skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found an interesting comment from a guy called Fildo on patio11's blog:

Hmm,

that makes me wonder. 2013 was the first year I started selling my (desktop) software and I made a little more than you – without doing all the A/B testing and marketing dance. Makes me wonder if I should follow your path (originally I intended to do so) or if I should keep improving my product (adding more features).

The thing is that my software is not trivial and does some pretty complex things. Maybe that’s the difference? The retail price is about the same.

I’m pretty confused now.
Haha, that is the sort of argument I'd avoid having at work because it would lead to bloodshed.
[IANAL]

In the US, ownership of real property tends to be more complex than that, and that's what really drives the need for clear title.

The conveyance of real property is further complicated because it is regulated primarily at the state level and there are many and varied laws among the states.

In general, due to their heritage in English Common Law and origin at a time when land was granted by the sovereign, real property is conveyed with all previous restrictions on its use and disposal intact [except in such cases where the restrictions are illegal, such as prohibitions on the sale of the property to persons of particular races, religions, etc.].

This means that a violation of a particular covenant [deed restriction] gives the person conveying title [or their heirs or assigns] the right to take back the title. It is misleading to think of the ownership of real property as consistent with Lockian notions of private property. Restrictions on digital media and software licenses are probably better analogies, and it may be worth noting that these restrictions are not unprecedented in so far as real-property law provides precedent.

Ultimately, the title to real property is never clear - you can't prove that no claims exist only that none have been found.

And that's what's motivating the purported goings on in Franklin County. For all the years they were locked up, those records were not included in any title search. The existence and use of such records would undoubtedly slow the sale of real property in the area. Furthermore, the likelihood that claims against title could be brought forth against current title holders increases significantly.

Given that the records date from the antebellum period, the 800 pound gorilla is not so much the descendants of former slaves as Native Americans. North Carolina was only a generation or so off the frontier and less than that from the Trail of Tears, and while the heirs and assigns of individual former slaves are fragmented, the heirs and assigns of the various Native American nations such as the Cherokee are organized and have legal standing under Federal law to challenge property title. [1]

[1] In the 1980's the Seminole Tribe acquired a reservation that was subsequently developed into Tampa's Hard Rock Casino in exchange for giving up a claim upon land in Tampa's Central Business District where a Native American gravesite was unearthed. http://tbo.com/list/news-opinion-commentary/from-graves-to-o...
An extreme difficult typing game that you ever seen.
why? the value of hn isn't the software, but the community.
The fear of crime is real,

Yes.

and it's more important than the actual risk of crime.

No.

Reducing fear of crime is valuable in itself, for the simple reason that it generally improves quality of life. Educating the public is useful to that end, and frankly we could do with a lot more of it, starting with putting all the security theatre and scary announcements whenever we travel anywhere these days back in perspective. But assuaging irrational fears is a lousy way to choose what to legislate. Laws should be created based on real needs, not imaginary bogeymen.
All DO are asking the blog author to do is to just honour the Terms of Service that he himself agreed to. I don't see any controversy here; it is all very simple.

Maybe, the blog author is attention-seeking and trying to manufacture outrage by trying to cast himself as a "victim". The real victim, if there is one, is the Googler who has had his conversations in a closed forum relayed to the world and editorialised by someone who obviously didn't explain his true intents. Anyway, if the blog author disagrees and doesn't feel that he wants to honour his contract then he can just move his blog or, as DO suggest, launch legal action and get an injunction. I suspect though he will just skulk off and look for some other controversy to rant about.
I agree with that.

What does an individual do at a time like this? It seems his solution is to try to rally up people in anger and emotion against DO.
6 hours isn't great, it's shitty for a 13" laptop with Haswell.
how does it compare to a macbook air with linux installed?
No matte screen though :(
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I was stopped and searched in the City of London under terrorism laws for acting suspiciously and "doing a double take" when I saw a police car. I was simply looking twice before crossing the road, but there you go...

As it happens I was heading in to a meeting with a client who I was doing some web dev work for at the time. They published a porn magazine, and I had a big pile of their magazines in my bag. To her credit, the cop who was searching me didn't even raise an eyebrow when she saw them.
Here's why, in the real world, the "good guys" almost never use torture. At least, it's so rare that the likelihood of torture having a good use in one's lifetime can be rounded down to zero.

Torture isn't (despite what many say, wanting to believe that evil never works) completely ineffective at getting information. It gets some signal (and lots of noise) but it's inferior to, and also antagonistic to, more effective forms of interrogation. The world is morally murky, and it's rarely clear who the good and bad guys are, and it's a lot more effective to get someone to warm up to you and your cause. If you cause so much pain to inflict PTSD, you're never going to get someone on your side.

