skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It attitude of the gaming community changes based on which game's community you are focusing on. The communities that usually fit the negative connotations often mentioned, in my mind, are League of Legends and CoD (most FPS games, especially on consoles, for that matter), which seem to be filled with people who are vitriolic assholes for the sake of being assholes. However, this is just my experience with these communities in the past and may be different for others. I know a fair majority of gamers aren't your GTA/CoD dudebros and screaming 12 year olds, but I feel that many people outside of gaming culture see it as such, which seems to be the biggest problem with "gamer" culture.
Pininfarina Cambiano, the everlasting writing instrument [pdf]
That's mine too, an iCloud backup is pretty much keys to the kingdom. Could also just have been that they had access for a very long time and downloaded data multiple times in that period without being detected.
"Brooks’ beef with iTunes is that it is grounded in selling singles, while Brooks says he wants his music sold as complete albums to protect the songwriters and music publishers who depend on income from tracks included on those recordings."

In other words, he's concerned about a world where people aren't forced into spending over ten bucks to hear the song they want, paying for a bunch of cameos they may not care about, even if those people worked real, real hard on that music.

A lot of those singles selling on iTunes are replacing piracy, not album sales, and taking away the option to spend $1.29 will just drive people to services like spotify.
A million dollars ain't what it used to be.
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The unlimited doesn't make sense if you only use the subway twice a day (to and from work).

You can roll the balance of a nearly expired card onto a new card, but I don't know if there is a way to recapture your $1 card fee.
These points (fail-fast, types and one-stop-config) were exactly what motivated me to write the ENVied-gem (https://github.com/eval/envied#envied-).
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274319

Wonder why that didn't garner any traction. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that this duplicate link is from a16z?
The real question is if buyers will stick around once prices go up. I remember, during the bubble, buy.com's strategy was to sell at a loss, grow customer base and then raise prices. The first two parts worked reasonably well, but once they raised prices, everyone left.
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> I agree it's sleazy but how is it borderline illegal?

It seems that domain squatting (cybersquatting) is illegal in some circumstances:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

> And does it really matter anymore?

Yes, of course. No matter now many registered domain names there are, names that match copyrighted or trademarked words are still a matter of great interest to cybersquatters.
It seems like ideally what we need is a language designed for as-fast-as-secure computation, JIT for the specific architecture it is going to run on to ensure no differences in timing, energy use, or anything (within whatever bounds are achievable) even in the face of different cache layouts, CPU optimizations and similar and which makes it a point to clean up everything that is not meant to be returned.
I'm intrigued by the picture on the front. I know Manning has a lot of covers like this but I'm intrigued what this particular chap is/is doing? Professional arm wrestler?
Why is that ludicrous? I've gotten > 50x return multiple times. If you invest in winners, it's not unreasonable -- that's where most of the money is made in this business, and why it matters to not get squeezed out of the big hits.
The Oatmeal provides a very nice illustrated pics about the Mantis Shrimp and its killer claws http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
The point is not that it's depicting misogyny, but that it does so casually, carelessly, and unrealistically. It's done for cheap dramatic effect without consequence, not to be artistic.
TL;DR - No matter how you squint at it, Amazon drives all profits back into growing capacity and market coverage. Amazon alone accounts for around 1% of US retail revenue.
That is great when you are buying the card new, but why do that for the refill screen? Surely the typical rider refills more often than buys new, so you are going to make change more often than you would with round number charges for all transactions.
The libertarian view is that pretty much everything is fine as long as everyone involved is participating willingly.

Consider the ramifications: with voluntarism as nearly the only requirement, libertarianism is a substrate for communities to layer additional rules on top as befit their values: socialist communes, gun-free zones, drug markets, shared libraries, required weapons training, a Greek-style local democracy, whatever. Two communities can be diametrically opposed in their values, sharing only the common tenet that everyone participates voluntarily.

Of course it's impossible to pull off: can kids born in each community be considered voluntary participants? Can someone revoke their rights for the rest of their life with the stroke of a pen? How does someone traveling through these places even keep track of the laws (we see this with states already)? Lots of difficult/impossible/senseless questions arise. But it's a thought experiment: absent religious considerations, is there a more moral system that allowing everyone to voluntarily interact with others in only those ways that are mutually beneficial?

