skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a problem with that. If party 'A' has something belonging to party 'B'. Just because the property is inaccessible or destroyed doesn't suddenly evaporate's 'A' responsibility for returning it.

Comcast should provide a grace period 30-60 days, but that's about it.
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The problem with that is that they can forward it to a collection agency, whom when told to screw off, replies by screwing with your credit score.
Indeed. A new cable modem is less than USD 100, the expected lifetime is 5 years, and it depreciates over that time.

What that blog post does not say is just how much Comcast have charged their subscribers for the lost modems, but one would think it is more than the present value.
That's awesome. I'd been using a script that emitted all the "right answers" that I would then paste into the installer, mostly because of that.
GameWisp syncs, saves, and manages all your saved games for every PC game
Obviously breaking it into 1000 mini-comcasts, like AT&T, wouldn't, by itself, do anything useful. I think the unstated assumption is that in addition to breaking up Comcast, you'd also break the franchise agreements in order to allow competing cable companies within each territory.

It's very difficult for a start-up cable company or ISP with an innovative product, say, a la carte pricing, to get going because Comcast can undersell them (or offer the same innovative product) for as long as it takes for the start-up to burn through their capital. They can do this because 1) The start-up's limited capital prevents them from opening in every market at once; and 2) Comcast's national presence allows them to use the profits from one region to subsidize service in the region where the start-up is competing. It's probably cheaper to just buy Comcast than to try to beat them in a race to the bottom.
Oh, the downside of being sloppy with button links. Looks like a test link got away from us. Fixed now! Thanks so much for pointing it out :)
Had same problem, but not since I started requiring immediate payment.
>It may be some kind of hydrogen-rich fuel (methane or ammonia)...

Unlikely to be ammonia. Ammonia is dangerous in the kind of concentrations that would make it useful for fuel. When ammonia was used in refrigeration whole families would occasionally die when their refrigerator sprang a leak.
It is pretty awesome, I agree; but am I the only one for whom it doesn't work at all in Chrome?
Thanks! Fixed now. It should be http://knowitapp.com/[your_twitter_handle]
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I can't seem to find a solid reference, but I recall reading that on a global scale it's negligible, similar to wind power: the amount of power extracted in even a deployment much larger-scale than anything we currently envision is a rounding error compared to the total power in the earth's tidal movements.

There is some research on local environmental effects, however, since the amount of energy extracted from a particular bay's tidal flows might actually be noticeable. There's a review of that literature in Section 2 of this paper: http://www-civil.eng.ox.ac.uk/research/tidal/EWTEC2009_tidal...
I freaking love this!!
the software is the interesting part, http://cananian.livejournal.com/tag/nell

http://nell-balloons.github.cscott.net/ to play
Man, how eBay has fought Craigslist tooth and nail over the years.
Solution

Only use Buy It Now ever.
Require Immediate Payment.

Not only are the fees lower for Buy It Now than for auctions, but there's no way for buyers to game you. The listing will sit until someone actually pays you.
Uh huh. How much did you spend on your Roadster, and how much is it going to cost to replace the battery pack when it wears out after only ten years or so?
Slideshow was made because someone asked for tips on their application. In the spirit of user feedback, I hear you loud and clear.
Thanks; didn't know about that. Works great! :)
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Does that work with immediate PayPal required? How do they get around that req?
We've got the Facebook integration basically ready to go on the back-end, but we're waiting to integrate it into the front-end until we get more user feedback about how the site currently stands (and work out a few small bugs, as others have been so helpful to point out here).

We'd love this to be the place on the Web where people go to answer the question "What does Nick know about?" And be able to get a much faster and richer understanding about your knowledge and interests than they would be able to get from a glance at (or even several minutes of reading) your Twitter of Facebook wall.
Agreed. Not sure why people see a problem with this simple principle.

It's not like they would be ok with Comcast saying "We're having cash flow issues, so we took the liberty of charging you double this month"
Huh, this is weird. Somebody downvoted this comment and my other reply. Care to explain why or are you just going to leave me mystified?
So at that point you repudiate the debt again, this time to the collections agency. If they insist on unilaterally publicly claiming you owe money without any sort of actual proof, take them to court for slander. Clearly the buck stops somewhere, as I can't just call up a collection agency and tell them that bduerst owes me $1 for responding to his HN comment.
"Anything that happens to the box during the rental period is something the renter is responsible for."

Most rental contracts (for anything) that I've seen make the owner responsible for normal wear and tear and so-called "Acts of God".

