skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No

I will add a little more detail. When Netflix starts sending enough data through standard connections that they start to cripple the internet, they will set up peering agreements and run direct line to the front door of every ISP. If you don't think that is possible look at Google who has peering agreements with everyone except tier 1. We will be fine, the sky isn't falling and no, this is not the end of the world. Not even close.
sysadmin type stuff. mostly figuring out how to set up or modify program X to do what we need. I also have automation/scripting work, and yeah, a little bit of CGI/web stuff, but I like that on the very simple end.
Maybe he meant breaking even? I don't think a salary is included in that figure... at least I hope not ;-)
I was at O'Hare this summer and noticed the exact same thing. All the dudes ended up going through the metal detector, and most of the girls went through the full body scanner.

Then I got really upset when I saw them selecting a young teenage girl to go through the scanner as well - perverts.
I just scoured the internet to find out about pricing. Nada. Apparently the media covering this new feature didn't think their readers would care about this enough to even add "No word on pricing yet"

I'd imagine Skype is probably surveying beta users on a fair price.
Occam's razor says this is just a glossy table with iPhone video composited in using After Effects.
...which (if I'm not doing it wrong) is about about equivalent to eating 1/2 a banana:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
And who doesn't like a dick joke about the feds? That's the point here, right - it's just a dick joke?
This is not real.

It's presented as if the app is reflecting what's happening on the phone through an app and the table is reflecting the gestures back to the phone. All of this is completely fluid in the video.

However, a friend of mine has worked on an app (http://screensplitr.com/demogod/) whose goal is to display on a computer what's happening on the phone for demo purposes. (the way Steve Jobs does it on stage) It apparently got very difficult to get a good framerate through software. Apple is most likely doing this through hardware during their keynotes. So, I'm very doubtful of their app.

On top of it, note how awkwardly he launches the app. You'll notice that he actually puts the phone on sleep mode and tries to pretend he launches an app.

And I'm not even talking about the likely price of a 58in multitouch screen or the fact that such a prowess would have appeared earlier in some form or be shown in a more "roots" state than that fancy table.

Most likely, this is a fake. Actually, I'm not even sure why I'm discussing this: it's a nice fake but an obvious one.

edit: another odd thing I've noticed: the pictures show the Messages app saying "SMS", even though that has changed over a year ago. (plus the perspective on the second picture is completely screwed up)
It's more likely to save the Internet by forcing infrastructure upgrades rather than letting things stagnate forever with the justification that only pirate need more bandwidth.
It's refreshing to read an article all about the service you're providing to your customers and not your percent conversions or CPM. So many of the entrepreneurs here are all about the money rather than the product.
Seems like something metasploit would do. If you're a budding security nut and you haven't tried some 'sploitin, you should definitely give it a go.
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Reminds me of the HPLD Civilization from Lem's The Cyberaid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberiad
ever worry about someone just taking your idea?
The post takes an individualistic view. For an alternative look at http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/index.php, the Mathematics Genealogy Project, which traces the tree from supervisor to PhD student.

Life is short and you cannot expect to achieve much, so be sure to provide a proper write up of the hacks that were hardest to discover. Teach them. Then they will not be lost and progress can accumulate.
If he's using Python, he's likely using "feedfinder.py", by Aaron Swartz. It doesn't find your feed at all.

It looks like your feed isn't being served with an appropriate mime-type -- or at least not one that it understands. Seems to be failing in the 'test' method.
http://ventureloop.com/ventureloop/home.php

http://startuply.com/

http://linkedin.com/

Looking myself and these are what I use. Also read TechCrunch and similar sites. Then just contact the CEO of the company directly, don't apply to the job posting. This is the first time I have ever created a resume or interviewed so I'm learning as I go.
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We've been working with the WePay API, integrating it into Scoreyard, for the past few weeks. I can't make the in person event, but can be available on IRC / Email / Skype for a good portion of the hackathon to provide some Rails support.

I'd be interested in a Justin.TV stream of the workshop presentations too.
Heh, I am not counting my time as a cost. I am merely factoring in the cost of servers and bandwidth.

3 servers:

- App server: 1GB, $40 / month
- DB server: 512MB, Postgres/MongoDB, $20 / month
- Task server: 512MB, Celery/RabbitMQ, $20 / month
I have no idea what the Windows version looks like but the Mac version looks like crap. Why is it taking up half my screen?
I have a specific use case for !important -

When you have a user stylehseet loaded on top of a website's existing stylesheets.

