skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are a couple of questions to consider:

Does Comcast allow a user to purchase additional bandwidth beyond their 250 GB cap?

If so, how much does that cost?

It's not just a cap, it's a hard limit. If you want more, you are forced to go with the ISP's own "blessed" option.

This is a significant portion of what bothers me with these caps. They are not graduated in a reasonable fashion. Instead, they are a cliff -- either entirely, or through absurdly high "addtional bandwidth" costs, limiting the service that the user can receive.

THEN, the ISP comes along and offers the user a sole way around/past this limit: Purchase whatever subset(s) of the additional service exclusively via the ISP's "value-added" content. (You can only have more bits if you buy your movies (well, movie viewings) from us.)

THAT, my friends, is a monopoly. Especially when you only have one or two ISP options, and they're all doing it. (Again, to you overseas, this is the case for much of the U.S.)
>"Skilled but under-emplored programmer in Russia" is like Bigfoot [also known as sasquatch] - everyone heard about him/her, but noone saw. It is a legend...

Well, Group-IB (a Russian computer security company) seems to disagree:

In Russia the situation is additionally worsen by a great amount of
technical universities graduates and by unstable home economy
situation as the result of which the mentioned specialists cannot
find highly paid legal income.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Wgm5sdanNDgJ:...

I don't know where they get the data from, though.

But of course there are russians, americans, germans, brits, and other nations, which do quite some harm. I just do not think there is a legitimate way to define the winner.

Sure, it's still a prejudice, I was just pointing out it's not completely irrational.
Yeah, I think you should try this argument on a Ukranian sometime.[1]

In this and other comments, you seem to be attributing all the achievements of the Soviet Union to their ideology. That's certainly a factor, but it's about as dumb as Americans claiming their nation is blessed by God with a special destiny. The Russians had just kicked out a severely anachronistic monarchy, so achieving progress was almost inevitable. And the Soviet Union had an empire of its own after World War II as well, and their centralized system was very good at capturing resources for a Moscow-centric elite.

But I agree it's not black and white, either. Just as the USA sometimes lives up to its own ideals in an inspiring way, you could find examples of that in the history of the Soviet Union too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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In life there are often short-term gains that can be made by someone either lacking in principle or who simply fails to exercise it. In simple terms, in this world there are always going to be temptations to travel down a road that in the end leads to death. In this case, it is eventual financial death for the marketer.

I know the temptation is for this road to be traveled because it's most often the easier road in the short-run for someone to take. There is no doubt in marketing a product or service that you are going to have to knock on many doors. Most often this will mean having to spend money in the process of running ads in order to get the word out. Bots such as those used by the Pinterest spammer automate the process but do so by taking advantage of loop-holes in the system and in so doing exploit whatever platform they are using (in this case Pinterest).

It is one thing to offer a product or service and to let people know about it and quite another to use technology to exploit a Platform for the purpose of sending unsolicited information to those who you do not know. There are better ways to market products and to profit from the sale of them through proven, sound marketing strategies.

The use of spam bots are not a reflection of anyone who has pursued an education of good marketing techniques. Such people only serve to give marketers in general a bad name. Those who pursue get rich quick strategies like this are not they type of people that endure for the long-run.
Not for me. Do you have Javascript turned off?
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You did not specifically mention your UAC configuration and user type... you should leave UAC enabled, create a second Administrator user with at least a simple password, and downgrade your normal account to a regular user. (This is all for a home version of Windows, the business versions offer more configuration options.)

Any unexpected popup requiring the administrative user's password is usually enough to know something bad is about to happen... and if software doesn't require Administrative rights to install it is usually either easy to remove or exploiting Windows in a way that's unavoidable once it's hit the machine.
The crawler better be undetectable as such. For instance, it better send "expected" headers (User Agent, Accepts, etc.), and it better have cookies enabled, and also operate from many distinct and perpetually changing IP addresses.

Otherwise, the spammer will be able to run his/her own URL shortener service in a 5USD/month VPS and be able to show a spammy link to the users and a regular-looking link for the crawler.

BTW: a "crawler" implemented with Mechanical Turk workers would be a little bit harder to detect, but would also have its downsides.
Why do you need what?

Also check out org-beamer if you want to stick with org-mode. If you want an alternative try pandoc. It supports 4 or 5 web presentation formats and beamer.
Fair enough, I was assuming the definition provided in the comment earlier but I think the psychology one may be equally fitting.
The TWSS bot is an interesting application of machine learning. However, it was a mistake to install it on the company's IRC channel, and the Smith was justified in asking for an irrelevant bot which she found offensive to be removed.

