skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, those tech critics just need to wait for the current "social web" bubble to implode, and then we'll see people showing cardboards saying stuff like:

"will do community management for food!"

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070820063441/uncyclo...

and then as the shares of Facebook, Twitter and even the almighty google drops, the tech unemployment raises in the valley and SF, engineers get evicted and then prices will lower!

They just need to stop complaining, be patient for a few years and that will happen…

…until the next tech bubble gets the valley crazy again ;-)
> Really? That's a special kind of evil and should be illegal.

Nah, no need to make it illegal. He's referring to AT&T's "GigaPower" gigabit service in Austin... the same service that's available from 2 other providers for the same, or cheaper, as what AT&T's charging for their data-mined bullshit.

AT&T will have a fun time getting customers when Google and Grande point that out in their attack ads. :D
Future possibilities - FirefoxOSCast like ChromeCast (under $35), Firefoxbook like ChromeBook (under $100).
undeadly is most definitely not the canonical source for openbsd. Just read the man pages.

http://www.opensmtpd.org/smtpd.conf.5.html
Or you could build the app and pay each user $1 every month that they're active.

You could pay 450M users a dollar a month for 3.5 years, then let network effects lock them in.
You are replacing one scapegoat - techies - with another - restrictive building codes. You're complaining about people adopting one-sided, myopic viewpoints whilst putting forward one of your own - that the tech industry is great, and wonderful, and has no downsides whatsoever.

You talk about how tech gets vilified, but at the same time label people who object to tech as "jealous". I think we would get a lot further if people would acknowledge things like the housing situation in San Francisco are not the fault of either techies or building codes, but the result of a complex melting pot.

For the record, I work in tech, and I live in SF. I would like to think I'm able to see that tech has brought many benefits to SF, but at the same time has indirectly contributed to various pressures that any financially successful city will eventually encounter. London and New York both have equally crappy housing situations - different causes, different symptoms. I do, however, see how people living in SF could come to the conclusion that tech is causing these issues.

I think rather than simply turning their argument around ("you're jealous") it would be better to engage in rational discourse about how best to solve these problems in a way that leaves everyone better off. Sadly, people on both sides seem to be entrenched to the point where this is very difficult.
No Britain enjoys better competition because BT's final mile is heavily regulated so that competitors can offer services and are charged regulated prices for access to the unbundled local loop.

The BT Group was also forcibly split into separate operating companies, particularly OpenReach which owns the local loops and sells services to all ISPs including BT Retail.
Their sales and customer service operations are incredibly impressive in terms of metrics/ organization. I would not want to be in the path of this company.
It's more complex than that, I think.

People do (understandably) become attached to the area they live in. In particular, being born and growing up in London means that an individual's family and social group is likely to be there. While it's sometimes inevitable that people have to move, it's a bad state of affairs where individuals born in a city are being priced out of it due to broken housing policy.

Spouses can also end up meaning a life in a less desirable place. For example, my partner's in a career that can only really be done on-site and in London. That means I have to live here too. Less of a problem for unskilled workers, maybe.

And it's worth bearing in mind that work is pretty difficult to find in many cases – even inside London. A relatively sleepy town in Cornwall is going to have fewer jobs available, and they'll offer lower incomes.

But I guess the biggest objection is that this doesn't really get to the core of the problem – there is a load of underused housing stock in London, there's insufficient supply of cost-effective housing, and there is consistent government policy in place which encourages people to move to London. That's a really unstable situation and we need to make moves towards fixing it.
I really don't understand why people are looking at the wrong problem the whole time. Housing is not a problem, transport is. Commuting from outside London costs more than 500 pounds. UK transport (trains, tube) got the worst price to quality ratio in the world. You can rent a whole house for 1000 outside London, but the cost of transport is equivalent to nice flat in London (plus painful commuting[1]). Many agencies won't let you a flat if you make less than 36k, but that's below average and way below median.

Any regulation or tax will we bypassed. Government should do the opposite, deregulate to reduce the cost of building new houses.

Startup idea: Cheap, sustainable and safe transport for London. Investors are reluctant to buy properties outside London, cause of poor liquidity, hence cheaper and faster transport would solve that problem. Elon! help!

[1] It's not only the time, but trains are so unreliable. 1mm of snow and everything stops. I can't image what would happen if there would be proper winter.
The Neuroscience of Programming
Cool, let's be partners. I'll provide a service you want to access at 10Gbps, for an hour a week. I've got no connections to Comcast. I'll call up my brother, who runs a little ISP. I buy 10Gbps from him, and so have 5 other customers. You try to access my site. Packet loss ensues.

