skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Postpaid is the opposite of prepaid, and is simply a matter of the billing structure. It has implications on the nature of the relationship with the carrier.

Postpaid contracts tend to offer a large variety of services and options. The bill is a direct result of the usage during that billing period, including fees/costs for excessive usage.

Prepaid contracts tend to offer a minimal amount of services that are paid up-front. If customer usage exceeds what they paid for, the service is cut off. The carrier has no duty to provide service beyond what the contract states, and indeed the point is to remove that liability from the customer as well.
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If the internet is a volcano, then any cult of personality built thereupon is the Pompeii in this here allegory.

Sieze the day for now, and get what you can from it, but the internet has never been an uncomplicated and sleepy, snow-capped mountain retreat.

And no one is buying into the sexual aspects of this shit show (which it definitely is), certainly not rape. There are some painfully obvious reasons why any rape allegation is just beyond silly in this scenario. Like, rape is a one-way street, man.
Very clever! Good job!
He came so tantalizingly close to being world champion. Besides the two World Championship matches with Karpov, one of which he lost by a single game, the 1974 Candidates final also decided the championship following Fischer's abdication.
It goes beyond behavioral differences. All complex life forms use sodium channels to regulate basic cellular activity. Consequently we all have a nephritic system that regulates sodium levels as a requirement for living. Too much sodium is literally pissed away. The anti-salt crowd conveniently glosses over this.
Network Timing and the 2015 Leap Second [pdf]
Sphinx and restructured text are getting pretty close.

http://www.sphinx-doc.org/

Shouldn't be hard to create a GUI around it.
Looks like audreyr started one, just needs some help.
https://github.com/audreyr/sphinx-gui
Not only is the handshake expensive, but TCP has something called "slow start" which effectively artificially limits the rate of data in the beginning of the connection till the network capacity is discovered.

An ideal N would be high enough where the cost of the TCP handshake and slow-start are minimal, but small enough not to trip the traffic shaper to downgrade the connection from the fast flow to the slower one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11848502
EmptyEpsilon, an open-source spaceship bridge simulator built on SFML
I'm curious - do you have any ballpark numbers on the impact that weather has on your profitability? Not just for growing conditions (cloudy/sunny, rain/drought) but also for extreme weather events if and when they occur?
In an article from The Atlantic[1], you can clearly see that total direct federal and state subsidies to higher education in 2014 are about $140 billion with another $20 billion in indirect subsidies. Yes, some of this goes to help offset the cost of attendance through Pell grants and tax credits to the family and shouldn't affect the tuition cost directly.

From the article I linked in the previous message, it does not only address Pell grants:

>>Total federal support to higher education of "nearly $76 billion" with Pell grants being $36 billion and "nearly $25 billion in research funding obligations."

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/the-rea...
There's a mention somewhere in the middle of the thread that someone had seen something similar with Apple's software updates, too: maybe it's a more general Akamai issue?

Even if it is isolated to the servers distributing MS's updates, I'm having trouble seeing how this could even be MS's fault-- it's the server side (owned and operated by Akamai) that's misbehaving here.
The man was extraordinary. A couple of more detailed obituaries:

https://www.chess.com/news/viktor-korchnoi-1931-2016-1214

http://en.chessbase.com/post/viktor-korchnoi-dies-at-85
People travel in great numbers over long distances almost entirely for jobs. People travel in great numbers over long distances because of an imbalance between their pay and local living expenses, like with San Francisco or Palo Alto.

The urban planning that would be necessary to slow down but not stop the rising tide would be one that makes property access closer to egalitarian ideals, so that the San Francisco or Palo Alto worker making $60k can also live there without driving far. Homeowners would rather experience more traffic / a battle with Waze than see property prices drop that much. The egalitarianish access to property is an even worse proposition for them by magnitudes.
Ah, yes, I think our dreams were quite different.. Mine never involved 'nonsense' as you put it. I used to have dreams like a giant spider crawling across the ceiling directly above my face. When I would wake up I would jump out of bed and try to find the spider that was there a second ago.

