skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a friend: "They seem to have rescinded a lot of it, albeit with a shitty nonapology blaming users: <link to this post>. Some of the tags in question could never [have] brought up porn, like 'depression'. I call at least partial bullshit."
In Australia at least the cost of preparing your tax return is tax deductible. For that matter the cost of visiting your accountant in order to do your taxes is tax deductible.
Can a smart customer really get the job done for $5,000? Of course, because this customer will have clearly defined his requirements up-front. The average client will not have clear goals or requirements thus forcing the programmer to iteratively come up with a solution that meets the client's unwritten expectations. This overhead will generally add up to the amount of the higher asking price. So in the case of a poorly defined project, a $5,000 job will be woefully inadequate and will require the client to start over from scratch.
One of my most rewording experience in high-school physics was tracing the history of our understanding the speed of light. Specifically, the series of experiments and explanations we went through to arrive at the conclusion that it is constant relative to the observer.

I wont recount the specifics for fear of making a mistake, but the big takeaway was that the process was not one of finding the correct answer nearly as much as it was finding that our (then) current answer was incorrect. All this tells us of our current understanding is that it hasn't been disproven yet.
What's more, the site is holding up just fine under the _crush_ of HN visitors. Static HTML FTW. :)
The Rule of Failed Integration Build
Well the point of the article was that movies are following this pattern down to the minute so its not unreasonable to expect a few examples
Oh, that extra nesting was stupid of me! Thank you. It should have been

(defn cross [xs ys]
(mapcat (fn [x] (map (fn [y] (list x y)) ys)) xs))

and maybe in CL one would prefer

(defun cross (xs ys)
(loop for x in xs
appending (loop for y in ys
collect (list x y))))

which of course has no equivalent in Clojure, Scheme, or really any other language I can think of.

I'm not sure I agree on (recur...). You would need to use (recur...) if you were translating tail-recursive code that iterated over something other than a data structure and didn't produce new live objects on every iteration. But the code you gave wasn't tail-recursive, and what it iterated over was a data structure, and every iteration produced live objects that can't be garbage-collected. Even if you rewrote it to be tail-recursive, it wouldn't run out of stack for reasonably-sized output lists anyway; and for unreasonably-sized output lists, it would be likely to run out of heap for the output before it ran out of stack. I'm interested to hear if you manage to get it to stack-overflow. (It seems likely to be possible, but perhaps a bit of a challenge.)

Regardless, I don't think it's reasonable to claim that languages that don't have tail-call elimination — which I suspect you may be on the point of doing — aren't Lisps. Many popular Lisps have had TCE, but many more Lisps haven't, and the CL standard doesn't require it.
I work at MSFT in the Azure division. I have no idea about the specifics of accounting terminology, but from what I hear internally I can say that we're quite pleased with both the absolute numbers and the projected growth. It's understandable that our cloud isn't as prominent in the minds of the HN crowd as some of the other well-known ones, but we actually do have the kind of customer base to make the public numbers credible.
I found it very informative, I mean Wikipedia[1] only gives a scant 140-ish word overview of the subject (and basically the same thing on the page for Nissan Computer itself), and though it does give 3 references, 2 of those are PDF's from the court judgements and the 3rd is an expired link to the USPTO. Oh yeah, Nissan.com[2] actually contains the most information, though it looks biased and sensational (to be expected). Otherwise, I'm not finding just a whole lot of recent information about this out there. I see a Wired article from 2001, and a Salon article from 2002, but other than that the chatter is few and far between.

Meanwhile, the site that OP's article was posted on is "the course website for the suite of law & technology courses at Yale University offered by Elizabeth Stark and Brad Rosen" (which is apparently CPSC 183, 184, 185 at Yale University). Publish date of the piece was 2011. So as far as sources go, I'm not sure how much better you could get than this. Not even a single ad, and right under 500 words, which is a nice size for a short take on the subject.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan#Nissan_Motor_Co_v._Nissa...

2. http://www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
This reminds me of the domain http://steam.com, which has the following text in the frontpage:

"This domain is not for sale."

