skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battlenet account id's are shared regularly in the community (not just WoW, but for other blizz games as well). Account id's are not account usernames either. To look at a character profile you have to have the account Id, so it's really not an issue.
It's interesting to see the clustered areas of popularity, ie. NA and western Europe. Are they limiting distribution/tracking in Eastern Europe and Asia or is there no fan base there?
I think this hits the nail on the head.

Stop putting up with bullshit, guys.
Isn't that essentially what the dock would provide?

I don't have an android phone anymore, but the only way I could imagine AT&T would know I'm tethering is if Android added some header information that the network would sniff, almost like a dog tag. Or they read the user-agent headers per request and saw that it was a non-mobile browser making the requests...I would think that booting into Ubuntu would show the same results unless your spoof your user-agent, but then you might end up getting the mobile version of the site instead of the full desktop version...it's all just a big mess.

If anyone knows how AT&T or other mobile ISP's would differentiate mobile traffic from tethered traffic, I would love to know.

Also, I did have to unlock my device and put a new ROM on my phone to enable tethering.
There is needless pedantry on HN and there is needful pedantry on HN

thank you, have a karma point :-) you deserve two for that
Mars or Bust. How might Mars One’s Reality-TV colony govern itself?
I think functional aspects of JS are awesome and are of great use in a lot of cases. However it definitely lacks the purity of languages like Haskell or Clojure - which in my view makes it 1000 times more useful (when measured by my productivity using that to achieve any practical task) but I guess in the eyes of purists it makes it irrelevant or unworthy.
Sergey Brin shows off AR and voice commands in Project Glass
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"What I'm suggesting is that one clear idiot has leveraged the value of knowing what something costs to a non-trivial level of success"

But he hasn't. He's taken an inherited fortune (and the career he was given by virtue of who his family were) and squandered it. There's a reason why he's selling his personal brand and not primarily performing business transactions for a living.
If she's a Graphic Designer then I'd be surprised if she got any PHP gigs. That'd be for a developer.

The best thing for her to do would be to get in contact with some local agencies. They're always crying out for local designers to come in when work starts to pile up. Find some local agencies, get in contact with the senior designers and creative directors there and push her portfolio.
THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY
I built a recurring billing system on top of Amazon FPS and it was anything but easy, especially once the credit cards started expiring.

I wrote a little about it here:
http://peachshake.com/2010/06/15/saas-subscription-billing-o...

And then the move to Stripe here:
http://agileleague.com/2012/07/migrating-away-from-authorize...
There is no real connection.

Gravity is 9.8 m/s^2. Not 9.8 * 10^8!!! And the result is kg m^2/s^2 not m/s^2.

The result assumes a free fall at 1 g. I multiply it by g in order to accomplish that. (It's on earth, it can't really fall slower. If you want it to fall slower, the only thing it can do is fall, hit something and stop, then fall again - but that has 0 impact on the energy released! The energy released does not care if the building hit something and stopped momentarily in the processes.)

I know the result looks superficially like the units for gravitational acceleration but it's not, it's also multiplied by kg * m. i.e. I multiply gravity by mass and by how far it fell. The end result is the units for energy.

If you look up Joule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule you'll see that it is defined that way.

There is a reason they push so hard to make sure you do the units correctly in Physics - you can gain a lot of insight into what you are calculating if you manipulate them properly.
"No one loves it. C, Perl, Python, Smalltalk, and Lisp programmers love their languages. I've never heard anyone say that they loved Java."

I love Java. I loved Smalltalk until 1996, then I read Java White Paper and VM Specification and I fell in love with Java and I am still loving it more than any other programming language. I programmed in Basic, Assembler, Pascal, Oberon, C, C++, Smalltalk, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby (on Rails) and used many technologies. Smalltalk was my love from 1992 until 1996...

I could write a lot about why do I love Java. If somebody is interested, I can explain...

