skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you develop a successful business plan selling pineapples- and then a regulator comes in and says that assumptions x, y, & z are no longer legal- why would a business owner decide not to "waste money" on courts?

Now change pineapples to air and consider a colony on some remote asteroid. Do you get the idea better?

> Monopoly is a word which you are misusing. Verizon is the leading wireless ISP in the country. Comcast is the leading wireline ISP in the country. Centurylink is a dominant force in ISP delivery.

It's not misused. Monopoly is clearly present in areas where there is no choice between all those options you listed (for example for landline Internet). Only few places have multiple choices. And even then they are often colluded - i.e agree with each other not to compete in order to prevent lowering prices and spending money on improving the service. So those cases for users are essentially a monopoly anyway, even if formally they have "choices".
Insurer Anthem Reveals Hack of 80M Customer, Employee Accounts
> the US has no culture

How anyone can believe this is beyond me. It is like saying a given atom has no protons, or that a given region of a country has no area. It's such a gross misunderstanding of basic concepts it should mark anyone who says it as someone who has no basis for continuing the discussion.
I can't stand the '.' syntax. Someone that doesn't know python would have no idea if those are method calls or what.

And in both cases, that is terrible code. Use a class or something...goodness.
I had trouble understanding this comment at first, I think you're comparing "net neutrality under this rule" with "no net neutrality required by law" (i.e., status quo), whereas the comment thread is, I think, comparing "net neutrality under this rule" with "net neutrality under an even stronger rule that does not have an exception for unlawful content".

That said, I'm really curious how preemption plays into this. For instance, if federal law is silent on the selling of some particular thing, and local law says that selling that thing is a crime, and there's a federal law that e.g. makes it a crime to interfere with "lawful" interstate commerce, and I interfere with you selling that thing, did I commit a federal crime? I can see arguments both ways that make sense to me as a layman, but I'm sure there's a standard answer to this.
I don't think this libertarian sloganeering does anything to help. Freedom is something that individual persons deserve, not massive entrenched corporations who are throwing their weight around to prevent any innovation from happening and keep their profits fat.

It's true that government intervention screws a lot of things up, but so does unrestricted capitalism. We can't solve the biggest problems of today with reductionist ideologies.
New to App Development – Objective C or Swift
Hi, I have been programming in C since past 4 years. I am comfortable with the complexity of pointers in C.
Currently I am working for a MNC in India, but I want to become an independent app-developer. I purchased a Mac book Air and an iPhone recently and want to get started with iPhone app development in near future.
My concern is what language should I start learning, Objective-C or swift ?
I prefer performance/features over easy learning curve.
I browsed the internet only to be more confused. Would like to hear from people who are into Apple App development since quite some time now. Also, it will be very helpful if you can list some good source to learn objective-C/swift.
Thanks.
I'm sorry if I misunderstood this article.. but they took their $70k of profit and donated it to wikimedia, then took all profit from the 'gift' idea and bought an island.

So these dudes essentially give away the vast majority of their profit yeah? What am I missing? Don't get me wrong, it's incredible.. but at the end of the day, very few forms of altruism exists and I feel like I'm overlooking some part of the equation. Where's the sinister ending? :)
Currently C++ and MATLAB. We'll be adding Java support during the next couple weeks. Our system is setup to handle new types of code very well - adding support for a language is as simple as installing the version of the language you want and adding < 40 lines of code :)
Social trading, low cost active alpha and the democratization of Wall Street
I'd love to hear why you think there are 9 votes for reclassification, btw.
This is just a technologically advanced incident in the "drug war". Aside from the tech aspect, the business could be compared to a formal crack house where dealers meet customers and the owner takes a cut. That is to say, there's a vast unregulated market for drugs and the SR is a drop in the bucket.

While notable, I imagine people 100 years ago will pay more attention to the 30+ years we have of imprisoning, killing, fining and assaulting people and their families for selling and using highly common and sought after substances than the unregulated marketplace aspect of this case.
> Still upset about the gunpowder plot in 1605?

No, Oklahoma City is quite enough, thank you, as is the continued campaign against gay and trans rights, which is only nonviolent because the violence isn't reported on as part of a coherent campaign.
I know my credit card company allows me to set a password to prevent unauthorized access from someone who might have stolen this kind of data. Is there a similar system in place to make it harder for an identity thief to open accounts in my name or do other things that might damage my reputation?
i dont want to depend on a framework by one person.
At his FOSDEM talk, he actually talked a little about how Perl 6 should be flexible enough to keep on changing basically forever... given that you can edit the parser even on the fly, it seems plausible.
Re: requirements of ISPs blocking illegal traffic: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement... (TL;DR they're exempt, just like e.g. Web hosting companies. It's the "don't shoot the messenger" concept.)
> but at the end of the day, very few forms of altruism exists

