skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your questions are very good. Thank you. And as you suggest, I do think that a society and a government that really understood and cherished individual rights would go a long way towards solving the problems you raise.

Sadly, I don't expect any such society anytime soon.

As regards pollution, I think the problem can be solved by respect for property rights. Your life is your property, and if someone harms you by polluting the air you must breathe, I think the government and objective law should come to your defense. At the same time, I think it has to be proven that you were actually harmed by the pollution. I understand that this is a complex matter.

Same deal with water. I don't think anyone has the right to force someone else to provide them with clean water, as that would amount to a kind of slavery. At the same time, I think a rights-respecting government should act, if it can be shown, objectively, that someone is polluting a water source.

I don't think animals have rights, and I think they can be a person's property, so I would say that a person has the right to torture animals. I think that's a horrible thing to do, I think it's sick and pathetic, and I think such a person should be denounced, shamed and shunned to the greatest extent possible. But if asked whether s/he has such a right, I would say yes, they have such a right.

As regards wealth, again, I'm going to point to property rights. I don't think law-abiding people should have their property confiscated, to any degree, or for any reason. I understand that people will point out that of course we must collect taxes to fund the government, and I agree with this today, although I don't agree with the massive bloat in terms of what politicians and many / most in society consider government's proper role.

I appreciate this conversation and it's respectful tone. Ultimately, my bottom line is freedom for the individual and a society that demonstrates real respect for the rights of all individuals.
If you have the requirements for more than a few VM's on AWS, then the pricing for physical is going to be cheaper by far, even with a three-stack of physical servers. Let's put a basic Poweredge R620 as an example. For about $10k/server (and I'm going for buying hardware to kind of do a worst-case-scenario), you can get 384GB of memory per server, times three that's over 1T of memory in your cluster.

Given the EC2 Small instance type of 1.7GB/VM that would be over 600 VM's you could run on that kind of stack. Pricing for a half cabinet with power and bandwidth (you can find places with un-metered gigabit connectivity) will run you no more than about $2500/month (Much less if you are good at negotiating). So you have an outlay of around $40k for total hardware costs and recurring monthly of $2500/month. Amortizing this over expected lifespan of three years for the servers (worst case scenario), you can estimate per month costs somewhere in the range of $3600/month.

With EC2 to reach parity with those 600 'Small' instances would be an initial deposit of $57,600 (for three year term) and a recurring monthly of $11,826 for a total 'recurring' of $13,426/month.

Now, I should point out that these are obviously not apples-to-apples if you have: Huge CPU requirements on those 600 instances, or need lots of disk. Your up-front hardware costs increase (perhaps substantially) once those come into play. More I'm just trying to compare a bare instance scenario. As per one of my comments elsewhere in the thread really it all comes down to workloads and doing a real business analysis.
omg, u missed Pharrel?
The iOS app uses them. Nicholas Riley was the first I saw to notice and grab them - presumably he sniffed the wire?

https://twitter.com/nriley/status/350144466453139457

https://twitter.com/nriley/status/350126955993112576
quick fix (you mean, not in a bubble :) Not trolling, promise :)
It actually is pretty much all reusable widgets. Buttons in the corner of the screen? We can call them "navigation widgets". Buttons in the middle of the screen? We can call them "action button widgets". Buttons on menu items (like Delete)? We can call them "menu button widgets". They can be reused across your entire OS.

The issue is trying to pare your widgets down to their bare minimum. The minimum you can get away with depends very much on the context of the widget.

In iOS 6 they used the same design for navigation widgets as action button widgets. This made them consistent between the different widgets, but left the navigation widgets slightly heavier than strictly necessary.

In iOS 7 they pared each widget down to the minimum they could in the particular context the widget is used in.

The result is screens that individually look like they're made up of inconsistent widgets, but OS-wide the use of the widgets is consistent. Whether that's enough I guess we'll see as more of the general public use iOS 7.
I dig the Borges references riddled about.
The good thing about business is that you only need one win.
Version control systems are a bad target. They are too simple, too deterministic, and too networked. You can steal their data, but if you insert something, you will get caught.

Yeah, there are exceptions, all of them proprietrary. There is no reason to trust GIT less just because some companies can make even version control hard.
That's been found several times with both nVidia and AMD/ATI in the past without needing to see the driver sources.
Experienced airline executives often use outside consultants for specific areas of expertise, and national governments have a fondness for starting airlines and purchasing multiple new aircraft. It's probably the only marketing division of Boeing that turns a profit :)
Google Shopping ads were actually pretty helpful in doing my research because it allows you to rank the results of different retailers together which is something I previously had to do by going to each individual site and checking their prices.

