skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the premise that the lack of competition is at issue, but the reasoning of this article is at odds with itself.

> they include net neutrality, the price of Internet access in America, performance, rural availability and privacy.

In a free-market, rural availability won't improve. Someone posted this the other day: http://www.louisvilleco.gov/SERVICES/CityManagersOffice/Fran.... That page describes the cable franchise negotiations for Louisville, CO, population 4,500. The page notes: "Should another cable provider want to offer cable service in Louisville the City would offer that company the same franchise opportunity that Comcast now has. To date, no other service providers have asked for a franshise."

The only reason phone infrastructure got built in rural America at all is that the Telecom Act's Universal Service Fund diverted billions of dollars a year from long-distance customers to paying to subsidize service for rural customers. What will the free market do when you take that away?

> But in 2004, the FCC took steps to limit competition, turning away from key provisions of the 1996 Telecom Act. They set aside unbundling requirements which serve as a key bridge for competitive carriers. By circumventing Congress this way, the Bush-appointed Chairman of the FCC was able to turn back a competitive tide, creating an intentional duopoly on Internet access in the US.

The "competitive tide" under unbundling is a fiction. In the early 1990's, you could order DSL from a large number of ISP's . . . all of which used the same copper wire the AT&T monopoly had put in the ground decades before. It was not accompanied by increased investment into the actual wires that ran into peoples' homes. Indeed, it eliminated any incentive to invest in those wires--why pour billions of dollars into infrastructure you'll have to lease out at cost to your competitors?

People mention the "unbundling" requirement as if its a panacea, comparing it to what has been done in Europe, but ignore what makes that policy work in places like the U.K.--the company that owns the wires is a sanctioned monopoly, protected from competition, that is guaranteed return on investment through statutory means.

It's illustrative to look at places in the U.S. where the market for telecom is working pretty well. In Chicago, there is cable via Comcast, and both AT&T and RCN building FTTP networks. In a place like Baltimore, RCN wouldn't be allowed to build its network, because they only serve the wealthier neighborhoods from the Loop northward. When local governments intervene in the market and make such deployments impossible, rational market participants do not respond by building a bunch of unprofitable infrastructure. They do it by not building infrastructure at all.
+1 for Eddy Izzard!
Agreed. I don't think Reddit could afford to pay me the kind of money that I'd require to work there. What an awful place. Hopefully it'll be better now that Yishan Wong is leaving.
Wait, and this is news why?
Staying out of the public eye is very much a PR strategy as well.
> Don't these people realize stuff online stays with you forever and has consequences?

I call it "thinking with your tattoos". People simply aren't cognizant that decisions and actions have long-term consequences. You may really want that tattoo on your face, but it will make you virtually unemployable for the rest of your life. They're simply unable to project out complex interactions of consequences, their brain simply can't do the calculus or views it as overstimulus or something simply filters out everything to do with long-term planning and executive function.
Interestingly, their stock grants vest over 4 years at 5%/15%/40%/40%. 18 months means you see a tiny fraction of the big sum that draws you into the company.
Read the Richard Rhodes books.
I was born in New York City, grew up in L.A., started a company in SF, and live in Chicago, but the only place I've ever been held up at gunpoint was in San Francisco at 4th and Mission.
It lives here:

https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
This is especially considering how every Turing award winner is recognized for extremely technical contributions. There's no way the general public will think of Richard Karp or Stephen Cook as a hero because they won't even be able to say anything resembling what they did.
You could also say that everyone moving to GitHub is leading to a dangerous centralized monoculture that evaluates software quality based on how well it fits GitHub's conventions.
I'm curious what Gerrit gets them that Github doesn't have natively, too.
My understanding is that the 1962 amendments addressed both safety and efficacy, notwithstanding the existence of earlier safety requirements, but I'll concede you that point and stick with the economic question I asked above.

I know nothing about European and Asian pharmaceutical regulation. They likely have something equivalent to the FDA's mandate.

That seems a rather large assumption - that foreign pharmaceutical regulatory regimes are so similar as to result in substantially similar economic outcomes. I'm no expert on the subject, but the European regulatory environment seems rather more diverse than you appear to imagine: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/I...

It's my understanding that vitamins and dietary supplements are classified as "food" and not "drugs" and so fall under quite different regulatory systems.

So what? If consumers can buy a 'nutritional supplement' that provides a discernible health benefit, do they especially care whether it is branded as a food supplement or a drug? Given the burgeoning 'dietary supplement' market (with some $30 billion a year it seems the answer to that one may be 'no.' In other words, if you have something that definitely works why not just market it as a food supplement and let consumers throw money at you?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=same+md5#!/story/forever/0/same%20...
You're right on a lot of accounts. Let's talk, can you get in touch at hello@ please? Happy to talk about all of this.

