skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wanted to see something like the BRAC Commission but run out of the President's Economic Advisor's Office or similar.

Annually, this commission would put out a list of any company in any industry deemed too big to fail. That could be a bank. It might be a manufacturer that is basically the default monopoly manufacturer for some very large industry. The list would include reasons of why they were too big to fail, the likely outcomes of their failing, and how the US would probably be forced to prop them up, and various parameters and formulas for sizing them.

Once listed as too big to fail, the company should have 90 days to appeal and one year to reduce to a smaller size, however they want to do it.

If there was some engineering problem, in which components of a system could grow too large and force the entire system to become dependent on them, what are the steps and engineer would take to analyze, quantify, and possibly rectify the system?

It is interesting to me, that we can allow too big to fail to happen, and then having happened, happen again and again.
A market cap isn't really the money the company has and under your scheme the shareholders would be paying based on their ownership of the shares - so taxing the company as well would be taxing twice.
I've seen a few posts on HN complaining about people copying their sites, but I'm not sure I sympathize.

Websites are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, all of which is open text and easily copied. You shouldn't have any illusions that your design and code is copied and reused somewhere else.

In this case, the websites that are using the design aren't competitors and aren't taking away business from the original developer. What are they expecting to get out of it? An additional revenue stream of HTML templates?

I agree it's a problem if they are hot-linking to assets on someone else's server, but that's a problem in that it's consuming someone's bandwidth and server resources.

I say, call it flattery and be proud that you made a design that other people want to copy. If you're really paranoid (I don't see why), ask for attribution like "Site design by ..." at the bottom of the page.
No buts, I just wanted to make it apparent from the start that I am not sexist. "Equality" is all that I want, and it bugs me when people start saying things like "the industry is filled with sexism" or "sexism is the norm" or "most males are sexist" because it is simply not true. Or it is true, and 99.999 women just choose to be silent about their cases of sexism. It is insulting when people attack males as a single group based on some edge cases.
This reminds me of one of Douglas Crockford's talk. The story goes some thing like this.

* Some Russian Porn site uses jsonp using Crockford's host and he get a huge bill

* He polity asks them to host their own version and they don't reply

* He redirects the site to 'http://fbi.gov

* He receives a call from the FBI, because they have been getting suspicious traffic from some Russian site

* He then goes on to add a alert box with a annoying warning saying the site stole his bandwidth. Who cares for warnings any ways?

* He finally puts a loop in the JS file so that the other site wont load. He finally wins
We used Skype before and weren't happy, but we just changed to https://www.flowdock.com/. It does also other useful things (gathers all feeds into one "inbox"). Works very well for development teams, but our whole team has been happy with it. Should work well for bigger organizations too.

Btw, it has also IRC-integration, so people familiar with that (like me) should be alright.
With amazon ceding to demands on collecting state sales taxes for interstate commerce, they have opened the door to a competitor.
Theft vs Copyright infringement is all semantics anyway. Like you said, if the software is for sale and you take it and use it without paying, it's wrong, regardless of what you call it.

I don't think anyone would flatly come out and say that a developer doesn't deserve to be paid for his/her work. Yet when you use software without paying for it, you are depriving the developer of his income.
Actually I think silence is still preferable to what happens more frequently -- the sexist trolls are actively praised and rewarded in the tech community. Not for their sexism, of course, but for their activism on behalf of freedom of speech, etc. We don't just fail to speak against them, we -- in the tech world -- often hail them as heroes for their other work, while conveniently ignoring the misogyny or writing it off as just "sure, he's not politically correct, but..." or "sure, he can hurt feelings and ruffle feathers but..."

Or the way Reddit is still seen as a "good" place despite a model that not just encourages but needs people like ViolentAcrez. We don't have to speak out about the bad things in order to make a difference... We can start by not speaking FOR the contexts in which it is not just tolerated but subtly, behind the scenes, reinforced.
Stopping support for sites that allow this behavior is a huge step that does not require speaking out. Because most sites that "allow" it are also, one way or another, also encouraging it. We get the behavior that we reinforce.
Please explain the proper way of escaping/rejecting html in forum posts, when you can't rely on the browsers following the spec.
A bit tangential, but I really hope some service solves the "couch potato" use case for streaming - I love Netflix, but I miss cable tv's channel jumping.

I want someone to curate and select shows for me, and show them in a channel, so I can just browse (an improved Cable Tv experiencie, hopefully ad-free, but probably not :P ).

I also miss live (or slightly delayed but current) sports - that would be a killer feature for Netflix.
Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling
Well, the game is highly competitive on a daily basis, so players would get mad. I also run public Facebook pages for these games, and if I do not answer some stuff for hours, mayhem happens. It is not in English, otherwise I would given links to see for yourself.

