skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Becoming a junior rails developer
That's some fairly tortured logic. Legally it has no bearing.

If the lawsuit was judged with your standards, a CEO of a water utility would be a hypocrite for opposing the same water tower being built "for municipal use" next to his ranch.

To dig deeper, do you question the motives of the other parties to the lawsuit - his ranching neighbors and other members of the community? Are they washed with your brush of perceived "hypocrisy" because they happen to live next to the CEO of Exxon?
(Almost) Obligatory comment:

If you work involves prolonged typing. then
1) Do not use laptop keyboards.
2) Look at ergonomic keyboards if your work involves typing all day.
3) Consider alternate keyboard layouts (Dvoark,Colemak)
Line length in article discussing line length
too short.
Click "Reader" in Safari.
Line length now more comfortable.
I guess it depends on your definition of "newsletters that users subscribed to." I have never voluntarily allowed a company to add me to their mailing lists for any reason. I always carefully check or uncheck the appropriate checkboxes so that I don't get added to mailing lists. Yet I've ended up on literally hundreds of mailing lists over the years. Luckily, for these types of cases, where I bought something from a legit company, they honor their unsubscribes. But really, why was I subscribed without my consent in the first place?

What's worse is some places will re-add you to their lists every time you buy from them again. (I'm looking at you Moviefone.com!) I already unsubscribed. Why the @$#% are you re-subscribing me? It's not effective at all. It makes me never want to use your service again, which is what I've done with Moviefone.
There is a moderately scummy debt collection biz complete with "I'm sure your great aunt would have wanted that debt paid off while she was still alive" complete with hitting up the entire family with the hope of multiple times repayment. Often the claimed debt doesn't even exist, or you get five different scammers all who looked up the same prop tax / mortgage records. So yeah its a thing. Its a simplification, but unless you're married to someone who dies, or you were dumb enough to cosign a loan of someone who dies (often, but not always, there are life insurance policies on that...), you're off the hook.

I'm old enough to have seen enough ancestors die (more than just immediate family of course) and there's a large business oriented around making sure middle class people never inherit anything. Its hardly a new problem. All of someone's net worth is supposed to go to the medical industrial complex, or a couple other places. You can safely assume that whatever boomer generation net worth is, approximately zero is going to gen-x other than the highest net worth of the 1%. Same thing happened with the WWII generation and presumably every generation before them.
Critically in this thread they do acknowledge the double spends happened.
My guess is that in a true free market, a big chunk of those households would have no cable service at all. That is to say without the franchise agreements that gave them quasi monopolies in those areas, providing service wouldn't have been attractive in the first place.
I don't think Cogent's cheapness has much to do with it. When Netflix was using Tata, Comcast refused to upgrade their Tata links. When Netflix used Level 3, Comcast found a way to create congestion there.
No kidding-- this year it's 30% more expensive, at least for me.
I have written a proxy pool server (https://github.com/dogestreet/proxypool) in Haskell if anybody wants to check it out. It's a Stratum to Stratum protocol proxy, it lets you create a mining pool that mines into another mining pool.

(Disclaimer, only P2Pool upstreams work for now, I'm trying to get it to work with stratum-mining).
Comcast customers are paying for uncongested paths to the whole Internet, not just 70% of it.
Android runs like crap on that hardware. Windows Phone 7 is the only OS which runs fine on that.
Detroit files multi-billion dollar bankruptcy plan
Quote 1: " "Instead of building the third, fourth, fifth photo filter file sharing app, you can solve big problems and disrupt industries.”

Quote 2: "the accelerator invests an average of about $25,000 in early-stage companies"

I don't really care much about whether it's the chicken or the egg but if you give people $25,000 and a 12 weeks to sink or swim you can't really blame them if they create another photo filter app. They sure as heck don't have the runway to solve big complex problems and disrupt industries.

