skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am reminded of the "wine blocks" sold (legally!) during the prohibition, which came with the following warning:

After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_State...
I agree. The article lost me at this bit: 'The company claims that “content is being delivered over our private IP network and not the public Internet,” but that’s a meaningless distinction given that Comcast owns the entire pipe and can arbitrarily create private networks any time it’s convenient to do so.'

What does the author mean? Comcast certainly doesn't own the entire Internet, so why is it a meaningless distinction?
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I don't know. I can write LaTex but I must admit at times I would prefer something that could be written from a real language but still use LaTeXs typesetting, kerning, etc.
I don't see what's so difficult, Thomas. A clever, smug person posted about a project of his and behaved poorly when people complained about not having access to it. So somebody else cloned it – not to steal the thunder, but to let people use the program. Now it's been cloned again and spreads a little further. I'm sure the guy that open-sourced it considers this a victory, inasmuch as the idea has spread even further.

If Dustin's stopped sulking about his little change-the-world club being subverted and opened up, he's probably happy about this too: this idea that he came up with and worked on is so popular that people are making an effort to spread it further. If his actual idea is even greater and grander, then when Svtble opens up people will flock to it and thank him for it. Everybody wins.
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I think that's partly on purpose, it's sort of the same in their brick & mortar stores too. There's lots of gadgets and fancy stuff to play with but no obvious sales funnel.

I think it's because if you decide your going to buy a mac then your going to buy a mac and apple get a cut regardless of where you buy it so there's no incentive to have to convert you right that second before you walk out the door.

The entire apple website is basically just computer porn, it's designed to create a lasting emotional impact rather than to feel like a shop.
This is really important-the author is talking about starting with high level, easily modifiable structures, vs starting with all the details at once.

This is exactly the same concept as doing customer validation before creating the product.

It's the same idea as whiteboarding a complicated program before starting to code.

It's the same as creating a prototype before you code out a full-fledged product.

Using a top-down approach of creating "shells" before fleshing out details has been my single biggest productivity gain over the last year, and it's definitely worth applying to nearly every intellectual aspect of your life.
When you need one of the two, run them in a separate (updated) browser in a separate guest account (fast user switching ftw).

Yeah, nobody is going to do that. Chrome has an option to have 3rd party plugins blocked by default (click to activate) and Firefox has Flashblock. That's about as much as you can expect users to do.
The problem is, if your definition of engineering is solving problems where all the context is fully provided, then 99% of what is interesting on HN isn't engineering. It's apparently bullshit.

Changing the rules and picking a different context are perfectly valid ways of solving a problem.

Squinting hard at real-life patterns and trying to find the rule that generates them is most of the value in business and programming. Ever run an a/b test or looked at analytics and tried to understand why things were changing? The truth is generally as different from what you expect as a number problem whose solution is the shapes of the numerals.
That title feels almost like it's out of an Onion article. Is this actually plausible?
Yet another common trope in gender discussions is this idea that people shouldn't complain about sexism because there are more important things to worry about.

We are complex machines that are capable of worrying about multiple cultural issues at a time. This is an issue. If there are things you'd rather us focus on, write a blog post, start a thread, make something. Don't try and derail this one, because it's relevant to many, many people, and it's a serious issue in this industry.
Don't you think that agile proponents are frequently using a No True Scotsman here?

That is,

Statement: No Agile Team would do X.

Response: An Agile Team did do X.

Statement: Well, no True Agile Team would do X.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman)
Yes, absolutely. Especially with side 1, knowledge, this just translates to using a combination of a top-down and bottom-up approach as opposed to a pure bottom-up approach.
At MIT Press they've moved to Word with the eXtyles plugin as their preferred manuscript/intermediary format, and InDesign for final layout. I'm not sure what precisely eXtyles does, but it appears to produce some kind of XML-based workflow that lets them retarget books to both InDesign and ebook formats, as well as process them through various scripts (e.g. for indexing).

They appear to still accept TeX manuscripts as a "not preferred" option, with their preferred approach to those being to convert them to Word+eXtyles ASAP, via some kind of processor they have. It looks like they still offer a full-TeX pipeline if authors insist, but it's deprecated and not done for most books anymore (and they won't produce ebook versions of your book if you choose this one).

More info on:

* The preferred pipeline: http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/guidelines/monographs.asp#MS...