If you rent an apartment, you're not generally responsible for the rebuilding costs if it gets blown away in a hurricane or tornado.

Here's an example lease:

http://www.sitenet.com/toolkit/lease/database/l12.htm
Lessons from Sandy
Can someone give this a meaningful title? Like perhaps, "Bill Gates comments on the state of higher education" ?

I think this is a bot produced post...
It's actually quite a bit more efficient than an internal combustion engine, even with power line and battery losses. That's why EVs have the advantage in per-mile fuel costs. Power plants are quite a bit more efficient than the engine in your car. I don't have the numbers on hand but it's something like 40% vs 25%.
I mentioned it below, but just to reply specifically here: eBay is very specific about fees that have to be paid regardless of sale, that's cool. I'd understand it totally if the auction just failed to be successful or if I'd backed out or whatever.

But when you fail that hard to provide a good product or service and people ask you for a refund, you give it to them. I've done it cheerfully for accounts up to a hundred dollars in fees even. This is just two bucks, and it's more the principle of the thing than the actual money anyhow.

I didn't just not sell my phone, I wasted weeks of time trying to fight their system to do it, and lost probably a good hundred dollars of resale value due to timing.
I want a self-hosted version. Badly.

Seriously, if you sold this as software that I could run anywhere, it would absolutely make my day. The libraries you guys have written are seriously impressive.

You could use this kind of technology for a more meaningful way to teach code - when you're done, you've written yourself a website.

Also, providing an external "API to rule them all" would be pretty cool, as well.
It might be fun to let them drag you into court and see what happens if they demand USD 500 for their ancient Motorola 4100 Surfboard, considering that today a new, more capable modem is less that USD 100. I would take the chance.
Sounds like an interesting challenge. Has anyone written a longer article or study about the issue?
So what amount above zero has the industry spent time and/or money in order to combat this problem, possibly to prevent their industry being killed by the bad companies? Does the legit part of the industry support unspoofable CID or any other technical restriction? Has your company publicly suggested any solutions?
Fair enough. My point is we balk at a 200% increase in the price of gasoline but won't blink at a 100000% increase in the price of water.

Also consider that @ $1 per 16oz bottle you are paying $8/gal for essentially tapwater that was bottled and driven in from out of state. But try to sell a gallon of gas for $5 and you are some kind of monster...
It's not a political point. They actually believe Tesla will fail. They want it to fail because it's fun seeing your predictions come true.

Folks' politics and their beliefs about the world are all tied up together.
> or in police station lobbies

I've never used Craigslist. But is it really common or advised to meat with the buyer/seller in a police station lobby?
heh - me too - I won the first auction
Forget the parking stall, what about the big cities (like SF) where a sizable chunk of all cars are parked on the street.
The n23uiahsf8das9fda.somethingelse.com is probably a third-party marketing tracking service. Since Citi would never allow marketing company run their tracking service on citi.com and since users won't be eager to click on n23uiahsf8das9fda.somethingelse.com link, they don't have much choice. On the question of how then legit marketing emails differ from phishing - I have no idea. I just never click on any of those links. If I need to do something on my bank's site, I just log in there directly and do it.
It seems like with a keyboard "dock" the Nexus 10 might be the lightest "retina" laptop available at 25% of the price as the new 13" Retina Macbook Pro.
So where can I get a sample of this masterpiece that took 8 days to write?
How long do people realistically own cars? Only 60% of people keep their cars more than four years...I'd suspect 10 is closer to 5%.

source: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090714/carnews/907149994
Most likely they would just put the unpaid bill on your credit report and move on, leaving you with tarnished credit and no recourse.
I have not read your book or the OPs, but would you mind combining the two

I would far far rather read a book written by you in three days on orbital mechanics and what is feasible and what might change. Then another on lunar geology and moonbases.

I am having a hard time getting back to fiction these days and my brain craves idea candy. And you seem to be stirring that sugar into a healthy and nutritious meal.

Bu sometimes consumers just want to lick the bowl
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I pay the monthly fee for my dsl modem because it comes with insurance and if the box breaks, which they seem to do, I don't eat the $100 dollar or more fee for a new one, the phone company ships one.

Now it really depends on how it is done but when I had comcast I did the same thing and I was always able to get someone on the line to replace it on their dime because of the monthly fees. Granted I never have had a hurricane blow through an office I think most of the time they are willing to work with you.
Perhaps a good expression is "A few bad Apple employees^W^Wapples spoil the barrel".