The main difference now is that both retailers as well as affiliate networks are actively trying to push this model once they've seen they can make 5x more money from the same amount of impressions.

Also, the publisher gets to keep PART the relationship -- the one dealing with the users interaction with their product. The relationship with the retailer that sells the product is also kept intact -- consumer loses just one touchpoint (a visit to the product page) but gets same confirmation email, returns, customer support etc. The retailer has same load on servers and gets the exact same user data they would normally (shipping, email, address, billing, payment etc).
I hear what you're saying. As an employee location does matter to me a lot.

As the CEO of a company that doesn't get my way w/r to where I want the office? Is the appropriate reaction to rage quit?

It's just weird, CEOs need a calm hand on the tiller, even if they're directing the ship towards bold maneuvers.

After this and the public employee debacle, I would not picture him as C-level executive material of a small company, let alone one the size and potential of reddit.
Personally, I feel it could be a bit more tabulated or lined up, if that makes sense? One tiny thing would be to change "submitted 10 hours ago by $username to $subreddit" to "$subreddit - 10 hours - $username", which I would argue is less "glitz", it's slightly less informative for newcomers to the site, but friendlier on the eye for repeated use, at least for me.

I'd also some subtle visual cues to separate posts from each other. I know it's not modern, but I still like the look of forums; lots of little boxes to me actually feel less cluttered than lots of little boxes with no clear boundary around them. And I feel similarly about HN, which could do with some application of max-width on the comments the very least (if not the "boxes with subtle gradients and tasteful hints of shadows" style I am so fond of)

Some things do help guide the eye, even a subtle gradient for example is a cue where you are scroll wise in a post that is larger than the screen; not that useful, but still not nothing, and I believe such things add up in addition to being friendlier to the eye. It's not about "design" for me, I don't like when that gets in the way of functionality either. Just keeping on iterating and smoothing things out.. I also don't like big overhauls, but I also always thought that while Craigslist proved that websites don't have to be shiny, it wouldn't have hurt it to have been made it a bit nicer over time. There is a lot that can be done without changing the location on the screen of any of the elements, just the looks and the space between them.

But since no userbase that big will ever agree on anything and the default is no change.. maybe give users an easy way to create and share their own styles, and use them on some or all subreddits? Subreddit styles are one thing, a wonderful thing, but I bet you this would spawn a whole new wave of creativity and fresh designs, and who knows, maybe that in turn can give pointers on how to improve the default look (or simply provide several as options). Even as is, there are many subreddits which are perfectly greyish white and decent, but still a lot nicer looking IMHO than the default.
When a door is marked "Private", then the room beyond is generally a shared space for all those authorized to access.
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Not sure what manner of url voodoo this is, but we lifted it for the version of this story that's on the front page right now. Thanks.
> People mention the "unbundling" requirement as if its a panacea, comparing it to what has been done in Europe, but ignore what makes that policy work in places like the U.K.--the company that owns the wires is a sanctioned monopoly, protected from competition, that is guaranteed return on investment through statutory means.

That's called a utility. Why not do it that way? Then you have a market among retailers. Then you don't need regulation because the one's that dick around with your streams can be selected out of the market.
No enthusiasm. Just demonstrating that that person was obviously wrong. It was the quickest thing I could come up with in 15 seconds. I was just giving a proof by contradiction. All I need is one, right? I can give you other reasons people give to charities. They might want to see a cure for a disease they might get, for example.

$125m to Stanford:
http://cancer.stanford.edu/research/documents/scinewswinter2...

Didn't one or both of the Google founders donate to help some conditions that they have?

Howard Hughes gave a lot of his money to his medical institute simply because he didn't want to give it to the government.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institu...
I think it might be cultural. In the USA they write 'crossing' as 'Xing' (and use way too much text in traffic signals, with "PED XING" as one of the weirdest examples)
I'm here at AWS reinvent and just saw the EC2 Container Service presentation. They specifically targeted security as part of their design.

Basically, you launch a cluster of EC2 instances that are "available" for containers to launch into. So these are your instances, running in your VPCs. It's really the same security profile as the standard VPCs plus any other security issues your particular docker containers expose.
Gerrit works well for a project that has many different repositories, as you can do code review all in one screen.

I did some CyanogenMod development and I really liked gerrit, albeit its poor performance on Firefox (client side app that had weird JS freezes in fx only..)
We changed the url to one that seems to work, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604931.
Let me put it this way: I found Caltrain to be reliable on average, but the 75th percentile to be terrible. Major delays are going to happen multiple times a month.
Devil's advocate: She may be as high as she is because of those false credentials, and Amazon might keep her because she's profitable. Falsifying credentials may have a greater average benefit/cost than actually getting the degree.

