skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really looked into shorting, so sorry that this inevitably sounds really dumb, but if a short is public and works as that kind of signal, can it be abused? Say, if a big investment bank shorts a stock, and then advise all their clients to do so, and in some way convince a significant number of others to short that stock. Does it eventually become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where the number of shorts can damage confidence so much that they either sell or sell+short themselves and the stock ends up spiralling? If enough people wanted to take down a stock, is there some kind of protection that stops them doing this?

I know generally you can just start selling low or whatever, but shorting would make you a huge profit if this worked while selling low potentially a loss?
There were days when Python was white collar.

There are places where C++ is blue-collar. (Games, for one.)

Rust is meant to be white collar, seems to me.
So what? I chose to agree with the policy. The state doesn't have any right to get into my decision to agree willingly to a legal contract with another private party. This is just legal State racket at work, and hypocritical on top of that when the government is the only one here spying on me without my content. Screw them. This despicable government that doesn't create anything but debt and harasses people who are actually trying to work and racket innovators who actually create value instead of debt. Maybe if Google went bankrupt, they'd get some money from the state, but Google being innovating and profitable? This is unacceptable for the State and it just has to racket them and punish them for being successful. I'm disgusted by my government who by the way tonight just voted for a law that forces amazon to charge more for its books so retail can compete. Yeah, really, screw them. I don't need their "protection", I just want the State to let us be.
The men who can make money by standing around and attracting women to approach the booth are probably equally vain.
It's been my experience that there's not much difference between AT&T and T-Mobile overall. Which one is better just depends on where you spend most of your time. People with Verizon seem to get a signal virtually everywhere.
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I think you're both right. I have been a T-Mobile customer for 10+ years. I have probably better coverage while in a city, like Boston, than anyone I know.

I also have some pretty bad coverage when I go up to Vermont.

So, if you stay in the cities. Excellent Coverage.
Roam into the rural world: Spotty coverage.

Fact, though, even AT&T's coverage in some of these same locations is pretty poor. Verizon seems to work best.
Uhm..

- all hotels that I know of (and I traveled quite a lot. In fact I write this from a hotel in Bern, CH) charge you at the end of your stay. A good number of hotels don't check your ID/your personal information. My point above was to just leave early, with or without clearing the minibar. It's possible and not hard.

- I know more than a handful of people that just go to the reception, pay for the room. 'Sir, did you take anything from the minibar?' - 'No'. Of course they did. Now the hotel certainly can (after the guest departed) find out that it was cheated. And now .. what? The guest was probably from another country. Are you going to send a bill and hope for them to pay after lying to you previously? For a beer or three? Turns out .. a lot of hotels don't do that and never reach out to you.

(Disclaimer: I haven't done that myself, I'm too cheap to buy the minibar items. My minimbar, at right this moment, is filled with beer I bought at a supermarket and brought to my room. But I _have_ been part of these exploits over and over again, even standing next to people that declined the question of whether they used the minibar and I was in their room! There are usually no consequences. If there are, you can ignore it - or say 'Oh, yeah. My fault' and pay up without repercussions)
GPL ensures that any derivatives will also remain open source, permissive licencing permits proprietary derivatives.

The benefits of GPL when it comes to derivatives is that all the code will remain open, so if someone forks project A into B and make changes, project A can incorporate those changes or maybe everyone jumps onto project B, and perhaps someone will later combine project A and project B into forked project C, etc.

Either way the source code of all derivatives remain open.

With permissive licencing there is the option of proprietary forks, which means that nothing ensures that any changes made in a proprietary derivative will ever reach the open project. That doesn't mean that no code will be contributed back, but again there's nothing saying it will.
Fixed my wording.
Without an automatic way of removing manager responsibility, it is very difficult to demote/fire good people who have simply hit a wall. Especially as other managers (both lower and higher up) have a strong interest in making the demote/fire process as difficult as possible.

One way would be for teams to vote (or better yet form a consensus) on their next manager for each new project (or project step). So anyone voted up as manager always knows the job is temporary, unlikely to be 100% of the time even if they are a good manager. It would push managers to be leaders (i.e. coordinating others to get the best from everyone), as apposed to directors (telling everyone what to do). It would also push everyone to continually think about management of their project from a manager's perspective.

That's my idea, but it would take a lot of experience to know whether it would work, or how to make it scale or sync with other types of management for higher levels of management. Maybe after someone has had a string of management successes at a project level they could be voted up for multi-team management, etc. And new management hires, would have to be vulnerable to being not voted in as managers the next time around, which would put a lot of pressure on them.

TLDR: Management should be a flexible role based on each project's needs like any other team role.
Is Stripe planning on offering next-day/same-day deposits anytime soon (for all accounts)? This is becoming a big problem for us and we're considering switching to Balanced because of it.
This is a beautiful post. I don't know these people personally but I've deep respect for those that understand inequality, and wish to pay it more than just lip service.

