skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I travel to the U.S. and buy something at a store, EU consumer protections don't apply, nor should they. If I make a telephone order from a U.S. shop, they don't have to comply with European law; I came to them.

The traditional law on this isn't quite that clear in the 2nd case. If you take telephone or mail orders and ship to other countries, you do run a significant risk of exposing yourself to the laws of the destination country. If you have no presence in the destination it may be harder to enforce any ruling against you, though, so countries traditionally did much of the enforcement via screening shipments at customs. If you were selling mail-order goods without complying with destination law (e.g. selling appliances legal in the source country but not meeting safety-testing standards of the destination country), the law would be enforced by simply confiscating your shipments. Once it's in, it's harder to enforce laws, but in principle you can still be hauled into court in the destination country for e.g. a product-liability lawsuit.
Password Sharing Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Ninth Circuit
Awesome, maybe now they can afford to accept debit cards.
This Week in Data [December 12, 2014]
Hey, I don't think you are an outlier. I use Skype for business and the many SMB I work with all use Skype as well. The Skype target audience is the consumer not the SMB. Lync is great, as Jabber is great, but they are all for the Big Fortune 500, not the SMB. I am still looking... and will welcome new "Skype Killer" initiatives.

Despite of that, I don't think Wire is it. I downloaded the app and it is quite awful to use. We need a "Skype Killer" with better usability for business, not only a pretty screen and a good marketing landing page.
The story of circumnavigating the Peruvian Andes by bicycle
Word is that most employees are being offered full relocation (generally to Zurich) which I have to think will be well received.

This goes for both Moscow and St Petersburg.
Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven
I just like to build stuff with computers, and always have since I learned some BASIC on a Commodore PET and subsequently Commodore 64.
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I never had a problem paying via debit card when I used them. I don't have any active droplets with them right now, but I've always paid with my bank issued debit card, and looking at it now it's still the active payment method on my account.
You'll need the iOS SDK. That can only be _installed_ on a Mac, but once installed, I understand you can copy it over to Windows.

However I've never actually tried doing so.
The presence could be purely vendors or a Russian company acting as a representing. More like a consulate, like they still have in China.
i've done exactly that when i was in school. you can still do it. i believe turbo pascal/c is available even today and supports asm blocks directly, so you can do assembly programming in pascal/c.
Last I checked (~2 years back) it was 7$ / minute.
Digital drivers licenses come with one small (big) problem
I don't believe anyone is getting fired, though it's true that a mandatory relocation will mean a lot of people choose to leave the company.
Unfortunately, lately TPB was something which is far away from what it should have been; too many ads, the lack of daily archives of magnet links and buggy and closed software.
Companies take debt to optimise tax.
Theoretically, you can't stop people from talking a certain thing; but in practice in you can always increase the cost to reduce the efficiency of communication, especially you can gain a lot of advantages if the effect is on a massive scale, statistically...

And when you increase the cost to such a extent that people get more hassle from talking than get more benefits from this same act, people will simply stop doing it...

A simple example, I am right now typing on my tablet, and I do have to admit that I was a bit hesitant before I start writing this message...it's just much more comfortable to type on a real keyboard than the tablet screen...but I hate censorship and mind control so much that overcomes my reluctance to type on a tablet...

Btw, please don't downvote or upvote my post...I am currently at 256 karma units...I think it's cool and want to maintain this karma for a while...thanks...
> For most people's uses, it's the same.

I look forward to seeing how I can chain multiple operations on a set into a single line of Go.
Sure, I mean, the Cultural Revolution, Soviet Dekulakization, the Khmer Rouge genocide... it's a good thing those were areligious genocides. Think of how much worse they could have been.
The folks living in the reservations have not grown their economies. Economic growth isn't something that happens automatically; you have to go out and start new enterprises, invent new technologies, etc. Some cultures are simply incapable of this and will eventually die out; if you want an extreme example go read "Don't Sleep, There are Snakes" by Daniel Everett.
Depends on the project. Either that it has the potential to make money, or to help/inspire people (my blog), or it allows me to learn a particular skill (doing something lately to learn Backbone and other JS technologies), or it's just plain fun for me (game development).
Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities [pdf]
Funny, I'd put it the other way around. Isn't searching what we do when we don't know exactly where something is?

And – admitting I might not be a stereotypical computer user as my files have a high level of organisation – isn't searching the high-level kludge that fails relatively often, especially with hard to parse binary information?

I couldn't imagine relying more on meta-search than knowledge of where my files are located. A tag tool might be nice though, as it enables you to create an alternative hierarchy more suitable to a specific activity without completely abstracting away the physical layout.
Since traditional is used in Hong-Kong which is in PRC, I doubt they would have an issue with it.

