skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 Mbit/s sustained translates into a bit above 300 Gbyte per month.

So they can easily get back to fair use by limiting speeds to a couple of megabits. Of course that would kill streaming tv.

Another way of looking at it, you can listen to audio 24x7 and not go over quota. Watching tv all day every day is not going to work.
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You haven't really lived till you've installed and used Bob on a computer.
You see, certain developers love building the first versions or prototyping — they are the ones who love hacking things together to get something working quickly. They love (and are best at) building version 1 of a product. The other type of developers love building the second version. They see their code as a craft and write unit tests for everything. "Test coverage" and "beautiful code" are phrases they use a lot.

Hmm... I find myself on both sides, though I prefer the second option by far. "Beautiful code" is indeed one phrase I use a lot :)
Apart from the obvious concurrency based or non-easily reproducible issues, some of my personal nightmare scenarios:

1. Uncommented code, but especially uncommented regular expressions
2. Unnecessary abstraction that runs too deep & so is hard to comprehend
3. Also, take any tractable problem and add timezones to it. Now you have an intractable problem!
This is simply not true. Pythonista is a full-on development environment for the iPad and iPhone, including an interactive terminal. If you prefer Lua there's Coda. There are also graphical programming environments available aimed at younger children. The iPad is a fantastic platform for learning to program.
The fragment referenced in the article was written on papyrus.
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This is a great example of how regulation can actually nurture innovation. During the whole net neutrality debate there was much FUD about how it would hamper business and discourage investment in networks. Yet here we have business and investment continuing and the customer continuing to get improved services.
I think western people see ghost cities as bad because for westerners, that's what happens when a city is shrinking and people are leaving, like Detroit. In these Chinese cities, it's just the other end of the process. The start of a city is when it's in the ghost phase and we don't recognize that difference. Building in anticipation of demand is a quite reasonable thing to do when demand grows so spectacularly fast. If the government was reactive and waited for private developers to build as needed, then there would be chronic overcrowding, homelessness, and even higher house prices. Like San Francisco, where the government is actively stifling growth and encouraging these problems.
I'm afraid that doesn't make much sense to me. If requiring a one-time paid upgrade after X days is prohibited, why would requiring multiple paid upgrades after X days be allowed?

If you happen to know of any sources for that policy or any examples, I'd be interested in seeing them.

It's possible to offer a free trial as part of an auto-renewable subscription,[1] but that scenario is different to the app ceasing to function X days after you've downloaded it.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...
Those apps would never be featured by Apple so they would only be seen if they were searched for. They also wouldn't get the downloads to dominate the top charts. So unless your apps are at the same level, you're not going to be impacted by it.

And "driving customers away" is hogwash. Customers actually see the high quality apps featured by Apple before anything, so even if seeing a poorly designed app actually drove customers away that wouldn't even be an issue. It's also not borne out by the data, app store sales and downloads have only grown over the years.
>My experience here has reinforced the truth at the root of Groupon’s success: if you have a small business, it’s hard to reach customers.

I love this. You are the founder of a big company known for being predatory, and you're recognizing that big companies are predatory.
If you don't mind me asking, what's your company's main source of revenue since you don't charge for this service?
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention `meek`, which is a pluggable transport for Tor which also takes advantage of the way CDNs work in order to circumvent censorship.

Clients take advantage of domain fronting, where they send a request to "google.com" with a Host header pointing to a Google App Engine instance which is a Tor bridge: http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/meek-PETS-2015.pdf
That kind of thing is often exploited in a security context.

See: http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html
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> Except when financial firms skim off of personal accounts with excessive fees.

Uh, then choose a different financial firm? I have $100k+ in my brokerage and pay about $10 a year in fees...
By "deep of winter" can I assume you were referring to July?
> I have not yet read the good book Atlas Shrugged but I'll be sure to check it out based on your recommendation.

You're delusional. Where did I ever recommend reading Atlas Shrugged? Ayn Rand is nuts.
Converting RMB to USD is restricted. Individuals can only exchange $50k per year from RMB to USD legally, though there are guys parked outside banks with piles of USD they can sell you.
IPFS doesn't run natively in the browser yet

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
Heisenberg made strange claims after the war that he intentionally tried to derail the Nazi bomb after the war, but on closer inspection, these claims don't hold water. It's not clear that German scientists were ever even close to the principles behind building a functional bomb.
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A lot of people have made games with our iPad app, Codea. Many have published on the App Store. In fact we had the distinction of having released the first game programmed entirely on iPad, it was great fun to work on. Although we used a Bluetooth keyboard most of the time. (Game is "Cargo-Bot")

I also bought an iPad Pro and Pencil. It beats my Wacom Cintiq. Especially because I prefer iOS painting software — Procreate in particular — to Photoshop. Procreate can handle large layered canvases at a smooth 60fps, on far less powerful hardware than Photoshop. It offers most of the same features for painting in a nicer package. It's far cheaper, and they have supported the app for years. I have been a graphics tablet user for over a decade and the iPad Pro + Pencil is the best digital drawing experience I've had.

