skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to know why you think I believe AT&T is ripping people off.

Is it that since I think the situation is wrong that I must necessarily think the party that currently stands to benefit is necessarily evil or shafting the other side?

Or is it simply that: because I disagree with you, you assume I hold every position you also disagree with?

I'm sorry, but either of those is simply wrong.

My objection is that an appointed executive can so massively alter the effective terms of private contracts without those terms, or even the law's relevance, ever being reflected in those contracts.

If the 'lock' term was in the contract, I'd be fine with it. I think many people are, in fact, well served by subsidized phones, even when/if they come with 'carrier lock' provisions.

As a minor related concern, I think the situation is worthy of perhaps more-zealous scrutiny, because of the effective duopoly.

Given these terms aren't in the contracts, along with the duopoly's refusal to offer a "byo" phone plan with prices (and early termination fees) that reflect the lack of any subsidy that needs to be recovered, the expected and observed effect is a large distortion in the market toward subsidized phones.

Again, not because I think no-one should buy subsidized phones or they're some sort of 'rip-off', but because I think it's wrong and anti-competitive for the market to warp the cost-benefit of subsidized vs byo.

And having to pay for a subsidy you're not receiving is a very large distortion. Particularly in those places in the US where alternate carriers don't have viable coverage.

Though I'm hopeful the Straight Talk/Walmart partnership bears fruit and begets a trend, so that whole part becomes moot.
Another thing to do is find out about clubs. Student organizations can often get money from the school's student council. If there's already an R/C aircraft club, you can join in with them, or start your own focused on the other aspects of drone/UAV tech that they don't cover but try to recruit from them.

Also, if you have an active IEEE or ACM branch at your school, they might have additional funding if you can get enough people and a faculty member or two on board. We provided funding to a couple projects, one was the SECON robotics competition, but I vaguely recall helping with some other project(s).
You're assuming that you're going to agree with the terms of GPL5. That's certainly not a good assumption(See Torvalds, Linus).
As someone not religious, I think his point still works. That whatever you do or don't believe, it applies to everyone, thus we all have the same greater origin, be it once specific god or an evolutionary ancestor.
Then try gevent. The monkeypatching they do means that most pure Python network code just works with it. For instance, I used the XML-RPC library that ships with the core with no further modifications beyond what gevent does.

It's less good than using a language with first-class support for continuation-style programming, but it's better than using a language that makes you be the compiler and chop up and manage the event handlers yourself.
Right; Richard O'Dwyer is actually an example of exactly that (the US didn't even win in the end: the situation dragged out and was settled and the charges were dropped; they sadly, thereby, also did not clearly lose).
Zigg.be links (at least they way they are now) are not meant to be published. How do you propose I implement this with permanent links?
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The AGPL makes sense for either dual licensed things (like MongoDB) or for projects that simply don't have the need for any direct revenue generation such as people's side projects.

AGPL seems to be to the cloud what GPL is to desktop. There are certainly those such as Stallman who are basically opposed to SaaS, though I'm not entirely sure where he draws the line between "in house software" , websites and SaaS.

It does seem to me that asymptotically software with freer licenses "win".
For example the Linux kernel. I would not be surprised if facebook was eventually replaced by something that existed under an AGPL license.

However such a system would probably be powerful enough to be considered a platform in itself with it's own DSLs and therefor this would become where proprietary software lived.

From a pragmatic standpoint though the increase in SaaS seems to have vastly increased the amount of open source stuff available (rails etc) and perhaps this trend will continue as higher abstraction levels of the stack become "freer".
The client side source code is available: https://bitbucket.org/repo/all?name=discretio
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Obviously, it's not something we can really test...

However, I do think you are severely underestimating the benefits, for technological progress, of:

1) Knowing that things are possible, 2) knowing approximately where to look, and 3) having a large (and growing) pile of resources to put behind these things.
They didn't think that far ahead. :)
Sure, but email is still the preferred form of external communication with customers and clients.
No, it is a very thick line. Save for a few situations where you might question whether what you said was misconstrued, people for the most part know when they're being civil or not. "I'm just a straightforward guy", "I tell it like it is", and "I don't want to sugarcoat" are ways people justify being an asshole by acting as if they've got your best interests at heart and genuinely want to help. They damn well know how mean they're being.
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Whoops, you're 100% correct.
It isn't just him (and arguably it isn't him at all: its people he has working under him); I got a chance to meet some of the people on the panel when they were at the hearings in LA, and they actually seemed quite "with it" (although certainly not "technology expert", but that's asking a lot).
Finding one edge case doesn't refute the original point. Most /r/programming-esque lingual slut-shaming is by people who seem to be very good at being Right On The Internet, and not much else.

