skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, he's not being obnoxious, the apology isn't super clear so he could be mistaken.

It reads like they've decided to take $99 from previously free customers on the basis of them not complaining when they were sent an email. If thats the case, I personally think it's a pretty crappy practice and any customer that claims to have not recieved the email should be entitled to a refund.

If thats not the case, they should probably take a look at the message because it's confusing.

p.s. Please don't come back with a selective quote. The "what happens" seems to conflict with the "Next steps" which is why I'm confused.
Sharing Is Inflating Our Culture
if they weren't then all JS and CSS files loaded through them would have their script tags in it.

i have had these types of issues a while back at coffee shops that try to inject ads, it was breaking my XML.
One of the parties involved in this (admittedly bizarre) case is a law firm called "Prenda Law".
The only ones which immediately come to mind for me are: Lenovo, Huawei, COSCO, CNOOC, CNPC/PetroChina, ZTE, China Unicom, China Airlines (although I always get them confused with Air China, the Taiwanese version), Haier, pplive, Baidu, Weibo, BYD (due to Warren B).

There are a lot of Taiwanese and Hong Kong companies I associate strongly with China, though.
> So why didn’t I? Why didn’t you? Why didn’t we?

Because I don't care about such problems. I care about doing stuff I a) understand or might get more understanding from b) believe I can do c) find fun in solving d) get paid too.

Your argument is that people don't because of a lack of information - it's not fully so. I know some problems I could work on, which would help other people. I chose not to, because it's an endless tunnel, and it's no fun.

How exactly do you propose to force me - or anyone else - to work on the problems you believe are the most important? Were are your guns ?

To put that in simpler words, if I don't believe your problems fit by abcd criteria, I will not work on them. You may find "public shaming" a useful tool for your deeds, but you will find that it only works a limited amount of times.

Now please excuse me if I don't engage in your guilt trip and instead spend time do stuff I want, which may be in your list of important things, or might not.

[The only real argument there is in the conclusion: we could be concerned if we, as the human race, were collectively not doing stuff we wanted to do because of a lack of ambition, or to follow the 'large base' pyramid example, didn't sell stuff to poor people.

I must say I'm sometimes worried about people lacking ambition, and like in this post engaging in empty rhetorics instead of actually doing stuff - whatever "stuff" might me, even an hello world...]
Especially considering the time it takes to charge the car. If you can do all charging while you're sleeping, then no biggie, but if you have to charge in the middle of your business trip to Los Angeles you can +$200 to your monthly tab, by Tesla's logic.
A First Look At The “Grand Central Terminal” Of San Francisco
You can repeat that until you are blue in the face if you like. That won't make it a true. It is ludicrous to modify a business agreement without actually giving notice, and expect to keep the proceeds of that mistake.
I think if you are using it in the server-side to just use the DartVM. its the direct analogy to Node.js. It runs server code and everything else. and I am not sure why you would even try to run it on Node.js except for some library that you really need.

DartVM seems to outperform V8 anyway from the benchmarks on the Dart site.
They're all over the place. People just starting out. It could've been an intern fresh out of college. It could've been someone who just never graduated beyond copy-and-paste-from-StackOverflow. It could've been written by a person who never did web development before and was just told to make it work.

The little HN/Twitter/Reddit "awesome programmer" bubble is just that... a bubble. It's easy for us to forget that lots of people write lots of bad, untested code all day long. As much as it frustrates me, lots of people code who don't care about code - it's just their job.
Kind of a "Yikes" on them pushing this $500 per month rate. It includes assumptions like time saved at gas stations and driving in carpool lands and states that have a rebate. I think they'll get more blowback on this than the NYTimes piece in terms of their credibility.
Well it's checking for Netscape 6 so who knows when this was originally written...
> * This URL is relative, which means it will never actually reach its intended target (instead filling your web logs with this request)

It likely doesn't matter that the URL is relative. It contains a GUID to be unlikely to resemble any real URL, and it's clear enough that they are capable of deep-packet-inspecting all of your web traffic from the way this is already used, so they likely hijack any request to this URL path within their network to capture its contents, and return a 200.

I don't have Comcast so I can't verify, but it would be interesting for somebody to check whether that URL is masked for all Comcast users.

> That's right, this code causes every page served on your system to pop an AJAX request to the wrong URL every 5 seconds, as long as the tabs are open.

I can only hope that they infinitely hang requests to their special URL in the case that user is under the quota so that this is not true. But if it is true, and they are not perfect about masking the URL (edit: it seems like people below on this thread have seen requests to this URL in their server logs), this could be construed as a DDOS attack by Comcast on every owner of an HTTP server via their own customers.
Thank you. So their scheme might be something like sue someone for $1,000 or whatever, and if they win collect $10,000 in attorney fees.