"People are forced to use it. ... if the technology was good, they'd have used it voluntarily."

I am using it voluntarily for all my projects more than 15 years now. I even migrated all my programs from other languages to Java... I am regularly checking new programming languages - recently I tried out Dart and Go - and I still can not find a better programming language for me... Java is still Nr. 1!

I confess: I love Java. :-)
That's not a bad idea, but I highly doubt congresscritters would be cut off. A simple phone call would likely get them exempted.
There are many tech (and non-tech) companies in the Phoenix area. Your choice, as always, is to work at a place where the importance of the technology and the talent of your engineers and designers is recognized, or work in PetSmart's IT/Web department (where you're constantly fighting budget and recognition battles).

So should you opt to go into tech, GoDaddy is the largest and best-paying, and has fairly decent benefits. Unless you were a Senior level professional elsewhere, it would likely be in your best interest to work at GD.

That said, it's also a company run by bean counters and marketing. Most (read: all) important decisions regarding what choices the company makes goes through a ringer that includes assessing how much direct money comes from an innovation or change. If test a yields or saves $1 and test b yields or saves $2, test b wins, no matter how poor a choice it is in terms of user experience, customer care or any other metrics that relate to long-term customer retention.

It's got tons of middle management, which in itself isn't a bad thing, except that everyone's fighting to own the creation a product, but no one wants to be accountable for it, should it not go well.

Essentially this creates an environment of fear against innovation, accountability and iteration.
On the outages mailing list[1], Mike Dob (GoDaddy Network Engineering Manager) just added more details, saying:

> It was BGP related and more details should be posted today

[1] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages
Brushless motors. You could put them on a bike but then you'd break the laws governing electric bicycles (500w or 1000w limits depending on the jurisdiction).
Salesforce To Compete Against Box With New, Cloud-Based File Sharing Product
It said you need ANY of those, not ALL of them.
Which is bullshit. They know what they can afford and what range they're looking for.
Howard Marks: QLogic's Mount Rainier Brings Flash Cache to HBAs
My bad, I misunderstood your comment that you were using "(relatively) cheap brushless motor controllers".
Interesting thought, but if your aim was to get as much money as possible for a charity then a.) skim reading as opposed to reading fully doesn't earn your charity any more and b.) if anything, people are more likely to spend money again if you pay them attention and respond fairly
Also for me it's the threat of potential downtime. Switching organizations is a hugely expensive process and to create anything of consequence (e.g. not some stupid rails crud app) takes a lot of domain knowledge and experience with the existing code base. When I think about switching organizations I dread the inevitable "setting up the enviornment" slog as it's required but not useful to anybody. At my current job I have my pick of hugely complex and difficult problems ready and waiting. And of course there is also tons of open source projects a click away
Yes, these are pretty popular in college towns in the U.S. I live in Missoula, MT and see them all the time. I'll often see a dog on a harness pulling the rider along too. That looks pretty fun.
So its like XML+XSLT, but hipsterized?
Ew.

Accept and master the limitations that come naturally to you or your technology, sure. But don't go looking for ways to limit yourself.
yet you still carry your mobile phone everywhere.

you can't evade the tracking dots.
Their equipment costs would be less, but their income would be way less. The only reason I pay for the channel as wide as I have is to be able to stream video, download stuff, etc. For reading email and commenting on HN, I'd be good with fraction of that bandwidth. In my book, trying to have the customers to reduce the consumption of goods they are selling is insane, but then again, in copyright world sanity is an obstacle, not a requirement.
Can you post a link to an example so i don't have to sign up to see it?

Also... Like the idea of customization, even if I have to pay for it.
I'm thinking of using parse for a project I'm releasing soon. If anyone reading this has used them I'd love to hear your review.
You assume recruiters go to sites besides LinkedIn in order to recruit people. They don't.
He give instructions on how to find the watermark. Am I missing what you mean?
It's exactly that kind of thinking that explains why road deaths in the US are high (the original topic of this thread).

