skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whatever you do, just make sure that cancelling really is easy if you expect them to give you their credit card because consumers beware of scammy 30 days moneyback guarantee that are designed to make you jump through so many hoops that most give up, or worse, continues billing you until you manage to.

An example, eFax: a black hole of pure evil when it comes to cancelling: anyone who ever tried wants to murder kittens afterwards. Whatever you do, never ever ever signup for that thing. Seriously. (At least in the U.S. there is the chat and twitter options, but in Europe, you're basically screwed unless you cancel your credit card).
In all fairness, we have no evidence to prove or disprove that You are not a duck. Quack.
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Thanks for the info and the offer!
The classic reference for this is:

https://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/08/11/the-five-levels-of-isp...

What you're describing could be any or all of levels 4, 3, or 2.
The demo is nice, but it will probably be relegated to a single player experience.

How could they implement co-op or online multiplayer?

These features turn a game from something that you play once or twice for a few hours into something you keep coming back to.
Well, I most certainly do care. Unfortunately, I've disabled ABP.
>>descended from wild Norway Rats, albino lab rats remain curious, gregarious social creatures

Nope! I have watched well fed lab rats attack and eat each other. In the wild they will often cannibalize their youth.
It was mentioned in a list of alternatives to Slashdot. That site became trash the when dice.com took it over. Too bad. I liked it better than here. The users were way less optimistic.
It's one of the sites on http://www.jimmyr.com
I was looking for a replacement for Slashdot, which became more childish by the day it seemed, and someone suggested HN. I haven't seen much of Slashdot since. :)
VAT support could be a good price differentiator in the EU. A VAT registered company should be turning over so much that this cost is negligible.

I'd recommend against price per invoice. Most businesses prefer fixed, predictable costs for things like this.
No, it't not. It's from 2012. Needs some work done on some places (API calls).
A blog post of mine was posted to HN a few years ago, and I thought, "where is all this traffic coming from?" I'm not sure how I missed HN before that.
I haven’t got the faintest recollection.
The last line/panel left me stunned (not going to repeat it, read the comic).

So beautifully put.
Sabre Red and JetBlue's customer loyalty program (of which these requirement are for) probably have nothing to do with each other. I'm trying to think of how they could be related in a way that would affect what passwords could be used but I can't.
Lucid dreaming with a mild electrical shock of 40 Hz, 2 mins after REM.
I tried disabling JS & cookies and whitelisting exceptions, but it was a pain. I ended up just using ghostery which is the opposite - blacklists exceptions, but with a 3rd party maintaining the list it became much better.
I wonder if instead of having 90 free days, he capped the free trial based on bandwidth. The more popular the podcast, the more bandwidth it would use, but the more likely the podcaster has revenu from ads which would scale (sub-linearly!) with the bandwidth costs.

Anyone could try it out with a small or starting podcast, but would have to pay out once it became popular.
I was going to ask that same question but decided to read all the other comments first. That practice should be illegal IMHO. That is altering content. Creating derivative works? It'd clearly be anti-competetive if the replaced others ads with their own.
2248 days ago I saw a post on Techcrunch, I think..?
Currently Moto G has US GSM option only.
When a political figure prefaces with "let me be clear" (why do so many feel a need to use that phrase?) I get the feeling of an attempt to deceive.

"we will use every power at our disposal to stop it".
Great Tom. Why don't you do so now, rather than playing wack-a-mole later?

Common Carrier is the answer.
I will enter your comment in issue #184, so I can keep it in mind. I think this is a good idea.
Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions on artists to watch?
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Is Dillo still going strong?
I refreshed it and it was gone.

Still, absolutely annoying.
>I've found little value from unit tests.

Not even when re-factoring? Refactoring code without unit tests makes me extremely anxious and I try to avoid it.
jaw drop omg crappy sites that don't do more than store a grocery shopping list have better security.
I met those guys at fosdem as well some years ago. It was a small game-dev room, they stayed through all the presentations having their miniature hack-session throughout the whole time :-)

It was great. Remember that one of them had a great presentation about importance of designing their game in data and not in code, to allow non-developers to participate.
The future of education: (re)Learning to make mistakes
The prices seem insane - are they representative of the US broadband market?

I'm currently paying 15 EUR/mth for a 100mbit service, more bandwidth would be more expensive, but not extremely so.
Fellow, older developer in startup when I was younger I think. He also introduced me to IRC. It was like losing my virginity
I agree, they are supposedly only using that data for targeted ads which can easily be defeated by a using abp or a hosts file.
Rewrite your resume to de-emphasize the entrepreneurial stuff. Once I changed my resume to make it look like I was an employee rather than a founder, I got plenty of traction.
A friend had applied to YC and told me about when I mentioned a start-up idea years and years ago.
>But this isn't a freedom with a long-standing history. Far from representing a break with history, this tradition--wherein reputations are sticky and inescapable--is consistent with how human societies lived for thousands of years.