I'm sure Valve could drop a ton of money to aquire that domain.
> a no breaks chapter
[SNIP: a no-breaks quotation paragraph]

that was confusingly appropriate.
Because we've interfered with nature enough to let you live.
The Flavia De Luce mysteries are quite fun (we listened to them on long drives).
What is the alternative. Charge zero dollars irrespective of the amount of data requested?
No. He no longer has to refrain from posting or linking to disparaging remarks about Nissan.

"Injunctive relief may not restrain Nissan Computer from placing links on nissan.com and nissan.net to other sites that post negative commentary about Nissan Motor; to this extent, the relief granted is overbroad, reaches non-commercial speech, and runs afoul of the FTDA and the First Amendment."

Source: Last page of http://www.citizen.org/documents/CourtofAppealsRulingNissanM...
Because they do exist, and I think it is important to make people aware Language != Implementation, as young developers seem not to know anything about compiler implementation nowadays.

Maybe my country of origin makes me have a bit of D. Quixote, who knows.
Yes. You're not stealing if you provide a better service or product and convince them to switch.
> Smoking cannabis is a double whammy, because tobacco use is a leading cause of erectile dysfunction.

Wait, what? I don't follow you. That's like saying frying bacon is a double whammy, because frying eggs is a leading cause of stuff getting stuck to your frying pan.
Cox Communications charges $2,500 to fulfill a pen register/trap-and-trace order for 60 days, and $2,000 for each additional 60-day-interval. It charges $3,500 for the first 30 days of a wiretap, and $2,500 for each additional 30 days. Thirty days worth of a customer’s call detail records costs $40.

Comcast’s pricing list, which was already leaked to the internet in 2007, indicated that it charges at least $1,000 for the first month of a wiretap, and $750 per month thereafter.

[ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/wiretap-prices/ ]
You coded a website while driving (I presume the passengers did most of the work) in a car? Nice.
These blogs are mostly posting pics from porn sites and slapping ads on them. Search is irrelevant. There isn't really any context.

So this doesn't kill the blog as long as people spam links to the site on Reddit. They were never going to be found by (or linked to) google in the first place.
Agreed. After 10 minutes I was fine with using Windows 8 and don't see what the big deal is among people who are technical. With someone like my mom or sister i could see it being a bit more of an issue.
Since Clojure was born in the JVM, I doubt anyone learning Clojure will be more at home in node.
True, but also keep in mind the site is still up with this spike in traffic.

Must be Varnish, Nginx, CDN edge servers, sprites, gzip, pre-fetching and efficient CSS selectors.
Not disagreeing with you at all, but they are not completely isolated. They come and go off the island and have compulsory education like the rest of the United States. So it's not like they don't know about pollution or helicopters or the like.
See also Dan Harmon's story circle, a less detailed version of this: http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_...
Oh boy, I can't wait to see the article Peter Suderman writes when he discovers tvtropes.com.
I'm less annoyed that Silver is going to work on trivial stuff and more annoyed that he's doing it for ESPN, who is doing everything possible to make sports coverage as dumb as possible.

I mean what the hell is Silver going to do there? Tell us the % of time Skip Bayless trolls about LeBron or the probability of Tebow related coverage in the upcoming SportsCenter?
Well put. I could only read half the article before dissociating from my feigned commiseration for the sake of considering the author's opinions.

This article hardly has to do with technology. What garbage from ars.
Why Do Tech dudes in the west dress like crap?
Why is it wrong?

If the government wanted to have a room in an office building for a long period of time to spy on a company in the sam building it is reasonable to charge rent & for utilities. I don't see how this is different?

(I agree in principle that warrantless spying is wrong. But if a warrant is issued I certainly don't see why a company shouldn't charge for their resource use)
is it possible their cpc went down because they've overwhored themselves and not the other way around? I seem to recall a shit ton of changes to SERPs preceding and during the periods mentioned.
From paragraph one: "the hero dressed down by his mentor in the first 15 minutes (Star Trek Into Darkness, Battleship); ... the moment of hopelessness and disarray a half-hour before the movie ends (Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, 21 Jump Street, Fast & Furious 6)."

