skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumer fiber-optic for $40/month just hit my area. The advertised speeds are 1000 Mbps down, 100 Mbps up.

I've been able to sustain 760 Mbps down and 105 Mbps up, it's the most satisfying experience I've had on the internet.
Yeah, Ottawa is great. It's so cold for so long that the Rideau canal freezes and hundreds of people can skate on it at a time (in fact there's a whole festival that occurs on the frozen canal!)
I was doing that too, until my dual-tuner ATSC capture box from Silicon Dust died. Fine, I thought, I'll just buy another. Nope! Not available for sale anywhere, and I haven't found a comparable product from another vendor (network-attached ATSC receiver).

I may break down and try out TabloTV, but that requires you to use their own apps. Sigh
Why do you think experiences are limited to mid twenties? What kind of experiences are you talking about
The problem with this theory, is that it completely ignores that a lot of people good at math have poor people skills. And you need people to be happy and improve your life opportunities.

So yeah, math is beautiful, and if you like it, go for it.

But if you look for a skill to acquire or practice, your taste no withstanding, this may not be the best investment. Sport, social skills, languages, time management, self introspection and cooking are examples of things that usually pay off better than math in your life. It brings more people, opportunities, health, money, etc.

Again, not saying math is not a good thing to practice. We need math as a specie. And an individual may need it for his or her happiness. But as a strategy I don't think so.
But if you want to watch something that's DRM'd (like HBO), the HDHomeRun will only work with a few devices when it comes to watching the video.
What you are looking for is affiliates to sell your product for you. This avoids hiring someone or taking on a founder, and you only pay if someone actually signs up for your service or takes an action you want them to take.

If your SaaS is worth using and has a market, you can try to find bloggers etc to market it for you in this manner.

There are different types of agreements involved in affiliate marketing. Some people pay only after someone upgrades to a paid plan. Some pay upon sign up. Some pay a flat rate after the first purchase. Some pay lifetime commissions. The more generous your offer is, the more likely it is that affiliates will promote your product.

Examples:

Basecamp- http://37signals.com/affiliate/terms
Aweber - https://www.aweber.com/affiliates.htm
Uber - https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/affiliate-program

Now if your product is too complicated to explain/needs a sales team, I don't know that there is a better option than hiring someone. But I was hoping this would help provide an option if you were not familiar with it.
I agree that cross examination helps. I agree lawlessness is bad. However, what you you are proposing is pseudo-random solutions instead of lawlessness, which doesn't seem much better. Picking any subset of trials and saying it is okay for them to be wrong could mean setting wrong precedent for years to come. It can also mean bad outcomes and suffering for many and disproportionately poor people.

If the jurors don't understand the fundamentals of what they are deciding how will they interpret cross-examinations? Certainly not on the merit of the argument, because they simply can't.

If it just comes down to who can sound more confident while making their side of the argument then justice goes to whoever can afford the best lawyers. Which largely seems to match the system we have.

It is not a very good but it is better than lawlessness, but only just so.

Though we get more nuanced each time, I fear our debate has started running in circles. Thank you for making reconsidering some of my opinions.
I'm quite surprised I never saw this before. It's a neat collection of small bits of wisdom.
> Moreover, common sense tells us that in order for Saudi Arabia to get any weapon systems, they have to be bought under trade agreements made with friendly countries that manufacture those systems with official and approved export trade certificates from their governments. It is also certain that Israel is not among the countries that have commercial relations with the Kingdom.

I thought software sales were exempt from trade certificates ?
This is not a Trump issue. This is a symptom of lobbying at the federal level, regardless of party.

Obama and Wheeler had proposed a universal cablebox rule, but later decided having a device with an "app" was instead acceptable.

The FCC had tried to mandate a universal receiver box in the 1970s.
>Windows settings panels have at least 2 diff ways to configure anything, the "old" and the "new". Graphics settings have 4 places to change stuff (Intel, Nvidia, built in old and new). It's just a jumbled mess.