You browsed ADS, companies have paid to be included there and the price you paid in the end included the Google tax. A company that might have had the best price /shipping options maybe didn't want to advertise on Google or others included their most expensive /high margin items given the advertising cost. You got or will get screwed, because advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Also, don't you agree that in general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines?

note: some will get this post ;).
I'm in the exact same situation with my Asus laptop.
That's easy. Keep plenty of liquidity, buy undervalued assets post-crash.
I wholeheartedly concur. The only piece of kit I had trouble with on a Thinkpad was the Nvidia card, and bumblebee helped a lot here. I haven't really put it to the test though.
Thanks, though I think the comparison to religion is probably a lot more accurate than the comparison to language. Wishing for someone to die is generally a level of hostility rooted in something deeper and uglier than communication challenges. If that was all it was, translators could end all wars and the world doesn't really work that way.

Have a great day.
I would love to have English descriptions in the German App store! I hate that location is used to determine language preference. It is one of my pet hates.
>More than half the time, within 24
hours, they are compromised again.

Is that because they don't upgrade their software in response to being compromised?
Requests v2.0 Python module released
Weird parallel between the NSA revelations and the Global Warming movement, every odd weather event is attributed to global warming, every odd security event it attributed to the NSA.

That said, as I recall the "hack" was a lot less impressive than it seemed (some folks in Google's Linux team were administrators of kernel.org). I do wonder about the lack of a definitive online after action report though. Seems someone dropped the ball on that one.
The same could be said of facebook. MRM means Margin Right Medium (it may be that originally it was "Margin-Right-Medium" but the compressor made the substitution to "MRM").
@OffTopic
You can't normally respond to comments that have been recently made unless you click on the word "link" next to the comment. I would reply to hnriot, but I already see he's being downvoted so hopefully one day he'll understand why.

Also, I agree with everything you said. ^_^
$200-500/mo from ecommerce selling digital goods I create.
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I'm not the parent, but I find the nvie.com branching workflow a little complicated.

My experience lies a little bit with the kernel workflow, but heavily with the Openstack workflow, which has large codebases as well.

Both workflows differ from the nvie.com workflow by not needing a 'develop' branch and as a result, needing less merges.

Both Openstack and the Linux kernel use 'master' for development. In the kernel case, changes are reasonably well tested and vetted before they hit 'master' by the use of maintainer branches.

In Openstack, all changes get gated through a variety of unit, functional and integration tests, so they are reasonably well tested as well.

AFAICT, feature and release branches work the same in all three workflows.

I guess both Openstack and the Linux kernel care less about hotfixes since neither run production systems, only their customers do.

In my capacity running a production Openstack system, we apply hotfixes to our release branch and then deploy it from there.

I guess I just really dislike all of the merging that happens in the nvie.com workflow and the extra 'develop' branch as a result. It seems unnecessarily complicated.
Investing in a bubble is a good thing, though. Without it we'd have no Paypal (and hence no Musk).
I never use the default I interpreter on any system I want to maintain control and deployment consistency. I was using pythonbrew for a long time until I realized it was rotting on the vine. Now I use pyenv.
As the lead dev of the non-profit, it's exciting to see it appear here. We've been working on this project for four years now. The legal world is a tough one when it comes to technology: Lawyers are conservative and risk adverse, the players are entrenched, and the content is either locked up in books or in rough shape for text processing.

This is a fully open open project, and we love feedback, code reviews, ideas, volunteers, you name it. Any help we can get is great to have.
one of the founders here. mainly, it's a lot easier to use. we've made our syntax as basic as possible, and we handle all the COM magic on the backend. this means you can get your code working faster, and it'll automatically include a lot of behind-the-scenes optimizations to make it run better.

here's one example of an optimization: if you're using a basic Win32com script, it'll freeze Excel while it's executing. DataNitro doesn't do this, so you can turn a spreadsheet into an interactive dashboard just by using a while loop. it'd take a lot of time to get that working properly using Win32com.
Im loving the blog posts from your dev team. Keep them coming!
a) and c) seem likely.

Also, if folks had the source, they'd likely start doing optimizations for particular cards and drivers--that being the case, there would be a really gnarly backwards-compatibility issues that would start to plague vendors.
> I don't know why you're using removal of the outer case in the event of damage as a comparison of durability.

Because plastic breaks easily. Aluminum is far more durable. I've had no trouble at all with my PowerBook and MacBook Pro cases breaking or even substantially degrading, but every plastic laptop I've ever used has looked like it was hit by a bomb inside a year.

> My thinkpad doesn't have mechanical latches for anything

Lenovo's website clearly shows mechanical latches on Thinkpads, e.g.:

http://www.lenovo.com/images/OneWebImages/SubSeries/gallery/...

> we are not talking about cheap plastic here

"Cheap plastic" is redundant.