Those details aside, if allowing as many people to craft their life experiences as voluntarily as possible is of merit, investing great power in a central power governing over 300 million people is an extremely poor way to achieve it.
With great information (Internet), any product is a commodity as long as there is no single supplier.
> It's possible to behave ethically in a fallen world.

You're absolutely right. It is. But as an investor, you are bound to get hurt if you assume that everybody you're conducting business with will do so. Again, you can either deal with the world as it exists, or lament the fact that it isn't perfect.

In boxing, fighters are instructed to protect themselves at all times. That approach is a decent one outside of the boxing ring too.
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It's amazing how apple will basically sweep this under the rug thanks to its perceived brand trust that it's earned over the years.
Pretty impressive to see from a marketing perspective.
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If an entire CD minus one song is crap, then it's probably just all crap. For the few artists that do have only one gem, they shouldn't have to sell that for 99 cents. I'm all for what's going on here.
Thanks Joshuaheard

you can use zones for that, but at the time works for circular areas, try RERI-NUCA 800
At least 50% of Amazon's volume by sales is by 3rd party sellers who most certainly DO NOT sell at a loss! For many Amazon products, prices will never raise appreciably. The post above goes into more detail on other reasons for this.
It's straightforward as an ethical dilemma, but maybe not as a practical/CEO dilemma. Are you willing to risk the future of your company, your employees and finally, your own future (by failing to raise another round) on keeping your word?

Now, of course, if it's such a hot startup that investors are cramming to get into a round, it probably less of a dilemma. But that might not always be the case.
You aren't being forced to by any music at all I'm pretty sure.
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Similar situation, coming from an education background, some experience in windows administration and currently in an editorial. Being able to make my first "project" that had people (albeit small group) interested felt awesome, regardless of how crude it looks.
Apple hasn't been forthcoming with details. They have thus far denied any responsibility. However, there is substantial evidence that it was indeed at least partly their fault.

There was a flaw that allowed brute force password attempts exposed here: https://github.com/hackappcom/ibrute

Apple also follows poor security practices like asking insecurity questions to allow users to gain access to an account.

Apple has claimed that it was most likely a 'phishing' attack. However, given the large number of victims, and the lack of any evidence presented to support such a theory, I am rather hesitant to believe them. Until further information is made available, I am forced to consider Apple to be at fault.
In retail, yes. Retail margins are usually less than 3%; so $20m/yr in revenue would give you less than $600k/yr in profit. Not bad money by any means; but certainly not enough to need a bunch of shareholders.

Contrast this with the fact that an average Walmart does over $100 million a year in revenue (though Walmart's margins are closer to 1%), and it's actually not that huge.
27.5 million is mom & pop in the governments eyes for programming work.
1% is an extremely disappointing number seeing that Amazon has been around since before Google. (1994 vs 1998)
To solve these kinds of problems and make more "12-factor"y Haskell apps I once wrote env-parser [0][1] though I haven't pushed it to release in a while.

Env-parser does a few things to make handling ENV easier. First, it, through virtue of Haskell's IO-concentration properties, forces you to pre-load your relevant environment variables and thus fail-fast due to misspellings and poor parses. Second, it tries to force you to interpret the ENV strings as typed values so that there's a limitation of the syntactic space allowable in ENV files.

Finally, and most importantly, it uses an "applicative functor structure" so that the exact code which parses your ENV can be used to produce documentation automatically. This is nice because it will always be in-sync with your program (modulo errors in my own coding of the library).

If anyone is interested in using this in their Haskell code, I'd be more than happy to push out the newer version. It has much nicer parsers and better reporting.

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/env-parser
[1] https://github.com/tel/env-parser-talk
Are you sure it's HP-UX? what does uname -a say?

What does running "file -s /dev/sdX" say?
You're joking right? Anyone who's watched the lowering of speed limits knows they're set 10MPH too slow so that the cops can say you were definitively speeding.

So, no, his friend isn't "an asshole". He was merely approaching the speed he should be driving.

The US has far too many laws. Many exist to simply ensure a consistent stream of income and people for the growing police/court/incarceration complex and their public employee unions. The laws are enforced inequitably - on some portions of the population far more than others (what happened to "EQUAL JUSTICE"?) We could remove 80% of them tomorrow and see no change.
More of an engineering problem that uses a bit of math. Unless you can state what the weight would be to cause the surface to collapse, you're just wanking off in math space.

