skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cable distribution of channels is completely different from the U-Verse example. Cable uses a certain band of frequencies for channels, each HD channel requiring a larger band. The Internet access they provide is delivered the same way, but with a smaller band for upstream. The bands for Internet service are shared by all customers on the segment, with rate limiting at the maximum rate you're paying for. For cable carriers, there is no "profiling" ability to prefer one over the other, they each have separate channels. U-Verse and similar services (like the Verizon fiber solution) use a multi-homed router on your premise with one network for TV, one for VoIP and one for Internet. They are all 3 IP based networks and travel over the same copper, meaning they share the same bandwidth, but only one of them is actually connected to the Internet. For those services, you only receive the channels over the copper that your local router has requested the multicast streams for, allowing for a much more efficient use of the bandwidth but providing the possibility for services to interfere with each other.
actually, I love your writing style
Tourism forecasting competition -  winner invited to publish in leading journal
Is there a reason we should regulate pollution and "areas of natural beauty" while deregulating everything else?
Ask HN: what does Obama's to-do list look like?
Our to-do list-ey web app FolderBoy (www.folderboy.com) needs a sample to-do list. We're going to pre-populate our list with a fake Obama to-do list.

It's easy to find out what Obama's done, but since I don't live in America, I don't know what his upcoming to-do list would look like.

E.g.

Work tasks

----------

Withdraw from Iraq

Stabilize Afghanistan

Confirm Elena Kagan (done)

Reform health (done)

????
I don't care, I've seen Aaron present with ninjas on stage.
It seems possible to me, but doubtful. Even contributing work worth a footnote in the wikipedia article about solving P =? NP would validate a lifetime of research to many people.
clickable: http://www.folderboy.com
The Link vs. Button Debate
like so many of these posts, I am left wondering... why is that unethical?
Well said. I agree the 28% was an opening salvo, but in my experience you can't really knock that much off it. You can posture ("hmm, maybe we'll try another broker") and tweak a few things here and there, but it's mostly done.

We got a big increase last time, too, though I can't remember what it was. I think it was near 20%, but just under. We have an aging employee base, and if the author of the WSJ does, too, that might explain the difference.
You write like lawyer, leaving me convinced that you stand nacently on both sides of every junction of opinions regarding this issue, except this one:

If the Internet existed to serve some obvious goal, it would be trivial to determine whether prioritizing packets would help or hinder its achievement, but as far as I can tell, It does not exist to accomplish any obvious goal. The net neutrality debate is essentially the Internet's own existential conflict.

Part of the supporting argument in favor of net neutrality says that prioritizing packets would not be wise because we cannot predict what the Internet will be used for in the future, and that those packet prioritization rules will inevitably end up in conflict with the goals of future internet users. (eg. The I. doesn't know what it want's to be when it grows up. boo hoo)

Ironically (is it?) the very act of prioritizing communications in any way, would set the I. on a one way path towards serving a particular purpose, settling the issue of whether it should have done so in the first place. (eg. The I. wants to be a good targeted advertising delivery system, nothing else.)

So what is at stake for the Internet is that same thing that is at stake when a conscious person has a mental breakdown over the purpose of their life.
Totally agree. MO seems to enforce an rigid, sanitary culture for precise question and answering. Perfect approach to mathematical discovery and enlightenment.
I have switched from Moleskine to Piccadilly brand (I think this is the house brand of Borders Books). Half the price, almost the same quality.

The problem with Moleskines is that they got too popular, so they keep switching around the source for their paper; while earlier (circa 2005) Moleskines had paper that fountain pens wouldn't bleed through, later ones of the exact same type do have paper that fountain pens will bleed through.
And I don't see where he used the word "teabagger", so your directing this to jsz0 was misdirected.
Although I understand it will be harder to get, it'd be interesting to see these stats "per commit" instead of "per repository."
strangely enough, I run into wheels a lot in #startups but rarely see his comments.
its a crock.

it means if I want to compete with AT & T's 'official' TV service delivered over IP, I have to do so only within the confines offered by the 'Internet' service.

This is a total crock that relies on everyone interpreting 'The Internet' as being the world wide web, and conveniently forgetting the rest.
Just so I understand your position before disagreeing with it: you're claiming there are exactly two levels of human intelligence, and if you're not mentally retarded you have exactly the same potential for intellectual achievement as everyone else in that class?
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And that company was likely breaking the law in the state in which they operated. If CA, MA, WA, or most others.

