skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not correct. Squatting IS a problem, even where no vandalism or criminal damage takes place. An empty office, not far from where I live was occupied by squatters last year. It literally had a "To Let" sign up above the door. The presence of the squatter made it impossible to get a tenant in until after the squatters had been kicked out which can, in itself, be quite expensive. How do you think the landlord felt? He had to continue paying the mortgage and pay thousands more in legal fees and costs to evict the squatters and, all the time, he was losing revenue because he couldn't get a tenant in.

Building can be empty for all sorts of reasons - between tenancies, pending repairs or building work, or awaiting the granting of planning permission for redevelopment.

It's as if someone hacks into your computer while you're asleep, but you're not allowed to kick them off or even reboot/switch off the computer, unless you go to court first.
What does Beats have over Spotify? I just checked out the site and it seemed they're almost identical. Only interesting thing I found is:

>Exclusively with AT&T, you can get the Beats Music Family Plan with 5 accounts across 10 devices for $14.99/month.

Although I'm fine with paying $10/person using Spotify, that is a bargain...
Again, squatting is not the issue, but human decency. If the owner would give her/his consent, it would be really hard for a squatter (given that she/he has human decency) to oppose eviction, given a good reason for why she/he has to leave.
from the downvotes i gather i may not ask...
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Starbucks App Stores Cleartext Passwords, Location Data in iPhone App
You can also buy some hw from say amazon or other and configure your vpn.

Amazon has a free usage tier which allows you 1 year of free micro instance which is enough power to keep a VPN.

I bought a VM from RamNode for 12$/year and again is enough to run your VPN.

Then you can question whether Amazon or other service providers are safe enough, but this is another story ...
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HN isn't a mission-critical business. It's a fun, experimental distraction (albeit one that we all rate very highly, of course).
But these guys don't even speak English.

For people who apparently don't speak English, their quoted comments are remarkably English. Is this just code for "they're not even white", or is it "they're not even of European ancestry"?
The one limitation I see with using await-defer or generators for async code, instead of promises, is that you lose the ability to specify multiple continuations to your async call. With a promise, you can always continue your synchronous work after setting your `then` handler.
I did not see that but if you find it, please post it here. I'd like to know as well.
Probably due to the fact that you levelled an unqualified, unsubtantiated claim that AWS is better than any alternative
>Shitty IT departments

There you go.
That's on the new server.
Interesting blip in the "Conversion Rates by page load time" graph. Wonder what the reason is for the conversion rate for 0-1 seconds being markedly lower than 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4?

Also, that graph really irks me. Not enough contrast, poor layout, and confusing axis labels which depend upon color. Also, is the 0.025 on the y-axis a percentage or a decimal (I think it means 2.5% conversion rate?)
That has nothing to do with what's being discussed on this thread.
Kids these days. Next thing you say you can't whistle at 2400 baud. Sheesh.
The original post for this was what inspired me to create this: http://afaq.dreamhosters.com/free-cs
Guessing in the dark from someone who didn't follow the US election -

Maybe Romney's campaign was doing better than Obama's three weeks before the vote?

I do agree though, the presidential thing sounds confused.
Back in the days I used Opera Mobile for surfing on the phone, when there were no data-plans or 3G/4G as there is now. A compressed page with pictures were just a few kBs, and loaded fairly quick.

But now, since the mobile net is so fast, there's little optimization done for mobile other than layout. Loading the largest newspaper in my country's mobile version is a whopping 1.5MBs with all the pictures. 2.7MB in normal. I think this is sad.
How psychology can help your emails make a better first impression
I developed some hot strategies for the next level ...

http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/09/probabalistic-scraping-o...
I'm currently on their $10/month plan but I'm skeptical of the audio quality argument. Firstly, I don't think all songs have a high quality option, just more popular songs. Second is that its hard to argue that the improvement is worthwhile when the you've got the loudness war to compete with (just try listening to Snow Patrol - Run without feeling at least a bit annoyed)

Its hard to analyse this quantitatively without bias since there are no indicators of quality in the Spotify App while a song is playing.
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They are somewhat confused. In the Amazon section, they write "A 1-SECOND DECREASE IN AMAZON'S PAGE LOAD TIME WOULD ANNUALLY COST [...]" instead of "increase".
I just checked Paris, the most photographed is Moulin Rouge, in the middle of the former prostitutes quarter. More photographed than arc de triumph, Eiffel tower, of the 2 km long Champs Élysée.

We have to talk either about tourists motivations or the effect of the difference between the camera position and the target position in density maps relevance.
It may be to their advantage to come up with a solution for this, given the popularity of https these days.
Reminds me of Dapper

http://open.dapper.net/

This allowed you to do similar, before being consumed by Yahoo. Might be worth a look.
Maybe because it's fun? What's the point of getting rich if not to do what you really want?

