skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a photo[1] that made the front page of reddit today[2] showing that this is not limited to their online marketing. Apparently they are distributing similar material, in print, to potential Google Fiber customers.

This is pretty low. I get grumpy when I see technology companies attempting to take advantage of the knowledge, or lack thereof, of their consumers. I think about my grandparents and how their Comcast installer tried to tell them they needed to pay extra if they attached an HD cable from their television to their cable box when they were already paying for HD cable service.

Sickening and I would love to see regulations to prevent this kind of misleading, even if not false, advertising.

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/FrdGhgr.jpg

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/44x78h/nice_try_comca...
I'm fairly certain that D3 was originally built around the auction house. They started with a solid stream of monetization and then built a game around that.
Good points. We have actually recently started to just check cookbooks out from the library which is even more cost effective than a subscription to a site.
I had seen some headlines about 2016 completion. Didn't realize it was only the first phase.
Amazon Launches Lumberyard Beta Game Engine for Free (VR)
I dream of the day when prestigious PGP private keys are sold because of the prestige associated with them.
Well that's interesting. As a Comcast customer, I have been seeing about ~40M down for a few years. Just did a run on SpeedTest.net and I'm now at ~175M down.

Good to see Google Fiber's goal of spurring competition in this sector actually working.
Yes, many people value convinience above freedom. This doesn't make it moral or good.
Check the pull requests, as Push delivery is in-review and landing very soon. At least one developer has already pulled the diff and got it working.
I've been saying that for a while: twitter is YouTube without the video.
What to do about Amazon and gaming
I could not make heads nor tails of that. What was it?
Really the last Blizzard game that I enjoyed.

I'm not really into the cartoony look that WoW has gone for, particularly compared to the old Metzen concept art that was included in the Warcraft 1/2/Starcraft manuals

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3914674/Warcraft-Orcs-Humans-Manua...

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/misc/StarCraft.PDF

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/misc/Warcraft%202%20Battlenet%20...

Those were some beautiful manuals. Once upon a time, kids would spend the entire afternoon reading the manual of a game, waiting in the car while their mothers finished up the grocery shopping, before they could get home and pop the massive pile of floppies or CD in and try to get the game installed/get autoexec.bat tuned right...
agree (to some extent).

Sometimes it looks like the role of education in america is to sort people into relevant socio-economic classes. Not through any nefarious scheme, but rather, our system just depends on (and creates) some degree of inequality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
#theUnicornEconomy
This is just a long-tail SEO play, nothing particular to Google Fiber.
See also http://www.xfinity.com/compare/comcast-xfinity-vs-att-u-vers..., http://www.xfinity.com/compare/, etc.
I'm guessing people googling "xfinity vs <competition>" is a phrase they'd like to bring in more traffic for.
> Except they seem pretty seize-happy and the only thing protecting your house is the say-so of a judge.

You're being obtuse. Even if every judge rolls over, if you have to seize multiple email servers in multiple jurisdictions, the paperwork represents expense and time that law enforcement simply will not do unless they have a really strong reason. "People are lazy" is the universal constant. We fear computerization of things precisely because computers aren't lazy.

> That seems quite unfair, as at least 2 have been very public about their expenditures to try and make such attacks impossible in the future, and have vocally fought subpoenas.

That's what they say publicly. However, if they roll over for governments like China, they're going to roll over for the US who can genuinely affect their revenue stream.

> The lawsuit should I discover it would probably make me richer and more famous than all the buyout events I've experienced.

Your naivete is touching. Google wouldn't do anything actionable. They scan your email store and know not to invest. You'll never prove anything for a passive non-action like this.

Even for positive action failures, it's very difficult to prove. This is the whole point of "parallel construction". You dragnet to find something incriminating, and then build the legal path to what you now know to search for.
FBI unable to decrypt San Bernardino shooter's phone content
> Especially if they haven't even paid the copyright holder the regular fee to read the work

They have though. All the works scanned were either purchased by google in hardcopy form, or scanned in partnership with libraries that had purchased the books.
> You can use full disk encryption on your own server. Not every country has laws that force you to forfeit your crypto passwords

It won't count for anything if the emails your server is sending/receiving are not encrypted, which exactly is what Google is advocating. I don't understand GP's smug rejoinder, as if encrypting emails in transit is a bad thing.
A lot of people also got a flyer in the mail, e.g.: http://i.imgur.com/ZzqYCYV.jpg (from r/googlefiber)
451 Research: Top 5 information security trends in 2016
Google display ads go 100% HTML5
How we used design research to launch The New York Times en Español
I think that excellence in math is actually in everyone's reach. The main questions are why and how to reach it. :)

The article surveys the field of enrichment programs and activities, many of which are available only to people in certain areas. I've witnessed the immense local impact of those outreach efforts, while visiting Math Circles, high schools, and academic competitions around the country. The people who lead those events (mostly after-hours or on weekends) are an incredible bunch, and many of them do it out of their passion for the subject.

