skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? How is your dispute directly with the company rather than having Mastercard do it on your behalf helping anyone else? You're free to blog about it or whatever in either scenario, so your rant really makes no sense to me. You're not standing up for anyone else, and in fact, a bunch of chargebacks is more likely to force the company to change over just refunds that are handled internally and don't reflect badly on them.
Yeah that's a good point. I guess they do make it a little hard to find because they don't want the masses getting hold of it. And I hadn't realized that about the opening links from other programs in Ubuntu, but now that you mention it you are right.
Also Gary Player: "The more I practice, the luckier I get."
Fear of violence!

Straight people don't know the fear, oppression and loneliness gay people might face in small towns.

We all have this image of wild, cruising gay guys and girls, when in fact, a huge percentage of them live under the laws, both written and unwritten, of despotic communities.

Even in big cities, unattractive gay people might be alienated by potential partners.
4% market share in a year seems pretty impressive to me. The last major browser to launch, Safari, had about 2% market share two years after its release. Three years after that it was at 6% (depending on where you look). In another year, Chrome will probably have a significant lead on Safari, which will be 7 years old. Never mind Opera.
What about verbs where "u" is already the vowel?

What would be the past tense of "fuck"?
"Self-hating" gays too; who are uncomfortable with themselves.

Heterosexuals have an easy time since their sexual identity is sanctioned by society. Gays go through their youths being forced to be something they are not. For some, even when they become comfortable in their own identities in private, it's still impossible for them to confess to them socially.

All the more reasons to encourage gay-friendly communities in town and cities, somewhere they can be themselves.
The point of uTP is not to outperform TCP but to underperform it, using the network's idle bandwidth but not competing with regular TCP.
I wasn't commenting on MS and it's policies. However I believe the issue with MS was less the browser bundling and more the difficulty in removing it. And strong arm tactics keeping alternate browsers from being installed by manufacturers. My point still stands. Google is not making it difficult to use a different gps system or using strong arm tactics. This sets them apart from MS.
VoIP is still alive and raking in big revenue
Traffic in SOMA is a lot less around evening rush hour, because there isn't a mess of cars backed up on the streets leading up to the I-80 enterance.

Traffic is worse, however, around the other bridges in the area, since the interchanges to the major freeways (101, 880) at those bridges do not have the capacity to handle the offload from the bay bridge traffic. Some of those interchanges only have one lane vs. multiple for the bay bridge entry and exit points, and not enough merge distance to make things smooth.

Parking at most BART stations is also pretty much at capacity, whereas usually there is plenty of empty spaces.
Why we kiss: To spread germs
I don't see what the issue over this is. The headline is sensationalist and misleading, what Apple is claiming is technically correct. Booting a Pystar computer does create an unlawful copy of OS X in memory because OS X isn't licensed to run on these computers.
Lord Chersterfield is the Oscar Wilde of ridiculous quotes.
We use what used to be called IPCheck. http://www.paessler.com/prtg
You can run this with 10 sensors for free.
I'm not sure this outlines the 4 dominant models. It strikes me more as the dominant business model (per-click ads) and 3 ideas that are novel and popular. The latter 3 haven't proven themselves as "Business Models". There is no particular indication that they won't go the way of (e.g.) Google's custom search: a good idea at the time, but unfortunately not particulary relevant to the market in the long term.
All three of these are right on target. You can also lump extreme self hatred in those who never manage to come to terms with who they are. That tends to kill the libido.
"We provide our customers tools to help them succeed."

That seems like an overly general phrase. Using the generic 'customer' seems like a cop-out, since it feels like you haven't really asked yourself which market you're making your product for. "Help them succeed" implies to me that you haven't really figured out the tangible benefit to the customer, which in turn means that you're in a really weak sales position.

Let's say you worked for a company making pie chart software. That phrase could apply, or something more specific like "We provide middle-managers with pie chart software to help them impress their bosses".

A good sales pitch follows directly from an understanding of who you're selling to, what they want, and how your product gives it to them.
I think she attempted to address the issues, but did a poor job at it. She completely misunderstood how Facebook benefits from it.
While I don't like her tone, I listened to her entire response and she seemed to address Arrington's issues pretty effectively.

Only if you've never worked at a game company selling virtual currency. The idea that only 5 incidents of children stealing their parents credit card or cell phone number occurred across 105 million transactions over two years is laughably ridiculous in the extreme.

Those numbers were clearly pulled out of the "shit, doubleshit, and bullshit" hat. We ran a similarly sized game and were inundated daily with complaints from parents whose children had stolen their credit cards and cell phones to buy coins in our games.

Maybe since the children are being scammed via third party, the parents don't know who to complain to?
Obviously you don't live in Canada.