Also, I suspect that if a startup came to them with a loyal following like HN enjoys, they wouldn't be laughed out of the room at all...
Also because if you had RTFA you would have already known it's not on AWS
On-demand is a must for me. I would have never payed for a streaming service if it was only radio-like.
> It's a fun, experimental distraction

It seems to incur maintenance costs and reputation hits that are avoidable though, isn't that reason enough to invest some time in building a reliable solution?
this sort of legacy thinking

That's the kind of facile statement that makes people riotously mock the entire startup community, like "MongoDB is webscale" but even less valid.

Cloud services are not a panacea, and there are myriad situations in which running one's own infrastructure can be a good idea. What matters is that the issues and benefits are taken into account; if one can show research demonstrating that a custom infrastructure is cheaper, or more reliable, or less prone to legal issues, for example, then there's nothing to laugh at.

And remember that PaaS in particular can cost a buttload of money - I'm certain it's contributed to the downfall of more than one otherwise promising startup.
Long-term contracts
Irony of ironies: I can't even load this page since the server is overwhelmed from HN traffic.
I teach a lot of programming classes (mostly Ruby and Python), and it never ceases to surprise me to discover how many people are still working in Tcl. It would seem that Tcl really took over a lot of the embedded world, such that companies working on routers and such still use it, or at least did so until recently.

I never loved Tcl, but it was a very clever language for its time, and did wonders to justify the acceptability of doing things in "just" a scripting language.
Bootstrap on ramen motivation
Perhaps both words could be equally applicable in this respect. :-)
Good fun with bad crypto
I think we can all agree that Country music should always be subject to the strictest of limits.
Bespoke hardware is much cheaper, has much more consistent performance, and a beefy dedicated machine is much faster than a large AWS slice. If you can run your entire web app on a single server you have much less infrastructure to worry about, which is a big plus. All this vertical vs horizontal scaling nonsense makes your software so much more complex, and with a tiny bit of optimization it's often not needed.

Besides, HN also uses cloudflare as CDN and DDOS protection, so it's not like they're stuck in 1999.
A good overview of the language features (and why Tcl is different from other languages) can be had in this excellent post:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
on a nginx server on cloudflare
That version of Vignette was little more than a wrapper for a TCL web stack. The function of the wrapper was to provide caching and cache invalidation, and some extra things to help make that fractionally easier (dependency management).

But... it was always sold and justified it's price on the basis of personalisation. Everywhere I ever saw Vignette the managers believed that they had purchased the holy grail of personalisation.

The personalisation stuff was based on server-side includes that pulled in uncached files, and used cookies to track individuals and then would build a file on the individual and tailor the SSI for the individual.

Sounds perfectly reasonable. Except I never saw it working outside of a demo for a single user.

Vignette was a great "web stack with static file caching", and on the 4 servers we had at British Telecom we could serve our 6 million customers the BTinternet portal when they all logged on the minutes after 6pm (remember when it was free internet in the evening? and BTinternet was the default home page in IE for our users).

But if you turned on personalisation, everything ground to a halt immediately.
Chinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed
Hm... I've been using Grooveshark because Spotify wasn't aviable on my country, however it seems to be now... why would I switch to Spotify?
That's not what he said. There's nothing about AWS being better than alternatives to AWS.

> "a more reliable hosting, like AWS"
Let's face it, all these services are pretty much the same. I've used Rdio, Spotify and Google Play All Access. They all have the same music and most of the same features - just with different UI's.

What Beats has over Spotify is marketing. This is the company that convinced a lot of people to spend a lot of $$$ on headphones. I've already read about Superbowl spots they have ready as well as promotion on major talk shows. If they can convince people to spend hundreds of $ on headphones surely they can convince them to spend $10 per month on music to listen to through those headphones. It's also a great opportunity for a tie-in (buy the headphones and get the music service half price for 12 months). They also have the backing of quite a few major artists some of whom (Trent Reznor for example) supposedly worked on the project.

The thing Spotify has over Beats is their free service. By making that even better they are improving their biggest differentiator over their new competitor.
I use Windows 8 on a computer with a big screen and quite like it. Sure the whole Metro UI thing is a bit of disaster, but it's easy to pretty much ignore it. And once you ignore Metro it's back to being a decent desktop OS that is basically Windows 7 with a few neat improvements.

That being said I agree that I wouldn't recommend it to an inexperienced user.
Are you aware of Fabrice Bellard's 4G LTE software base station?

http://bellard.org/lte/
it's definitintely not more reliable in this case...
Periodic HN downtime helps software businesses be more productive.

