skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It is like saying that there is no free market in the sale of carrot, because as soon as I enter a shop that sells carrot and start to buy some the other shops have no ability to sell some to me at the same time.

You are very indignantly failing to understand that there is more than one market in play here.

Some user, Joe Smith, subscribes to Orange as an ISP. That user may have other choices; Orange may have competitors. That is not the market I am referring to.

Once Joe Smith and however many thousand others like him subscribe to Orange, Orange has a monopoly on those customers. If you are a content distributor, it is not possible for you to send packets to any of those customers without going through Orange. You must, at some point, connect to their network in order to reach those customers. Other than government regulation, nothing stops them from charging monopoly rents for anyone to make such a connection.

The content distributor has no control over what decisions end customers make in choosing between ISPs. Their choice or lack thereof is completely irrelevant since the content distributor has little if any ability to influence it: Maybe if you're YouTube you could cause an ISP to lose sufficiently many customers through having slow or no access to YouTube, but probably not even then since if YouTube's competitors are still fast customers are more likely to blame YouTube than Orange, and if you are the little YouTube competitor then it's totally hopeless because Orange can just cut you off if you don't pay whatever they ask and the large majority of their customers won't even notice.

Internet service is not a carrot. If you need a bunch of carrots you can still get all of them in one place and if that store mistreats you in any way you can choose from multiple alternative suppliers. If you need to reach the entire general public, each and every ISP can hold you up for access to their subset of the customers, because you don't need 100 carrots, you need 1/100th of every carrot in the world. There is no way for you to go to Free and negotiate with them for access to Orange's customer base. It doesn't do you a lick of good to get twice as much bandwidth to Free's customers if your problem is not enough bandwidth to Orange's customers. You have to negotiate directly or indirectly with Orange, who can hold up all comers.
> you never know what the leakers' motives

you don't know anybody's motives, you know only what you are told the motives are (which might not be true), or you see their actions (and you interpret it they way you want to interpret it)
"At 9:44 a.m. the M.I.T. police were called in; by 10:30 a.m., the Cambridge police were en route, and by 11 a.m., Michael Pickett, a Secret Service agent and expert on computer crime, was on the scene. "

Less than 1.5 hours from campus cops to Secret Service on scene.
The critical distinction here is between how much something would make, and how much it would make per person-hour.
I remember a YC funded company targeting precisely people like you, basically a design marketplace.
Thank you also for the mention of Emacs. After six years of using Emacs with a lisp REPL, where I could scroll back through function definitions and edit them in place, I feel distinct frustration every single time I use a Python REPL. One-line-at-a-time scrollback is absolutely frustrating.
If you get right down to it, the end goal of anything and everything is absurd. Life is a runaway exploding self-catalyzing chemical reaction and its ultimate goal is the replication of aperiodic crystals. It so happens that the replication process involves some fiendishly complicated side effects, rube goldberg to the goldbergth power machinations (viz. multi-cellular plant and animal bodies) which are very very interesting indeed.

So what if the smartest minds are focussed on getting clicks? That is only an issue if there weren't very interesting side effects, like indexing megatons of information and making it accessible by a simple search interface.

In fact, I would encourage Google to get its smartest minds to do focus on insulting everyone in the universe in alphabetical order. Space travel, here we come.
Yes, but they aren't sharing the user agent. They're just sharing a boolean derived from the user agent which says whether they think it was a bot or a browser.
I don't think I should spend money on the design yet though, because this would be the app's first iteration and a lot of things will change later.
> Also, cell phones need fobs.

In Japan, at least, they generally have them (a conspicuous exception being the U.S.-designed iphone...):

Japanese-designed cellphones almost always have a hole in the case for attaching a strap, and many people use it, usually buying a strap with a character miniature or something on the end as a sort of little "handle".

These are really quite useful—my phone has been saved from falling quite a few times by its strap, and when digging in my bag for my phone, it's usually the strap that comes to hand first—and afford an opportunity for cheap and simple user-customization.

I've always been a bit mystified that U.S. phones haven't copied this idea (which shouldn't add any cost or complexity to manufacturing). Surely somebody would have noticed by now...

[Although Japanese-designed smart phones still have such holes, cases seem to have subsumed the formerly ubiquitous straps as a user-customization method to some degree...]
In highschool I remember changing HTML markup and seeing how that changed how the page was rendered. That entertained me. I've always loved picking things apart and figuring out how they work.

