skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your argument,

but why is he being down voted? All he did was to point out that this article has been published before.

Maybe there are some interesting comments in the "dupe" thread? (in this case no, but you get the point)

I'm still new to HN and I find the up/down vote behaviour rather peculiar from time to time. This is such a time.
As a general point, the Bill of Rights isn't an enumeration of rights per se. You don't have the right not to be searched. The Bill of Rights are a limitation of the exercise of federal (and through the 14th amendment, state) power. So no, Facebook could send someone to install a GPS device on your car and it wouldn't violate your 4th amendment rights, since Facebook is not the government. It would, however, probably be a simple trespass for which they could be sued in state court.
Indoctrination? What?

It takes a certain talent to write or play music, or paint, or do science. We encourage kids to try all these things, most won't pursuit them, some will. The kids choose without coercion.

How many parents encourage kids to learn how to code compared to the number of parents that encourage their children to do the above mentioned things? It is the children who decide what they want to do, it's about offering them a broader spectrum of things to choose from.
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Flash should not be given the same treatment, because the browser itself bundles an up to date version.

Nevertheless, the handling of QuickTime stinks. They should check the version number and only disable if it is out of date. Their current approach is just inviting complaints.
My point would be that since I already have 40% less money than I would have had in the absence of taxation, it seems that I have already endured my fair share of the tax burden. (For simplicity, forget about progressive taxation and assume that flat taxes are fair. Just compare me with the guy with a $50k salary who also gets to keep $30k of it.)

As with everything, it comes down to an argument about what's "fair".
I don't think you can connect waking up early with honesty.
I don't farm or paint on a professional basis. I don't even do so as a hobby; although I constantly threaten to take up gardening, it seems to be one of those hobbies that hasn't stuck yet.

And yet I'm glad that, when I was a kid, people encouraged me to plant things and paint things.

Just because learning to code is societally approved doesn't mean that kids shouldn't be encouraged to practice it for fun. Trust me, if the kids decide they hate it they'll figure out how to avoid it as much as they can in the future. They're good at that.

Mind you, your attitude that you shouldn't expect your kids to take after you is a healthy one, and I don't want to discourage it. But don't take it too far. It's good that people are trying to figure out better ways to teach kids about programming.
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It could use some camelCasing.
> there's obviously a really big incentive to the government and everyone that's not living in rural areas to not have the cost of food increase

> would've just had the government pay to install rural phone lines

you didn't decrease the price of food. you may have decreased the cost paid out of pocket by the consumer, but you haven't changed the actual cost of producing food. if the cost of those phone lines was $100MM, then either a) the government installs those phone lines for $100MM, or b) the farmers bear the cost of those phone lines and raise prices to make up $100MM. either way, someone has to pay that $100MM. you can pay for it either with your taxes or by paying more for food.

this socialist scheme never really changed anything, except it distorted the visible prices so that they do not match real costs. now all you've done is made it harder for the market to optimally allocate limited resources.
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Predicting the future of phones: an inherently brain-dead exercise.
I think this is because Ubuntu is based on Debian sid, which is the "unstable" Debian branch. You might have been using the stable release.
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I wonder what the going rate is to buy the President's time.
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Since your quote missed some important context: That's $44/month per TB of data stored on Tarsnap. Tarsnap's gross revenues are considerably more than $300/month. :-)

> Please, please, please, charge more for Tarsnap.

Funny thing is, I get lots of people (especially large users) saying exactly the opposite.

The fact that there are lots of people who think I'm very wrong in both directions suggests to me that Tarsnap's pricing is about right.
i'm no libertarian, and i don't believe that every government intervention causes problems, but i don't understand why you think this is a case where government intervention did not cause problems.
sorry, similar thing was submitted about 3.5 hrs ago (that one was link to the engadget article)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3500202
Canonical did not create screen; it is a GNU project that existed before Ubuntu ever did. They did, however, develop an extended, improved version of it (byobu).
"awk manipulates an ad hoc database stored as text, e.g. CSV files."

I love awk and use it on a daily basis, but it's biggest weakness is CSV files, since data so often contains commas. Please don't use CSV as an example of what awk is good at!

[edit]
Easiest workaround if you do need to do something quickly with a CSV is to just use sed to replace unquoted commas with a string not in your data; for non throwaway uses, there is a CSV library for awk.
Which is just a flatly false statement. Disclosing your salary doesn't so much "limit" the potential salary offered as "determine it entirely".