CA and many other states are now going after companies that hire contractors to do the work that is usually done by employees (and they use their own definition of "employee", too). They will hit you with fines and back employment taxes should you be audited. How would you be audited? A contractor files for unemployment, to which they are not entitled (because unemployment taxes are not paid for them). It happens all the time.
Probably they are reacting negatively because California wouldn't seem to have a revenue problem. It's number 6 in % of income taxed. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/01/10/visit-to-berke...
It would be nice to believe that, but I would posit that output per unit of input differs. Given infinite time, anyone could obtain a Ph.D, but some people just find it easier than others. Those that find it easier are much more likely to do something great than someone who finds it extremely difficult and time consuming.

I know doing maths and statistics at university that there were many spending more than 40 hours a week studying and still obtained poor grades AND more importantly had less understanding than others doing no study.

Claiming that we are all equal is nice, but ignores the fact that the fundamental relationship between time invested and output is not constant between individuals.

Some of us run faster, some of us are leaner, some of us have beauty, some of us greater knowledge acquisition rates. There's nothing elitist about it in my opinion. I'm never going to be michael jordan, just like I'll never be Terrence Tao or Knuth, and I'm okay with that!
Does that 28% only include federal taxes and not state? If so, it's not realistic.
"The Answer is in the nature of Progressive Politics in California"..... Wow.. City-Journal.org hits nail on head.

I'm impressed.
An Economist's Guide to Heaven
My question had nothing to do with the PhD as a privileged case. I just find the idea of learning something previously unknown very cool, especially as relates to knowledge that's useful somehow.
If someone types an extended string of unbroken characters, you should break that string for them. If you don't, the horizontal autoscroll bar appears and actually blocks the 1 most recent comment.
Unless you've fixed a XSS bug in the hour since it was posted here, kudos on being the first Node.js chat site I've seen like this that was not vulnerable to XSS discoverable within ten seconds.
I wonder if it is because hacker news is filled with elitists.

wow, i'd be careful about throwing this stone on HN. this place is filled with anti-elitists --- e.g., high school and college drop-outs, self-taught hackers, anti-formal-education zealots, and generally f* the system type people. if you're accusing them of being elitists, then your definition is pretty broad ;)
Tricking your competitors into fighting and mistrusting one another? You don't think that's unethical?
Not sure why this got down voted to negative points. This is a good point, but one I guess a lot of startups don't want to hear. :-/
The actual app is pretty well xss proofed.

But, unfortunately if you go to this link...

http://twich.me/<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>

(had to stick it in code block because HN auto marks it as spam)
I get a lot more than 20 Mbps through my wifi router, even though every other house in the city has identical hardware. It isn't just about bandwidth - geographic separation matters as well. You can always build more towers and crank down the transmission radius for each one.
Programming isn't only for the young. If I were 50-ish, I'd consider chasing people who will actually be comforted by dealing with someone their age, rather than a younger dude. I suspect they are out there.

However, you're jumping the gun a bit. Step one, do at least a basic sanity check on the skillset. Nobody, 50, 24, or 13, can jump straight into consulting without putting the time in to build at least some basic skills. Consider starting with some basic tutorials in the languages you know and make sure the temperament and skill sets truly are there before going too nutty about steps seven or eight.

(I was going to start recommending 'beginner' languages, but you're probably better off in this situation starting with whatever it is you and your brother know, on the assumption you want to help your dad get off the ground as quickly as possible and not just abstractly teach him something.)

Your dad might also surprise you; he has leverage into a world you don't and almost nobody here does, and exploiting that could prove surprisingly lucrative, and is probably also full of the aforementioned people who will find him comforting rather than "old". (Very few other programmers will be able to get past the "shooting the breeze" portion of the introduction social dance with quite the same style your dad will be able to in that field.) In three years he may be blowing your socks off in revenue and you may be working for him.... do be sure he tries this, by the way. The way to success in business isn't usually to shore up your weaknesses so much as to ram home your advantages. (You have to do both, of course, but its the advantages where you win.)
That's true however wired broadband is also oversubscribed in a similar way. A single DOCSIS channel can provide 38Mbit of bandwidth and it will typically serve ~250 customers. 250 customers @ 10Mbit each would require a 2.5Gbit/sec pipe at the access layer. For DOCSIS 3, 4 channel bonding, the real amount of wire bandwidth increases to 152Mbit/sec so to offer a 50Mbit connection to 250 customers your real maximum bandwidth needs balloon to over 10Gbit/sec. Cable is a bit unique since it's also a shared medium. Throwing more wire at the problem won't really help. It's a similar proposition to building many more cell towers with more antennas and transmitters to use spectrum more efficiently. It can be done it's just insanely expensive. Based on the VZ/Google deal I think the cable industry now has an excellent argument that they should be excluded from most rules of net neutrality.
That's not bad, I spend over 2k per month for a 2br apt in Arlington VA.
I worded that wrong. I meant to ask whether there are elitist in Hacker News.
The problem isn't you offering that service, it's Verizon offering that service and being the only game in town. If we had real competition, network neutrality would be a non-issue because the market would punish violators. But we don't.
Ah, alas, I stand corrected. That's a 10-second one. I didn't do much more than a 10-second pass, that's usually sufficient.
One neat thing would be what you would expect of a IRC client: when you hit <tab> it auto completes the nickname. That would improve actual discussions.
well, most things are debatable as we don't all agree on what things like "reform health" mean.

