skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We encode the social contract in a system of rules. When you deliberately manipulate those rules to avoid the spirit of the contract, then you are breaking that contract, regardless of whether it is legal or not.

Then change the rules. We have a mechanism for that purpose.

It is not the courts.
Looking forward. thanks for the update.
+1

I continuously bump into valid (if not about specific lines of code) programming questions closed by some CasperOne grognard.
Seems as dead as Snow Leopard's: latest version is 5.1.7 (webkit 534.57.2); current version is 6.0.2 (webkit 536.26).

For comparison, Chrome 12 used webkit 534.30, Chrome 20 used webkit 536.10, Chrome 23 uses 537.10.
He's not doing anything other businesses haven't considered. I'm sure he'll go back.
> Our laws, regulations, and societal norms have a long way to go before they catch up with technology.

Oh, that remains to be proven. Impersonating someone else to have them describe themselves as a criminal is pretty clearly legally actionable, both in a civil and criminal sense. There's every likelihood that the laws and regulations will work just fine. And judging by this post, societal norms are also working just fine to disapprove of the behavior.

The guy has come up with a new way to violate laws/social norms, to be sure. But that doesn't actually mean they aren't working. They are flexible enough to adapt to most new situations and this is certainly one covered by them.
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So maybe just define_opt('server.daemon'), with the rest given sane defaults and customizable as needed?

Interesting module nonetheless!
I have a Galaxy Nexus, last year's version of the Nexus 4. One thing I value about it is the Google/non-carrier-controlled experience, which I expect is similar to what you've had with an iPhone. There's not vendor crap on it and it gets updated by Google when there's a new release; apparently Android 4.2 is on the way. Non-Nexus devices have had some difficulty getting updates due to carriers or phone manufacturers.

Updates are nice because they extend the useful life of the phone.
I wasn't necessarily talking about diffing on the web. I was actually talking about a diffing service.

I've seen lots of diffing programs and they all seem to have varying levels of success. I think there's an opportunity for a company to become the gold standard for diffing and to offer their diffing engine via a service that can be integrated into apps (web and desktop).

I bet there are lots of app developers who would like to have a robust diffing engine in their apps, but don't have the time or expertise to build one themselves.

EDIT: I see that you're the author. Have you thought about putting your diffing engine behind a web service?
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Good developers can charge $20/hr or more on oDesk.

Looking at your profile, there's no link. I'd suggest linking to your homepage and generally maintaining an active profile on at least Twitter and GitHub, and preferably some personal projects of the kind of thing you want to be paid to build. Anything like that will stand out when contract providers are looking to hire, given that self-reported work history is dubious.
Hmmm... Yeah, that's some good tracking. If you want to PM me your email on reddit, same username, I'll set up the account for you.

Or if you can get to this page: https://www.spotify.com/ie/signup/plain/?promo=1

with a referrer of https://www.spotify.com/ie/signup/open/
it might work.
Would like to know more about the hardware specs, and what Lanyrd is paying over at SoftLayer.
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Great tip about read-only mode, Simon! This should help us plan our migrations with zero downtime.

I was wondering about disabling writes to databases that are critical to application to support read-only mode with application logic to gracefully handle write failures.
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> Auto-completion is an editor feature, and support for auto-completion in text-mode editors is not a problem,

Which mighty text-mode editor would that be where auto completion is not a problem? I use Vim and Emacs on a regular basis and it's very much a problem except for cases where it's handled by external tools(eclim, gocode, vimclojure).

> though I don't use it as I hate auto-complete with a vengeance. If you need to type enough for auto-complete to matter, your language and/or your identifier names are messed up.

Programming languages benefit a lot from auto-complete. The only people against it are people who couldn't get it to work in their choice of environment. I have zero inclination to type "validates_numericality_of" or "http.ListenAndServe" or ...

> Re-factoring and code generation are features I expect of the editor and/or external command line based generators respectively, and there's no reason for a heavy IDE.

Please refresh your memory. I said VS is a good IDE and you said a solid CLI is far more productive. I am not interested in your rant. I am interested in what does CLI do better than the IDE, particularly VS or Eclipse.

> I can understand people grab onto IDE's if forced to deal with ridiculously verbose languages like Java or C#, possibly. Yet another reason to stay away from these languages.

Oh man. My environment doesn't have reliable autocomplete. Let's pretend only verbose languages need autocomplete. Yay.
This is excellent advice! I can't tell you the number of times I've worked on projects where I wished just such a "read-only" mode existed. As an added benefit if you have a read-only version of your site, I know at least Akamai (and possibly their competitors) has a service where even if your origin server disappears, they will continue to serve the latest version of your read-only site until the origin servers reappear.
I've been using Straight Talk for a few months now with no regrets. The Nexus 4 is a good match for Straight Talk since LTE isn't available on the network (ST only provides HSPA+).

