skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a part of it. Unfortunately, many people who understand the internet still persist in imagining that what happens on the internet is somehow less real or less consequential than what happens in "real life". In reality the internet is a part of real life, just like movies, or literature, or the telephone, it's not a separate or different place.
Of course net neutrality is a must but at least with TV I get about 50 free over-the-air DTV channels so I don't need cable...
It isn't an Android only thing, all devices will be found and you would not know.
I think you're understating what an impact this would have. What has made the web so amazing is the low cost of reaching users allows entrepreneurs to try new things with lower risk. This has lead to high rates of innovation in the tech sector. This change would stifle innovation by increasing the barriers to entry for new web services.

Many of the companies we've grown to love today might not have been able to get started in a world without net neutrality. Your next start-up might not have access to Sprint, or AT&T or Comcast subscribers without paying those carriers.
A little tangential but an important fact nonetheless: there is zero evidence that doing 'puzzles' improves cognition.

In fact, there is a mountain of evidence (and growing every day) which shows that you can improve your brain health by getting up from your chair and doing any sort of physical activity.

Even getting up and lifting one leg leaving your to balance your weight on the other does more for your brain than sitting down and doing a mental puzzle or cross-word, etc.

Just a thought :)
This is a specific PostgreSQL command. While it is indeed faster it's not very maintainable and will definitely need rewriting for any other database. For example, with MySQL, you could write to a temp file and execute a "LOAD DATA INFILE".

Not entirely seeing the real benefit achieved here though.
> But yet we do prevent that. Regulation is about optimizing a large basket of outcomes.

Or, looked at a different way, regulation is about internalizing externalities -- often including present internalization of expected future externalities -- in order to enable decisions made based on optimizing the utilities of the individual participants to be more in line with optimizing global outcomes.
Depression, Bipolar, and Borderline disorders are deeply related and linked with creativity (specially bipolarity). The literature and scientific studies that confirm this are numerous [0].

It isn’t rare (at all) to find entrepreneurs that are hypomaniacs or bipolars (periods of depression and periods of mania alternating), most of them undiagnosed. Some people just channel the emotions derived from these disorders into a creation process (entrepreneurs building products, painters crafting pieces, musicians writing songs, etc).

[0] http://is.gd/tMSfmH
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Well, not heating your house enough can also cost you your house as mold and ice can grow in very cold zone of your house. But I do like the ingenuity of the solution.

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We took "DEVELOPERS WANTED: " out of the headline. It broke more than one of the site guidelines.
How does one force themselves to care?
However, rooting and interfacing with underlying hardware is significantly harder on other platforms.
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This is addressed in the article.

>FAQ: It might work in Montana, but in Seattle, our windows would get moldy

>There are a variety of ways to mitigate the mold problems that occur in cold, humid climates. I did some experimenting when I lived in the Seattle area and have compared notes with people that are still living there. This is a really large issues even if you don't try this. While there are many things to be done, I think the first two would be: 1) learn how to properly clean mold problems (borax, not bleach) and 2) a dehumidifier nearly eliminates all mold problems and gives off heat.
I'm actually more than happy to pay for a new version (e.g. TweetBot 2), but I'm more referring to big company apps where there are funds and not indie devs.
Let's just have Nest...
Best advice. The common theme here is to focus on personal growth, whether learning new tech or taking on more responsibilities. Use this opportunity to make yourself more attractive for the next job.
Especially since they have been down this road before... didn't MS introduction of C# cause all sorts of problems for their search initially?
This is possible in the current configuration, too. In fact, it may be easier to compel a human driver to keep quiet than a networked onboard computer relentlessly feeding speed, position, tire pressure and other telemetry to some sort of remote monitoring facility.
Self-driving cars need to be trained to run on left side now.
Can irmin be used a block device filesystem? Or would it only support object based storage?
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It's a great book, I think I'm on 5th or 6th reread now.
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I don't buy it.

How much money are they going to make from those plans? A grand here and there from the big clients and a hundred bucks from the small clients?

Their annual run rate is at least 6-7 million dollars a year if not more.

I think this is just part of a greater shift in strategy in focusing on becoming the redhat for bitcoin. And thus opening up all their payment processing tech for free.

Pure speculations, but I will not be surprised if they eventually open source their core payment processing as well.
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I've considered a rebuild of Lionseek.com (from CodeIgniter to ROR + AngularJS). The site has been a nighttime/weekend project for awhile, but receives over 1 million pageviews/month organically and I've been lucky because it continues to grow.

