skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems a bit like asking to "pay what you want for a free sample."

I understand that it's not intentional, but when Radiohead and other world-famous recording artists are offering "pay what you like" for entire albums, and most book stores (online or B&M) will let you read at least a few pages to get you hooked, offering a "pay what you want for one chapter" feels like you're trying too hard to game consumers, and they'll see right through it.

There is no risk in this scheme, you're not tugging on the honor or ethic strings of individuals because you are not leaving yourself exposed. And when the book price is $5, within impulse purchase range for many, you're wasting people's time by asking them to get their wallet out for a sample.

Offer the entire book as "pay what you like" and it becomes interesting, or give away the first chapter, but paying for a teaser isn't going to make waves.
Hm, shouldn't the articles contain the information necessary to rewrite the code? Then rewriting the code could be seen as replicating the experiment.

Both sharing and not sharing seems to have pros and cons. For example if the code is buggy and shared, odds might be higher that the bugs will never be found because nobody will bother trying to write the code again.
> Honestly I'm shocked at the defense of this practice (of ASI "abusage")

Devil's advocate here: could one argue that taking advantage of ASI everywhere can make it safer, because it forces you to be fully aware of ASI?

Suppose you always put in semicolons. You can STILL get bitten by ASI. The classic example is

return
{
...stuff...
};

ASI is going to put a semicolon right after the return and break your code.

Someone who strives to take advantage of ASI everywhere they can is going to remember that ASI is going to apply on that return, and they will code the above so as to take it into account.
Does this mean that I can just limit my Bittorrent client to only connect to peers in Comcast's network, if I don't want Bittorrent traffic to count against my quota?
So did instagram really get $1Bn?

Or did the VCs who own Instagram also own Facebook and so just moved some numbers from one cell in a spreadsheet to another - netting themselves huge amounts of publicity before the Facebook IPO (and probably a tax break somewhere)
Digital television is just bits, too. If this charging of bits is so offensive, then where was everybody when digital TV, including On Demand, wasn't getting charged against your internet bandwidth?

The Internet still is, ultimately, a collection of networks, not a monolithic thing. There's no Comcast "in" the Internet and another Comcast "out" of the Internet. It really is cheaper for Comcast to move bits in their own network, and this really unpacks to a demand for Comcast to extra specially mark up their own bits for customers, charge far more than they really have to, not a deal for the customers.

Given that, I wouldn't be surprised Comcast ends up rolling right over on this if the fuss gets loud enough. "You really think everyone should pay more for those bits? Well... if you insist...."

I think there are viable counterarguments (simonster's is probably the best), but let's be clear on exactly what those counterarguments are counterarguing and ground them in reality, not on a mythical view of the Internet.
Fantastic! I'd buy this. Just spending 6 minutes watching the video made me understand the solar system better!
What about driverless cars will make them inherently cheaper than taxis?
The harsh language doesn't convey the point at all. It's an appeal to emotion, and has no place in a rational argument.
What is the origin of the in-profile emoticon?
He already has an IndieGogo campaign here (http://www.indiegogo.com/Solar-system-educational-program). It has flexible funding so even if he doesn't hit his goal of $8K he'll see some money from it (at the time of this post he's at $1056 with 24 days left).
"Just recently, one man was forced to pay 90,000 pounds (plus costs) because of two tweets that were seen by an estimated 65 people in England and Wales."

Wow. That is scary. How do these laws work? What if my allegedly libelous statement is a "friend's only" post that somehow gets around to the supposed victim? Do the courts even make any distinctions regarding technical details?
JS Humanize (Give data a human touch)
If you are familiar with Django you are familiar with a nice set of template tags called "humanize". In essence it turns data such as "13 April 2012" into "2 days ago" or "1000000000" into "1.0 billion". JS Humanizer is a jQuery counterpart to the Django humanize template tags we wrote and thought that others might find it useful too.
It's worth noting that many states, including CA have laws that say something to the effect of:

Anything you do on your own time, with your own equipment, that is not related to your employer's line of work is yours, even if the contract you signed says otherwise.
Oh, I don't work in cancer research anymore. You may cease to respect or admire me! ;)
It's what I know from consulting. The bizspark program is great to get started and lasts for three years or 1mil of revenue, whichever comes first.
Currently doing 20 miles each way a day, usually just over an hour. I think this would be unreasonable for many people; but I'm happy to detour and make it even longer, it's a lovely rural route. I guess for most people though, however far they can comfortably ride in 30 mins is a reasonable commute, and this varies greatly with fitness.

