skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Performance. http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs...
Last time I visited it was a homeswap :) I'll edit that, thanks!
I sure hope so. This is an ideal, long-term strategy. Whenever I hear the "reducing dependence on foreign oil by exploiting ours" argument, I think, "Perfect!". Our resources are not going anywhere, and are there for the taking if ever seriously needed, not just to save a few bucks.
I disagree, using this as an example of what can happen under SOPA is useful. It shows a real-world example NOW of what can happen in the future. The situation is different but close enough, a third-party decided they didn't like his content and somebody took steps to remove his domain from the Internet, even though no one involved had absolutely anything to do with the content on the domain in the first place.
Uh-huh. I've paid attention to Paul just fine, and I can see he's not against Jews at all, unless we want to have a country - you know, like hundreds of other peoples.

Thanks, but I can do without his form of 'tolerance'. Anyone else in the GOP is preferable.
Why is winsupersite.com banned on HN?
Why is Winsupersite banned? I submitted two articles and they were instantly dead. Is it because it provides Microsoft-centric coverage? Slanted Daring Fireball articles result in flamewars but it is still welcome on HN.
No hosting provider should ever modify customer DNS without the customer requesting.

Boycott Bluehost!
I got a Kindle about a month ago but have since returned it. It seems to be an excellent device for reading any book that should be read serially (e.g. novels), but any type of book that requires "random access" (e.g. reference/technical) doesn't work well due to the small screen, inability to jump to page X (which makes it difficult to use an index since you can't easily jump to it from anywhere), and poor search functionality.

Even if these features were implemented better, it would probably still be annoying as Kindles are sluggish, low-power devices (which is probably a boon for the serial-reading use case as it encourages you to just flip pages and not get sidetracked, as well as providing amazing battery life).

Then again, maybe I'm just missing something as my coworker seems fine using his Kindle for this purpose.
Essentially, environmental and safety standards, along with mandatory wages, have driven almost every activity that the Chinese can do to China, because they'll do it cheaper. It won't last forever though - Chinese standards are rising, and while there may be a shortage for a short while, if the Chinese don't balance their exports right, the high prices they're forcing will drive other mines to open and destroy any control that they had over the market.

Westerners like to think that we have great environmental standards, but that's only because we export our environmental atrocities elsewhere. There's a large embedded cost in our gadgets, and we ignore it because it makes us uncomfortable.
See my other response on this thread. My comment here was based entirely on what actually happened, not some theoretical view of how economies work in the abstract.
Ask HN: What's the boldest thing you did in 2011?
I'll start. I left the journalism world to do full-time software programming. It was a huge change, but a good one for my family.
> There's no reason to remove the content

"It doesn't meet the standards of public discourse G+ is made for." Blam. Done.
I'm on my tablet right now so it's a little difficult to type lengthy responses, but hopefully these are sufficient.

First, it specifies a death penalty for Murder 1st Degree -- but we all know that there are plenty of states (most?) in which you cannot be killed for this. So there's a contradiction.

Actually, it isn't a contradiction. The wording for part B (which you are referring to) states "Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States." If you are confused as to what that means you can refer to 18 USC 7 which lays out a specific definition.

18 USC 1092 is only applicable to Chapter 50a, not 18 USC 1111. However, 18 USC 1111 is applicable to states (but not part B). There are several complex nuances to this. I won't claim to know all of them, but 18 USC 454 adds better clarification than I could explain.

Ummm... maybe the 13th Amendment? Honestly, I think you're being intentionally obtuse here.

Yes, I was exaggerating. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Replace slavery with abortion, child labor, or anything... the point is still the same.

The people of each state, or their duly appointed representatives, of course.

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We can keep discussing this as this is the single most important argument overclouding this entire conversation.

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To start the discussion, do you believe that the collective taxes of one state should go to benefit another?

It looks like you're so afraid that a small portion are going to be disadvantaged that you're insisting on a one-size-fits-all solution. But experience shows that such solutions are almost always worse in the end (e.g., NCLB), and by their very nature they hurt a much broader scope of people -- better to make your experimental mistakes at a small scope. Especially since experience also shows that legislative mistakes (again, like NCLB, but there are countless other examples) are almost never rolled back, because of political gamesmanship.

