skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was inconsistent before, too.

Anecdote. In 1998 I went through Gate 1 to catch a flight. Realized I left something in my car. Out to get the thing, back through Gate 2, which was closer to my gate.

Where an alert-looking agent pulled me aside, took out a candle I'd had in my bag [1] and wiped it down with what I assumed was a sniffer for explosives.

This amused me because his sleepy-looking peer at Gate 1 had waved me through with no problems twenty minutes earlier.

I don't think you can get consistency of effort/organization/process across a large organization of civilians. The only group I've been a part of that managed to come close is the US Marines.

And most people will not be willing to subject themselves to 9 weeks of brainwashing in basic training, then the rigid hierarchy of command, for the sake of a job screening passengers.

[1] Gift for sister-in-law
I did a similar experiment a couple of months back to find random pastebins and jsfiddles, but both gave 404s whenever I tried, so I abandoned it.

If anyone's interested:
http://jsfiddle.net/C6M8h/1
http://jsfiddle.net/C6M8h/3
> But it still remains that piracy is absolutely rampant on the internet.

I don't understand why that is inherently a bad thing. It seems to me that it just indicates the current business model is not working.

I pirate a fair amount of content, and to be honest I think I'm justified in doing so. There is currently no legal way to watch television shows in high quality without commercials on the night they come out. If everything was on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video, I'd pay for it in a heartbeat, and I do pay for a lot of shows.

But as it stands the studios want to cling on to their antiquated broadcast model, and I don't think it is the government's job to protect that.
"Intucell estimates these techniques can [...] boost overall data capacity throughout the network anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent."

That's the equivalent of a few months normal growth in mobile data demand...
> Is that denialism?

It isn't any kind of ism.

> What is bad about median is that...

Again, that's what's bad about the median as the sole characterisation of the measurements - but the median is not presented as the sole characterisation of the measurements.

The outlier Fortran measurements are there for all to see.

Some variation on the distance-weighted estimator might work here -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-language-is-bes...
You could ask the Wikileaks folks and community around them for help. I'm sure they wouldn't be adverse to such a project.
Wow.. Wasn't expecting that kind of response.
Hi HN,

I'm part of the Retroshare-dev team. We'd be interested in hearing any feedback / questions you have.

We have an very active community, especially in France and Germany that uses Retroshare daily. Development effort is continuing at a rapid rate. The existing release is a little out of date, but we expect to have a new stable release out before the end of February.

You can get status updates via twitter: @retroshare

drBob.
If you were feeling generous you could interpret it as saying that 'is competent & is ethical & speaks english' is necessarily a bigger hiring pool than 'is competent & is ethical & speaks english & speaks the local language'. The identity of 'local language' is irrelevant, trying to find bilingual candidates always narrows the hiring pool.
Schneier states the case that the solution to this risk has already been completed:

For years I've said that exactly two things have made us safer since 9/11: reinforcing the cockpit door and convincing passengers that they need to fight back.

http://www.schneier.com/essay-303.html

Neither of those solutions required increased security measures.
I thought it could be that too, but the reporter called it "a computer screen"... Not sure.
I am sure those were reasonable demands but the proposition here is for a nuisance "work to rule" campaign. Understanding the political motivation, the big companies could call your bluff and wait for a court order, expensive to obtain.

Not a real downside risk, but my point is that the circumstances are not directly comparable once the intention is to kick the hornet's nest.
Website owners, here’s how to protest SOPA on January 18th | Techi.com
I agree. I was responding more to what I read (perhaps incorrectly) as the insinuation that fair use is well-defined and well-protected. I had read this as implying that it would consequently be protected under SOPA as well.
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That is an understatement. I am currently working on a code which was written at 10 years back. And that code is still running on production server.

tl;dr; Usually enterprise Java applications does have long "service life".
Thanks! Perhaps other countries could be added and there could also be an overall subscription to get from any country, it's a good idea. I do feel I should get this working well for Japan before expanding.
They're already displaying a STOP SOPA & PIPA message on their front page.
There's a difference between copying piece by piece and re-invention, as wpietri points out.

You're right, I should have linked directly to the Economist from the image -- updated. There's a source denoted in the bottom left corner of the image, thought that would suffice.

I'm not in the traffic business, I'm just interested in the trends of the industry.
"The first one is whether copyright infringement as I think she was part of really hurts content producers. If someone is unwilling to pay a couple dollars for a movie in iTunes, you are not likely to buy the DVD either, thus, it's not a lost sale. If, OTOH, the work gets more exposure thanks to alternative distribution networks and that generates more customer engagement, the content producer wins in the end."