On the other hand, writing a bot which responds with feminist quotes is just as ridiculous and passive aggressive.

The real answer here is for management to step in, exercise some authority, and remove both bots.
Don't forget you have to use Alchemy and Stage3D in the same project. I think too many are glossing over that fact.

Plus UDK has a similar deal.
Anyone know any real world examples of Lua being used with Objective-C, and what use cases it is good for? Sounds very interesting.
You're right, I was too lazy to even open the firebug, I just saw the element appearing.
Not quite getting your point. As you acknowledge, there's peril in being impolite. It's the peril of getting called out or shunned. The only thing that's different now from 30 years ago is that things have shifted enough that saying something sexist is rude.

Also, we may disagree on what's rude. If I throw a party and somebody is sufficiently offensive, I'll show them the door. If they see that as rude, then it's only for the same reason they were acting offensively: they were too clueless to understand the harm they were causing.

I agree that some people take it too far and are rude in return. But given that they were provoked, I'm more inclined to forgive that. And given that those links are perfectly useful guides to discussing these topics, I don't think bringing them up is rude.
You wrote:

I actually think that "A" is beyond dispute.

But you forget that I said:

you are not espousing a widely held belief about child support laws being "unfair to men." Thus, a discussion about your argument is likely to devolve into long exchanges about children's rights and anecdotes about ridiculous edge case judgments on both sides.

I was careful not to discuss the validity of your belief, but merely to point out that your belief—whether true or false—is not WIDELY HELD. And as you can see, at least one other person disagrees with you, and the resulting exchange is getting further and further away from discussing the original point.

When I use the words “beyond dispute,” I mean that people accept it as true, or a at least such a sufficiently large proportion of people that anyone disputing it is immediately understood to be ignorant or a crank. The Earth revolving around the Sun is beyond dispute. Although I personally believe that the evidence shows that punitive laws around marijuana possession are unhelpful, it isn’t “beyond dispute,” lots of people dispute that opinion every day.

I stand by my assertion that if you say A -> B -> C and you choose an A that is not widely held to be true, you are going to spend a lot of time arguing about A even though your original intention was to try to convince other people of C. It doesn’t matter how certain you are of the truth of A, what matters when trying to convince people is whether they believe it to be true.

If they don’t, you either have to find a forum where people are discussing “A,” and talk about that, or pick another argument that is going to have a high signal-to-noise ration when discussing “C."
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> And if that complaint results in the rule "no bots on IRC," she wins.

No, maturity and people with refined senses of humor win :)

I think having that phrase repeated to the extent of making a bot is idiotic, I think her solution is far more entertaining to read, and I am irritated by unalone's suggestion that "that's what she said" unequivocally objectifies women.

That's all of my feelings for this thread.
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I thought the most clever part was how it throws you (pretty much) directly into killing your first boss monster. You feel awesome within a few minutes of starting, immediately before getting told to go kill more boss monsters.
I don't understand the outrage here. Comcast is offering something for free to its customers that other ISP's customers have to pay for. It's good to be a Comcast customer I guess.

A lot of the arguments in the article and even some in this comment thread are "imagine if"... Either something is wrong on its face or its not. You shouldn't have to come up with theoretical examples of Comcast charging for unlimited access to Youtube and Netflix in order to make your point.

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.
This is a start-up. Start-up. Not a suit company. People get jobs in start-ups because of no the no bullshit attitude.

And I challenge to provide a joke nobody can object to.
Its true (full disclosure I used to work for Comcast - via an acquisition)

One of Comcast's biggest (and most hated) capex expenditures are the cable boxes. They hate with an unholy passion having to upgrade boxes. In this context they're basically trying to get the users to upgrade their boxes on their own dime. When I put on my consultant hat and talk to analysts in this area we've been talking more and more about how connected tv's and OTT Boxes can be beneficial to cable operators. One of the downsides of cable cards is that you never got a guide with it. Combine a cable card and a Samsung Connected TV and you can really do both and get rid of the card all together.

Second they're quickly realizing that maintaining two on-demand infrastructures (Web and traditional VOD) the really sensible thing is to move as much as possible to delivering via your cable modem as opposed to the broadcast channels.

Of course as they do so they're going to have to do something about the bandwidth caps. Stories like this put Comcast in a strange position. They want to deliver more "TV" video content over their internet pipes but apparently can't do so and maintain a cap at the same time.
I was really surprised at their server farm; I always figured (from the original Wired article) that it was fairly busy with servers.

