skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was talking about the societal advantage to having a more productive work force. That is not factored into the purchase of a KWh of electricity.

But it is. If society as a whole benefits more from electricity, their demand goes up, which raises the price of electricity. You're just trying to double-count the benefit.

> as though we would be where we are today in all other areas of Western life if we had stalled the production of CHEAP electricity for 80 years while we waited to develop alternatives that were themselves predicated upon the cheap electricity we got from coal in the first place.

The situation isn't banning the use of coal from the beginning. It's forcing the external costs of coal to be accounted for from the beginning. Economic theory tells us that this wouldn't have stalled our development.
Oh, oh, I like doing these analogies, and we badly need AWS stickers for the office.

A typical grain of beach sand – which must be about the lightest solid thing that’s easy for most people to envision – is 3 mg. That many grains of sand would mass 6e6 kg (6000 metric tons), which in turn is near the upper limit of masses that make sense to most people in everyday terms.

So you could say that if every S3 object were a grain of sand, S3 would be 3× the launch mass of the Space Shuttle, or somewhat more than the gold held in Fort Knox, or as much as the heaviest living thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

And the the 1.1 million requests per second would be about 3.3 kg, or as much as a gallon of milk/water.
Is there a word/phrase for when you want to use a word, but it sounds cliche, so you try to underplay the use of that word by prepending some diminutive modifier?
For those that don't know, SuperCell makes the top grossing iOS game called 'Clash of Clans'. It is like Farmville meets Warcraft II. Rather the just growing crops to make your farm better, you grow armies to trash other people's towns.

Also to put things in perspective, SuperCell makes 10x more money per employee than Goldman Sachs.
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His threats to veto it guaranteed that the Republicans would all line up behind it.

So we've got the people who've been saying they're libertarians and he's a socialist tyrant for years, and they're determined to give him and the federal government more power. Because he doesn't want it.
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Hi Tim--thanks for replying! To show my full hand, I'm the business/marketing co-founder/CEO at a software company--though I have a strong tech background, I chose to go into the marketing side because I love psychology and analytics so much. (I'm running an analytics startup.)

I'm also a woman who's been known to drop some serious coin on clothes, and finally, I've previously stated publicly that I believe the future of clothing/fashion is getting exact fit/measurements (which sparked quite a heated debate when I published those thoughts to my audience on Facebook.)

You don't necessarily need a "marketing co-founder"--you can learn much of what you need simply by reading some books by famous copywriters. Start with John Carlton's "Kick-Ass Copywriting Secrets of a Marketing Rebel" and branch out from there. Read some classic "ad men" books--John Caples and the like. Dig up all of Eugene Schwartz's old ads. Put aside your gag reflex and cringe factor and delve in deep. You'll learn a lot about people and copywriting that way.

I also have some great free resources on my blog and I am launching my own sales course soon as well. See my latest post: http://www.erica.biz/2013/macklemore-effect/ for more details.
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It is basically TLS, so if you are connecting to a public node then it is easy to see that you are using tor. This is why we need more bridges that are slightly more difficult to enumerate.
Linode now forcing users to regenerate their API Keys
Email received from Linode:

"Hello,

As a precautionary measure in light of the recent security incident [1][2], we are requiring that you regenerate your API key by 11:00 AM EDT, Thursday, April 25th, 2013.

In preparation, we will have two blackout dates where the Linode API will temporarily cease to function for users who have not updated their API key:

Monday, April 22nd, 2013 between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM EDT (15:00 and 17:00 UTC)
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM EDT (15:00 and 17:00 UTC)

During the blackout periods, all API requests using old keys will return an errorcode of '444' (KEYEXPIRED). If you update your Linode API key at any time after receiving this message, your API calls will continue without interruption during the blackout periods.

You can regenerate your API key by logging in to the Linode Manager, selecting the 'My Profile' link at the top right, and clicking the 'Generate a new API password' button:

- https://manager.linode.com/profile/index

We appreciate your time and understanding in this matter. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to send an email to our support team at support@linode.com.

Regards,
The Linode Team

[1] http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/12/security-notice-linode-manager-password-reset/
[2] http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/"
> HTML won't win anything, first and foremost because it is not fighting anything. And HTML is neither elastic or inelastic. Calling HTML elastic is like calling an idea "green and wet". HTML is for marking up structure of the document (I am ignoring a couple of presentational attributes in HTML, but they should be ignored). CSS tells the browser is something is elastic or not.