> the stuff I find on my prosumer DSLR

I've been unimpressed with the "ruggedness" of my Pentax SLR and DSLR (the latter a K-5 II). I've been similarly unimpressed with the ruggedness of my father's Canon DSLRs.
BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi gain FPGA add-ons
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Better commenting, maybe. Better comments, almost certainly not.
I didn't say that, I said it could hardly be argued that they couldn't have easily entered the Android ecosystem. We are talking about smartphones, they were (and are) competing with Samsung anyway, Windows or Android. So, what you say doesn't make much sense to me.

I acknowledge Nokia's situation in 2010, but I think you are taking the other extreme of considering Nokia already doomed by that time. By the time Elop entered Nokia it still was the largest mobile phone maker in unit sales and Samsung had just entered the smartphone sector a year before. And though a promising entrant, Samsung wasn't that big of a threat until much later.

Look at the article you linked, or Elop's memo, they don't even mention Samsung or Galaxy phones (just Android in general terms). At that time Android was low-hanging fruit to be put on their phones and leverage their market leadership. The first Galaxy phones weren't exactly a paramount of excellence. I don't think it's very unrealistic to think that they could have competed with Samsung in more or less equal terms for Android dominance.

And I'm telling this without being exactly an Android fan, but at that time it was the most sensible course of action (IMHO). They could have even tried both Android and Windows Phone (something Samsung did) and see what sticked.

Instead, they chose to stop Symbian and Meego and took the strange decision of betting the future of the company on the all new Windows Phone 7, something which can only be described as an enormous gamble. Those first phones couldn't even be upgraded to Windows Phone 8 when it came out afterwards, and I'm not even mentioning the incompatibilities between those two. Talk about a burning platform.
Ask HN: How much do tech recruiters make?
As we've been hiring, we have received a ton of calls and emails from recruiters. I know they take 20% on average of the first year of salary. What's the hit rate for most of these recruiters? How much do they usually earn annually (range?).

Also, does anyone have advice as to the best format to work with recruiters?
now that's pretty AWESOME ! while eclipse supports python, it feels like a dinosaur. Jetbrains ide is the sh|t ! Thanks guys.
$1500/month for Equinix + Bandwidth? We got quotes from them before and rack was low, but I wasn't finding super cheap bandwidth like that. Did you go with Cogent or similar?
Also there was Doggerland[1] -- a huge connector between Britain and the mainland.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

(Incidentally, I found out about Doggerland from a genetic test that told me my paternal line probably came from Doggerland).
> You must build an airport

I'm pretty sure you don't need to build an airport to start a new airline.
Speaking of linux, has the 64bit version improved at all? Everytime I try it out I can't stand it more than a few minutes and revert to Eclipse. (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5201366).
A Rust version of the C++ "business card" ray tracer.
Thank you, calibraxis, for your thoughts. I don't wish to repeat what I just wrote in reply to jholman, so let me just offer some diffs.

As regards what you call wage slavery, what you're describing is a contractual relationship. There is some kind of contract between the employer and the employee. Presumably, the employee made the choice to accept the job, and the job comes with terms and conditions. If the employee decides later on that s/he would prefer different conditions, they can negotiate for them or they can quit.

Again, my view is that people should be free to act in ways that they believe will serve them, so long as they are not violating the rights of others. I don't view employment as a kind of slavery, as long as both parties can walk away from the contract under agreed-upon conditions.

I'm not an advocate of anarcho-capitalism. I think the government has an absolutely necessary role to play in terms of protecting the rights of all individuals, equally, and based on objective law, and being the only entity that is authorized to initiate force against others.

Thanks again for good discussion!
This is the story they always use when asked. They claim that the board contains proprietary components licensed from third parties, and that it would violate their licensing agreement if the code pertaining to those components was released.

This is a very convenient PR move because it shifts all the blame onto groups of unnamed entities, and tends to place the burden on the open-source advocate to get all of these unnamed entities to modify their licensing agreements.
>disingenous

...

>disingenuous

Nope
You're right that this example is no more semantic than inline styles, but that's the extent of the similarities.

If you want to update all the large margins across the app, you can do that in one place. That wouldn't be possible using inline styles.

You can also enforce style guide standards. Only three margin sizes are allowed: small, medium, large. Inline styles obviously allow for much more variability.
The latter two.

My observation of NY is that parents here don't have cars, so our conspicuous consumption is how many languages we force our kids to learn.

I'm sold!
Nokia did not have 60% of the smartphone market in 2011. That's absurd.

In US: [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/android-versus-iphone-smartph...

Global: [2] http://bgr.com/2011/05/19/android-grabs-53-of-global-smartph...
Oh man Hover! was awesome. (At least to me.) You can still download it from microsoft, check the bottom FTP link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!