In other words, the decay started by a few will quickly rot an entire batch, if the good and the bad are kept together too long.
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The problems you describe are the ones that have been solved over and over again where a frontier has been exploited by scammers: regulation and central control of the infrastructure. Something tells me that telemarketers weren't so much of a problem before AT&T was broken up in the early 80s.
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You do it by stretching the informal but accepted definition of "book". Which reminds me of the more irksome side of marketing.
A hurricane just blew threw, your neighborhood has just been declared a disaster area, your house is about to explode, and you're freaking out over a return charge that you haven't even been billed yet? IMO, Comcast isn't the only ones with their priorities out of whack here.

If you do eventually get a bill for not returning the cable box, just go to the local Comcast office (the place you were supposed to return the boxes to) after things have settled down, and explain the situation to a local employee who actually has some discretion in how to respond to the situation. I'm sure you won't be the only one in the area with this problem. Expecting call center reps thousands of miles away, who have probably heard every variant of 'the dog ate my cable box' story at least twice, to waive the charge immediately, without any proof, and no directive from higher up, is asking a bit much. I'm guessing the Comcast staff in the hurricane zone have a few more pressing concerns right now than adjusting bills that haven't gone out the door yet.
One of Britain's wealthiest men had a similar experience in his 20s. He didn't get started or even have a bank account until he was 30: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Bannatyne
Here are some video reviews of the Model S (notice the gas-heads gushing at how awesome it is to drive/look at/fun):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kCG-WqpVnI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdsTuaJEfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFVO31CbE0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpySOCBqntI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEkIMmAX1iM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9SsUbBqOkY
Your observation is so vague and general to the point of being rather meaningless. Almost every physical theory is described by an underlying mapping between inputs.

The interesting point is the expression power of your model. : to take an example I am somehow familiar with, current large vocabulary speech recognizers have millions of parameters. They work relatively well, but they are very difficult to interpret, and it is hard to see how they help us understanding how speech recognition actually works in our brain.

To make a somehow flawed analogy, every Turing complete language is equivalent, but getting the machine code of a very large project is not very interesting if you want to understand it, while it is mostly enough if you just want to use it.
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Ask HN: Customizable heads up display for cars?
My car (a Mini Cooper) doesn't have a heads-up display, but I can't stop thinking about how useful it would be to get speed, nav, music, etc information in a HUD. The after-market HUD situation seems pretty sketchy from my preliminary Googling.

For example, I really like how the Audis have the big nav screen, but then a little snapshot in the small rectangular screen between the speedo and the tach showing you the next turn you need to make. I'd love to have that broadcast into the bottom corner of my windshield.

Additionally, would be nice to have an SDK (like the upcoming Pebble watches) to be able to customize the HUD display (maybe I care about what song is playing right now, maybe I don't).

Anybody else interested in something like this? Or started working on a project like this?
"And he will succeed again this time with a lot more knowledge how to game the gang in hollywood."

Succeed for himself, though I doubt the venture will last.

He reminds me of a lower-classed Donald Trump, in that he's much better at selling his personal brand than he is in operating a business for very long.
>Of the Big Five, openness to new experiences takes the biggest hit.

Interesting links.

Perhaps I have some sort of Benjamin Button thing going on. I spent most of my "youth" being quite reserved. Up until my mid-20s I was primarily concerned with not screwing up what I believed to be precious, fragile success.

I've increasingly opened up as I've gotten older and at 33 feel decades "younger" than I did heading into my 20s for whatever that's worth.

I wonder what my chart would look like? Would I actually find myself rising in these regards relative to the average, only myself or not at all?

>Exercise, continuous learning, and a few drugs can help to slow the decline.

I could not agree more.

I credit frequent, intense exercise with at least a much benefit to my mind as my body and find boredom hard to fathom.

I'd put surrounding yourself and interacting with the right and likely ever-evolving set of people up there too. Complacency and conformity lead to mental atrophy.
Not even the American jury thought that Samsung violated Apple's patent on the product in question.
Not in this particular case, but sometimes I feel like "the customer is always right" has become a license to steal for some people.
It probably depends on how the contract is written, and I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that default contract law is that the owner (not the renter) is responsible for "Acts of God". The renter has the duty to treat the property with reasonable care, but isn't responsible for normal wear and tear or disaster scenarios.
1) can the environment help you become very good at what you do?