Since you've paid Comcast, they're now required to go to my brother's ISP and arrange more peering, right? Also, since you're paying, I shouldn't have to pay my brother, and he shouldn't have to pay anyone else, right?

Come to think of it, why isn't all hosting bandwidth free? Why do Azure and AWS charge for outbound bandwidth, but not inbound?
Read lmm's comment again. His dislike clearly arises from the problems this software has apparently caused him in the past.

I don't think it matters if the software in question is open source or closed source, or if it was obtained for free or paid for, or how the developer was compensated, or if it were developed by an individual or an organization, or why lmm had to use it in the first place.

Causing people unnecessary grief will invoke a negative reaction. That's perfectly understandable, and quite reasonable.
"Forgive me, but I didn't understand your first sentence. That might either be a problem caused by us speaking a common but foreign language, or - if you're a native speaker - me not understanding what you're trying to say."

Well, I did grow up on a reservation in the US, so some of my speech might have some localisms, but English is my first language.

So, I will restate my first sentence: Why didn't you submit the link http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130130081741 then put your opinion of the writer given his example as the first comment?

As to the rest, the questions in the article mention BSD because of his previous statements that others in this thread have linked to. He has stated those opinions strongly without prompting by making proposals.

Judging a whole OS by one guy's article is pretty poor. I assume you boycotted Linux over the "monkeys"[1] comment since that seems much worse than this one example came from the lead of the whole project?

1) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950
Both sides spout bullshit. Fascinating how human interactions work at scale.
Facebook buy WhatsApp because it fears to die, much more than it wants to grow. On that point I don't think $42 a user is too much.
Well there you go. Now that you've mentioned The Invisible Hook, it occurs to me that this is what they were talking about on the radio. Thanks for the link.
I thought the AI was just following the puck continuously but turns out it's actually figuring out what the trajectory will be based on the angles the puck is traveling in. Very cool.
A dropbox cli interface written in nodejs
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Hey - made this post to explain the term sheet. Would love any feedback.
Pity how that telewoking nirvana the telephone companies keep plugging doesn't really work for a lot of use cases - I know a lot dont want to hear this but I am afraid its the truth teleworking is suboptimal for at minimum 80% of TMT jobs
> it's not a sustainable way to fund anything, let alone the massive expenditures required for UBI.

I'm open-minded but not convinced that printing money for UBI is an awful idea.

Printing money and sharing it out equally results in inflation, very likely, which affects people with existing wealth/savings more. The result is that money is very effectively redistributed, in a way which the existing income-based taxation system is unable to. Isn't that exactly the goal?
The fact is "trusted proxies" are a real thing right now. Plenty of private networks require that you trust one or more private CA roots and all SSL are intercepted and filtered. It is sort of a pain to do. You have to use something like Microsoft System Center to push the root onto all managed computers.

This IETF proposal just formalizes it.
"The video site should generate more than $3.6 billion in gross revenue" [in 2012]
http://allthingsd.com/20120621/youtubes-gigantic-year-is-alr...

They might still be 'losing money', but 3.6 billion/yr is plenty of money coming in.
I think you mean DMA, not DRM.
I don't want to do what Yegge says. I can get a job in a few phone calls. Why should I go study a book for a month to be tested on a bunch of algorithms not pertinent to my field, to almost certainly be rejected even if I am (and I honestly think I am) a great fit? Why should I interview for a job, take all that time, experience that stress, when they won't even tell me what the position might be? No thanks.
This reminds me to the origin of Inkscape, as a fork from Sodipodi. The (only) Sodipodi committer didn't want too many patches, and he wanted to stay with C (no C++ code).

Some people forked Sodipodi, and created Inkscape. I can remember that one of their first tasks was to make the code compatible with a C++ compiler.

Nowadays, Inkscape is a very good tool, and I hope that Neovim has a great success too.
Can't programmers work remotely? And can you not work remotely if your management isn't totally incompetent? "You can't manage what you can't measure." and all that jazz.

In short, the SFBA crisis is caused by the tech culture not drinking its own Koolaid about geography not mattering.
As the old punks used to say "never trust a hippie"
The amusing thing about this is that MITM can also be used to one's personal benefit -- I run a local filtering proxy that strips off most of the crap on the majority of sites, and I've had to do a bit of hex editing to be able to do that without the browser complaining.