The "ticking time bomb" scenario is laughable when applied to real life. But it also makes one completely wrong assumption: that the torturer often wants the truth. Most who have used torture, throughout history, wanted the opposite.

Torture is very effective at "extracting" a completely distorted or just wrong account (false confessions and accusations) that can be used for political purposes, none good. If you want an exponential growth in the number of convicted witches, torture can do that, as world history has proven.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, it wouldn't be that hard to throw on safety gear and spend a few days with a digital camera.

When homes have mold issues, great time and money is expended to clean and repair the homes; they don't instantly demolish them. Why? The value. So it was determine this mold was so bad, and the documents so inconsequential, that instant incineration was the only answer?
I'm generally against the notion of a basic income, as I believe that if you remove the incentive to work to survive, vast swaths of people will simply choose not to do anything, but I am certainly not against the idea of trying it in small experiments and seeing what happens.

And as for these experiments, I wonder how many of the test subjects were low-income prior to the introduction of basic income?

The fear isn't that people with a so-called 'Protestant' work ethic will stop working, is it? The fear is that if we implement a basic income in the USA, that, well, to put it bluntly, blacks and latinos, and, to a lesser extent, whites will simply stop working.

If you want to get better data, and more specifically, if you want to alleviate the concerns that most people have with a basic income, give a poor black or latino community a basic income and monitor what happens. If the experiment turns out to be a success, do it a couple more times, each time in different locales across the country. That's the data you need if you really want to make a basic income a political possibility. Everything else is just half-measures.
Why can't we create something that generates good landing pages that also allow it to be very tweakable to create a custom feel (as oppose to a standard template like gh pages)
Funny .. I think he did a lousy job. I'd call this a snow job if I ever saw one. Moved the goalposts, changed the target, and arrived at a conclusion that is not going to be popular, in order to avoid 'controversy'.

Screw controversy. Are we going to be protected by the CFRG or not? At this point, it seems likely that we are not.

Goodbye, CFRG.
TOSes are what they are, but at least Rackspace's TOS doesn't prohibit acts that "embarrass" someone.
I think the premise of the article is that jacquesm wants to do the thing he said he wants to do. The journeyman thing is just a nice way to set the story up.
It's kind of crazy to prioritize anything other than generics and exceptions. If Go never catches on, those will surely be why, and IMHO rightly so, it's just unreasonably hard to write correct code without them.
>There is a shadow of McCarthy's red scare in the suggestion that no NSA affiliated people be allowed to participate.

Umm .. there's more than a shadow of fascist totalitarianism in the NSA. I think there is ample evidence to demonstrate that this group is destroying USA. Really!
But unlike time travel and alternate dimensions, torture is a thing we have in our world of real things.

But the rest of your comment is completely correct.
Although that was kind of accidental, since the December 3rd launch was originally supposed to be November 25th but was delayed twice.
I don't feel like I have anything to apologize for.

That said, I miss the ability to bookmark using HN but there are lots of other ways to fix that.

No groveling from me, and apparently no more links, too bad.
Do you think we could get pink alleys in toys department without some positive force feedback loop going wild?

Influence goes both ways. Viewers influence decissions about tv content but that content influences viewers. If the loop is not broken somewhere it will spiral outof control.
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For some more info on that:

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill

And the sequel:

http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill-ii
How's that surprising? Most blogging providers (Wordpress, Blogger etc.) and indeed large ISPs in general are pretty tolerant of things that are merely potentially offensive to an individual, as opposed to libellous.
$3,600 is a little less than 25% of $15,000, and it's about 3.5% of $100,000.

If a person spent as much as they earned in a year and had no savings, $3,600 a year would accumulate $15,000 in savings after five years. A couple, spending as much as they earned, who wanted to save $100,000 before starting a family, each receiving $3,600 and investing it moderately, would save $100,000 after 10-12 years.

However, poverty is usually defined as an income level and not a level of savings.
Franklin County North Carolina has 60,000 people. Typically, rural historical societies are neither staffed nor equipped to handle significant archival tasks - often they are a mix of younger reinactors and artisans, and older folk interested in curating. That they did not own a scanner suggests the sophistication of the organization.

From the article, it sounds as if they were trying to follow sound archival practices - e.g. contacting the State Bureau. There was no reason for them to know they were in a race against the clock, and it is absurd to propose that they should have acted in such a way or to violated sound archival practice.
1994 was the year of static web sites.
AFAIK no linux environments handle HiDPI well at the moment. Gnome 3 added support in a recent support but it's still not great. Also many apps that don't use native APIs look bad, Chrome for example is almost unusable.
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Where do you live? My parents mortgage for a 3br/1ba is under $300 a month. I know people in my hometown with rent well under that.