There is a site that tracks his campaign promises and their defintions of the promises.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

Seems like a good place to start, but of course, it's debatable
Please use a font that's readable on windows. :(
I take all of my meeting notes on paper, lists of revisions, to-do lists, etc. I go through about one Mead 5-subject notebook a month. I find it far easier than trying to keep track of it all digitally.
well, you can't crowdsource everything ... sure, crowdsourcing things that most humans can do (e.g., labeling images) works pretty well, but solving open problems in math or composing masterful works of literature, eh more doubtful. the crowds are only wise in certain respects.
>... because they discourage crowd sourcing proofs?

Do they? It seems it would be valuable in any pursuit, as it costs the reviewers less. It certainly discourages crowdsourcing solutions, as then how do you split the winnings, but proofs? That seems to require an attempted solution first, to be checked, in which case credit is pretty easily assigned.
Might be a cultural thing, but I've worked for multiple companies out of California that did not set up in other states. I know because I had to pay nearly 90% of the normal California income tax, and the income tax of the state I was living in.

Agreed it can be an issue, but one that a lot of Valley companies seem to be ignoring.
More observations on recent rumbling in .NET developer community
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I may be out of tune with many others here, but I think certain constructive processes (as in creating a many-faceted proof, outlining overarching software architecture, making the storyline of a good novel/movie) are most efficient with small groups of people. Otherwise you run into issues of "design by committee" or "too many cooks".

It is easier to crowdsource once the main outline is in place, it structures a vague problem into a set of more specific subtasks that can (more or less) easily be distributed across many people.

Like in this case: Deconstructing an existing proof can work very well with crowdsourcing, since a proof contains a relatively small set of specific claims, and each "crowd" contributor can focus on one particular issue.

But this works because the crowd now has a common focus point and task list created by the paper being published.
It's not clear to me how (or whether) the process could be reversed, that the same crowd and effort could be coordinated to cowrite an original paper with an alternative proof.
That depends on the scope and size of the attack.

If the attack is small, which the vast majority of attacks are, (either in bandwidth, packets per second, or both) then the responsibility is on the dedicated server owner to fix it via a software fix. (iptables with perl scripts to ban offending ips, etc..). If you have a managed host, they will obviously help with that.

If the attack is larger than that, but still not epic (say, 2gbps attack) then the responsibility is on the host/datacenter, who will most likely null route your server. What that means, is they will tell their upstream providers not to send any more traffic to your IP address and NOBODY will be able to access your site. This is done until the attack ends. If they dont null route your server, they will attempt to filter the traffic coming in themselves through a in house solution.

If the attack is of epic scale, it becomes less of a issue for the datacenter you are hosted in and more of a issue for the upstream providers to filter it on their end. A average datacenter can only do so much when 50gbps is coming in when they normally only see 10.
Slight bug: you can pass in %31 as your nick which makes it '1' bypassing the 3char limit.
I know in C# 5 they're planning on adding compilers as a service - the dynamic keyword might be necessary for that scenario but I'm not sure why the existing implicit typing system wouldn't work either.

COM interop is a popular culprit for this subject too.

Another possibility, although one that is somewhat dimmed by the virtual demise of Iron* within Microsoft, is that Microsoft wanted C# to be able to interop with other dynamic languages like IronRuby and IronPython. I can imagine a scenario where an IronRuby application could pass off a dynamically typed object to a shared library implemented in C# which supported DLR (dynamic language runtime) for some set of common functionality. I don't know much about what's possible today with respect to CLR objects passing between the DLR and the statically typed portions of the CLR, but I figured it was worth hazarding a guess.
All of your examples involve publishing, but even more incredible is the idea that that circle in the comic represents not just published knowledge but all that any human has ever known and that we can sometimes venture into entirely novel territory.
I wonder what Orwell's publisher would have said if he'd written 1984 using the premise that every citizen would voluntarily carry at all times a device that could be used by the police or security services to surreptitiously record their conversations and track their position via satellite.
I'm not a fan of the white-on-navy, but it was readable enough in Opera on Windows.
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The sketchy one is superficially quite similar. Once I started drawing with it you can see it's using some different line algorithms though -- the sketching plays off of previously drawn lines (and earlier segments of the current line) instead of just the current draw-point.
You're correct - there are a few popular OSS .NET libraries on GitHub (RestSharp immediately comes to mind) but the vast majority of .NET projects live on CodePlex.
Completely agree. A lot of MBA types (sorry for the overly broad generalization here) seem to have gotten the idea that every day should be a team building exercise and you can obviously only do those on site where you can take foam bats to each other and have the best ideas rise to the top.