Given the distance and size and scope of Africa's problems maybe they should "disrupt the accelerator industry" and pay two founders salaries for 12 full months to go solve big complex problems.
Turns out most people are dumb and self-absorbed.
Yes. The solution assumes that they can agree beforehand about what to call the states of at least 1 switch. I don't think there is a way to come to that agreement beginning the process.
I made many of the same points recently (albeit in a cheesy Facebook post -- https://www.facebook.com/alex.feinberg/posts/101002165710317...), but I had a different take on this: I saw this as a hearkening to Valley's original values as opposed to a media-fueled distortion of them that doesn't quite correspond to on-the-ground reality.

Full disclosure: I worked at Facebook and am still holding on to some stock. I also worked on a project ("Panama") with Acton at Yahoo and knew the reputation of others involved in WhatsApp like Rick Reed. Rick Reed built a high performance messaging bus in C++ at Yahoo that was the foundation of much of Yahoo infra outside of search, so the use of Erlang was not a surprise for me. Nonetheless, I'm sure my opinion would be the same even if I never worked at FB or Yahoo and didn't know of anyone involved.

Keep in mind that while I know nothing of Brian's rejection from FB (it happened before my time), but "Facebook has good talent" is not mutually exclusive with "Facebook rejected some really great people". It's also very likely that he was going for a more senior/leadership position and interviewing engineering leadership is an even more of a dubious "science" than interviewing individual contributors.
Creating Your Online Fortune – Steps To Success
I'm sure you can find a basic introduction to the idea you're arguing against somewhere on the web but basically, instead of giving money to the poor and needy, you give it to everyone and those that earn a little give some of it back in tax, at some point you earn enough to give it all back. Those in the latter group cost you nothing, even though you've "given" them x thousand dollars, so dividing (or multiplying) a dollar figure by population isn't accurate.
I have to agree with you here. The problem with insurance for routine care (the system we have in US) is that it makes the information asymmetry problem worse: since it's someone else's job to negotiate the price of routine day-to-day items, there's no incentive for individuals to make sure they're getting a good deal. This is equivalent to going through automobile insurance for oil changes and other routine maintenance.
Self Publishing And The Value Of GateKeepers In Traditional Publishing
Android 4 perhaps, but I have an old Android 2.3 phone kicking around with that spec and runs just fine.
Really? How about because my database server could be something like DynamoDB that I don't own. Why would the execution and the Data server have the same vulnerabilities. The whole reason to have two servers is so that you can say. "The only thing that can talk to the database is a server on the 'Inside'", but injection attacks mean you could possibly exploit the data server with no access to the execution server.
This is my favorite example: http://i.imgur.com/gAGjP.png
I'll start worrying when we get past "monkeykingjasmine".
This is mostly an instance of a class of problem discussed in more depth here: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board...

I say mostly because the bit where one switch must be toggled and there are 2 switches makes it a bit different from 23C2. I don't think the difference is useful, though; the set of solutions is probably the same as the solution set for 23C2.
>There just isn't that much money.

How much money? Basic income doesn't imply a specific amount.

>Freeing people to work on things they desire will mean no one will ever wash dishes at a restaurant...

This is probably false. Even if the basic income is enough to live off of, people will still want more money for luxuries. But instead of having to work 50 hours a week to scrape by, they'll be able to work 20 hours a week and live comfortably, even at low wages.

And if you get to the point that you actually have more jobs than people to work them? You either lower the basic income, or you let inflation do it for you.

Better yet, automation ceases to be a bogeyman for unskilled workers. If jobs get automated away, we can increase the basic income to compensate. On the flip side, we can actually incentivize automation by increasing the basic income, leading to a future where we stop making humans do dumb jobs just so they can be employed.
Yes, the CEO of a water utility would be a hypocrite for opposing the development of a water tower next to eir ranch. Presumably the CEO of a water utility would understand that water towers are a useful part of municipal water distribution (though they have been largely replaced by pumps these days) and would have been involved in the selection of a location as part of his role in the utility.