They're well aware of that, and if you follow the insider previews, every new build is moving more of the features into the "new" way of doing things. Is it annoying there are two places? Absolutely... but the alternative is not changing anything and waiting 5 years while everything gets rolle dup.

>Bluetooth never recognizes device names (it's a guessing game as to which "Unknown Device" is the one I want). The trackpad is mediocre, and the config panel from Synaptics probably hasn't changed since Windows 95.

Not sure what to tell you there other than a buggy driver on your laptop. All of my bluetooth devices tell me exactly what they are before and after adding them.

The trackpad thing isn't Windows, it's the trackpad razer chose to use, or the driver. One of the reasons that MS finally said f-it and introduced precision touchpad. If you still have the old-school synaptics panel, then Razer chose not to participate.
Pedantic analysis:

At 5 Watts and $0.30 per kilowatt-hour, a Raspberry Pi would cost $1.08/month to run.

With 1 free GB and $0.09/GB-month, S3 would be able to deliver 13 GB/month at a cost of $1.08/month.

So, RasPi at home gives you "unlimited" egress and a fixed cost, but you have increased latency, a rather small outgoing bandwidth (most likely), and all the downsides of running your own server.

S3 gives you unlimited bandwidth, low latency, and no server maintenance, but it's only competitive on price if you don't exceed 12GB of egress.

Overall I prefer S3, even if I think their egress prices are ridiculous. RasPi at home has some geeky cool factor, though...

NOTE: $0.30/kwh is basically what I pay (California) for any additional usage. These equations will favor home hosting if your electricity is cheaper.
Police department loses years of evidence due to ransomware
VSCode does have basic refactoring features.
Can confirm that this is the case here in the UK as well.
> This is a very common argument against juries, and I think it's one of the most powerful. Of course if you start to fill a jury with people competent in the area being judged, you run different risks, such as bias within the field. And it's still not clear that it would help with delivering justice.

True but at the same time nothing says its all or nothing.

I really think there is an argument for cases like this to have ~4 people with degrees relevant to the case sitting on the jury which is likely enough to swing the jury's results if there is something that just wasn't communicated effectively or the issue being clouded by one party.

Sure there might be bias in that case, but I don't think its particularly pronounced when a civil suit is ultimately decided by a majority.
The article says in the first few paragraphs that GitHub is paying for the hosting right now.
Money talks, geopolitical bullshit walks!

Its an age old adage really
What is the product/service?
So was the Motorola 6800. I think it would be more surprising if they did everything from scratch rather than modelling it on some pre-existing work...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800
I'm still trying to get BoHN off the ground... reddit.com/r/BoHN
Antifascists acting like fascists only enabling their perceived threat of fascism even further... If it's a nonsensical fight these people are looking for, they seem to be inching towards bringing it to fruition regardless of who's right or wrong. Reminds me of the same mentality behind these progressives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHhy2Gk_xik
thank you for the feedback. we really appreciate it and will make adjustments
> It uses three 1GB Heroku dynos for scaling, which is $150/mo. It also uses some Heroku addons which add up to another $80/mo.

Wow, why ? You can get a VPS with 2Go Ram + 10 Go SSD for 3€ those days (https://www.ovh.com/fr/vps/).

That seems very expensive.
I upgraded from XP to 7. For me the main plus was stability - with XP you had to reinstall from an image when it got screwed up quite regularly.
I'm not sure where concurrency plays into this at all.
Thank you for the offer, I just sent you an email
Probably 30% of the housing in my town is manufactured homes, though (i.e., dirt cheap), and the city council and planners are actively looking for ways to improve diversity of housing. The people living here in the rich-people subdivisions predictably are against any higher density housing being built, though, probably for exactly the reasons you site (some explicitly site "undesirables", despite the already existing low-income housing).