I studied economics in college (practically no programming was part of that education). After college I worked in sales/client support for a large financial software company for a couple of years. I like to learn on my own so I studied the financial derivatives markets. That got redirected into learning some more math.

After working on a few projects with software developers I decided that I may actually enjoy their work more than what I was doing at the time (helping sales people position our product and training clients how to use our product). Until this point in time, my only experience with code was getting through levels on pythonchallenge.com and projecteuler.net, and recording and tweaking Excel VBA macros. I approached my company's R&D recruiters and asked to be interviewed for an entry level position as a software developer. After a few rounds of interviews and many questions "Why do you want to do this?", I earned a spot in our entry level training program. I was advised that if I wanted to make it through this program, I would need to be up to speed on C, basic algorithms and data structures and vim. I listened and in 3-6 months I worked my way through a book on C and Tim Roughgarden's class on coursera.org. I finished that training program successfully a few months ago and am now a freshly minted entry level software developer.

It's pretty refreshing to be a novice in a field that's interested me for such a long time. So far I am significantly less stressed at work and really enjoy what I am doing. It's also fun being a 'new employee' after already working at the company for a few years. Sometimes I feel like a spy. Some people doubted whether I'd be able to make the switch so I am pretty happy that it's working out so far. I like being able to prove people wrong.
"Counsel for the government understands that a number of external connections
were made and/or attempted to the Acer laptop between January 4, 2011 and
January 6, 2011, including from a Linux server at MIT and from China."

("Attempted" means his laptop probably had a public ip address assigned through dhcp and someone was knocking on ports from China. This "attempt" happens constantly 24/7 and is nothing to write home about.)

"7. Exculpatory Evidence. In paragraph H of the government's letter, the
government described but refused to provide almost all of certain exculpatory
evidence, including evidence that, during the period covered by the indictment,
persons other than Mr. Swartz at Harvard, MIT and China accessed the Acer
laptop that was seized by the government, and persons other than Mr. Swartz at
MIT and elsewhere were engaging in "journal spidering" of JSTOR data using a
"virtual computer" that can be hosted by anyone at MIT. The government has no
basis for withholding the electronic evidence described as exculpatory in its
letter."

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/aaronsw-lost-pirate-treasure.txt
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Starcraft running on Android tablet
I can name no website that makes migrating away from itself easy. The fact that you can more or less get everything you need to migrate off of Meetup with a couple of scripts is pretty good in comparison.

If it's too much trouble as an "average" user, it's not too hard to find someone who can help.
So not only did Aaron try to hide his crime, he ran away when police tried to talk to him about it? Why are we defending him again?
He said respect, there was no judgement as to correctness or not. I for one also don't respect hypocrites.
It's also a reference to the opening line of Howl, of course: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179381

I don't know if that's what Jeff intended or not, but a lot of readers are going to have a strong association with the phrase "the best minds of my generation."
sigh

I'm not clear on what you're not clear on, but I'll be a good sport and take the bait.

I assert that the altruism of Aaron Swartz stands in contrast with that of Wikileaks because the latter, being an anonymous organization that filters anonymously-submitted information, cannot be automatically assumed to have an altruistic motive regarding the information that it disseminates. Not because they're evil. But because we just can't know.

Contrast this with Aaron and the many public statements he's made about freeing information and how it would help the world and what he gains (or rather, doesn't gain) from it. You don't have to agree that this makes him altruistic, you just have to see that there's a difference between a guy whose altruistic claims we can concretely evaluate and an organization that we just have to trust.

Here's a good example: Whatever happened to all that supposed dirt on Bank of America that Wikileaks had? Not only do we not know the source (it could be someone working for Chase Bank who used to be at BoA and has an interest in destroying his former employer), but it suddenly got wiped out by a disgruntled Wikileaks officer?..but that's something we have to take on faith, that it was a careless, irreversible act and not something done out of some other ulterior motive.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/us-bankofamerica-w...

As for being benign...Well, let's tally up the score. Wikileaks' most famous alleged collaborator is in a military prison and likely faces a terrible fate for the information he disseminated. The information that Aaron disseminated, meanwhile, was not as critical...to the point that JSTOR decided not to pursue charges. Aaron's problem was that the prosecutor wouldn't let go of the actual act of hacking, which is the primary cause of outrage.