I think everybody here understands that, and the parent was using it as a shorthand for "the set of technologies commonly used in hypertext documents on the Web." It is not productive to issue a correction every time you encounter synecdoche.
I'm just about to make the same jump. I will leave behind some dear friends, but there was definitely a lonely start.

And I really feel like I need to leave the country I'm in right now. But I go to a place I've never been before, so there will be some loneliness there too, for sure.
The box labeled "You" is not just a web browser. It should include a local (as in local to the machine running the browser) Tor proxy like Vidalia. See https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en for an example.
I use buffers and splits.

My work session has about a hundred or two "open" files in the buffer, and I split and un-split windows often so that I can view multiple files at once.

But my most common way to change current file is :b <first few letters + tab complete>

I occasionally prune my buffers for files that have been deleted, but it's mostly unnecessary to. When I close it, I just save the session in a file and re-open the session.
I'm using the following to expand "%%" in command mode to the full path of the current open file's directory:

cabbr <expr> %% expand('%:p:h')

You could also use :. instead of :p to get the relative path, see :help c_% and :help filename_modifiers
apparently `lp -o raw -d "<yourprintername>" <FILE>` should print the pcl to your printer. I couldn't get it to work though. Maybe you're printer has to speak pcl. I tried cups-pdf (virtual printer) with no success.
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Same here, I can quickly have all the functions, data, and docs visible, that I need for the particular code that I'm currently writing. Having to switch back and forth would only confuse me.
Usually, the biggest problem I have with other IDEs is that they don't allow me to split as freely as vim / emacs do. XCode is shockingly stupid about it, for example.
This is the saving grace of the situation. China's leadership must be aware of what will happen if they try to meet the energy needs of a billion people through dirty coal.

China's challenges are very different from what England faced in the 1850s. But in that sense, perhaps their path will be similar - they will face unprecedented challenges, and will have to innovate to solve them. And if they do solve them, they will now have a massive first-mover advantage.
Sappily enough, seems like he fell in love, or something. That's what I'm reading from AMANDA, he met a girl, and loves her more than Ruby (should that even be possible!?)

Whatever the reason, I'm enjoying the ride!
Actually Lucidchart has imported and exported Visio documents for a couple years, and we don't use the LibreOffice library at all.

We reverse engineered the binary format!
If anyone wants to hook their actual printer up to _why's queue (which I'm pretty sure is what he intended), iandennismiller transcribed the OCaml program in SPOOL/HOMEWORK which polls whytheluckystiff.net and sends the PCL files to your printer: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/pull/4

It's quite magical. I was woken up this morning by my printer, when the first pages were being published. Now every 5, 10, or 15 minutes my printer starts clanking away (it's an old one) and a brand new page slowly emerges. Great way to read a novel, if that's what it is.
What just happened to VC valuations?
Dan Primack: "(...) What that shows is a whopping 79% decrease in median pre-money valuations between Q4 2012 and Q1 2013."
> Free worldwide shipping, even to Thailand

I thought this was an absolutely brilliant use of GeoIP :)
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Ilkka Paananen is a good example of a very powerful CEO. Delegation of authority is a sign of strength, not weakness.
You're the top comment; minde adding the two new ones?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572115
Could Reddit sleuths cause harm the Boston bombing investigation?
I code on a Macbook, and I actually use say... Option+i, e in order to get ê. That works inside Vim, too, I just found out.

Obviously not very helpful to people not on a Mac, but I don't have to go through Alt mappings at all.
Considering that a large part of software creation is, well, creative, I'd love to see more of this in the tech industry—like Github, for example.
:vsplit .

On this point, it's worth noting that users of the NERDTree plugin[1] can set it to work with the above style of use as well:

" Replace netrw with secondary NERDTree
let NERDTreeHijackNetrw=1

[1] https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree/
I don't get it. How do you sell a hole?
Disagreeing with someone is not the same as jumping on him! Did you find any of the replies personally insulting the person who raised the concerns? Or making fun of him or writing him off? If you did, that is precisely what the down vote is for. You will notice that the person raising the point was not downvoted into oblivion.

If it is nothing serious, please don't tell people to not go and participate in the board.
You guys are going to be so mad when he announces he's doing Node now :)
From the comment you initially replied to:

"Only use the users password to obtain a long random key" (emphasis mine).

So it was part of the initial recipe.
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House approves CISPA, despite opposition
When I read the comment to merge Google+ and Blogger I thought it was a good idea.