First off, it's not as small of a portion as you may think. NCLB is a good example of a federal program gone awry, but fortunately this administration is putting into place several policies to fix the fundamental issues of why NCLB didn't succeed. There is no reason why federal legislation can not give leniency to the states. If you are interested in learning about these policies let me know and I can generate a few sources for you to check out.

In what way is insisting on using Article V (the amendment process) in order to patch bugs inferior to ad hoc power grabs?

I understand your argument and why you feel that Article V is a good process, but it isn't. I'll give you reasons why but first I'd like to read your response to the question posed a couple sections above.
What’s happen if the market went down and I sold it after 5-10 years for a 25% loss? In that case I’d be more or less breaking even, since the money I spent was spent on an investment (an unfortunate one), but not entirely lost as if I had just rented a place.

Eh? In that scenario a buyer is MUCH worse off than a renter. Depending on the variables (interest rate etc) you'd lose your down-payment, all the payments you made so far and still be five figures in the hole. And in Spain, the bank will go after your other assets to make up for their lost money, unlike in some US states where you can just walk away.
How do you handle quotas?
>Bluehost
I'd sue them for damages. WTF do they delete your domain from their name server?! Get a more reliable registrar/name server.
Spamhaus or similar black listers can always accidentially list you. Go to their site and remove your domain. No sane person/comapny should immediately assume anything but a accidential listing.
> it would be very foolish to waste them

Which is why many of us do not want politics here.
Dude, this is HN, full of Macbook toting Apple fans and 'M$' haters. No one wants Microsoft news coverage here, unless when it's one of Gruber's deprecating takes on important Microsoft news. Those get a LOT more votes than the links to the actual announcements themselves.
Diary of a non hacker founder
You're lying. That's why you're being down voted.
Turning off Google search results indirection
The creator of Freenet made something called dijjer, which mirrors http files in a p2p network accessible by prepending http://dijjer.org/get/ to it. But it looks like he's no longer maintaining it.

http://code.google.com/p/dijjer/
I think in the guy's original usage of the progress bars being able to dynamically update is not required. If you can provide the percentage through server-side code then javascript is not required.

If it needed to be a progress bar to show progress of something happening on the page, then javascript would be needed.
That would have been a rather neat trick, given that Pascal predates C.

Furthermore, C itself evolved rather substantially over the years, so people who mostly experienced the ANSI/ISO C era may not realize what an appallingly messy language it used to be. By the time the original K&R got published, the situation had improved considerably (with the exception of function prototypes), but I found the C code in 6th edition UNIX a truly hair raising read: http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/2238/src/
So you wanna learn FPGAs…
I do not think people or Ron Paul are talking about dismantling the federal government just limiting its powers. As the old saying goes, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely". It is extremely dangerous to give power over to a few in central government and not distribute the power evenly to all of its participants as history has shown us. I fear governments that want more power in the name of providing for my welfare and giving me security. I will do most of that on my own no thank you.

Innovation coming from a strong central government? What happened to the Soviet Union's innovation? They had a strong central government and collapsed... almost zero innovation came from them. What about China? Largely a beneficiary of treaties like NAFTA and GATT which gives them a great opportunity to ship in products made with substandard wages or as some would argue, slave labor wages. They also appear to be manipulating their currency and have a copy-and-paste business model. I see little innovation here as well.

I do agree that states and the fed can collaborate on issues of national interest that apply to all parties but I am totally against shredding the constitution or increasing the size of the fed because we are not in 1787. This country got to where it got because of freedom and allowing the people, like hackers, to tinker, fail, experiment, succeed, and do whatever they wanted as long as they did not infringe on the rights of others. SOPA and the NDAA are acts of central government that are appalling. Centralize government did not get us here, free people did.
Use a reputable host, you may have to pay more than a few dollars a month. I've dealt with numerous spamhaus complaints, they generally result from idiotic users who send messages to spamhaus instead of clicking unsubscribe. If you spend an hour creating a really detailed form letter response it makes the AUP tickets go away quickly. When I sign up for hosting I detail exactly what we do and pay appropriately, most 'cheap' hosting places exist solely to pick up the remainder of the months service fee from a dubious spam complaint. If you spend $100 - $200 per month it's pretty easy to find a hosting provider that will let you run a single opt-in list, especially if you detail this up front in writing and refer to this in your response to any spam complaints. Web marketing shouldn't be a problem for any real hosting provider, unless you have extremely dynamic load I'm not sure why you'd bother with heroku. It's only a couple hours work to setup your own infrastructure. A quad-core server for $130 a month will run circles around what heroku provides for $130 per month.
I don't understand how you can attribute "sane = I agree with" to that poster. What evidence do you have for that?