Repeated Disk corruption maybe indicates a hardware problem unless the file system isn't up to snuff. Generally those file systems are pretty reliable.
Record Label Asks Google to Censor Own Artists’ Twitter Accounts
And also because that is the hallmark of a true hacker - roll your own - rather than rely on a ready made solution!
I don't think they had to bargain with labels for this. They previously had unlimited free streaming - I think they chose to limit it to see if it would increase subscriptions. It's possible they were forced to do it by the labels but personally I don't think that was the case (although I have no evidence).
Another fast fixed-point sine approximation
This idea may help, but I didn’t try it so I don’t know if this works.

Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother?: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html

You still do most of the high level design, but delegate most of the coding.

(One of the problems is if you are much better writing code than writing English.)
if a startup came to YC with on the order of 10k uniques within minutes of posting a top link, and the kind of user accounts and engagement that HN has, they wouldn't care if it was written in Perl 2.0 running on a repurposed old 747's partial fly-by-wire computer. Really, Nobody Cares.

Dropbox was an rsync executed every two minutes.[1] AngelList was done via email.

[1] can't find this reference atm, could be apocryphal
Sure, as long as the government isn't in the business of protecting it either.
Evidence of just how monolithic the regime was, comes from the percentage that were immediately turned into the authorities being something like 95%.

You're neglecting to consider a number of factors, though compliance may have been entirely willful. In a situation such as the rise of the Third Reich, where trust is being undermined, people finding the postcards could well have considered that they were being given a loyalty test, and that to do anything but turn in the cards would have meant failing (with ... harsh penalties).

I've known people who were alive during the Nazi regime, and one persistent factor they report is simply not fully comprehending what was happening. Realize that much of the truth of what happened at the time wasn't revealed, even to Germans, until after the war.

The scarier thing is that, when traveling through parts of the US during the height of the 2nd (and hopefully final) Bush administration, there were periods during which a similar level of paranoia seemed to be settling in, and not just affecting me. I was walking down a city street behind a woman talking with two men about one of Greg Palast's books, though she couldn't recall the title. I recognized it and volunteered it. Her response was that she felt insecure even mentioning it in a public space like that. I could understand completely.

Curiously, with all the revelations of NSA surveillance, while I'm now far less comfortable with electronics and such (particularly anything proprietary), I don't have quite the same sense of "watch what you say" when in the US as I did then.
Include the Uk in cheap unlimited data.

£15 a month, sim only, on 3. Also a £12.90 option, but with less inclusive texts and minutes.
I'm not optimistic :S
You're right on the button. I spend more quality time with people who have a meaningful impact on my life. It isn't a lonely life. I feel much more enriched by having the privilege and opportunity to be so selective.

Growing up I know my parents were forced to work and commute by necessity. They made friends at work because those were the people they were forced to spend their most time with and that's what most people do in that situation. It's not useful or necessary and it takes away from the time they could have spent with their real friends and family.

I'm friendly and professional with my co-workers. We get along. However at the end of the day our relationship is ephemeral in the grand scheme of life. In a few years they or I will leave the company and it's not like we're going to be sitting on the porch together when we're 80 and remembering, "the good old days." (Outliers not withstanding).
I think a lot of this has to do with the introduction of retina displays, images seem to take up a lot.
The world would be better place if software could exist without hardware.
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Therefore people are underpaid if they provide a lot of value and receive a lot less in return and vice versa.

The problem is determining the value those people provide.

If a business owner invests $10 million dollars in a complex machine that creates $10 million dollars a year, is the employee who flips the machine on and off every day and replaces toner cartridges producing $10 million dollars in value? Hardly. The person/company who created the machine more directly produced the value and he/they determined to sell it to the business owner for $10 million dollars.

Is a fast food worker working for minimum wage for a company that makes billions of dollars in profits underpaid? Yes.

No.