Note, the data plan isn't truly unlimited. AFAICT the company will simply terminate your account if you regularly exceed 2GB/month.
I wonder how much that would increase lost phones on public transport ;-)
I was just playing with this new web app

That is an IDE for poem writing

My rhymes, I admit, were quite dull and bad

But the experience - exciting!
Apple suggests it for Mac apps because you can copy a purchased app to another computer manually, and the exit(173) signals the system to go do an authorization check and re-authorize that copy to run on its new computer if it passes. iOS has no equivalent mechanism.
My micro-usb cables are dying at about 1 per month.

Getting high-quality cables around here is pretty difficult.

I'd really love to toss away the cables (maybe keep 1 emergency one in my portable bag).
Well, the idea solution is that you don't compile things directly on your web server. There's no reason you can't compile it on a workstation and package it for deployment to production. Consider what you would be doing if you had a cluster of web servers. Would you compile manually on each server, or create a package (rpm/deb/tgz/etc) and deploy?
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I have a Samsung Galaxy 1 at the moment and after 2 and 1/2 years of poking usb thingy into the receiving port it came undone. Not completely, but it takes a fair amount of jiggling and negotiations to get the juice flowing.

Wireless charging makes a lot of sense, I am going to buy one as soon as it becomes available
It got popular for this but generally functional programmers are not fans of functional programming because of multicore.

Rich Hicky for example has pointed this out in many diffrent talks.
I personally find it useful to have a plankton mode and a shark mode, switching between them as necessary. Drifting is useful at times, but you definitely miss out on many of the best parts of life if you don't push yourself.
It's both, but ASCII vs. EBCDIC is worse. Even in Unicode, the regex will still grab the printable characters that also happen to be part of ASCII: you won't see anything wrong until you get to characters outside that range. In EBCDIC, things get much hairier: it won't get capital letters, nor lowercase letters from r through z (but it will get all the other lowercase letters), nor brackets or braces (though it will get parens).
nginx compiles quickly enough that a script for "service nginx reload" could recompile and replace the binary, and it will only be a little slower than "service apache reload" will be.

It's like a sausage, you can enjoy eating it without seeing how it's made.
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I'm a fan of privacy so I don't understand the draw of twitter beyond the original purpose of broadcasting a message to a known list of people. Perhaps even 1-way followers if you add in celebrity types as tweet sources.

I guess the tipping point is the 'tweet back' feature. At its worst it seems like a narcissistic 'I want to have public conversations with another individual.'

If twitter id's were all anonymous I suppose it's no worse than a forum like this except that the content is most likely far more personal and far less technically valuable. I use HN to keep up on the latest technology and to some extent business trends.

Why do people like twitter?
removing usb drives is annoying

Side note: Alfred makes ejecting really simple:

http://support.alfredapp.com/kb:eject
The Upside of Inefficiency
I agree completely. With the N4 google is finally making good on their initial mission with the Nexus line, that is, to get rid of the carrier subsidies nonsense. With a phone that is $349 off contract, this can really save people a good deal of money on phone contracts to. As for the lack of LTE, there is a good reason for that as well, as the N4 seems specifically aimed at T-mobile customers. T-mobile offers some of the best cellular deals for off contract phones, and if the other big carriers see customers flocking to T-mobile they will hopefully be pressured to lower their prices as well. I think it's great that Google is putting pressure on the carriers to get rid of the outdated on-contract model.
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Life lessons from functional programming
Sorry, no details - but we're using a variety of different server specs. We use their cheaper dedicated machines for our application servers (running Django, memcached and celery workers) and significantly meatier servers for our backends running PostgreSQL/Solr/Redis. We also have a couple of smaller things running on their cloud servers.
May be someone should work on Ruby to Lua instead? Using Lua and LuaJIT as a underlying languages. Like Coffescript to Javascript.

That would be a lot faster then working on Ruby VM. And since Ruby 2.0's VM is still as slow as hell compared to LuaJIT
It's kind of ridiculous that HN and the whole startup community has a vendetta against MBAs. Seeing it as a blackmark? You are quick to judge an MBA based on their education. Maybe if people working in startups weren't such elitists and thinking you don't need business skills to run a startup, you wouldn't have so many fail.
Unfortunately, you're right. I think it's a bit ridiculous that people are more offended by incivility than racism, though.
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Hawking's point, though, was that it only takes one renegade to start on the track of deliberate genetic improvement, then they'll outcompete and displace the unimproved humans. That may well happen, especially among countries with looser ethical standards than most of Western civilization.
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In my case the OEM is to blame as it is only company I can associate my phone with (bought it without a contract in a store). So it probably depends from whom you bought the phone and under what conditions.
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Yep, this is actually quite good. I see 90+ in some cases in Sydney so this is good.