See Second moment of Inertia (or area depending on who you talk to)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_area_moments_of_inerti...
Mark Carney is the reason Canada basically bypassed this recession. It was so minor hear it was barely noticed, the biggest impact was the stall in new house construction.

However our banks thrived, they profited by offering loans to major banks down in the US.

House prices are on the up and up. Me and my wife bought just before they tightened up mortgage regulations here, since then house prices in our area have been going up by about 13% per year as banks were no longer issuing mortgages for Toronto house prices ($500k and up) as the down payment required doubled and they increased the threshold on the default insurance (you need about 15% down to get the same rate you used to at 5% down).

However, the banks were being so risk averse in the recession I couldn't even get approved for a $500 credit card. I'm from the UK, so with no credit history I was an untouchable. A couple years earlier my wife with essentially negative income as a student had been handed cards left, right and centre.
Then sync it to two devices so you have two factor verification ;)
Here are ways to do it besides a co-op, although that's interesting too.

* Word of mouth

* Expert advice

* Music discussion forums

* Going to see shows/concerts. (Bands you like often have openers you might like.)

* A locally run algorithm that samples music released online to find suggestions (a local Pandora/Spotify rather than a service)
Just so old conversations don't have to get rehashed, here is the thread from a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8054654
You should never rely on the 'cloud' as your only backup. You should always have a local backup as well. At least, while we are on the subject of ideal best practices for individuals :)
Where "becoming a giant, profitable company" is another way of saying "paying their shareholders". Amazon is making money, for all intents and purposes they are profitable. They've just found something more interesting to do with that money than pay dividends. The opponent in this scenario is the shareholders, they're the ones who want to take the money away from Amazon.

It's a very interesting dynamic, certainly not the way i've normally thought of a shareholder-company relationship but one that must apply to many companies.
I read something about a phishing attack - would that count as social engineering?
With PEGs, it's not possible to express nested content, so we have to collate for example the blockquoted content of blockquotes and process them separately. Per my understanding (and I might be wrong here), part of the problem is that PEG includes tokenization, so it's not possible to handle blockquote-levels in the tokeniser separately.

More details on PEG for Markdown:
- from the author of the PEG grammar, who's also the spec-writer of "Common Markdown": http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/standard-markdown-formal-...
- from myself: http://www.vfmd.org/introduction/#prior-work

Also, I wrote an expanded explanation of essentially what I said about CFGs and Markdown: http://roopc.net/posts/2014/markdown-cfg/
I don't think this works in socialist countries. "Pay up or I'll break your legs!" "Okay, you won't get your money, I get my legs fixed for free and I get disability and unemployment."
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I imagine data attributes are already optimized in some respects (probably not as selectors though), since their intended usage is slightly different than other attributes. I only contend that if any type of attributes are likely to receive special treatment in the future (besides those already designated as so, such as id and class), data attributes may be a likely candidate. Then again, due to the lack of constraint on the value of the data tags, that would make future optimizations much harder (which may have been your point).

Maybe just using class-* as a namespace would be best, both from a point of clearly identifying intent and not conflicting with any current valid html attributes (AFAIK).
And you would be spending $3 billion _now_ to sequence the human genome in this analogy.
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Laughing at that.

$20M annual revenue extremely impressive. Especially for "mom and pop" owned business. Mom and dad are either taking home $1M/annually or they are operating a very successful high dollar, low margin business. Both are highly unlikely.
Yes? I'm still not clear on why this is difficult.

The reality is that the decision is probably never between the future of the company and honoring your promises. It would be irrational for an early investor to allow the company to die in order to preserve their percentage stake in a zeroed-out investment.

The behavior contemplated in this blog post isn't that dilemma. It's "this conversation with early investors is going to be sticky, and will involve some form of concession to them --- therefore, we're going to exploit their lack of leverage and bulldoze through them." That's unethical. It's not a tragic dilemma. It's being presented with an opportunity to harm someone for your own convenience, and all that's asked of you as a human is to simply not do that.
Not everything is reversible.
The difference between "murdered" and "is/are murdering" is that the "murdering" implies that either it is happening at this very moment (which is clearly not the case here) or it happens on an ongoing basis.
You're right to say that this critique of culture should, logically, apply to all, but the writer goes back on his premise a few paragraphs in and instead says this:

> Gamer identity is tainted, root and branch, by its embrace of consumption as a way of life.
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Great gem, thanks for sharing!
This will be horribly slow for DOM-heavy projects.
I see the bigger issue being that the security questions or answers are not usually properly encrypted or securely handled in the same way that we at least expect passwords to be handled. The other issue is that security questions should be customizable and people should, if the question and answer is properly hashed and encrypted, devise questions that are personal and remain relevant, e.g., where is your biggest mole?
It's intended as a gentler introduction to Raft[1]. I thought it was great for someone with no real knowledge of distributed systems like myself.