This has similarities to my contrived scenario. Billions of dollars were spent in creating fast food companies that can mostly be operated by teenagers with little or no skills. What creates the profit, the investment in all of the infrastructure that lets the teenagers follow simple instructions or the easily replaceable teenagers themselves?
I think you misunderstood tomp's message. Certainly they didn't mean to imply there was the chance our actions are uniformly random. Rather, the question seems to be whether there is a truly random component to our decisions. The dichotomy lies in the contrast between determinism and the possibility of a truly random quantam process.
I like HN because it gives me exactly what I want. A list of interesting links, ranked by what people that I truest more than news sites think of them. Oh and offers comment sections for each of them. HN is wonderful link discovery during compile time or if you need a break.
Airport Congestion and Value Pricing
Complaining is not a strategy
Laravel user types and polymorphic relationships
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React.js - implementing the board game Go
that's kinda awkward, but something is wrong with my monitor when I'm on that website.
Although I have never seen either of the two, I have heard rumors that people claimed that the Yinhe-I was actually cloned Cray-I. Considering that the subtle equilibrium among north east Asian countries, the Soviet and the U.S. during the Cold War and that China was used by the U.S. as leverage to neutualize the influence of the Soviet, after Richard Nixon's visit, and before the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union, maybe the Chinese clones were even closer to the genuine ones than the Soviet Bloc computer systems.
ZFS instead of UFS on what, an Illumos derivative, FBSD, or actual Oracle Solaris?
Eiffel tower photo locations are spread over a fairly wide area, while Moulin Rouge photos are taken in a relatively small spot, hence more intense.
So do I...they (at least part of the squatting community in the 80s/90s) are a big contributor to what London is today and none of them criminal scumbags. They also run their own businesses and some bought their properties from the Council. In fact they're probably jackgavigan's boss hah ha!

But I do take the point about the cost of evicting plus lost revenue. Use of empty properties could be a good solution for homelessness if well managed but the Govt. doesn't want to put resources towards that because it's easier to let charities deal with it.
You couldn't resist not seeing this, so you saw it?
I've got a really interesting example of this:
I installed for my little sister (12 years) Kubuntu on her computer, now she has used it for half an year and she says it "just works".
Using Windows XP or iOS at school is really difficult for her, because it is "so illogical", "nothing works as expected".
The advantage of cloud servers is if one experiences corruption or goes down you just kill it and start a new one. If your cloudy EBS equivalent experiences corruption, you restore from snapshot and off you go again. Either way it involves less downtime than HN seems to have. The downside is it costs more (usually, depends on how high your server management and data center overheads are.) I'd like to point out that despite several high profile down time incidents in the aws, never was there a case that I'm aware of where you couldn't just restore from your last snapshot to another availability zone or region.
It's running OSX 10.4 (Tiger). It's stable at least under my usage scenarios. Apple hasn't provided updates for this version in years. It's not my primary computer anymore, but it still works, is fairly rugged, has a nice form factor and keyboard feel, so I do keep using it fairly regularly for routine stuff like email, remote access to systems at work (ssh), etc.
Keen to have an argument today? Someone I know had to move in with his family because squatters effectively made him homeless. It took months to get them out. It was a very stressful time for him. They also stole all his property before they left.
The authoritarians would like to be able to torture and imprison you based on nothing more than their whim, so that's why they set it up this way.

The authoritarians' apologists will probably note that to address your concerns, you should use random data first, to whatever extent you think will thwart recovery efforts, and then zero out your empty space.
If you can plan your hardware capacity, which is not that hard for a simple website like HN, it becomes far more cost effective to run on real hardware, even with a large overhead.

This is quite hard for startups to do, because their core function is to keep adding and removing features, experimenting and scaling, and the initial cost of buying hardware to support these functions is too large. This plus all the services provided by AWS et al. saves a lot of time and effort.

Nothing to do with "cloud" vs "non-cloud".
Israeli here. this law-suggestion was only preliminary approved. it still has a long way to go until it will be officially a law, and it probably won't make it. the media here criticized this move harshly once it has "discovered" about it. i say discovered because many law-suggestion are discussed by 4-5 parliament members who are present in the knesset in the preliminary stage, and really nobody hears about them or cares until the later stages...
So no-ads, no-shuffle, offline, high-qual it is. Still reason enough to pay then.
The way I read it he's proposing two things:

1) Refer to the analysis of Root Mean Square Error always by that name. (RMS is already often used in certain jargon instead of stddev).

2) Stop treating RMS as a default measure of variance. Treat Mean Absolute Deviation as the default measure of variance, because the figure it provides is more consistent with people's psychological interpretation.

It's not really retiring RMS, just retiring the idea that it is a good default statistical analysis.
Behavior Driven Development (BDD): Narrative
Does anybody know of an NGO (1 or more), that could be supported by individual, with money originating in EU, the NGO doing activities towards helping people suffering under North Korean regime, which are somehow verifiable/verified? I suppose this is hard (impossible?) to at the same time have little publicity (helping kinda covert operations), but still enough publicity to get "confirmed" by some reputable organization, but maybe here I could find someone who could help me with that? I would be very grateful for any advice... I have this thought for quite long; I've learned somewhere about some organizations, e.g. "Open Doors" (?), but I'm uneasy about paying somebody based only on his own claims...