I'm not so sure about that. For thousands of years you could go to another village, city or country and escape your past completely. With technology like Google this is not possible. And people you didn't know didn't have any way to know your face, unlike now with photographs and videos available.

OTOH, yes, in some small village your reputation stayed with you. But:

a) That reputation was built on mostly serious stuff people would remember about you -- perhaps an adultery, that you were a drinker, that your father was a thief etc. They didn't have a permanent record of every BS you said or done, e.g stuff you casually said when you were 14 or some misguided act you did at some obscure place at 23.

b) That reputation was mostly based on heresay. Not hard evidence, like photos, videos, profiles, etc. It was softer, and much less encompassing. And people not directly present when you did something, only heard about it from others, with less important stuff just getting forgotten naturally.

c) People could (and did all the time) change residence to escape an ill reputation.
Yeah, Chrome's auto-detect sorts it out. Weirdly it's inconsistent (chapter 6 has the meta charset tag in there).

Bit entry level so far, even for a moron like me, but enjoying it.
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We're launching a company called Vidfall at Wasabi Ventures, and one of our pre-launch promos is we're offering an opportunity for startup founders to pitch their startup to the GP's at Wasabi in exchange for promoting Vidfall to their audience on May 23rd.

More info: http://vidfall.com/trade/

The GP's are TK Kuegler (co-founder at Wasabi Ventures; formerly CEO Skyline Netowork Technologies; VP Marketing at RightNow Technologies - sold to Oracle for >$1B) and Chris Yeh (VP of Marketing at PBWorks, former CEO at USTREAM. Active startup investor and advisor. BS/BA Stanford University, Harvard MBA)

Great opportunity for all interested. TK and Chris are awesome. Just email me bpindulic [at] gmail if interested :)
I gutted about half a dozen computer cases for their LEDs to teach myself how to use the GPIO, to start.
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I think it is dismissible. I saw a button to do so anyhow.

And, it does serve to make a point for people who may not take the issue seriously otherwise.
There are many concerns that you'll need to address for this to really make sense in a democracy. The privacy issues are paramount - you need to be able to verify the validity of each vote while making it impossible for anyone to know who voted which way.

In addition, the results might skew based on inadequate participation. If the only people who are active with voting are tech-savvy 20-somethings or 65+ year old retirees, then such a system might not be in the best interest of everyone.

It is, nonetheless, a very interesting system and will keep an eye out. Good luck!
Moved to San Francisco and saw a few people on the Caltrain reading the site.
Dieter Rams honoured at London Design Festival(2013)
Heard about PG essays from a friend in Mumbai , then saw HN for first time and got addicted to it since , and now it's in my default tab in chrome !
thanks, I actually wrote most of this before the beta and missed that, I will update it.
That is HNLondon but the funny thing there was no url on HNLondon page so I was forced to find it myself
I'm an avid FPS player (Counter-Strike, Quake, Doom, Halo, Far Cry) so I get what you mean about FPS games, but it's really not applicable. The issue is that Superhot isn't much about the "shooter" part of FPS. It's more of a puzzle game, and it's much more dependent on level design than balanced weapons (especially since weapon balance comes in to play most greatly in multiplayer).

I'd really suggest playing the demo they put out. I'm very excited to see a full game come out.
It kept showing up in Google search results so I joined. Kind of sad that it doesn't really show up as much anymore.
Surfing the web. I believe that was after reading a PG essay.

"The good son always comes back home"_portuguese proverb

If you belong somewhere you'll get a way of finding it. It is just a matter of time.
No, they're much cheaper. I pay $50/mo for 18Mbps. The more rural you are, the worse it gets. I know people paying $35/mo for 2Mbps.
I think Joel Spolsky mentioned something about "the ycombinator kids" in one of his blogs many, many years ago. Can't find a link to it but that's where I first heard the name and investigated.
Of course, I was focusing on the current ecosystem. I'm very excited for the future of ASP.NET and C#
Take a look at the RequestPolicy add-on for FF. It allows fine grained control over resource requests pages are allowed to make.
That mandates a switch to https everywhere.

Our common network software should be designed with the expectation that the middlemen (including your ISP) are actively hostile, and include defenses against their attacks. Making the html stream inaccessible to them is a first step in that direction.
India's overall infrastructure is pretty shoddy and there have been problems with coal shortages for the past few years. A quick Googling will turn up some good articles in The Economist and India Times about it.