Grr, the exclamation point is not working, so copy paste.
Those do not extensively debunk the CRA's influence. At best, they split hairs and show that CRA is not completely at fault and that we should blame Wall Street. I'm on board with blaming Wall Street for a lot of the problems (they went much further beyond rationally using the CRA's policies and instead went whole hog into "lend to everyone!"), but this strikes of "Sure, the legislation created perverse incentives and encouraged risky lending practices (which unsurprisingly spiraled much further out of control than the CRA intended into non-CRA covered loans), but the real problem is the people who acted on these perverse incentives!"
I mostly fly with, and credit my miles to, US Airways, but I end up on more United flights than I'd care to in order to fill some gaps (riding a turboprop direct MCI-DEN is better than flying on A319s and connecting in Phoenix). For some time now the joke about United has been that the only mainline flights left are the international routes and the hub-to-hub connections.

And then the other day I saw someone point out that there are now hub-to-hubs on United Express regional jets.
His point is that you have to create complex custom controls on OSX, whereas in iOS it'll generally be sufficient to mix and match a few views and CoreAnimation, and use customization options not present in OSX.
I agree. I have also noticed iOS 7 chews through my battery compared to iOS 6. Probably related to animations.
I've been involved in the agile community since near the beginning, and I'm fairly well known there. It's partly the book, partly my blog [1], partly speaking at conferences, and partly longevity.

[1] http://www.jamesshore.com
Oh man, I have these exact same concerns. There are people out there creating start ups with useless products that only have value because someone invested in them.

On the other hand, most of the start ups are expected to fail. The ones that succeed generally have a big enough pay off that all the failed ones can be shrugged off.

I think we are in transition where we could go either way. Investors know this and that is why money actually has been tighter.
Sure. Growth in value, as measured in users plus at least one of profits or strategic value. I see Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and Github and I do not see a bubble. Instagram and Tumblr are good examples of growth in strategic value being enough.
This is a good tip that I do more and more.
People keep asking the OP about his apps, and their answer is very a very vague "the account has 2 droplets which serves 2 mobile apps and does crawling 20-30 sites hourly".

My question is what do the apps do? That could easily be where the violation of the TOS is happening. Child porn? Fraud?

The lack of clarification is making the OP seem shady. Whats to hide?
FYI, I've been seeing a variety of title inflation - lots of "Senior" styled people without the 7-12 years of industry experience to back it up. This seems particularly prevalent in the startup sector.

In my experience, YMMV, etc, etc. Just something I noticed in my looking for work 1H2013.
Not so familiar with Keen IO. Looks like analytics-as-a-service for collecting and visualizing data. We're focused on helping developers build predictive features like recommendation, discovery, etc.

Yup. We're definitely committed to open source. Source is all up on GitHub https://github.com/predictionio
Yes, that makes sense. I agree about the roles each plays and their differences.
It's great for technology and society. It's not great for you when you invest your own or someone else's cash on the wrong side of the burst.
Why Google's announcement of fully-encrypted search does not affect analytics
>Is that because they don't upgrade their software in response to being compromised?

Recovering from a competent compromise is... more complex than that. You pretty much have gotta read all the code you move from the old (compromised) system to the new system. As part of that, you want to minimize the code you move from the compromised to the new system; so you should re-install as much as you can from scratch, then move over your custom stuff, one file at a time, after reading it carefully.

If you have a good pre-compromise backup, and you have some idea of where the hole was and that hole was in one of the packages/support libraries, and that hole has been patched, then you can restore and upgrade.

As I'm running a no-support service, I'm not digging in deeply enough to tell you exactly what happened, but I believe that in most cases, users are just copying over their documentroot wholesale, and at best upgrading over the top of the (possibly compromised) copy, which quite often won't help you.
I disagree. InfoSec has these companies who hire #3, thinking they can underpay, and it's given the whole industry a bad name because of the shoddy work and dubious claims they make. They go in and play pass the hash, charge a lot, and the company is really no better off.

No offense, but do you think the fact that you have made multiple attempts and not yet created a company that has become a prominent name in the industry means that your approach may not be working?
YouTube Reveals New Google+ Commenting System With Threaded & Ranked Convos
> why is Wikipedia not #1 for "laptop"?

Browsing Google while logged out, using its ‘no country redirect’ option, the first non-ad result is Wikipedia.

(Even using those settings, Google will serve local ads – in my case, in Dutch)

http://i.imgur.com/UevuyEy.png
My gripe with ecommerce forms
How to Talk About Design
That's great. Somebody wake me when they stop sharing the key with anyone who asks.
Interesting story. Did your grandfather make the money to pay off his creditors through entrepreneurship? How did his career go once he had paid off the debt?
Direct link to thread on lists.freedesktop.org:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-September...