Look at it another way: With browsers becoming more and more unconfigurable and nearing the point of being user-hostile, it is any wonder that the content providers would want their content, whether or not the user likes it, to be delivered unchanged and forced upon the user? All the Snowden stuff has made us feel that way, but what I'm saying is that the one who is doing the MITM isn't always malicious.
> There's absolutely nothing with the quoted sentence

Well, you're consistent, and let me adopt your style: the above sentence missing word.
I remember my friend moved to London a couple years ago. He said that tube tickets were taking up a large chunk of his income and barely had enough to pay for rent in his flat. He eventually moved back home to NZ 6 months later cause he was sick of being broke.

I know a few other of my friends have moved to London with great success, but I think the trick is to lock-in a well paying job before you move over there.
>It should be on Comcast to ensure their network can get their customers the data they want.

I agree in spirit, but how do you make the distinction? If Cogent has poor connectivity to the wider Internet, is it on Comcast to fix that?
This proposal is mostly intended for environments where the users do not own the equipment, like offices and schools.

But yeah, if you paid for it but can't root it, you got ripped off.
You cannot sue a programmer for writing a bug in software, or at least it would be thrown out immediately. It is the company's responsibility to ensure that the code is peer reviewed and tested before deploy. There are so many bugs in software, that this would be a terrible standard to set, and no developer would be safe. The best a company could do is fire them, but even that is unlikely.
I agree, but very little of this work seems exciting. While advances like hardware support for transactional memory and, hopefully, some unified memory support for CPU/GPU operations will have a tremendous impact on the ease with which programmers compute in parallel, I tend to hear fewer new ideas about what can be done with parallel computing.
Algorithms rate your chances of finding that next job online
Sochi mobile infrastructure
Personally, I'm happy VC screens keep them in their bubbles. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has their own screens and their own bubbles, too.
Thanks for that. I found it to be quite fascinating but at the same time somewhat unsettling. The depth of complexity seemed limitless. As though there would be no end to the layers of abstraction one could reason about - and must reason about, if we are to truly understand ourselves.
I think we may well see a situation similar to what's happened in Los Angeles and the entertainment industry. The main players are still based there, but the city has become so expensive to shoot and work in that many films are now made elsewhere.
One other provider. Neither Google (1 Gbps, "by mid 2014") nor Time Warner (300 Mbps, "by the fall of 2014") is yet offering comparable service. Only AT&T and Grande have any actual ultra-high-speed customers at this time.
This. Sometimes, I feel really guilty when I 'don't feel like working', although I know that hour worked is hour paid (working from home), and my hourly rate is the same as my dad's daily rate in a sweat shop in Lithuania.

We have such a luxury and we fail to understand that.
If you consider a standards body corrupt because they have a single member you disagree with, you might be failing at politics.
Perhaps, but zero of the paycheck is for knowing the theory of organic chemistry.
Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor
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I work in tech. I'm a nerd. I love Star Trek, StarCraft, and *.gif.

I also love democracy, taxes, and public infrastructure.

Unfortunately for some of us there are a few very pushy leaders in the tech industry who don't like democracy, taxes, or public infrastructure and those asshats are making the rest of us look bad.

Oh no, we all get lumped in together and judged based on our appearance, I guess it feels sort of weird when it finally happens to us, right?

If you don't like it, what are you going to do about it? Resort to deciding that a bunch of perfectly good, hard working people are jealous because you have no other way to empathize with them?

The entitlement is palpable in this city.
> Why haven't bylaws been passed to curb this?

There were reasonably robust Adverse Possession laws in the UK, but they've been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales#... wound back</a> in favour of, surprise, surprise, absentee landlords.

Returning to the situation where owners who simply hoard vacant properties risk losing it to squatters would likely remedy much of the problem.
This is a point well made, but ~marketable demographics are relevant to a biz based on ad revenue like FB. So it is a legit concern if new customers are dilutive from this perspective. But...and this is the big but...the what's app M&A deal seems to be purposefully orthogonal to "ad based eyeballs" both from a product and a strategic perspective. Comms svcs are actually inherently valuable in their own right (point 1) and often this value is ruined by advertising (point 2); as a result things like mobile telco is paid for by services fees rather than intrusive and manipulative advertising. Now, with those two counter-balancing points being made, the valuation question for any company (pre-IPO) with a $19B purchase price at something like 40x Revenues (assuming ~$500m/yr) is still open to legitimate "interpretation" (er, questioning). I don't think pure math questions can be dismissed out of hand on that. The one explanation that does likely have some grain of truth to it, is whether or not we are in a 'bubble'...FB is protecting its valuation. That is to say, the damage done by <in>action is likely to cost FB more than $19B if they get leap-frogged by the next major evolution in the market. So, in other words, it seems there is some logic that backs this deal with or without the bubble question really being relevant. At least to FB.
Surprised no one has mentioned http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt

I hope this means Gmail will now support List-Unsubscribe in their UI. Last time I checked they didn't with my own old email marketer: https://github.com/kaihendry/sg-hackandtell/blob/master/list...
Whilst this interesting, I feel the need to channel Raymond Chen (of http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/)and say "if you disable security features, you have disabled security features, don't be surprised when it is now less secure".