Over here, all the major ISPs do DPI to throttle torrents and about 6 months back the only way to not be throttled was to go with a smaller DSL ISP that leased lines from Bell. Then, one day, Bell turned around and started doing DPI on wholesale client lines and throttling their torrent traffic too. Some people raised a stink about it and it got to the CRTC for a decision and, in typical CRTC fashion, they issued a non-decision that essentially said DPI should only be used when necessary. Nothing changed. It's now impossible* to get an internet line that doesn't throttle torrents in most of Canada.

* Not impossible to run torrents without being throttled though, you just have to set Azureus to its "RC5 encryption" settings and Bell won't be able to analyze your packets though this will break any private trackers that don't use https (most do).
Much respect. I didn't see your post further up the tree when I replied. And not to get graphic, but the article didn't quote what the formal definition of 'sex' was for their research.
I don't think Google's primary goal here is to have the largest market share in the browser market but to be able to drive innovation in the other leading browsers through competition.

Google Chrome drove Firefox (and others) to improve the speed of their javascript engines/interpreters which is hugely beneficial for Google meaning their web apps now run faster across the board.

In my opinion, Google Chrome exists to help Google push other browsers to introduce new features that make their web applications more accessible to everyone else.
It's actually at least four unlawful copies. One in the cache memory of the hard drive, one in the RAM, one in the L2 and one in the L1 cache.
$9.95/mo is 2x-4x the price of a web hosting plan? There's also a free plan if you're just monitoring one website.
I think it will be far easier to sell the relevant guilds on augmented humans than it will be to sell them on robots. They can continue to collect dues from the humans, after all. (Granted, they'll fight this tooth and nail anyway. 56% more productive is just another way to say 36% less mechanics.)
You can have great vision to make great products to help great customers be great at buying your great software.

If you don't attract top talent, you're not going to have great anything.
HN: I made a Twitter list of a few Y Combinator companies. Did I miss any?
This is what I was told: "We're in business to stay in business."
He meant it the other way round, for you to learn from others, not that you should teach them.
Confucius was a famous teacher, but the quote is about how other people were his teachers. tokenadult then says of himself, that "[I] expect to learn from most people of my acquaintance, whatever their IQ scores".

You can learn from someone without becoming entangled in an intense relationship.

Don't try to see from "their level", but try to see from their point of view (as if they were the center of the world instead of you).
In my experience, seeing another's point of view has been difficult to do, but it's always been rewarding. Everyone literally has a unique point of view (where their eyes are at any particular moment), so they can see things that I can't. And everyone's unique background, attitudes, experience and genetics also gives them a different point of view, figuratively.
Even when someone is mistaken, it is revealing to me in what way they are mistaken. What are they seeing that I'm not? And, of course, mostly, they aren't mistaken.

Human beings have an instinctual need for community, to connect, to understand and be understood, and we aren't happy without it. I believe the benefits of sharing our unique perspectives is one of the reasons that we have that instinct: our aggregate perspective is greater than their sum.
His opinion as expressed alone here is not the basis of my comment, it irritated me as I believed it was oversimplifying and snarky, but any time I think such a thing I very carefully examine the content of what provokes it, so I read his blog for quite some time before posting the conclusions I shot back with.

He is constantly talking about argumentation, very prone to being unable to understand that other people may see things differently to him, and even makes extensive comment on the fact that he has no formal logical path from a prior assumption in the vast majority of cases for the conclusions he reaches, merely that "he knows they're right".

So, yes, that did strike me as an attempt at philosophical hegemony, and this particular interaction was just one more data point on that plot.
Golf courses across the nation are in crisis as memberships and money dwindle
English, like every other language on earth, is defined by its users. It evolves over time.
Good luck to him. That's a crowded market filled with strong open source alternatives.
That is expressly why I made this account, to avoid suggestions that this might be my motivation. I have nothing to gain here from grandstanding, nobody knows who I am and I neither gain nor lose karma from the exchange, it's simply an attempt to objectively engage with a potentially touchy subject which by nature practically begs to be painted as showboating.

The response I made was only as venomous as that made originally. I was annoyed by what was a generally helpful exchange being punctuated by what still appears to me to be little more than an attempt at justifying the poster's own disagreement by directly accusing me of mental illness.
Clearly the solution is for Psystar to make a bootloader that takes an OS X DVD as input and results in an install as the output. Then the user is infringing, Psystar just sells a program that the user can misuse to install OS X "illegally".

