skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What aren't you getting?"

I am glad you asked. I am not getting what it is you
are trying to say. I also do not get why you keep
mentioning Google.

"The query for Facebooks server may use the ISPs DNS server,
but that's not the problem."

Why is that not the problem?

If you query the ISP's DNS servers, then the ISP can send you bogus answers. By giving you bogus answer they can redirect
your HTTP requests, which enables them to insert ads, among
other things. I presume you would want to avoid this. I
gave examples how you could do that. One way is to run your
own recursive DNS server on 127.0.0.1. Another is to only
query the proper authoritative servers.

Shaw uses a "DNS Redirect service". Customers can opt out.

https://community.shaw.ca/docs/DOC-1218

Even if a customer does not disable this "service", I believe Shaw will not interfere with packets sent to remote DNS servers other than Shaw's.

In any event, the reason I commented on this was because (unless the customer has changed his defaults)

dig @www.facebook.com news.ycombinator.com

sends queries to Shaw's DNS servers. So stop doing this.

Unless the customer opts out, these queries are going to
get redirected.

If you wanted to test your theory (that Shaw is redirecting
every DNS packet sent by evey customer, even ones not using
Shaw's DNS servers), then the above invocation of dig will
not test this. It sends queries to the Shaw DNS servers.
Stop doing that.

Why does it send queries to Shaw's DNS servers? From
the dig(1) manpage:

"SIMPLE USAGE
A typical invocation of dig looks like:

dig @server name type

where:

server
is the name or IP address of the name server to query. This can be
an IPv4 address in dotted-decimal notation or an IPv6 address in
colon-delimited notation. When the supplied server argument is a
hostname, dig resolves that name before querying that name server.
If no server argument is provided, dig consults /etc/resolv.conf
and queries the name servers listed there. The reply from the name
server that responds is displayed.

"

If for some reason you wanted to send a query for
news.ycombinator.com to the IP address for www.facebook.com
(without using any recursive DNS servers like Shaw's which
could give you bogus answers), then

dig +norecurse @31.13.75.17 news.ycombinator.com

would be the appropriate way to do it, assuming you choose
to use dig.
> t isn't unprofessional to abruptly walk out on the job if giving notice was never in the requirements.

Depends on circumstances and the details of your profession. If you're just a badly-treated wage slave, then definitely: walk out as soon as you find something better.

But I'm an independent contractor/freelancer, and I'm currently working on a project that would probably take about a year. But my contract is always to the end of the quarter and gets extended by a quarter. I could probably refuse such a contract extension, and I considered it, because a previous client where I really, really enjoyed working, asked me if I was available. But I didn't because I felt it would be unprofessional to leave at this stage.
You are assiduously avoiding my point. I said nothing about any legal requirement to severance pay. I asked you about what is usual. If there is no difference between the usual severance pay from gag- and no-gag-employers, then employers value the gag-clause at zero.
I think it's reasonable to assume that some of the political pressure to go to war or fund overreaching government programs is based on the corporate interests of government contractors.

I didn't think I needed to connect the dots between corporate interests, federally funded jobs in legislators home districts, and American policy. It should be obvious but that is just my opinion.
Of course that's what people were saying during the bubble. That's what people say during every bubble. If people weren't saying "this is not a bubble" then there wouldn't be rampant buying and it wouldn't be a bubble. Denial is a necessary component.

However. That does not mean that denial implies there's a bubble. We must evaluate each case on its merit. Every bubble will be surrounded by lots of people saying "it's not a bubble". But so will every non-bubble. That statement alone tells us nothing.
Doesn't look like it's just a misprinted warranty card to me:

http://support.toshiba.com/warranty
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...

That'd be a mistake across warranty docs between 1 and 5 years. Also some other products:

http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/pdf_files/st...

Seems a little odd though that support would go with an excuse like that. Is there more to the story?
The comment was "you don't just take a vacation to feel refreshed", my point still stands
Your Jetsons-Style Smart Home Starts With These Bluetooth Plugs
Have you tried contacting Amazon's customer service about this? Get them to either enforce the warranty or replace the laptop themselves.
I believe I would say that knowing how to do fizzbuzz for the reasons you describe and knowing how to do what I described is much the same thing within their own area of expertise.

For what I would consider a basic website I'm doing a decent amount of CSS and JS work. But I suppose that could depend upon your definition of a basic website.
But they don't know "everyone knew on day X" so there is ambiguity about when they would be counting from, so nothing can be deduced. The foreigner's statement provides a synchronization point: clearly everyone knew at that point.
I'll just leave this here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/FRUITUNION
I don't think anyone is saying use it instead of, at least not here at Docker.

I think what we're saying is that in addition to using awesome IaaS services, you can use Docker to solve any number of issues like utilization, deployment, etc., whether they be with your existing providers, on bare metal, or on OpenStack (which can do both.)

