skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to understand the mindset of people like him. Basically the idea is that government is a single, monolithic entity that behaves stricly as an incompetent buffoon in all circumstances. Any good that comes from any subset of it is strictly accidental and must have been because others shepherded them to OKness, while any subset that does bad is proof the the whole is corrupt and incompetent. Further, any attempts at fixing it are obviously flawed because the government monolith is by definition unfixable.

Further, the cognitive dissonance in this viewpoint is strong, in that they can see how treating any other composite entity, e.g. corporations, or a single corporation, or whatever as a monolith will be ridiculed as "you can't judge this composite entity as a whole based on a subset of it's components". Similarly when the effects of the entities they like look like the results the fear from the government, it is all OK, because some magical thinking results in not understanding what a choice really is (namely that somehow being forced to do something because it is the only choice that minimizes harm when the mechanism is not government is freedom, but when it is government it is tyranny).
plingm users can call for free, this is just clever marketing, it is like if skype (free skype to skype calls) lets you check if your facebook contacts are skype users and then brags that facebook users can now call for free, seems legit :)
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In the case of the Instagram iPhone app, since Instagram controls both the application and the server they can validate their own certificates in the iPhone app before continuing with the https request.
I never really thought about how I could customize greetings for customers based on their caller id information. That would be nice for customer service lines.
Lets say I'm an ISP and I have a gigabit connection to an internet backbone. I pay $X/month for it regardless of how much data is transferred. If I run fiber out to each of my customers that can run at gigabit speeds, how should I regulate/charge each user?

1. I could artificially rate limit them to less than the physical link speed. So I could let each user connect at 10 mbit/s. That would let me have many customers using there max speed at once and if I have 100 or less customers then they are guaranteed to get their full 10mbit/s. If I have more then they only get 10mbit/s at off peak times.

2. I could let everyone connect at the full gigabit speeds and put a quota on how much data they can send in order to prevent hogging.

Would you rather than 10mbit/s with unlimited data or 10mbit/s * 1 month of data transfer at a max rate of 1 gbit/s?

I imagine that you might want the first or second option depending on your use case.

[edit: forgot third option]

3. I could do fancy traffic shaping and make sure everyone gets at least 1/(number of active users) bandwidth and can burst up to full gigabit speeds when the connection is idle.

This seems like the best way to share the resource fairly.
Do the "costs for consumers" take into account the $300 billion in public money that was supposed to be put towards improving broadband in US?

http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm
I, for one, would be much happier with government brokering than corporate. At least with the (democratic) government, I will have some control. There are parliamentary processes, voting, constitutional rules, albeit often slow, that give me a say.

With the corporation, I only have illusion of control, zero transparency, and often contractual binding to an entity that only has incentive to take advantage of me.

Now, as far as government working properly: surely, it often doesn't work well. For one, governments are often too large (in citizen count) for individuals to participate effectively. This often leads to powerful interests taking over. But, perhaps this is because our governmental structures were invented way too long ago to be current.

The 'private citizen' part is interesting. I would prefer to have peer-to-peer relationships that are effective and strong enough. But, that's a ways off, isn't it?
PeepCode has a series called "Play by Play" (https://peepcode.com/screencasts/play-by-play) where you can see a lot of professionals solve a small problem in 1-2 hours. It goes through their thought process, design and implementation. I think I've seen Ruby, JS, Python and even C in some of those screencasts.
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> Moral comparisons between countries is usually ill-advised for this exact reason. This sort of baseless moral superiority bugs me - India is not nearly as far from China as OP seems to think it is, at least when it comes to online freedoms.

Completely agreed on making moral comparisons. I have noticed this in a few threads involving developing countries where people emerge out of the woodwork to rant about either A) How everyone is victimizing aforesaid developing country and they should just stop. or B) Make a completely irrelevant argument about how the developing country in question making progress in X is irrelevant because of abuses or oppressions or whatever. Both of these are from opposing camps but are founded on bad logic.
Because they've been told that they're paying a premium for Apple products because they'll have a better experience.
Windows 7 > 8
And for really wide commands (like java) you can add another w to get the whole thing: ps auxww
Do people understand that SF's supposed dysfunction is a major contributor to its charm? If it is supposedly "worst run" is that something to aspire to? A lot of people mistake "despite" for "because of" when it comes to stuff like this.
And Dell often throw in the on-site support option for free for a year or so, if you buy their higher-end models
> The company is repeating the one still working play they have [raising prices], circling the wagons around the enterprise market, effectively raising the barriers to exiting.