However, I think we would all gain if we could engage everyone in math/science, no matter where they live. The success of these programs shows that interesting content increases interest! The Internet allows us to level the playing field, and scale the impact of free educational resources to the world.

I was once at a math education conference where groups were pitching ways to develop math talent. These programs sometimes need financial sponsorship from governments or foundations, so that they can remain accessible across socioeconomic lines. On the second morning of the conference, I suddenly thought: how much money does our public school system spend trying to teach soccer each year? (I don't think it's much.) It seems that many students achieve fairly high levels of proficiency regardless.

Of course, there is still much value in funding the current math education efforts, but that made me think about whether significant gains could come from finding out how to communicate educational content in the most engaging way. That would take a page from the startup playbook (optimizing for engagement).

So, I got my hands dirty. I launched a startup (expii.com) to crowdsource and rate free interactive lessons in math and science, to quantitatively evaluate an organized collection of these resources, distributed at scale across the world. The objective is to turn every smartphone into a pocket tutor, delivering the most engaging lessons produced by the combined creativity of the world.

That's a big project. In the meantime, while the content is crowdsourcing, I also am broadcasting interesting nuggets of math each week at expii.com/solve (again free). These deliver the same topics I talk about in person at middle- and high-school math enrichment events around the country when I visit them to give guest talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sxVgJ_wPaM&feature=youtu.be...

My thought process is that if I'm taking the time to develop the materials to deliver to only 200 people at a time, then we should harness the Internet to scale the distribution to the world, while also packaging the content in a fun way, to show to the mass audience why math is actually a very interesting subject. :)

Ultimately, I think that the global project to build interest and excellence in math is an enormous task, which needs the insight and hard work of a great multitude of people, and a diversity of ideas and approaches. Thanks to everyone who is pitching in on this mission! :)
Awesome. I really wish more companies did this.
White House Executive Order on Privacy Falls Short
This might help:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21291?hl=en

What are the SSL certificate authority requirements?

We do not accept self-signed certificates. For a certificate to be valid it needs to chain up to a valid CA, like one in the Mozilla CA list.
This page could be summed up by "proprietary content Comcast holds licensing for" and "who cares about the internet part that does the fast internet?".
According the Wikipedia:
'...dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions...'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
The part where they give themselves a win for customer service has me laughing so hard I might die.
WC3 is also a remarkable example of what a devoted community can do. Several third-party clients were developed to fill the gaps of the regular multiplayer server (battle.net), the two main ones being w3arena [0] and netease [1]. Some competitions in China and South Korea still reward their winners with high prizes, more than a dozen of k$ (WCA 2015).

[0]: http://tft.w3arena.net

[1]: http://dz.blizzard.cn
Mageia is the best spin (it used to be redhat v5-based), but is not as stress-tested as others, and has (slightly) less support than you'd find for Fedora/Red Hat/SuSE.

Just run Redhat or Ubuntu. You are looking for a "just works" experience, so stick with the binary sandbox those distros give you. You can even pay them money in order to get the better support experience you definitely need.

If anyone tells you to switch to something different, know it will require you to hand-tweak scary text files. if that sounds fun, dive in. Otherwise, run away screaming. You want a stable (read: long-term support) release of software.
Food processing doesn't happen that way. There are, for example, FDA guidelines for acceptable levels of hair, rodent feces, larvae, and "insect fragments" in food. And you eat it all every day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_Defect_Action_Levels
Too bad they don't have "X Dollars per Mbps" - because that's what really matters.

Google fiber is what, $70 for 1000Mbps? The fastest XFinity package in Chicago (that I can see) is $79.99 with commitment for 75Mbps.
I've been keeping my version of TILs on Quiver and Notes. You've inspired me to organize them together into Github and share. I'm thinking of making Gists for each categories instead of individual files though. Any reason why you created individual files?
Samplers are absolutely musical instruments

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument)

It's even in the URL!
At least you can send your son in timeout.
My point was that this isn't just something that happens "on occasion", but a far more serious problem.