[citation needed]
I'd say nearly every move the CAH folks make is some form of nontraditional marketing. Sure, buying an island may seem like just throwing away profit, but the amount of buzz and fan loyalty generated by that sort of stunt is a big part of what keeps their brand relevant & growing.
Startup Culture and its importance
People keep using DoS as the canonical example of the need for this, but in that case one of the endpoints is requesting that the traffic be dropped. The ISP isn't making the decision for anybody.
Hey don't make it sound like you're blaming the one person prohibited from downvoting that post.
> If only Americans were separating themselves into merely two distinct groups. From what I can tell, it's more like they're separating themselves into about 320 million different groups. And everyone hates everyone else, and if you think the elites aren't fanning the flames of this with every tool at their disposal, then you really haven't been paying attention.

Is there any possible evidence anyone could show you which would convince you this position is wrong?

> If I think that, strictly speaking, a person does actually choose to be gay, in the sense that the state of their mind is informed by both physiological and psychological factors (like just about anything else), does that also make me an intolerant bigot?

I don't know, do you think people choose to be straight or bi? Do you think a straight person could choose to be gay, or either of them choose to be bi, or vice-versa(-vice-versa)? Because if you can't really choose to be another way, it isn't a choice the way the term is used in this context, and you're being obfuscatory.
> It used to beat out Slashdot for me, which is about the highest praise I could give a site.

Slashdot's meta-moderation contributed to discussion quality and high signal:noise.

I'm still skeptical of parent comment's fingerprinting as a sole solution -- it takes humInt and humInvolvement. Arm willing human mods with tools like fingerprinting, provide incentives for many to moderate and for some to moderate the mods, and good discussions can happen.
You can freeze your credit. I don't claim it to be a comprehensive solution to a complicated topic like identity theft, but it helps, and is fairly easy and inexpensive to do.

http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-financ...
CherryPy as a WSGI server
$70k is a very small percentage of their revenue - that's only from their holiday promotion. This 2013 article (roughly) estimates $12m in revenue:

http://voices.suntimes.com/business-2/grid/cards-against-hum...
> How many of you deal with frameworks today that require you to know special magic? How many of you deal so with the framework that you wouldn't hire someone on [your] team if they didn't know the special magic already?

This is so, so important. The most popular web languages all have popular frameworks that are magic on top of magic. Suddenly you can't hire a Ruby developer (or, god forbid, just a developer): you have to hire a Rails developer. Same with Django, Symfony, Laravel, etc. etc.

> Magic is bad.

THIS. A million upvotes. Magic. Is. Bad.
Why Executing Mentally Ill Prisoners Is Unjust
Would rather that society stop obsessing over having perfectly straight teeth. If they are otherwise healthy, why spend that money and go through the painful experience of straightening your teeth. It's entirely cultural (learned) to expect them to be perfect. Some cultures don't care (though in this globalized world, every culture is gradually expecting it).
Massive breach at health care company Anthem Inc
I was under the impression that large tech companies shift devs to different projects often, but Apple does seem like it is already strained by its number of software products.
Sounds like the point of the (presumably criminal) trial was to determine whether Vanderklok was guilty of the charges presented - once he was acquitted, there's no point in continuing. If he wants to present a case against his accusers to show _them_ as being guilty of violating the law, he can, but that's a separate case - which he has indeed filed, very recently - and would be dealt with at a different trial.
>>So those cases for users are essentially a monopoly anyway, even if formally they have "choices".

This- I get.

You made assertions without qualifications. I don't know where AT&T is the dominant ISP vs Comcast vs Centurylink. My point is not to be acerbic. It's to say that ISP service delivery is EXPENSIVE. You have to make major investments. Those investments are based on assumptions. If a regulator comes in and unwinds those assumptions, OF COURSE YOU ARE GOING TO SUE. No rational business owner would do otherwise.

The better option would be to incentivize competition, but nobody wants to address how expensive space on telephone poles is. So now we're going to kill the golden goose so everyone can get their netflix & youtube videos.
I think you are being a bit generous in assuming that a steroid ban in professional sports means that they are not used. In practice, it means that they must use them clandestinely, but I wouldn't be surprised if a future analysis reveals most of our top athletes of today are using PEDs. Additionally, highschool athletes are generally untested, meaning that highschool is their one opportunity to get ahead by whatever means necessary before attempting to carry that advantage forward with more conservative approaches in college and professional sports.
How to Get Your Teeth Fixed in Mexico (2003)
Afghanistan is also a fairly heavily Islamic state, but it has quite a history of drug production and distribution.
Except that there isn't actually a real and usable protocol for pushing drop rules up to your ISP, so in practice you can't authorize your ISP to block a DoS on your behalf without getting humans involved.
Anyway, in case of AT&T they easily invested in their mobile networks, while telephony there is covered by Title II. Where were their investment fears? Title II won't affect any investments - all those arguments are bunk. What it will affect is making ripping everyone off with anticompetitive techniques harder.
10.8 is not enough to be a major problem, and the UN projects total population to start decreasing soon after that.
Interesting that the domain -- http://www.anthemfacts.com -- was registered in 2013
Investments are working just fine with Title II as practice shows. And if assumption of the investors is monopoly, they deserve to lose big deal. It's their own fault.