But without the shadow ownership, they would only be entitled to the $1,000?

edit: although on rereading my hypothetical, I still don't understand why strictly separating ownership of the media company and the law firm wouldn't have been sufficient.
I agree. They should also have factored in the time it takes to plug/unplug the charger over the month.
How about:

orders.collect(&:total)

Isn't this all a bit of a storm in a teacup? It seems to me that we should minimise the amount of code because #(code) ~= #(bugs).
Yay for Victoria/Vancouver Island shout-out - but I'm not sure that this is true in all corners of the world ... And definitely invest in better pockets, sheesh! :)
At a glance that sounds like the "supplemental enhancement information" that H.263 had circa 2000, but the patent appears to have been filed in 2004 and issued in 2008. Am I wrong?
What percent of the defense budget is a subsidy to the petrochemical industry?
Student copies from copyrighted textbook onto wikipedia,

textbook copyright owner notices + sues wikipedia
I don't read a lot of modern patents, for the obvious reasons: there are legal risks, and the patent texts are useless even if the invention isn't. But there used to be a time when a software patent wasn't necessarily an obfuscated hodgepodge of legalese with no apparent technical content.

Consider for example the (expired, so should be safe to read) mostly-copying GC patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US4907151

A system description doesn't get much better than that. If somebody couldn't implement a GC based on that patent, they're not a competent systems programmer. (It was also definitely novel. Non-obviousness is harder to argue 25 years after the fact).
You're more than welcome to apply to ApartmentList, I'm currently working there. We're a fairly small profitable company using Rails in San Francisco. You can shoot me an email at rohan@apartmentlist.com and we can talk there.
There is a lot of difference between software and process patents (which for most reasonable people look a lot like either copyright or WTF) and hardware patents that you have listed.

Even so things like non-obvious are a hard hurdle - most physicists know of the experiment where you fire a single proton at a half silvered mirror and it will be quantum-indeterminate whether it bounces back - that is truly random. There is /was a patent on using that for generating random numbers and is the basis of most every poker site in the world.

It's getting to the point where patenting the business model of patent trolling is going to be the only solution

Edit
Having read the GC patent I can see there is at least one software patent that might just pass muster - but really I struggle with the idea this is an invention.

Edit2 - just to clarify - look at the patent for Edisons lightbulb (ignoring the fog of war surrounding patent claims). At the time the generation of light and heat from passing a current through a wire was well known - but edisons defensible patent is a specific description of how to build his lightbulb - vacuum, alloys, resistance etc. To my non legal mind that is not a set of scientific principles, but a copyright in hardware form.
The alert will significantly increase your data usage...
This is neither a feature nor a bug. It's a restriction forced by Apple.
Interesting. I think my only issue would be with the clarity of the patent. I admit to not being skilled in the art of broadcast video but not completely ignorant of video compression ideas either. Still, the "legalized" writing style makes for very difficult reading. Did you have a working version before applying for the patent?
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The Rolls Royce one is this year. If you think the LTE patents are obvious, I'm not sure what to tell you. Qualcomm, NTT, Intel, etc, spend billions researching all this obvious stuff you could come up with in your basement.
Has this been confirmed to still be happening? The guys blog post[1] states that this was on Nov 20th 2012. Anyone currently using a comcast account want to put down their pitchfork for a second and help verify this?

[1] http://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercept...
Ding ding!

Of course, that doesn't mean this isn't unfortunate, bad for us and bad for the web in the long term.
What Happened To The Internet Productivity Miracle?
This is an interesting perspective if I'm understanding you correctly.

Are you saying that Rails is "magical" because it is often presented to new people that way, but if it were more often presented as "a bunch of Ruby code that does a bunch of stuff, please do go look and see how it does that stuff", it would not be "magical" without being implemented or documented at all differently?
Comcast only enforces data caps in two cities right now, so your testing pool is much more limited than simply anyone using Comcast. Ryan (the author of the blog post) lives in one of those two cities. A potential tester would have to be in either the Nashville or Tucson area, and have used over 90% of their bandwidth cap for the month.
I am arguing that people are not asking for these packages out of entitlement.

They are asking for them out of increased awareness of their market value.

In the end the market will sort this out, and some developers will inevitably be left disapointed.

However, I think it's quite reasonable that techies of all skill levels are pushing for and often achieving the salaries and working conditions that they want.

(I really don't see how asking for telecommuting is entitled by the way. I would love to do it for quality of life and productivity reasons, but that is completely divorced from how well I rate myself etc.)
Securitizing tax credits...nothing like going down in maximum Li-flames. Trying to prime the order pipeline.