Even the US has its own power issues what with major blackouts over the years, rolling blackouts in major areas like California, etc. Heck, we lost all power in our whole neighborhood in NYC for a week during the summer several years ago when the feeder lines all burned out (barely maintained by ConEd for 50 years). And we regularly have explosions of underground transformers that occasionally catch cars on fire. One of the many joys of living in NYC. Still, it's NOTHING compared to what my colleagues deal with in India.
I was looking for security-related news and typed "hacker news" on google.
I have one for him. I just don't have anything to set it up with, yet. The HTPC is an easier test bed since it's already setup for PXE.
I get what you're saying, but denouncing someone for traits you yourself have is in fact hypocritical. If you want to date an honest person but you yourself are a flagrant liar, that's not a "desire to date someone different than you." Anyone with common sense would call that out as hypocritical.
In the demo, you could never fully "pause" the game. Even when you stopped moving, everything still moved, just very slowly.

The game most definitely turned into a puzzle in the same way that Braid's levels were puzzles. I can't see how you could say it was anything else.

IMO, the demo was a blast. If they made 30 more levels like the demo, I'd buy it. Adding grenades, swords, and interesting level designs is more than enough to warrant a purchase.
Thanks, I'll take a look at this. I hadn't heard of NOOBS before.
Sounds similar to having to pay the phone company to NOT put your phone number in the phone book. I once heard it described as "Corporate Blackmail".
I googled something like "Paul Software Engineer" to see if I myself would come up and found Paul Graham's articles which lead to hacker news. I had no idea what a startup even was but found the content to be of such a higher quality than anywhere else that I visited often.
> I thought they didn't allow you to (easily) have multiple saves.

That is the response :-)
I think it was through Slashdot.
One more point...
When Tom says "we will use every power at our disposal to stop it" he may be speaking technically the truth. But where is the assurance the FCC is planning on retaining the power to do so? Never mind the will. The risk is simply too large.
I'd been reading the stories/comments long before I joined. I remember the motivation to open this account (worst decision in my life in terms of productivity but I would have still joined in the light of this knowledge =) ) but I don't remember how I first landed on HN. Definitely not a Google search. Likely a reference to a comment here linked somewhere.
If you play the demo, this game is extremely clearly not a rehash of the way bullet-time was used in F.E.A.R. or Max Payne.
I think there's a lot of value in the conclusion there. We emphasize differences between ourselves (upstanding citizen vs. drug addict; religious believer vs. "atheist" or "hedonist", normal person vs. "insane") and moralize about that nonsense when, in fact, we're actually very similar. The original, mid-20th-century superstition was that hedonistic/recreational drug use (which is risky) would take over society and that use had to be criminalized. The reality is that, while almost everyone uses illegal drugs at least once in life, most people make the right choices regardless of law (enforcement is minuscule in the upper-middle and upper class) and, for those who don't, compassionate medical treatment works far better than imprisonment. People may be hedonistic in nature, but they're most often smart about it, so what's wrong with that?

I was never addicted to a drug, but I had a long-term trolling habit (hypergraphia) and I will concur with the cage metaphor. The dopamine hits that come with pissing off hundreds of people I'd never met became my own personal drug, and made it difficult to enjoy the rest of life. Addiction eventually becomes the cage, and it gets smaller and tighter over time.

The depressing realization that I come away from this with, however, is that modern life is mostly cages and very few parks. Most corporate jobs are cages with night and weekend release, and so is the way we've designed school systems and institutional life in general. We've even conditioned people into believing in supernatural authoritarianism (which is not to invalidate all of religion; I'm just attacking the politicized, authoritarian strain that exists in the US) because they're so imprisoned that the only solution they can envision is a supernatural person that almost certainly does not exist in that form.

People are so used to living in cages, and have so many weird addictions (whether to drugs including alcohol, to Internet trolling as I discussed, to authoritarian religion, or to the toxic drama of office politics) that de-caging humanity would require massive social change (including, for an obvious line item, basic income).
Michael Arrington mentioned it on TechCrunch.
Small bug: when clicking on an "Ask HN" or any HN link that just drops to the comments section, an error page [0] appears.

[0] http://usepanda.com/app/item?id=7743604
I spent a year doing this for a Fortune 500. When you have a fractured back end there is no other option. Here is a talk I gave to our local Ruby users group. Code works out of the box on Nitrus.io, https://github.com/chadbrewbaker/LiterateFunctionalExplorati...

1) Use the page object model. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html

2) Think about your functional tests like tours through a city. http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321803023/samplepa...

3) As your tests become more advanced abstract them locally to two simple questions. What page object did I come from, and what action did I do on that page to get to this page?
> I'd also say from the UX perspective there's a bit of an expectation that [ left side in a list right side in expanded view ]

I think its because when you first load it the left is smaller than the right and you dont notice the site titles.

Been clicking for a few minutes and still unsure whats going to happen when I click something
You can select a "scope" (top-left cell in the popup) which will tells where the rules apply. You can set it to automatically create a temporary domain-level scope when landing on a web page (in Settings tab), and if you select this, I suggest you also select "Auto-delete temporary scopes".