This could happen when:

- using something like the UserStyles plugin for firefox
- a website allows users to load custom stylesheets into widgets
(like facebook used to do with their social plugins)

... but I agree that there isn't really a good justification for using the !important declaration if you have full control over stylesheets.

It's about on par with sticking magic constants in your code.
Just the opposite. SF (and Silicon Valley) has the highest ratio of single straight men to single straight women in the country. It's a very, very difficult place to date as a straight man.

And the abundance of male techy immigrants means that women who are attracted to geeky men are the most in demand and most likely to be already taken.

If you're single (and male) and you'd like to be paired up, make it happen before or after your time in SF.
I am most productive and creative at night. Dunno why but I can't sleep at night. Too much energy and overflowing with creativity! (Anyone feels the same?)

Night as in 10pm-3am
Is "Undesigned" the Next Great Web Trend? Fat Chance
The price of muni broadband? Eternal war with Time Warner Cable
Thanks a lot !!! I will check out your website :)
I haven't won anything yet, but there are only a few very expensive items auctioned per day. I lost one today -- my algorithm thought it likely someone else would outbid and it was wrong. Bummer! Again, I spent roughly one-sixth of the winner's bids.

I may turn this into an EC2 backed service on reflection, but of course, I need to win something first. ; ).
I beg to differ with "Google doesn't care about variances, because it's a tech company and not a people company."

From what I hear, Google/Bing do track response latencies at 99+ percentile.
Registered post is much muc less ignorable than email. "I didn't get that email" is an excuse they might give, but you can't say that with registered post. For the sake of $6 it's worth it.
Photos are nice. At least a little text to let people know what's going on would make it even better. Not everyone has context right off the bat (and people who click through search results aren't necessarily going to read your clever domain name).
Great Resource.. Thanks!!
I really dislike the new interface.

It seems that I know have to decided between viewing my contact list and viewing a conversation. I also can't see all my online contacts broken down in the groups I've created, I have to click on each group to see online contacts within that group, or I have to view ALL online contacts.

I don't see any preferences for changing how conversations/contacts are displayed. :-(

The group video calling might make it worth the annoyance of the new ui.
The IRA was a completely different case.

They weren't asking agents to directly murder random individuals or property. They had the tacit support of (or were at least politely ignored by) much of the surrounding populace and social institutions. They didn't stick out in a crowd. They were born and raised there, had history, jobs, families.

Al Qaeda enjoys none of those advantages for planning attacks in the US. Until and unless they can successfully recruit within the US and garner support within the US, an IRA-style campaign is implausible.

That Al Qaeda has to rely on people who consistently can't light a fuse under stress, or keep a bomb-factory under wraps highlights how much harder it is to find people to perform wanton murder, even as compared to finding people willing to destroy property or carry out targeted murders.
I would have liked to see him at FCC. Nevertheless a welcome change in appointments.
I think we will grow old and die 500 years from now. It may be at a slower rate. I just think that stopping aging is a lot different that slowing it, and preventing death is a lot different than delaying it.
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As a hack, just go through the first class line regardless of the class you're flying in. I know several people who do this, and none have been questioned about it. The obvious response is: "Why should paying the airline more money get people better treatment from the Federal government?".
Though in this particular case, the site seems to have been Gaimaned.
It depends on how you position the wedge. You start by asking officials why they want to take naked pictures of innocent children. Once they are sufficiently embarrassed about the notion of taking naked pictures of children, you ask why they want to take naked pictures of innocent adults. Every time a TSA or DHS official talks about how they don't store the pictures, bring up the US Marshals Service storing naked pictures of children and adults (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html) using the same technology, despite providing the /exact/ same assurances the TSA is providing now.

When the TSA officials talk about the opt-out process and the subsequent genital groping, ask about the TSA agent that was charged with raping a kid (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100310child...) and wanting to keep that child as a sex slave. Do parents really want strangers feeling up the breasts and genitals of their underage children? What type of person applies for a job where they are allowed to grope children? Is it any better when those same agents want to grope adults?

It's not advanced screening technology, it's a machine that takes naked pictures of children and stores them.

It's not a thorough pat down, it's having your genitals groped by strangers.

Control the language and you control the discussion.
Super excited to have Rebecca on board.