Since most of the traffic is organic and most of the list/grid pages are updated every minute or so, AngularJS is a little concerning for crawl-ability and performance. In May of this year Google said they more-or-less support JS front-ends but it's obvious that pure html is better - even when it relates to load-time performance.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this approach:

1. Replace most of the ROR views with standard HTML. Take out NG tags Use a static site generator for most pages: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/templates/ > Ruby

2. Move all the business logic into a RestFUL JSON API.

3. Smash data from API with templates in 1 on a periodic basis (every n minutes)

4. Deploy updated HTML files to CDN

5. For anything dynamic, use simple AJAX to fetch info from APIs in 2

Thank you
How does he purge the heat?
This reminds me of the early days of GSM where Nokia phones showed a broken lock icon if the air interface between the mobile phone and the base station did not use encryption. At the time at least France had disabled the encryption and the indicator caused some interesting discussions.
return -EWRONGSIDE;
Not all voluntary transactions are good. But all good transactions are voluntary. I replied more about that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111095

Regulation that violates rights cannot have a positive outcome. That principle is cognizant of a wider range of cases than one of trying to optimize narrow outcomes (like a 'neutral' internet); the unseen consequences of rights-violations always overwhelm any narrow benefit.
Nothing really stops "us" from making radio based meshnets, either. Besides spectrum regulation hogging all the good stuff.
Why not use the reptile heater instead of the incandescent globe? Having a light shining right in my face would end the experiment in minutes.
SymPy Gamma is also very interesting. Yes, it's no real competitor to WolframAlpha, but it still has quite a few useful features.

http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=integrate+log%28x^2%29

For instance, as you can see in the link above, it can provide steps for derivatives and integrals. WA has the same feature, but you need to subscribe to actually use it without limits.
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Correct, that's what I said. The OP claimed that technical implementation problems were not considered a stumbling block for legislation, and I mentioned the "right to be forgotten" mess as a counterexample, where a fundamentally unfair, unworkable law has created a new human right out of thin air, one that's causing a lot of trouble for Google and other search engine providers.
This is common in the Northeast and Midwest.

Also, if you're in an apartment your place might be so hot because you have a neighbor that has cranked the heat. I used to be able to keep the heat off in a place I lived at because the person that lived below me had their place like a sauna.
Misleading title? Loops can be really efficient and beneficial, just maybe not in this very specific circumstance. I clicked on the article thinking it was a new programming trick on how to avoid loops to do the same work loops do.

SPOILER ALERT: it's not.
It's also possible that there's some subtle form of selection against the trait, that we're just unaware of.
> I also discovered Facebook makes all their "contributors" (anyone who does a pull request) sign an agreement with them, which seems weird and not cool. https://code.facebook.com/cla

This is standard for virtually any open-source project backed by a large company and for many that are independent (e.g., all Apache projects: http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html#cla).
I have a question related to this. Even though my primary role isn't development (I'm systems engineering), there is some programming work involved. If I pour a lot of effort into something good (say a tool kit that makes future code easier), it is very hard for me accept that the code is owned by the company I work for, and I can't use it on any future jobs. Kind of makes me want to do a so-so job, and save the good code for my personal projects. How do professional developers deal with this internal conflict, other than no caring about the code you write for work?
Personally, a good amount! I know a lot of the React team are also big fans of Om. React has always been inspired by functional programming and I think in another universe we would have preferred to write it in Scala or Haskell or Clojure. With React (and this Immutable lib) we've been trying to incorporate ideas of functional programming into JavaScript product while still feeling familiar and "native to JS".
Just install radiant heat everywhere in your house ya cheap bastard
This is it. The "TV channel" Internet we've all been warned about. This probably won't fly with European regulators. I desperately hope.
I live in the northernmost large city in Canada (where we get -40C pretty regularly for a while in the winter) and every apartment I've ever lived in has only one heat source, and usually it's either electric or water pipe.

If your power goes out long enough for all the heat to leach out of your apartment or house you probably have some serious problems with either the electric company or your insulation.
This is why changing out incandescents for CFL's in a heated house does almost nothing for saving energy... and if the heat comes from electricity, nothing for saving money, either.
Forget the theories and look at the data. When governments (such as Australia) have passed laws making helmet use mandatory, bicycling rates have gone down.
Crappy insulation is the norm here in Australia as well, which is more of a problem down south where it gets cold in winter. I used to work with a Scot who highlighted the issue, saying that in a Scottish house, the insulation was good enough that you could basically heat a room with a candle.