Paragraph 10: "Look at January’s Gangster Squad. After an opening image that sets up the conflict between Josh Brolin’s hard-charging cop, Sgt. John O’Mara, and the criminal forces of mob boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), O’Mara is called in to see his gruff police superior. “We got rules around here, smartass,” the chief growls. “Do yourself a favor. Learn ’em.” That’s Snyder’s second beat, theme stated. And it’s right at the seven-minute mark, almost exactly when it’s supposed to happen in a 110-minute movie....an all-is-lost moment—including a death—between the 75- and 80-minute mark..."

Did you guys read the article, or just skim it looking for a table of data? The examples are there, with the minutes. You actually have to read numbers written as words (gasp!).
Or predator is the greatest film ever written.
Como alcanzar las metas
Wow. Welcome to 2009.
Glenn Greenwald: 'Explosive' NSA Spying Reports Are Imminent
This is fascinating. To out-hipster myself, I've been a BP subscriber since way back when Nate was famous for the PECOTA model - really bringing a comp engine to baseball to predict results / outcomes, etc etc. ESPN just seems strange for him, unless they threw a crazy amount of money - he loses out in brand prestige of going from NYT to them, so I have to assume the financials were a major factor.
I'd say from technical or engineering POV it's a whole lot less hassle and less likely to break things to just mirror a switch port.
This conversation was incredible!
WiiU is the only backwards compatible system, showing strong support for consumer rights. I frankly am most excited about WiiU this generation, but I'm holding off on buying one till more games come out.

But Earthbound on Virtual Console, and Pikmin 3 coming out make it a compelling buy already IMO.
I am also a longtime fan of his from his BP days. Here's to hoping ESPN makes great use of his skills. Buried as a contributor to a late night program seems, on the surface, like a situation ripe for underutilization of his talents.
Ask HN: Have you seen DNS resolution issues for RDS on us-west-2 lately?
CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Contaminated Polio Vaccine
Hah! Yeah I realize it was idiotic, it was partly satire. Incidentally, I am also aware of the Dragon Ball series of anime to use weird words for character names. I think Goku and Gohan mean something in Japanese (as in, they're not normal names), and I always heard Vegeta meant "vegetable" but I'm not sure if that's true or not. By "always heard" I mean "read on GeoCities". :)
This entire article can be boiled down to:

"Hey did you know Nissan Motors doesn't own nissan.com?"

"They don't? Wow."

Everything about it is obvious. It's providing no content. The fact that the site has no ads and is made by reputable people means nothing. It's still just an old (and very simple) story with no new information or insight added.

The reason you're not finding much/anything out there is like I said this story started in the '90s, everybody already knows about it except people who weren't around then, and even so, there's not much to tell.

This is an anecdote, not an informative article.
Ok so great you missed it, maybe you were sick that week. But it was all over in the late 90s and early 00s, and there's no new developments and no new insight in this post.
This matches my experience. I have multiple demands on me, perhaps more so than many: multiple contracts, startup, founder/ED of a nonprofit that though not fully launched still takes time from my schedule every day, multiple creative projects, and some extremely unusual personal commitments that require that I work in smaller chunks than most people do.

The net result is extreme productivity and focus when I am working, punctuated with breaks that, while not always relaxing in nature, are completely different than what I'm doing when I'm working. My last employer, before I went solo, was stunned by my productivity. I'm not saying that to compliment myself at all, but rather to underscore what I think is the extreme effectiveness of this approach (I have found that if my use of this approach falls off, my productivity falls off). Focus hard for what is basically a sprint, and then do something else, ideally that you find relaxing. Then do it all again.

It's a modification of the work hard/play hard philosophy: Work hard, play hard, work hard, play hard, work hard, play hard....
Tech dudes in the west are busy creating the future without care how they appear to your girlish vanities.
I have to take some issue with his:

> When you're starting out with LaTeX, Leslie
Lamport's LaTeX book covers all the basics, and it
makes a good reference for all of the common things
you'd like to do in LaTeX.