Are your safety numbers built on an urban cost of living?
That's not even the most unbelievable thing in the show. I mean, an entire season is supposed to take place over a 24 hour period, making each episode a running hour of time. You expect us to believe that Jack Bauer can drive across LA 3 times an hour!? BULLSHIT!
Nope. Google has made statements saying that disabling Google Plus will stop the auto-upload, but direct testing shows that it doesn't.
This is not remotely rare in web hosting. If you're on a shared host and over consume resources you'll be shutdown before the admin has a chance to even generate a ticket. Some hosts don't even generate a ticket, they just suspend the account with a page that informs the owner that they've over consumed resources.

Not saying it's great, but when you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of VPS/cPanel accounts and one account affecting 5000 other accounts on a server you're sometimes forced into a corner where you have to act as quickly as possible.
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Yep. There are a lot of ingredients that went into this, conversations with friends, reading up on the history of guilds / tradecraft. I realized there is no way I could actually revive the journeyman concept, especially not given the obligations that I already have and we don't have a guild to start with nor any of the traditions that come with it.

But it served as a nice starting point and ingredient in the soup. Lots of offers (and interesting ones too, nicely fitting with the spirit of the request) already.

This will be a very interesting year.
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Raw.

Definitely worth watching, honestly told.

That webpage is well designed too.
Drill-press operator? Come on, who's JUST a drill press operator?
Thunderbolt is seeing some take-up on the high end; it solves a different set of problems to USB3.
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I don't find this true at all. Lisp for example has tons of people blogging about it for the size of it's user base. Other things like firmware and DSP almost no experts are blogging. There are hobbyist, and that's about it. Or maybe they hang out in completely different circles.
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Where is it seeing take-up outside of the Apple ecosystem?
As an X220 it's a very nice machine but it's no in the same realm as the XPS or the Air/rMBP.

It has a great keyboard and underlying hardware. But it's also stuck with a low-resolution screen with terrible viewing angles, and is also as thick as a brick. The touchpad also leaves a lot to be desired but it does have the TrackPoint which is great.

The X240 will supposedly have a 1080p IPS screen but I'm not sure what the holdup is.
The thing is, we believe patio11, there's no way to work out whether this poster is simply trolling or not. Making six figures in 12 months from a standing start working alone is very, very hard.

That said, I was surprised, initially, to see the total profit of $60k. Thinking again, I'd say the call he made was that BCC was never going to scale to any major extent. Instead, it's just background cash generation while he searches for a market/product with more promise.
For Arch Linux users there's also a PKGBUILD: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kokoi/
To riff a bit on the topic of the post.

Most of the time, I have little desire to argue with anyone on any topic. But, unlike the author, this doesn’t mean I don’t have strong opinions. I know exactly what I think on near any topic, and I know exactly how well grounded in fact those strong opinions are.

For me having strong opinions is orthogonal to arguing. So much so that it’s been noted that I’m a somewhat difficult person as you can get into an argument with me, which you "win" and afterward I’ll keep on doing what I said I was going to do at the beginning of the argument°.

And it’s also somewhat orthogonal to knowledge - I can have strong opinions on topics for which I know little about (more knowledge helps of course). These amount to a course of action, or a compass. Largely these are opinions of metaphor - I believe "X" holds for a topic in which I know a lot about, so I’m going to assume "X" holds for this topic I don’t know a lot about, and I will act on that assumption. And if pressed I will tell others about that assumption. Of course more data changes these opinions quickly, but your opinion when not backed by more data, isn’t going to change my course of action at all.

° Which is not to say that I can’t have my mind changed, but conflict is such a turn off that I rarely have my mind changed in an "argument". And of course conflict is such a turn off, that my main goal, when no real world consequences exist, is just to leave the argument, and probably the room.
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Thunderbolt is an Intel technology, and it can be found (albeit rarely) on Asus (and maybe other) high-end laptops and motherboards. And even one firewire port would be better than no port :)
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Yeah, but not one that thin (small battery).
It's really hard to think the term nil is a value.

IMO, this is a bug in language design. If it's truly a value, I think they should choose a different term rather then `nil` as like they choose `panic/recover` instead of `throw/catch` because they're semantically different.

And also, I really don't know how should I detect nil reliably for an interface type.
What does a drill press operator do?
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How can T3mpmail tout its security/privacy and ask"Want to have a private conversation without being snooped on?", when their SSL configuration allows for non-Forward Secrecy key exchanges?

In other words, sniff their traffic, and if the server's private key is ever compromised, then all the traffic ever captured can be decrypted.