The mask helped remind me that there was no way I could have seen anything in the first place.
I stopped using atom last week. It crashed too many times on me even though I like it's feature set. Went back to trusty old sublime, Atom is crash-prone and slow.

Maybe it is because of the extensions I installed but they were all popular. If so then Atom should track crashes and correlate with extensions or something like that.
And when should I get a copyright?
I don't mean the images displayed on a panel; I mean the light from the panel if it were used to illuminate something else. Because you have only three narrow wavelengths of light, you lose 99% of the color information contained in the illuminated object's absorption spectrum.

Actual LED lamps work around this issue by using phosphors to broaden the spectrum.

This quality of light is measured by the Color Rendering Index; the phenomenon of color differences due to narrowband light sources is known as metamerism.

The images displayed on a panel do not suffer this issue, because our eyes can detect only 3 "dimensions" of color; hence 3 narrowband illuminants suffice. (And in fact narrowband is necessary for a broad color gamut.) It is only when reflection/absorption comes into play that metamerism matters.
Actually on most farms there's probably not a bit of dirt to be seen under the crop being raised, at least not for bulk crops like corn and soybeans and once the growing season is well under way. Any dirt not covered in the desired crop isn't bare and absorbing sunlight, it's space that's probably growing weeds or other undesirable plants (e.g. soybeans during a corn year for places that rotate their crops).
Holy shit. Dieter Ast was my landlord in college. This explains so much about my basement.

To those who haven't read the article yet, the real title is Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Prof Ast was the material scientist on one of the multidisciplinary teams tasked to design warning symbols for 10,000 year nuclear waste storage sites. He used to go around collecting old lab computers that were going to be thrown out and resurrect them with Windows 2000 or Puppy Linux installs.
For my own edification, can you elaborate on where/how Chromium beats Firefox on security.
Good link.
Are there any studies on modern days supersititions, and how they differ by country? In Japan there are tons of supersititions still very much alive for about everything in life.
Given the CTO's views it's a lot more scary.
Beautiful UI, very intuitive!

One issue I ran into (on a MacBook Pro, OSX El Cap) was that scrolling wouldn't work on my (external) trackpad. It interpreted 2-finger scroll as pinch (down) and zoom (up). Had to use trackball to scroll.
I'm very confused.
I want to like this, but I feel like they are trying to solve too many things at once. Which is just another kind of problem. New CLI, new language...

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/syntax/
Urbit is purposefully obfuscated. If you don't believe me, just take a look at the docs:

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/advanced/

There is no reason to gensym all of your concepts like this. It is different just for the purpose of being different: apparently you can't sell people on a "revolutionary technology" without appearing to be extremely different.

Nock is also not a good virtual machine. Recognizing blessed sequences of bytecode and replacing them with opaque blobs of code is not a valid approach to optimization. No one can actually run a pure Nock VM, so what is the point of having Nock in the first place?

Someone else on HN gave the best summary of Urbit I've seen yet: an elaborate cup and ball game, meant to give the impression of innovation and technical excellence.
I think if people read Curtis's writing under Mencius Moldbug, nobody would touch urbit with a ten foot pole.

He believes that white people are genetically endowed with a higher IQ than black people.

Why are people giving him money? This is why we can't have nice things.
I don't think you're reading the comment correctly. The comment is not proposing that falsely accusing more people will solve any problems.

EDIT: gender agnostic phrasing
The scope of the project is big. It mentions gmail, ifft and others. The api integrations for the third parties is measured in terms of years due to breaking changes and sheer amount of work. How is the urbit team managing that?
"As a cook/chef you can startup a restaurant essentially out of your own home."

