skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel in general there are some things getting muddled together that probably shouldn't.

First, you have free services that are using various forms of the walled garden model to generate revenue. That's hardly surprising, new, and really anything worth complaining about. If you don't like it, go use that highly successful paid service that doesn't have the ad revenue. Oh wait...

Then there is the thread about bundling all of Amazon's services through Prime. Prime is clearly a play to leverage all of Amazon's services in to one big compelling service. Since Amazon still provides their services at competitive rates without Prime, I'm not sure how anyone can gripe about this.

Finally, there is the issue of Prime's price going up. I don't think it has anything to do with bundling other services, and everything to do with the program a) being successful (and you see this in competitors adopting similar services) and b) suffering from increased costs everywhere else. Guess what? No matter how much software, and the reverse inflation that comes with it, eats the world, the rest of the world still suffers from the usual challenges of increasing costs. In 2005, when Prime was launched, the price of first class mail has increased 32.4%, which is actually more than the 25% increase in Prime. Maybe there is no sinister agenda....
That criticism doesn't make sense: I don't think anybody believes that in general the people in power today are so because of their merits. So how does a call for meritocracy cement the status quo? I think people want people with actual merit in power instead of many of the current crop.

OK, the GitHub carpet perhaps made that claim, but they were truly trying to create a new kind of company. I'm pretty sure they didn't define merit to be "privilege and power" but coding skills and open source contribution.

Now you can make a very complicated case trying to reason why some people are excluded from open source and programming, but I don't really buy it. Everybody can start coding with an investment of perhaps 300$. Maybe some people are unlucky in that they never hit upon the idea. But it would be very difficult to prove that people can be actively prevented from programming (except by ways that would exclude them from everything, like making them slaves and never giving them any free time to do anything).

Also, why does the status quo always have to be bad?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-06OO_3r0dVc/Tw0HcAr6R3I/AAAAAAAAAL...
Intentional? It is till not trivial to win, but is (much) easier. I actually had more fun with this version.

Actually not that easy, but much more fun.
I'm interested in any howto for setting up a VPN server - the ones I found online usually assume you want to VPN into a buisness network, not channel access to the internet.

For most things though, you can just use ssh, no setup on the server required. You just need putty, or another ssh client on your local computer.

Nice guide for putty here: http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/how-to-setup-putty-for-ss...

For command line ssh clients, things are much easier. Just go:

ssh yourhost.com -D 8080

and then set up firefox to use a 'socks proxy' at localhost:8080, like the firefox part of that putty guide.
Hehe, yeah.. I had to rip that out to make it fit in 2048 bytes. It takes a (relatively) big chunk of code to know if a move is possible.
That's precisely the point I addressed. The "Mac Pro club" example isn't relevant here because it's a membership that results in the delivery of a single product at a single time. There's a reason nobody structures membership deals like that.

Amazon Prime is a flat membership fee, after which you receive a number of unmetered benefits. Some of those benefits include products that would normally cost money being available for no additional cost. The use of the word "free" to describe offers like that is unremarkable.
Awesome concept. It was about time someone made a system like this. As an avid redditor with quite a bit of useless reddit-karma, I'll give your site a try. If you were selling company shares, I'd buy some right away :) Good luck!
It's an idiom that minimizes the person doing the pissing. For example, if I organize a group night out for my team and convince the company to pay for drinks, and someone complains over my head to say "I don't drink so it's unfair for the company to pay for drinks" and gets that expense approval reversed, that's pissing on a parade.

(And yes, that example has happened to me.)

Your implication by using that idiom is that GitHub has a good thing going and Julie's accusations ruined it for everybody. I'd avoid idioms in another language unless you're sure, because that one in particular carries some teeth depending on how you use it.
From every add-on items description:

"This item is available because of the Add-on program
The Add-on program allows Amazon to offer thousands of low-priced items that would be cost-prohibitive to ship on their own."

These tiny items wouldn't be stocked at all if they didn't offer them via add-on, somewhere in their literature they've said these items are only stocked because of this program.
Sure, it was intentional, but that doesn't make it any more watchable.
What exactly is the issue? the whole article does not say anything. At all. It just highlights her vague accusations. Sounds like a disgruntled employee. or did I miss any actual accusation there?
Anecdotal, but I have a friend who worked at eBay 'schland and at a ring tone company in Berlin. She was stunned at how everybody treated her like a toy, like a girl to be played with.

One of her bosses told her outright that he would just steal her ideas, take credit for it and never give her a raise or credit.

After years here she finally moved back to the US. She now does iOS and rails development in SF/Oakland.

Another friend of mine is German, female and doing well in iOS dev in Berlin now. Anecdotal.