I once asked him if there were any wooden houses in Scotland, he replied "Yes, we keep our lawnmowers in them".
Hahahah.... what a waste of time and resource. FB would rather direct their resources towards this meaningless crap then run the risk of their top employees getting bored -- and leaving them.
The title was "Sprint Tramples Over Net Neutrality" and the article began, "Today, Sprint dispensed with all subtlety. Without any pretense of net neutrality whatsoever..." It should be obvious that that is far too tendentious for HN. We're looking for pieces without blatant spin. Readers can make up their own minds.

We changed to the WSJ article not because it was best, but because it was the handiest one that wasn't breathy with drama. That's why I asked for pointers to more substantive articles, if there are any.

As for the original submission not gaining traction, (a) that's fraught with randomness, and (b) traction doesn't prove goodness—if it did, linkbait (for example) wouldn't be a problem.
Weird, clicked the link, and my computer crashed. Opened it now, perfectly fine. Weird.
> The bathroom is the one room in the house that is heated normally.

You can get heated toilet seats - they're quite common in Japan.
One example: http://www.heatedtoiletseat.com
Haven't been to Battambang but it's on my list of places to check out. I'd be quicker to explore places like that if I spoke some Khmer. I prefer traveling in Vietnam generally because I can speak the language well enough now.
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These CLA are fairly common arent they, esp. among largercompanies that have/run open source projects? ? e.g. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI...
Here's what I do: Work at a company that encourages/allows you to do free software development. Then you only have to write proprietary code that's not generally-useful anyway; no conflicts!
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Get a divorce. Quit your government contract job. Move.
Usually those units come with a window attachment to vent the heat outside
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To clarify your point, immutable isn't in production at FB yet; we don't know about TypeScript.
They may have agreements with private buyers like the SecondMarket Bitcoin trust that would help move a lot of coins w/o moving the market and being exposed to second by second price changes.
Additionally, Moops[1] may be useful to get some extra sugar going. It's a meta module that includes a few other modules to give you a sane (Moose/Moo) object model, plus function and method signatures through Method::Signatures.

For example:

use Moops;

role NamedThing {
has name => (is => "ro", isa => Str);
}

class Person with NamedThing;

class Company with NamedThing;

class Employee extends Person {
has job_title => (is => "rwp", isa => Str);
has employer => (is => "rwp", isa => InstanceOf["Company"]);

method change_job ( Object $employer, Str $title ) {
$self->_set_job_title($title);
$self->_set_employer($employer);
}

method promote ( Str $title ) {
$self->_set_job_title($title);
}
}

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Moops
I have a portable air conditioner but it is not as portable as you would think. It is about 2.5 feet tall, sits on nice rolling wheels and has a small exhaust and fitting so you open your window and put the pipe end in place to vent the heat. You do not have to mount it in the window which makes it portable. I can move it from room to room and it only takes about 2 minutes to setup the fitting.
Often one house still has additional isolation. For example, in the US the Senate was designed to be isolated through the use of longer terms, higher age limits, and some other procedural differences.

While it has been eroded by increased life-expectancy and modern media, I'd still consider heredity-based membership an unacceptably-extreme solution. (Also unconstitutional, but you'd need an amendment to rework the Senate anyway.)
Truth on the rural markets, though I suspect running those translators is pretty inexpensive. I've got to say, having made more than a few cross-country trips, that finding myself within range of an NPR station rather than just very tired C&W, bible, right-rage-wing talk, or Mexican radio is a blessing.
Reminds me of a post I saw on Get Rich Slowly awhile back on ditching a dream job for a boring one. Interesting perspective. Emotional investment can be taxing in its own way. I started in a job with very interesting problems but lacked meaning, then moved to a job with much more meaning but with less interesting problems (that eventually turned into boring, frustrating, and stupid problems). I've since found one that's more balanced, with interesting problems that I care about to a moderate degree.

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/03/18/reader-story-i-...
So far, AGPL has not been tested in court. GPL has. The scope of Derivative Works (reach) has as well (but the case law in this area is more complicated than most open source developers are aware of since copyright law is understood differently based on which federal circuit court hears the case). The more challenging consideration for me is the AGPL/Apache (DB/Driver) method that these companies are using -- and especially when you have Apache licensed community contributions (these apparently violates AGPL's own terms). I see this as an area that can backfire against the open source community -- and indeed I'd also like to know if FSF, SFLC, or GPL-violations takes a position on the use of Apache drivers to AGPL DBs. If so, it would be best for the open source community to know about this soon rather than after many have placed themselves in a position where their best option is to pay the vendors that have somehow managed to achieve lock-in. Ironically, this is the opposite of the goals that many in the open source community endorse. So if FSF takes a strict position on AGPL, it could accidentally result in the opposite of the freedoms we have been working for.