Obviously, you can negotiate yourself back from that horrible starting position --- but devs are such terrible negotiators in general, why on earth would one advocate for anything that makes negotiation harder?
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I recently watched Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" (http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/) where he promoted Alice (http://www.alice.org/) as a tool for teaching kids to code. I downloaded it and played with it, and it looked pretty good. Like logo, it makes programming more fun by giving you immediate visual feedback. Like the "If this, then that" thing the article liked, it promotes the idea that programming is a lot like storytelling; the entities do what you say they do, nothing more, nothing less.

I found in it the potential for excitement that I found when I recently looked at the demo programmer live coding at http://iquilezles.org/live/index.htm

The live OpenGL editor he uses for immediate feedback made me figure out how to get an OpenGL triangle rendered on my laptop right quick. I can imagine that having storytelling control over 3d characters could do the same for kids.
need a trailing "

edit: this is also useful

#!/bin/bash

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There are some citations on the f.lux website: http://stereopsis.com/flux/research.html

Anecdotally, when I initially switched to using f.lux on my desktop (reduces blue light levels at night) it's become a lot easier to drift off despite sitting in front of the screen until ~15 mins before bed.
He is a Senator.

edit: apparently I have to elaborate. Rand Paul is a Senator. His run in with the TSA is news because he is a Senator, not because he is Ron Paul's son. This would be in the news if he did not have a relative running for President. We know this because this is not the first time a Congressman has had a run in with the TSA, and those other incidents made the news.
Unfortunately, the cost of the government putting in those lines plus the cost of the inefficiency and corruption attached to government action still need to be paid. Which means the people have less money to buy the cheaper food.

Not only is government money not free, it happens to be some of the most expensive and inefficient money available.
Before you can compare things on an environmental basis, you have to be comparing things that are equivalent.

I could compare rubbing a lamp to taking the subway in environmental terms and the lamp comes out way ahead. It just takes more walking to get places with the lamp method.

If you do wish to compare two things, you probably should include the cost of your time and the environmental impact you would have during that amount of time.

You also want to consider the actual impacts of building the transportation systems, whether its rail or road.

It would be infinitely easier for you if each process involved were taxed according to its impact. Then the costs would be included in the price you pay and you could decide according to what works best for you.
In Chrome, Windows 7 the CSS3 circles in the background shift around when you highlight anything or expand one of those info boxes.
My TL;DR version is "DynamoDB is much more expensive than custom NoSQL store at thousand-writes-per-second scale"
At one point in my life I decided to start my day at 2:00 AM. It was an awesome schedule for getting shit done.
Just a couple of observations from a (mostly) computer-illiterate person:

The people who learnt to program computers in the 70s and 80s weren't taught at school by teachers, they taught themselves (maybe with help from friends).

The OSes of the 1980s were much simpler than MacOS/Linux/Windows. In particular most of them had a standard BASIC built in which was very easy to start using. One could just turn the computer on and immediately type in a program.
Youtube Reaches the 4 Billion a day mark. Still no competitors
Under existing law voluntary disclosure of the customer's data to law enforcement doesn't appear to be illegal, if the company wants to disclose it (as opposed to having its data centers raided, which does require a warrant). At worst it'd be a violation of the privacy policy, if the privacy policy is held to be legally enforceable.

For example, Facebook has been careful to never make an explicit statement to the effect of, "we never share data with law enforcement unless we receive a warrant or subpoena". My guess is that this is because they do share data without asking for a warrant.
There must be. I just got back from a trip to Paris and I went with a friend to visit the catacombs (a Parisian who had never been), and she told me that in high school (or lycee or whatever they call it in France) that her and her brother would go to underground parties where they'd have to enter through sewers. Seems like knowledge of getting underground is widespread if you know who to ask and where to look.

Thanks for the link!
Might handle the problem by putting the termination fees on a sliding scale based on call volume. Telco lines are fixed assets, if one line is getting millions of calls then the cost of that line should be amortized faster than assumed in the region-wide termination fee.

There will be complaints that revision will kill jobs in rural areas. Thus does the regulatory state accumulate, and willfully retain, misallocations and distortions.