So it's not 100% bad and German tech environment is improving overall I would say.
What do developers spend all that time on?
There's a pretty sizeable community that uses them to fly model aircraft: http://ardupilot.com/
Pornography in Canada: Don't Screw With Them
To be completely honest - There is no straight answer. One modern answer was that particles falling into a black hole would appear to be destroyed for outside observer (in a vortex of fire) while the observer would be scrambled into a holographic representation (keep in mind ashes would be a highly energetic representation of same observer).

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_%28physics%29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY
Bookmarklet to jump from github to gitprint

javascript:if (location.href.slice(0,18) == "https://github.com" && document.body.classList.contains('page-blob')) location.href = 'https://gitprint.com' + location.href.slice(18)
Even a minority of people engaging in a particular behavior can have a very significant impact on a culture as a whole. It's perfectly valid to say that the culture thus suffers from some sort of a problem, even if not everybody associated with that culture is responsible for the problem.

Going based on the information in the article, and assuming it's correct, there does seem to be at least some sort of a problem with cheating far beyond what we see in other cultures, and it does appear to be widespread. The preventative actions described would be very unexpected in many other cultures, and totally unthinkable in others.
I'd love to try it out, but unfortunately they don't support a lot of devices (eg: android, chromecast, or linux). Out of all of my devices, I can watch Netflix on 6, and Amazon Video on 1 (my bluray player that I very rarely use). If they truly want Amazon Video to be a compelling alternative to Netflix, they need to start supporting more devices, and stop the embargo against android devices that's a poor attempt to prop up Kindle sales.
I want to give a big thank-you to the fine folks at Fastly (http://www.fastly.com) who generously agreed to host Brick on their great CDN network. They're big fans of open source!
You wake up in the morning and say, "I wish I had a Samsung Galaxy S5".

Async: you tell your personal assistant to go get you one. You continue your day, eat breakfast, build a shrine to hold your new phone and he comes back and says "they were out, I'm sorry, do you want me to go back and get an iPhone instead?"

Non-Blocking: you try to click the buy it now on Amazon and it says, "Out of stock. Would you like to order and have fulfilled when back in stock?" you click yes. You eat breakfast, write the next Flappy Bird, and get actual work done. 4 days later it comes back in stock and your new phone arrives.

If you missed the difference, Async, is "fire and check back later". Non-blocking is "error instantly, Perform later or in parallel".

There are other differences but this is an easy analogy, that shows how the two are not synonyms.
I do something similar from time to time at bottomlessburgers.com.

The way it works is simple: you pay me a fixed price, like $6 or $10, and show up at a particular restaurant at a particular time. My partner and I order hamburgers and cheeseburgers and you get to have as many as you want.
> But it would be very difficult to prove that people can be actively prevented from programming

Well, kids growing up in poverty without the right role models are pretty close to being "actively prevented from programming".

> Also, why does the status quo always have to be bad?

It doesn't, but it can't be an ideal either. The status quo can be better than the past (or "relatively good"), but still very far from an ideal. If you believe people should always work to make the world better, than trying to maintain the status quo is pretty bad (unless you see some danger looming).
And this year's Academy Award for Best First World Problems Post goes to................

Seriously, all of these companies compete for their customers. They're going to try and optimize their offerings to keep their customers. Sometimes they'll do a good job - like iMessage meaning no texting costs and locking people into the platform. Sometimes they'll do a sucky job, like Google + accounts. Half the time they'll be doing both simultaneously (iMessage and Maps) Those that irritate their customers over the long run will.......surprise surprise.....drive them to the better competitor platform.

Both ways uphill in a snowstorm.
A few years ago I consciously decided that Amazon and Netflix never have new or semi-new content. I've been much happier since. If I care about getting the most popular shows, recent movies, etc and go looking on either I would be (still) constantly disappointed. However now that I assume the content isn't there I discover other things I've never heard of like The Duchess of Duke street, a wonderful period BBC serial from the 70's that I enjoyed almost as much as Downton Abbey.

This is all to say that it is extremely difficult to compare libraries and in my case Amazon has introduced me to more new and interesting TV than Netflix and Netflix has the edge when it comes to movies.
http://www.redecentralize.org/
1) You have no idea what happened
2) The company has no history of this

Great basis to form a decision.
> Any C++ user (you know, the people who actually use the language)

Funny, because I am a heavy C++ user (why did you assume differently?). C++ probably accounts for between 1/3 and 1/2 of my lifetime lines-of-code. Trouble is, I've had to use it for more than algorithms work, which is the only place I've ever seen templates shine. I've used a half dozen C and C++ GUI frameworks that painstakingly work around the introspection issue, and while these frameworks often make do quite nicely without templates, they always have a bolted-on monstrosity of an introspection system. Qt is probably the most direct example: they built their own preprocessor/parser around C++ to take care of their need for introspection.