One thing we're doing with this course (as we're doing with Zed Shaw's Python course) is using the free online text. Rebecca's "jQuery Fundamentals" is a terrific primer on JavaScript as well as jQuery.
Thanks Curt. I like your innovative way to contact CEO. Good Luck to you on job hunting.
> On top of it, note how awkwardly he launches the app. You'll notice that he actually puts the phone on sleep mode and tries to pretend he launches an app.

Nice catch.
Have people ever been arrested and charged over that statute?

What's the basis for it even being a law? The only thing I can think of is to prevent people from adding extra 0s to notes to make them higher denominations, which quite frankly is an absurd idea today.

Also, note the wording: "with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued"

If he did what I suggested above the note would be unfit to be reissued, however it would not necessarily be his intent. His intent is to test his friend/father and the note is a means to that end. On the other hand, to make his point to his friend/father he would have to show them his intent to make the bill unfit to be reissued.

On the other hand in many museums you have machines for pressing and defacing pennies to make them into novelty items.

"On flattening pennies and other coins, the US Mint site has this to say:

Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who “fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States.” This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent."

The important words here are "fraudulent intent," which means that while the US Mint doesn't condone this action, they have no problem with it.

However it is illegal to flatten Canadian coins.

ref: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-1338...

This article here says otherwise, but provides no evidence that anyone has ever been prosecuted:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7148966/

You also can't advertise on the note using rubber stamps. See "Where's George?". The Where's George website was investigated and ceased selling the rubber stamps and no further action was taken:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_george
http://www.freelawanswer.com/law/1543-law-4.html

Either way, there's plenty of examples of people rendering bills unfit to be reissued with no problems:

http://hypebeast.com/2010/05/scott-campbell-if-you-dont-belo...

http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/03/defaced-presidents-maki...
I think too, that I have some job requirements that probably are unique too like working remote and wanting to work at most 35 hours, but much rather in the 20 hour range per week.

Maybe a reverse job application is the way to go?
I hate to say I am most surprised by the fact that he took the job. He's a perfect candidate, but it's a lot to drop your existing work and take on a responsibility like this. It was great to see he stepped up to do it. I hope he finds it fulfilling and can effect change.
This seems like the Microsoft surface demos from a few years ago....
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No use. I'd rather worry about executing it - and telling lots of people puts me into a place where I "must" execute (or fear someone else doing it, as you said) or let it go.

Works well, saves time.
Reminds me of this (HP webcam has trouble with darker skin):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM
So sad to see you upvoted, it just shows how little people do know about how HTML, browsers and doctypes interact.

Browsers don't look at doctype and then choose what to support and what not: they will always try their best. See for yourself: http://kod.as/lab/html5/html32.html —that's HTML5
code with <canvas> but with HTML3.2 doctype. Try it in modern browser, canvas still works.

Let me repeat: browsers will always try to render all they can on the page, no matter if that feature was or not in the version of HTML page claims to be. The only thing doctype
affects is rendering mode. Any unknown doctype will trigger browsers to render the page in standards compliant mode. This feature is the reason why HTML5 has a doctype declaration at all. If you use XHTML5 (i.e. use xml markup and server your document with MIME application/xml+xhtml) you can omit doctype, because MIME type then tells browser which rendering mode to use.
The linked examples are. The practice itself probably didn't go away.
I get the feeling it's a one-girl operation and there are no higher ups.
Supposedly, but they've already admitted it's not true: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html
RealClearWorld.com inundates you with quality information on world events - more than you can read and still be productive. They have sister sites regarding politics, market events, sports, and (maybe) some more areas. NPR is also a favorite

HN is still a default for tech news, but it intentionally doesn't cover a wide range of topics.

Also, even though I'm not a EE, I read the IEEE spectrum rss feeds daily. They're short and concise, but skip the junk that Wired and similar outlets include for mass appeal.
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Go and read "The Thinking Person's Guide to Sobriety". It's an eye opener.
>> "It is OK if a query is slow as long as it is always slow"

I'm having trouble understanding the motivation. If a slow query is always slow, then I'm always going to be kept waiting for that page/data. It seems logical to worry about the queries that 100% of the time keeps users waiting rather than the queries that keep users waiting <100% of the time.

Does anyone care to explain why this is a good idea (for Facebook at least)?
If this procedure causes 800 cancers per year then the flights themselves would be causing nearly a hundred thousand cancer cases per year. The radiation from the scanner is far, far safer than the exposure you receive during the flight that caused you to get scanned in the first place.
My average karma is very low, I've noticed that I rarely hesitate to post something, regardless of the thread size. I think this is because I benefit sometimes from other late-thread low-karma posts and want to reciprocate.