They also complain that it will affect their view, though. Not the view from their homes, but as they drive along the road. Considering the housing is proposed for right behind a WalMart and other big box development, and in the opposite direction from the mountains from their subdivision. Sigh. "But we'll have to drive past it on the way to WalMart or the grocery! OMG!"

Despite having plenty of "undesirables" (not my word), we're in the top-10 safest cities in the state (#3 or 4, if I recall). The neighboring town (Louisville, CO) has won "best place in the US to raise a family" several times.

And the state is Colorado, where even the "rough" cities are actually pretty safe to begin with. I used to live in Oakland, CA, so there's probably no area in Denver that I'd be uncomfortable walking around at night. There are places I've been quite wary of in Oakland, though.
I didn't boil it down to that. I simply pointed out it's RIDICULOUS to say the country isn't hostile towards Israel.

"I'm not going to kill you until I kill that other guy who you also happen to not like" doesn't make you my friend.
It was set up and run by GitHubbers for advocacy/evangelism.
Best news I've heard electorally for some time. They're even fully proportional voting.
> And that explains why Debian does not use it while Red Hat does: Red Hat can enforce selinux compliance by company policy, while Debian has to rely on every individual developer's judgement about the effort/benefit ratio.

There's also this little thing that Debian has an order of magnitude more
tools and programs included in its official repository, and two or three
orders more packages. This alone pretty much explains why Debian cannot just
put SELinux into use, while Red Hat somewhat can.
It was a website built by a GitHub co-founder on his own initiative, who happened to also be a git contributor. It wasn't particularly a thing that git the open-source project requested.

The previous git website was http://git.or.cz/ , also run by a git contributor, and releases were (and still are) at https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ .
WebApi – Services and DbContexts
that would be awesome. please email me.
That first link hits it out of the park. Thank you
> ... there were 99.44 million cable plus households, which includes wired cable, telco and satellite subscribers, ...

I have a cable subscription that I never use. It's not HD so it doesn't even compete with my digital antenna. Why do I have a cable subscription that I don't use? Comcast continuously provides promotional packages with cable that are cheaper than regular internet-only packages. I think practices like this artificially inflate that number, quite a bit.
I have a similar project that uses smartcards/HSMs/anything with a PKCS#11 interface called "hunter2":

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hunter2/
ZFS on LUKS in Ubuntu 16
I really don't understand how people are okay with tolerating this.

I would overdose on blood pressure meds.
Depends on what features are important to you.

On my system, the new parallel file search from VS Code is an order of magnitude faster than Sublime. For example, searching my entire project is 2 secs in VS Code vs 20 sec in Sublime
Oops -- I should have included my "refgrep.sh" bash script:

#!/bin/bash

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7131670/make-bash-alias-...

grep -i -A10 --color=always $1 /home/victoria/projects/shortcuts/reference | more

===========================

I should also have mentioned that with either script/alias {ref | refgrep}, partial strings are automatically searched. [I created/use the latter script because sometimes I cannot remember all of my __<entries>.]

For example, if you have two or more placemarkers that are similar (__python | __pythonpath), "ref py" will find the first one; "ref pythonp" will find the the second one ... just extend the string to be more specific, as needed ...

"refgrep <string>" will find (the first occurrence) of that string, anywhere in the "reference" file.

I use that "reference" file for everything that I might want to quickly find (literally, seconds): programming; birthdays; phone numbers; prescriptions, doctors, you-name-it.

Just pop open a terminal; search (ref <string>); read; quit terminal. :-D
Apart from the built in task runner system, you can always use an extension that does a "classic" command-R.

I use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=formulah... and bound it to exactly this key.
This guy ran the numbers https://medium.com/@keredson/the-real-cost-of-universal-basi... and found there wouldn't be an increase.