I'm glad there is a study group, but the absence of introspection has been hurting the C++ community for a long time. It's the flaw that has launched 1,000 high-level languages and 100,000 dirty hacks.
It's been ported to FreeBSD as well. And should work on any reasonable Linux distro. http://liw.fi/obnam/download/ has some links.
Interesting and certainly applicable. I'd guess you're in a similar environment (I mentally place you and marco in the US?).

Here? What a load of horseshit. Netflix doesn't exist, isn't relevant. Amazon's forced 'offer' (Disclaimer: Cancelled Prime some days ago) is utterly useless. I have not a single device that I could use to access the content (unless .. you want me to use a computer/laptop) and the content is heavily biased towards braindead localized offerings: Most stuff is dubbed here.

So yes, I totally believe that some people might like that service: I'd say that it's faults are too big to make sense for the broader public (lack of devices, lack of interesting content). They _could_ blow me away. Offering access to OV titles/series, providing means to access the media without buying Apple devices or some random 'supported platforms' - like they did for mp3.

Amazon doesn't seem to care though and therefor that particular service sucks balls in my world. Consider this a counter-argument (and I didn't expect to agree with Marco tbh..).
I wish the Algolia HN Search had a better coverage of older submissions and replies. Finding stuff that's older than 3 years is pretty hard on the new search.
It's the end of the world I tell ya'll. Try using the inter web thingy.
Still, you can not seriously ask of tech companies to hire the poor girl from the slum instead of the Harvard comp sci major because the girl never had a chance to learn comp sci? I don't think such a rule would be beneficial for society. If comp sci doesn't convince you, imagine you are seriously ill. Who should be your physician - somebody who studied medicine at Harvard, or somebody who never had a chance to study medicine?

As I said, I don't see why Meritocracy could not be part of the solution. I don't think it implies that society shouldn't try to give people a fair chance all along the way. It doesn't even define what kind of merits should be rewarded. Perhaps "helping people to achieve their potential" would be the merit regarded the highest.

And if you dismiss Meritocracy on those grounds you mentioned, aren't you straight back in communism territory? You probably wouldn't be allowed to pay the comp sci major more than any other unskilled worker, either. Otherwise it would be unfair, right?
I've used http://weice.in/ivory/index.html before and liked it. However, I don't do much web-design, so I can't really comment on how good or bad it is, just that I've found it useful in the past.
What's interesting is that the 4 markets that the article listed have reached commodity status so we can infer that open source dominates once the market reaches the point that there is insufficient profit in the mass market for proprietary solutions to dominate. See the Java IDE market as another example.

(If you are playing in the high end of the market and can bring something other than technology to the fight, quality, user experience, ease of use for example then proprietary can keep a foothold).

So the question then becomes can the other layers become commoditized to the point that Open source wins out in those ?
UM PCs had arcs at each side of the screen. They called it "dial keys". http://www.lunchoverip.com/2006/03/say_umpc.html

Sadly keyboards are often blocked by patents.
There's the ErgoDox, a split keyboard which is essentially a DIY kit, but it's not wireless -- although the potential for setting that up has been discussed.
Mattermark, the deal intelligence company
That's a really good tip.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough, and thinking further, probably wrong on the main point:

You postulate two planes in the same area, that would look roughly the same on primary radar when their transponder was off (or maybe I misread you/assumed incorrectly about both looking big, see below). "Biggish" in that the 777 is a rather large aircraft with a presumably large radar cross section, "pip" as in a blob of light appearing on the radar's screen.

Going further, when they looked at the recordings of what their radar(s) saw, they'd see one "biggish pip" suddenly returning transponder information and another stop ... it's hard to imagine coordination to the split second, although it's possible.

Ah, I see one way in which I could be wrong: assuming the use of a small jet, it could be configured with a powerful enough transponder to simulate the 777's. So both pips would not necessarily be big, and if the location was carefully chosen maybe the small jet's wouldn't be seen by the radars. And that's more likely, after all, if they had a big jet to start with....
EROEI does not take into account time which is where renewables really shine. Renewables are the solution, they are infinite unlike all the others. Reducing our consumption is needed, I can agree with that.
I am not sure what you are getting at. Can you give one or two examples and how they relate to:

> Recent meme has reinforced that. If we want to express this idea positively,
> we don't say "bossy", we say "like a boss".
There goes that day - when do we ever code these days?
Maybe it is also a difference between UK and US? Since Robbie Williams was using it for himself I figured it couldn't be that minimizing.
I have a $10 bet with a co-worker that Android 5.0 will remove the ASOP application from standard distribution to force people into the closed source Google+ integrated replacements.

I also have a double down that by Android 6.0, open source Android will effectively be reduced to a boot loader that boots the closed source Google+ Play blob that contains all the system services.
It occurs to me that this might be useful to generate one-off throwaway accounts....