I also see extremely good download speeds when testing from EC2 (it capped my connection instantly).
I had the opportunity to work on a seller buyer chat for a company which attempts to be the indian taobao, turns out there is very little traction for the real-time version. That feature got removed pretty quickly.

However, a craiglist like email based system between buyer and sellers which replaced the chat worked tremendously better in the Indian setup. At least from the India marketplace perspective it looks to be sometime before the same model works here.

Hardly anything like Paypal in India though.
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If you asked me which major party was more likely to preside over a period of high inflation, I would say “Democrats” (even though I vote for them). Yet according to this commentary, the demographic groups that perceive and expect the highest inflation are women, singles, nonwhites, and lower-income groups—all of whom tend to vote for Democrats!

Perhaps people who are more likely to feel that the economy is sucking are also more likely to take pessimistic views of every economic indicator, even the ones that, in fact, are not sucking.
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If you want to upgrade before the end of your term you typically pay back a prorated amount of your subsidy. So your free $600 iPhone costs $400 after one year, or $200 after two years. For a user who upgrades every 18-24 months, this device is almost cheaper than that fee by itself.

At least here in Canada, we also have a few niche players (WIND, Mobilicity) who differentiate themselves with slightly lower costs than the big three, but no subsidy on phones. In this case, I can buy a $300 Nexus 4 and switch, saving about ~$35 a month on my bill. My prorated subsidy from Telus is $14 a month, so I still save $21 a month over buying a subsidized phone. Even the iPhone, which is very heavily subsidized, doesn't cover the price differential between these carriers and the big three.

In conclusion: find a small, regional carrier that doesn't offer subsidies, save big money.
We have varnish at the front of our stack with a one-minute cache timeout for users without cookies - but thinking about it, there's no reason we couldn't bump that timeout up to something much higher for the duration of read-only mode (though since the servers aren't having to deal with writes they don't really need an extra performance boost).
There is a video of him giving this presentation on the PyCon Ireland, in case someone want to hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN5AlsEHdIM&feature=plcp
Sorry we didn't mean to spam your discussion but there just too many people in China...
"When you’re a founder, your company defines you. That means that your company’s daily ups and downs become your personal ups and downs; that’s a big adjustment."

Could not agree more with this line - you have to be able to take the mercuric ups and downs.
Vimeo previews upcoming pay-to-view service for creators
Yeah, Agentzh(thats his handle everywhere) is very active in the Nginx community! He seems to be the one who worked quite a bit on the lua integration.
We have corporation tax as well as income tax for a reason.

I'm no accountant or tax lawyer, but it's obvious Google are playing games with the UK. According to their own filings, they made $4bn from UK sales in the last financial year.

The representative yesterday shrugged it off and tried to make out all Google do in the UK is have a bunch of promotions/localization staff. They (Google UK Ltd) receive all their income from Google in Ireland, and end up reporting a loss, meaning they pay a nominal amount of tax to the UK tax authorities.

$4bn in sales from the UK market and they pay UK tax authorities around $5mn in tax.

That's why people are angry, and that's why their representative was getting laid into by MPs yesterday.
Google Transparency Report: Government requests on the rise
We use Rackspace Sites for our most of our clients who don't need servers, HOWEVER... I would love to see Public Cloud Servers for Rackspace as we love the US Based Rackspace servers (but you would make our year if you had rackspace servers in Australia).
I thought about disabling UPDATE/INSERT statements at the database cursor level (we have our own custom Django cursor wrapper class) but we're confident that it's not necessary with our application - we don't have any writes that we can't afford to lose which aren't triggered by signed in users going to our main application database.
The non-commercial flag will come down quickly when the takedown hammer is shown to be a not-separate entity.
Look at Table 1 in the study, and another far more interesting thing jumps out: inflation perception varies enormously according to income. Low income people report much higher rate of inflation (across gender) than high income people. At the lowest level of income, people report 9+% inflation, while at the highest level of income, it is under 5%. In fact, the difference in inflation expectations based on income swamps the gender difference.

Austrian School economists have anticipated this, and would point out that this is the natural outcome of our monetary policy. Inflation perception is higher at the lowest income groups because inflation is higher for things they purchase. Over time, this effect increases inequality, another effect already observed.

Yet, conventional economic wisdom attributes the rise in inequality not to Fed policy but to technology change (on the "right"), tax-cuts-for-the-rich (on the "left") ...
My god man, it's like you didn't even read my earlier post.
If you disagree with me, put forth an argument, but you raised the point like I hadn't already mentioned it.