I also believe that prompt support and solving customers problems within a short period of time would mean a lot to users. If you are in a middle of highly addictive game and you get stuck because of our error, you might cool down and not be in the same mood to play it next time.
If this trend continues, ultimately all 50 states will be collecting sales tax from Amazon. In that case, what is amazon's edge going forward, especially if the retails stores can come close on price while offering immediate gratification?
>For us, if we didn't make an offer it's either because the applicant is a jerk, a liar, or incompetent.

What an incredibly cocky and pretentious view of the world.
This is very interesting and encouraging - thanks for posting this.

I've come to the same conclusion and as primarily a C# guy for the past 10 years, I've been hesitant to go the C++ route. If you haven't blogged about your experience, you might want to consider it, I know a few people that are looking for a better way to go building simple games (2d mostly) and Unity seems like overkill. Using C++ with something like Cocos2d seems like a much better way to go. I know LUA also supports Cocos2d but I guess I'd rather go with C++ since the syntax seems more my style (versus Lua's more Basic kind of syntax).

Anyway, thanks, if you've blogged about your experience please link to it, I know I and a few other would be really interested in hearing more about your experience.
Call it depression or fragile mind or mental health. Whatever you call, it's probably the main factor. Truth is he has a girl friend. He wasn't starving. It wasn't clear if he would be found guilty. Even if he would be found guilty, go to jail, he would still have a very good future (being who he is with all of his connections and accomplishments).

Many folks are in much worse positions everyday and they don't kill themselves.

He was probably a good honorable guy, but he made the mistake of killing himself. There are horrible people that you have to deal with in life; there are horrible situations that you might have to be in. You can't blame them for killing yourself. If you take your own life, it is you first and foremost.

All of these soft talks trying to shift blame to these horrible lawyers are dangerous. The truth is there are bright young folks who are probably have similar mental health issues with Aaron. If the going gets tough, they might think of killing themselves as well. The best message, and the right thing to say is, if you kill yourself, it is your darn fault.
Ask HN: What would you pay to learn?
And in what format would you prefer (ebook, video series, class (like udemy or elsewise)?
College was my biggest mistake (2012)
Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling
If I'm going to run my editor locally, why not use something that's better fitted to running in a graphical context, rather than something limited to the terminal?
Patrick Mckenzies 1h talk about Engineering your marketing outcomes (2011)
Android Renderscript from the perspective of an OpenCL/CUDA/C++ AMP programmer
Learn from success, avoid failure
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I don't want to discuss about why Aaron died. But I can really feel the pain of his girlfriend. I have also been currently struggling with nightmares. I have never realized that dreams can have such an impact in my life. During the day, I would be so busy and thus do not have time to think about the thing I don't want to think about. But every morning before I wake up, I would dream about "the thing".. I especially understand the part where she says that she has to force herself to wake up from the nightmare... I have done that many times as well. But after I wake up, I just have to face the reality ( in Taren's words "the real-life nightmare" ).
Interesting. It's great to see startup culture blossoming in different areas. I'm especially enticed by the internet speeds; we've had a real problem lately even with fiber.
Likewise, your hypothetical holds no interest, and doesn't have the benefit of having actually happened.
"We've all seen how mean women can be to other women".

Thanks for contributing your "all women are bitches" opinion to a discussion on sexism. Classy.
This "scrolling" effect is hardly new. I know this design is from 2009: http://designcommission.com/
As noted in the comments... hashtags != twitter and this is becoming more true each year.

A few lines of code and Facebook could shake things up with all of their "dormant" hashtag data

I say "Game On"
I'll take the secret police over secret vigilantes, if for no other reason that the policy of maintaining a secret police force can be debated as a matter of public policy, whereas vigilantes answer to no one.