On the other hand, a water utility CEO who didn't want that water tower near eir place for aesthetic reasons might ensure that there are multiple sites proposed, then start campaigning on environmental grounds to prevent the necessary roads being bulldozed to the site(s) where E doesn't want the tower: the NIMBY situation can be expressed in terms that everyone else with agree with ("there's a rare butterfly which only breeds in this area. Disrupting the environment would be awful!").

And that's what's happening here: "I don't want a fracking project messing up my backyard, so I'll protest against the stuff required to make that project viable."

The CEO is fully aware of the infrastructure requirements of the project, and if E wasn't concerned about the environmental impacts would otherwise have been proud to have a project nearby because it's a visible sign that the USA is taking responsibility for its own fuel supplies.
Java also has its share, specially with books like the Java Puzzles ones, which show some gotchas of the language.

I think that any language that reaches the enterprise mainstream, suffers from the "creativity" of enterprise architects.
I did list printing as one of the three way a government acquires money, and as "smsm42" explained, it's not a sustainable way to fund anything, let alone the massive expenditures required for UBI.

> But we shouldn't fool ourselves: we never ever lacked money. Money isn't scarce. What we may lack however are resources (both renewable and fossil), and labour.

Money is a representation of value - you've had to earn it somehow (unless you're the government ofc). In other words, money represents labour/resources/services etc, and those are scarce even if our fiat currencies can be created out of thin air seemingly without any limit.

The point here is, again, that you can't get something from nothing. If a government wants to implement UBI, it can't just distribute grains of sand to everyone - it has to be something valuable and useable as a means of exchange, and that places limits on what the government can feasibly do.
I did, about a week ago, due to poor picture quality and a library barely better than Amazon Prime, which I pay for anyway for the shipping. Had they made this Comcast deal a few weeks ago I probably would have kept them if the picture quality were better, but now that I've cancelled I won't bother to sign up again to see if it improves.

I was surprised that when I cancelled I didn't even get a single form asking why.

Netflix is $8 a month for all you can stream, so I suppose I can't expect any more than a poor library of B movies and old TV shows.

It's not up to me how Netflix and Comcast sort out their business disputes. Netflix was not delivering service that was worth their measly $8 a month.
Contracts between relative equals in power in business negotiations go back and forth a lot and are creative effort. Adding a programming language on top of that is not going to help the already expensive process of drawing up a custom contract.

BTW, anyone ever try and implement P3P, which is an enormous spec meant to implement a contract in software? Everybody just threw up their hands on that one and did whatever it took to get cookie in Internet Explorer to work. I think Facebook's p3p header was "Facebook does not have a p3p policy" or something like that.
"Daddy, when I die, will I be up there with my data?"

::facepalm::
That makes a lot of sense. Not solving this earlier is a detriment to the customers of both companies.
> Makes him sympathetic to me. Arguing with "but you can't park over the line" people is always entertaining. Its some form of real life trolling. Almost like walking across red lights and smiling at the faces on the other side of the road.

Yes I love doing troll things too like playing music really loud at 4am, blocking my neighbor's driveway and blocking the stairs when my elderly neighbor comes back from grocery shopping. So entertaining.
> Just because Comcast and Verizon are sitting there refusing to turn the ports on until you cough up $ (basically a hostage negotiation) doesn't mean you should.

Would you please enlighten me as to why an ISP should be required to provide access to a resource they aren't being compensated for?
"Draper said the smaller governments would be more responsive to the needs of residents and communities"

Why? I've lived in big states, little states, and now in the middle, and the possible ratios are quite large, lots bigger than a mere six or so, and I assure you the DMV in little states didn't love me any more than in megastates. Or the state revenue dept, or any other.