2) do you see the people you'll work with help with your future, and will you become a better person by spending time with them?
The average car on the road is eleven years old, so even if you only keep your car for four years when you sell it some cheap bastard (like me) is going to buy it used and drive it for awhile longer. My guess is EVs are going to have quite a bit steeper depreciation curves than standard vehicles. A ten year old Leaf on its original battery pack will be essentially worthless, and you can probably work the curve backward from there.
While I respect (some of Chomsky's work) it is amazing to me that he thinks language is something more than mathematics/statistics. Language is math, it is basically an advanced form of discreet mathematics. We can reproduce virtually anything on a computer, and it is no more "shallow" than artificial light from a lightbulb is "artificial." There is no magic going on, we are biological computers, walking number crunchers. Our brains just happen to operate with chemicals and analog signals, rather than transistors and digital signals. His view on this carries the drawbacks of academia, which has a tendency to over-complicate and over-formalize thinking.
"Great products are simply the result of decisions made aong the way."

So are shitty products. So are mediocre products. So what? That pull-quote tells me nothing useful. Products are the result of decisions.

Is this kind of trite observation indicative of the book's content?
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One of the things that I liked about Goldeneye was just how damn many multiplayer modes there were. eg. The Klobb was a crappy gun (low damage, huge cone of fire), but switch to one-shot-kills and it's suddenly an uber weapon :)

My favorite modes were one shot kills with knives or slappers only, power weapons with health cranked up, or anything involving prox mines :>

I haven't played it for years now, and I'm not sure how easy it is to get N64 consoles now, but if you want something similar, TimeSplitters for the Gamecube had very similar gameplay (and a lot more options, including bots and fully customisable loadouts).
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While I think Ryangripp is on the right track I'd also add that you should look at what type of technology is being used at each place and how it will help you move forward in your career. Look for companies that aren't just going to pay you more but will help you grow as a programmer.

Example. Shop A and Shop B are both working on software type X. But Shop A is stuck in the stone age of VB 6 while Shop B is moving everything to C# and starting up a mobile group. Even if Shop A offers you more Vacation Time/Perks/$$ I'd go with Shop B.

Reason: You need to think about what skills your next employer will be looking for and how this new job will look on your resume once you want to move on.
Backup, restore, restore phone from backup.

I had the same issue. My phone was also noticeably warmer. It was doing something. Now everything works great. Battery life even with LTE is quite good.
People have a right to expect better behavior. No, Comcast doesn't have to care, but the other side of the coin is that customers have a right to make a big stink if and when a company pulls some bullshit like this. I'm not sure we can have a productive conversation about much of anything if a natural disaster on this scale is for all practical purposes equivalent to a burst water pipe.

And, as a counterexample: I got an email from PNC Bank saying that they weren't going to charge people for overdrafts and suchlike from now until November 5th, on account of Sandy. It's as if this particular corporation is comprised of people, some subset of whom sat down for two seconds and thought about something other than the bottom line.

Note that even if PNC are motivated by not pissing people off or garnering good will, I'd still call this working as intended. Without an incentive to behave well, the temptation to revert to behavior like Comcast's is all too easy.
Comcast's position is not unreasonable here. If your car is destroyed in a flood or accident, you still owe on the payments.
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Ask HN: What would it take to detect someone's focus on a computer screen?
The Jeff Atwood post on the Microsoft Surface is on the front page right now. There's discussion in the comments about touch + keyboard being 'the future'.

I wonder if there are alternative ways to interface. In particular, I'm almost always looking where I want to focus. Why should I have to move my hands to tell the computer what I want? My brain automatically reveals what's important to me by directing my pupils at it. How many cameras would it take for a computer to reliably pick this up? What would be the constraints? Lighting? Distance? Screen size?
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I hadn't considered the added power draw due to the likely complexity involved in making a good backdoored hex inverter, good point there. It seems like there's a natural contour such that as the individual component gets smaller and less complex, the amount of circuitry required for a backdoor increases.

Software certainly is easier to backdoor, but hardware is much more insidious. At this point I'd be surprised if there weren't backdoors in the widely used processors for at least the NSA. (Remember that innocent time when the question whether the 'net was tapped and recorded was up for discussion? :P)

So I guess I view both of my aforementioned properties as mandatory due to the use case for my analysis (trustable function execution), while the OP was really just talking about the first one. I'd originally considered this question in the context of cryptographic key generation and management, where the second property is of utmost importance to be confident that there aren't low level backdoors giving bias to your crypto keys and nonces. Plus if you're spending the time to bootstrap trustable computation up from a hand-built circuit, you might as well go all the way instead of trusting something like an MCU.
There's no way a car running on a new, alternative fuel source (e.g. methane or ammonia) is anywhere remotely closer to commercial, viable reality than electric cars. It's a hard problem to crack, but we're close. Anything else is 20 years out at least.