> The better option would be to incentivize competition

Here I agree fully, but how exactly would you do that without causing ire of the same monopolists who hate competition? For example you could force unbundling, i.e. require to give access to the network to competitors. Some countries do that (France I think) and quite successfully. But do you think AT&T and Co. will like that? They'll start screaming ten times as much as they do now because of Title II.
Yes. The telecoms are government regulated, and they suck. Now the internet can be regulated likewise, and start to suck. Any time the government offers something, it expects much in return.

I'd rather have Google, et al, provide a market solution to this, by aggressively expanding Fiber without regulation, and laying down a secondary network to compete with Comcast/Time Warner. As it stands this is starting to look more and more like an attempt to maintain power for the traditional shitty telecoms, while also taking a slice out of Google's pie.
comparing someone being excluded from a social gathering to being summarily executed is pretty fucking distasteful. in my view taking the accusations of abuse victims seriously is a sign of progress. no heads are rolling.
> How does seeing tweets (unless they are intelligently selected) help me when searching for something on Google?

Google is probably smart enough to realize users don't want tweets for every query.

> If I suddenly start seeing tweets in my search results, how does that improve my search experience?

It'd be useful if users explicitly search for it, like [superbowl tweets], a trending hashtag, or a breaking news/event. Though, how they decide to present the tweets would be a ui/ux challenge.
James Gray réalise la nouvelle campagne de Chanel
Crockford's Dec64 proposal has some interesting background on decimal representation: http://dec64.org/
There's a great Reply All podcast episode that dives much deeper into domain selling: http://gimletmedia.com/episode/7-this-website-is-for-sale/.
"Does this not outrage you?"

It does not outrage me. I'm more outraged, well maybe not outraged but concerned, by your strange and desperate claims of Ulbrict's innocence.
Does anyone know if theres a particular reason that I must activate my invitation with the mobile app in order to use Inbox on the web? I was looking forward to trying it out but its incompatible with all of my devices. Is Google just trying to push people with invites to try out the mobile application or is there some technical reason behind it?
How does the pricing compare to 99designs?
> compiling a statically typed program is, in effect, a form of testing (limited to those assertions about behavior which can be encoded into the type system.)

Fair point. (Especially if, as you say, you are using a language with a type system like Haskell's, which to me is more like a program analysis engine than just a type system.)
You forgot 3) not banned in China
Which is why you pretty much always get humans involved.

How is the ISP even supposed to know it's a DoS otherwise? Maybe you just made the front page of HN and you want the traffic.
What gives? This is just a promo ad for money laundering.
The other reason people don't see these professionals is time, and under the Australian medicare system at least, there's a problematic time/cost tradeoff system.

My last visit to a doctor went like something like this (it's been a while, excuse any slight irregularities):

1. Take a day off at your own expense to see the doctor

2. Submit a claim to medicare

3. Get called into medicare office because my medicare card has expired (???). Medicare is only open 9:30-4:30 weekdays

4. Take a day off to see Medicare and get issued a new card with exactly the same number on it.

5. Resubmit claim

6. Receive a cheque in the mail several weeks later addressed to the doctor, along with instructions to give it to the doctor before tomorrow

7. Have to take a day off to get it to the doctor because the post won't be that fast.

Three days of lost time and money, it would have been cheaper not to claim the value of the consult.

I don't see doctors often.
So they can pitch other services to you?
Why does Apple need to make money on search?
The Last Page of the Medieval Book
I'd go with windows phone or iphone potentially now they are getting more microsoft support. No chance of the mail app getting replaced on either of those.
Would you also cast your own broken bones?
Let me know if you have any feedback, I'd really love to improve it based on what users want.
The lack of provider competition isn't a natural monopoly. It's a government-created monopoly/duopoly in a given market. Instead of regulating the one or two providers in a market, we could try a different model that improves competition.

One way is to do city-owned and maintained layer 1, like Chattanooga (http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/technology/innovation/chatta...), and sell access to as many ISPs want it.

The other way is to break the city franchise model. Cities generally grant franchise rights to cable and phone companies, excluding other providers for a promise of universal coverage and a few percent of the revenue.

The latter is what Google Fiber is asking for from the cities it goes into:

- It wants blanket access to all of the telephone poles and other right-of-ways, without having to do per-pole applications, application fees, and approval process that can take weeks/months each.

