skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my last flight, the price had been raised to $20 or so. I'm not sure if it was holiday price-gouging or they've simply raised their prices, but in either case I was not pleased - especially as the service quality seems to have gone down recently.
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I think we're mostly in agreement: my argument is that today Obama eposes the "I support the right to bear arms, but not assault weapons" and "I won't take away your gun" position.

What is fairly clear is that organizations that came up with the term "assault weapon" and are pushing for them to be banned are explicitly and openly in favor of confiscation. of far more than "assault weapons".
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_planes_comparison....

Interesting for comparing. Largest has a variety of definitions though (length, wingspan, height (silly measure), capacity, passenger number etc. However that Antonov seems to be the winner.
Single page link for those who do not want to read an article split over seven pages:

http://www.alternet.org/story/154518/why_we_have_to_go_back_...
So the word "grabbing" is accurate only if you use a different understanding of the word than every other English language speaker uses? :)
Exactly. We have more pressing issues than funding a pointless study that is simply a foil for NRA arguments.
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I don't feel as if my outlook is being countermanded at all - partly because these policies echo my pre-existing outlook rather than the other way round. But in the context of technical animation, the big difference betweeen this and TV is that I can scroll back and forth as I see fit to review the parts I am interested in, or jump out of the presentation completely to read the proposals in pdf format. This makes it very different from something like a TV ad, where I am a wholly passive consumer of the information unless I change the channel or switch off altogether.
Random idea: reform patents such that they carry with them the requirement to license them to others under reasonable (perhaps even uniform) terms.

Make the purpose of a patent to reward the inventor for a useful invention rather than to prevent others from implementing the design.
The only time I've ever used them is to speed up drawing. Bitmap.SetPixel is super slow compared to taking a pointer to the raw image data and writing there directly.
The funny thing is that if you did look at Apple's profits, and the profits and stock prices of other companies, Apple should cost way more than $500.
Or if it's being sent from, say, Switzerland.

http://54.243.29.30/img/assange/assange_parcel_front.jpg
If they are providing the service, it isn't stealing. It is just using the service in a way that was not intended by the provider.
> saying that Google spoofed the origin of their traffic

The discussion was about user agents, not origins.

>Fraud is gain by deception; simple.

The hell it is. Let me give you an actual definition of fraud:

* a representation of an existing fact;
* its materiality;
* its falsity;
* the speaker's knowledge of its falsity;
* the speaker's intent that it shall be acted upon by the plaintiff;
* the plaintiff's ignorance of its falsity;
* the plaintiff's reliance on the truth of the representation;
* the plaintiff's right to rely upon it; and
* consequent damages suffered by the plaintiff.

Note in particular that if you don't harm someone there is no fraud.
I'm pretty sure MS sells more Windows now than in the 90s, and yet MS is not the almost trillion dollars behemot it once was, there's the prediction of how things will develop in the future that's also an important decision in capital allocation. With ARM at the CES speaking of $100 phones it might be a good time for people to ponder if the smartphone mojo is gone and if the big bucks will come from volume of sales in the future.

There's a growth plateau for every company and I believe the market believes by now that Apple is approaching it.

EDIT: There's of course the iPad but I would prefer a few more years to see how things develop for Apple in this front.
this doesn't take into account the fact that offline and online are merging together. people are online even when they are offline. a good example of a hybrid advertising approach is this startup: http://enplug.com
Forbes had a good writeup a couple of weeks ago: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathansalembaskin/2013/01/10/b...

Essentially, they coupled an ambitious design with untested materials and an insane plan by management to outsource far more work than they had ever outsourced before, going so far as to outsource the design and blueprints for individual pieces to external contractors, leading in the end to a clusterfuck in which nothing fit together and contractors had no incentives to perform efficiently because in the worst case Boeing would simply have to buy them wholesale to fix supply issues.
P2CA2P?

If only "2CA" was an identity.
A better AArons law would be to force publicly funded research be released freely and under a Creative Commons license. They did this in EU, why not the US?

Weakening the Computer Fraud laws, and naming it after Aaron trivializes his quest for free flow of information.

Of course this wont happen -- too much money tied up in selling research.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. There is a need to understand what causes certain crazy individuals to kill large numbers of people. Research into these causes, such as studying the effects of violent video games, would seem warranted. Even if we ban military assault weapons & require background checks on every gun purchase, the violent acts might still remain. Take for example the 2011 shooting in Norway, a country where guns are banned.
Also, "Aarons law" was raised 1 year ago by the same Congressperson under a different name.