Raising prices lowers the barrier to exit because the costs of switching to another platform become that much less expensive relative to staying with the Microsoft stack.
I look at my karma score mostly to notice that it changed, which moves me to look at my previous comments to see what got upvoted/downvoted and what got responded to. I kinda wish I had a feed or something for upvote/downvote/comment, but it hasn't been important enough for me to go looking for one.
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That's a fair point, but it doesn't seem extremely likely. I could see developing "fog" on/in the device (like glasses fogging when coming in from the cold), but enough to produce a short is hard to believe. The aluminum should actually reach equilibrium with the environment faster than plastic.
Theres discussion about this for Starcraft, but some people apparently think its pretty close to impossible :(
> I could be wrong, but if The Daily had concentrated on putting out excellent content, quickly, with a minimal interface with excellent sharing options, maybe things would have been different?

The Daily was an effort to compete with the likes of TMZ and USA Today. Light on reading, heavy on "entertainment." And kept snugly within the bounds of a paywall.

Marco's magazine might work for something like IEEE or ACM, but I can't imagine News Corporation buying into it. They really, really did not want to let go of the pretty pictures and panoramas. :)
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I stopped reading TechCrunch after my startup got funded by valley VC's. Thanks TC.
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except that the boy has learned more Unix and scripting in 2 months of running a Minecraft server than he did in 5 years of me pushing stuff on him

That should be obvious, since intrinsic motivation is always better than extrinsic motivation.

But if it were obvious, I, too, would have realized that I should have given my son a unix box to run his own minecraft server. I wonder if that would work for Christmas.
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Is there any evidence Uber is using ANY drivers who don't have the proper licenses to work as commercial drivers in the cities they work? You're suggesting something that I haven't read anywhere.

What common good is being protected by requiring a towncar be booked 30+ minutes in advance? And if that was for the public good, why didn't those regulations come back when booking regulations were original drafted (apparently pre WW2)? The only people I've seen who have argued that Uber is against the "common good" are people who associate common good with the best interests of taxi medallion owners, and I haven't heard a compelling argument for how this regulation will help protect the common good (especially how it will outweigh the destruction of common good a free market with choice over transportation provides that would be killed).
I like the colours - how do you come up with colours that look stylish like these, but aren't garish or crude?
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Dev Bootcamp Chicago.

Tough to argue at this point that there isn't participant bias. Time will tell, particularly as we increase the number of participants in 2013. I've spent a significant amount of time at several different programs like Dev Bootcamp and found it to be the most effective program out there. It is truly immersive with students spending 80-100+ hours/week in the trenches with over 40 hours/week of structured learning. More thoughts at: http://nuts.redsquirrel.com/post/37111323801/of-feet-doors-a...
It's not obvious from the page, is it 5 coins per minute (for a normal server) while someone is online or is it 5 coins per minute 24/7? If it's while online only this could be an incredible cost savings relative to a $5 a month server that a handful of friends sign on once in a while.
I like this video with the song more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=096hnKDw5tc
Do you know why? Is there just too many sprites for a modern browser to handle?
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So what's the difference between xargs and parallel? I thought the point of parallel was that it was xargs with the addition of running things in parallel. But if xargs can do that already, is there any reason to use one over the other?
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I think people who say "appearance doesn't matter" really just mean "appearance is ranked much lower than whatever specs I am looking for", obviously at some level the look of the thing will come into play.
An other interesting question is: who is at the other end of those single cables? Those parties can switch of the Internet in a neighboring country or, (worse) eavesdrop on all unencrypted traffic or (worst) silently change data (imagine modifying the contens of cnn.com or bbc.co.uk) going into and out of that country.

For example, I would hope for Cuba that their connection is to Venezuela, and not to Miami.
So I guess you've never seen a child being able to program the clock on a god-awful VCR from the late-eighties / early ninties.

I was that kid, when no other member of the family could and let me tell you, it had nothing to do with (1) consistency and (2) familiarity. What's "familiar" to a small child anyway? The notion is preposterous.

No, the issue has more to do with the fact that the organization of these interfaces on mobile-devices tends to be flat (rather than hierarchical), so the probability of hitting something that triggers an action of interest is really high, versus searching in a menu with sub-menus, an action for which you need to be able to read and with transitions that are not animated and thus boring.

As I was trying to say, using a child as a benchmark for usability is a poor benchmark, because if you look carefully a child does not care for neither consistency or familiarity.

> Metro says, "The digital world is becoming so prevelant that we should optimize for it, not just the physical world."

IMHO, Metro only says "let's differentiate from iOS and Android", but that's just an opinion.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

Your post seems like a tautology.