> LaTeX, as it turns out, is a deep rabbit hole.
(It's Turing-complete.) When you're ready for your
black belt in TeX-fu, Donald Knuth's TeXbook is how
you get there.

> This is not an introductory book. This is for
hard-core TeX users.

LaTeX is essentially a macro package on top of TeX
except TeX and/or it's basic macro package Plain had
to be tweaked a little to enable some of the
functionality of LaTeX.

His description of Knuth's The TeXbook is not
correct: The book is nicely "introductory". Also
for an introductory book on a technical topic, the
quality of the writing of this book is excellent,
one of the best, world-class, maybe exemplary.

I read the book in late 1994 in about two weeks and
have used TeX for all my high quality word whacking
since then. I use TeX for all my letters, both
business and personal, used TeX for one peer
reviewed paper in some applied math for a problem in
computer science, and used TeX (to document for
myself) the core, original applied math for my
startup.

I have about 150 macros written in TeX for simple
lists, ordered lists, unordered lists, titles, table
of contents, cross references, various cases of
verbatim (where get to type text that looks like
TeX commands but the text gets treated by TeX just
as-is or verbatim instead of as TeX commands),
some automatic push down stack dynamic storage
that conforms to the scope of names rules of the
nested block structure, etc.

Part of what is good about TeX is the ability to
write macros; any TeX user should be able to write a
macro of a few lines easily as needed, if only for
some one document.

TeX, without LaTeX, is fine, perfectly usable.

And for a "black belt in TeX-fu" read the five
volumes or so of Knuth's detailed documentation of
the source code of both TeX and Metafont.

LaTeX is now quite an advanced macro package, far
beyond my 150 macros or what a user should try to
write for themselves. But, the manuals that
describe LaTeX well are much thicker than Knuth's
The TeXbook and, in my opinion, less well written.

Mostly people who want to do high quality word
whacking, especially with some mathematical
material, with TeX or LaTeX likely should just start
with LaTeX and there maybe the book the OP
recommends, Leslie Lamport's book.
The answer to your question is proprietary gamer content. There's a certain generation that will spend big money to have an ideal gaming experience, and a subset of that set doesn't like that on PCs.
Gmail now features ads that look like emails
You're right, this was just research and wasn't attempting to explain the "why", just the "what happens".
Meet Mikey. A better way to find things in your Gmail.
They used to say "Go West, young man", but today i think the wise ones are saying "Go Stats, young man/woman".
Strange choice of name given that it doesn't build on Microsoft's CLI at all.
Start by deciding whether you want to target a single platform or a list of multiple platforms, and then choose whether you want to work with 2D, fixed pipeline 3D, or programmable pipeline 3D.

For single platform 2D, research the platforms standard development kit. For cross-platform 2D, find a library exposing an API supporting all available platforms[1]. For cross platform 3D, create a list of hardware you wish to support and find the maximum common OpenGL\GLES version and GLSL shader version.

This should give you an idea of the graphics API you will be working with and need to learn.

[1] http://www.libsdl.org/ is one such library if you go this route, I believe it's used in Angry Birds and Valve's Linux port of Steam.
Wasn't sabermetrics his first love?
Thanks very much for the contribution to the discussion. I appreciate the insight.

When they talk about software being counted as part of the billing do you have any idea what they might mean? I believe it was described as software to build applications in Azure.
Silver is very good at generating statistical analyses, as well as determining which set of stats matter and ignoring the ones that don't, imo.