This sort of rent-seeking and regulatory arbitrage is an inevitable outcome of regulation. Notice that while the stated goal is support for the little people, it's insiders and sharpies and incumbents who benefit most. Remote phone service seems a worthwhile goal, and I'm not sure I see a clearly better way of doing it, but let's just keep our eyes open to the costs.
>Finally I ended up deciding that it was more important to just get a fucking app running on a server I could most effectively use.

Be a l337 hipster with your desktop if you must, but for servers go with what has had the most man hours put into its evolution toward stability, performance, support (aka, it just works). In that regard, if Ubuntu is good enough for Facebook's servers (I hear, but haven't verified) it's good enough for mine.
It's not obvious at all. exactly two trading partners with seasonal improvements in exports and constantly growing economies could have this sort of export data:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%2B+sin+x%2C+x%2Bcos+x

just cherry pick your reporting dates, everyone is a net exporter.
SOPA did not limit it's self to international websites. 1/2 the bill focused on foreign sites the other half applied to US sites.
Good article as a reminder what should you focus on.
That's one of my New Year's resolutions about code projects. To show something in quite early stage of development - instead of trying to get everything done.
Having a feedback straight away, from users that would eventually use your software, will validate your idea.
Recommended to all of those who starts projects and abandon them after a while of intensive work which wasn't shown to anybody. It of course applies to small projects, or ideas to test. If you plan to start a big company, then there are other ways for validation.
Requiring you to be over 18 to use "the real Internet" also requires you to present a government ID. Which means, effectively, anonymous or pseudonymous use of the Internet is dead. This may be a problem if you'd like to criticize your government.

Independently of whether or not you think that is a good idea in theory, it is unworkable in practice. There will always be coffee shops and open access points and neighbors to mooch off of for the kids to get ahold of porn. Your media backlash is now merely shifted from Vodaphone to the local mom & pop.

TL;DR - an Internet license is no substitute for proper parenting.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly; could you please expand a bit?
AFAIK YouTube can't self-censor and remain in the DMCA safe harbor.

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

This is why Justin.tv can go on when its top channels are obviously illegal. It has to receive notice as such instead of simply monitoring what's currently broadcast and killing things like football.
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The sunk costs to those particular lines receiving this traffic have been recovered. Others, not so sure. See my comment above.

Remember too that there are maintenance and replenishment costs. Over the long run, all costs are marginal.
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It bothers me that the VOIP providers don't, say, play a special message explaining the issue. If it's not illegal for them to block these numbers, then why not at least explain themselves? Perhaps they could offer at-cost connections? "Press 1 if you are willing to pay $0.08/minute for this call"
>And finally there's this "aptitude" thing; I still don't understand why it exists and how it's different from regular apt.

Aptitude is a APT frontend that solves exactly the problem you mentioned; no more `apt-cache search` nor `apt-file`, it's all just `aptitude`. Plus a little bit of dependencies tracking (which I think apt has it available for a while already). aptitude is exactly what apt should be, IMHO.
Yes, I like it and I use it. Thank you for the app.

I wanted to ask, though, did you know that "upvote" and "save a story for later" means same thing on HN? What was the reason for adding "star" button in your app? Couldn't you use this instead http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=marketer and have just the "upvote" button?
Interesting discussion. Most of the ideas in this forum have been suggested in one way or another - including the idea from the original post.
I posted some thoughts on the original YC 'kill hollywood' manifesto on my blog as well - which debate whether or not Hollywood can really be killed. (Spoiler - I don't think it can be, although I agree with what YC is saying).
http://blog.kingtoledo.com/2012/01/kill-hollywood-not-so-fas...

I've also come up with a pretty compelling way for Hollywood (the TV business in particular) to embrace the new opportunities of fragmented communities and distribution. It's called micro-cable, and it's something that I think bridges the strengths of both the new digital world and the established Hollywood infrastructure.
http://blog.kingtoledo.com/2011/12/micro-cable/
Okay SOPA is done but now ACTA comes to the US
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At least they name them similarly :)
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But you're just one out of tens of thousands of recruiters. You have to believe something pretty radical to think that recruiters on the whole are immune to incentives.

We can safely assume that you're conscientious and that you go out of your way to defend the interests of candidates. Then we can move on to telling developers how to deal with normal recruiters.