- It wants to not have to do universal access, but rather only roll into neighborhoods with a high enough density to be profitable.

- It won't pay the city a percentage of revenue. Instead, it agrees to build out free internet access to schools, public spaces, etc.

Google Fiber's model has the advantage of not relying on a city to properly maintain a fiber network, but the disadvantage of leaving poor communities un-served.
Criteo – The Ad Tech Company Google Pays Attention To
i know go has it's own advantages (speed etc) but whoever saying the language makes developers happy clearly came from c++/c and not from Ruby/Python. you can write it in much more friendly language in less lines of code.
That covers copyright infringement but not criminal activity. They haven't explicitly said what they intend to do with section 230, which provides safe harbor for ISPs that try to block obscenities and offensive content.
Shellcheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts
And listing income data last, like they're hoping members don't notice it.
I have worked on at least three very large projects that required cross-platform and cross-language compatibility. In all cases, the high-level view is similar to what you wrote above.

In all cases, though, the devil was certainly in the details! APIs, in particular, can surprise and harass the developers.
So who is giving BitPay cash for the coins instantly? Are there literally buys just chomping at the bit, even when the market is in a downward trend, to buy coins from BitPay, for cash, instantly after they put them up for sale? At some point the piper has to be paid, and if it isn't a large financial institution, I'm still not seeing how this plays out. There has to be someone to soak up the massive loss in value...

As far as I can tell, BitPay has less than $100 million in investment, I don't see how that even comes close to covering the risk.
As Parents Get More Choice, S.F. Schools Resegregate
My first thought upon reading this headline was, "The health insurers have an anthem??"
I find that the best way to avoid these sorts of problems is to not allow unpaid work to stack up. Get into the shortest loops that your client can agree to, collect money regularly, and be prepared to stop work if not paid.

I think there's a joelonsoftware thing about inventory being bad, whether it's user stories, bugs, pull requests or anything else. Financial debt is no different.

(Sorry, I know I'm not answering the idea about a BBB-style registry.)
Just start with the latest Stanford iOS class in Swift. First link under Getting Started: http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html
Congrats on front page of Hacker News. I found this article easy to follow and generally well written. You'll probably want to fix the following typos when you have a chance do as not to detract from your message.

> The first thing we are going to look at is what we need form our base controller

from

> This example is using httprouter, as this is my go to router in Go

go-to

> applicatoin

application
I love that companies that I never agreed to have a business relationship with can charge me to preempt getting fucked by their shitty security.

"Fees for Identity Theft Victims: Free; Non-victims: $10"

If I wait to become a victim, I can save tens of dollars!
Keep the law exactly as I proposed, and let provider deal with it. They might choose on their own to just offer NN in the whole area in places like that. The important thing is that it's voluntary.
Trying to cross that barrier before high school is in my experience much harder even though the payoff of doing so is much greater.
Serious bug in fully patched Internet Explorer puts user credentials at risk
> comparing someone being excluded from a social gathering to being summarily executed is pretty fucking distasteful.

The retribution from those who act upon these accusations almost universally targets a livelihood. I gave one example and have heard even worse ones. I have also been the victim of false accusation, which resulted in me acquiring a stalker who has performed some of these tricks on me. Luckily, that has been limited to one crazy, and I cannot express to you how anxious I am that it's not many more people.

Imagine an entire group of people outright working to deny you the ability to feed yourself and, potentially, your family, then tell me it's a distasteful comparison.

I'm not allowed to say any of this based on the rules of this discussion, by the way. I just sit back and look at all the people who stood by Jackie in spite of any of the plethora of ways that story began to fall apart, and I shake my head. Doubt is a thing of the past, and that frightens me. Truly. I think it's going to be an extreme social issue going forward.
400kbit? That sounds like enough to let everyone stream, cool.

If you want bursting then tell the router to allow bursting. Such as a 15 second window on the throttling.
Hate to be a cynic but this article could've easily been titled 'how naming our startup "easypost" turned into a 15k mistake'.

I just can't imagine that the name easypost was 15k better than alternative names. I get that the company already had traction and it'd be cheaper to buy the domain than change the name of the company but I guess what I'm trying to say is domain name availability should probably be the number 1 criteria when picking a new startup name.
The stock EMail app is on Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and.... - does this not work for you or have they blocked installs on Nexus devices?
Under Armour Buys 2 Fitness Apps Including MyFitnessPal
Well, not right at first, no. But they came around.
I think this is the answer. Longer term, it's probably not something that is in Twitter's interests, but it's not a bad thing to revisit whenever they need to expose Twitter to Google's firehose to grow their own userbase.
The History of the Unicorn
I think you are right, anyone can learn to code. But for many people the learning curve is just to steep and they give up before they can learn it.
And that is ok, not everyone needs to be a programmer.