It's the second skill that sets him apart from a run-of-the mill statistician.
Egypt: killing of Mohamed Morsi supporters in Cairo – interactive guide
This uses web scraping of the developer portal behind the scenes, and as a result the Cupertino module is unusable during this outage.
A switch port tends to carry traffic for multiple customers. Supposedly Carnivore does minimization, but I think companies like Google would rather collect data themselves to make sure it's done right.
Mozilla Comes under Attack - and of Age
I'm using BTSync with EncFS to sync encrypted data - including on some machines which don't have the encryption keys or in one case a machine which doesn't even have EncFS installed. (This is a trick which works to secure Dropbox/GDrive/SkyDrive stored data too).
TweetNaCL
No, the problem is I don't need decent response-time everywhere in the world. I need decent response time in California. That's where the majority of my visitors are from. Latency is the tradeoff you make when you buy overseas servers to save money.
Isn't it? And that's why many law firms are laughing all the way to the bank, as well as why there's a growing trend to bring legal work in-house among the Fortune 1000, which has only recently realized that it's being fleeced.

I'm not just guessing here. I just spent a year as a fellow at Stanford Law and heard all about it from people on both sides. I also have a friend who just quit his job as an associate at one of the top valley firms. His job was to do transactional work, i.e. prepare legal documents for top valley VCs. He graduated from Harvard Law School, which meant that the firm could bill much higher rates for his time, and told me that he spent most of his 16-hour day copying and pasting Word documents--which is largely why he quit.
You mean CLR?
The HTML source says FrontPage 4.0, but Wikipedia says there was no version 4 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage#Versions
To preface, this might sound snarky or sarcastic, but ignore that, this is not intended to be a rhetorical question:

What about the interpretation of sports data would qualify as "incredible things"?
I've always been under the impression that the legal definition of search and seizure requires "examination."
Slow news day? How did this make it to the front page?
Are most of you happy with Fastmail's pricing? I'd really like to switch away from Google apps for my families email needs, but would much rather pay $X for a domain and diskspace, and then create accounts as needed.

The family plan seems overpriced as well, as I'm the only one who needs large disk space, the other 3 accounts don't need so much.
Oops, just noticed that not all accounts need to be the same capacity. That saves a few dollars.
My guess is that it has to do with the Nissan.com story also on the front page.
I don't mind reading up on something I didn't know. It's an interesting case.
MVCLI has an amazing README.
When checking out the site that was mentioned in the article, I mispelled the URL slightly and ended up at mikerowsoft.com which the AVG virus scanner reported as an "attack" page. Now there is something for the Microsoft legal team to sink there teeth in.
How's the Rackspace web UI?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure
They're filling two jobs if you move - your old job and you in your new job. It's more disruptive than just bringing one new person in to fill one new job.

Their capacity issues etc are not your problem. Your problem is how to get from where you are to where you want to be, if you're happy with more responsibility instead of a different role then stay.
Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012)
I think there was one game which is similar to this one on Plam. And there are some similar flash games on web.
For those interested in a breadth of interesting domain squatting litigation:

Panavision Int'l, L.P. v. Toeppen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Toeppen - company Panavision vs. a domain squatter ostensibly showing pictures of Pana, Illinois

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatmen... - PETA vs a guy who registered peta.org as 'People Eating Tasty Animals'

Lamaparello v. Falwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamparello_v._Falwell - fallwell.com mistyped domain used to criticize preacher Jerry Falwell
And this sort of comment is exactly what's wrong with HN. You could have made these same points more effectively without baiting the person you're replying to.
It would be really interesting if this revenue was Google's 2nd best performing business after Ads.
I agree. It's only remarkable from a public relations point of view.

Following the case it was suggested by Struan Robertson – editor of Out-Law.com – that Microsoft had little choice but to pursue the issue once it had come to light or they would have risked weakening their trademark. This view was also espoused by ZDNet, who noted that had Microsoft knowingly ignored Rowe's site, the company would have risked losing the right to fight future trademark infringements.
Come to Canada.

Here mathematical algorithms cannot be patented, nor can anything 'obvious'. While it is possible to patent software here, realistically you can't really do it, and the legal system is kind to defendants if someone is brave enough to sue you.

The patent system in the US looks ridiculous to anyone outside the US...
So, is there a market for a hosted email solution with a killer web ui that is not hosted in the US? How about Canada? Just wondering if there is an opportunity here for a non-US startup.