[1] According to http://raftconsensus.github.io.
Any thoughts (especially from Carmack) on bringing iOS to this state-of-the-art mobile VR? Google Cardboard should be a huge wake-up call on the subject, being a gloriously cheap & effective solution easily duplicated IF a respected standard is developed.
This is a terrible misinterpretation of the article. It's not even tangentially related to hard-coding styles into HTML. Attribute models retain the ability to abstract style away from the HTML. Take the example used in the article, am-Button. Using the AM approach, you retain the ability to update the font-color, size, base styling in one place in a separate block of code (css, scss, whatevs). The styles are by no means scattered into multiple locations.
Manuel Schoebel has a strong presence in the Meteor community and many insightful blog posts. I'm confident this book is going to deliver.
I like it (and am doing something similar on a hobby django project), but will this be hard to maintain? Say you're spinning up a new non-heroku server or three. Are there good tools for moving the env variables without making mistakes?
I've noticed this article is amongst a growing trend of articles that purport to solve 'non problems'

From wired, no less.
I used to mix up the answers to the question. So "What is your mother's maiden name?" would be Nathan Fillion. "Who is your favourite actor?" would be my mother's insanely obscure maiden name (I've never heard it outside of the family).

So unless someone knows I do this, it isn't even helpful to know personal information about me because I answer the questions seemingly nonsensically.
That almost sounds like an admission of guilt.

I get that their overall security process is rather patchy and has huge holes, but it is still up to the user to choose between a secure and hugely annoying password, or an easy and convenient one.
Huge fines should be imposed for whatever footage is subpoenaed and subsequently found to be "corrupted" or "missing". That's the only way this could work, while still protecting the privacy of the citizens with which police interact.
Hey, just thought I'd give my 2 cents in case you're interested. I was really impressed with the landing page, and the buy it now while it's in development method. I'm learning Meteor now, and I've been using Discover Meteor as my go-to book resource, but I'm always interested in more.

However, I'm not sure the first chapter is going to be your main selling point to end users. It's the introductory chapter, that goes over the history of Meteor, and what Meteor is. That's not the chapter that will sell me on a new book, I don't know yet how you intend to teach different programming concepts, or how you introduce how to actually use the framework. It might be of more interest to people if it was the second chapter maybe?

I'm interested, but not quite sold yet personally.
Why would a fund want to participate in a series A with an entrepreneur who screws their investors? Wouldn't the logical conclusion be to screw the series A investors when they go to raise a series B?
It isn't reasonable for the fares to be the same. They are determined by different transit agencies, and have different costs. The select bus service is a much different experience than the subway, and as such is priced much higher. Having a cash balance means you can decide what to use it on, when you use it instead of when you buy it.
thanks for the comments everybody! also thanks to the guy who posted this. I will keep all of your awesome advice in mind when making my next web app. In this project, I wanted to focus heavily on creative concepts i felt where neat. Also i'm very OCD about making things look pretty and artistic. I will fix the url history problems thought, did not think of that one.
What parts of your life are subject to ethics, then? Is it just investment, or are there are other circumstances where you feel like you have to choose between ethics and the law of the jungle?
Mom and dad are retailing $55,000+/day, 7 days a week, open most holidays....

You guys are stretching the phrase "mom and pop" to lengths it has never been before.
They don't expect people to stay under a limit. They set limits based on what they expect 15% of people to break, actually. At least, that's how it works when they put any thought into it at all. Sometimes they just assign an arbitrary default based on the type of road it is.

Congress designated a national speed limit of 55 mph in the 70s to conserve energy. Now many states are looking to raise it (several have already).
I usually switch the answers around. So A gets B's answer.
If you want to download a song legally and the only option is a $10 album then yes you are being forced to spend $10 for a song.

We can argue the semantics of the word "forced" all day but I'm pretty sure everyone understood what he meant.
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For most intents and purposes, the MTA is the government. NYS sets up lots of various quasi-governmental authorities, because the authorities can issue debt without having votes, whereas the state government needs to have voters approve bonds.