And that's a woefully terrible thing to be good at.
Ha ha whats funny is I thought the article said it would cost 8 MILLION DOLLARS to put some stupid cosmetic lights on a bridge.
Hi! I am the submitter of the link.

I did not knew that the event has been submitted before. If I would have been aware of it I would have up-voted you instead of submitting another link.

I will up-vote your link now.
Whaaat, SMTP != Instant Delivery!? You must be joking!

As much as i can understand the pain of an email not being delivered after 2 hours this seems to be too much drama. "happens 2 times in a month" is not a "major problem" for a free service especially since i suppose this user is part of a rather small minority. I never noticed substantial delivery lags myself over the past years myself.

Anyway, if you say "i'd pay 50$/month" please email me, i'll be happy to provide you with a very overprized mail account with same-second delivery! :)
What would happen if I'm on vacation and my apartment loses power, or my ISP-provided DSL modem locks up, or my cat chews on the server's ethernet cable?

If the answer is "you might not receive some email", then that is not an acceptable alternative to hosted email.
I saw that, but I didn't see any explanation on how it works, and I'm pretty sure it's impossible to have security without verification. I can't read the code to verify that, sadly.
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To a competitor? Depends if people blame barracuda or can trace the cracking back to you.

Are you thinking of switching a bitcoin mining operation into a cracking-passwords-to-put-companies-out-of-business operation?
I'd argue you haven't got a clue what you are talking about and compensate by resorting to cliched moralizing. Everyone would snap given sufficient provocation, a 'cheating spouse' is very provocative, to call it "poor impulse control" is, at best, sanctimonious.
lbrandy can go into more detail, but much of FXL is used to extract features (hence "Feature Extraction Language") that is then used to build models and classify against using a variety of classifiers.

You can find more details in http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ldg/a10-stein.p...
I could imagine a bash shell that helps create drake files, by remembering in a richer history structure all files read/modified by subprocesses.

(A degenerate drake file, one line per 'step', would almost be a 1:1 representation of this richer history... though you then might want to coalesce and reorder atomic steps to represent the real shape of your workflow and dependencies.)
A drake is a male duck. They were pretty famous back in the day.
I thought the newest bill (related to technology, pirating, etc) here in Canada made it legal for Canadians to be allowed to unlock their phones and made it illegal for companies to tie one device to one company.
You're right that his use of the internet wasn't new, but I think you're seriously downplaying the significance of this.

The difference is, before now, the record companies could still say, "Sure, that internet stuff might be really useful...but no one, in the history of ever, has made a number one hit without the help of a label. You need us."

Macklemore just became the first example that an independent musician can point to and say, "He did it independently, and so can I." Who knows, maybe if Drake had had that example, he wouldn't have signed that contract.
And your faith in private industry is increasing, right?
Doesn't change the fact that this preferred form of communication by no means guarantees delivery in a certain timeframe. It's not a google problem. The email can be "stuck" in every place between you and the recipients mailbox.
"Zero fees" is misleading. Merchants are likely to convert BTC back to real money which will incur fees. Exchange rate volatility (oh look, down 3% in the last 5 minutes) and conversion losses due to poor usability are effectively fees as well.
Helpful comparison of open source licenses, for those interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...

I personally prefer the UNLICENSE: http://unlicense.org/
Would be cool if they showed how much traffic was on the bridge, going across the bridge, or if there was an accident by flashing bright to those approaching the bridge so they could avoid it
This was a 'fun fact' I was told at a young age. I'm not ashamed to admit that I took it literally and spent a few months of my childhood fearing anything that made my heart race.
I imagine people taking part in the startup visa programme will be subject to the usual health checks.

When applying for Canadian PR you have to satisfy the government that you won't place "excessive demand" on existing health/social services within Canada.

The figure is currently set at $30,705.00CAD over 5 years ($6,141.00CAD x 5). eg, if you have an autistic child and they require a teachers aide that costs more than $6.1k/year you won't be eligible for PR.

http://www.blaney.com/articles/citizenship-and-immigration-c...
Here's a fun GitHub code search
Hydrogen made with muons reveals proton size conundrum
Because for a long time they did precisely that: get stuff into beta really quickly and see how it does. As organizations get bigger there tends to be pressure to stop tinkering with stuff and start Doing Things Right (tm).

I think Google used to have a corporate culture which encouraged this and from what this writer says (so it's just an anecdote, not data) they might be losing that culture. Doesn't mean Google will fail but having that kind of culture is an ongoing job and it's non-trivial. Seems like they might be letting bureaucracy creep into the organization.
There is further discussion about this started from a comment I made elsewhere on this article; the replies seem to clarify that only specific laws (including, apparently, this cigar issue you bring up, looking into it; that is apparently new as of 2004) have extra-territorial application.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5111405
The income you don't use toward tuition, fees, books, etc, is taxable income, so make sure you report it to the IRS.
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> he's going to have to ... find someone willing to take a chance on him. He needs to build a resume. Contracting might be a good way to start.