This is nothing but personal political quests using our martyr for justification. I'm insulted.
Macros are the way I solve this as well. A little practice, and you won't even notice the difference. Just hit `Esc j` before ending the macro recording and moving down a line is no longer a problem :)
Don't want to throw anyone under the bus, many of them are actually YC funded! I respect the companies a lot, but their interviews are incredibly stressful.
I wont pay 10 times as much, but I'll pay a premium.

And someone else getting up to speed wont make them the best person for the job. It will make them adequate.
What was the explanation? Pardon my cynicism, but without furnishing even a screenshot of the suspension notice I have no way to decide whether Youtube was at fault or whether this is a marketing stunt. I find it hard to believe you have never received a single warning about anything prior to them using the nuclear option against you, given the well-documented existence of their DMCA grievance process and suchlike.
Really? You don't think that is a bit of a stretch? You think people in the White House cabinet are sitting around thinking about how theu can instill and nurture violence in people so they can have "kill bots" in the military? You've got to be joking -- that's tin foil hat stuff.

Besides, the military has a pretty straightforward program for training civilians to be soldiers, it's not this great big conspiracy as you suggest.
I'm not him, but I would definitely put it to a month. As somebody who used a tool like this in a company across departments, it takes a while to get people on board that changes a process like this.
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ELBs are accessed via a CNAME as it's on scalable/changable infrastructure - you can't get a (reliable) static IP.
What about bypassing an electric meter to connect to the grid directly?
Along the same lines, what I think is important is to see if one of ordinary skill [1] in the domain of the invention could come up with the solution proposed in the invention when facing the problem at hand. Often, the problem is new, and any solution, obvious or not, gets accepted as a patent.

[1] An expert would be better, the current law only asks for ordinary skill
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A lot of engineers will gladly work overtime or at home to pick up a skill. Often you don't start a new job for a few weeks or month.

And any good engineer can work blind on a new technology and still produce decent results. If a great engineer with no knowledge of PHP is required to build a PHP website they can sit down with a PHP book open on their desk and crank it out. They fact that they're mentally superior to other engineers (whose expertise on a narrow subject might be better) and know programming inherently better means there's a good chance their output on something they don't know could be comparable to the PHP coder.

The best managers always build skills in teams. It's part of compensation. Every engineer views bullet points on resumes as a form of income. "If they don't know PHP, they're not going to be learning it on my time" means that you're going to be paying higher salaries with higher turnover and much higher recruiting costs. And if that's not true then something scarier is true: you're actually hiring low-quality engineers who don't realize you're a bad manager with a bad team (or who have no other options than to pimp out their 8 years of SharePoint 2003 experience).

Maybe you wouldn't have such an urgent need to hire experts in narrow subjects if you had staffed your team with intelligent quick learners in the first place! Tip: next time you need an expert in subject X try telling your best engineer: hey I have a project coming up for an X project and I'd like you to play a key part, so can you study up on that as it'd really impress me.
I've had this idea in my head for a while now. Rather than just for websites, it would be more for postin your creative projects. Maybe this thread will give me the motivation to give it a shot.
I use Sublime Text 2 for its GUI powers: proportional-width fonts (I use Verdana), the code minimap, and the pretty file-browser sidebar with easy-to-click disclosure triangles.

I also like that it’s easier to remember most Sublime Text 2 commands – the Command Palette (⇧⌘P) lets you fuzzy search all commands. So you can search for “syntru” and find the option “Set Syntax: Ruby” instead of having to remember Vim’s “:setf ruby”.

Finally, I use Expand Selection to Word (⌘D) to quickly select multiple instances of a variable whose name I want to change – it’s slightly more convenient than it would be in Vim.

On the other hand, I miss Vim’s editing model. It’s a lot more cumbersome to edit line-wise or move the cursor with Sublime Text’s keyboard shortcuts. And Sublime Text’s “Vintage” Vim emulation mode is a poor substitute. As another commenter said, Vintage is in the uncanny valley. Every now and then you run into a Vim command that just doesn’t work and it breaks your flow. For example, Escape is overloaded as both “go from Insert mode to Normal mode” and “collapse multiple carets into one”, and I never remember which it will do when I have a multiple selection in Insert mode.
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Apple has a few years of profit from its present product categories. There's no doubt they can crank out the same rate of technical improvements and great design.
But can they create new product categories? Most companies can't - they make one, and ride it til it dies. Apple and Steve Jobs were extraordinary in creating several. One other company that did this was Sony - until its founder retired.
It's not a knock against Tim Cook, it's just that hardly anyone in the world has ever done this more than once (or even once!). And he's not a wild/crazy guy like Steve Jobs, but the opposite, someone who can make operations really work.