Due to the geography of where I am, there's no direct train or bus, and they take me longer than the bike. I do take the train in winter, to avoid commuting in the dark (again this is rural, so by dark I mean DARK)
Re:Interesting: marketing. (Score:4, Informative)
by Barbara, not Barbie (721478) <barbara.hudson@un j a v a.com> on Saturday April 14, @07:55PM (#39689571) Homepage Journal
A bit more research uncovered this thread [side-line.com]. From her posts there, and the replies, it's obvious she's got a long history of cyber-stalking anyone she disagrees with. Her mother had her placed in a mental institution when she was 16 (her admission). When one music producer threatened to sue her, her response to them was "good luck getting any money out of a homeless person on SSI disability" (her admission).

One example - she started a petition against a competitor in the music biz, claiming they were nazi white supremists, and blog-spammed it on a bunch of forums. When people started posting comments in the petition about how one of the band members is black, she deleted them, then finally deleted the petition, all the while continuing the harassment.

She doesn't have a cyber-stalker. The whole thing was made up because she didn't produce what she promised when she got kickstarter funding a few years ago, and now that she wants to scam them again, she thinks that this will work. The real name for what she is trying to do is extortion, with kickstarter as the victim.

Judging by how many people are so "OMG this is terrible shame on kickstarter" without doing any sort of reality check - not even seeing the obvious contradictions in the story she put out on her "I'm being cyber-stalked" page, it makes me wonder.

Re:Interesting: marketing. (Score:4, Informative)
by Barbara, not Barbie (721478) <barbara.hudson@un j a v a.com> on Saturday April 14, @02:47PM (#39687109) Homepage Journal

It never happened. She's mentally ill (her mother had her committed at 16), is homeless, lives off SSI, scams a few bucks whenever she can, has a history of harassing people and groups online, etc.

For a better understanding, go back a few years to this thread: http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/beware-mental... [side-line.com]

This thread was started when one organizer finally got fed up with her online harassment (cyberstalking, false accusations) tactics and threatened to sue.

She has a LONNNG history of craziness and being banned from online forums. This is just another public melt-down by someone who needs professional help - but as she wrote, she won't go for it until everyone who has "wronged" her pays up. A real nutcase.
Doesn't Netflix use Akamai? If so, there's almost no traffic (when measured on Comcast's scale) from Comcast <-> Netflix, as each movie just needs to be downloaded once, and is then cached on a server living inside Comcast's network.
Yeah, I think that's the correct analysis. Having lived in Houston a few years, one thing that I think happens is that without geographical constraints, and with the way things are currently funded, it's easier to just keep moving out. Where I lived in the 1990s was a "new" suburban area of Houston, but already by the 2000s there were abandoned stores, because if a store moved out of a building, sometimes another store moved in, but often it was easier to just build a new to-order building another mile south on the freeway, instead of renovating an existing one. With no constraints, you can just keep moving out another mile every year for decades. Same with suburbs; why renovate a 1970s house if you can just move another mile down the freeway and build a new one? Especially given the cheap construction that's been used for the last 50 years...

Part of that I think is also because some of the costs that incurs aren't properly charged. There was a proposal in Houston to charge developers for the cost of new infrastructure. For every 10,000 new homes built in a new suburb, for example, you can estimate what new capital infrastructure they'll need: on average 1 elementary school, 0.5 high schools, 1 fire station, 1 police station, X miles of roads, X miles of sewers, etc. (whatever the real numbers are). Add the estimated cost of that up, divide by 10,000, and charge that as a per-house assessment on new developments. That proposal failed, though, so new developments' indirect capital costs are subsidized by homeowners in the older areas of the city.
Now, I'm not equipped to perform a statistically valid sampling of all conference talks, but pervasive anecdotal evidence lends credence to this notion.

Specifically, this comes to mind:

http://lifehacker.com/5859392/swearing-to-make-your-point-a-...

As well as this:

http://www.zedshaw.com.sharedcopy.com/rants/51489cec9386f7c1...

And this:

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/posts/15-potty-mouths

There are more, but I don't think I need to internet-sleuth the entire set of well-known Ruby / Web personalities to demonstrate the point: a base lack of professionalism abounds.
LA is its own weird beast where geology plays a role.

There's a stripe running east west through the center, following the hills and the area immediately south of the hills, from Santa Monica to Griffith Park. That stripe is notably higher priced, with prices within the stripe generally increasing towards the ocean.

Then there's a ring around that stripe where prices decrease for a while, and then move up again to be sort of traditionally suburban in pricing.

And then there's the strange outer regions like Topanga / Calabasas / Malibu, where you move waaaay up the scale again.
Here's hoping there will still be some level of quality copyediting involved in this new world. Most self-published works I've read I have an extremely hard time reading because the quality is just so bad.
Agreed, but more importantly: I would never use that word unless I was trying to start a fight. And trying to use the word to stop a fight is just backwards.