These are very good points. The conceptual difference between a contractor and an employee may make it a lot easier to find rewarding work for someone that would "fail" most companies' background checks.
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>Wasn't there a big Bitcoin heist last month due to the Rails vulnerability?

Just curious, but why is there a widespread belief that security incidents that have nothing to do with the bitcoin protocol will lead to the value to implode? Seriously, maybe I don't understand something here.... does this happen to the dollar when US banks are robbed?
Ask HN: Would you pay for code review?
There have been a few times recently when I've thought it would be beneficial to have code I've written for personal projects reviewed.

I'd be happy to pay for the service, does this exist already in any form? Is it something that anyone else would be interested in?
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I went travelling this past December and wanted to unlock my iPhone 5. I was told by AT&T I would have had to wait 2 years before I could get the phone unlocked...
Shall I Encode Thee In DNA? Sonnets Stored On Double Helix
To be fair, it looks like the FSF is letting LibreDWG languish anyway. There hasn't been a master commit in 2 years, and the last activity in the repository was in February 2012.

I'd assume that a "high priority" project would have a lot more activity than that, especially because there hasn't been a binary release yet( http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ ).
The bootloader loads the kernel + a tiny, temporary initial (init) filesystem in RAM (e.g. ramdisk -> rd), where the kernel can load other modules to load the real filesystem (otherwise it would need support for many filesystems compiled in, vs. modules).
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With 1,000 registered cooks, Chef Surfing has its focus set on Latin America
100% agreed.

I try to treat email as any other letter I recieve(1). Meaning that the sender can only expect an instant reply if I know beforehand the mail is coming and urgent.
The same way one would rapidly reply to an urgent letter one is expecting, but easily take a day or more to reply to, or even open, a non urgent letter.

If you need to get a hold of someone directly you should use your phone (to call them).
If they don't pick up their phone, leave a voicemail or send an sms.

(1) Registration confirmations / new password emails are an obvious exception here.
I found this article helpful.

I was very surprised by the quality of the code in the replace.js repo given the vitriol that surrounded it. I'm not a big contributor to open source, but I've recently made some modifications (improvements?) to a Haskell library I use and was planning to make a pull request soon. This event gave me pause. As someone who couldn't tell what was so eye-bleedingly bad about the replace.js code, I was nervous that I would endure a similar fate.
I guess for the same reason that people buy cars on credit.

Here in the UK there are millions of students and people of limited means who own iphone5s but probably wouldn't have had the spare £550 in their bank account at a discreet point in time to buy one straight up.
The author is furious about a technology that was not designed for instantaneous delivery (SMTP) and fumes about it, because it isn't instantaneous. What's worse is, he quickly assumes goes into some kind of 'super-hero mode' and makes a pretty heavy claim that this is Gmail's second biggest problem.

I think this is the best approach - If someone hands over you a free glass of wine, which they've tried their level best to make it perfect, you just drink it instead of trying to suddenly become a food critic and blame the person who gave you the beer. If you don't like it, don't drink it. Buy your own beer from somewhere else. As simple as that!

Tell you what, you should try Yahoo!, I bet.
Exactly my thoughts. Not to down play the problem because it definitely is one Google should at very least address but even if Gmail was up 100% of the time with no problems there should always be communication redundancy. Instant messaging, file hosting services, other email providers.
should it exist at all?

Quite an arrogant evaluation criterion IMHO.
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If by "cliched moralizing" you mean arguing that murdering a spouse is, in fact, immoral, then sure. I'm a cliched idiot.
Why some years ago? That's what we do even today. I don't think our iPhones are locked, Androids definitely aren't (Greece).
Odd that this was down-voted. It's a (bad) joke. Allow me to explain:

Calculating the stationary distribution is one of the main things people do with Markov chains. That's all that PageRank is -- the stationary distribution of the Markov chain constructed from the network of links on the web.
Less Aesthetic, More Design
> I'm glad he's turned his life around but we can't have people committing armed robbery and going back out onto the street in three months.

I think this is a straw man. Most of us agree that armed robbery is a crime that deserves some punishment. However, if 18 years was his sentence, I want his sentence to be 18 years, not a subsequent lifetime of being unable to contribute meaningfully to society. He's not out in three months, he's spent half of my life in prison.
Sounds like an optimization problem. I know my calculus book is around here somewhere...
The press release: http://www.embl.de/aboutus/communication_outreach/media_rela...