Popcorn plsthx
This site claims the true cost of gas is $15.40:

http://www.progress.org/gasoline.htm

This article at $12.75 from May 2011:

http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/05/increasing-gas-prices-su...

Subtracting the $4 price of gas is what brought me to $8, conservatively. To be fair, some of the price paid at the pump is tax, but according to the previously linked wikipedia article that's 12%, so $0.48 for a $4 gallon.
I'm considering going a step farther and just setting up an Openvpn connection to my Linode server.
After reading that, I can only imagine what this demand curve means for the actually available talent one may buy.

You know the saying - "the market is so hot even chickens can fly"

If you have to hire, that'll be a very expansive chicken - or maybe even a lemon. That's the cost of doing business I guess.
Microsoft: Build 2013 Didn't Sell Out Today, It Was an Error
I expect it's standard for the troll's "pay up and sign here to avoid ruinous litigation costs" deal to include an NDA that would prohibit things along those lines.
I thought I was going to be rick rolled, but that's good too.
But think about the Netscape 6!
That would be "ain't never gonna eat no sushi".
So, the pricing model as suicide pact principle.
I hate that feeling.. the knowledge that engaging in the discussion is going to be exhausting and the chance of making traction is slim, and the feeling that inaction is the only reasonable alternative. Allow me to suggest another alternative to actual discussion in situations like this:

Tell the person to fuck off.

I'm serious. It registers disagreement, and to any rational person the lack of interest in attempting serious discussion. Ideal? No. Preferable to inaction? Absolutely. Plus where do you even start with a comment like that? I'd prefer to make it clear that I'm shocked than do someone who would say that the favor of jumping into a thoughtful discussion about how the merits of their opinion.
This is excellent, especially the diagrams.

I'd love to see a explanation of the security implications of each flow. As I understand it the "most secure" flow is OAuth 1.0a (three-legged), but its a total pain so it is mostly avoided. OAuth 2.0 is dramatically simpler, but there are bespoke additions (Google and Facebook come to mind) that you have to handle, typically in the name of security. I am ignorant of all the implications and would like a guide.
I've always wondered why companies aren't recruiting kids out of High School to learn Rails instead of attending college. Understandably there is immaturity to deal with and all that but it seems there is enough demand to overshadow that.
Internet Explorer 11 getting SPDY support
Not if you don't feel trapped nor care about it being so. Every service coming up with a superior level product which then has to support it at scale will have to resort to charging users or showing them ads and using their 'data' as a channel to target ads by. Yes Google is a trap and so is Facebook, skype, iOs, windows, mac, linux. You choose what you like to use, get used to it or not find anything better and are trapped with it. Until you chose not to because you are either paranoid or something better came to be.
Fully agree. As Kanye said: "Having money aint everything...not having it is."
As a different point, my place was already pre-wired. I bought a cable modem from Best Buy, and plugged it in. It synced immediately. Then I went online and ordered service. They charged me $10 to send a self-install kit, but it wasn't needed I was actually online within minutes.

So sometimes their systems work...

I was very sad about switching from my other carrier (Sonic.net), but they ultimately couldn't deliver very much bandwidth. And Comcast was actually cheaper.
Filmmaking, and particularly indie filmmaking, is a very distributed operation, in terms of assigning work and often in geographical terms as well.

You may or may not have an office for the project, you may or may not have a base of operations. You'll have dozens of people who need to coordinate frequently (constantly, really), though. And Dropbox is a major help.

Scripts, schedules, budgets, art, paperwork (reams and reams of paperwork), call sheets, gear lists, location scout photos, maps, breakdowns of 100 different sorts, VFX tests, various collections of footage (though production footage tends to be large enough to warrant sneakernet), etc etc.

I sometimes do coodinator work of various sorts on low-budget movies, music videos, etc. Dropbox made very quick inroads into that world. Even if the production doesn't have one for the whole project (and they should), departments will often set up their own. Particularly art departments, with their 50-bajillion details to track.

I've got a couple of film projects I'm developing with partners, and we use Dropbox from very early in the process. Scripts, storyboards, concept art, etc. One of our partners is in Portland, and another in New Zealand, but Dropbox keeps us all on the same page (along with Skype and Gmail, of course).
Shizzle mah nizzle fo rizzle.

The problem with AAVE is that as much as some academics try to imprint it with French grammar history or specific qualities of a major language, it is too easily corrupted with non-standard pidgin fads even within its everyday usage. A lot of it is emotive slang that can mean a myriad of things without supporting context clues in regular English. Specific pronouns often refer to unconventional nouns so that it becomes an inside joke. Haphazardly juxtaposing SOV/SVO word order and verbing nouns does not a ginuwine phat language roll.