Seriously? This is not an issue of whether it financially hurts the content producer, it's that you're getting it without paying for it, and others are paying for it. You're getting access to content that you haven't paid for.
Correct - turns out that the OP is a principal at Genesis Partners, who funded the startup behind this technology:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michaporat

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/intucell

May still be valuable tech, but the title seems a bit disingenuous without the poster's disclosure.
Actually, it explains the trouble I've been having with double posts in my twitter client. To whoever wrote this, Thanks!
~300 subscribers without much labor from you anymore isn't working well?

Edit: Checking out the website, from a sales funnel / marketing perspective, there are many things you could do to increase the sales just from the current traffic you're receiving - and would likely reduce the new customer acquisition cost from $60.

Edit2: Other things can be done to reduce churn rate as well.
He may have been referring to framework-level abstractions, but I was specifically referring to natural abstractions for the problem space. Blanket statements against abstractions in code is missing the point--abstractions are fundamental to programming. "Elaborate object frameworks" could mean a few different things. If you're referring to design pattern type structures, then I somewhat agree that the fewer the better. But in the general case it is not true that perfect is not being able to take anything more away. Not when humans are the ones writing and maintaining the code.
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"""The idea that anyone use airliners as improvised cruise missiles was so far into looney-tunes land that Tom Clancy used it as a plot device to catapult Jack Ryan into the presidency."""

And that, IMO, sums up what is wrong with how we handle airport security. We continually focus on fixing what happened last time instead of looking at what could happen. Of course, once you do that, you realize there are too many variables to account for and that it is an intractable problem that needs to be approached differently.
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I disagree. In the fields that I have worked in ( games, finance and advertising ), although a lot of open source software is used, mostly in the form of libraries, the final product is highly customised and can not be replaced with bits and pieces glued together.
White House: SOPA "must not inhibit innovation"
I was thinking the same thing. Then again, this is a B2B space. As an entrepreneur I personally like B2B precisely because it's not winner-take-all.

In the late 90s I sold my B2B dot com to another B2B dot com. We made the mistake of believing that, like the consumer dot coms, B2B companies should grow at all costs and try to dominate the market. In the meantime a bunch of smaller players took a more sensible approach.

Our company cratered, but most of those grow-at-a-sane-pace companies are still around and very profitable.
Glad to help out. Took about 7 minutes to fill out, for those interested in contributing.
A counterpoint might be that Vim, Mutt, and Procmail are all highly popular, long-lived projects. Making the case that code quality isn't the be-all and all-all.
How many employees did Viaweb have when it was acquired?
What's with this trend of using TLDs from places like Libya?

It might give you a cute sounding domain, but when you're using it as part of the product name you're going to be stuck with it for a long time. Remember when `vb.ly` was seized by the Libyan government for pretty much no reason?
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Why don't you buy candy directly from one or two Japanese suppliers rather than pay for the supermarket's margin?

Although that wouldn't address your decline in subscriptions it would improve your bottom line.
Maybe to show what his results were? Ya, he maybe should have marked the individual images accordingly, but he say the images were NSFW.

Anyways, I clicked through to the site and was not provided witn a significant amount of NSFW images.
"Its a continuum..."

I don't think of it that way, at all.

Even if you are only moderately good, you'll have a unique combination of knowledge that allows you to see things that others can't, and that will enable you to do amazing things.

Of course you should always try to improve. But consider where you invest your time. If you know X well, and most people that know X well also know Y well; then maybe you should learn Z instead of Y. Don't always choose Z -- maybe X and Y are complementary and so it may make more sense to learn Y than Z -- but if you follow someone else's curriculum exactly, you will only be re-discovering what they already know.
>Just build what you need at the time, and make it flexible enough so that it can be refactored to something else later.

But this is simply framework-level abstractions.
Is it too cynical to say "look at the congessional roster"? I think it would be hard to identify who are truly corrupt and who are doing what they think is right but get caught up in the machine. I would love an objective way of identifying that.

What we really need is real campaign finance reform. Politicians need to get money for office from real, individual people, not lobbyists and corporations. Want different outcomes? Change the incentives.
This isn't necessarily true. Sometimes you do in fact need these types of abstractions. This is why they've been made into patterns. The trick is to not use it before its necessary. The mere existence of it doesn't imply overengineered code.
"He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe." Sweet!
I love these stories on HN about travelers supporting themselves through entrepreneurial means. It gives me inspiration to do it myself.
While the White House statement stopped short of pledging that President Obama would veto SOPA should it pass, it make clear the Administration has embraced many of the opponents' central concerns.