If handgun makers aren't liable for murder (or wrongful death), then Psystar shouldn't be liable for copyright infringement.
When you are mostly based on labor and you aren't seeing significant productivity increases, you will tend to be hyperinflationary because your workers all want to do a little better than inflation. Add to that vastly increased regulation on universities over the last 30 years, and it's pretty easy to explain the current trend. It's not like they are making big profits -- look at the balance sheets of the public universities some time.

They can pay less (and in some cases are), but it is hard to attract strong academic talent that way. Getting a PhD takes a long time, and in the sciences there are likely to be a bunch more years working as a postdoc for not much. I'm not sure how much more blood they can squeeze out of that stone.

So, I agree that something needs to change, but I think it will require innovation to raise teaching productivity.
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Also a lot of prisoners in e.g. Germany are allowed to leave the prison for a few hours. And their are also allowed to have sex with visitors.

Are condoms still forbidden in prison in the US?
Rats, clicked but hit the wrong arrow by accident. My apologies.
Not necessarily; Steele is a programming polyglot and can hack in any language thrown at him. Kenny is a Lisp weenie; you know, one of those guys who can only code in Lisp.

I would take Kenny lisp aesthetic over Steele's, but Steele's technical competency over anyone else's.
Just like playing a CD in an unapproved player (with skip protection) creates an unlawful copy in memory?

A copyright is not absolute ownership of a bit pattern, but a balance of the interests of consumers and producers. Apple is clearly attempting to abuse copyright law; such in-memory copies are implicitly granted with the disc as they're necessarily for the software to operate.
In addition to raiding your cluster for the computational equivalent of the pennies in the couch, you can also charge money for whatever it is that you're serving 30 million times a day. This is almost magical in its ability to make it possibly to trivially afford whatever hardware/bandwidth/etc capacity you need.
Why not write a script that checks the site from a cron job on a different server. You can have it send an email or text via twitter. Cron is a simple service. And if you can write a script that emails you or your phone, you only need to place it on a very reliable server or 2.

I wrote a script, run via cron, that checked a ticket web page every 30 minutes for concert ticket availability. If the text changed, it implied that the tickets were available; the script sent an email to my phone, a text message, telling me call for tickets. ( Ratatat was the band )
Kenny is a CLOS guy through and through; he admitted to never figuring how to use restarts and he doesn't grok LOOP, IIRC :-P
And you're making a run for his title...
I picked one up on cragslist for a couple hundred and it has been great for the back. I noticed that I can now sit at the desk for longer periods without fatigue like my last chair. The material they use is firm and took a bit to get used to at first.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Retaliation is actually a sign of maladjustment. Sure, it's also quite common. The original comment was unkindly short, but however it was meant, it was accurate. You've said yourself: "growing misanthropy and detachment". These are psychological problems. Not intellectually, but emotionally and socially. I don't know whether a particular psychologist would actually help, but I agree with your own assessment that they do "not serve my interests in the long run". In other words, you are quite clear that they are a problem.

Seeing a psychologist is one step towards doing something about it, that might help. Unfortunately, your misanthropy immediately gets in the way: you would have to at least entertain the notion that someone else does have insights that you don't. So, you're in a difficult situation because the nature of your problem prevents you from getting help with it.

But unless you take some kind of action (perhaps thinking of it as an experimental trial, or maybe finding an aspect or form of it that you are willing to entertain), things aren't going to improve. They'll get worse.

EDIT silly me, I meant to reply in the thread with the line "You lack the capacity to spell sheer, your attempt at philosophical hegemony is quaint. Go see an educator." Fortunately, you seem to have known what I meant anyway.
I think you misunderstand the nature of my idea of helping people or choosing to disengage with someone. Illustrative examples;

When dealing with a drug addict, I will not attempt to capitalise on who they are as a person by selling them more drugs, even if this would by definition "propel them further on towards their own goals, and by their subjective definition, their potential".

From my perspective, doing such a thing may potentially result in commercial advantages for me but I would think the action of exploiting this desire in the target human would be exploitative, so I would not do it. I believe that likely the best thing that I could do for such a person would be to avoid them entirely, as they are entangled in a local maximum from which they do not desire an escape.

I have never engaged with anyone with the view to trying to "better" them purely from my own perspective, I believe that such a thing would not be fair to the other party, especially when direct deception is involved indicating in which fashion I intend to benefit from my part in the transaction.

I am comfortable with not telling all of the truth all of the time, but I am utterly uncomfortable with any degree of fabrication. I want to either interact honestly or disengage entirely.

I'm comfortable with assisting people toward goals that I don't feel are utterly counterproductive to their development to a very obvious and damaging degree, even if those are goals that I would find quite neutral.
Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches
I've been on HN for almost three years.

Do you have ANY idea how many "I'm smart and nobody-understands-me/I-dont-like-people/life-is-pointless" articles I've had to put up with?