I didn’t know we could do this yet with 100% accuracy. Let’s use this for Steganography! :)
> what is causing the value of each coin to increase? One would expect that supply and demand would not increase together for any significant period of time.

Yes, but a lot of economics is psychological.
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

Summary: A currency works because enough people think it has value. Psychological sleight of hand is how Brazil beat 80% hyperinflation two decades ago.
Why Do We Hurry Up And Wait?
"Take my money. I’d pay $50 / month to get reliable service; others would be willing to pay orders of magnitude more."

Should be "order of magnitude more".

Getting really tired of tech writers using "orders of magnitude" hyperbole when its not really the case.

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Also don't like him complaining on not receiving an "urgent" email in time. Urgent communications require phone calls.
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I've had massive delivery delays every so often with gmail and they're a little irritating, sure, but quite frankly email makes no guarantees about delivery time. If you need guaranteed fast delivery maybe email isn't the answer.
Markov was an atheist. In 1912 he protested Leo Tolstoy's excommunication from the Russian Orthodox Church by requesting his own excommunication. The Church complied with his request. [Wikipedia.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Markov)
Cardiovascular exercise leads to a lower resting heart rate, which more than makes up for the short term increase in heart rate during the exercise. Elite runners often have very low resting heart rates, like in the 20s-30s. So you should run, a lot.
Davos 2013: the five key datasets
No.. but it does mean a state of quiet focus. (That's as far as I'm going to go with that - trying to define zen in a few words is hard, but that's a very rough translation.) How is minimizing distractions and emphasizing a simple workplace not zen?
if you paid for the phone unsubsidised, why was it even locked in the first place?
I don't know how financial aid for college works in the US but in the UK it is mainly to be used for living expenses. And in this context "living expenses" seems to include things like beer and xbox games.
Forgive me, but wasn't it already legal, since it was special case'd in the DMCA?

This whole situation confuses me.
>Wow, David Cramer is a total asshole! That Steve Klabnik guy is also an asshole.

Since we are talking about insults, reputation and constructive criticism: Does HN think the quoted text is appropriate?

Personally I think it is about on par with "makes my eyes bleed".
If you own the devices you should do as you please. This would be like someone telling you that you can ONLY use a certain brand on brake pads on your car or only stop at an Exxon brand gas station.
Looks like they didn't previously have the 'sign up' form:
http://web.archive.org/web/20121209045623/https://www.dropbo...
> Now, I’m all for bad projects and bad code being called out.

Bullshit, sorry.

Questions to ask yourself before "calling out bad code".

1. Does this code belong to someone on your team?

2. Does your code rely on this code?

3. Does the code represent a risk to you or your business in some way?

4. Do you have the direct contact info for the developer so you can appropriately, discretely and professionally inform them about their code?

Github == "Developer Playground/Experimentation Lab".

Why in the hell should I have to feel that every piece of code I put up there 'must' adhere to 'your' standards or anyone else's?

How can we as a development community rationally expect to grow the open source ecosystem and encourage people with this type of snobbery?
$50 -> $1000 is one order of magnitude.

Not "orders".

Orders of magnitude hyperbole needs to stop.

Why not write "some would pay $1000 a month" when quoting the Graham article. You didn't even show you have users willing to pay $5000 a month for gmail which would in be the "orders of magnitude" you wrote.
Yes, code review as a consultant service is pretty common, mostly due to security and optimization. What are your target OS and languages ?
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I am also glad that everything works out for you. I have recently read a story posted on my university (UBC)'s compliment facebook page. I think it is very similar to your own story. I want to share it with you and all the people on HN. I hope this story could inspire all of you the way it has inspired me.

I tried to post the story here but it says my post is too long. I will just post the link to the story below.
http://www.facebook.com/UbcCompliments/posts/222319324569761
Agreed. Although, if you want to help out an open source project and make ca. 250$, you can provide a translation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135336.0
>> Yea we could dethrone the false demigod, probably in about 3-6 weeks if we wanted

maybe not, since China is right there, and they will definitely NOT sit idle as the US tries to mess around in their back yard (this has happened before, and it didn't go that great)

actually, I think China is the main supporter of the situation in NK, had it not been for the Chinese protection, the NK dictators wouldn't have made it so long, IMO
Well, I'd at least complain that the wine somehow turned into beer...
It could be worse. Here in Mexico, the goverment signed ACTA without the congress approval.
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Also a privateer and a mythical beast. I think there's sufficient prior art on this one.
C# - it just keeps constantly evolving. Supports dynamic/static, functional/imperative, OOP and language-integrated asynchronous programming models. It gives you a nice balance between performance and features like introspection. Also ReSharper + Visual Studio will give you the best IDE in the world.
jugs = 1;
if (have eggs) { jugs = 12; }

Get a dozen, not a dozen more.
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