It recall the Administration embraced many of central concerns about the NDAA. Then approved it.
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I had heard of your service before and thought it was a really neat idea! I wished there was a service like yours for getting paprika chips in the US. For some reason, it is nearly impossible to get them here. At one point I even thought I'd start a service that regularly ships just these chips to people in the US/Canada. When I looked into the import laws though, I was very confused how to navigate through them. I've heard the people who did the Zico coconut water had to get rid of their entire first shipment because they weren't allowed to bring their goods into the US. Any suggestions on how to navigate these complex regulations?
I'm pretty sure I don't believe in either a) domain name rights as an extension of trademark protection, or b) the protection-worthiness of "domain entrepreneurs."

It's a race for which the correct moves (as others here have noted) are either to win (by luck or cash) or not to play (by choice).
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Obama embraced many of the central concerns about the NDAA.

Then approved it.
Yes, it would be great if it could continue like that, but extrapolating a bit from that chart it seems this service could experience a slow death unless I can figure out a way to market it (and reduce churn).
The problem with this article is he lacks any historical perspective. The offline companies he quotes have all been around for a long time (relatively speaking) and that contributes to their position.

For example, Coca-Cola existed for 17 years before Pepsi even came on the scene. That's longer than all but two of the online "monopolies" he referenced (see the "great new monopolies" link). Beyond that Pepsi has been around fighting Coke for dominance for the past 100+ years.

Same with McDonalds (1955) and Anheuser-Busch (1852).

In all these stories the initial company had as much dominance as online companies do now. Pepsi was founded by a guy who wasn't willing to pay Coca-Cola's prices and realized he could produce Pepsi and sell it for half the price of Coke while still making a profit (See "Twice as much for a Nickle")

On the tech companies you're already starting to see erosion in the older monopolies. Windows is starting to see serious losses from increasing Mac sales, Intel has been beating AMD back with a stick and even Google is having to make improvements to keep Bing at bay.

So it will literally be decades before we can know if the author's thesis is even remotely valid
I think calling it "superficial beauty" undermines the quality he's looking for, which in my opinion is "human readability". A human has to make multiple passes to parse something like this, and that's entirely unnecessary.
What if you are not given the option to pay for it? Is it still wrong to download?

Remember many people outside America can't use Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, etc.
Have you done any marketing towards otakus? Also, have you done about expanding it to other Japanese goods? like tea? dried fruit? cookies?
Candy, coffee, cigars, women's shoes/accessories...

There seems like a ton of subscription businesses around and I almost feel there might be room to create a white/gray-label platform that can handle the website, subscription management, payment and shipping labels to potential operators of these kinds of services.

Wondering how big the addressable market is.

UPDATE: http://member.ly already does this according the child comments - awesome!
Great idea. How does it integrate with Gmail?
What I mentioned was not simply a mistake. They fully knew what they were doing (i. e.: plagiarizing an existing solution), and then they "fixed" it only when they actually got caught.
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Also, the price is a bit high for candy... have you tried a one envelope a month subscription?
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For us it was really just a case of getting an interesting domain with a keyword around what we do, we're all about managing inquiries, and all the nice .com's are taken, it seems to work, and TLD's are becoming less related to countries as the fight for the nice .com's heats up...
Oh. I searched for "open street map" and didnt get any results. My bad. Though as others have pointed out, the data is quite old. OSM has probably doubled in size at least since then.
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This smells of bucking conventional wisdom simply for its own sake. Unless you have a good reason not to follow best-practices, you're a bad programmer if you don't (this doesn't always apply if you're writing a project for yourself).

Conventional wisdom is there for a reason--it was wisdom hard fought over many iterations from people who came before. Conventional wisdom has won out against many competing ideas, a survival of the fittest of sorts. You may not always fully comprehend the reasoning for a particular 'best-practices' rule, but you're foolish not to follow it for that reason.

Adding accessors is not 'premature generalization', it's just how you write well engineered code.
I'm a subscriber to Candy Japan and I love it. Nice work Bemmu!
Gotchya, so you're saying that the 'purposes and principles of the United Nations' is being used as a technical term referencing the rest of the document, and doesn't depend on what the organization of the UN wants at any specific moment.
I'm one of those people with none of those options. Yes, it's definitely still wrong. Just because we don't have the option, doesn't mean it's morally / ethically right and or legal.
Come on now. He's asking for help on his own forums.

If he posted such a request in some general forum you could shower him with derision for treating hn/reddit/4chan/sa as his 'personal army', since apparently you think insulting people who need help is more fun than ignoring them.

But it makes no sense in this context.
> Routing is heavily based in graph theory, as far as I know, and so is actually fairly mathematical

I didn't write routing, I wrote router. Routing, figuring out what to send where, is just one part of what a router does.