In this case there still is an issue that should really be addressed, but that will be why it probably isn't ranked high on the to-address list
well, if you want a re-think/re-factor of vim, you should definitely have a look at kak (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune).

It's basically trying to improve over vim, still using command/insertion modes, inverting the commands (by using movement/action instead of action/movement)… It's pretty configurable and the codebase is new.

definitely worth a try!
http://blog.zactownsend.com/our-yc-s13-application
Honest or not, starting a startup for the sake of making money (whether that money will fund a more altruistic "end-goal" or not) is probably not the right reason to build a company.

...or at the very least I don't think it's the reason that you want to advertise.
I won't move off of Vim personally. I don't push it really as I use a pretty stock setup. However, good luck to the neovim devs, it will be cool to watch.
Putting aside the fact that the budget for that particular small public state funded University didn't require more than the public funding and tuition, that premise seems odd.

If the justification for someone's salary is "they make us that much money", then why would the University refuse to compensate an IT worker who demonstrably saved the school $50,000+ a year by having extraordinary skills for their position?

Or why can't there be Alumni relations staff that only exist to cater to Alumni and extract as many donations as possible? Why does it make sense that the President would do that?

Does Obama, to make a stretch comparison, raise all democratic party donations himself? It seems a silly thought. And if he did, would it justify giving him a salary of some outrageous number, just so long as we point out that he raises more money than he costs? Say, $20,000,000/yr salary and he brings in $90,000,000?

I'm all for profit sharing, but that brings up an even bigger question: why is there only a single person in the University being given the option of profit sharing? In a place where raises didn't happen for nigh on 10 years straight and bonuses were unheard of, if you could generate more value for the University than your cost, in multiplicity, you should see part of it. It's not OK to do that for the independently wealthy white man running the University with a base salary of $300,000, allowances upwards of $250,000 and a paid-for home while keeping the guy making $40,000/yr who just kept you from needing to buy $100,000 in software and consulting from seeing a single additional penny. It's completely unfair and there isn't any valid justification I can imagine would ever be presented to explain it.
This isn't a "rewrite the code from scratch", but instead is an incremental but aggressive refactoring. There's at least one wildly successful example of this successfully being done for GCC, which is a project even bigger and more complex than Vim. Around GCC 2.8, it was forked into EGCS where major changes were made. This fork was so successful that it then became the official branch of GCC, and modern versions of GCC are direct descendants of EGCS.
> You cannot sue a programmer for writing a bug in software ...

Of course you can.

> It is the company's responsibility ...

Not if the programmer was hired for his independent expertise rather than to be told what to do, and how to do it, by higher-ups. That's a a common arrangement in small companies.

> There are so many bugs in software, that this would be a terrible standard to set, and no developer would be safe.

All true, but surely you realize that lawyers and judges don't necessarily ask themselves, "Is this fair?"

Remember that a group of scientists were successfully convicted of manslaughter in Italy for not predicting an earthquake. It was a different country and legal system, but not that different.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/scientists-convicted-man...

The handwriting is on the wall.
Anyone remember when armchair economists would talk about the inflated P/E numbers of Google?

Oh how things have changed.
> The answer here, folks, is don't update until all the bugs have been found and fixed.

How can you ever be sure of this? And also I can almost guarantee that there is no non-trivial software that is bug free. As a programmer the only way you can guarantee bug-free code is to not program at all.

So if you follow this advice, you will never update at all, which in my opinion is bad because the benefits of an update outway the negatives.
The current population is by and large the one that has been quite welcoming to the tech industry -- when we aren't totally jacking the rents up, flooding neighborhoods, and paying for the eviction of long-term residents. So again, I think you're overgeneralizing.
You'd need to follow it up with a "Right to Own" whereby you can't lease or rent devices to people.
This grammar policing is not necessary or helpful to the discussion.
Of course, but Helium - any isotope - is quite rare and our supply strictly[1] decreases with time.

In fact, both (very useful) isotopes are rare for different reasons. He3 got expensive - enough to seriously impact medical and scientific uses - when we decided a beta-detector was needed across in port. (He4 we just waste in party balloons sigh)

[1] well, almost. Capturing alpha particles works, but good luck filling the LHC or your local MRI scanner from a source that expensive.
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