If you're going to sell food that you made at home, your home kitchen is going to have to comply with all sorts of health and safety laws that govern commercial food preparation, e.g., periodic health department and fire department inspections. You might also run afoul of zoning regulations that prohibit running that kind of business from a residential area. And if you rent your home, it probably violates the terms of your lease.

"There's not enough variety for food."

Where I live (NYC), there's an infinite variety of food. Most other large cities that I've visited also have lots of different types of food available. Where do you live?

"Food is expensive."

Food made by a chef in small quantities will be expensive because it won't have the economies of scale of a large restaurant (e.g., the chef would have to buy the raw materials in small quantities, probably at retail prices instead of wholesale prices).
Based on the features presented in the talk, Pony looks like a great language:

* Actor-model
* Concurrency-aware type system
* Zero-copy message queues
* Work-stealing topology-aware scheduling
* Fully concurrent GC with no stop the world

Since there's no such thing as a perfect language for all problems, I wonder what's "the catch" with this language - besides the obvious "not enough libraries yet"?
I'm not convinced either way. Windows Update is the one opening the dozens of connections (it has to if it's behind a firewall), not Akamai; Akamai's just serving the data. But Windows Update is possibly just calling out to an Akamai library that opens the dozens of connections on its behalf.

If there are also congestion-algorithm shenanigans like the forum post suggests, then Akamai is definitely at fault. But the issue I see is that of connection hogging.
If their goal was to create a hokey-sounding quasi-spiritual ward that future generations will consider naive and ignore, they've certainly hit the nail on the head.

Probably a better approach is to accept the fact that nuclear waste will either be cleaned up or destroy humanity long before ten thousand years comes to pass, and spend the money they spent on this exercise in speculative fiction instead on working toward a real solution.
Find this and other symbols in Hornung's Handbook of Designs and Devices, first published in 1932.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_P._Hornung

http://www.amazon.co.jp/Handbook-Designs-Devices-Pictorial-A...
Hah, HN gives me the same feeling pretty consistently. If/when I leave the game industry I'll be disappointed if I have less than $500K total comp as a result of years of reading HN comments on what decent engineers should get paid.
It's not mutated or changed it points to a totally different memory location. It's called immutable data not immutable identifiers. Immutable data is what eliminates a large number of potential bugs. Having a ton of intermediate variable names
could actually be a source of bugs plus you have to care if someone reuses the name above the point in code you used it. By allowing rebinding you only care about the code below the place your introduced a variable.
Different task grouping (e.g. by users) -- that's smart. I wish Trello could do this. Filtering via charts -- another smart feature. I like the product concept.
I'm a bit biased here since I work doing development mostly aimed at a competitor of Cisco in the Unified Communications space, but after seeing a few presentations by Rowan Trollope at Enterprise Connect, I have the feeling all is not well at Cisco and this article seems to echo that.

At EC, I really felt like they were on the defense trying to market a product that's trying to be "cool like Slack" while chiding enterprise customers for being uncool and wanting things like control over upgrade roll-outs and being interested in "fake clouds"[1]. Their presentation of this new product had the feeling of an angry old man trying to sell mood rings to hipsters.

The attitude of the presenters bordered on insulting and I was reminded of a meeting with Cisco guys with a very similar attitude, almost decade ago, when my previous employer was trying to re-instate maintenance on our Cisco phone infrastructure. At the time, we were looking to either get maintenance or replace it with something else (Office Communications Server 2008 -- which hadn't been released yet, but which Microsoft was actively courting us to become a tester of with very good financial terms associated). The rep sarcastically said "What are you going to do, switch to Asterisk or LCS?"[2].

My recollection of parts of this is hazy, but IIRC, they weren't willing to budge on price and even found places that we had miscalculated the cost we already couldn't pay, resulting in a higher cost. In 15 years of dealing with vendor reps, I've never had a call that even came close to that one. I fielded two different calls within an hour of that meeting's end with both people saying the Cisco guys were "arrogant DICKS".