They are completely correct. You can't just create separate clubs for new cultures entering the system, you have to help them to connect into the dominant networks and that means legitimising their own culture in the dominant one. This is one of the reasons I've found it so disgusting how the tech community reacts around the site RapGenius: there's this undercurrent of hatred for baller/rap/black (so-called "douchebag") culture which seems to aggravate every single PR problem they have.

I remember a couple of weeks ago seeing a few people turn their noses up at poetry.rapgenius.com (and other networks on the same platform) but I can't think of a better way to let both cultures cross-pollinate.

>> Networks equal access to jobs, funds, and deal flow, and the networks that run silicon valley are Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Google, HP, Ebay, Facebook, Apple, and PayPal.

Is anybody else genuinely annoyed that sites such as angel.co use these as legitimising signals of worthiness?
A CNAME and an ALIAS both reference a specific label/name. A DNAME applies to a tree, and subcomponents. Wikipedia has a decent example of DNAME usage.
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There is no reason other than visibility and a personal grudge that this is targeted at JPMorgan v. the other banks.

This is, at best, very tenuous speculation.

The charges against JPM were quite specific, related to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act during 2007-2008. And the physical record -- in the form of subpoenaed evidence in support of JPM's culpability in these charges -- were apparently obvious and damning enough that JPM agreed to the penalties to forego criminal prosecution.

Whether Mr. Dimon got huffy after a committee meeting in 2009 has nothing to do with it.
I was very surprised to see the Apple here as well; sure nice but surely the C64 was far more important.
>the two places I can actively remember where I got zero coverage was in northern Minnesota

I took the Empire Builder recently, which basically skitters along the Northern border from Chicago to Seattle/Portland, and T-Mo coverage was nil for the bulk of the trip. Can't say I really minded, though.

Usually coverage is fine.
I don't understand how anyone could outsource something as mission critical to their business as git hosting, issue tracking, etc to a third-party. If anything happened to github half the developer community would be hosed. Let's hope that never happens.
Paying $~90/mo for the cheapest iPhone plan that included tethering was an awful deal, but I don't think that AT&T had introduced the $15 off thing at the time. The family plan cut on top of that seems to makt AT&T's prices actually competitive.

Airvoice, an AT&T MVNO, will sell you two plans with 3GB each for $120 or 2 plans with 1GB each for $80.
Show HN: Revenue for a startup that's spent less than $18K. What do you think?
Great post!

For those interested, GNU's Lesser General Public License (LGPL) was created to address these concerns.
> You can't spend a decade writing an engine.

In fact, proprietary engines that are less than a decade old and have exceeded their commercial usefulness are often open sourced.

https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl
Thanks for the link to Klein!
It's not really hyperlinking that fails, but the fact that web sites (the ones that don't disappear without a trace that is) don't maintain their structure over time. Many don't even attempt to provide meaningful forwards, instead just dumping you back to the front page. Microsoft and Oracle are particularly egregious offenders.

What we need is a technical mechanism for embedding referenced source documents into a document, in a way that is as easy as hyperlinking to add the references and follow them. Probably also a new fair-use provision in copyright law as well.
Hyperlinks are just interactive references. Hyperlinks don't care about the nature of the reference. It is quite possible to have a hyperlink with its reference set as a book/page number.
Yes, I guess he is starting from 'scratch' but the show aligns really well with your ideas and I think it will help you at least see someone go down that path and what comes up and what you might need to get started. Anyways, check it out, pretty interesting.
I use Balanced for a non-marketplace ordering system as well as in an in-person ordering app. The Balanced dashboard is used for any account management and refunds.

I found the process of actually taking and charging a card to be a bit cumbersome with having to tokenize the card (wait for response), create the customer record (wait for response), associate the card token (wait for response), and finally create the debit (wait for response).

The tokenizing I'm absolutely fine with since it offloads the bulk of PCI compliance to Balanced, but the last three steps seemed a bit much when all I wanted to do was debit the card. I don't have any need to save a permanent customer and card record. This is a process Stripe doesn't have as far as I can tell, but I was ultimately willing to deal with it for the faster payouts.

I also like Stripe's two-factor authentication support.