And the author of that article seems to miss the point of UBI, yes the ideal would be to get everyone into work, but pretty soon there isn't going to be enough jobs for everyone.
That's not sarcasm. It's not like anyone here has numbers to say I'm wrong, and I'm not hearing any good arguments as to why it's a bad idea. I've had my blog (which does 3 mysql queries for each pageload) hit the HN front page with 105KB/s uplink and either a Pentium 3 or Intel Atom as CPU (I forgot when I switched servers). In any case, something much like a Pi can handle HN front-page traffic with a database. And people are downvoting hosting a website that's even less heavy on a Pi? Unless it's 500 hits per second, I don't get it.
This has nothing to do with tech.

There are unofficial trade relations between Israel and (almost?) any country in the world.
Recently, the FCC dropped its case defending an inmate calling cap rate. The ISPs now have someone on their side.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/republican-led-f...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13551754 and marked it off-topic.
Yeah, my readership of that site has gone down dramatically as it has passed the point of "contrarianism" into "outright insanity".
I agree with almost all of what you're saying, but the question isn't whether or not STEMers are very rational people. The question is whether they are better equipped than the average person to understand and scrutinize a logical argument that is presented to them in court.

Being better at that than the average population isn't a very high bar. Yes we make a lot of irrational choices and often times we will defend them in pseudo rational terms. Flame wars abound.

But the meta debate about the standard of proof for our claims is never far away. It counts for something to be able to come up with some sort of test or empirical support. Every front page story about medical experiments inevitably has a comment thread about correlation vs causality and various sorts of possible biases.

Do you really want to be judged by people who never had these sorts of debates and never had to defend their own arguments against this sort of criticism?
Oh, so you are not allowed to receive the channel you are paying for?
Curious: anyone else using twc since spectrum in nyc noticed that the ultimate/extreme speed increases are no longer available for sale/upgrade?

Seems spectrum maxes out at 120mbps, whereas they used to sell 300mbps. (or is that just me?)
I go back and forth between windows/unix for my day job and I also would be curious on any actual bullet points. I find that even in a situation where PS could potentially prove more useful or has an extra feature, what you end up with is a new set of chrome tabs open just to try and figure out how to do the thing.

I suppose this might(?) be mitigated if you're embedded in the .NET world, but I just can't seem to get the memory down for the silly cmdlet naming and since they also have the admittedly interesting object-piping thing going on, you're always battling two pain points at a time instead of just one (e.g. syntax/naming in bash)
Comparing atom and vscode is like comparing apples to oranges. They are sharing only Electron and nothing else. Some people do not want a full blown IDE (all of them are slower than VSCode) but also do not want a bare naked editor... I tried getting Sublime as feature rich as VSCode + one python plugin. Sublime was loosing and using most of the time more resources (Anaconda plugin)... code completion, auto suggestion, method jumping, inline help... everything was better in VSCode. Also not to mention the amount of help in other languages like JS. But if I would handle really big files without logic I would probably stick more to sublime.
Probably the tooling around Heroku and the scaling. If the site suddenly gets more popular, you tweak a slider and suddenly you have more compute.
Hacker Dumps iOS Cracking Tools Allegedly Stolen from Cellebrite
I've literally never had a system as buggy as Windows 10, every day I switch on my computer I wonder what's going to be broken today. Stuff which works on the same hardware on Windows 7 is just unreliable on Windows 10. Not to mention that 10 is a usability mess and a massive step back in pretty much every corner of the system.

Since I've typed out a small list of my problems with Win 10 before, they are here to read:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13418573
> I think you're overestimating how hard it is to get up and running with Arch Linux

Not really.

Arch was a PITA. FreeBSD has a smoother install (not a compliment to Arch).
Can't compare to Sublime myself, but the global search got some major overhaul and is doing parallel searches since the last release (1.8). Can't complain about the speed.
This is exactly what I was attempting to convey. Re-reading the thread it still looks as if I accomplished that but based on the downvotes and confusion I'm guessing I didn't.