But you're right, my friends and family in my social network don't all want to see my blog posts, which is why I don't share my new blog posts.
It was obvious that they wanted to kill Reader, as has been confirmed by many of the people who worked on it. The initial Google+ implementation was mediocre and no attempt was made to improve it – there were basic flaws like +1 sharing not working at all on mobile which went unfixed for at least a year.
Excellent, amazingly well-written guide. This should really be put on python.org as an "Intro to Python Package Management" or something.
I am generally in favor of transparency. In this case I am definitely in favor of more high level transparency about wages. But when it gets to the specific data about one person and their coworkers it gets more difficult due to various cognitive biases (including the Dunning Kruger effect). I would be interested in the results of experiments in complete transparency and how they deal with these issues. I wouldn't currently undertake the experiment because I don't know of a way to structure it that allows it to fail and not be permanent.
Cook something or get out of the kitchen (2012)
I'm not saying your conclusions are wrong. I'm only saying that your application of the emh is off by a few degrees.

The emh applies to liquid markets. The market for cars is illiquid and therefore the emh doesn't apply. There is no contradiction in these, I never said the emh only applies to securities. I'm sorry if how I said it was unclear or confusing.

There is a robust market for BTC, therefore the EMH is reasonably applied. This doesn't mean I'm agreeing with the author (I agree that the premise that BTC has a knowable zero value is tenuous). My argument is very limited in scope.
A great alternative if you can't (or don't want to) close port 80 is to return a 401 for non-HTTPS requests to your API, rather than redirecting with a 301 from HTTP->HTTPS.

This has the side effect of making sure that HTTP clients can never silently redirect, and it's impossible for a developer to ever get their code working without explicitly using SSL. If it never works in development, they'll never ship such code to production.
>>to prove that your "easily" claim is a stretch<<

Yes, you were trying to prove that -- you were finding fault instead of finding how to make things work.

Other people found how to make things work, because that's what they were trying to do.

>>a separate README for the entire archive<<

Already done.

>>Its sufficient to simply warn the user.<<

Was it sufficient to list

Willingness to read the README

as a requirement? Apparently not.
So Massachusetts didn't even vote at all? That's extremely frustrating.
Even better for support gathering purposes is that they didn't mention that they're buying the network for $1 and not assuming any of the $39 million in debt the city has from rolling out the network so far:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56168330-79/google-network-fiber-provo.html.csp

http://transmission.xmission.com/2013/04/18/the-1-fiber-optic-network

http://www.freeutopia.org/2013/04/17/i-was-wrong-about-google-fiber-but-this-isnt-a-golden-deal-for-the-city-either/

I appreciate the fact that Google would be making an investment in the network, and that local Provo business or technical leadership apparently cannot manage the project on their own. But taking a public asset -- one that's becoming a key public utility -- and turning it into a wholly private one while assuming none of the costs of the existing investment doesn't seem like a balanced deal.

I think Google should either assume some portion of the debt, or they should agree to the same conditions of letting others provide services over the network that was the vision of the network in the first place.
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Regardless of whether it is surprising, I think it is unwise to label it "regular practice," because this gives it a sense of being condoned. People in many spheres of public life recuse themselves of dealings in which their actions and decisions have a direct effect on themselves or their associates. Why should it be any different here?
It's over folks.
Google Must Tame the Fragmentation Monster
The gap between Android's popularity and its financial payback to Google is widening: Hardware and OS Fragmentation, Android Forking, Android Hijacking...
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Yeah. You can use 'pip uninstall'.
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You should, there's lots of vanity sizing nonsense going on. For example, a 3sixteen ST-100x in size 30 is actually a 31 inch waist, and it will stretch about another inch!

http://www.3sixteen.com/collections/homepage/products/st100x...
So basically distribution is the key to the success of the app. How can regular (non YC, 500 startup, etc) people get access to massive distribution channels?
Agreed. We should be funding a tech-based SuperPAC to get those who voted yes out of office.
It's hard to say. Note that such a system might read messages from other protocols (email, SMS, newsgroups, facebook, twitter, whatever) and it might come across as so cool and essential that people really feel they need it.

What I can tell you is that Bing and Google have serious legal, business and technical reasons why they can't offer services that have an interesting degree of personalization based on your usage patterns. (Yes, they localize and they do some simple adjustments of your search results to fool you into thinking they're smarter than they really are)

(And funny, Duck Duck Go gets a huge amount of press for offering an innovation-free zero-personalization search engine while the companies trying to beat the 70% P@1 barrier Google and Bing face are stealth mode companies you've never heard of.)

Anyhow, text analysis has been getting radically better in the last few years and we're really on the threshold of building something that can automatically construct an interest model for you and customize things based on preferences. The algorithms are computationally expensive so if you've got a ARPU as bad as Facebook you can't afford them, but you might be able to make a subscription service profitable before somebody can make an advertising-based service.