IMO it isn't more unethical than what big businesses typically do, like take advantage of unfair tax loopholes. Someone else pointed out that requiring a degree is illegal; if so, I'd say it's ethical for people to lie about their credentials when businesses engage in unlawful behavior by screening for them.
This just killed my productivity and made my day.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Programming+a+Problem-Oriented+Lan...
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i'm looking for a way to upload a list of phone numbers and have calls made automatically so I can scale far beyond the number of dials I can make manually. i'm part of a two many company that's bootstrapped and we don't have the funds to acquire what seem to be some of the better solutions in the market:

dialsource
connectandsell
insidesales.com
monsterconnect
etc..

any help would be greatly appreciated.
Feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm Sterling Toth and this is my app called Hear
s/but completely meaninglessly/but _NOT_ completely meaninglessly/

oops.
Have you looked at
http://www.alexa.com/

This gives other websites with similar statistic providers
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Computers/Internet/St...

Look at pricing here http://www.alexa.com/plans
According to one of the AWS devs, they plan to start honoring invite requests in about 2 - 4 weeks. It appears to be in preview right now mostly b/c the loose ends aren't tied up yet. For example, in their demo today, they launched EC2 instances in a cluster using an AMI that's specially enabled for the EC2 Container Service but which is not yet publicly available.
I would love to hear what you think and answer any of your questions.
Is there a particular reason everything is implemented as member functions? I feel like typing things like

mathfu::Vector <float, 3>::CrossProduct (u, v)

instead of

cross_product (u, v)

would get really old really fast.
Which will have no bearing on the case of Go. Go has already been relegated to the bottom of the quality bin for my purposes by its designer(s)' ignorance of the last 30 years of type system research and hostility towards the functional style.

See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/RKymTuSC...
I appreciate that, but according to its own history page the ICH didn't come into being until 1990, so that leaves nearly 30 years since the 1962 FDA amendments during which one might have expected to see measurable variations in the pace of innovation under different regulatory regimes.
Props on the move, it shows that golang is flexible to make moves for what's best for the community rather than stick it out in google code. I hope this results in benefits to the iteration cycle.
A scientist scream at a fleas, it jumps.
The scientist cut the legs of the fleas and scream again.
It doesn't jump.

Conclusion : When you cut the legs of a flea it becames deaf

(french story).

Take in fact that there s a lof of factor as club selection of players (they may prefer a type of face even if they are not aware of) and lot of parameter. Maybe it's just because the one with one type get more attention.

One explanation could be that one kind of face could be the stereotype of a footballplayer culturaly. And when you fit in a stereotype you gain advantage from it. As people treat you as being very good at it even if they are not aware of.

Personnal experience as a bouncer (when you have to look as one ) and a hypnotist.
Get dinner served in less time
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=breach+browser#!/story/forever/0/b...
IaaS -> PaaS slowly but surely
I believe the biggest reason is the lack of embracing software in the process. You still have people standing around in front of beakers and petridish. You are using the same darn rigid rules from 18th century. This is why progress is so slow.

Imagine if you opened up the vast knowledge of drugs and creating new drug and testing it was as easy as writing a program, it would do wonders.

Software is not eating up the world in this slice of the market.
It's expensive. Difficult for commuters, even if you live in the city, just to get around. It's style over substance, and it attracts brogrammers, not "bright young talent", which can exist anywhere.

The guy grew the company 5x. I don't think attrition is the issue.

I assume he left because it wasn't his company anymore, it was run by the board. If the board can override his will as CEO and accept losing the CEO over office location, that by default means the board did not really value him. I would expect that hurts. Some things you can't prove with data, these are subjective decisions that fall into the realm of a CEO's responsibilities to look out for his team. It wouldn't be so far fetched to believe that Yishan felt that the board did not allow / trust him to do his job.

It's almost certainly not really just about office location.
Go team member here.

I've used five different code review tools, and Github is the worst of the five. I regularly bug them (Github) about this, and they know it. I hear rumors they've been working on it a lot.

Github's review mechanisms barely scratch the surface of what's possible.
You have to contextualize those demographic moves.

The post-war American suburban drive was in large part driven by economics and policy. Mortgage subsidization from the 30s with the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the GI Bill in the 50s made loans available to mass consumers, while the HOLC's discriminatory redlining policy and the deindustrializing of cities (driven chiefly by lowered shipping costs) caused dense urban areas to become less desirable.

Mixed in with this you also had suburban-oriented urban planning (lots of highways, little public transit investment), brand new car driving infrastructure, low energy costs, lots of cheap land to expand to and in the 70s and 80s rising urban crime.