I'm also fascinated when companies use a license and then state in their FAQ that they didn't really mean all the terms of the license. If this comes up in court, the judge might take the FAQ into account and interpret the intent of the licensor, or might just look at the license text itself. It'll be interesting to see what happens. My advice for now is to assume the text of the license to be what the licensor intended and my hope is that companies that use open source licenses simply use the licenses that match what they mean. If they really mean that they want you to pay, they should just be clear about it and people can decide if they want to pay.
>Voila, you have basically got bitpay.

Yeah because their service can be reduced to 100 lines of code. Infrastructure, support, all the services they provide anyone could mimic with 100 lines of code, right? That's nonsense. All credit to bitpay for pushing the envelope towards mainstream adoption of Bitcoin.
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This is a great point! Infrared heat emitters produce less visible light, therefore more heat than a light bulb of comparable wattage.
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This post is spot on. When I was a kid, I got my start when my dad wanted me to sell some stuff in the garage on this new site his buddy's son was using called eBay. I remember looking at all the other posts and wondering how they made the text different colors and put borders on things and found this world called HTML. I still have the notebook I used to write down all the cool things you could do with the various tags. Those were the days of not knowing what I didn't know. Now I definitely know what I don't know, and it's pretty terrifying and exhilarating.
This is the same Microsoft that ran ads against Google based on the claim that unlike Google's ad algorithms, they don't look at your email, then turned around and looked at a user's email when they found out that a Microsoft employee sent confidential information to that account. (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-issues-mea-cul...).

It's also the same Microsoft that was found to have provided the greatest aid to the NSA in accommodating their mass wiretap requests (compared to Yahoo, Google, and other webmail providers).

The irony is delicious.

To put it very mildly, I question Microsoft's integrity and wouldn't trust them with my data. Want to showcase a hero who actually went to great lengths to fight the feds over your email? Try Ladar Levison.
I lived in Minnesota and had only electric heat. Most other houses have only gas heat, and it usually requires electricity to run. Luckily the electricity is pretty reliable.

If you do lose heat, the solution is generally to use blankets outdoor gear until it is fixed. But this has never happened in my 20 or so years of living there.
If you're serious about limiting liability, you also need a business bank account and to keep completely separate finances from your business. Once it can be proven in court that your company is in no way distinct from you, then you're personally liable.

I don't no the implications of selling "as is". It might vary by state.

(I'm not a lawyer, not legal advice)
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Many PHP data types (such as mysqli etc) have been made into objects, and I agree 100% that it's silly to do this with strings. Ease of string manipulation is a PHP strong point.

You'll be giving PHP devs a loaded gun by allowing them to register primitive types (as proposed by nikic). Most frameworks would add to them, but I know some people would change default behaviour to 'fix' issues such as db character encoding issues which would make debugging hell.
Good to know. I never got into immutable collections because I presumed they would result in things being allocated all the time (and that that would be expensive).
Well this was more or less inevitable...

I think people are in some kind of serious denial about the drastic increase in bandwidth being demanded by customers.

I don't think Sprint's solution is healthy for the state of the internet, but I do think something will have to change.

I personally don't use any high bandwidth services. I don't watch Netflicks, or a lot of Youtube - and yet I'm stuck with higher and higher internet bills and I have to subsidize other people's use of the internet. Frankly, that's ridiculous.

Ultimately I think the system will have to revert to the $/Gb system we used to have. If we all reverted back to that, I think you'd see some very competitive pricing.

However the selective traffic stuff.. that's a bit scary. I don't think they should be allowed to look at our traffic in the first place. I understand you need to look at the packets to be able to route them, but anything past that just seems like it should be illegal.
"Foo".replace("o","O");

Not a big deal.
In the US, the Senate used to be elected by state legislatures, and therefore represented the interests of the state governments in checking the federal government's power. The Constitutional amendment that began the direct election of Senators has had really catastrophic consequences.
If everything is immutable, it also makes it a lot easier to parallelize tasks, because you can easily deduce a dependency graph.
Meanwhile, that user presumably has the impressive track record of 2 days of posting on HN, making him/her a true expert on the HN crowd.
Does the bandwidth a customer uses actually relate to your costs in any significant way, especially when measured as bytes per month?
There's some academic work on this, too: http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/research/personal-comfort-system...
Yes mold is very annoying, but maybe he can experiment with dehumidifiers in key areas to mitigate it. Of course it would probably kill a lot of his energy savings.
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Was with you up until that last paragraph. Strokes and poking around in the brain seem to provide pretty strong evidence that it's all physical. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you were suggesting, since meta-physical doesn't really imply much.