And, on another note, I was a bit disappointed with both Balanced and Stripe's iOS libraries. They only support tokenizing a card. Though this is likely going to be the bulk of use by many people it meant creating everything else from scratch.
For the past year or two, AT&T and Verizon have also offered free LTE tethering.
I think 3's unlimited plan is 10 pounds or something?
Your thinking process has been thoroughly pwned by the idea that changing the individual cogs comprising USG suffices, such that nobody should ever judge or hope to deprecate the entity itself. So, adieu.
The same reason you outsource car maintenance to someone else: Because when there's a problem, there's a team of experts available to work on the problem, whom have far greater expertise to resolve it.
So, it looks like the South Park episode where they explained how Kanye had no sense of humor and was a gay fish was right.
So if your priority is "living like a king" rather than "being a good parent", then yeah, not having kids might be a really good idea. Maybe your overall life would improve by getting over your selfishness, though...
Except that, as far as git hosting goes, every developer has a complete commit history of all branches on their local machine.
There's a hole in their network that contains my apartment and office in downtown Austin.
> We eat our own dog food.

Except for that whole ".NET framework" thing.
It's not a particularly good one unless a static linking exception is included (dylibs on OS X are a pain for no serious benefit, it's not viable at all on Android or iOS).
T-mobile is awesome.

I am not sure if this plan is still available, but I am on $30/month no contract plan. This has unlim. data, text and 100 voice minutes. It works perfectly with unlocked Nexus 4 which I got in Jan 2012. I'm never going back to contracts anymore.
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What makes those cameras so expensive? I assume it’s the customer base (industrial applications, small customer base compared to the consumer market) that makes them expensive, not so much the cost of actually making them at scale.
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The AMD W600 [1] has six mDP ports that each support 4K. Also it's half-length and single-width.

[1] http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/firepro-...
I'm in Chicago too. Was really concerned about the coverage when I switched - but it's actually better than what I'd get with AT&T.

T-mobile has been the one carrier that hasn't made me want to gouge my eyes out.
Same here! And i'm not sure was is masochistic about it; I still write software for the MSX2 like that now ;) I only knew about Hisoft assembler and that was too expensive so I never learned anything different than opcodes.
I think VS2012 and "local workspaces" fixed that.
Horses for courses, but AT&T's other anti-consmer polices and missed deadlines are what got me to move.

When I went over data allotment on AT&T, I got charged extra for that month (especially infuriating late in the cycle). Here on Tmobile, I just get bumped down to 2G (acceptable - esp. if it happens 27 days into the cycle).

When TMobile launched the iPhone5 with HDVoice, AT&T and VZ loudly proclaimed that HDVoice was coming "late 2013". Still no news. How long does it take for them to support an additional codec that improves voice and lowers their bandwidth? I'm only waiting for them b/c I have a relative that is still on AT&T, and I'd love the calls to be HDVoice.

TMobile's coverage outside of metros sucks. And I doubt it will get better soon (likely they'll double-down on becoming better than ATT/VZ in-city than worry about low-density areas). If you really need coverage in exurban and rural areas, then yeah, go with one of the two biggies - but you'll definitely pay more.
Class-based AngularJS development (documentable + testable AJS code Yay)
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I have their pre-paid plan, which apparently doesn't get me the "Service Partner" coverage, so there's a large band on the flyovers that I have zero reception in.

You're correct though, around my city and most cities I've been too domestically, I've found the coverage to be pretty good. Either way, the cost and ease have kept me on their program even with the occasional coverage gaps. But somebody routinely out for non-metro trips might not like it.

http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage.html
Seems funny to blame it on kids when you clearly have a undersupply of coffee shops. Personally, I never feel guilty about using my laptop - if the cofee shop is somewhat full, I just walk five feet to the next one.
If "managers are bad," one possible explanation is that they do not directly produce anything and must justify their existence/salary, thus the position may be inherently prone to encouraging people to create (unnecessary) work to keep their paycheck.
I'd recommend Stripe unequivocally. I've been using it in the UK since it was in beta with no issues at all. The whole experience has been joyous, which is very unusual in the payments arena IME.
>> For so long hip hop culture has been the culture of poor people. The art of beta culture. An oddity that voices the raw emotion of the poor, and that glorifies the suboptimal traits that keeps poor people from mobilizing up the ladder in society. To outsiders, that’s all it is. But by using his voice and stage to elevate rap as a useful medium for informing business, it is creating a legitimacy in the business world for this culture and those that come from it.

This is problematic and untrue. There is a great deal of sophistication and cultural consciousness in hip hop and it certainly has its share of successful businesspeople. Sean Combs (formerly Puff Daddy), Jay-Z and Dr. Dre come to mind immediately.
GitHub has a service that is meant to be highly available. What are the chances that 1/4th of the engineering effort would be placed in to a local solution?

Downtime is inevitable, and sometimes the thing that fails will cause huge problems and it's almost entirely unavoidable.

I'd much rather trust their team, which they've built to design the best service possible, to handle the infrastructure than having to use an internal team to design a competing product (albeit internal) with the same uptime requirements.
In Lithuania, Europe, I spend about $9 for this (even more, with 1GB of data). Very happy about the competition between carriers in our country - it is constantly making everything better and cheeper.
It seems to me, they solve different problems: one is about finding a document Foo, the other is about finding information in a document Foo, assuming you already have Foo.

