skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There really needs to be a movement to address the collusion in the telecommunication industry. I priced out a business cell plan (with > 5 lines), and there was not even a single penny price difference between ATT and Verizon, and both refused to negotiate at all. No matter what options changed, the prices matched to the cent. Strong regulation needs to be introduced, the major players need to be broken up again, or their infrastructure needs to be nationalized. Working, efficient, non-crippled and inexpensive communications infrastructure is too economically important to leave it in the hands of these bozos.

It is unconscionable that wireless communication, which is fast becoming a necessity, amounts to a $100/month/person tax on the citizens of this country, payable to the corrupt interests of two or three companies. The government has laws to prevent this, they should be enforced.
Here are the public stats for Bookmarkly, which was on the front page of HN for several hours yesterday: http://www.w3counter.com/stats/visitors/59345/day/1000/0
Ask HN: Many people want to start blogging. But about what?
I've seen/read/heard from countless people/articles that blogging is a great thing to do. It helps get your name out, it helps you formulate ideas, etc.

I've tried countless times, and I keep finding it difficult to find topics on what to write about. For the people who do have successful blogs. How do you get your inspiration?
One account has 2.5 GB, another has 700 MB. I'm on a lot of mailing lists and get a lot of transactional email. I just timed switching a label and that took 4s on the smaller account. This is in Chrome with SPDY enabled, too, so I doubt it's client transport.

I should probably note that it tends to be variable with the time of day. That's not unexpected, but still kinda sucks.
That's a pretty terrible way to share code. Simple example: I work on a project, write some code. Turns out that code is useful for someone else, so they reach in and include it, which is easy since it's all the same repo and all delivered to the build system. Now I make a change and break some customer I didn't even know exists. Oops.

This is what package systems are for.
The use of limiting the top 5% is quite disingenuous. As over time the limit will shift down to a lower amount as customers become annoyed and move to other plans. Clearly 2gb is not an excessive amount of data either as ATT sells larger tiered plans.

So, this is clearly a breach of the spirit of the contract. A claim with the small claims court and/or FCC seems to be in order.
If people were to pick one reason HN has 'gone downhill', disrespectful comment replies would top the list.

A controversial feature request- when a new account reaches a negative karma level within a certain period, HN will display all other usernames associated with the IP address of the throwaway.
Yes, considering the previous Facebook didn't nearly last as long. I'm thinking that social networks don't have nearly as high of a shelf life than you think.
I've been thinking of doing this myself as I've heard great things about Dovecot. An ideal setup for me would be a VM hosted somewhere in the cloud (presumably my hosted VM can't be warrently searched in the same way as email), running a barebones Arch+Postfix/Dovecot. The only inhibitors are cost of hosting and time of setup, if anyone has information on either good hosting solutions or setup information I think it would be a useful addition to this thread.

Note: These instructions look fairly straightforward.
http://www.howtoforge.com/arch-linux-mailserver-with-postfix...
1. Setting up a mail server and keeping it running isn't easy
2. Spam filtering
3. (already mentioned) uptime - you don't want to lose email
4. The security of your email doesn't depend only on you - it also depends on where people you are communicating with are hosting their email.

It's much easier to get search privacy since the only other entity involved is the search engine. Which is why I use https://duckduckgo.com/ for search.
> If you host your own what software?

Dovecot and Postfix on a small FreeBSD VPS. Easy to set up, and it takes almost no effort to maintain once you've got it running. (The last time I modified my Postfix configuration was over a year ago, to relax my attachment size limit.) Between the FreeBSD handbook and the official Postfix documentation, all the info one could possibly need is provided.

A combination of Postgrey and SpamAssassin keeps my inbox spam free. You can also use mutt rather than Dovecot IMAP if you prefer to read your mail on the command line. Likewise, Debian will work just as well as FreeBSD in this role, if you're more comfortable on Linux. (Debconf even gives you a menu-driven Postfix configuration builder, it doesn't get any easier.)

Backups are handled by nightly rsync cron job on a local machine. I don't really have to think about them, aside from checking once in a while to make sure they're still running.

I have to laugh at all the self-proclaimed hackers in this thread claiming that setting up a personal email server is too difficult, takes too much time – or that they have "better things to do". No, I'm not one of those who would argue that a "real hacker" always has to do things the hardest way possible, quite the opposite. But at some point you have to ask yourself: if setting up a small mail server on a *nix system – a task extremely well documented and understood, a task that yields real technical and privacy benefits, a task that the operating system itself will hold your hand through if you're using Debian or Ubuntu – is too much of a challenge for you, then in what sense can you possibly call yourself a hacker?
5 GB makes the 250 GB Comcast cap look overly generous, when I can tell you from experience that 250 GB with two people using the Internet on a daily basis is too little.