(Like all rules for writing, this one has exceptions: For example, if it's in the service of a great pun, like:

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon

well, that's different.)
Yes, But a contract forbidding outside consulting is still grounds for termination. You just know that they can't legally claim the work you did for themselves.
Downsides of working for a startup
I have a friend and partner who is building the back-end to a project I talked to him about. I presented every aspect of it, built a comprehensive wireframe and I'm working on the design.

He has plenty of work and talent, all I tried to do is explain myself clearly and try to spark his curiosity a bit. Then I built something on my side to be able to present to him and show that I'm also bringing something to the table. I don't want him to feel at any time as if he's working for me rather than with me.

Of course it helps that for him the task is <britishaccent>"Really fuckin' easy!"</britishaccent>. I'd deal the same way with someone I don't know as well and I think that openness and equally perceived work load are key elements to a successful working relationship where you might feel as if the other has a more useful skill set.
I think only one person said it was cool :) What is disturbing about it? Do you feel it's a privacy violation?
Netflix now uses Level 3, who has paid peering links to Comcast. http://www.voxel.net/blog/2010/12/peering-disputes-comcast-l...

Also, I'm not sure that Akamai is serving everything from inside other ISPs; I know that was their original model, but things may have changed in 15 years.
If this idea that needs protection can be fully described in just four words, what, in your opinion, has prevented the "established players" from coming up with this idea already?
1) Are you sure it is not simply that you can't bear the thought of somebody else having an easier time than you? How did drudgery shape your skills? Unless bearing drudgery is the skill that enables you to do what you love (what would that be)?

2) Yes, young people might not know if what they want to do is really meaningful. Unfortunately the chance that any job they would take on instead would be meaningful is also rather slim. This is maybe what you missed from the speech, or maybe I read more into it, but I also think it is true: most jobs are completely useless and meaningless. Therefore just taking on a job does not help. At least if you "play" you can make adjustments and have a chance of getting to something meaningful.
Agreed. It's almost always worth investing time in learning your tools, and if you're like me the bash shell is your fundamental, most used tool.

I have to give Peteris Krumins credit for creating some great references like http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-bash-co... and http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-shee... (or for the depraved, http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-emacs-editing-mode-cheat-s...)
On the wireless point, I believe that the expensive bit of wireless networks is definitely the spectrum from the tower to the device. So I don't think the analogy holds. (?)
But the actions of these governments recently says otherwise. They all clearly want to implement the Orwellian big brother system. All of them are working together to lock down every from of communication, and make complementary laws that target cybercriminals that might circumvent the system. These governments are demanding total power. If you encrypt the data on your data on your hard drive, or use a PGP-based email system you WILL be deemed a terrorist, and subject to all USA anti-terrorist laws. You don't even need to be a US citizen in this scenario, any member of this World Government will gladly hand you over to the Americans and send you to Guantanamo for not relieving your hard drive's PGP encryption key.

This is absolutely NOT the Huxley scenario.
I've tried it along with virtually all of the other chat apps and none seem to work very well at all with Google Talk. I am constantly disconnected and never get any push notifications which makes it entirely useless.

I wish there was something better out there. I might give some another try soon since it's been a while.
I've often thought there should be an open code/data license that restricts usage and dissemination only to those who agree to make their code and data equally available.

Why? Because in many fields there is a negative incentive to provide code and data. It not only takes time, but it opens you up to criticism by people who wouldn't be willing to make their own code/data available. Perhaps something like this would raise the bar and encourage more people to share their code/data. Just a thought.
Don't worry about your English. The downvote was probably because of the "It is nonsense", which is slightly harsher than convention here is willing to tolerate (rightly so, IMO, lest threads turn into shouting matches). Please don't comment about being downvoted. It goes against http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and earns an automatic downvote from many of us. Also, downvoting to express disagreement is common on HN, because one may disagree without having the time and/or anything substantive that is worth posting a comment to say.
As a counterpoint, I recently wound up refusing to sign a contract that was an absolute mess. The prospective client wanted absurd things, like for me to indemnify them against any future IP litigation, whether I infringed on a patent knowingly or not. And they wanted ownership of every piece of code I typed, according to their contract I couldn't even hit backspace unless I committed the mistake first.

We never reached any middle ground. This happened months ago, and they're still looking.

I assume they'll continue to have this problem, because they're trying to hire a senior level person, but they want that person to make junior level mistakes wrt to the contracts they'll sign.
In a discipline such as computer science, appeals to emotion are inherently untrustworthy and distracting. A reader shouldn't have to shift through pandering rhetoric to find the kernel of a supportable argument.
No, but the lifeblood of this community depends on new hackers who'd fit in but aren't here. It'll be a huge circlejerk if no new users are coming down the pipe to bring freshness to the community.
I don't sign an NDA unless there's something I want on the other side. For example, I sign them all the time with potential customers before they'll tell me their traffic numbers. In this case, I skim and sign. The same goes for potential partners who want to share their roadmap or confidential business information. I've also asked people to sign an NDA before sharing financials. No, I won't sign an NDA to hear your business idea, but if it's the only thing between me and the information I want, I'll keep my thoughts about NDAs to myself and just sign it.
To build a perception of value. An investment of $57M allows an argument to be put forward that the company value is $1B.
Oakley Oil Rig Sunglasses
Is there any worry about user information being in the exception and being indexable?
Akamai installs their blades directly inside ISPs. This covers Netflix and Hulu. What's up now, Comcast?
For what it's worth, both libraries in question realigned their egos, despite trolling from the likes of madrobby.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/commit/575f18aaf49abb02...