We're not talking about languages here however, but countries. A "traditional character option" wouldn't be enough to indicate Taiwan (since languages are not countries, just like you said).
How do you feel about having a different set of operators for integers and reals? Like "+." versus "+".
If I understand correctly, pg didn't quit YC completely. He only resigned as YC president and now is a normal partner. If he was making millions, now he is probably making only 3/4 millions, not in the unemployment row.

He also resigned as the main HN moredator/administrator/spokeman/programer/whatever and put a few people to cover those tasks. He didn't earn money directly from that work, it was a side project that grew out of control. (I suspect he's still watching from the shadows. Hi!)
For me it's just curiosity. I have an idea and I want to see if it's useful to somebody.

Usually I'm more inspired when I travel
Sorry to be so blunt, but this seems like something straight from TheDailyWTF. :/ Do you gain any abstraction over the underlying DBMS, like with using Doctrine?
Doesn't Linode have a really bad security record?
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DigitalOcean offered SSD-backed VMs at low prices. They were one of the first to do so.

I was very happy with Linode, but they dragged their feet for years on it. My workload was I/O-bound and I got far more bang for my buck from DigitalOcean, so I jumped.
My employer's IT department asks me for my credentials, and logs in as me, to fix issues for me, with my permission. Am I a criminal? Are they criminals? Can I have their desk when they go to prison?
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Sequent had proprietary multi-processor 386 systems. The Intel MultiProcessor Specification dates back to 1993. Most Pentium II chipsets supported dual processors, which drove pricing down enough for enthusiasts to build them for home use.
Almost every time I install or update something from mac ports, it's ending up compiling, binaries are very rarely cached. I doubt my setup is unusual (the latest OS X and the latest XCode).

And I suspect that, for example, JS engines in the browsers are going to be more and more parallel. And that kind of compilation is something that every user does on a daily basis. More cores => smoother web browsing experience. Not that I approve this whole thing that's going on with the JS craze, but it's the fact everyone have to cope with, unfortunately.
Awesome, yesterday i was looking for an easy combination of electronics and the Pi... The examples (knowing nothing of electronics) were mostly to advanced (multiple wiring, transistors, ...)..

Gonna try this out this weekend (have an Arduino board also)
How to program computers (kos) – OperatingSystems.io
That un-optimized version also helpfully lacks the buffer overflow bug.
>the software is related to the magazine article of 2015 issue of the (Japanese) programming magazine

https://github.com/matz/streem/commit/1c8189f9e1df3289801b28...
US Navy: New laser weapon works
Great article about not getting discouraged and staying confident
Disclaimer: I'm also working in the industry.

My thoughts are that Adobe Actionscript (in conjuction with AIR) isn't that bad. It could do years ago everything that is now reinvented with HTML5 and MVC frameworks (like angular), has a decent performance (if the port of the AIR runtime to your plattform was well done) and the the language is halfway sane (at least better then Javascript). I also liked it better then the new trend towards QT, because you can do everything in a single language.

I actually know some high end cars with some decent user-interfaces that are also using Adobe technology.

However you can do crappy UIs and a crappy implementation in every technology. If JD power gave bad ratings it's most likely more due to a bad UI design and usability than due to the underlying technology.

I actually had expected that Ford uses Silverlight Embedded, as this was pushed by Microsoft at that time. Interesting that this is not case.

Good to hear that Ford has at least some decent understanding about software. Here in europe trying to do something Software-like isn't a pleasant experience at all.
There's that small difference of actually being able to influence our own governments and changing what they give to US.

Which is still a huge difference than being exposed to mercy of an overseas government which gives us about the same consideration as it does to cattle and approves of torture.
The silent yet steady substitution of unemployment benefits with federal disability insurance is well covered in an episode of This American Life [1]. We, as a country, have a shoddy system for re-training low-skills workers facing technological obsolescence. We have also set up a system under which unemployment benefits are largely a state liability. Disability, on the other hand, is federally funded. The intersection of these trends, as documented by This American Life, lands us in the curious situation of state governments encouraging their unemployed to seek disability benefits (thereby shifting their burden onto the federal budget).

In the short run, state unemployment and federal disability benefits have similar effects. Social stability is enhanced through buying off the poor. But long-term disability is not designed for the under-trained. Its means-testing paradigm discourages even the exploration of employment options which might jeopardise the applicant's disability status. Thus a one-way valve to dependency on the state's largesse.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...
They also don't accept prepaid cards since they've said 80% of fraud cases involve prepaid cards. Linode took my money and worked well but they don't have a $5 price point.
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You seem to have a typo on the pricing page: On the 100GB plan it says "50c/GB for space over 50GB"
Making a Pluralsight Course
My 15 year old son got recommended the following options by a career guidance system his school uses:

- Lawyer

- Town planner

- Royal Marine Officer

I'd love to know the "logic" that led from his interests/skills to that selection!