New games come in at 10 GB or more when you are downloading them from places like Steam, add in two people downloading new games and you can easily see 100's of GB's going to just gaming. If I rebuild my Windows desktop and have Steam re-download all of the games I tend to keep locally I myself use about 150 GB of transfer. On top of that comes watching TV Shows (on Hulu/NetFlix) and movies (iTunes/NetFlix/Hulu) and various other downloads. The latest Mac OS X update weighed in at a hefty 1.38 GB, split across 4 devices.

Granted, I am a technology person, I am a programmer, I spend more time behind a computer than doing almost anything else (including sleep). My usage pattern is going to be vastly different compared to grandma and grandpa that check their email. The thing is though that I want higher quality content delivered to me instantly, Hulu's 480 is nice and all, but I would love to have it in 720p or 1080p for my large TV. All of this uses up bandwidth/transfer.

As for mobile data, I don't tend to do a lot of streaming of music and the like, so far I haven't had any issues with going over the allotted 2 GB from AT&T, that and when I do want to stream I am near Wifi.
They didn't stick with the offer. I've been paying for unlimited data for years without throttling. They are changing the deal. They should be forced to give everyone that has been paying for unlimited substantial refunds for the last several years, where usage has been low. They are trying to force everyone away from unlimited data now that it is obvious that wireless data demand is going to increase at least an order of magnitude in the next decade.
Instructables.com has a great Arduino section. There are many example projects included with the Arduino software as well as on their site. The getting started with Arduino/Processing books are great also.

http://arduino.cc/hu/Tutorial/HomePage
http://processing.org/learning/gettingstarted/

I have yet to come across a project that I want to build that someone has not at least started coding. It makes it very easy to modify/merge others codes/schematics to suit what you are trying to do.

The firmata stuff is very interesting also...makes it easy to interface Processing GUI's with the Arduino.
I find the font difficult to read. http://www.diigo.com/item/image/2acsf/7er4
Unfortunately for Dropbox, cloud storage doesn't really have the network effect that social networking does. Anyone can clone Dropbox and if the price is right, users can switch without suffering any hardship. This makes Dropbox look like something that will be bought rather than made public. Amazon can provide storage infrastructure for cheaper than Dropbox can, but they haven't written good client-side software. Buying Dropbox would fix that.
Is causing your customers to think you're ripping them of, and making them look elsewhere for service actually maximising profit though?

Given the cost of acquiring a customer they should be bending over backwards to keep existing customers.
The largest screen size for a Macbook Air is 13in unless you know something the rest of us don't.

Sorry, I don't have a project for you but hopefully someone has one for you so you can get the Macbook Air.
This article is an embarrassment. He does not offer any evidence at all for his claim that the no-poaching agreement drove down programmers' salaries. It may have been anticompetitive enough for the participants to get sued, but how much did it actually decrease salaries? 10%? 1%? 0%? If this guy knows the answer, he doesn't tell us.

And I know for a fact that Facebook is not the only reason programmers' salaries are rising. There are a huge number of new startups all competing for the best people.
How many lost hours make up for the necessary CPU and RAM?
I think it is unreasonable to expect the masses to "riot over" any issue that doesn't go their way. After all, the various industry associations didn't have to start any riots, blackout any web sites, or send hundreds of thousands of messages to get their laws passed. There must be a better way.
An alternative comment on this posted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3443043

Original here: http://blog.jonudell.net/2012/01/09/another-way-to-think-abo...
I am you! Well almost. I'm also in my mid-40's, 20+ year IT professional with a family and a good job. I was feeling very much the same way you are until about six months ago. That's when I got off my butt and started two things.

1. I'm currently looking for, and finding, speaking slots at conferences. It's fun and I get to play the expert for 45 minutes.

2. I started a side project[1]. I don't expect it to make money but again, I'm having fun with it.

Give it a go. What I'm doing costs very little and has given me some new energy.

[1] My side project (http://wodwatts.com). I just pushed the landing page public this morning! It's not quite ready for prime-time but I hope it inspires you.
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It's really easy to install SpamAssassin and point your MTA at it. Even the default configuration is highly effective.
How Telsa came up with most the things he did are beyond me. I have always thought he was the smartest man that has ever lived.
> Anyone can clone Dropbox

Right. Okay. I think you don't quite understand why Dropbox is Dropbox.
From the video it looked like there was still some airflow in the reverse direction.
Runkeeper's poor privacy settings
Deprogramming yourself
"pandodaily.com" is starting to become a URL I associate with low-quality linkbait.
On topic: this will probably not roll as-is. How about a $1/month fee (or even $1/year would be enough i think)? How about pay-to-read posts?

Off topic, since a blog is the "hello world" of web development for quite a few years now: how many of you have created blogging-related web apps? I 'll start with http://instablogg.com
I disagree. Disrespectful comments are just a symptom of the disease.