I also kind of like coding on a software keyboard. Probably not for a big project, but it's what I go to when I want to build interactive prototypes.

"Working Copy" is a neat Git client I have been using on iPad. I use it to read my code base for large projects and to manage my commits and pull requests.

I hear a lot of musicians like the iPad for music production, but I haven't done much outside of GarageBand.

I have no plans to stop using my laptop computer. But the iPad is a great screen for making things, even if you might have to take those things to a laptop later on to "finish" them.
One of the primary reasons I use https://www.eff.org/privacybadger - I honestly had no clue how many things were tracking me on sites I frequented until I installed this plugin.
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I was imagining the context of an online poker room where AI agent pretending to be a human will be unwanted from the other human players since an AI that can win poker games is already here. But the human players are there to play poker not to inspect for bots so they need for quick way to get an idea what's the deal with the bots around :)
Take a look at the map of the Marshall Islands. Here's a satellite view of Majuro, where the capital is located - https://www.google.com/maps/@7.1298596,171.2318474,28259m/da... .

Like all atolls, it's a very thin circle enclosing a lagoon. By my estimate it's about 100 meters wide, from ocean shore to lagoon shore.

As a very rough estimate, 1 meter of dike height needs 3 meters of surface, so 6% of the island will be a dike. The Dutch can do this because their dikes enclose a lot of land. That's not possible here.

The Dutch also have good soil and rainfall. The ground of the Marshall Islands is made of porous coral. aaron695 elsewhere in these comments pointed to a NatGeo article at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150213-tuvalu-sop... . Towards the bottom is a picture with the caption 'Flooding during king tides is a problem on Fongafale, when water percolating up through the coral matrix laps even at the door of the meteorological office.'

Thus, dikes won't prevent salt water from percolating through the coral under the dikes and flooding the other side.
I don't know enough about quantum physics, but from what I understand, this pi seems to have arose as an artifact of the variational method used, rather than quantum mechanics itself.
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Best i can tell, devicetree originated with Open Firmware.
Is that so? I am not sure why there would be a noticeable latency. Wireless keyboards and mouse works fine from a distance. Besides, I am not suggesting using wifi for this, but a direct radio link.
I have a Linux version, but unfortunately the version that stops is the Windows version. At this point if I solve this it is going to be by chance.
Link is dead but there seems to be a mirror on the langsec website itself:

http://langsec.org/occupy/
You'd be surprised. One of the questions I systematically ask when interviewing developers is whether they're experienced using version control systems. Not all are. The same goes for automated testing, following coding standards, or (of all things) using a bug tracker.
The Vivaldi browser might be for you then https://vivaldi.com/
Please don't be rude when people share their work on HN.
Since they invented capital letters already, they do spell differently! The debian package is "clasp", not "Clasp".
The technicalities might be different, that is true. But the end customer can't see the difference without understanding a little of the technical details. The customers experience seems closer to: If I pay $15 per month, I get access to this group of websites (possibly accessed only through comcast's website on a limited number of registered devices so long as I'm at home) without it counting towards my data. Sure, we could start teaching people the technical details, but Comcast doing such has quite a climb, since they aren't exactly liked or trusted to be truthful or treat customers well. The FCC might have better luck with the educational portion.
But most people aren't streaming 24 hours a day, but only in a specific period. So if the plan is 300 GB/month, then having higher speeds is more interesting than having slower speeds (especially if a slower speed doesn't let you actually use all your data)
I got to the bottom expecting that what I just read was an introduction into an investigation.

I guess not... Works fine here on an old Thinkpad.
See also: Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-tow...
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This Medium post would probably work better as a single 140 character tweet, there is nothing of substance here. I'm surprised to see it made the front page.
Ask HN: How to prove that I have been hacked?
My IP address has been blocked by some websites in these 4 days. I did not do anything illegal or post any illegal or provoking comments. I also feel that I have been hacked, everybody can see my activities with or without Internet connection.

What should I do to at least provide evidences that I am being hacked?
I wonder how your comment would look like if your wife or husband would die due to faulty Tesla seat belts.

There is value in blameless post mortems, in openness and how you handle a crisis.