Ultimately the RSS reader market has to give up on the "view hundreds of feeds side by side" model and give up all the excuses that it can't be done.
>So if everything needs TLS anyways, why forklift in a new DNS when we could instead work on making TLS better?

For one thing, not everything uses TLS (even if it should). TLS normally requires support by the application, securing DNS could be done in the OS. You could fix DNS and have at least that fixed even for all the legacy applications that nobody is ever going to update to use TLS. It would also make IPSec easier to deploy to the same effect because it would allow the DNS to be used for key distribution. And likewise for distributing ssh host keys.

I'll give you that DNSSEC is poorly designed, but I don't necessarily want "DNSSEC" in particular, I'm just looking for something that allows client devices to securely verify DNS query responses. Does DNSCurve do that? The Wikipedia entry doesn't clearly distinguish whether it's securing the connection to the server or the query response. In other words, does DNSCurve allow you to detect if your ISP's DNS resolver is compromised?
I was thinking I sell a DVD for 7.99 and pay 80 cents and someone can pick it up anytime. I was thinking there might be a kiosk and website and an app that I could search and find things close by.
Just start using virtualenv for everything. By default virtualenv starts you with a clean python setup each time and nothing you've installed globally with pip will affect you.
Interesting that the author uses the US as a comparison....especially when over the past ~30 years, the power of the executive branch has expanded significantly. At the same time, the US's global influence has been waning...
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I wonder how many "Twitter users" are indeed fakes, bots and duplicates. I think Google+'s requirement for real-names would've been prompted as a result of such tactics.
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I wouldn't describe it as a "shit" game as the production values and craftsmanship are quite high. On the other hand, it is clearly exploiting a bug in my wiring.

I've spent over $400 on Clash of Clans. I can afford to, but I don't feel that it's a good use of my money. This game design is definitely on the intrusive / addictive end of the spectrum. The obviously wouldn't be making so much money if it were a flat-rate game like Minecraft.
Why aren't we invoking the internet bat signal already? [1]

[1] http://internetdefenseleague.org/
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The article contains many such mistakes, for example there are not 500.000 players, that's the number of accounts. CCP never discloses the number of actual players and the game practically mandates the use of several accounts for more advanced gameplay.
Aren't google working on that problem as an expansion of google maps by asking people to provide building floor plans?

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/floorplans/
I'm not an Eve player. Is snaring opponents in a dilated node in order to get ahead of them time-wise a used strategy?
You could then multiply by 2 trillion to work out their total data volume under management, which I believe they consider commercially sensitive information, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
I'm not sure. This may depend on how exactly you define trolling.
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http://www.ratioclothing.com is superb for dress shirts.
Zero chance Obama will veto it, he just gave a massive budget to the spying program that CISPA was created to facilitate.
IMO, an app makes no sense at all. Sending just the data over the wire is not limited to apps. And as has been pointed out, you frequently end up going to a web page so why not start out in the browser (app-encapsulated browsers usually stink).
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Most of the delegation is attending the interfaith services here today re: the attack on the Boston marathon.
“‘Principal Component Analysis’ is a dimensionally invalid method”
I'd donate.
I thought I was going to be posting a snide comment here, but I decided to read the whole article and came to the conclusion that the OP is correct. I'm a believer in giving the client the real deal - here's how I build your site/app/etc. Make them feel good about it.

There is something to be said for the "Deck Builder" analogy. The Deck Builder doesn't ask you how you'd like your nails hammered in, or what type of treatment on the wood you'd like to use. He uses his expertise to make decisions based on the environment around him, including size and scope of the project. He takes care of that for you. That's part of why you're hiring him/her.

Also, there have been many times where I have sold X and then realized, after deeper analysis, that Y was a better choice. Now I have to back peddle and re-convince the client why that change is occurring, since I made such a point to mention X before.
Use the reply button to reply to people.

> Edit: Like OP, I'm referring to B2C, not enterprise.

?

> - they will treat you like shit, not like a trusted business partner
> - they will override you
> - they'll take credit for the good things
> - they won't pay you on time

None of these are relevant to a pay-then-goods b2c scenario. And somehow plenty of companies have managed to make money off of rich people, so maybe you were doing it wrong?
"WordPress can do all that"

Can do all what? What WordPress can do out of the box is far less than what it can't do, which is every custom website functionality one can imagine; thus the custom backend.

I agree, trying to stretch WordPress, Drupal, etc. beyond core functionality is asking for pain, not to mention dog slow performance.