[NB Only one of these got the reaction "don't do that" from his mother and I].
My inspiration comes from the knowledge of my mortality, literally, not in a poetic romantic artsy way. If I am not going to give up on everything and die, then I will try my hardest in learning to live. There is nothing really that I can build that matters more than caring about my life. So, I just try to amass as much skill as I possibly can, pretty much all I do is study and try to develop skill and add more skill on top of existing skill, I relate almost everything to mathematics, computer science, logic, and code, aside from trusting a small subset of individuals with my physical presence. I hug my family and talk to my cat. That's my life. Sit at computer, code, food, sleep, exercise. Maybe it seems like I have no inspiration because there is no 'push' I need to do. I just 'do that' and 'that' is mostly, more or less, what I want my life to be. I could also say 'the world' is my inspiration but that's redundant, although much more humble, but it 'was' very hard getting my mind aligned into this particular habit sequence.

This is just in general. When I find particular projects to obsess over I have elevator speeches about them that could last decades. I get really really excited, super hyper, I like to explain why 'this tool' is the best thing in the world, and promptly forget my rant after I've finished it. I don't know 'why' I do it. I just 'want' this to be my life, because it's what I am passionate about, what clicks for me, what lights up my brain, what paints pretty pictures in my head, and what I love to think about, observe, learn about, and so on. Every explanation I could give for it in words doesn't do it justice.
I signed up for DO because they were $5/mo and at the time Linode was $20. Twenty bucks is fine for production but for hobbyist mucking about, which I would classify my usage as, it's a bit steep. I image many users are in a similar situation.
I've always used a debit card to pay for my DO server and it's never been a problem (although it's been maybe a year since last time).
I work with iridium enabled devices, and their network has some interesting uses :) Seeing the flares is awesome, too.
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I wouldn't go so far as the post you're replying too (I think you can do a startup without all the advantages named, but your risk looks different).

However, I think you are falling into the trap of identifying outliers and then trying to reason about the general case from it - it's pretty hard to use that to say anything more that "it's possible for X to happen, because it happened here, and here."
OVH offers KVM virtual servers with SSD starting at $2.5/mo[1], and announced they will have an even smaller $1.25/mo plan[2]. All that with more memory than DO.

I'm guessing that VPS providers have a low support cost/customer compared to shared hosting. No hairy compatibility issues, everything is neatly abstracted away, everyone has their own, independent environment with most of the administrative tasks offloaded onto the user.

After you toss in a few guides that double as marketing, and are usually written by the users themselves, all that's left is to take care of the hardware and bill.

[1] https://www.runabove.com/index.xml#compute

[2] https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/524334437039747073
why have you not put it in a regular repo, yet?
by the looks of it, this thing is something far beyond a mere 'gist' :P
You're doubling down on the "obesity is a moral disease" stance here ("gluttony" is explicitly a moral judgement). I've come to suspect that it really isn't as simple as "lack of self-control": too many people I know have gained significant weight due to medications or medical conditions, or despite sincere and sustained efforts to bring their weight under control. (I'm also quite intrigued by claims that even broad populations of lab animals in the US have gained weight over the same period that the US population has, despite their carefully managed diets and activity levels.)

Once something is this common, it just stops being reasonable to blame the individuals rather than broader factors. (In much the same way, if half of my students fail an exam, I'm pretty sure that's not entirely their fault: I clearly screwed something up in the teaching or the testing.)
They've been hit with a coldfusion 0day in the past, but the stuff that has happened to them could happen to anyone. I wouldn't have much to critique about their security practices.
Facebook thinking about 'dislike' function
Last time I checked Linode (~2 years ago) they were a bit pricey compared to competition. Maybe this is no longer the case?
That's a very popular use case and something that has allowed digitalocean to grow so fast.
I can't wait for new tracker services developed with inspiration from decentralized services like bitcoin.
Your comment hit me like a bolt of lightning. Every time I use a Freestyle machine I can't believe someone delivered a product that is so agonizingly slow. It's such a basic idea, why does it take what feels like 1-2 seconds to respond to Every. Single. Click.
Ah, I just published a blog today somewhat related to this. But it's more about Startups that inspire me, personally.

It goes like this:
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There are various aspects of a startup that can inspire us. Be it; good team, good culture, great product with exponential growth. But one thing that personally inspires me is the self-sustaining business model of a startup to create success."