That said: Apple is perfectly positioned for a Google Glass product. I believe this is the next form-factor for computers after phones (because you can't make phones much smaller, and still read the screen, get your fingers on it). It also needs eyetracking for input.
But Google Glass looks terrible - an Apple version would indeed look like a fashion accessory (e.g. Ray-Bans). Plus, Apple has manufacturing/technology/design experience in smaller form-factors (e.g. shuffle/nano).

tl;dr If Apple can make smartphones fashionable, sunglasses should be easy.
What do you get out of subclassing NSDictionary or NSArray that you don't get out of a category?
Adding network cable... But I think 10m (30') is going to be too bulky for my bag.
If this were a wiki or answers site, where you want one easy-to-find location for a given piece of relevant content, I think you'd be correct.

On a link stream + discussion style site (which HN appears to be), though, you don't really have any idea who's participating at any given moment, or who's seen/absorbed material from previous discussions. I've been reading HN on/off for about 3 years, I can only recall having seen this once before, and seeing it again is an interesting reminder.

Apparently others have seen it a few times and are tired of it, but by and large, I'd think the scoring system could handle the general opinion of the community pretty sell: if enough readers still find it to be new/interesting information, it'll stay highly visible. If readers are tired of seeing it, presumably it'll sink to the bottom.
Ugh. Programming language fanboyism is still pretty cringe-inducing, even if you pair it with beer fanboyism...
On a side note, I am pleasantly surprised, that most people on this site see the "legislating higher aesthetic critique of semi automatic firearms and hermeneutical analysis on the meaning of ``flash hider''" bills for what they are.

Reactions to bringing up any opposition to this most elsewhere was a fusillade of vitriol.
Analogies, if constructed carefully, have a limited use in explaining concepts. The more closely the analogized items resemble each-other, the longer you can hold onto the analogy. To really understand something, you can't be using analogies.

This analogy can hold together for half a sentence at most. The concerns involved in hiring a programmer and selecting a customer to rent cars to have almost nothing in common.

And if you want to use an analogy in an argument, you first have to argue that the analogy is valid.

Articles like this contribute nothing to my understanding of hiring.
SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X
Do we ban violent video games to prevent the mass slaughter and permanent traumatization of school children?

You find that a difficult question to answer?
An MSR reactor investment is not at all like a dot-com investment. One can use science and math to determine the facts about what an MSR can and cannot do.
I'm not drawing a comparison between the business models, I'm just pointing out that often times investors will jump on something that is "the future" even if the risk is high, because the rewards for success are even higher. So how is that a strawman?
I'd like them to travel back to OS X 10.6 and branch an alternate history from there.

I think they'll do well for the next few years because they are directing effort towards making computers and devices for people that don't know how to use computers. Apple's devices are attractive and are more intuitive/simple to use for many people (for example, most of my family prefers OS X to Windows). Unfortunately I believe their implementation comes at the expense of user experience for power users.

It seems wise to go long on AAPL for now, but I shan't be purchasing more of their devices personally.
I'm sure service quality being reduced has absolutely nothing to do with people bypassing the pay wall or changing their desktop user agents to be mobile for cheaper prices. Nah.
> if MAC spoofing is sufficient to prove "unauthorized"...

i agree. but its not. MAC is one piece of evidence. without the other evidence, the charges would probably be worthless.

> If one of the elements of the crime is that what the defendant did was unauthorized (as was the case here) then if every victim authorized the behavior that element of the crime wouldn't be satisfied, no?

In theory, I suppose. However, JSTOR not pushing for charges is not the same as JSTOR "authorizing" Aaron to access those files.
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"Posting a picture is a legal minefield for US employers."

What about all the recruitment done via Linkedin? Many people have a photo of themselves there.
The article claims Apple reinvented the telephone, ignoring the 1994 IBM Simon smartphone and every smartphone since before the iPhone came out. BlackBerry, PalmOS/WebOS, Windows CE, Linux, Symbios, etc. None of them exist apparently and Apple invented the smartphone, and everyone else ripped them off.
Dickens wrote many great sentences by my reckoning, but that one has always annoyed me. It is a workaday piece of prose that long overstays its welcome, finally admitting its own irrelevance to this or any other book. That punch line witticism is an insufficient excuse for its pride of place as a starting sentence.
Because they don't get paid if you don't make a hire. If you can find a good recruiter to work with, then they could end up working for you for months or even years, with a chance of never getting paid.
> Seems more likely that he was simply pandering to both sides, and/or trying to dodge responsibility for a position altogether

No, it's explicitly a sarcastic parody of his fellow politicians behavior that he gave at the end of his only term in office on the floor of the legislature to his fellow members, not to pander to constituents. It was essentially a convoluted way to call his peers a pack of idiots and invite them to kiss his ass.