Oh well I guess.
Windows 10 gets a lot of flak, but it's honestly the best OS I have ever used. It's fast, stable, reliable and secure. Oh, and I should mention I'm a developer, and WSL is getting better with every release. Is it perfect? Heck no, but it's sure a lot better than Linux on the desktop and Macs are just not worth my money anymore.
The term was created by white supremacists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
I mean, an array could have worked but I think this is more readable than a clever version would have been.

main = mapM_ putStrLn $ reverse verses
where
verses = combine <$> enumeratedSlices songLines
combine (i, s) = "On the %s day of Christmas, my true love gave to me\n%s" % dayNames !! i $ concat s
enumeratedSlices = zip [0..] . init . tails
Stopped reading at:
"There is no question that Windows 10 is an impressive piece of software, and quite the most secure operating system ever devised."
I thought this was already supported for free standing functions? Or is that only in nightly
> before you overcome the housings capacity to get rid of the heat.

The thing is, most of these larger BJT parts were designed to be used with heatsinks, not usually standalone. IMHO, there's nothing wrong with dropping some voltage and dumping some heat. Sure, it isn't efficient, but if you size everything properly, and your project can accommodate the heatsink - then where's the problem?

Heck, a long time ago you could get tiny heatsinks for some of the small round metal-can transistors that existed - I've got an old 16K minicomputer core-memory board from the 1970s that has drive electronics set up like this.

The author of this "rant" mentions not using L298 (and presumably the L293) either - but there's nothing wrong with these parts for hobbyists (outside of the L298's weird footprint, and the fact that heatsinks for them are almost unobtanium) - provided that the limitations are kept in mind (finding a low-cost mosfet 4A h-bridge in a thru-hole design is virtually impossible). These parts were originally meant for automotive applications, where having a 12-14V large amperage battery supply was the norm (people trying to use them for circuits with 6V or less always wonder why their small motors won't turn).
Sadly this isn't limited to Comcast. Similar behavior for NBC Sports (and other channels) on AT&T.
> I also think the more important question is the accessibility of moving from Office VBA to VB14

VBA 6 is exactly the same language as VB 6, with the same IDE. VBA 7 (the current version) adds some new types to support 64-bit mode.

(I'm currently maintaining a bunch of VBA code in a third-party application that uses it for scripting.)
Comcast to Start Charging Monthly Fee to Subscribers Who Use Roku as Cable Box
I didn't want to come across as yet another self promotion post. https://www.hireloop.io
So, basically you have to pay an extra fee to use a streaming app. No thanks. The STB rental fees must be a huge part of their income because they are so dead set on keeping them even when you aren't renting anything from them. Even the crappily-implemented CableCARD made some bit of sense to treat as a rental because you were essentially renting an auth dongle from them but a software application? You've got to be kidding me.

The main reason I stream torrents on my second TV (even though like 98% of the content is stuff that I could watch on the cable package I pay for) is because I don't want to rent yet another box just to watch something in another room. This is yet another example of how the box isn't just to address a technical need but rather a cash cow that you can't get around paying for.
In our company we have struggle to get applicants to apply. Junior, or Senior. May be it's our company, but in general I would agree that H1B should be meant for experienced personal. What is happening now, companies are getting qualified labor (years of experience, Masters/Phds) from overseas for $60K. Nice and shiny. My point is that this, most likely, will not open more entry level positions, or make companies willing to pay more for entry level engineer.
From the Hacker News Guidelines[0]

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dual ATSC tuner for $95 on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHomeRun-CONNECT-broadca...
I assumed the idea was also to eventually to get some users to move to the "real" visual studio, which I ended up doing at least to debug C++, except the vs editor is so much worse!

For example, I use Ctrl+D for multiple editing all the time and I converted other people to vscode based on that feature alone, yet it does not exist in visual studio...
I was wondering what this project had to do with GitHub. Looks like the only feature from GitHub that this addresses is the global username namespace, which it decentralises using the blockchain.

Here's the article associated with the project: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...
Split Brain, Undivided Consciousness?
Hearing Thursday: American Fights to Continue Case Against Ethiopian Spyware