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSMin/commit/5ca277ea452...
What surprises me is not that Fat is a bit of a jerk (note, I "get" it, but I don't respect it), but that Twitter lets him keep being a jerk and actively hostile while acting as a representative of the company.

My observation of open-source community dynamics tells me that being hostile is an effective way to lead a large community. I've noticed that contributors act more carefully around someone who is mean to people in general and that these people attract wide followings at conferences. (There are certainly exceptions, though, like Larry Wall.)

Can you imagine a Googler acting this way on the Chromium or Android projects?

Being nice also works, but if you compare Chrome's reach to this Javascript framework's reach and use that to scale the number of contributors, you'd expect a lot more contributions to Chrome.

I think fat is a jackass, but if he wasn't, I never would have heard about this project, which now has multiple front page articles on multiple tech sites. I imagine this is good for Twitter.
How do I go off the grid digitally?
Funny thing, i'd eventually like to go off the grid digitally, but being on the grid has landed me many jobs, clients, opportunities, etc
Crowd-Sourcing Brain Research Leads to Breakthrough
If the programs are actually important in the production or verification of the research, then don't we want peers who try to independently reproduce the experiment to also independently develop their own programs, so that their reproduction is truly independent?
The actual link the above obfuscated link points to:

http://publikdemand.com/d/comcast/stop-violating-net-neutral...
Why The Fancy Could be a Game Changer in Social Commerce
I disagree. Ideas are cheap. Experience is valuable.

The way to tackle large problems is to tackle enough small problems to build the experience and track record you need, not 'find-someone-to-pay-me-to-hire-someone-else-to-do-it'.
In my experience, "Doers" are by-and-large (and often by definition) other technical people.
Especially in software, ideas <-----> execution is a continuum. I think an idea, a well-thought-out idea, a spec, a program, maybe even machine code are just more-and-more detailed designs. More (and less obvious) detail is more work, and worth more.

Now that I think about it, the transition from program to machine code is interesting. I guess design stops when you can turn the design into a finished product via a mechanical translation. Similarly, a physical engineer's work is done when their design can be executed by "commodity" factories, workers, etc.
Jordan 11
"Professional to me is facade, fake sincerity, political correctness, not offending anyone, and everything else that makes life lifeless."

Which only goes to support the notion that much of Ruby's community has issues from the top down. We're speaking of computer science, in which objective, rational analysis leads to correct answers -- not appeals to emotion and an almost religious acceptance of poor solutions.

For every serious Ruby contributor and leader like Charles Nutter (JRuby), there are 5 DHHs or DDH adherents shouting down professionalism as if it was an anathema to logical expression.
Some people have been beating that drum: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114753028665775786510/posts/Z2fE...

One could point out that a CMTS probably costs more than an edge QAM, but nobody wants to understand that.
If the project can be "fully described in just 4 words", you're going to lose it to established players shortly after release.

First mover advantage is probably as overrated as the value of the idea.
I appreciate your feelings based on your personal experience with this terrible disease. I do however feel this reply and subsequent replies on this topic completely unwarranted.

The word cancer has been adopted into the English language to mean an evil condition or thing that spreads destructively.

The article makes no reference to the medical condition, nor the star sign, nor the tropics of.

I don't care much for this article, but the author has used the word cancer in context without belittling the medical condition and it is unfair of you to imply that he has.

Especially since you compare his writing style to one of the most despot genocidal maniacs of our time.
No, I didn't :)

If this was an "occasional" problem, there wouldn't have been a dozen blog posts on HN about it in the last week (least of all this one). If humans are doing anything sub-optimally that's something technology can help improve. The more common the problem, the more likely there is a common solution.

If everyone wants to use email as a todo list, you have two options:
1. tell everyone not to
2. build it

Option 1 will not work.
I thought comcast/level3 was settlement free?
We'll see. I sort of know what I am doing here.

(edit) The value of a head start depends on the market entrance strategy. The core idea may not be that obvious until later stages, when the first-mover advantage has been utilized.
Reproducible research is a really interesting topic. One of my good friends in academia showed me how he was using babel (an emacs mode) to do literate programming and reproducible research. I think itsa fantastic idea, the data, conclusions and code used to arrive there should all be part of the peer review process; open source research.