* The TeX options (I assume they put this information only in a Word .doc, when it's just plain text, out of a desire to taunt potential submitters of TeX manuscripts): http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/guidelines/texscenarios.doc
If you look at our homepage (https://www.tenfarms.com/) you probably get a better idea of the service.
I thought here of all places would discriminate between "guessing a voice mail pin number" and "hacking".
this is a cool idea Chris! I just sent you an email.
Stealing pictures on Android. Not as hard as you'd think.
I assume this statement means that the advertiser's site does not appear organically on the first page of search results. Thus, buying paid placement on the first page only produces one listing on the first page (the ad) rather than two or more (the ad and the organic search result).
Ok: her colleagues disrespect her enough to ignore her request for them to stop doing something that makes her uncomfortable. Doesn't matter what the behaviour is, it should at least be addressed. Basic issue of respect for one's co-workers.

See you around. ",)
Ugh. What purpose is this supposed to serve? Are we supposed to get annoyed and coerced into siding with this group? Let's not kid ourselves - these aren't activists. They're 4chan basement dwellers using the guise of a cause to wreak senseless damage.

Although I don't think they've actually done anything over the last 7 months so this is probably just another empty threat. Wasn't Facebook supposed to go down like a hundred different times?
"Unknown unknowns" is a sensible statement. It quite often is the case in project risk management. That is why you add contingency.
Been playing with the weekly versions of Go for a couple weeks now. Highly enjoying it, my biggest pet peeve was that every library had a master and "weekly" branch which required me to manually pull down the weekly. Shouldn't be long and I can move to master!
If they are so mad at bankers and businesses why the hell aren't they doing it on a weekday?
Even if they could do this, I find it difficult to take them seriously as a positive force for change.
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I had been manually downloading the vids on my PC, but I hope this tool will now reduce the pain.
... and the fallback for browsers with JS turned off is a completely blank page.

Why do Google hate the web?
Update: The creators of the TWSS bot at work volunteered to take it down a few days after my original blog post went up. It is no longer in the channel. Many people seem to have missed that some of my coworkers didn't like TWSS, either, and many of them thought the TWSRS bot was great.
Vernor Vinge reference?
Well if they can DDOS sites for a few hours, who's to say they couldn't take down the internet?

/sarcasm
What a pile of drivel.

People have the right to work in non-hostile environment. If she found something offensive, her concerns SHOULD have been addressed. It's a loss for society if everyone who has ever been bullied at work had to quit their jobs. It costs the community tax revenues; it costs the employer productivity and a good worker; and it costs the employee their income. Nothing good comes out of harassing people at work. Descriminatory behaviour at work MUST be addressed, on the spot, by everyone.

Don't mythologize startups as a "non suit environment where everything goes". Suit-firms don't have a monopoly on dignity and favorable work environments. Don't sell yourselves short in your eagerness to please and fit in.
I have used XeLaTeX for a while because of the support for freetype fonts and better support for unicode.

Linux Libertine is my favorite font for XeLaTeX because it has better ligatures than any of the computer modern etc. fonts.
Congrats to the Go team! I've been looking forward to this release for a while. Go makes it easy to do some very complex things, and much of this can be attributed to the wonderfully built standard library.

For those interested, you can run Go apps on Heroku using this buildpack: https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go

Note: you may need to use the #rc branch until its changes are merged in master
Local Monopolies have little incentive to improve their infrastructure. When you enable them to charge premiums for degrading existing service to carve out 'bandwidth' for premium service everyone looses so they can make a higher profit from the same crappy service.

Bandwidth is cheap. The bandwidth to give everyone in a mid sized city 100mb internet access costs around 20$/person a month + the cost of the wires. So, if Comcast provides 5mb internet for X$ they can make money providing 100mb for X + 20$. Yet, they want to both charge 3+ times that AND make money on side deals AND keep their local monopoly.

Now, latency is a slightly different issue. I would suggest that it's reasonable to either run an extra line OR host some servers locally to deal with that. But, assuming you have a sane network topology there are vary few cases where latency is actually important. Yet, if Comcast sees an opportunity to profit from the latency game they will do so. They already provide crappy DNS service to slow people down just think what they will do if they think latency is the path to extra profit.

PS: You could replace Comcast with Cox and probably just about any other local cable company and say the same things. But, I just happen to know more about Comcast and they are in the article so I stick with them.
You just made an important logical error. You went from "I can't see X" to "X does not exist".