Edit: though I'd rather have neither.
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My startup/app is trying to make it easier to bring together nearby people with common interests under a casual community or a group (http://www.findero.us)
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Yes, people are going to attack women in very different ways then men. I can't imagine that many people would want to create nude pics of a guy to insult him. But that's not what I am getting at -- I am trying to say that this incident does not reflect the majority of males, nor does it make the whole IT industry sexist. You can't start saying that everyone/everything is sexist just because one incident of it occurred. Maybe people being bored with her talk had nothing to do with her being a woman -- maybe it was just a boring talk.
Probably browser-specific, but some browsers will show the placeholder or label with a hover, as well.
http://xkcd.com/1168/
I find articles like this absolutely fascinating. And to think this was only ~60 years ago.
Do those apps actually still work on AT&T? I thought AT&T detected their operation and blocked them.
I'm curious - what exactly do you not like about C#?
Someone is doing Mistborn. Let's hope they don't bungle it.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/1074/Mistborn-Movie-Upd...
Is there any way to request an official clarification for borderline cases the RFC-author didn't think about when typing it up?
Rubicon story come to life.
I love how all the websites copying your design actually have a copyright mention at the bottom. The nerve is unbelievable! Beyond that I agree with the "obsolete your own design approach", and, however fun adding stuff to other's websites might be, that would certainly open you up to a suit, as you couldn't pretend you didn't know. That being said, if some customers paid top dollars for what is essentially your design, only not to you, that is a huge loss for you. I'd definitely try and settle with the end customers amiably in this case, or sue if they behave like assholes, and they can then sue the dev or web agency they picked themselves.
Also, interestingly enough, by publicly shaming them, you're providing traffic to their site. Does the saying "any press is good press" still hold?
I've "learned" plenty about this issue, and the main thing I've gained is a greater appreciation for the power of ideology to obstruct rational thought. The symptoms of ideology include disproportionate emotional reaction to disagreement and accusing people of "ignorance" when they disagree with you.

Let's disengage from that, if we can, and try to answer my question. How is silence an action rather than a non-action? All you've asserted (well, you've let bloggers assert it for you, which doesn't add any more weight than saying it yourself) is that speaking out would be appreciated. I'll grant that. But just because action is appreciated doesn't turn non-action into action. It simply doesn't follow.

The purpose of this "with us or against us" tactic is to bully sympathetic people into radicalism, which is why radical bullies like Lenin and Mussolini were so fond of it. It is a self-replication mechanism for ideology. Which is why you become so angry when someone merely says "I have nothing to speak out about". Apparently one is supposed to go looking for outrage that motivates them to join your side when none is apparent, rather than simply acting on the evidence they have at hand.

I reject your bullying, reject the implication that I should speak out about things I have never witnessed just to further your agenda, and reserve the right to speak out about and solve the problems I do see in a calm and reasoned fashion.
I knew I had heard the names before (I live in Seattle), and I have nothing but nice things to say about this team. It seems they shut down their other venture at the same time:

https://spokely.com/ (there is cert issure your browser will rightly complain about)

Found it referenced on this personal brand page: http://brandonhilkert.com/

Best of luck to them and onwards indeed!
Simple cross domain tracking
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> Amazon also promised to spend $50 million to build a facility at an unspecified site and create hundreds of jobs.

With their tax advantage disappearing, Farhad Manjoo's comment about Amazon's strategy to open same-day delivery centers in these settled states comes to mind.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/0...
The Sudden Death of The Deadliest American Sniper Ever
Would make a good movie plot for a Hollywood bromance style comedy.
I find it interesting you criticize Reddit for things that Hacker News is just as guilty of. The lack of decent moderation and peer-policing here has given rise to things like ShitHNSays (now defunct) and lots of sexist crap being spouted and praised here.

HN is getting better at it, sure, but only because people are speaking out against it more frequently. Which…is exactly what the post encourages people to do.
Microsoft needs to start worrying about Chromebooks
If you wanna see php done right, forget about all the crap you have seen and take a look at symfony.com. It has great docs, that focus on teaching web development (not just a framework) and all these sysadmin best practices like how to set the permissions, etc. Trust me, I have used every popular framework (including Rails and Django), and Symfony2 has nothing to envy.
I would like to know how the database of names was built.

That is, how would one qualify a name as "black-sounding" or "white-sounding"? I hope it was not based only on intuition as that may give misleading results.
Is there a public data set somewhere that correlates given names with ethnicity?

Edit: On second thoughts, it might be more interesting to perform similar google search experiments with both intuitive and empirical name/ethnicity pairings and see if the results differ.
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Thread: 'Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts', 2012-11-27, horrid SourceForge archive roughly around http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitc...

Summary gist: https://gist.github.com/4165865
Yeah because that's the way humanity usually tackles its problems. We all together solve one problem... then the next... then the next.
Can't agree enough with @twog here.

we were funded in Chattanooga over a year ago and have had an incredible experience. We started as a completely green 3 man startup spread across the country, recruited a cofounder from UT Knoxville CS, and have since been able to bring on 8 amazing people.

PG says, 'If you can just avoid dying, you get rich'. Now, obviously there is a lot more to it - but taking that sentiment at its face, being in Chattanooga is one of the best business decisions your startup can make.

Sure, you'll have to travel further to conferences or won't meet the latest A16Z founder at the coffee shop (well, until they invest in us), but think of the benefits...

We have 12 incredibly talented people... and what we've spent in 20 months is what most Valley startups burn through in 6. Thus, our 'avoid dying budget' metrics are pretty healthy for a 'seed' payroll.

