rich and various. It's easy to revert to such simple words but it takes an adventurous mind to consider other forms of expression. Think of it as a complement from her to you.
Will they? Any reference to back that up? I don't think Apple has done this in the past, and I don't think they've said they will either.
what would you like to know?

ping me, @inopinatus on tw*tter.
Real basic question the webpage overlooks: is this software I download and install or a web service? And if it's a service -- what does the membership area look like? How customizable is it?
So from a technical perspective it can be interesting, but perhaps ultimately knowing all you are doing is keeping a massive finance system from falling over, and processing data as quickly as possible, day in, day out.. may become a little repetitive?
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The original youtube link was posted on HN three times in the past day...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257547

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258750

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258731

Apparently reading HN is all it takes to be a breaking tech news blogger theses days =P
Just to put a counterpoint out there: My experience is that apps built on top of taller stacks tend to have more maintenance issues. This is because there are more moving pieces under you, and at any moment one of those pieces could cease to be maintained, start working at cross purposes to where you want to take your app, or turn out to be unacceptably inefficient. Having done it both ways, I now prefer to build as much of my app using libraries that I trust and code we write ourselves, rather than use plugins or builders. It's much easier to optimize and maintain in the long run, and a lot of it is easier to write than you may think (especially if you are not trying to solve for the general case). Also, it makes it easier to keep up to date with rails.

If you are rapidly developing a prototype it's different, but IMHO you should replace these components before the refactor becomes too much of a bugbear.
I love the watch command too. I really enjoy it with -d (delta or differences) which will highlight what changed since the last run.
Users will turn off apps, or change their behavior (I already have, for instance, I don’t listen to Lady Gaga on Spotify, I only listen to bands on Spotify that I want you to see).

That's really scary. Ten years ago you might have thought about what others thought regarding your actions while standing on Times Square, now you do that while standing in your bedroom.

There are two ways this could go, either we become more tolerant and stop discriminating, against people who read the wrong newspaper, listen the wrong music and watch the wrong movies, as most people currently do or we evade discrimination by becoming what the "mainstream" wants us to be.

There would be nothing I would love more to see the former become reality but the latter is not a risk I'm willing to take.
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Great program, socat is like netcat, but with a lot more features.
ActiveScaffold is the mother of CRUD interfaces. Strange thing is that few know and use it. None of the alternatives compares to it in terms of: instant gratification (usable by default), customization (fully customizable), interoperability (bridges for many major plugins like Devise, CanCan, CarrierWave, Paperclip, and many more). Has some legacy issues being ~ 4 years old - but of little concern. Rails 3.1 ready. https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold
It is interesting how long it has taken for forensics (even just some small aspects) to be approached in a scientific way. It is very disappointing when you consider how many people's lives and livelyhoods depend on forensics. I wonder what other systems depend on anecdotes and apprenticeships for expertise, that really ought to be approached scientifically.
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I had a t-mobile blackberry flip phone in the USA that could make calls over wifi. when it was connected to an access point I could turn off the carrier connection and just use the wifi, but it did still use my minutes and the quality was not good.

Does anyone know if a SIP soft phone app like X-lite and a smartphone that can use a wifi connection to so that at least outgoing calls could be made over data without long distance charges or ridiculous data rates?
Pressing ^A then a in screen should deliver a single ^A to emacs.