I personally have a Linode VPS where I continuously run about 30-40 containers powering the various services/demos I create. I'm looking forward to migrating to the new offering.
I think a lot of its cost comes from the fact that the device is made in Oslo. In Norway, labor prices are upwards of $125 USD per hour. If hamburgers are $50 there, then it makes sense that this thing is priced like a couple of hamburgers.
Tell that to the wife (possibly husband) hiding from her (his) deranged spouse.

Data breaches can have very serious consequences for individuals.
In the distortion samples, the uri for orig.png redirects to a non-existent server.
- Miles, I like the idea. It's not bad.
Good point. Now I understand why they were suggesting bucketing.

I came up with this method for maintaining privacy while retrieving installed apps (to give app recommendations). Sounds like it might not translate across so well.
You can always opt back in to the Working Time Directive. You can do it at any time, and the employer is not permitted to discriminate against you for your choice.
[Disclaimer: I'm cofounders with OP]

One other thing to note is that office space, while expensive, is much cheaper than your developers. You can easily get 10-20% more productivity with a better working environment.

Also, that "collaboration" that people value? None of that is getting written down. Circle's team is already half remote, so placing a strong emphasis on 'library voices' means more communication happens over hipchat and email. More things get written down, and the remote employees are able to collaborate more, and there's a written record of "oh yeah, on Friday 2013/01/03, Paul and Allen thought it was a good idea to try X.
According to the picture you are going to have to go to arbitration to dispute this. What a bummer.
> Artboards are MUCH easier to keep track of and group, and with something like Mirror [1] you will save hours in exporting/slicing/sharing over the course of a project.

Adobe actually has a tool for this. http://html.adobe.com/edge/inspect/

I'll go against the grain here and say that 80% of the UI design that I do is based in the browser.

Certainly getting a style and architecture down is helpful before hand but the design really doesn't come to life until I get into code. Some might say that this isn't sustainable on a large project but I'd argue that using HTML/CSS and github as a tool is just as, if not more, useful than photoshop/sketch/whatever.
Incorporate and get serious. Stop listening to the noise. Make your own decisions. Do something differently. Ask for payment. Those who find value in your product WILL pull out their money. Those who just try to be nice will not.

Become an expert in your industry. Work harder and longer than anyone else. Take breaks once in a while.

Wake up and do it all over again until you become big.
Blip was already going downhill for a long time, but this is the final nail in the coffin. By deleting without the option of recovery (so that content producers can't retrieve and re-host elsewhere), they have demonstrated firmly in my mind that they cannot be trusted with content, and the broader community should be aware of this.
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Did you read the WSJ Andreesen interview that's on the frontpage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007332)?

He gave a plausible and coherent explanation of Snapchat's strategy (spoiler: Tencent of the West). I think that Tencent's valuation is stretched and I think Snapchat is unlikely to succeed even if that is actually their goal... but it was interesting, anyway.

edit: hey, w1ntermute, thank you for that interesting response. Cognitively I think my brain wants a tidy explanation for them turning down the $3B, otherwise I can't make any sense of it whatsoever.
It's not the question of "fault", it is the question of Netflix not being a useful service to me. What I'm saying is that maybe that recommendation engine is excellent technically, I don't know - for me good recommendation engine is the one that can recommend me something I could use, and Netflix one can not. Whose "fault" it is - why would I care? I certainly wouldn't start a personal crusade to find out who in the byzantine network of IP rights is to blame that I can't watch anything of interest on Netflix. For me it is a failure of Netflix as a service, and the reason for this failure is not for me to investigate - it's for them if they want to become a useful service.
One of my side projects (www.twitteraudit.com) happens to get the most traffic of anything I've ever built on my own :) It gets 50k+ uniques per month and all the traffic has grown organically (mostly via tweets and blog posts). It's been up for just over a year, and I've started spending some more time (on the side) monetizing it. If anyone is interested in helping, send me an email!

oops: spoke to soon. It doesnt (yet) have much monthly revenue :(
Can you explain that further? I don't get it at all.

No application is that simple. You need services that persist between deployments. Like a database.

So you make the database run in it's own container and have the containers talk.

Now you want to upgrade the database. How do you do that?

So you have some persistent storage that can be attached to the containers.

Now you create a new container that has all the exact knowledge (in the form of ad-hoc scripts?) that it's job is to get the attached volume and upgrade the data there and then run the new version of the database?

How is that more convenient or in any way better than chef or puppet?
Journalists provide an important check on politicians and business leaders. Not every journalist is intelligent, but to dismiss journalism as "media punditry" writ large is a gross overstatement.