Trust me, your local FBI field office wouldn't fare any better.
Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon
Newbie here. Anybody knows which technology stack is Zenefits based on?
You figured me out!
> that "higher education" is much more about signalling and not-so-much about learning

This is highly dependent on the field. (see mechanical engineering), but you are also correct in that is signals this person has the ability, dedication and perseverance to learn complex tasks and items for an extended period of time (in terms of IT/tech).
You didn't think Warcraft III was cartoony?
Exactly. Have you seen "Inside out" the animated movie ? I thought it depicted the need to consider emotions and how they fit in the bigger picture quite well. I would recommend it for children and adults.
Amazon takes on Unity with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine
Wow. That basically means their current module scheme is useless for package maintainers.
Just as Lumberyard is only free up to the point you actually deploy it on AWS, at which point Amazon are making money on your hosting.
The "gap year" is usually between high school and college though (using American terms).
How Much Should a Software Engineer Know About Operating Systems?
Why is it so trendy these days to forecast that human relationships and interaction don't matter outside of the internet anymore? Who wants to live this isolated hermit life anyways?
There is ReadConsoleW/WriteConsoleW which have full UTF-16 support already.
I used to work from my bedroom, in my old home a few years ago. Initially, it felt like the best thing to do. But, as time passed, there were committment issues and potential distractions. Some of them included stuff like answering the door, unwanted guests (and friends) and because it was my bedroom, I just slept more often (no more tiresome 48 hour hackathons).

Then, as time passed, I realized, the distinction between your workplace and your leisure space is an important one. Later, I rented out a moderately expensive serviced office space by one of the local providers and it had served me well. Even the people around you can perceive this distinction and respect your boundaries if you work in an office-like atmosphere that can be perceived.

To be clear, it's not wrong to work from home. IF you have a separate room for your work and you treat it like an office room, it's actually the best way to go (convenience and savings). But if you were in a situation like me where you had to choose between the bedroom and a leased office space, go for the latter and it will definitely add an improvement to your quality of professional life.
ESPN ends exclusive advertising deal with DraftKings
> my country...

Which country is that?
Practicing is not the same thing as doing something many times. Refinement requires identifying failure and the causes of that failure.

Fail fast is a great mantra, but the fast part requires understanding that you have failed and using that failure to understand how to succeed.

People don't get great at chess by playing lots of chess, they get good by studying and learning techniques often with advice from a teacher.
My university just allows anyone into first semester, but then has quite hard courses and exams there already – by the end of the second semester, 90% have already failed.

That’s another way to solve the >10x applicants issue.
I wish someone made a better (non-SMTP) messaging standard which is secure, efficient, easier to understand/implement and without a clutter of all legacy stuff (and hopefully with a decent reference implementation!). Spams would still remain, but at least that would free us from worrying about the transportation layer security. (But then we might need to reinvent something like DNS on the way, so maybe that's why that no one is trying this.)
I read the paper, they're interpreting their results in the most fashionable way possible to get published, which is that maybe they're exciting K3C60 into a superconducting state. Of course this state is transitory. Essentially they shoot light into it and they excite a state, and they say that this state is a superconducting one. Of course since it's a non-equilibrium state the system quickly relaxes into a non-superconducting one. The authors are completely aware that other interpretations could also explain what they see, but of course the sexiest one is to guess that it's a superconducting state, triggered by light, at a temperature higher than K3C60 Tc ~ 20 K.

So, nothing solid, just some data, and a very fanciful interpretation of this in order to create excitement.
I can't tell if this is satire or not. Office "cultures" that involve inane things like alcoholic drinks, free boutique meals, or dog-friendliness have absolutely nothing to do with getting work done. They are things you have to roll your eyes about and put up with. You can't openly explain how unproductive it is, or you'll be labeled as "not a good culture fit" even if you're great at your job and get along with everyone.

So instead, you have to let your frustrations silently brew under the surface, always wishing your company cared more about employees and gave them adequately quiet and private space to get work done, or gave everyone a raise instead of spending the money on video games, gourmet coffee, etc.

Many engineers, especially experienced ones, are fully aware that all of these fringe "culture benefits" are just utter bullshit, and that they exist to try to hoodwink younger engineers into accepting worthless equity, criminally insane working environments, and exasperating, oppressive work culture that doesn't really permit good work life balance.