Whenever a stat says something interesting that could be improved about America, it seems Americans find a way of dismissing the data as "not really appropriate for reasons x,y,z", thus leaving the original problem unimproved.
> It will be a black mark on your resume if you stay.

It's funny you say this. This is exactly the reason why I left, and exactly what I told HR when I left. Unsurprisingly, they had told me that others who had recently left gave similar sentiment.
Pretty interesting idea!

Serious question by a non-skateboarer: Unlike the Segway this doesn't provide any stability assistance, right? How safe would it be for a newbie to start using this?

I'd be worried about falling off this thing. AFAIK, the Segway goes to great lengths to mitigate that risk [although GWB managed to defeat those systems :)].
No, he's not assuming anything like that. He's observing that if the US is slightly worse on average (for the sake of argument), but you have what you claim are a large number of people being actively harmed by the system, then to make up for it you must have a large number of being receiving unbelievably good outcomes, or you can't end up with "slightly worse on average" in the end. It's a very simple mathematical point.

I'd observe that in general, the complaint with the US medical system is that it is too expensive, or that for what we pour into it it ought to be clearly the best everywhere across all measures instead of merely near the top. (Which is rather more accurate; it isn't "slightly below average", it's "slightly behind best", and there are rather a lot of individual measures in which it is the best.) It isn't that it's a terrible system in general. You have to game stats pretty hard to make it an actively bad system in terms of raw outcome.
Back in the early 1900's when life expectancy was only around 60, if you survived your childhood, you'd likely live to 70 or 80.

This didn't seem right so I checked. A 20 year old in 1900 could expect to live to 62. In 1939 (4 years after SS was first put in place) a 20 year old would live to 67.

Interpretted as a median age of death, you are right that more than 50% of 20 year-olds collected at least 1 check, but a significant fraction died before retirement age, and they generally didn't say in retirement for decades.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html I used white males, and women lived longer but non-whites lived shorter.
Online vendors don't accept pre-paid Visa? This is news to me. How do they even know - it's just a regular Visa card. I've used a number of such online (mostly ones I got in all kinds of promotions) and never had a problem - I didn't even think anybody could do that and I doubt Visa would allow you to do that - to reject pre-paid Visa card. Do you have any source to this claim?
I think the name is perfect. It emphasizes the fact that most sites neglect their users. Using this product will reduce the amount of neglect your give them... or so they claim.
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Yes, this is correct about the SMS. Its also a love it/hate it element, but at the end of the day that's what makes it. Its the unique rule, the constraint, the sine-qua-non that defines what it is. Like haiku: without rules, a non-idea.

At functional level, forcing people to "think small, think short" actually works. Where people have short attention spans. As a mode for a 21st century communication.

Over time, people adapt and "think" thoughts in the language that they express. Be it poetry, or visually, etc. Or, if you speak a second language, you learn to think in the constraints of what works to communicate.
how did you generate the background image? is it a photo sampled using H+V (discarding S)? are the triangles oriented randomly? looks nice (better than the wobble, imho, which i think has too high an amplitude - could be smaller and perhaps faster. i suppose a way to adjust parameters would be out of the question? ;o).
The problem with that is that you're actually going to look at email in your junk folder. Spammers would love this because they know that there's a chance that you'll actually see their crap even if it gets filtered.

The entire point of having a junk folder is you don't have to check it apart from the rare occasion you get a phone call saying "hey , I sent you an important email why haven't you replied?"
I've been wondering how they would tell if it was legitimate as well. There are some easy checks that would indicate that it was coming from a legal source like the site it's coming from, but what if I'm downloading from my dropbox account or from a remote backup. How is legitimacy determined then. Do I just get a strike for completely legal activity.
Simpson's Paradox says you can have rich people country A outperform rich people in country B and poor people in country A outperform poor people in country B and have country B outperform country A when both groups are put together.