Isn't every post, by definition, only valuable to a smaller subset of the hacker news audience?

What am I missing?
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I understand, but if the monitor fails, it ends up being worse than the rest don't you think? I get the author's feelings. He spent the money on a new laptop, that is sold with the idea that just works and that if it doesn't it will made to.

Also, there is a premium above the premium with a retina display. You get the same laptop than an basic MBP for 400 dlls more.
In other words: Apple is held to a higher standard. (Or Apple purport to hold themselves to a higher standard.)
But others are not charging huge amounts on the much touted "Apple Care".
Apple is greedy? No way!
Until PG kills it
I understood the question which is why, I said there are still performance issues if you try to do this & its only beneficial to websites that receive a large volume of traffic as they are the ones who will see the benefits of doing this; there are other low hanging fruit that can improve performance before even looking minifying HTML.
I don't think anyone at Apple would claim that the test magically changes the state of the world. They probably wouldn't even deny that there is a ghosting problem on your machine. It's clear that the test is meant to determine whether the particular machine's ghosting problem is within Apple's acceptable limits.

It's just like the dead pixel guarantees you sometimes see on monitors, whereby you get a replacement if there are >4 dead pixels anywhere on the screen or >1 in the center of the screen. No one's denying that you have exactly 4 dead pixels, they're just not going to give you a replacement unless you have 5.

Now, obviously it's fair to argue that Apple's test is too strict, and that OP does in fact deserve a replacement. The dead pixel guarantee is disclosed to potential buyers, and likewise this ghosting test probably should be as well (and I'm assuming it's not). But your implication that Apple is making a bizarre metaphysical claim about their tests is ridiculous.
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The work they're doing for the new hardware and software enablement on the LTS is interesting.

"LXF: Looking towards the server, I know recently that you increased your support life cycle to five years…

JS: Our LTS releases used to be three years on the desktop and five on the server, and we made two changes. One was bringing the desktop up to five years, and that was in response to enterprise demand.

And the second change we made was to make a stronger commitment around making those LTS versions available on new hardware as it comes out, so that people can get hardware refreshes and still maintain a stable software platform across the enterprise.

So we'll make the 12.10 kernel work with 12.04 and the 13.04 kernel work with 12.04. So if you need that kernel for hardware support, it will be available.

LXF: Red Hat recently announced it was increasing its server support cycle from, I think it was, seven years to 10 years; does Ubuntu feel any pressure to match that?

JS: We're not seeing that right now. I think the reason is the different use cases in terms of people who use Red Hat and people who use Ubuntu. And, interestingly, we're seeing pressure almost in the opposite direction.

One of the things that's happening in the server world is that everything cloud-related is so fast moving, it's not realistic to think you're going to do something now and want the same tools and software in 10 years. What we see is people wanting the stability of the base OS, but wanting new hardware support for one, and newer software for cloud-related activities.

So, they want the new OpenStack, for example, on a 12.04 LTS base, so that's another thing we've committed to do with 12.04. In six months' time, you'll be able to get the newest OpenStack. 12.04 shipped with OpenStack Essex; but when Folsom comes out, the next version, people are going to want that not just on Ubuntu 12.10, but also on 12.04, which is for stable production."
That's a great point. There are a few different physical properties we can tweak which could give us more control over individual nodes. We haven't gotten that far yet, but have been thinking about the possibilities. Check the blog post to see some thoughts on this.
FTC shutters robocaller who spoofed agency's phone, web site
If you could invest $200-$1000 in a start-up that you believe in, would you?
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See, this is exactly why I'd like a service to make feature requests (or slightly negative complaints), in order to rally a critical mass around it. This is not just a shameless plug for the app I just posted to HN (pvshapp.com), though I know it seems that way. I really think you've demonstrated perfectly why there needs to be a standardized platform for consumer product requests--as unlikely as improvements seem.

What you've just done with this post is build 334 affirmations of a change that Apple needs to hear and make. Perhaps it's deeper, more pervasive than a single feature request, but it still highlights a dimension of the company Apple needs to pay attention to. It may seem futile, and it may seem like hundreds of these requests have been made directly through Apple's customer support website, but the fact is that it's not powerful persuasion unless you have public support. That's why PvshApp has 2 objectives: 1) Make it as easy as a Tweet to create a request, and 2) add a public audience to actualize support if there is any.