I don't like sticking the credentials right there in the script though. Especially with verifyhost and verifypeer turned off. Although I say that when i've never actually been able to get it to work with them on.
Buggy; Got some sort of JS alert error that stopped my game short: "GG 308", "GG -1". I'm guessing you're reporting my score here, but there are still MANY valid moves left on the board. For example, start the game, and hold the down arrow until the alert pops up saying "GG [score]" -- There's almost guaranteed to be 4-5 possible moves left on the board this way.
My hunch is that they removed it because of cost, not usability. That touchscreen seems like an expensive part to put in a $30-50 controller. This is all just my guess, though.
Kerning is also better on OS X (with Firefox, Chrome and Safari 6), but it's hard to notice on the demo pages because, for some reason, the text body in the Google Fonts page is three pixels lower than in the Brick version.

I glanced at the CSS but couldn't find the reason.
I found it way harder. I'm struggling to reach even a score of 1000 when I rarely score under 10000 in the original.
If you combine the Paid/Prime columns, Amazon crushes Netflix. It isn't even a contest.

I concede your point, though: Prime alone vs. Netflix, Netflix wins. It may be that I don't notice this because of the shows I watch.
Says a person who has obviously never been in such a situation and can't even imagine the reality.

It's cartoon-ish to say, "Well then I'd sue and everything would be worth it." Know why most women don't sue? Death treats. Rape threats. Not being able to ever get a job in tech again. No one believing the claims could possibly be true. The expense of suing someone and losing. Etc.

The day-to-day psychological effects alone are bad enough that, with any familiarity, you would never roll the dice on that chance.
Because of this, you can make a pool of numbers in any corner by repeatedly pressing the keys in that direction (e.g. left-down, left-up, etc).
Nigga, please!
Obama thinks this is a problem? SPEND MORE ON RESEARCH!
I sympathize with your position and the uncertainty it brings; I myself have struggled with these issues, which is what got me interested in epistemology.

Sadly I think, if anything, your position is still a bit naive; the Internet may have exacerbated the problem of truth by giving everyone a soapbox to spout their own version, but I think this problem has always been with us, since the dawn of human communication. While we gain some information through first-hand experience, a great deal of our knowledge comes from cognitive authorities[1] who we rely on for second-hand knowledge. So a significant portion of our knowledge rests upon our faith in the testimony of others. Granted, we can take steps to try and minimize our chance of error, such as consulting multiple sources, but it's hard to eliminate that leap of faith entirely.

But it's worse than that. Even agreeing on the "facts" is not enough to guarantee a unified interpretation. Different people may view a singular event through different lenses, based on how that event fits into their own personal narrative; this becomes especially apparent when dealing with contentious political issues.

So yeah, I agree: the Internet has made it more difficult to get a firm grasp on the truth. But when it comes to matters outside our own immediate experience, that grasp has always been nothing more than a useful fiction.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_authority
I dunno. On OSX in Chrome, at least, they look absoutely identical except for the 'fi' ligature, and the "E" in "Etiam" is kerned one pixel tighter, and there are maybe 3-4 other spots where there is 1px difference of kerning.

I've got a sharp eye, but at 300k for Brick, vs 92k for Google Fonts, I've got to go with Google Fonts here, especially when I'll usually have a given Google Font cached anyways, so it's often 0. But I'm glad to be given the option, regardless, and the opportunity to compare.

And as for character sets, Google Fonts lets you pick the character sets you want, too. Does Brick provide any characters which Google doesn't allow you to add?
As DHH offered to literally do some "code ping pong" I don't see that it is.

"If this is a poor example, pick a good example. I'll be happy to code ping pong you whatever example you choose." -DHH

HN comments are not exactly the best place to review code side by side. I'm glad he is participating and I'm looking forward to the comparisons
Then I honestly haven't the slightest idea what point you're trying to make.

You seem to be basically saying, Apple Maps sucks but it's OK because Apple decided that was the best way to proceed.

Which is obvious (why would they have proceeded in a way that they didn't think was the best?) and thus completely uninteresting.
An apt analogy. I moved from Linux-based machines to Macbook Pros. I love the ability to tinker in Linux. I hate the requirement to tinker in Linux, just to get normal desktop stuff working.
okay, and i win...
and my record is 32768 score
so what?
it was fun)
my screen: http://upload.freehacks.ru/MKPEP2
my implementation and guide you can found there:
http://vk.cc/2nGPL3
Because they couldn't possibly be lying?
FOILed again!
Nobody knows?!
SEO & Branding are typically opposite goals.

Seems like it might be something where they want to branch out from just HN.
This is the 8th time you submitted the same link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7406505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7403362

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7396918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7394313

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7390014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7387956

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7380922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376184