Continued: https://medium.com/@aatifh/companies-that-inspires-me-6f382d...
Digitalocean is $5 and Linode $10 for the smallest plans. Linode used to be $20 for smallest, but upgraded their hardware and dropped their prices a while ago.
The decentralisation nature of bittorrent means that there are dozens of websites similar to TPB that existed before the raid and are still up today.
Normally they are seperated.
Safety related features run on dedicated ECUs running a real-time OS like Autosar. They are communicating via bus systems (CAN, LIN, Flexray). Even the vehicle related features on infotainment systems normally run on a dedicated CPU in the headunit (running an RTOS) which communicates with the entertainment-related CPU (running WinCE, QNX, Linux...) by IPC.

Some bad designs might neglect those guidelines and build everything in one box to save costs. However I hope that those only happens in the cheapest offerings.

However I think the discussion between Ford and MS could be more due to political reasons. Automotive OEMs like to put all risks (whether likely or unlikely) to their suppliers and make them liable. Changes from standard automotive contracts are unlikely. And MS might not be not accept such a standard contract.
Reminds me of an older post about how Graphite + StatsD can be a powerful tool to measure everything.
https://codeascraft.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-...
I wonder why is Zurich a big part of Google's strategy as opposed to other places in Europe
Perhaps you should look at the conditions that were imposed on these areas. Horrible government education and health care, relocation of individuals resulting in horrific suicide rates, boarding schools that beat students for keeping their culture and language, US government mishandling resources to the point the Dept of Interior was required to cut their internet connection multiple times. Never mind the oil and uranium problems.

Its a culture problem, but not from the Native American side. The current generation suffered all these things and is trying to dig out of a hole. The next generation is better poised to grow as the culture is returning.

Also, I would love for you to go to the Seminoles and read them your comment. I expect they would have a words. I would imagine these stats also don't cover pow-wow circuit youth very well, but that would take research.

As a side note, this is the most ignorant and racist comment I have read on HN.
Cambridge Startup Codeship Showing Strong Growth to Wrap Up 2014
Linode also charged you the $20 right up front and held on to it for the month.
Building a Star Wars API: An Update
Do you miss old school 8-bit game?
Take your startup on tour in Southeast Asia
Unfortunatly that happens in automotive too often :(
OEMs have little knowledge about implementation, most actual work is done by contractors.
Thank you for that. I've been playing around with spacing pre-launch and missed that one.
Academic Freedom and the Right to Remain Anonymous Online
Lenovo Recalls LS-15 Computer Power Cords Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
In countries were chopsticks are the dominant form of cutlery (that sounds ridiculous), being a one-handed implement, is it considered bad form to hold them in the left hand. I chopstick in the left too. Can I travel to Asia and not be shunned?
The article headline is more of a play on the number of times a sysadmin has cursed because of the mail server that she/he was administering. It's kind of been a right of passage, though becoming much less frequent these days with the use of gmail.
This is the reason for me as well. The dead end part for me is that the company doesn't value hands-on technical people and has outsourced most of that.

There aren't a lot of jobs in the area either. My wife and I have discussed moving down the coast to Raleigh/Durham area since there are a lot more jobs around there and we have some family near there. But I imagine it would be hard to apply and get interviews for jobs when you're not in the area.

My wife says if we are to move it has to be in the next 2 years - before the kids are in middle school. The thought process there being that they will solidify friendships, clubs, sports, etc. before high school.

Since I've moved into management it is hard to apply for remote jobs that look very appealing career-wise. I fear employers see the management history and think "this guy hasn't coded in years".

So many factors to take into consideration that it numbs you into staying.
FWIW I've found influxdb considerably easier to install and manage than graphite (graphite doesn't play well with virtualenv, which makes dependency management horrible, compared to influxdb's single static binary)

Also, I can see logging dictionaries being much more efficient and useful than logging single values -- with graphite if you want to track page hits per section of your site (of which you have 10) per user (100) per browser (5), you end up with 5000 individual metrics, and you need to have thought of them in advance. With influxdb you can log {"section": "front page", "user": "bob", "browser": "firefox", "hits": 1} as a single metric and then use an SQL-like query to filter by section / user / browser (or any combination of those) as and when you want to.

TBH the only thing I miss going from graphite to influxdb+grafana is the tree of metrics (grafana has autocomplete once you start typing, but you can't just browse) and a few of the rendering functions (moving average).
Sadly 99.9% of the other companies are shitty solusvm customers who dont understand the hypervisors they are using, and completely fail to manage resources properly, resulting in retarded TOS such "a load average of more than 1.0 for more than 15 minutes" results in warning/suspension/ban. You'd be insane to trust any production stuff to retard kiddie hosts from LowEndBox or WHT.
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Hmmm... Now someone has to take all the detection algorithms from facebook (for detecting who your close friends are, who your spouse is, ect.) and run them on the Star Wars characters.
I think where they win is when somebody buys a $5/mo server and uses $0.50/mo worth of capacity. They shut down all the hardware they don't need and save the electricity costs.