For Apple, the value of this input is that they can condense customer feedback into one single request that they can focus on (if they so desire) OR here's a dumb idea: If Apple doesn't want to implement the feature, then who's stopping a third party producer from adding the feature? Seriously, it may seem like an IP nightmare at first, and I'm certainly no expert, but if a 3rd-party producer actually wanted to purchase the Apple products at full price, then augment them and sell the added features for a premium, who's to stop them? (This is a question, I'd love to know the answer!) Maybe Apple casts too large of a legal shadow, but I'm sure there are all sorts of other products for which users would be willing to pay a premium for augmented features.
I found your comment very interesting. Could I perhaps ask you to take a look on what I've build? It's a student project in a very related field. If so, I'd be delighted to hear from you. lkaslkaslkaslkaslkaslkaslkas@aol.com
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I think a big part of the reason is the effort needed to reverse-engineer the code and also try to not get sued by Blizz. You can follow the discussion on teamliquid in the BW forums.
You know what'd be cool? To take arbitrary code in a language, pattern match on the implementation in that language of each std lib function, and actively recommend substitutes for duplicated code.
Three fundamental tricks for developers writing distributed systems
Amen. About the only thing I learned is that if I want to read flamboyant editorial I'll go to Dan Lyons.
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If you wait another 3 months I'm sure he'll be running his own hosting business. The majority[1] of Minecraft hosting businesses are ran by teenagers, it's quite interesting how low the barriers to entry are. $50 for 1 month rental on a mediocre dedicated server, $10 for a domain and $20 for a billing system license and then a couple of hours to configure a website template to your liking and you're ready to go! All you need is a few customers and you're already making money. Problem is without volume the business(es) will never make much profit, but for a lot of teenagers $200/m profit and the joy from running a business is worth it. It's the shared hosting of 201x[2]

It can be pretty treacherous for consumers though (part of why Minefold is great, by investing in building a platform they've demonstrated they have commitment to the business) because inevitably most teenagers don't understand the commitment they're making to their customers and things frequently fall apart. I can't count the amount of problems hosts falling apart has caused me, I had to make a concious effort to exclude it from my life about 6 months ago after a kid threatened to drive to my apartment and beat me up.

[1] Most are relatively small but there are quite a few teenage run Minecraft hosts supporting thousands of customers. The biggest Minecraft hosts are "proper businesses" though, with companies like Multiplay hosting ~15k Minecraft servers.

[2] I assume everyone here had their fun times running a web host at some point in their internet career.
I wish you'd kill articles for reasons like this more often.
Oh right, I see what you mean. It's possible I'm using the term wrongly. Maybe "public universities" is a better word? Basically I meant the "flagship" 4-year universities run by the states, of which each state typically has at least one or two (UT and A&M in Texas, Purdue and IU in Indiana, etc). Those used to be a common route to cheap but highly regarded education, because many are huge (e.g. Michigan State has 47,000 undergrads, Texas has 38,000), and they used to have only nominal tuition, plus enough work/study programs for students to pay their own room & board by working on campus. They're still cheaper, but no longer like that.

California does still seem to have one interesting option, at least for engineering: from what I can tell, Cal Poly SLO is formally a Cal State, and priced like a Cal State, but sort of a "premium" Cal State whose degrees are well-recognized among engineering firms.
That's exactly why I wrote a script making it extremely easy to launch an EC2 instance with the last saved game for my 13 year old daughter. I am in the process of turning this into a web service, so if anybody wants to give it a try, let me know.
Swear to god, what the boy wants for Xmas this year: MORE RAM FOR HIS COLO.

I'm not sure whether I'm thrilled or terrified.
Yup, this is a crude piece just preaching to the choir, full of negativity and not worth reading for everyone else.

"deep trouble"
"irrelevant"
"brilliant move" (sarcastically)
"overhyped"
"devastating"
"widely disliked"
This could become a rich field of great new startup ideas (http://www.pvshapp.com/#feature_requests/50b6b9796b411f9c000...), or it could become a vast wasteland of stupidity (http://www.pvshapp.com/#feature_requests/50bcf7d5e4ca239c000...).
If you are the parent of 4-7 year old kids, it's just another server to support.

And the client's demands are ridiculous.
Thanks, it was useful to learn of the project.
"It's about build quality. About vendor support. About durability. I can't be the only one disappointed that there aren't many options if those are the things you value."

That's fine, and that's perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately, I think you are missing the point, since Apple products don't have any of those qualities (especially vendor support, given the text of the linked article...). I might bend a bit on build quality (especially since a majority of the parts aren't manufactured by Apple to begin with, and the parts that are do generally have good durability), but I see absolutely no advantage by Apple in the other departments.

And really, how good of a metric metric is build quality when the entire computer ends up super-glued together?
Has anyone tested this for the Android version?