Much has already been said about the current state of HN and karma, but one thing I'd like to add is this: comments that provoke discussion (i.e. comments that are responded to) should perhaps be valued higher than ones that do not. Excluding those that are downvoted and responded to because of that, obviously.
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I share my ideas on my blog, twitter, co-workers.
Trust them with my ideas? I don't believe they are mind - I believe I just happen to rendezvous with them and so could anyone else.

Ideas don't matter. Execution does.
Reverse Mercatorisms
Yaeh - but to a 7th grader that wasn't apparent 2 days later.

I still hope that with enough tea and scones one can get some sensibility back into that country.
> The practice itself probably didn't go away.

So you are saying that the practice of editing out "enemies of the state" still exists in former Soviet Union countries? How exactly do you envision this happening?
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I think it can be boiled down to this:

Is the video interesting?
Thank you, Captain Hindsight!
I have to imagine that Google.com is the most bandwidth
optimized page EVER.

Sure it is not, because I can see how it can be optimized even more — and that's just at a glance.

So maybe they could drop <html><head> according to W3C, but does that
break the document in other browsers?

No it doesn't.

My guess is that Google doesn't care about the W3C spec in this specific
regard.

Ok, it is their call. Anyone is allowed not to care, but why put doctype of existing standard then. Just put <!DOCTYPE foobar> or <!DOCTYPE idontcare> and be done with that.
"A smaller subset of Windows" - I assume you mean that it supports all Windows OS's they have released in the past 5 years? (I.e. not XP).

Microsoft wants to move on from XP. I believe it's fair that they produce dev tools that reflect that fact.

EDIT: That being said, this is still a disappointing turn of events.
In 2009 I believe it was

1) Game Marketplace

2) Indie Games
I try to share with anyone that will listen. My ideas tend to improve when I am forced to verbalize them. Also, getting external feedback at the earliest stages is really valuable to me.
there is always the risk that someone could take "your" idea.

However, the chances that your idea is unique and particularly special are small. The chances that you'll be able to protect your idea from someone who really wants to steal it are also small.

You are much better served by sharing your idea with a lot of people (might as well make them people you trust, no reason to go out of your way to have someone take your idea), gather as much feedback as possible and build build build.

Your time and effort is much better spent making progress on your idea and moving faster than any idea thiefs than it is worrying about idea theft and trying to protect your idea.

Ideas are generally worthless, everyone has them and on their own don't mean much. Build something of value, then worry about protecting that.
How does Austin, TX compare?
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Yep, this is an old PR trick. It's why you'll see organizations that are preparing to be involved in a political demonstration agree to a 'points of unity' that always have a clause about 'respecting a diversity of tactics.'

If you start asking one group, "What do you think of those guys smashing windows?", it changes the dialogue from "What's your message," to "Aren't those guys bad?" And it's not like you're able to properly discuss such a subtle point as "this is a false dichotomy," when talking to news outlets.
average 3-6 high alcohol beers

Seriously? That's nothing. On the other hand, if you're getting hangovers from 3-6 beers, you might have some sort of liver problem.
Wow, I think you may have inadvertently outed the next 'Maxi-iPad' :-)
+group chat

-cpu still an issue
-new groups ordering is somewhat confusing. i don't want a ridiculously big window listing all my online contacts with WAY to much whitespace around. i want my groups :(
-hud contact list is always on top, that is seriously annoying
-the hud window gives no feedback/options to me (except double clicking, which opens the other BIG window with the chat)
-the cover flow contact list is just..
and the list goes on
So in your opinion cable companies (and phone companies that are now also offering competing television services) will upgrade their internet offerings so you can better enjoy Netflix, a service that makes their primary offering less valuable?

It's pretty clear from the incentive structure here that it's going to have the exact opposite effect of what you suggested. It's going to make them institute bandwidth caps and/or hike prices.
For what it's worth, Jeff Dean of Google has famously emphasized 95th and 99th percentile performance in preference to average or median performance over the years. The realization that edge cases more powerfully determine user perception of performance than average cases is a deep one, and is not original to Facebook or Google; Dean and colleagues were making some of the same points when they were at DEC's CRC pre-Google.
I hate to be HN's resident word Nazi, but you want to s/reign/rein/. "Reign" is roughly "to rule", where as "rein it in" is a reference to the reins used to make a horse stop.