So that's the issue here. Aaron and Wikileaks may have been friends and like-minded. But they had necessarily different paths.
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even when your main competitor offers similar service for free

is really disgusting corporate behavior

Microsoft was lynched in an antitrust trial for giving IE away to compete with Netscape.

I think your attitude is evidence of really disgusting consumer behavior. Between you and every other whiner, Microsoft is damned if it does something, and damned if it doesn't.
An important proof of concept though. Securing such a system would be a lot of work, and they've started the work for you.

The difficulty I see is getting this to be accepted. My approach would be to focus on local governments, homeowner associations, or other such decision making bodies. Prove the technology there then start pushing for use at a larger level, e.g. county level.
Main reason not to have stuff on the desktop: I never see it (the desktop) anyway.
agreed, a test suite will be essential for implementors. I'd be very interested to hear you thoughts on this. Please mail me if you have interest.
Rolf
Most of the drawings there are not too appealing, but I think they are from when he was just beginning. The painting looks very good to me.
First, by talking to him, MIT would have revealed that they knew who he was. That alone might have dissuaded him, as he was clearly acting under the assumption that he had successfully hidden his identity (or otherwise he would not have bothered to hide his face from the camera).

Second, they might have learned his motives and either found another way for him to achieve his objective (perhaps through some sort of compromise) or persuaded him to stop.

Third, they could have made clear to him what the penalties the government was ready to use against him in this case were, and that they had enough evidence to take him to court if he persisted.

Any of these might have been enough to lead to a less tragic outcome than what wound up happening when they immediately threw the book at him.
Linkbait title.

Or Wikileaks have been lying all the time.

Previous wikileaks statements make a big show of saying how sources are anonymous by system design (i.e. "It is impossible to say if Bradley Manning was a source".).

Now they are saying that they think Swartz was a source? What is it. Is their system anonymous or not. If it is anonymous then this is non-news. If it is not then Wikileaks is broken

To me it just seems like them trying to get some more advertising by tying into this story, which is frankly disgusting.
That's not entirely true: http://www.meetup.com/everywhere, though Everywhere is not really intended to be a free replacement to the "groups" product.
Go ahead and read Understanding Media while you're at it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262631598/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... !

Incredibly insightful book, totally transformed my understanding of the world.
Because the underlying 'economic' and political institutions are fundamentally flawed since they doesn't incorporate relevant information like human needs and social science, ecology, physics and developments in technology, etc.
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Solved problem? Not even close.

Having an insulin pump is equivalent to doing frequent insulin injections more easily and calculating what your dosage should be in a more complex way. Still requires tons of attention to make sure your insulin sensitivity ratings etc are accurate. I've heard from endocrinologists that patients on insulin pumps tend to have hbA1C scores about the same as patients on multiple-daily-injections. Insulin pump definitely does not 'just do everything for you'

Fun note: I have a very similar insulin pump. Up until a year ago when I logged onto their 640x480 resolution Java Applet to upload my device readings, it warned me that my browser was unsupported and that I should acquire Internet Explorer 6 or higher. That's a good example as what we deal with as far as tools to help us manage our diabetes ;)
Stack Overflow was down
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Sorry for the late followup. I had and still have. Sloppy wording on my part :)
Well yes, I guess that in a tragic death that was sparked in part by too many people blindly accepting the vague assertions made by one organization, it's hard not to be cynical of yet another organization making vague assertions related to that tragic death. Call me jaded.
By your definition, those realtors of 2006-2008 were the greatest minds of that period, so were the financial analysts, and the personal wealth managers who had nothing other than a 1 week seminar to certify them as such.
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I was maybe a little terse in my blog post. I agree that you can certainly do this, but it seems G decided that it was not worth adding as a core feature. At least that is my understanding from reading their docs. Blink on the other hand relies heavily on schema exchange.

Rolf
or for mold.
Workbook to Slide Conversion & Merging Several Presentations in Cloud
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No one was arguing that point. The FDA does good things. The FDA does bad things. The question is whether the FDA is more helpful than harmful.

I for one am happy that the FDA inspects my food and medicine and holds them to a standard of safety. On the other hand they do make some medical devices and advances overly expensive to make and create a barrier to entry into the market.
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I am not saying I believe it, but they keep making the claim every time the subject comes up.
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yup

Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

* google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find stackoverflow.com: Server failed
Python is not future proof.

There are undefined sequences even in Python, where Jython and CPython output different programs.
Please don't try to twist your dumb rant into some sort of free speech issue.