I think it would also be reasonable to attribute "insane = courting disaster by inviting unintended consequences".

I would posit that "insane" and "broken" are problematic in civil discourse, as these words tend to evoke strong emotions. However, if one ascribes to, "insane = courting disaster by inviting unintended consequences," and also to, "broken = fails to filter insanity," then SOPA/Protect-IP are clear indicators that something in the system is broken.

In a way, this is much worse than the "Indiana Pi Bill" since that bill wouldn't have had any impact on practitioners who understood math. On the other hand, SOPA/Protect-IP has a huge impact on practitioners of computation and programming on the Internet.

In Indiana they were lucky to have a mathematician in the legislature, and a legislature humble enough to listen to him. The US House of Representatives and the Senate apparently don't meet this standard.
Having arrays indexed by enumerations can be nice.

type
TFoo = (foOne, foTwo, foThree);
const
FooStr: array[TFoo] of string = ('One', 'Two', 'Three');

There's no mucking around with implicit or explicit conversions between integers and enumerations. Similarly, you can enumerate through them easily with standard routines:

var i: TFoo;
{ ... }
for i := Low(TFoo) to High(TFoo) do { etc. }

Doing it in C relies on you adding fake enumeration members to stand for counts; and it gets worse in C++, because enumerations are more reluctant to decompose into integers.

Writing scanners (as in, compiler lexers) in Pascal is very convenient with set notation:

{ skip whitespace }
while cp^ in [#1..#32] do Inc(cp);

With a good debugger, it can be nice to use sets instead of bit flags, because you generally get a more reliable symbolic breakdown.

If you write a lot of code that breaks down in a procedural way, having nested routines is very nice. It can limit the scope of functions and procedures to just the code that needs them. In C, one can be tempted to cram it all into a single long function instead.

Practical Pascals like Turbo Pascal and Delphi have a real live module format that works fairly well for independent compilation. Changes to the interface exported by a unit do not necessarily need all dependent units recompiled. The Pascal linker associates versions with all exported symbols (basically, a hash of their signature), and only units whose import symbol versions don't match the export symbol versions need to be recompiled. This also prevents type mismatches that can (albeit rarely in practice) affect C, where if you change the signature of a function or the type of a variable, and fail to recompile clients, you won't get an error from the linker, because C linkers don't usually encode that info.
Lead by asking questions. It will force you to change your style, and it will grow others at the same time.
And thanks for mentioning Greplin (https://www.greplin.com) —hadnt heard about it, but already loving it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul...
I own a Kindle and buy books through Amazon, but strip DRM off them immediately after buying.
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Yep for non competes to be valid you have to have some recompense for signing the non compete and excessively long or broad non competes are very very hard to enforce.
>But the South was.

Yeah, was. Past-tense. The federal government has a wonderful history too in this regard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

>Canada and Switzerland are simply much less diverse

Switzerland has four official languages. It's also right next to Germany, which has a history of racism that would scare a Mississippian. Canada, too, has plenty of diversity; 16.2% of people belong to a visible minority:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#Visible_...

>The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

It's not a tautology. I was saying that his anti-federalism is de novo, i.e., without ulterior motives, which has been supported by every single thing he has ever said.

>He's a states rights guy because he's a Christian fundamentalist who wants the power to enforce his provincial values on others, and the federal government gets in the way of that.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support this belief and I've provided substantial evidence against it in the above post.
Insurance companies don't buy judges. This is really just nonsense.

The thing is, judges work for the government, this means, no matter how illegal a law is, they will always take the government side of it.

For example, the constitution doesn't give the government the power to regulate insurance at the federal level, but judges will rule based on the assumption it does because they are government employees and wouldn't be able to keep their jobs otherwise.
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Garden leave clauses, and any similar contractual obligation, come into effect on the termination of a contract. A termination can be through dismissal or resignation.