As a fellow guy, let me tell you: it is much harder to see something when it benefits you than when it hurts you. You may never notice two steps up to enter a building -- unless you're in a wheelchair. So you should never assume that sexism doesn't exist just because you haven't noticed it yet.
X-Frame-Options (in supported browsers) prevents the result of a request from being rendered in the browser, it doesn't prevent the request itself from being made. So does X-Frame-Options actually prevent this? Is the change to your recommendations made by an AJAX callback when you view the page? I would've assumed it was made by the pageview itself.
That photo was early in the buildout, but yeah, it was a single 300 square foot circular room in one of the towers with 5-10 racks, loosely populated.

We planned to raise $3-5mm plus followon financing, and ended up raising only $1.5mm or so, most of which was spent on mechanical/life safety upgrades to the facility -- we didn't have a whole lot left for datacenter. Losing the 155Mbps link was a big problem -- the best we had was 4xE1 (8Mbps), some caching/CDN, and 128-512k of satellite. Thus, our costs never dropped the way we wanted, so we couldn't really be price competitive.

Wired has a 3-6 month lead time, so the Wired article actually got written while we were first looking at the buildout. This happened to overlap with the collapse of the dotcom bubble.
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They could only succeed in delaying the propagation of changes to DNS records; ISPs have their own copies.
"The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave."

They want to make us unhappy.
I just saw your profile states you founded havenco.

Seems this submission is getting a lot more traction than my one 12 hours ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3764331
i'll start one about that. that's always an interesting discussion!
I'm still wishing that we could embed Go into a multithreaded c application, just like we can with the JVM and Mono. I would like to use Go as a "scripting" language. I have seen a thread in the mailing list that someone was working on it on a personal basis, but I can't find it anymore. It doesn't seem to be in high demand.
Anonymous to [verb] the [noun] on [insert random date] to protest [nothing].

They are really getting old now. There is a proper way to handle protesting SOPA and it was done already. News outlets covered it and a lot of new people were informed about it. Have another blackout day if you want, but be respectful of those who may not totally agree with you.

Tactics like this get no one on your side. You're disrupting people's lives in a negative way by doing something like this.
If they were able to do this, which I doubt they can, at least it makes this weakness more evident and maybe even force a solution to prevent this from happening.

I still think that they can't pull this off. Additionally I don't understand how this works as a protest. And what message is this sending, really ?
Congratulations to everyone involved.
I do not like this trend, but my fears is that Wikipedia is being used in a similar way. You can argue against free XBox traffic, but can you argue against free Wikipedia traffic?

Past HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3505922
In Chrome, in windows, with ghostery + adblock installed, it crashed Chrome completely. Yay 2.0.
Is anyone else worried about how meticulous this write up is written? I tend to think Anonymous is both good and bad. Good for the citizens, but bad for the government of which citizens rely on. A double edged sword so to speak.

If they do decide to go along with the plan, I support them in their protest. I think Mr. Ben Franklin was right. We should not be bowing to the politicians of the day and should not be giving up our freedom for a little bit more security.
That's not the same joke. The interruption and reaction makes it a metajoke.
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Nice work, thanks, though I have a feeling that it's misnamed, sPymple would've been a nice match to Obtvse :)
It's "free" in the sense that it's not a subscription. Not free in the sense that Amazon pays the provider (AT&T in the US) to provide the access, the costs for which are rolled into the business model -> Amazon's fees from the publisher -> Content prices.

So you end up paying for it in the end, since say, $0.05 of every dollar (totally made up figure) ends up going to AT&T.

So, to coin a somewhat wordy phrase, it's free-as-in-jet-fuel-when-you-buy-a-plane-ticket.
Doesn't go tool handles that automatically (i.e. checks out the most recent tag compatible with the current Go version)?
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To me it is clear that he meant Russian hackers (as it would have been if it had say Chinese) and I doubt anybody else is confused over this. Given that, writing hackers was redundant and should be dropped.
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After a conversation with a co-worker about how products followed him around on amazon, I had the same thought of providing a series of "funny" recommendations using this method.

The only problem would be researching the funny products would probably skew my results as well (unless I was careful and viewed incognito mode)
Or, using Google's caching feature:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...

Here's the relevant bit:

Today we’re introducing Account Activity, a new feature in your Google Account. If you sign up, each month we’ll send you a link to a password-protected report with insights into your signed-in use of Google services.
The 31st is a day before aprils fools day... perhaps it is just a prank. Over and above, the writing style does not match that of the usual Anonymous letters. It almost sounds like some kid that has never read a book.
I think that more forums need a simpler, better search function. Although google are solving this problem somewhat themselves with groups search etc.

To do a search on most phpBB or similar forums you have to first be a registered member, fill out a big complicated form and often solve a captcha.