Individual citizens in the USA don't matter any more unless they're in the neofeudal overclass, but even for the elite, the only real effect will be "formerly state wide, now 6-state wide" businesses will have six times the hassle, six times the election campaign contributions required to obtain service, six times the paperwork, I'm not seeing an advantage. And again, in my experience, if anything, big state governments stay "bought" better than small state governments, or at least there isn't a factor of six gain. Who is easier to purchase, an Illinois governor all of which have ended up in prison, or a Wisconsin governor few of which (none? although we're getting real close now...) have ended up in prison. The big guys are easier to buy, over more than a factor of six.
You mean, mankind might survive +8 degrees F (about +4.5 deg celcius)
Oh, so your BI is means tested.

OK ya, what you're arguing for and what most of the other folks around here are arguing for isn't the same thing.

It's a little messy but we already pretty much have what you're talking about with a patchwork of unemployment benefits, welfare, medicaid and various forms of disability insurance.
Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp on forum in 2009 (It's free bitches)
Here is some slides from people working on getting Firefox OS on 128MB devices - http://www.codemud.net/~thinker/share/tarako-memshrink-embed...
Those poor credit card companies will need help. ;) jk
Samsung tries again with Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches
My ex didn't have a smartphone but her phone had WhatsApp and Facebook and pretty much nothing else from the smartphone world was supported. I don't think that I had any choice other than WhatsApp since the person I wanted to talk had no other choice.

I was using it not because of the interface or anything but because it enabled me, I personally don't like the visual design of WhatsApp btw.

WhatsApp become incredibly popular here in Turkey and I suspect that it's mostly because of the fact that it was the only messaging app that almost everybody can install to their phone, including non-smartphone users. Everybody here have at least one phone but not everybody had a smartphone and if some of your friends are out of reach, its a deal breaker.

Line, I belive had little bit traction, Viber too. WeChat even run TV ads but eventually, everybody have WhatsApp :)
So these machines will spontaneously appear?
Are there official specs anywhere? From the presentaiton slide [1] I understand this phone to have 3GB of storage and a 2.6" screen at 480x320. That seems just too little to be useful as a 'smart'phone. The data plan must be really low price for this to be worth getting over a $100-$200 device (what sort of prices are there in developing countries?).

[1] https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/437616415101976576
How Dumb We Sound When We Use Hashtags in Conversations
I have anyways seen git submodules (and svn-externals before) to be a quick and dirty workaround for managing dependencies between modules.

I've been under the impression that using an artifact management tool such as Apache Ivy or Bower provides a more manageable and scalable solution, especially in projects with 20+ developers.

How does the solution proposed by the author compare? Does it compliment a managed artefact based solution?
I didn't do a survey but I remember that and frequently punting on error handling (`res, _ = something_which_could_error()`) showing up enough in the projects I saw on Github to stand out as a trend when I was writing a few first programs. I certainly hope that's just sampling error.
Wow, is this common at other companies, or are Yahoo employees particularly bad at parking?
Indeed. This article is much longer than the docs for some bcrypt library in $LANGUAGE.
It is becoming less common, but quite a few mailers would have that link take you to a website where you either need to login or type something to confirm the unsubscribe.

In those cases I would always just hit the back button and then hit gmail's report as spam button, because fuck that. If any emailer's unsubscribe system is significantly more work for me than reporting as spam, I'm going to report it as spam and not feel the least bit of guilt about it.
Facebook's big deal shows we're back in the dot-com funny money era
What aspect is being disregarded? Previously you asked " Prisoner 2 is never at the switch at all before the Counter gets to his magic number" Except that if Prisoner 2 is never at the switch, the counter can never reach the magic number.
Assume there are 3 prisoners (1,2,C), the magic number is 4. But if the sequence is 1,C,1,C,1,C.... The count will never be greater than 3 (2 is the switch starts as off) The warden said everyone will eventually visit the room. The one thing that was assumed (but not spelled out explicitly) is the game goes on forever. Which means at some point 2 visits the room a bunch of times, and then C will visit again, and will meet the magic number.
Nothing to do with probability. And there is no guessing, 44 is a precise number.
It would seem that if you have a partner license your royally screwed.
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/8075-visual-studio-license-exp...
What is the encrypt() for? Anyone who recovers your DB will recover the key.
I want to like OpenBSD. I'm so happy about openssh and like the whole mindset, philosophy. Or so I thought.