It is not the most important thing though. The most important thing is how you set up and fix quality so people don't die.

This reminds me of the Zen teaching where one points with his hand to the moon. And people forget about the moon and focus on the hand pointing instead.
Extended quote from original article...

"When Hagen started solving the problem himself, he immediately noticed a trend. The error of the variational approach was about 15 percent for the ground state of hydrogen, 10 percent for the first excited state, and kept getting smaller as the excited states grew larger. This was unusual, since the variational approach normally only gives good approximations for the lowest energy levels."

Rings bells from celestial mechanics. You can end up with things like a series solution converging on an elliptical or circular orbit when you apply series methods to simple (or 'simple' in this case - it is quantum mechanics!) systems.

I'll see if I can hack my way though their paper (linked to OA, downloadable in full text).
Years ago (maybe 10) I decided to update Ubuntu on my dev machine. Everything went well, I boot into the new system and start playing around. But after some time the internet connection drops in the middle of apt-get. I am furious, start cursing at my ISP. I reboot the system, and thankfully, the internet is back on. Start installing new packages, and after some time the connection drops again. I was like "seriously???", then reboot again and net was on again.

Took me the whole day to figure out that the particular kernel version I updated to made my particular brand of router drop the connection to the ISP after ~15min. Had to downgrade the kernel to make it work again...

Fun times :)
How can this type of nonsense reach the front page?
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True but they effect list of all the new apps in each category they appear. That makes any new app much less discover-able, because new app slides down too quickly. Plus having noise there (where it counts) makes any new app much less interesting for the potential customers.

Waiting to get featured by Apple is not really what most of the developers can count on, making high quality apps or not.

I spent months developing each of my apps so I assume they are not 'at the same level' as crappy two liners. But they are as discoverable as those apps...
Sounds like you need a new job? I can honestly say that I'm usually excited and energised after a holiday and ready to get back to work. Sure there is part of me that would like to stay on a beach or with my family for ever, but equally there is a large part of me that enjoys solving the problems I solve at work and the people I work with.

I definitely felt that dread in the past though, but don't think that is how it has to be. There are great roles out there!
Have one that took six months to find.

The database person spent a month trying to figure out why there were entries with odd dates. Like one or two a month out of a few hundred thousand. Eventually figured out it wasn't his fault. His end was getting an occasional packet with a good crc and odd data. Most of the time the parser would kick those out. But a few were well formed enough to go through.

I chased it down eventually to a documentation error in the datasheet for the radio transceiver we were using. The datasheet very clearly stated that when a packet came in with a bad crc... nothing would happen. No end of packet interrupt. So I had to use a timer to detect a bad crc. (Okay whatever, I mean I hate those guys, but I've seen worse)

Turns out when the radio received a packet with a wrong/bad crc the radio silently reset the receiver and started waiting for a new packet. If a the radio received a packet before the timeout hammer came down then the driver would think the previously received packet was 'good'

Opps.

Was interesting because the symptom appeared at the farthest end of the system the tool graphing data for the customer and was caused by something at the other end. The error could have been literally anywhere in our system.
"Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But the father's thesis was that hothousing produces geniuses on demand. Not that they're a precious find that needs to be directed to where they can be most use.

By using a subject that was well-known, widely available, cheap and popular, and very well-measured, he increased his chances of achieving his goal - convincing the world that his methods would get results out of bright kids so good that they would appear as geniuses to the world at large. He seems to have wildly succeeded, and the world just kinda shrugged.
I would dispute the awesomeness of no work at all. We're not well equipped for total leisure. To paraphrase Tal Ben-Shahar, "we're built for the climb, not the summit" ( check the book "Flow" or google "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi" for a scientific explanation as to exactly why )
This article says differently:
http://qz.com/540571/baidu-found-chinas-ghost-cities-but-it-...

Conversation on HN about that article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506174

By using baidu data, they created a normalized score of how populated an area is versus what would be expected for such a development.

Ordos Kangbashi is still 20% below the expected level and it drops much further for parts of the year.
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This is all good if you have the money and time. My experience (limited) is you have barely enough resources to get version 1 done.
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I've heard another anecdote from university where somebody changed some late digit of PI in the compiler. Very hard to detect...
I'm curious, how did you manage to pin it down to an L2 cache in particular? (As opposed to general memory corruption, for example).
You didn't address any of your parents points there, and instead make vague "you're doomed" threats.
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Unit tests lie: that’s why I love them
Are there any other building blocks in the hardware platform? From the example, it looks like the machine has the full 64K of RAM, the 6502 and a framebuffer device with custom video modes.
Looks cool (just downloaded the free version and am playing with it). A tip for the free version specify what the limitations are more clearly in the description.
From wit.ai (FB acq)..