Otherwise, if you wanted to leave and take some clients with you, or work with a direct competitor, all you'd need to do is find a way to get yourself sacked.
This bothers me too, I have a hard time sacrificing all the properties inherent to a ownership of physical book for the one convenience that the kindle offers. Instead I find myself returning to buying books and only using the kindle for reading longer things copy-and-pasted from my computer.
Me three. Avoided buying a Kindle for years because I was unnerved by the idea of my book running out of batteries. In the three months since I acquired one my reading time has probably increased fivefold. The Kindle is a terrible device in so many ways--frumpy UI, 1980s-ish refresh rate, poor resolution compared to printed material--and yet still manages to be enjoyable to use. Makes me excited about the future of reading devices.
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"First, cycle through all my employees and make sure that I have equipped them to be happy and productive in their jobs. Second, find something to do. If possible, delegate it; if not, do it. Repeat."

This is what I did in my role as team leader and earned the equivalent of Employee of the Year at a large firm. Its quite simple to say, more difficult to successfully implement and often even harder to quantify during a subsequent job interview, because when you do it well, to you its common sense or straight forward doing your job. As a result, its not necessarily easy to train into the behaviour of others. But it is quite easy to undersell (its easy for you) or oversell (can sound arrogant) how you did it and doesn't have the impact it should or could have on a hiring manager. Obviously referrals from those you worked with can be a much better testament to the impact you provided.
Sounds like a one-way trip
It's worth remembering that there are cheaters on the internet. I have been one.

I built and sold a product that cheated on TCP in order to minimize negative customer experiences during periods of congestion.

It was a one line change in the linux networking code, and suddenly their crappy networks were no longer a problem!

(Just so you don't think me completely evil…

All traffic was across their own networks.

Their networking folks considered 5% packet loss to be acceptable.

The product's purpose was to aggregate and tunnel connections. Multiple TCP inside TCP gets unfairly punished by the congestion algorithms, which is why most VPNs don't use TCP, but sometimes you find yourself under the thumb of administrative rules and you have to do it.

I simply capped our back off time to something like 10 seconds. Short enough that no one thinks the device broke because "the network was stuck, but now I can ping but your device is hung so I'll power cycle it". If your network can't take 1 packet per 10 seconds on behalf of a few dozen aggregated connections, it isn't me that broke your network.)
Being honest on Facebook can be really hard
Or a PR dream....if he uses rubbers....
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Ask HN: Best strategies for finding a living space in the valley?
I'm looking for any resources you guys may have to finding decent living spaces, that can also be used to work out of. Currently down in San Diego, finishing development on a project and looking to find seed capital, to get situated and launched. Any resources or information you guys have would be awesome, thanks!
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I have a Zyliss spatula. I'm surprised at how durable the edge has proven to be, so far.

I wouldn't have thought as much of choosing a spatula, until I happened by chance into the Zyliss.

Just recently, I happened upon a sub-Reddit named BIFL (Buy It For Life). I don't know yet whether it's a good sub-Reddit, but I like the idea.

I inherited some old cookware (including a couple of ladles) from the wrapping up of a few family estates (in the small sense, not the Vanderbilt sense). The quality of the "everyday" items is unmatched by much of U.S. contemporary "everyday" kitchenware. I could go to Williams Sonoma and spend $40, $80, or whatever, to get something comparable. But for a reasonable amount of money, one is kind of SOoL with respect to the contemporary marketplace. There are some good items out there, but often they are obscured, drowning in a sea of crap. Corresponding to this, the crap outweighs and often displaces them on the store shelves, so that you can't even find them in a bricks and mortar environment.

Reviews are one way of getting past the crap. And, to some extent, I'm not spending copious amounts of time for a $4 ladle. I'm spending it on the $4 ladle that performs like the $40 ladle at Williams Sonoma.
Bats: TAP-compatible testing for Bash
If we have zero mass fuel... what do we use to accelerate?
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Here's how to do it: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/how-to-strip-drm-from...

(I haven't tried this method, but it seems extremely straightforward)
Seems interesting. But what should I print-out?

Your paragraph or something else?
There are plenty of MIF-file (Frame's XML vocabulary) translators out there, so it needn't have been lost as long as the source file was around.
As I was reading his post, I was thinking that the perfect example of the sort of technology his methodology would apply to right now is the recent explosion of Javascript MVC frameworks: Backbone, Spine, Ember, etc. Using his approach, Backbone would be the obvious choice to start off with.
I think it means too many links to that site have been flagged to death in the past.
There are no preferred inertial frames, etc etc. It is a cool idea though; something to keep in mind in case relativity is ever subverted.