Yawn.
This classic short story about language modification is always worth a few laughs. If you want a real language hack then read it:

Mayhem in ce Klasrum by by Dolton Edwards from Isaac Asimov's 'The Golden Years of Science Fiction'

http://www.english-zone.com/index.php?page=1114&pid=81
Freemium should be on there, too, which is how LinkedIn makes some (most?) of its money. Many dating sites fall into this category, too.
That's why they have television commercials for chrome?

If they wanted to make the web better, why didn't they just contribute to the Firefox project itself rather than inventing their own browser?

Releasing, yet another browser only complicates things for existing web developers.
I don't use Google Chrome because they haven't made an official version for Mac OS X. The current developer version for Mac OS X is very buggy and unreliable.
What’s the Future of Twitter?
Look up mpethybridge on 2+2 forums. I believe he does analysis on big databases of poker hands; maybe he could help.
I use http://aremysitesup.com/. I think I may have even heard about it on HN when they launched.
A more impressive example: Chrome's multiple-process rendering system has spurred Mozilla to work on a similar system to Firefox - and not just copying the idea, but wholesale importing code from Chromium:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_Processes
You're missing @Dailybooth.
I didn't see any links to videos - here is one from his Google tech talk in February: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook. He also has a number of videos on YUI Theater (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/).

I also recommend checking out the javascript page on his website, plenty of javascript related material to keep you busy for hours: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/
I can't really figure out why, but something about Joel bothers me when I read/watch his stuff. Does anyone have a similar experience? I can't think of any good reason why this would be the case, he is obviously a smart guy, StackOverflow is brilliant. Maybe it's the tone of how he writes stuff or maybe it's because he seems to be a Microsoft sympathizer, neither of which are good reasons.

It's totally irrational but I get that gut feeling a lot with him. Am I the only one? Any other ideas why?
Anyone check out the video at the bottom? Holy @#$* that's a nice workspace. I live in a cube. I'd actually be excited to go to work if that were my workplace.
The digital divide will not close itself, but rather can only grow larger as time goes on. Technology has been key to human evolution since man learned to create fire and sharp sticks. As such, we are inextricably bound to our technology. Having better tech is most certainly an evolutionary advantage. These days, technology is progressing so fast that it can be difficult to keep up.

What are the repercussions of not keeping up? Well, you've seen what happened to the tribal folk that got owned by Europeans back in the day, right? If you don't keep up with technology, you will fall behind in the evolutionary chain. Just hope those higher on the chain than you have some compassion and lack the desire to conquer/eat you.

The article makes an excellent point that our children need to be computer and technology literate. Those that do not embrace technology will forever be collecting the second-hand table-scrap-tech that we throw out. As any parent, we want our children to have all the opportunities that other kids have. Knowledge is power.
Mozilla was working on an updated Javascript engine before Chrome was announced (actually, accidentally leaked via comic book). Chrome certainly lit a fire under Firefox and Safari to release their updated Javascript engines, but their implementations were in the pipeline before anyone formally knew about Chrome.
Apple Kills Support for Atom processor in Snow Leopard
I disagree that the original comment was by any stretch of the imagination an accurate diagnosis, and in fact I think the suggestion is absurd. I have studied psychological topics extensively, in fact realising that all other humans were not the same as I am was first accomplished by doing exactly that.

The idea that one could diagnose a psychological disorder simply by reading about a case where somebody finds their misanthropy / detachment growing with humanity at large is so absurd as to be completely unreasonable at face value.

That said, I did actually attempt to figure out more about the person making that accusation in the event that I had something to learn by it and instead of finding that to be the case just found a lot more data to back up my original reaction.

The action that I took was, I believe, actually quite useful, I am mostly glad of the ideas that this thread provoked and happy with my conclusions about the nature of human interaction based upon it.

I think that the point has passed beyond which further action makes any sense however, unless someone can see some obvious problem with the conclusions I've reached from the exchange.

To reiterate, these conclusions are that just because many humans may exist with which it would not make logical sense to pursue any kind of relationship, all humans as a whole are not within this category, If I wish to be less alienated or have my opinion of humanity degraded any further, I ought simply be more careful with whom I choose to engage.
I got halfway through reading all the comments on this thread and forgot what the original story was about (hint: it's not about the proper use and history of the English language). Hopefully this comment will find its way to appear halfway down the comment thread (strategic up/downvoting please), so that it can perform its public service of reminding you, "You are currently reading the 'iTunes font removal solution' comment thread."
We lack sufficient evidence to prove that we reside in a Matrix-like construct. Pending evidence, we shall continue believing that we do not live in such a construct.... though the line between physical reality and virtual reality become blurrier every day.