I guess losing the fiber optic link kind of ruined that. Or, you know, having to put your customers' data into a Zodiac to hang out on a plank of metal in the sea.
This is such a simple hack that I am shocked it took this long for someone to try it.
You've posted your comment on a community forum that is heavily US-centric. You clearly like the culture, or you wouldn't be here. Perhaps you could then allow that "our" values are worthy of more consideration than your comment seems to suggest? Just a thought.
I'm holding out for Svmple
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You keep telling yourself that.
Amazing, it loads scripts from three domains to display six paragraphs of text and an image.
Hats off to Jessamyn Smith. Great way to respond to sexist stuff.
To troll Dustin Curtis? Yeah, I think I get it.
As of right now, the 250GB cap is a soft cap. Going over only risks that after the second warning Comcast will cancel your service and ban you for a year. There are no "blessed" options unless you are a business subscriber.
Holodomor was part of the Ukranian political agenda during Yushchenko ruling and is a made up 'fact'.

During same Holodomor times people dies through out Russia as well, and the event was caused by coincided mismanagement and bad seasonal conditions.
When's Phrack Issue 68 coming? Will it ever get released?
Net Neutrality legislation scares me. Any legislation of the internet to "protect" you from corporations will most likely include new and invasive powers of government to monitor and control the Internet (like SOPA). No thanks.

Let's see if I understand this article though: I can pay $$$$ dollars a month for 250GB of dumb data transfer a month. If I go over that quota, I have to pay $$$ more or I get shut off or slowed down.

But now Comcast allows me to pay $ to get an unlimited access to certain sites like NetFlix that would otherwise eat up most my "dumb" quota (if I watched movies all day).

That sounds good to me, I'd rather pay $$$$+$ than $$$$+$$$ for the 400GB of NetFlix traffic and 100GB of other traffic I use per month.

In a way, this is the market's solution to the piracy problem. Licensed media sources are offered at a discount while torrent traffic is still allowed, but under general traffic prices. Say what you will but, if the market doesn't create a solution, the government will and I guarantee you won't like their solution.
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Stop running Flash and Java, they are the source of most browser vulnerabilities, which are the source of most malware

Go to chrome://plugins and kill everything

When you need one of the two, run them in a separate (updated) browser in a separate guest account (fast user switching ftw).
I don't collaborate well with people who don't know a fucking thing about programming who try to put process on top of the process of programming.

Fair enough. But what about someone who does know a lot about programming, who runs his team using agile methods. Could you collaborate well with that person?
XeTeX-generated PDFs are not compatible with the toolchains of some academic publishers (Cambridge University Press, which publishes the Journal of Functional Programming comes to mind, but I seem to recall Springer-Verlag having issues as well). Without full support for academic publishers, I believe that majority of TeX users could not upgrade.
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> Generalizations about country/etymology shouldn't qualify to be up-voted in HN, please.

What country? (and what does etymology have to do with the whole mess?) He said not to do business with a private company, ranted at lengths on the subject and clearly explained that the issue was solely HR/business and that his relations with the engineering side had been nothing but good?

What generalization are you talking about?

> The victim's explanations are usually generalizations and overreactions, in rare cases I've seen people reacting accordingly.

Considering PPK's history of not being a sanguine lad, the mere fact that they got him to react to such length, on a former business partner, is a huge red flag with warning sirens.

> You can be harsh when the situation requires it.

I'm guessing he thought the situation did require it.

> As long as all you loose is time, you can tell that you're enriched by another experience that will guide you in your next project into a better management.

You're joking right?
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Microsoft has had their finger on the pulse of business technology for a long time. Apple has their finger on the pulse of the consumer market. Both know their place, and thrive because of it. To the author's point - Google is trying to blend those two markets, and IMHO it waters down the value of their offerings.
I do agree about Pyramid's initial learning curve being a bit steep (or, at least it was more than a year ago when I was first picking it up). Still, I fell in love with Pyramid because it didn't try to do much for me.

My previous company has a huge SQLAlchemy-based codebase with literally hundreds of defined classes, many with hugely complex relationships (as it was built on top of a legacy database that had accreted over many years). Switching to a non-Alchemy backend simply wasn't an option. They also have a large, complex web application built in Zope with hundreds of tested, working page templates. Django is the easy first choice when starting a new Python web app. However, if we'd replaced the Django ORM with SQLAlchemy and Django's templates with something like ZPT so that we could incorporate our large pre-existing code, there wouldn't have been a lot of Django we could still use. In particular, the admin would have been virtually unusable without a large amount of reimplementation to adapt it to our internal code.