If you were looking to live somewhere, you had lots of incentives to prefer the suburbs. Today, most of these trends (energy cost, crime, job markets) have changed course.
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> but I would like to see a version with more rules and constraints to follow.

That would actually make it easier, not harder. The more constrains you have the fewer possible options you have, and the easier the puzzle.
S3 versioning could be pricey and painful. Try deleting a versioned bucket! I wrote a tool that I'm gonna open-source if my employer okays it, but the pathetic part is that you get charged for each HTTP request - imagine a bucket with a billion objects and a gazillion versions!
I think you mean s/ignorance/rejection/.
I actually became aware of Grothendieck's existence because of his isolation and will to be forgotten from this world (including his plead to have his work removed). I will never know the true reason behind his behavior but I'm a scientist myself (life sciences) and at some point of my life I started to hate the field and actually wanting to become isolated and not sharing the tiniest bit of my work with my peers.

People will quickly judge you as a bad person if you don't want to give your work for the greater good of humanity and science, however, for a person that's outside the field it's easy to overlook the many things (not neccesarily related to science itself) that a scientist has to deal with.

Science, like all profession, has its own demons and bad times, and how do you cope with those is a fundamental skill that you have to develop in order to be able to, well, do science.

Anyway, a little off-topic but I wanted to say that I sympathize with the guy and I think that he has all the right to ask the community to stop sharing their ideas, just as anyone has all the right to come up with their own ideas and decide to share them or not.
This would be absolutely phenomenal if you could have the entire pip ecosystem and write cross platform desktop apps in python.
Probably a combination of both really. I get the sense that the 'Commander' hasn't done the requisite reading.
> Security by obscurity is not worth the price you pay for it.

That's why I was posting this. Many people think that because of the Kerckhoff principle you should always disclose everything. But obscurity is not always a bad thing and it can be part of the obfuscation here. Although here it was indeed a good thing since admins are gonna up the cost of their kdf following advice from the community.
Really? You've managed to mention the lack of generics on a thread announcing moving go to github? Is this a parody comment or are you serious?
> I have known people who were able to turn things around after being put on a PIP.

I'm one!

It took a few hours of introspection but I applied a new focus and drive to aligning my personal goals with the company's goals. Have not looked back since.
There are a lot of things lacking about GitHub's code review process (pull requests). Off the top of my head:

- Merging a pull request (almost) always creates a merge commit, polluting the change history. Gerrit will automatically rebase the changes atop the master branch head, leaving a nice linear history.

- Pull requests require the contributor to create a public fork of the repository they're committing to. I can see how this works for some people, but I find it gross for each contributor to the Go project to have their own public fork. What a mess.

- Comments on pull requests are sent as soon as they are created. Gerrit allows you to make many comments on a change, as drafts, and then send them all in one go, sending just a single email. This is much easier to manage for a large project.

- Gerrit has the notion of multiple 'patch sets' for a particular change, and you can see diffs between patch sets, so it's much easier to progressively review large changes.

And there are many other small issues with the GitHub pull request process that make it untenable for the Go project.
Totally serious. And, it's not just the lack of generics-- that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I was hoping for this transition for a long time!
Github is far more accessive and user-friendly than the Google repositories.
Great move.
> So what?

The FDA decides what is a food and what is a drug, and such determination determines what regulatory requirements and oversight will be applied. The two are very, very different in that regard.
For those who don't know, Alexander[1] Grothendieck revolutionized algebraic geometry, which is (in a very rough sense) the study of solutions of systems of polynomial equations as both algebraic and geometric objects. Grothendieck gave a totally new foundation for the subject via category theory, and one could argue that he is a primary reason why categories are so central in modern mathematics.

[1]: He spelled his own name different from the French spelling, apparently.
GitHub has the network effect of so many existing repos, but I personally think the issues & code review tools are mediocre at best.
A lot of my friends who aren't experienced investors are really excited by this. The fact that they will automagically invest a small amount of money without having to think about moving money or choose what to invest in seems great to them. I personally would rather decide how much to invest and what in myself so I am not particularly interested in paying someone else fees to take this control away from me.

But definitely a cool product for the average person who doesn't want to put any time/effort into investing.
Ritch at Acquirable is probably the best you can hire for this kind of stuff - http://acquirable.com/

Probably only makes sense for domains at least 5 figures USD though.
I just asked him in person. He has.
> one of these data leak stories where the passwords were actually stored correctly

The reason we see so few hacks where passwords were stored properly might be because they do things properly, so odds are lower they get hacked in the first place. Just a thought.
Anyone that knows Rob will tell you that you're simply wrong about this.