Honestly, it's closer to an alternate form of English poetry than a separate language.
The pixel seems like a total waste from a hardware standpoint, everything he mentioned would work just as well one of those $250 samsung chromebooks. He also had to fight with the os to get anything useful done. Again i can see myself spending a few hundred bucks for a laptop to carry with me and not worry about to get some basic tasks done, but why would anyone want a pixel?
Dismissed Bitcoin far too quickly.
Dealers only sell new autos to capture the service business, trade-in inventory and manufacturer floor plan financing. In the case of Maserati, servicing costs are inline with Ferrari making it a service cash cow!
Server's overloaded. Cached version here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pSYnpq...
That's not correct. The US government doesn't subsidize SpaceX, it purchases launches and technology. It's just a customer. And it buys those things for much cheaper than before. You as the tax payer are actually saving money compared to what NASA and the DoD were spending on the big contractors.
I remember reading a paper once (no source; it was years ago) that explained innovation versus invention, and that most people confused the two, not realising that innovation is defined as iterating on an existing technology, while invention is creating a new technology. Innovation is NOT creating a new technology.
Rogers also used to serve ads in place of an error message when a bad URL was requested. That was the final straw causing me to cancel my service with them and switch to Teksavvy.
It is similar but not the same (I believe - I am not familiar with H.263).

The patent itself describes the difference between this idea and other Multi stream encodings. This idea can be applied to MPEG2 or any lossy codec and it also covers sending the enhancement data at different times and by different routes to the main data unlike other multistream/pyramid encoding approaches which expect simultaneous generation and transmission of the streams.
I would consider some of the LTE stuff "method patents" even if they are usually implemented in an ASIC. Other than that I don't have many examples. Most software patents are crap. That's largely because software designs are rarely capital incentive to produce (a good proxy for how "hard" coming up with any idea happens to be). That's the real argument against software patents imho. There is no capital investment to protect.
Retargeting companies share their cookies amongst themselves. So when tracked by company A goes to a site published by company B, company A gets notified. You are tracked, be sure of that. It might not be enough data to show you exactly the ads you might accidently care about but its close enough and closing in all the time.
Wow.

That male at the table needs to have his balls removed for such a statement.

He may be male, but he isn't a man. A real man wouldn't behave like that.

Edit: OK, maybe having his balls removed is excessive.
He is mocking a womens anatomy and the reverse would make him feel good. i.e saying he got into GDC because of his testicles isn't the same type of insult as the female getting in for her "tits". So this isn't an argument that levels the playing field.

Perhaps he is just a socially awkward human being that doesn't respect women. Someday he will cross the wrong path and insult the wrong women and then I guess Karma kicks in?

Edit 2: Thanks everyone for pointing about that I was indeed going overboard with the removal of anatomy phrase. Overboard from being outraged people still act like this and in front of a table full of people.
brokentone comments below that they've seen the urls in their production logs. I don't see it in any of mine but I'd be willing to bet that a company writing JS that bad would probably screw up the rest of the process too.

Surely a class action against Comcast is in order here? They're charging everyone for bandwidth they're not using.
One agency’s pitch consisted entirely of this: “I saw that your [sic] looking for some work. I have a few posions [sic] in SF that might be a fit, let me know when you have some time to talk.” It provided no last name, phone number or company name.

The author should remember this is craigslist. This seems like run-of-the-mill spam (likely sent to EVERY new job posting)
This calculator is crap. Expect to shell over the full price of the car in cash or pay $1k per month.

Aside from gas, the remainder of the "savings" are BS attempts to get the "effective monthly payment" as low as possible.
On the private enforcement of copyrights [audio]
This sort of insult doesn't help anything or anyone. If anything, it just makes the situation worse for everyone involved.

Please desist.
I agree, they're everywhere - but it doesn't explain this well-written RFC[1] to accompany the code.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108
This isn't a credit card error. This would be like signing a contract with Sprint for 500 minutes a month for $20, getting charged the $20, and then being charged an extra per-minute fee that wasn't in the contract.
This is why I run an always-on VPN
Tesla S, average owner income >$200K. http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/7238-Model-S-B...
Also, where do you put the google self driving car patents?
Can we tell the GDC committee? There were witnesses, and getting him expelled from future GDC events seems like an appropriate reaction.
David Foster Wallace covered this really well; his spiel to his students on this topic is included here: http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html... (the whole essay is definitely worth reading).
This is cool. -Rafe from Evernote.