> Memory management can also require a good bit of math.

Yes, but that part isn't the whole of the problem. It isn't even a large part of the problem. (Note that you quickly switched to a completely different problem from malloc to argue for a mathematical basis.)

Math is cool and important, but it often isn't the big problem.
Well, the SOPA supporters never acknowledged SOPA would inhibit innovation either. So who's to say they won't do the same again the "new and improved" bill, even if it does inhibit innovation.
I am asking how far we want our craniums to shrink in the name of cooperation. There are trade offs. I suggest that cooperation has its sinister aspects. And I believe you should carefully consider the group values you internalize, if at all possible. My career suffered at my previous place of employment once I pointed this out, so one might wish to be circumspect.
I agree with you on the distinction of copyright and patent with respect to independent invention. But that's just a human-made distinction, in the USA. Whoever wrote the laws didn't get independent invention enacted in patents.

I also agree with your reason for "IP" as a misnomer.

I wanted to speak in a general or philosophical sense. not in a legal, specific sense. The internally-inconsistent concept of "Intellectual Property" founders on the rock of independent invention, if you reason from first principles, rather than attempting to propagandize your way through to some kind of state-enforced monopoly.
Well, there are plenty of things you can do if you understand nuances of marketing - just with the design, sales copy (text on the page), and other marketing pieces. You have a good start. And really I'm jealous of what you've accomplished so far. You could make this 10 times bigger with little effort, and time.
Does anyone have any experience attempting to claim a domain through arbitration?

I've been selling TapTyping on the App Store since the iPad came out almost 2 years ago but have been unable to negotiate with the individual who currently owns TapTyping.com. It was only recently that I applied for a trademark on "TapTyping" so it might still be a year before it is awarded.

The current owner has yet to do anything with the domain. It is just Godaddy parked. I've made the argument to him that at this point anything he did with the domain that was typing related would probably infringe on our future trademark but he simply replies that he "is not ready to sell the domain at this time".

I assume I am S.O.L. until my trademark goes through, but even once the trademark clears is this an open and shut low risk case as far as arbitration is concerned? Is it likely to be costly to claim domains in this fashion?
If you use the data how will you billed? postGIS data can be huge.
How do you propose it be a/b'ed in the marketplace? "Foo Free" and "Foo Beta" next to each other in a app list? I'm pretty sure you can't just change the title of a single app whenever you want like you can with page content.
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I agree with this opinion. The author lacks historic perspective. New successful businesses automatically are monopolies since they create new markets. This can obviously be seen in tech nowadays since this is all technogicially new.

Historically it was the same and these companies still benefit from their competitive advantage (or were crushed by the state) just to name Standard Oil, Bell/AT&T, BASF, Ford. Just over time did competititors take market share from them, because they became huge beurcratic monsters (as all monopolies do).
i know, it's less than ideal, it was a case of getting it up and attracting interest, and whilst it's clearly not the best way of doing it, we wanted to invest the time in developing the product.. rest assured it's not going to stay that way!
You put too much into their words, but it's simple, they just don't get it. And it's not just the US Government, or the UK Government, or any other Government, it's the entire ruling class who just sits with its head in the sand and wishes that things would just remain the same. The last two times when that huge of a disconnect happened we had the French Revolution and Lenin's grabbing of power in Russia, let's just hope that this time things will be smoother.
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This is a good idea.

Another one would be a one-time purchase that is slightly more pricey but gives more. I don't want to commit to a monthly thing, but I'd pay $40 to get a single, larger package for my Japan-obsessed daughter's birthday and Christmas.
This article reminds me of a couple by William Deresiewicz:
http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-Solitude/3708
> "The transmission of any data owned by one person to another shall not be infringed by the government of the United States."

They're claiming that the sender doesn't own the data being sent.
Facebook User Numbers? CRAZY Any explanation?
I was messing around on Facebook today and found something pretty interesting.

If you type the following into a comment box: @ symbol followed by [number:], Facebook automatically replaces the symbols with names.

For example: if you enter @[4:] into a comment box, it will automatically change the comment to read 'Mark Zuckerberg.' Entering @[5:] will render the text 'Chris Hughes' and entering @[6:] will render the text 'Dustin Moskovitz.'

Any explanation for this? Theories? I can't imagine this is intentional on Facebook's part. Pretty interesting, IMO!
Copyright law requires Google to wait at least 10 and at most 14 days before reinstating access to the content:

"replaces the removed material and ceases disabling access to it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days following receipt of the counter notice" 512(g)(2)(C)
god, we programmers love to abstract things.