>The more effort people spend avoiding taxes, the more complicated the tax system will get as it attempts to close those loopholes. The more complicated it gets, the harder it is to form a social contract that represents the best interest of the nation.

Also, I hadn't mentioned the courts once, and in fact stressed multiple times that I'm not talking about the legality of the situation.
yeah, that plugs in shark tank are ridiculous to the point of absurdity.
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I always imagined that LC was looking to cater to businesses that happen to have a few spare desks or offices, but don't want to open a side business having to manage a coworking space; much like AirBNB allows me to rent out my couch without having to put up a neon SuperMotel9 sign in my window.
As far as I can tell, he wrote the full name one time. The word "patriot" only appears once as well. Just in case he used that for shorthand, eg "this patriot drive..."

And, yes, since it's a USB 3 drive, it is only natural for one to think "but how much faster is that than USB 2? does it stack up?"

I dunno. I'm not denying there's an affiliate link, but I think you're looking for something that's not there. Jeff gets excited about tech. At the bottom, there are several more posts about SSDs and SSD performance.
This reminds me of the mug-shot removal service I read about while ago http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/mugshots/
As someone who has done a lot of background research into Kickstarter campaigns I think it is important to realize the difference between the idea of Kickstarter and the reality of the site as it exists now. Sure, you can still fund your $10k idea through Kickstarter, but it is going to be incredibly difficult to make a profit off of something like that for the average first time entrepreneur/maker. The internet is filled with stories of people who raised tens (if not hundred) of thousands of dollars on Kickstarter only to fail to bring their project to fruition. On the other hand, you have things like the YC and haxlr8r backed startups who have a large amount of capital to back their efforts up. There the money from Kickstarter is more or less used to prove their concept to retailers/investors/etc. Kickstarter could stop stuff like this if they really wanted to keep the site focused on indie projects, but I'm guessing the monetary incentive to host these massive projects is a pretty good reason for them not to do that.

Maybe we'll see a rise of more early stage crowd funding platforms in the future. Perhaps Kickstarter will become the place to take your project when you are seeking a "series A" crowd funding injection to go from prototype to manufacturing, but you get your "seed round" from some other place to go from idea to prototype.
I like the concept, but I often use my phone while charging (in bed or at work). In these instances I'd want a cable.
Great intro guide to some key Saas metrics - nice to have formulas in the excel worksheets.
Wow, almost all of them are written in Java (2 in Scala, 1 in Groovy, 1 in shell).
Great site keep up the great work!
That is so true :), my itunes libraries and the VMware images are enough to fill up quite a bit of my drive space.
I have HP Touchpad tablet with Touchstone wireless dock - and I can't stress how awesome it is to be able to just put it down on a stand near my bed and not have to look for one of the two USB cables (because tablet requires more power than my phone, I need to pick the right one), just plop it down and it charges.

And same thing in the morning - I don't have to carefully pick it up, trying not to yank cord from charger, disconnect charging cable - just grab it, and go to bathroom.

And when I'm out of home, I can charge it with regular microUSB plug, but believe me, I curse it every single time.
Nice looking site... congrats
Regardless of how you meant it, it is a cheap jab. You speculated without proof that Atwood engaged in immoral behavior. That is a pretty bad thing to do.
An MBA is like an engineering masters - you're more valuable with a BS/BA and 3 years experience. After you have ~5 years of experience, that graduate degree becomes highly valuable compared to additional years of work experience.

An MBA is an important step towards becoming a stronger manager for most people, however it probably shouldn't be the first step you take out of undergraduate studies.
On a side note, I wish there was more doing and less wishing others would do :)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/more.php#languagex
This is probably the best thing I've read which details the emotional state you are in as a founder. Thank you for writing this.
Very appreciative of the tip here, it's installing now on my GNex.
What do you think of disabling IAPs if IAPCracker or IAPFree is detected?
To be fair, that's a reasonable position for a person who's "not really racist, but holds opinions that they concede certainly sound racist when said out loud".
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How exciting! I like the general layout and the idea is great! Can't wait to see how things turn out!
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I had the impression that GoCardless was founded by a few ex management consultants, how come when they 'become' startup founders they start attacking their own trade? Also judging the whole population of MBAs by seeing a few over-anxiously MBA job seekers doesn't do any justice?
Not really. Lawyers aren't guilty of extortion when the demand letter asserts a demand they are entitled to. They issue threats to redress a legal wrong, not to obtain a preference. If a lawyer issues threats based on non-defensible demands, the victim has cause to react with countersuit or criminal charges.