Part of the reason for this I guess is that many of these forums are hosted cheaply so the IO/CPU overhead for doing many searches is not trivial.

I can't count the number of times I've been on the forum and someone has asked a question and they get directed to the search feature.

I also like the feature some forums have where you can show the entire thread on one big page if you so choose.
Slight correction and/or distinction here: organic molecules are formed by organic reactions. Organic does not imply biological, merely carbon chemistry. Addition, substitution, Diels-Alder, etc. etc. There is nothing special going on here, it's just how we organize and typify common themes and patterns.

Organic has a precise meaning to the chemist. See my other reply in the grandparent thread for further elaboration.
[T]he success of the coding-part of a project is dependent on the calibre of the engineers doing that coding and not the process they follow.

And the success of an NFL team has nothing to do with process either. It's all the players. That's why they never hold practices or review footage with the coaches. Who needs set plays? Tom Brady just tells Wes Welker to go deep and get open. You guys up front block. That's it. Super Bowl. Process is for losers.
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Take a look at the app that the OP is building. It's pretty interesting and uses this scripting bridge for generating OpenGL visuals. (http://github.com/aptiva/tranquil)
JS is on. Blogspot as a whole isn't working for me right now. And nothing of value was lost.
"I took it for granted that everyone was familiar with the “That’s what she said,” joke, but a recent conversation with a consultant friend made me realize some industries don’t feature it on a daily basis."

Jessamyn Smith seems to be trying to tarnish a whole industry based on her personal experience. I work in the same industry as her, and it is not a joke I hear very often at all.

What she also seems to be missing is that the response of "that's what he said" is also used. The choice of which to use is dependent on the phrase being highlighted.
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Not even a little bit, the whole thing was written by someone who has no idea how the internet works. Even if they somehow managed to get all 13 DNS root servers offline at once, most people would never notice since there are several layers of caching between you and the root DNS servers. The vast majority of DNS queries never hit the root servers.
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This is especially bad for HN because of the "unknown or expired link" problem.

If I am 3 pages deep in a thread and press the "More" button then if I have been on the page for a certain amount of time I get the dreaded "unknown or expired link" and have to click back to the start and through a load more pages.
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Purchasing your movie/video viewing from Comcast is the "blessed" option.

And a "soft cap" is a hard cap, if you regularly want/need more than the cap.

P.S. I agree that I may have "waffled" a bit with respect to the option to switch to business class service. However, I understand that business class service is not available in all areas, can itself be a significant price bump (i.e. not an incrementally reasonable amount for incrementally more bandwidth), and requires different equipment and an on-site installation visit -- also at significant cost. (I don't have it, though, so correct me if I'm wrong.)

P.P.S. On the other hand, I have considered their business class product to be an option if and when I need it. At least some sort of higher capacity option. Let's hope they don't take it away, e.g. from residential locations.
As a regular Internet user, I can verify that I am not a slave to HN and Wikipedia. I just find them interesting :)
> My cell phone service by the way (Bell Mobility) offers free unlimited access to Twitter, Facebook and Myspace that don't count against my mobile data plan cap. If you consider that against net neutrality, then net neutrality died a long time ago.

How isn't this against Net neutrality? Suppose you run a service that competes against Twitter. With Net neutrality you must prove to the users that your service is better thatn Twitter. Without Net neutrality you must prove to your users that your service is so much better than Twitter that it is worth to pay additional money to the phone company to use it. Or you can pay the phone company to add your service to the number of non-data-cap-eating websites.

In the end the phone company is paid twice: a first time by the users and another time by the websites.
Timing or the title really does make a difference. Posted the same link 12 hours ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3764331
This is great news. The best part of it for me is that now my more conservative colleagues might dip their toes in the water. Combine that with the Vitess project and Go is not just a great language. It's viable.
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This should be mandatory reading for "Internet generation" entrepreneurs.

It is a clear exposition on why people need to engage their local institutions to change the law to meet their needs, rather than to try to create from whole cloth new institutions. When folks argue that changing the law of the land is 'hard' I do not disagree, but when they say creating something new from scratch is 'easier' I do. Like a manager who just sees the effects of the software and not how it achieves those effects, creation tends to look easier to the ignorant than to the experienced.

Anyway, there are great lessons to be learned in the story of Sealand.
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This doesn't even scratch the surface of what Google could show you. If they showed us the extent of what they can actually infer from our activity, some people would probably shoot their computer, burn their router and modem, and never look at a screen again.