The disease is people saying unbelievably idiotic things, with no regard to fact or logic. Now, if no one were to post retarded bullshit like "Steve Jobs is so much like Stallman", it would be damn difficult for me to disrespect him/her.

PS - The mere fact that many people decided to downvote the obvious facts in my previous post just says this place has quickly managed to fill up with fucking idiots.
Go to verizon ask them if they have a switch bonus..google for the right term to use before talking to the CSR person..that might get you anew iPhone and keeping your same number as part of the free gifts on coming over to Verizon..
The iphone was an MVP
Note that he's basing all this on looking at mailing lists. There are surely many people who, like me, who often use gmail for mailing lists, but have our own mail servers for our "normal" mail.
In your world, do hackers not have children?
Facebook Payments Is Already 15% The Size Of PayPal
> As has often been noted, the black bourgeoisie take a very positive stand toward middle-class values and are very critical of average Negroes. Frazier has written, "they have accepted unconditionally the values of the white bourgeois world: its morals and its canons of respectability, its standards of beauty and consumption. In fact, they have tended to overemphasize their conformity to white ideals." 2 They have strongly internalized middle-class values emphasizing self-control, deferred gratification, achievement, extreme cleanliness and rigid moral standards.

Never thought that an Eddie Murphy sketch would be close to on-topic on HN, but here it is anyway (I think his story refers to the late '60s-early '70s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsbk_lwioxY
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If Walmart puts a widget on sale, am I screwing them by paying below market rate? They agreed to the terms of sale.

So why is selling your services any different?
I did that, back in the day, but it just wasn't enough.
I was thinking that too. Though to be fair in this particular case they seem to be following the TechCrunch tradition of running linkbait guest posts on weekends (when there is less real news).
To understand Stallman, I highly recommend one read up on the history of Lisp Machines. Wikipedia's page is actually fairly decent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machines

In particular, I think this passage give some key insight into how Stallman developed his philosophy:

> Around this time Symbolics (Noftsker's company) began operations – it had been hindered by Noftsker's promise to give Greenblatt a year’s head start, and by severe delays in procuring venture capital. Symbolics still had the major advantage that while 3 or 4 of the AI Lab hackers had gone to work for Greenblatt, a solid 14 other hackers had signed onto Symbolics. There were two AI Lab people who did not get hired by either: Richard Stallman and Marvin Minsky. Stallman, however, blamed Symbolics for the decline of the hacker community that had centered around the AI lab. For two years, from 1982 to the end of 1983, Stallman worked by himself to clone the output of the Symbolics programmers, with the aim of preventing them from gaining a monopoly on the lab's computers.
I don't have clear numbers, but I can tell that for us family meals are a moment to talk together; we usually don't hurry (father + mother both working at home here + 1 kid).
Curiously, rates for Italy and Germany are separated from other developed countries by about .5% http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
By that token, asking RMS about cars in relation to his attitude towards computer would be akin to asking whether he lives in civilization or not, since everything from traffic lights to voting machines don't have open software at all. The category error is one of scale, not technical advancement.
This is funny because I've never touched alcohol but am often accused of being drunk.
I get a Cpanel login when I try to visit the site.
You're making it worse.
While I certainly can't fault an organization for attempting to maximize revenue, I think there comes a point when they seem to be focusing solely on short term numbers to the extent that it may actually harm them in the longterm should customers decide they've had enough and start taking their business elsewhere.

Of course, customer switching is less likely for service providers where there are real barriers in place that effectively prevent users from actively doing so (e.g., coverage issues, other networks with similar policies, etc)

It's the whole "yeah, we're taking advantage of you, but it's not like you have any other real options here, so sit back and like it." thing that just makes me sad.
Imagine Walmart saying: you cannot buy this if you've already had trips to Costco and looked at something similar.
Yes, it seems better as a technique to introduce bias to flow than to restrict it altogether---valve-like, but not exactly a valve. Sufficient for a lot of valve applications, though, and the lack of moving parts is reeeeeally nice.
Yes, since they know customers have nowhere else to go.
If Sebastian is able to maintain a high quality offering, then it should be fairly easy to become a for-profit operation - one could for example offer the testing results to various companies for a finder's fee if they hire someone (as the article alludes to), or perhaps offer a class first at a low cost of $10 (with 100K students, that's not bad beans), and then offer it for free, or perhaps (always my favorite to figure out how to apply), let students do a dutch auction bid for the class, etc.
The agreement with its secrecy (the intent) and its effects are 2 different things. Lack of the later doesn't make the former right.