Within two years my previous employer ripped out all of our Cisco IP-PBX related devices, moved to OCS 2007 and the company has stayed with the Microsoft Solution of Various Names since. If the vendor reps were any indication, Cisco didn't believe there would ever be competition for their product, and had a very dim view of Microsoft (still seem to, today). Their new product (who's name escapes me) seems to be the direction they want to go, but they're late, and aren't as good as the competition.

[1] This was a phrase the Cisco folks seemed really attached to and I kept thinking that the one feature you want in a collaboration/"phone" system is stability. And the "fake clouds" were things like on-prem/cloud deployment options available from Microsoft and policies that embraced limited backward compatibility and controlled update roll-out. For me, the phrase became "fake clouds don't rain" (or at least when they do, you have some control over it).

[2] This is paraphrased, but not much. Microsoft had courted us at the time and we were involved in pre-release for OCS. We didn't actually migrate to LCS, we migrated to OCS while participating in the OCS R2 TAP. They provided us with people on-site that basically designed and helped us roll the solution out at no charge (they were supposed to be resources for the TAP program but they assisted with everything).
> The overall result is that there are a bunch of people shouting "less salt!" and a bunch of people shouting "the same amount of salt!" and no one has any model of how much salt they actually need, so they occasionally end up deficient.

Dr. Brewer's pregnancy diet calls for as much salt as the patient wants - "salt to taste". One of the things I had to help my girlfriend with was getting her over her salt phobia - she definitely wasn't getting enough.

There is a disconnect between medical science and the actual findings of physiology. Medical students are indoctrinated with lots of facts and a little dogma. The incorrect ideas stunts the progress of their field.

Veterinarians know to give animals as much salt as they want.
Its ok to set yourself apart. But for some reason this feels very app.net in a way. Not to disrespect the projects or ceeators but the scope and ambitions were rather big.
For clarification, Is it soaking up bandwith because its doing the (I forget the term) where it uses your connecion for other Windows 10 users while they update?
This totally ignores the non-functional test modes and dft modes of any modern ic. There are many modes which work down at the gate level and even sometimes transistor level to identify and isolate logic error, badly designed circuits, and manufacturing defects. This can be done in an automated way on every IC. I would be surprised if this attack couldn't be twarted by a series of cleverly designed scan vectors. And since the attacker doesn't know what I'll run when designing his circuit hiding should be very hard. For example, The attack in the paper is basically just a cross talk bug and this is the kind of thing low level testing chased out at this level.

http://anysilicon.com/overview-and-dynamics-of-scan-testing/
Lonely Runner Conjecture may be proved
Wait, are you Peter Molyneux the game designer of Fable fame, or do you just happen to have the same name?
> Put into words, it would communicate something like the following

That initial text was not intended to be written, but communicated through the design of the message system. Interesting.

I expected more skulls and crossbones.
From a purely academic standpoint, I find this project and it's goals intriguing... And I'd be interested in playing around with the environment, if only it weren't for the "Hoon" language. I'm fine dusting off lisp, or erlang, or any of the myriad imperative languages I know to play around, but I have no desire to learn an esoteric language that only works in one esoteric system! If someone ever makes a cross-compiler from a sane language let me know!
Just wait until you read the political views of those who are developing of which Urbit is an instantiation. It's a political philosophy designed to appeal to the Silicon Valley elite who want to imagine themselves as kings:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

Unqualified Reservations + Bitcoin = URBit
Interesting, I suspect this is what you are referring to.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_29730782/controve...
I'm not sure I like the idea of having just a single foot pedal. Why change what works? So people who have driven over 30-40 yrs with both a brake and a gas pedal are now supposed to use a combo of one pedal and a steering column paddle? Call me crazy but sounds like they need to redesign that.
I would have thought that to an advanced civilization that a nuclear radioactive waste dump may well be of value.