In a post-Snowden world, starting any email service focused on security and not using DHE or ECDHE is just silly and shows a lack of understanding about your attack vectors.

(SSL Labs report, showing RSA key exchange support and no preference on cipher suites https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=t3mpmail.com)
"24" only really turned into torture fetish material a few seasons in, though.
freedom of speech protects your speech from the government , not from a private business where you host your blog. Did they shut down his blog ? no.
Hi, I'm from Germany and here we have to kinds of Internships:
Paid - internships in this category normally pay 400-500€ and are tax free
Unpaid - mostly done to fulfill a requirement (study, course, etc.), is just like the name said unpaid.

There is then quite a jump (in earnings and requirements) for a trainee, and nothing really in-between.
> Because it tells you that the more vocal people are usually full of BS

How's that? All the more vocal people tell you is that they're... more vocal. Where is the evidence that the more vocal people are correlated with systematically being wrong in a predictable and correctable way?

> you should take notice of what the silent experts and does-of-stuff practice.

And how do you do that when they are silent?

> Who said there's no way of "correcting for this silent majority"?

You still haven't given any way.
Your quiet right though I think you meant micrometer not mili.

Machine tools do need a nice really really flat surface to work on when you working to micrometer or single thou's of tolerance even the smallest tilt in the x or y plane is unacceptable - you probably also want a very stable temp environment.

ps I never thought id have the chance to use the old unit "thou's" in a hn comment
Outside of things like child porn and other blatantly illegal things, there are lots of hosting providers that allow you to post things others may not like.

Basically, it's as if Amazon threatened someone's account on AWS because someone posted an article about something Jeff Bezos actually said.
Video playback is fine. And Ubuntu manages perfectly hot-plugging external monitors, TVs, projectors, etc.
I agree with you. Better spacing would make it much easier to read, in any case.
Veins don't have pulse, arteries do.
It's a great idea. When I get home from work and discuss it with my other half, I'll be sending an offer too :)
I don't disagree... on a Mac.

On a PC, I'm not sure what else there is to plug in to a Thunderbolt port other than storage.
I don't recall Mulder and Scully "disappearing" very many people. That tended to be the doing of other people in government. Other people in government acting nefariously was something of a common theme in that show.
It's not like picking the side of violence and being destroyed by it is some weird thing no one could expect...
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but I agree. If Apple can pull 12+ hours of out the Air, there's no excuse for 6 hours. Even the 13" Retina gets 10+ hours. 6 hours is about the bare minimum for a portable machine. The Apple machine doesn't cost any more.
A laptop targeted to developers should have a TrackPoint to move the cursor without taking the hands off the keyboard, a non-shortscreen monitor to see more lines of code, a matte screen to read the code better, and a numpad to, well, type numbers. OK, I guess I'm asking too much for today's standards, even if all these things were common ten years ago (sigh...), but when I saw "developer edition" I thought I would see at least two of these four features, and I see none.

This is just a standard high-end laptop. Disappointing.
You should see what you have to do to develop for Nintendo hardware...
It's good advice, and maybe build that buffer working contracts that might give you domain insight into markets you're thinking about working with.

And to extend the advice slightly, learn to live more cheaply...
While it is true that INS's exist, the cost of a reliable and accurate one is on the same order of magnitude as the CNC Machine itself. Also, errors accumulate [0] over time in an INS (aka "Integration Drift"), such that it becomes wildly inaccurate after a certain critical threshold. Also, almost all INS's require regular calibration and tuning, [1] and are sensitive to vibrational stresses (which is abundantly present in a machine shop). Therefore it seems unlikely that these machines include INS's.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system#Erro...
[1] http://www.aerostudents.com/files/avionics/navigationBasicsA... (scroll down to bottom for tuning discussion)
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LOL. That was the very first comment on Twitter too.

What's old is new again.
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Look at W3C, which consistently failed to develop their own reference browser.

Does http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ not count?
> Madred attempts another tactic to break Picard's will: he shows his captive four bright lights, and demands that Picard answer that there are five, inflicting intense pain on Picard if he does not agree.

This in turn seems to be directly inspired by Nineteen Eighty-Four. When Winston is being tortured, O'Brien puts up four fingers and insists (under torture) that Winston sees five.
Don't kid yourself, there are lots of companies all over the world that has specialized in taking over your coding-job at a fraction of the cost and you only have to pay per hour, not hire them for eternity. Some of them even talk english without using google translate.
Didn't pressure make Keifer do little PSA's during the commercials of the last season or two of 24, saying that 'this is just a TV show torture shouldn't really ever be used'?
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Why do you think it's propaganda?