The multiple people telling you to shut up isn't because they are trying to squelch discussion on the topic. They are telling you to shut up because you, specifically, bring negative value to the discussion and you are responsible for decreasing the signal to noise ratio.

In your example about the dumb, drunken football fan yelling at the TV, the people in the bar are now starting to tell him to STFU because they want to watch the game and not have to listen to the useless, drunken ranting of someone with zero credibility.
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Another (which I originally found because of a comment here a few years ago) is http://viewtext.org/.

I like this one because I can add it as a custom search engine in Opera without adding a browser extension or leaving the page.
You created an account solely to post this dumb comment?
Xkcd: Debugger
I believe that Aaron Swartz might've been the activist mentioned in Wired (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents...) who bootstrapped WikiLeaks with over a million files intercepted from Tor.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that it looks like aaronsw was running tor2web.org, as it has the same IP and is running in the same Linode instance as aaronsw.com and at least two of his other projects, blogspace.com and jottit.com.

Tor2web is an interestingly risky service all by itself, being the only public interface into Tor hidden services. And the Wikileaks submission system at least in 2010 was running on a Tor hidden service (http://suw74isz7wqzpmgu.onion/ at the time accessible as https://suw74isz7wqzpmgu.tor2web.org/).

While the sniffing could've happened on any exit router, tor2web.org would present an interesting extension of that capability.
Chrome has a ton of bugs related to Canvas and CSS Animations -- mostly because they've switched to a new compositing system that hasn't had the kinks worked out. It's especially bad when using 3D transforms; 2D transforms are quite a bit more stable.

One thing I've noticed is that the bugs are easy to trigger, but require a lot of code to do so, which the Chrome team rejects as a valid "bug report". So the bugs don't get fixed because they don't have a short bit of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

I just work around Chrome bugs now, rather than report them. Oh well.
So...given:

a) A known person who has stated what he believes in and why he does things
b) An organization of unknown individuals, who has stated what it believes, acting on behalf of another unknown individual(s)

You're saying we're in the same epistemological black hole when it comes to evaluating the intentions and consequences-suffered by a) and b)? If so, then OK, that's a philosophical debate that would be really fascinating to discuss on some other day, but pretty much underscores why we won't agree on much in this thread.
That was maybe true in the 1970s, but I'm not so sure these days.

I don't live in the U.S. but every time I visit, I'm actually rather amazed by the wide variety of bread (and beer) even in average grocery stores, some of which looks really nice.

That's not true everywhere of course, but I suspect it's not unusual in the sort of place you're likely to find any concentration of tech companies.

The days when a loaf of wonderbread and a delicious canned meal were considered the height of sophistication are, I think, mostly behind us... :]
RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby core-lib
But you're not explaining your claim. How can possibly printing money can make society as a whole richer? It can make certain individuals better off, for sure (the ones who receive the newly created money first while the prices are low). But how does it make the economy as a whole better off? No additional value gets created.
Same here. Far commander is my desktop on Windows, and same goes for Midnight commander on OSX/Linux (even sometimes just for fun in cygwin).

I only wish Windows got more sane HOME paths, at least in Windows 7 some of them are accessible without spaces, but Program Files still have them :(
Same for me, I'm on the east coast if that makes a difference
I noticed this weekend that some of my Steam games are now supported on Linux (Crusader Kings 2 from Paradox to be specific). Despite being out of the Ubuntu desktop scene for a while, I can't begin to say how much joy this brings me.

I'd love to know what cross platform tools Paradox may be using to achieve this.
Being a grad student and wanting to be a professor is like being 6'2" and wanting to play in the NBA.
There are no reads from /dev/random successfully happening in the example (not after the first few blocks, anyway).

/dev/random reads from an entropy pool that is quickly exhausted and slowly filled. The kernel will lock a process in D state while waiting for entropy.

If you're expecting a stream of pseudo-random data then you can get that by directing /dev/urandom to /dev/null.
In my case, it's mostly a matter of browsing HN late at night, so I come in late to most discussions and usually don't have anything to add that hasn't already been said. Replying with "I agree" doesn't exactly add to the conversation, so I just upvote and move on.

I've never felt any sort of discrimination on HN, or in the industry in general. There was one occasion (working on a contract at a young startup) where I felt out of place, but it wasn't intentional alienation, just different interests/priorities, and it had as much to do with age as it was gender. I had probably 10yrs on almost everyone else there and was just at a different point in my life.