Seriously though, that's what a lot of these arguments sound like to me.
You can entirely blame Microsoft for the crappy Office experience on the Mac. They had one of the earliest full-featured word processors on the Mac, which historically was way better than MacWrite, and arguably, Nissus. It's been down hill ever since.

Their claims regarding the Office suite are transparently stupid: "Apple's productivity suite file formats won't open in Microsoft Office on PCs. This can be a real hassle for Mac users sharing work documents with PC users." Excuse me, but you have to PAY for that Apple suite, just like you have to PAY for Microsoft Office on Mac. Does Microsoft mean to tell us that Office for Mac is a real hassle for Mac users to use in order to share documents with PC users? Well, now that you mention it, it is! They can't even keep their own office suites compatible, and I'm not talking OLE or VBA crap.

"If there's a Mac version of a program you need, you'll have to buy it again and relearn how to use it on a Mac." No kidding, and thank you very much, Microsoft, for making the Mac version of Office so slow, clunky, and stupid.

NeoOffice launches faster than Word or Excel. Want to edit a cell in Excel? Don't waste your time with F2, or many other shortcuts that are changed for no apparent reason. Oh, and every time you launch a new Excel document, change your view from page-break view (with gaps for the margins!!!) back to the normal spreadsheet view that almost every other spreadsheet in existence starts with by default. Add a font to the OS? "Optimizing font menu" and add 30 seconds to the startup of either program. This does not happen on any other Mac software I use, and I use three other word processors, and the Adobe suite.(And yes, I am on Office 2008).

I can run the Windows version of Office faster in Parallels, than I can run the native Mac version on a bloody Mac.

They just absolutely will not make actual Mac software. And you cannot convince me that this is anything but intentional. The Mac version of office is deliberately stunted to make Mac's look slow and clunky.
I didn't feel like you were being arrogant at all, believe it or not. I just thought it was a neat claim and was interested in learning more.

What's amazing to me about the PhD (and no, I don't think only the PhD) is that usually, when you're done with your research, you've actually learned something that no one anywhere has ever known before.

I imagine many of us have things like that, most of it being incredibly trivial stuff (like the cat's paw example above). It's incredibly cool to think about learning something utterly novel in an area like biology or math or physics.

Thanks for the response. I honestly meant no ill will, only curious.
Robin Hood ethics don't necessarily justify this type of vandalism and unless you're living under a tyranical monarch (or some equivalent), Robin Hood ethics are questionable to begin with.
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A re-quote from the comments:

> If you need to listen to music while walking, don’t walk; and don’t listen to music.

I tend to never listen to music unless I'm taking a walk. I have no anxiety about idleness, but I do have an acute anxiety about others' opinions of my taste in music—it is such that I can only stand to enjoy music when there is no one close enough to me to hear it. Seeing as I live in an apartment with thin walls, this means going for a walk.
Norman Borlaug
Isn't it obvious? An amorphous material can more easily be die-cast (like injection molded) so that metal parts can be produced into final shape with ease and precision.

This means that, when everyone else has caught up to their machining / laser manufacturing, they'll suddenly have this magic ability to create strong materials is very unique shapes with very high economies of scale.

At least that's my take...
hah. I wonder if hiring a coach to shout at me, basketball-style, would allow me to program longer?
They say in the video that it's a "metallic glass." I wonder if they figured out a way to make it transparent, or maybe it can be used to turn the entire surface of the device into a capacitive touch interface, on top of being insanely strong and elastic.

I wonder if they (LiquidMetal) made any baseball bats in addition to their golf clubs...
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Really out of subject; but those colors are pretty cool. I wish I had a theme like that for Textmate or IRC.
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You will never be a michael jordan but if you practice hard enough you will become close. That is my point. The differences that you are talking are superficial differences. And how can you compare beauty to potential to learn? Beauty is on the eye of the beholder. Even in races the difference between the top world runner and his peers is not by much. Genetically speaking we humans are pretty much identical. Which means that all of us are given almost the same amount of tools to exist in this world.

>>I know doing maths and statistics at university that there >>were many spending more than 40 hours a week studying and >>still obtained poor grades AND more importantly had less >>understanding than others doing no study.

This is just an anecdote and you are using this as your entire argument to disagree with me.
I find this incredibly disturbing. The first thing that a genius will tell you is that he had to work really hard at it. That nothing was free. He had to spend hours upon hours working at it.
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