Recently (like, weeks ago) I investigated the big three BSDs for a small mail server project. OpenBSD was the first thing I looked at, I was especially interested in opensmtpd. Looking for documentation I stumbled upon [1] (note: Same aggregator, same domain. I consider that 'The canonical source for OpenBSD').

So that article praises the features of opensmtpd and then shows how to implement a filter. With this:

/* block idiots */
if (! strcmp(p->domain, "0pointer.net")) {
filter_api_reject(id, 530, "You're not welcome, go away !");
return;
}

At that point I shook my head in disbelief, labeled the author as person I don't want to read from again and moved on to NetBSD (and FreeBSD, still not sure with which one I'll go). OpenBSD's obviously for more elite persons and ad hominem attacks in random samples are .. I don't know. Funny? Cool with the users/the project? The Right Way™?

That project has lots of attitude problems.

1: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130130081741
I've either terribly represented my thought, or you have grossly misunderstood my statement.

I am arguing FOR a capitalist system. I'm saying I don't understand why the article authors will assume it is going to break down because of technological advances. It has not thus far.

Edit: I see that my second statement in my first reply is poorly written. I meant "this" to refer to technological advancement, not to joblessness.
How Dumb We Sound When We Use Hashtags
Except that I don't think this was the original code considering it appears to be cut and paste of same code in same file. I commented on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286582
> No one would pay taxes without the threat of violence. If you were just asked nicely: "would you like to support yet another war in the Middle-East with a few thousand dollars?", you'd just decline and go on with your life, and that's exactly why they don't just ask nicely, they force you to pay.

I agree with the rest of your points, but not necessarily with this one. Many people do pay taxes voluntarily, because "it's their civic duty", and roads and schools and all of that.
His criticism is unsurprising; he's a modern luddite. He thinks the tech he grew up with (and maybe a bit more advanced) is A-OK, but anything else is eeevil.
Terrible title. Better one: "This Man's $600k FB Disaster Is a Warning For All Morons Who Try Arbitraging Ad Networks"
The article missed the biggest one. Whatsup is built by outsourced russian talent. Jan hired the first programmer thro RentaCoder!
Thanks again, that is actually what I originally through the meant. My problem in understanding is that analogies usually work because there is some similarity between the qualities of the analogical objects and the objects they refer to.

In this case, referring to a chromebook as a computer while a windows machine is a sliderule is not an analogy because nothing about the computer<>sliderule relationship holds true about the chromebook<>windows relationship other than the fact that the op prefers chromebooks over windows and presumes that computers are also universally preferred offer sliderules.

I.e. There is nothing analogical about the statement. It's just an expression of preference dressed up to look like an analogy.

It has the same explanatory value as chromebooks:windows::hamburgers:cyanide
I think, the most interesting field now is dependent types. Researches have achieved substantial progress in the last 10 years:

* Large mathematical theorems were proved in Coq (Feit Thompson Theorem)

* An optimizing C compiler with correctness proof was created (http://compcert.inria.fr/)

If this stuff gets to mainstream and I think, it will get there in 5-10 years, we will have unprecedently reliable and secure systems.
Microsoft "supportive" of Nokia using Android
I have the Keon (https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/dev_phone) here. It's not good - I could say it's directly manufactured electronic waste, but that would be rude, so I won't.
The first iPhone and android phones were better - more than 5 years ago.
People forget that this was intended all along. Mining exists to secure Bitcoin; Bitcoin does not exist to serve miners.

Back when people used gold coins very few of them were miners either.
I remember watching these animations in high school biology class. They've definitely had this big long-term impact on how I visualize and reason about cellular and subcellular components. Just always see little components bobbling around and randomly flipflopping.
be sure to check out Bjork's music video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1A0pPc-ik