Now any rules will apply only to that scope. For web sites you use regularly, just lock down these rules for that scope, and they will be remembered every time you visit that particular domain.

This is actually the preferred way to use the extension, but I did not make it the default currently.
And it has always been free in cost
ISP already provide variable speed plans to consumers. You already have to pay more to get a faster connection, at least with Comcast. Very disingenuous and incorrect. I doubt anyone will see dial up speeds. They're not threatening to inject popups into web sites.

So take the ridiculous dramaticized slow speeds away and the silly modal you're still left with an incorrect premise. The threat is not that consumers will have to pay for faster internet, it's that that website companies will have to pay the consumer's ISP. The consumer will have no recourse to improve speeds for slow loading new video startups that don't have deals with their ISP for example.
Interesting insights by Robert, thanks for sharing!
What if the time movement was in a local area of effect, and when multiple players had overlapping areas, there was a multiplier effect? That'd be cool.
Its not that their is an apparently 'difficulty' in chess or go. The difference is thinking about the game.

Chess is largely tactical game. Move A will lead to Move B,C,D which can be countered by Move E,F,G,H which all lead to position XYZ. High level chess players do a literal position search when determining a move. "How does the board look now, how will look after this exchange."

Go isn't purely tactical. Go is strategic. The old saying in Go is, "Chess is a battle, Go is a war." This is very true. At any given time in go there can be 4-7 different 'fights' taking place. How players value these fights, and fight these battles determines the game. Winning one battle, may weaken you in another.

The real problem is Go is its a difficult to quantize game. The measure of Aji (unsettledness) and Influence of a group of stones doesn't have a metric. I've spoken with Dan (master) ranked players trying to improve my play, and I often hear Aji and Influence cited as feelings, you feel the aji of a group of stones, one glance will instantly tell how unsettled they are. And you truely do.

The problem is programming languages doesn't do 'feelings' well. And really nobody has given a better explanation. I feel it has to do with how the human brain remembers and picks out patterns.
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I think this issue can be made a bit simpler by considering the superficial nature of our 'first' encounter in the dating world. I mean, except in some extraordinary circumstance... the first time you meet someone, you are judging them on their appearance. Do they smell? Are they unkempt? Are they close shaven? Only if you are 'passable' in a person's mind for attractiveness, will you have the opportunity to open a conversation that could lead to more. It would be exceedingly hard to go from 'not dateable' based on first impression, to 'dateable' based on 15 minutes of extreme confidence and charm. Even online dating has only somewhat removed this problem if you consider the lengths to which people go to 'disguise' their appearance on profile photos. Or consider Tinder as an example of at least one class of dating--attractiveness is the requisite for having a chance at beginning a relationship. This is not being shallow or indicative of some character flaw... we are all entitled to choose who we will have as a partner.

To be honest, I think there are plenty of 'curvy' women that are NOT fat at all... in fact, some men would say they find those women more attractive than bone thin stereotypical model types. It's really about a level of maturity that a man attains when he udnerstands his 'wants' vs. his 'needs.' Sure chemistry could develop months down the line, but it's just more convenient to choose potential matches up front with the knowledge of your 'wants.'
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hmm I use a combo TMobile broadband at 45Mbps and library wifi at 2Mbps..USA is getting better at least fixed wireless is finally taking off
My experience in the UK (with BMW and various VW brands) are that if you interact with a dealer then the car company phones you a few days later to ask you to rate the dealer - so it is pretty clear that they are separate organisations.

Most dealership staff pretty much plead with you to say nice things to the car company when they call - or at least if there are any problems you tell them first.
The US chose to deal with telecoms differently than the EU, thinking it would incentivize investment and create copetition for better networks. What it's done is the opposite. Planet Money ran a great episode[1] about it. It's worth a listen!

[1]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/04/299060527/episode-...
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I've been waiting for that and Built-in TV tuner for years. I don't think the carriers want that because you don't use their expensive data then. I'm on republic now, so I don't use carriers data anyway and TV would be great. Also as a special interest, allowing that FM tuner to go a little higher in frequency could pick up the aviation frequencies - every pilot would want one (that's not a huge market).
No particular topics, just wondering how large the contingent that inhabits the intersection is.
Apple reportedly 'clueless' about how to fix iMessage purgatory
EDIT: forgot, I found this site much earlier. I was learning Lisp, found the pg Lisp story of running Yahoo stores, had no idea who he was, found HN through his page on wikipedia
I live in a "rural" place on one of the nation's fiber backbones, one of the top in the country due to nearby military/government facilities, and we don't even get the full 7Mbps bandwidth we pay for. And that's still $30-40/mo.

And all that is because Verizon won't upgrade their equipment to handle the congestion that happens at night. It's not that they can't, but that we're "rural".