Specific to this case, I consider Dan Primack to be an informed technology/finance writer whose opinions are well-researched and who is highly plugged-in to the tech sector (which is a sign that others trust his judgment).
Amazon has always been good with me but I am past the 30 day policy to return it them. Anyways it is Toshiba's reponsibility...
Mind open sourcing the work you have done so far?
Blatant rip-off of the BlackBerry keyboard. Textbook intellectual property infringement case - slam dunk!
Properly implemented rate limiting would be a better way to achieve that though. That is were the 'blinding signature' part comes in: to give the server the possibility to intelligently rate limit.
This is coming from a man who says Snapchat is worth a $100 billion dollars...

Irrational exuberance causes bubbles guys, it doesn't have to be mom or pops, it can be the naive exuberance from those that make up the market, as for as I know most of the market players share the same exuberance.

Once the notion of value from future profitability is crushed for the second time around, the entire models for valuing startups will fail. We saw the exact irrational exuberance during the dot com era, that we are now in a new economic landscape, the old companies have no future, it's basically people with a large equity in such companies spreading garbage. Supply and demand never changes. Inflation never goes away. Cash flow today is more than potential cash flow years from now. It's a giant ponzi scheme, pump and dump, whatever you wanna call it.

If Warren Buffet calls you out on something, I listen, the man knows what he's doing.
This comment was actually to an article I wrote. Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828726

I don't believe that it was trolling.
"RTFM" is the correct response in this situation. PHP converts []s in url to arrays. You should know that, because you are the programmer. You should know your language. What if i send "anything' OR 'x'='x" as parameter? Does SQL injection also PHP's fault or does it programmer's?
Not that I know of...They just said is not covered in Latin America anymore and that the warranty manuals are wrong...
So the more interesting article here is "Do people even care any more?" Is Snapchat's CEO making an educated guess that his users are on the cutting edge of SN users and are already sharing a boat load of information and just don't care that much about the breach? Whenever FB makes any privacy changes there's usually a huge uproar. But not many of those complaining are high schoolers or college kids. Maybe they know their user base better than we think.
Publish science you can play with
What agility means to me
Probably a lipoly battery this size would work.
nah, works for me.
This is yet another version of “This time it’s different!”, again proving nothing.
Your first example isn't correct. As with the existing WDRP emails that people receive, registrars can batch the verifications. Also, verification doesn't need to be done on a domain-by-domain basis, but on a contact-by-contact basis, thus if all 200 domains use the same one contact in all roles, only one verification needs to be done.

Of course, if your registrar doesn't manage contacts as separate objects from domains (and some don't), they yeah, you'll end up getting a boatload of verification emails.

You'll also start finding a bunch of registrars doing email address checks to ensure deliverability before any registrations or contact updates are performed: this is for the customer's good and the registrar's good.

Registrars have to make a best effort to contact the customer by email. That means that if the email does bounce initially (due to DNS issues, full mailbox, &c.), it's up to the registrar to try again until the grace period expires.

Your second one isn't correct: if your contact has already been verified, there's no need to verified again. It's only if the contact is new or updated that verification needs to be done.

In the third case, you should be using roles, not individuals. Mail aliases were invented for a reason: no one person should be receiving these emails, so it's really your own tough luck if you're a business and you're not ensuring that there's somebody always able to receive and process the emails. Moreover, verification happens when a contact is created or updated, so it should be an address with somebody immediately able to process the verification request.

As far as my ability to write authoritatively on the subject goes, I'm the development lead for a registrar, and implemented most of our domain management system myself.
Hah, good one...

When is the last time a company owned up to their mistakes and fixed them like that?
Not if you're awarded legal fees.
What if there was a paradigm shift in the way people treated their personal data. Wouldn't most of these companies today be hugely affected?

Before you say consumers are lazy and this could never happen, consider the following hypotheticals.

1. Snapchat gets hacked again, and this time sexting photos are leaked.

2. Credit card fraud increases dramatically

3. Google+ starts offering a percent of revenue gathered from people's personal data

4. Someone starts a Lulu for guys (chickopedia) and hundreds are sued for stalking

I think any one of these events could dramatically adjust customer perception of the "stalker economy", as Al Gore so succinctly put it.
Not everyone wants to be found; and not everyone wants to find every single contact in their phone. Especially for something like RedPhone whose purported aim is user privacy and security...I'm not sure why they'd want to even touch 5000+ contacts from a single user (or why someone who used RedPhone would want to have them scan every contact on their phone), even if they do use some kind of magical unicorn encryption sauce.
The real value of software based business comes from scale. The marginal cost to serve one more customer is close to zero. That is the main reason for big bets and valuation.
At any point in history, if you wrote a "Letter to the editor" disparaging your company or boss, you'd most likely get fired. How is posting on a public web service different?
seems like more or less the same message. We are in a new era now, the fundamentals of economics have shifted because we say so and everyone should donate their life savings to our cause!
And frequently the # is negotiable, though it can require a lawyer to do the negotiating. Some work on contingency. (I've never been through the process, but have seen enough layoffs to have watched people negotiate their #s)
Automatically? As if - you specify willclick@mailinator.com and forget it, and when the email'll arrive any links in in will receive a GET request.