This is probably not the case, but since this is hacker news I'm being a dork about the math.
Really appreciate that. Best of luck - sounds like we're in similar spots in life.
Why is there an obsession with calling things "magical"? Technology is the opposite of magic. The word "magical" both creates unrealistic expectations and handwaves over all of the incredible technology inside.
What if you market it as some high end service? I mean exotic cars and luxury handbags have a pretty small market too, right?
It was written by a shill for http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/ as shown in the cite. Yeah, it is a self-promo article
Self-censorship: The most efficient form of censorship.
How is it that Websites continue to be designed like this?
I guess the key phrase there is "fairly successful".
I'm struggling to think of a game that has been an outright hit that has been built on top of unity.
Hmm interesting way to launch a service. What the heck is CURL?
Nice app! What did you build it with [on the backend]?
I don't like using averages because they can be misleading. A triplet of the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles is more descriptive. Of course, the most complete picture is looking at the whole distribution.

I'd like to see a plot of the distribution of lifetime as a function of birth year. I.e. a 3D plot with current age on the X axis, age of death on the Z axis, and probability on the Y axis. (Where, as in Minecraft, X is east/west, Z is south/north.)

Cut off the portion representing people who have died already (Z < now-X), renormalize each cohort so its Y values add up to 1, and you'll get the distribution of lifetimes for people who are alive today. (I.e. a conditional distribution, conditioned on being alive today.) Which at least one other poster was asking about.
Terrible advice - quitting your job to be a founder does NOT instill you with the necessary skills and mindset to be a successful founder. The skills required to succeed as a founder does not appear just because you call yourself a "founder". Things like negotiating with difficult co-workers, identifying what defines good team work chemistry, charming your boss, charming your underlings, etc., are all challenges better encountered in your current work environment than when you start your company (and screw it up due to lack of experience).

Jumping into the water before learning how to swim because somebody said "hey, the best way to learn how to swim is to just do it - that's how I did it!!"

The most difficult challenge for young adults inexperienced in the adult world of employment/business (corporate politics, backstabbing vendors, non-paying customers, unscrupulous business partners, etc.) is separating the noise. I believe this post (although well meaning) is "noise" that will harm more than help.
Yes!! Thank you, I might give that a try!
Paid email? Regardless of the merits of the idea here, its worth looking at history. The idea "if I could charge 1 cent for every e-mail" is the most scalable business model. But every Mckinsey consultant and two-bit MBA has dreamed of this "Goose" that lays the golden egg, since the dawn of the internet. So has every tax-seeking government. But it has not happened. There is a deep seeded respect online for 0 marginal cost communication. Large enough to even hold off the shadowy forces of very powerful monied interests. At least to date. The idea is in a certain way disrespectful to the foundations of online culture. LIke asking, what if PG charged for every post on HN? This is not passing judgement on the idea itself, more raising context, unintended consequences and other latent forces at play. In other words: overcoming this inertia, would be part of the challenge.
Do you know how BGP works? There are easily 50 different ways routing problems can cause outages like this. More than likely there was a compound failure which can cause all kinds of retarded behavior, including different networks getting different kinds of traffic, to say nothing of a plain old network service on a single net being down.

Routers can "crash" for different reasons, but atypically due to high traffic. If you really wanted to fuck with someone you make one BGP change. Only newbs use DDoS's. (Which, Anonymous being newbs, would be their MO, but unlikely they could DDoS a connectionless resource record database)
They are offered guaranteed immunity in return. As a business, this kind of (my qualification to same: short term, narrow scope, and coerced) risk reduction can be hard to pass up. As a publicly traded business, you might even be sued by your shareholders for passing it up.