Come to think of it, there was at least one effect: at least 1 person was fired because he didn't respect the cartel rule.
you're just naturally fun, and maybe a little crazy. :)
Confiscating your ice cream cones
What Are Your Customers Really Worth To You?
If your e-mails are deleted in the cloud, your local IMAP e-mails will disappear as well

Vice-versa too. I learnt this the hard way :(
You aren't authorized to [save] any changes you make. I hit that page, too, but when I tried to save changes, it threw this at me: 'You are not authorized to access this page.' http://i.imgur.com/nbMLF.png
You're not going to get very far defining your terms in binary.
Downnotifier is a great tool
A great free monitoring tool is www.downnotifier.com
I appreciate your concern about "abusers" who use your code without giving back, but that's what I mean when I say GPL isn't advocating true freedom: They should have the freedom to not give back. What GPL does is force developers to release their code. I wouldn't consider that freedom, even if it's done in the name of protecting the ecosystem. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" and all that.

> Think of a BSD-licensed device driver; if a company forks it and makes it proprietary, develops a different but new device and sells the device with the new driver; Neither the users nor I; the original developer will be able to benefit from the derivative work and will end up with an unusable new printer in case the company ends support or does not solve a specific problem.

How likely is that, though? If you release your code under GPL, they'll just write their own version and keep it proprietary. At least with BSD, you'll have the same base if you needed to rewrite their driver.

A BSD license benefits the market and end user, while a GPL license benefits other developers if they decide to use your code to begin with.

> Everytime I am giving away some code, I face this dilemma (I have MIT/BSD contributions too). I don't want to strengthen abusers, and non-contributors.

I feel the same way, but I'd rather have code people can use without worrying about the license versus forcing other developers to adhere to my personal belief system. Your reason for using GPL sounds like the reason some publishers use DRM: They do not want to give abusers and pirates easy access to their product. With DRM, it only ends up hurting legitimate users while pirates illegally remove it. With GPL, it's not as clear-cut, but I'd imagine there are many projects who have used GPL'd code without releasing their source, while shops who abide by the license but don't want to release their code are forced to reinvent the wheel.

Again, I do appreciate your concern regarding code abuse. I certainly wouldn't like it if a company swiped by code and sold it as their own, but the chance of that happening is slim. I'm much more worried about the small startup who wants to use my library but doesn't want to release their code.
Sounds to me like you're hell-bent on blaming Facebook instead of Git.
Moderation seems like a good approach. I like a nice glass of wine with dinner. I don't like being drunk, though.
He came from the future to try to prevent us from destroying our planet with pollution and global warming.
well it would be the obvious solution to securing conferencing systems and I cant see any reason you could not use the same hardware we use for VPN access to authenticate you to video conferencing system just ask for a second pin generated by the securid system on sign in.
(the intent) and its effects are 2 different things

That is exactly my point.
Those sponsorships exist already -- they're called internships.

What would be great would be a FOSS-only list of internships and push for a change where a remote internship was more common, which I think is more what you're getting at with how GSOC differs from existing options.
Good for him but not sure why he feels the need to push his zero-alcohol policy on others. I'd guess more people drink for other reasons than to "get drunk" but I guess this was his only reason.
So let me see if I have this straight. If I write some code and do not give it to you or anyone else, I have not taken anyone's freedom away.

However, if I give you a binary of the code, but do not give you source, I have taken your freedom away?

For that to make sense, there must be something you could do before I gave you the binary that you can no longer do. Please name what that thing is.
Like with most things it's easy to slide down a slippery slope. One glass of wine turns into two and then you've polished off the rest of the bottle. A glass of wine is something I may add back in like 20-30 years, but honestly I don't miss it that much. You're either alone and should just find a way to be in that happy, light place without the wine... or it's a social thing and you can find another delicious drink to socialize with. (hot cocoa, coconut-lime soda, etc.)

And the buddhist in my fully appreciates a moderation / middle way approach... But what is that glass of wine getting you? Is it strictly a taste thing? Is it the antioxidants? My guess is there are comparable things that would be you those same positive results of a glass of wine.
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Especially with alcohol, there's a huge difference between what's promised and what's delivered. It seems to promise fun and relaxation, but really it just makes you a little wobbly and a little sick.

A friend of mine would always joke that "we're in for a night of beer and yelling!". It kind of put things in perspective.
I have the feeling that, to an engineer/researcher who is well versed in fluid-dynamics, this sort of thing wont seem as ingenious - my guess is that it's at the analogous level of a waveguide.

No doubt that Tesla was a bright person though.
I know a lot of people who go out to bars, drink, and spend the entire night shouting about how drunk they are and how drunk they were all those other times they went drinking. I don't get it. I've never been a heavy partier, but my craziest, weirdest, most memory-making times have all been stone sober.
Yeah, a couple of other people have said the same. The fonts seem thinner in Windows than on my Mac across browsers. I'll look for more readable fonts that are still appealing.
Just because you can't regulate your alcohol consumption, doesn't mean that the rest of us can't either.

Don't try and force your own choices on other people.