The hyperlink equivalent would be "you can find this book at this library in this town, as of the time this was written".

I imagine that in real life lawyers don't need to worry about that sort of instruction because those books are printed and widely distributed across the country, while on the web documents tend to exist in only a single location, maintained by a single person or organization. USENET might be the closest on the internet we have gotten to that sort of distribution model.
It may be a regional thing. Many (I'd say most, but I don't know the actual percentage) hotels in North America require a credit card, even if you're paying by cash. They will just charge the card after you leave.
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Places I've had trouble with T-Mobile coverage: Indiana, Wyoming, Montana.

The places where coverage hasn't been a problem: anywhere else.

The only places I don't have coverage are usually the places I go to get away from phones/internet so I don't mind too much.
Kiev's Ziferblat is a really amazing place: it became a real centre for the city's creative youth with a good selection of free international press (doesn't happen much in Ukraine), nice workshops, movie nights and other stuff. Let's see if Londoners can be as open as Ukrainians.
Does the library sell good coffee and tea which you're allowed to take to the workspaces, and have pleasant lighting?

My old college's library would allow you to bring in beverages in containers that have tight-fitting lids, and was well-lit and comfortable. It was also jammed with students in there studying at all hours. The university I live near now allows zero food or beverages and has cheap, eye strain inducing fluorescent lighting, and it's a ghost town. The only reason I spend any time studying there is that as a non-student I'm not allowed to check out books.
Separately the CEO comes across as a total wack job using language like that in a business setting. Especially given his age.
Could be different phones and the bands they support, in part. My brother and I are both on T-Mobile, but he gets better data coverage in the U.S. (we both get perfectly fine voice coverage). I have the "Global" version Moto G, which doesn't support either of: 1) any of the 4g/LTE bands, or 2) the 1700 MHz AWS band on which a lot of T-Mobile's 3g coverage is located. (The U.S.-version Moto G does support 1700, but then isn't usable for 3g in Europe, because it lacks 900/2100.) Whereas he has a Nexus 5, which supports LTE, giving him 4g coverage in some areas where my phone falls back to either EDGE, or no data at all.
They are anchors of a sort, they're just inconvenient because they change from version to version and often aren't included in online versions. If a court says (in slightly more words) "pages 205 to 207 are overruled" there are often paragraphs that span from pages 204-205 and from 207-208 that are ambiguous --- and it gets even worse when a different book version is paginated so that the range above covers part of page 621 to part of page 624. Anchors on paragraphs (if not lines) would be useful.
Small tip: don't store bread in the fridge, it goes stale fast (and then it's cold, who wants that?).
Actually, the Ziferblat in Kyiv already is profitable.
That does not appear to be true in my case.
Poll: Do you struggle with procrastination?
I noticed a lot of people on HN complain about procrastination, and also, when HN was down the last day, people were calling it the most productive day in the Valley.

There are many theories but I am just wondering (and hope people will discuss) if:

- HN attracts procrastinating people

OR

- HN makes people procrastinators
Rather yes
Rather no
I've paid 25usd a month (plus tax) for metered after 5GB, sometime later 2.5 after I changed a phone used for years. At no point have I found "family plans" reasonable unless you are used to multi-year contracts that are normally significantly higher than pre-paid.

My most recent change over to http://ting.com/ (Sprint) has a series of data/voice/text brackets you are priced at depending on overall usage. My bill ignoring first month subsidy credit of 25usd resulted in: 26usd before tax. The Bring Your Own Device theme of prepaid carriers lately is lovely, so I have the up-to-date Cyanogen mod on a modern phone I wanted.

I really don't know what venues people are buying these expensive plans at, most seem to revolve around AT&T and shopping malls though.
NYTimes now using dozens of RabbitMQ instances across 6 AWS zones
"And good riddance. If you make it to university without exposing yourself to your subject as a matter of passion (and few subjects are more easily approached by hobbyists than programming) you're going to waste your time there."

Guess those kids that cannot afford a computer are S.O.L. in your world.

Most subjects are easier to approach than computer programming just because of cost of entry.
I'm on some Walmart T-Mobile plan. I heard about the plan after getting my Nexus 4 so went to a local T-Mobile store and asked them if they could give it to me as a new customer and they did.

$30 monthly, 100 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data with the first 5 GB at 4G speeds.

I mean the 100 minutes bit is a bit nasty as all minutes are rounded up so even a 1 second incoming call I pick up counts against a whole minute. I rarely go over the limit though and usually just throw an extra $10 in the account to deal with it if I go over.

My fiance has the same plan and uses her tethering for her Apple TV Projector setup in the art class she teaches since her school wifi is pretty bad. You get a small amount of free tethering with the plan but it's only $15 for unlimited tethering in addition.