Cost of living is incredible. I bought a house a mile from our downtown office, and my mortgage is ~ 30% of what people are scrambling to pay in rent in SOMA - with a park and an awesome tavern less than a 1 minute walk.

Which brings up the next crucial piece, Quality of Life. Simply amazing. Yes, to catch an NFL or NBA game, you'll have to make a 90 minute trip - but that is not much worse than SV, and much better than Austin. Downtown Chattanooga is incredibly accessible with a great bar/ music scene, a rapidly redeveloping former industrial area with lofts, coffee shops, etc, and is literally 20 minutes from some of the best climbing/ hiking in the world.

To wrap up, if you want an amazing quality of life, great startup culture and energized scene, great community support, and most importantly want to survive longer than your east or west coast competition, check out Chattanooga.
Read the article. The article you've posted conflates jailbreaking with unlocking. As the OP pointed out:

Jailbreaking: getting root on the phone

Unlocking: configuring the phone so it can be used on any cell network

Jailbreaking is still legal.
At a large enough scale, you can't handwave away the eggs you'll break on the way to your omelet.
I've addressed your oddly bullying tone in another comment.

The simple fact is that I have no genuine experiences or evidence to add to the conversation, and I suspect this is true of others as well. I reject the notion that I should speak out if I have nothing to say. I'm not the one ruling myself out from being anyone's "ally", I'm just ruling myself out from being anyone's parrot. If all you want is parrots for allies, that says more about you than me.

If all you're asking for is someone to say "yep, that's awful" whenever someone else reports something awful happening, I have to question the notion that there isn't enough of that already.
> But it never once bothered me that much,

Yeah, but do you take the time to scold other Jewish people who do get bothered by that stuff?

Also: let's not drag out the Bigger Fish to Fry Fallacy (there's probably a better name for that...). Just because problem B is worse than problem A doesn't mean it's not worth it for some folks to focus on A. Also: what are you doing about either of these problems? That is to say, what is your moral standing to tell others which problems are worth pursuing and which are not?
When I open the submission on an iPhone, the link to the site moves when I try to tap it - it isn't possible to use the link. Does anyone else get this behaviour?
When I'm working with CodeIgniter (which ExpressionEngine is based off), I always rewrite access to subfolders of the project to the index.php file, because that's the only file that there needs to be access to for the site to function properly. This keeps anyone from accessing configuration (or any other) files.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^somefolder.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
" Companies have many accounting tactics for reducing their declared profits – so if the tax is levied on profits, they will likely game the system. "

The solution for this is not taxing revenue, which as mentioned in other comments would destroy a lot of legitimate business models, but instead, improving the art of accounting. It suffers from the same plague of "large corporations with out-sized political power" and the sway of a lot of misaligned incentives. Putting in one stop-gap solution for another doesn't seem like the best way to fix the system.
While I agree with your main point that the eventual failure of the browser plugin model wasn't as obvious in 2007 as it is now, I could pick different dates and show the opposite.

The video tag was invented in 2007, the same year the iPhone was released. Android followed in 2008, and it was becoming clear that the mobile web wouldn't play well with browser plugins. At the time, there was also a general trend to move away from proprietary standards (ODF was standardized in 2007), and it was obvious from the very beginning that Silverlight would be a closed-source, hard-to-reimplement, patented, Microsoft-supported-platforms-only thing.

In the end, it probably boiled down to developers not wanting Microsoft to gain control of the web ever again.
If you're going to bring up slavery, you must also acknowledge that part of the push to end slavery came from Christians who denounced slavery. This started well before the Civil War and all of the economic implications of stopping the Confederates from having an economy based on slavery.
I have a suggestion for you: When you have the opportunity to have a conversation with a woman in technology, ask her about sexism in the industry. Ask her if she's experienced it: if she's received the sort of unwanted geek attention for which Linux conferences are famous; if she's received stupid or sexist comments (c.f. mwetzler's comment above); if she's had to fend off inappropriate advances in a professional setting; if she's had to go through the mental gymnastics that an atmosphere of sexism creates.

And here's the crucial part: don't argue with her about it. Do it as a fact-finding thing, a survey. Just say you're trying to learn. Ask questions to draw her out and clarify things, but don't share your opinion (especially those above), because that will interfere with the information gathering, especially if they perceive that you're asking only to dismiss or reject what she's telling you.

Women are very frequently silent about sexism because speaking up about it not only fails to address the issue, but worsens the severity of it. What started as inappropriate flirting turns into sexually abusive comments; or an argument in which an experience in which they feel quite obviously wronged, gets trivialized as a misunderstanding or oversensitivity on their part.

everyone is entitled to their opinion on the matter

Absolutely, but some opinions are backed up by a lot of data, and those opinions tend to be more worth having.
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