Pyramid was a big win for us in that it used our preferred backend choices by default. More importantly, though, was that it's comparatively very easy to change those defaults without losing the rest of Pyramid's features. After a couple of hours of experimenting with integrating our legacy codebase, I had new pages up and running.

I have nothing bad to say about Django and I've used it successfully in other projects. It's a neat framework with a lot of talented people behind it. But Pyramid has its own charms, especially for those who absolutely need to do things their own way.
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I am not so sure technology stack is entirely unrelated to failure rate. The stack you pick may influence iteration speed, hosting options, developer availability, uptime, reliability, security and costs.

Twitter would have failed had their scalability problems persisted.

In fact, I remember "Six Degrees". It was more or less Facebook, but in the late 90's. IIRC, they ran Cold Fusion on Windows.
Having written the article, I am most certainly not outraged at Google+, nor do I think it is the reason why Google is losing focus. I am also not using it as "linkbait nonsense". Google+ is a Google product that ties up all their services and as such, makes a ton of sense.

The whole point of the article is to alude not to how good/bad Google+ is (heck, the article has nothing to do with Google+ at all - which you probably noticed, or should have), but how Google would be so much better if they looked back at their roots.
That's nothing special actually.

The Amazon recommendations module is definitely buggy, but it works for their purpose and as long as they can cope with "marketplace manipulators" they're okay. Oh they can't.. well you know they are one of the largest Marketplaces, they will find a solution quickly..
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475854 Oh, they can't even fix that? Well what needs to be said, needs to be said.

Thanks for your find middus!
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And it succeeded!

More seriously, if you genuinely have a problem with Simple using the CSS from Obtvse, I think you don't understand how open source software works. Either that, or you're being somewhat obtvse yourself.
Do you have a link to that report? I'd be interested in reading it.
Poll: Do you actively contribute to an open source project?
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Undertones? You mean the classical 'you are guilty and won't admit it'?

As for when it should be shot down -- when a majority don't think it is funny. It is called company culture and unless you believe females should have special protection because they are an inferior sex they will properly have to get used to it.

And the reason we ask a male to move the desk is because they tend to be physically stronger (with exceptions, I couldn't lift myself of the floor). I haven't asked any females to write notes since grade school.
Neither did I. I use LaTeX frequently and /vastly/ prefer it to the drek of Word.

It provides a nice default, fast editing, and an incredibly large and featureful set of libraries.
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That being said, it's sad that I could actually see someone really believing this.

That being said, and this being the internet, do you realize how silly you look to other cultures that don't give a flying duck about those so-called issues, and can take a joke?

(And it's not like people from those other cultures don't worry about the larger issues re: equality, sexism etc, it's that "that's what she said" it's NOT where they are at all).

You wanna do something positive? How about doing something for the millions of homeless people in your own country? --now, THAT's a discrimination if I ever saw one. How come I see people tirelessly blogging about those non issues and never about those kind of things?

According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, there were 643,067 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide as of January 2009. Additionally, about 1.56 million people used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program during the 12-month period between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009.

A random joke (say, a picture of a girl in bikini is some presentation) is "sexism" and "prevents more women from going to programming conferences"?

Well, not having a bloody house is social exclusion, and prevents homeless people for getting shelter, proper rest, care, running water, electricity, reduces chances of getting a job, and also prevents them from going to programming conferences. Men AND women.

(Not that I take any offense with the woman writing the bot. She seems like she can take a joke fine, and she did a joke in response -- it's all those other people blowing non-issues out of proportion that get me).

Prudes...
Does streaming content from the Xfinity site on your laptop/iPad cost against your data quota? The article implies it does, even if you are connected to the Internet via Comcast.
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Location and visual moments are exactly what we are focusing on :)
Kate Winslet walked in Premier for the 3D of Titanic.
gevent works thanks to monkey patching of a great many libraries. Its failure modes are a lot more obscure than with callbacks; you pretty much have to unwrap nonblocking calls in your mind that aren't apparent in the code.
Level 3 was offering to transport the data all the way to Comcast's "internal" network and willing to pay for the equipment required for the high-speed interconnect. How can Comcast complain about not having enough bandwidth for delivery in their last mile (or least need compensation to build out more bandwidth), but then turn around and offer a very similar service and not even have it count against their bandwidth caps? Is there a bandwidth issue in their internal network or not?

I doubt Comcast put in data caps because of interconnect costs. I would love to see what a gig of interconnect data costs them.
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