He was a cagey legal mind without a lot of patience for idiots, and he notes his amusement with the fact that half of his peers in the legislature heartily applauded the first half, and the other half heartily applauded the last half, and each half hated the other.
Going with your assumption, I'd say the correct approach would be to mitigate the problem, eg make the ratings systems stricter or require gamer education in some fashion similar to driving education. Obviously, it depends - I'm sure nobody expects Pacman to drive people to violence, but I can see how some super-gory games combined with very repetitive gameplay could have potential ill-effects on vulnerable minds (say, someone with latent schizophrenia).

It's hard to deal with hypotheticals like this because you haven't been very specific about the nature or degree of the (hypothetical) causal link. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that the repetitive and constrained context of video games were a risk factor, as opposed to the depiction of gore - so that Pacman or Space Invaders could indeed have an impact on the small number of vulnerable minds, in similar fashion to the small but real possibility that video games can trigger epileptic seizures in some people.
So basically, Time Warner wants Netflix to pay for the excessive bandwidth necessary to deliver low-compression movies, rather than letting Netflix put a content edge on their network, despite Netflix's offer to do so.

And Netflix is the one that's the problem here?
I bought more AAPL when the price dropped below $500. Consider:

- The trailing P/E was 11. 11! For a disruptive technology company! And that is well trailing since they are just about to announce new earnings.

- Apple has tremendous cash reserves.

- The stock pays a dividend.

To me the only explanation for the stock drop that makes sense is technical--i.e. it is driven by an alignment in high-volume market-timing maneuvers rather than business fundamentals.
Those rejoicing that we are going to have new gun laws to ban guns, better think again when they also make new laws to ban violent video games, movies, and TV shows.
Which means you missed the disclosure buried at the bottom: the author owns AAPL. Why not lead with that?
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Aaron Swartz’s illusion over research
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I have the same idea about open source software in governments. If it uses taxpayers money, then it should be open source, wherever possible (so in most cases). Taxpayers' money shouldn't be used to fatten corporations, if it can be avoided. And by that I don't necessarily mean that government software should be written by volunteers, but if they're paying them to write software, then that software should be made open source later. And they can keep paying companies for maintenance and upgrading it if they want. But at least the software would be available to anyone to use and tinker with it.
Yeah, that's totally what you'd do, in either editor. But my broader point is that there are situations where the immediate feedback and interactivity of using multiple cursors is valuable.
Good studies document their methodology so the conclusions can be replicated by independent researchers. The peer review process is not immune from failure, but overall it works very well. It's not the case that researchers in general simply sell their conclusions to the highest bidder.
U.S. Attorney issues statement defending prosecution of Aaron Swartz
i am also wondering what clusterix is going for in terms of CAP theorem.

I initially assumed Eventual Consistency but i see discussion about ACID, transactions and two phase commits.
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It is a game for kids, is just a game for them to spend some time playing around.
On the flipside, a significant percentage of people who work in the tech sector seem to be introverted, or sometimes even autistic (alth:ough it bis hard to draw a clear distinction between the two).

Introverts are not all autistic and autists are not all introverts. I'm not even aware of any research on the correlation between the two. Plenty of autistic people must be by nature extroverted; extroverts are at the very least 40% of the population.

If I was introverted I would be pissed off by your post; you're comparing a large social disability with a disinclination for small talk and glad handing. As an actual Asperger's person I am pissed off to be lumped in with introverts automatically.

Introversion is not a disorder and neither is it misanthropy. If you don't want to go to the office party, don't. A pattern of similar decisions can damage a career. Deal with it; we're social animals.
> The market is highly adversarial, and if anyone were "keeping it down" artificially, they would have their lunch eaten by those looking for value.

Yes, which is why it's hovering around $500 instead of $0.

But the real question is why competing companies have P/E ratios despite demonstrably worse prospects--Microsoft, for example, has a P/E of almost 15 despite far worse prospects in mobile, lower profits, and a smaller cash reserve. Explain that.

Even a back-of-the-envelope look at AAPL's business shows there is something weird going on with the stock.
AMD: former managers copied 100,000 confidential files before joining Nvidia
Everyone I have seen say that has a vested interest in Apple doing well. I doubt WSJ would sacrifice all credibility to mess with a stock for a bit.
Just be glad Carmen Ortiz is not on the case. I'm sure she'd come up with a few decades' worth of counts.
For programming, I don't find the multiple cursor thing very useful, but for markup (especially html), it's extremely useful, particularly when working with legacy systems that don't have very powerful server-based building of HTML from templates. In these cases, HTML can be very repetitive, and grabbing a set of <li>s that you want to add a class to is as simple as highlighting the first <li>, hitting Cmd-D a few times, and then editing them all at once.