They aren't fooled or enticed by them. They simply have to put up with them because it's what everyone is doing. And they have to act like yes-men when people ask if you like the new foosball table or that killer company party. And HR thinks it's really working.

Your employees can't really afford recreation or adequate living space or decent meals based on what they are paid, so instead bring the recreation to work, bring the meals to work, and just have people stay at work all the time.

We're aware of this, and unfortunately until people start telling shitty companies 'no' and insisting on being treated better (or software unionizes) it's not going to improve, and everyone's going to continue having insane shitty working conditions, but paper over it with all smiles about how cool Whisky Thursday is or whatever other bullshit none of us actually care about at all.
Can you provide an example of "many people 'binning' Ivy resumes?" I'd also request evidence that reputation is fluid in the field of education, because this seems patently contradicted by the facts. Especially in education, there is a strong network effect catalyzed by one simple notion -- the oldest universities have had the most time to accumulate capital. They deploy this capital to attract the best students (financial aid, facilities) and the best professors (endowed professorships, grants, facilities).

Working in concert and amplifying each other over time, these factors are responsible, ultimately, for creating the benefits that we all perceive as intrinsic to an Ivy League education -- namely, engaging and networking with lots of smart and motivated peers and mentors.
It is happening on the margin though. The tier 2 tech cities like Denver/Boulder, Raleigh/Durham and Austin have been booming for a decade and are continuing to grow.
I think it's pretty funny that MOOC's bought into the premise that the purpose of higher education was education. Seriously: what fraction of what you do on the job isn't something you couldn't have learned at a three-month company training course? Outside of highly specialized fields, it's probably not much.

I think the universities understand a lot better than the MOOCs that the point was never that Stanford had education you can't get elsewhere, but that it lets you tell people you went to Stanford and other people didn't.
I don't think it makes a ton of sense to price it that way. I'm paying 60 for 80up/80down from Firs, and it's not 1/10th the value that Google fiber is.

I can't think of a common application that would work better with 1000 than 80. The only time I sit around waiting for downloads to finish is xbox downloads. And that's because MS severs aren't even saturating my connection.

I guess my usenet binaries will download faster but it already happens real fast.

I'd probably pay an extra 20 dollars for the novelty value. But a lot of working class folks wouldn't.
What Makes Intellij's UI Feel 'Unnatural' on Windows
There are lots of dedicated, niche forums all over the Internet that have remained relatively stable for a decade or more. Those are social networks, and they work fine while accepting the users they have.
I have no children running around my house, but I still lack the discipline to work from home effectively. That "separation of space" helps to keep me focused. That's just me personally, and I know plenty of people that are effective working form home, but I just procrastinate and distract myself. I am my own interruption.
This is naive. You can't use raw server logs without filtering out bots.

Also, advertisers don't trust site owners to report what's in their server logs accurately, when there is money on the line. It would be easy to cheat.

So that's why you need an independent third party.
And a sad and remarkable example of what developer neglect can do. Despite numerous pleas on their forums, Blizzard lost all interest in WC3 after WoW came out.

The planned expansion packs were cancelled, major bugs in the client went unfixed for years, including serious maphacks that allowed a few griefers to completely ruin the once-strong online tournament scene and break apart the community.

The WC3 installer won't even run on Macintoshes newer than 10.6.8. Fixing that would be a matter of recompiling it and making a couple of minor tweaks -- perhaps a week's work, tops.

Even if you have an old version already installed when you upgrade your OS, you suddenly find that network games don't work at all anymore once you upgrade - that is, the major feature that you bought the game for in the first place. It relies on Apple's Open Transport networking library, which was removed in 10.9. There is no patch and no fix. The best people have come up with is dual booting into Windows or running Wine.

Perhaps this is why they didn't want WC3 mentioned in the article.
That's interesting, thanks! It seems this one discriminates the different possibilities by type, and not by some extra tag (like the constructor in Haskell's ADTs). I wonder how that works, if you want to write something like the `either' function (or even just write down its type in C++):

either :: (a -> c) -> (b -> c) -> Either a b -> c
> Fastest in-home Wi-Fi speed [etc]

You mean that the crappy Comcast-supplied access point has a better maximum speed than the presumably similarly crappy Google Fiber-supplied access point?

Sheesh. Just buy your own AP. A top-of-the-line model is <$100.