P.S. As others have pointed out, where they are also large scale content owners, it may reflect overlapping interests rather than coercion.
I don't see anything wrong.
Hi, I'm Nick, one of the founders. I really appreciate the thoughts on our product. We're focused on smaller teams for now, because we are a small team and are building Dispatch to be the tool we wanted to use. It's not just about being notified when something changes, (which Growl is great for), it's being able to have a discussion with the full context of whatever you're working on. We find that having a central place to facilitate this discussion is really valuable.

We also believe that the integration model, versus wholesale adoption of an entire platform, is what we prefer for our team. We love the products we integrate with for what they do, but we wanted something better than email to keep things organized and focused.
"Growth hacker" => marketing
"hustler" => sales
"ninja" => ...um
Network geek here:

> Many are the tales of some small company misconfiguring their edge routers slightly (say a 1 char typo) and having the entire internet route through their T1, across their lan, out their backup T1.

This is what route filters are for. If you peer with someone and they advertise 0.0.0.0/0 or something equally ridiculous, and you accept this as a valid route then you deserve to fail (and then given a firm stare if you then proceed to advertise it to other peers).

A similar fail on the part of Telstra (http://bgpmon.net/blog/?p=554) was to blame for much of Australia dropping off the map earlier this year.

Also:
> Just at the IP level they have to deal with (at the edges and across substantial WANS) BGP - a notoriously ugly and fragile protocol.

I take offence at this. 80% of BGP related issues are due to misconfiguration by a given party, 19% is due to bad or missing route filters and the other 1% is due to bugs in router software. The actual implementation of BGP v4, originally designed back in the early 90's isn't completely without it's issues and behavioural quirks (I'm looking at you, route flaps) but the theory/algorithm behind is a work of art, and has coped amazingly with explosive growth, and growth that's only going to increase with IPv6.
Without it, there would be no HN
Thanks digisth. Which browser are you on? Usually most modern browsers utilize the html5 geolocation API. The zip code entry shows after a location cannot be found (which means automagically using the browser, probably should make that clearer) so you should have been able to submit the zip code just fine. Curious what browser you're using though.

As for price search, although we can do it, sadly not many of our APIs (aggregation of Yelp, Foursquare, Factual, Google, and Citygrid) expose price information when searching around a lat/lon point (they're available on expensive detail calls which we can't do). We could expose it but it would cut the population down to a few dozen from near 100 or so restaurants, which may not be a bad idea.

Thanks again!

Edit: the roll button (middle of page) can be used to advance or the Dicely logo. But yes, a clear tooltip can and will be thrown on there. Thanks for the tip.
These are cool and I desperately want one but the price point doesn't seem reasonable for what it does.

Also, why do they keep showing people walking their boards up stairs in the video, seems counter-intuitive.
I'm sorry, 'grecy, I've been dismissive of you in this thread, but I simply don't understand what you're trying to say here. It is evident from the statistics that lack of mandatory rear passenger seat belts are probably not a significant cause of death in the US.

If you're just trying to make a case that we should mandate rear passenger seatbelts, I'm not arguing with you. I'm talking about life expectancy stats.
You should read your ToS. Even if you are on an "unlimited data", tethering is, most likely, explicitly prohibited.
This quote rings very true to me: "Speaking off the record, a Microsoft employee with the Windows 8 team confessed that the Metro team was "very surprised" when they saw how the Visual Studio team had interpreted the Metro guidelines. We share in his puzzlement."

Visual Studio stands out even from other Windows 8 system applications in its usage of the "Metro" style.
http://i.imgur.com/Ml2Jb.jpg

Sorry, I couldn't resist...
My bad, I misread it. Still, I would ask the same for the requirement of "have considerable technical skills".
I doubt CEOs with wild success do micromanagement. I also highly doubt Trump could build a single wall if you gave him a thousand bricks and some cement, or design it in CAD. There's a difference between having a sense of time/cost and knowing how to build stuff by hand.
The point isn't necessarily to venture out and start a company

The point is that your title "Why You Should Quit Your Job to Be a Founder" contradicts your explanation here. So it is a link bait title.

I did however like the article.