I haven't found such option at Mailinator. Had I missed it?
For nearly a year, I've been just having coffee with MCT oil in the morning, which pretty much keeps you satiated until 4 pm when I get a light "lunch" and then eat dinner around 9 pm. No hunger ever, no snacking, a few pound of weight loss even though I've increased my calories (get tons from the chunks of grass-fed cheese). Calorie counting is oversimplification of the complex metabolic processes in the human body and ignore major components such as hormones, thermogenesis, etc. Also, I don't get how sane people can accept that boosting your metabolism is healthier (like eating 5 times a day, exercising, etc.). It can't possibly be. Aging is a natural method of dealing the increasing cancer risk. Also, the faster your metabolism is, the sooner you will reach the Hayflick limit!
Take a deal and jump ship boys, your idea won't be worth anything in 6 months when the next big thing comes out.
I understand how the Encrypted Bloom Filter they describe keeps my contacts private from the service, but it seems to leak the entire contact list the same as the trivial solution:

I install millions of copies of the app, all with a different contact list. I do this signed query process for every possible phone number. I now have the complete list of users.
Republican lawmaker seeks bitcoin donations for campaign
Steve Stockman (R-TX), who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a primary this year, rang in the new year on Tuesday at a pro-bitcoin party in New York City. He also announced that his Senate campaign will accept the virtual currency as donations, and that he intends to introduce pro-bitcoin legislation.
How BuzzFeed mastered social sharing to become a media giant for a new era
Neetzan Zimmerman to leave Gawker
If you work for a living, you aren't upper class.
As a Canadian I deplore this apparent policy. I'm not sure why Toshiba has introduced it, but it wouldn't surprise me if there is difficulty warding off warranty fraud under certain legal systems. Like, those legal systems your lawyers don't know. (You fired the international lawyers as a corner-cutting move, remember?)
Plan to address this in a follow-up blog post
"It’s not like the industry is not aware of the problem. Peopleware–the bible of managing engineering teams–discussed this over a decade ago."

Peopleware was first published in 1987, almost three decades ago.[1] It's amazing how poorly our industry learns from the lessons of its past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...
Is it true that Microsoft is doing two devs per office these days? I just thought back on all the places I sat at Microsoft and out of 9 different offices (ok, two were cubicles), I never shared once. They do make you move around a lot, obviously.
> Interest in it seems to have died down.

Not really. AFAIK, they are right now preparing the next release and there will be a lot of activities on lmctfy in 2014.
I've started this side project (http://CryptoCurrenciesTalk.com) to have conversations on that topic.

Getting traffic by participating only on reddit (subreddits about litecoin and litecoint mining) and just by helping people, I'm getting new members and very interesting organic search results. (+1000 new visits from Google on keywords related to the topics).
Brits. There is constant teasing and innuendo, and everything's fair game.
I'm sorry to hear that you are having this problem. After buying/selling 10,000+ used laptops (every brand imaginable) over many years, I personally purchase and recommend only Toshiba laptops. Take it for what it's worth.
Does this work in the background, or do you have to have that app running?

For a while I was using an iOS app called BuzzClock. I liked the feature that it would give a different # of buzzes as you went through the hour. I found this helped reduce the need to check the time when I was heads-down on some work, or give a subtle reminder that I might be lingering too long on something.

But having to keep the app in the foreground ultimately killed it for me.
1. He has extremely well-written essays on technology and business. Being able to think clearly and articulate cogently in this space is a rare skill, and I have deep respect for those who possess it. Joel Spolsky (who I also respect) is much more verbose than PG. Few tech writers achieve the level clarity of expression that Paul does in his writing, and he achieves it while writing about difficult and subtle things.

2. He has mentored a great many startups. Granted, he gets his pound of equity for cheap cheap but nonetheless this devotion so the cause of helping other geeks start companies is very admirable. Note that this is not the same thing as what the parent poster claimed: "hacking startups" and "starting the seed funding movement".

Also, building HackerNews is a very cool badge of honor but frankly it is nowhere near as sophisticated as Reddit (c'mon, "Unknown or Expired link" and hellbanning?). The fact that there is a driving function behind pageviews to it makes it a go-to place in the tech world, but the technology and codebase of HN itself is not anything terribly impressive.
Okay, I must say the situation depends.

I bought a Toshiba laptop previously and accidentally lots of water got leaked into it. (was my mistake)

The system didn't reboot at all. They entirely replaced my RAM and other hardware components free of cost. This happened in India. So I guess the situation varies.