This particular debate, just remember, is about whether you should disclose your current salary to a recruiter or prospective employee. The answer is: you simply should not do that, full stop. If you disagree, it would be helpful if you disagreed directly and provided evidence for your view; that would be more constructive than centering the discussion on your own professionalism and ethics, which nobody wants to call into question.
I'm not sure how to deal with it. I'm just working on setting the site up and getting into a general posting habit. I've crossposted interesting discussions from HN that I find interesting, and so far I'm the only person that's posting to kruhft, so as the problems come up I'll deal with the issues as they come along.

Kruhft is more about the links and the content of the site with hopefully a discussion that goes along with the type of content I'm posting. It's an experiment, but it's quite fun so far.
>Take advantage of all that extra time

There is no extra time. You just moved time at night to time in the morning. You can take advantage of that time regardless of whether it is in the morning or the evening.
If you're right, then it could be because of the difference between building cars and building circuits.

It's unlikely Asia will get the same monopoly on building Western cars it has on high tech, simply because cars are difficult to transport.

Consider how many cars you can fit on a container ship compared to how many motherboards.

Another, more assailable, advantage is the reputation Germany has for building cars (the phrase "German Engineering" comes to mind). When someone is about to splash £80k on a Mercedes, they want to know it was built to perfection, and not in a sweatshop which, true or not, is an image commonly ascribed to Asian factories.
And I've since changed it to /discuss.
They just screwed up. They installed the device a day late and outside of DC.

From the last footnote in Alito's opinion, In this case, the agents obtained a warrant, but they did not comply with two of the warrant’s restrictions: They did not install the GPS device within the 10-day period required by the terms of the warrant and by Fed. Rule Crim. Proc. 41(e)(2)(B)(i), and they did not install the GPS device within the District of Columbia...
I would love if they provided some daily, or even live statistics. How much space and bandwidth are these videos consuming? Seeing this printed on a graph for the last 24 hours, month and year would be interesting too.
Ireland to enact SOPA-like legislation
We had programming classes in high school in Romania, teaching Pascal or C. They don't really work. Some students don't understand programming. Others don't care. Only 20% of a class can actually program very simple programs by themselves. Only one or two can really understand what is going on. And sometimes they just want to do something else.
RIM changed nothing with this. If anything they made things worse by making someone CEO with exactly the same "vision" as before, but with less experience as a CEO of the company.

When I was talking to a RIM employee in 2009 about how big of a threat iPhone and Android are to their business, I realized RIM was completely clueless about the changes happening in the industry.

But that was 2009. It's 2012 and they still don't get it. RIM will get acquired within 2 years, if anyone even wants to buy them by then.
Is this a valid rebuttal of your point?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/09/1053022/-Medicare-i...
Louis CK's video is pretty much the simplest possible case. A guy telling his own jokes is very simple, legally.

But that kind of production only takes you so far. It tells us nothing about the feasibility of using the same model for a film noir, or a special effects blockbuster with recognizable stars.
We could argue that either way, but it just illustrates my original point again: it illustrates the sad reality of our government and its interference into our lives.
Import duty is the other solution, but that's illegal within the EU - the whole point is it's an economic union.

Theoretically it should be balanced out by workers moving to more prosperous parts of Europe (where there are more jobs) - and the treaties do specify free movement of labour. I don't know whether we've yet seen an influx of Greek workers moving to Germany, though.
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I've seen it on here every few months for over a year.
It seems that footnotes would often be "dicta" - judicial comments not directly relating to the case at issue, and therefore not form binding precedent.

May be influential, but not binding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obiter_dictum
It is not an employer's market for talent in any place that needs talent.

You're probably right that line-of-business developers at Fortune-100 insurance companies on the east coast have a harder time than SFBA devs. But don't overgeneralize: in software companies in the US, it is a seller's market for talent.

So, two specific responses:

(1) You can in general safely push back on the first offer from any company --- this practice is so time-honored that it gets a chapter in _What Color Is My Parachute_, which is among the most anodyne sources of career counseling out there. Hiring managers, even at office furniture companies in Grand Rapids Michigan, are prepared for you to reject the first offer, and they've deliberately calibrated their first offer to deal with that.

(2) Technology companies everywhere will in 2012 go out of their way to work through salary negotiation. It doesn't matter if you're in SFBA, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, or Cleveland: if they're hiring for talent (ie, if they're actually a tech company), you're not going to spook them. Wherever they are, they have gotten used to the idea that candidates hold the cards and are likely at any point to decide to relo to Mountain View to work for 1.5x as much as you can pay them.