> Wit.ai works bottom-up. Let your end-users express their intents freely, and have your app learn from that and adapt. Not the other way around.

> Each item in your Inbox is something you can act on in order to improve the accuracy of your Wit.ai app. A good practice is to start having beta users test your app as soon as possible, even if the initial configuration is the bare minimum with just a few intents, and then use the Inbox to improve your app.

https://wit.ai/docs/console/complete-guide#extract-entities-...
Reminds me of the book Hamlet’s Mill, whose thesis is that the main mythological epics from most ancient cultures were actually encoded astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%27s_Mill
It's probably other countries that bring overall EU GDP down?

Germany needs to export more Germans :-D
Prediction: if this does take off and become a serious problem for the Chinese government, they will approach the CDNs and force them to implement blocking or get filtered. A few may take an ideological stand, but most CDNs will comply, as if they don't, their customers who need to reach China will simply switch to those that do. If they don't care about the Chinese market and refuse, they'll simply get blocked.

Of course the more likely scenario is that this simply doesn't catch on in the first place, or not to a significant enough degree that it requires a response.
No, this would only make things worse.
A lot of major websites used Google's services, but Google was nevertheless blocked.
Nobody ever got fired for buying a cluster
Aside from CDNs being blocked, some regions' network conections to foreign servers (like VPS for proxies) are slowed down a lot recently.
They're about as European as the Albanians lol
As stated in the article, we can't be certain of causation. I tend to prefer a simpler approach.

The simple act of moving lowers the risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

5 cups of coffee per day is going to get most people moving.
Europe's economies are mature whereas many in Asia are still developing.
I thought of the 'trusting trust' paper just as I reached the paragraph about the compiler.

As an ex-PHB rather than a programmer, I think perhaps that Dr Phelps could have had taken a bit more interest in the project &c. Perhaps had a look at the code now and again as simply asked "why does this look so unlike other people's code?". Might have sent a shot across the bows of the bad apple.
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/10/31/a-coder-nightmare/
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It only took 9 upvotes to reach the front page, and once it did it was flagged off within minutes.
A Version of Messenger for Use at Work Has Been Unveiled by Facebook
Maybe the argument that you people are looking for is that the app store has a search interface that isn't good at finding what the customer wants / sieving out noise. At least that's how I felt when I recently acquired got a phone and looked to get new apps.

I'm okay with spending, but I had a lot of difficulty finding or searching in a way I felt was fruitful. And with apps I plan to use often, notwithstanding quality, I unfortunately don't want some app that smells like it might die as soon as the developer changes their mind in a fiercely competitive app store.
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It is interesting how Apple sells a premium product with high margins but is willing to allow any old cheap shit into the store as long as it uses the right API's.
The household savings rate in China is one of the highest in the world however ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-01/chinese-co...
Lot of reading comprehension problems here.

1) That's not a threat, if you think it is then call the Internet Police - they have a hashtag #hnwatch just for that

2) He is simply wrong that experience doesn't carry forwards. To use my Amazon example, the value in that business is understanding how people buy books and how a logistics operation to deliver them works. I don't know what technology Amazon actually uses in their warehouses but it's nothing that couldn't be done with terminals and line printers, I'll bet dollars to donuts, and nothing that would be unfamiliar to anyone working in the logistics field in the 70s.
If it were possible to create consistently world-class results in disparate fields by early specialisation and intensive training, could the world afford to ignore it? A decrease in total childhood happiness would be gladly accepted by every nation if more top performers in every field could be created.

Perhaps one instead could hothouse a child in the life of the mind and produce a world-class young generalist, with the capacity to become a world-class specialist in a pursuit that makes them happy. I'm sure that happens a lot on an individual level. And indeed that could describe the goals of public education systems. But that's not exactly encouraging.

We seem to have methods of intensive training that produce world-class prodigies in the arts and in competitive arenas - musical performers, athletes and chess. Academic hothousing seems a much more mixed bag.
I'm not sure trials make much sense when the cost is so low, I suspect you risk diluting meagre revenue even further.
For those who are more familiar than I with the Lean Startup mentality: I've been wondering, does Lean Startup (or even Agile) inherit from The Mythical Man-Month consciously or unconsciously? As in, was this mentality developed with an understanding that a now 40-year-old study/book explains a lot of these concepts, or did it arrive at the same conclusions separately?

This article, as with many, seems to be rediscovering a pilot system. There are even shades of second-system effect concerns.