I do think worrying about radioactive waste given how much carbon dioxide we have dumped into the atmosphere is a bit like bandaging a stubbed toe on an amputated leg.
PCAP is at https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2530363&.... It's not UDP.

I'll have to see whether this is what causes my 100 megabit downlink to behave as if it's capped at 30 megabits sometimes. The router can barely keep up as it is.
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Heh. Funny that it's a different order, but the smart and lazy are still at the top.
If that's true, so is pretending that poor people haven't heard of rice and beans before.
Libvot: A C++11 multi-thread library for image retrieval
I try to think of it as 'conversing with' rather than 'using' her.
And THIS is why I stopped using Windows. Opaque background services that just do whatever the fuck.

Hey guess what! You're nothing without me, Windows. You hear me? Nothing.

I'm the user. And I'll burn your stupid operating system to the ground, before I let it dictate to me when and what should or shouldn't be done.
5) Not moving bodies when the job can be done by moving bits.
People may also be interested in the LambdaConf talk from a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZ3GkeU9kg
a lot like timepage for ios https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/moleskine-timepage-calendar/...

cool idea making it a web app
I love this comment. I've been running my own small game studio for nearly five years in San Francisco and this resonates deeply. After reading HN for a while I constantly question my life choices work-wise.
Tesla says Model X accident caused by driver error, not Autopilot
I was referring to the wording of the headline. Not the attack itself.

"Most demonically clever". And the old "this" curiosity trick I often see in belly fat ads.
I like it! On my Android phone, I tried connecting my calendar - went through the Google with screen but then got some error message ("could not connect"?), and a spinning circle that never went away.
No shit!
> ... Visual Basic. The end result of every single one of those efforts has been exactly the same: a tool that the intended users do not use, and one that the programmers they hire hate to use.

Visual Basic 6 is the exception to your list. A LOT of laypeople used VB6 to create really useful programs. It is hard for people who weren't alive then to understand just how gigantic VB6 was (partially because VB6 predates the web).

Unfortunately, Microsoft killed VB6 with the transition to VB.net.
Verizon to submit $3B bid for Yahoo's internet business: WSJ
Windows has a feature to perform low priority downloads of updates called Background Intelligent Transfer Service: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776905(v=ws.10...

There's also the Windows Update Delivery Optimization P2P feature: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-update...
App.net at least had a couple clear use cases in mind (twitter clone, notifications/pub/sub service), even if they weren't unique/compelling enough to sell people on the service.

AFAICT, this platform has a broad scope without any kind of clear vision as to what they want to do with it. Maybe I haven't found the right part of their website yet?
> It's called immutable data not immutable identifiers.

immutable/mutable data and immutable/mutable identifiers are two different things. One is not called the other, they are separate things really.

> It's not mutated or changed it points to a totally different memory location

So you said it yourself. It points to a different memory location. So how is x not mutated then? "Mutated" is a synonym for "change", or so I thought apparently.

I don't see how one can look at a variable being reassigned and say "nope, variable didn't change", where it clearly has a new value in the line below.

> Immutable data is what eliminates a large number of potential bugs.

Agreed. Was using Erlang for many years and tried Haskell before. Immutable data is pretty nice most of the time.

> care if someone reuses the name above the point in code you used it.

Wait, is it the opposite of what you were trying to say? Wouldn't you want to care if you are now randomly re-using or changing variables someone else assigned. I thought immutability was a good thing.

> By allowing rebinding you only care about the code below the place your introduced a variable.

Unfortunately in my code base, the code above the place where variables are introduced is just as mission critical as the code after the place. Maybe I am using a strange coding style or paradigm ;-)
When I'm working in Atom, it always feels like I'm an accidental click away from a hang. Open the wrong file and hang.

A wrong file could be something too big for Atom to open, or just a smallish XML file with all of its contents on one line. Either will lock Atom for a while on a high-spec MacBook Pro.

Other than that, I agree it's pretty fast for most things.
The Data/Human Goal Gap