skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently had to explain to a class of college students what a LaserDisc was. It turned out, luckily, that one of the students also knew...
The UK has the same amount of carriers/networks as the US: four. They do all use GSM, though.
> Also if most company data is stored in a highly centralised way in cloud server farms then this becomes a very conspicuous target for "cyber warfare".

Yes, AWS is a bigger target than Joe's Burgers, but the question is whether Joe will do a better job protecting his data than Amazon does.

I suspect that AWS is more secure for most values of "Joe".
Precisely. I actually have another comment to make, though, which is about the impedance mismatch between Engineering School culture and Ivy League culture.

I graduated Caltech in 2005. Caltech may be the best example of a school with extremely high academic standards but mediocre credibility with the "white shoe" crowd. Many of my fellow Caltech alums are descended from parents who are highly educated and moderately affluent, but also immigrants and/or Asian and/or Jewish and/or from less fashionable parts of the US (say, Idaho). On top of that, many of us display personality types most easily described as "geeky."

Caltech alums end up in many industries, but everywhere they tend to converge on rather specialized, analytical work. I know two who went into politics... to do statistics for campaigns. I heard of one that went to law school... and became a patent attorney. The ones in finance tend to do quantitative modeling or computer systems. Many, of course, ended up in private sector R&D (biotech, computer programming, engineering, what-have-you). And about half of us went to grad school, often to pursue a career in academia.

Now one reason for this pattern may be that white-shoe firms are not interested in hiring eccentric geeks as much as they are in attracting "well rounded" Ivy League folks. But an equally important reason is that the eccentric geeks are often not very interested in "white shoe" jobs, or at least don't look down on more specialized work.

That may be hard for the "white shoe" recruiters to understand. I recall talking to an acquaintance for whom being a McKinsey consultant would be the epitomy of career and life success, surpassable only by joining the Dutch foreign service... and who was almost offended at the idea that I was not in the least interested in such prestigious occupations.

I can easily imagine this attitude rubbing the white shoe folks the wrong way. "What, you are actually considering a career in kernel hacking (or genome hacking, or whatever) as a viable alternative to joining our glitzy band of Masters of the Universe? You must be, like, arrogant or something."
I know for sure that transmission of HTML and images etc (i.e. most of what you need for webpages) and email continue to work when you hit the limit.
Verizon iPhone will put brakes on US Android growth
I run 3 sites which could be thought of as startups (each has employees). 3 is too many. :) I definitely feel overextended and that things are progressing slower than they ideally would if I had full time commitment to any one.
The Singularity: Humanity's Last Invention?
How I Made It: Marissa Mayer, Google's champion of innovation and design
> If performance is not an issue, why did Facebook write HipHop?

Energy. Facebook has thousands of servers running PHP code. HipHop allows them to have the same performance with half the servers[1]. 50% less servers at that scale equates to non-trivial energy (and cost) savings.

[1] http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358
I said it was hard because I was thrashing it. In one of those months, I left Windows Update running while my phone was tethered. During the summer, I was using Spotify every day, on the walk to work and on the walk home again. Even under such heavy usage I didn't get close, I think a very small percentage of people use more than half a gig (which begs the question, why bother limiting it in the first place if most people don't touch it?)
I worked for a company in 2005 that was still maintaining Data General minicomputers for test-range radar tracking systems. The original "radar program" in Data General assembly has since been ported to C for new development, but those old systems are still ticking just fine.
Is that a self-referential comment?
500 MB is a joke.

I currently pay 4 Euros per GB per month. That's it - no other fees at all (meaning: I do not need to combine this with a voice plan, I get voice for 4 Eurocents per minute [or alternatively 9 euros for 1000 minutes], and I don't have any other fixed costs).

1 GB is more than enough for me, but there's also another plan that costs 9 Euros per months and gives you 9 GB (per month).
Pretty cool, and an interesting approach to data visualization. I was actually doing something similar just the other day, and what I ended up with was much more boring:

http://www.bluh.org/curve.png

(Which is a RNG I built to distribute the values along a known probability distribution, this was simply a test of the system).
No, I'm pretty sure I know the difference. But the older I get, the more sure I am of my opinions, the more educated I am of my thoughts, the better I am of writing, the less I care the more I start to see something to hide and hiding thoughts are too similar.
They forgot Steve.
Congratulations. Now more people are unable to access your website and email because of known bugs with dual stacks than are likely to access your website and email through ipv6. The main issue are people whose setup says that they will connect preferentially via ipv6, who try to connect because their operating system has support for it, but whose IP provider does not have support.

See http://getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_o... for more potential problems you've created.

Of course this is a kind of problem that needs to get fixed before ipv6 can be broadly adopted. Which is why this ipv6 days is going to happen.
Using Spotify every day is one of the biggest factors in my usage, but I never got over 500MB. Can you get Spotify on iPhone? One of the big bandwidth savers is that you can download your playlists to your phone, so the songs only have to be downloaded once (You can cache up to ~3000 songs like this). You can set it to only sync when on wifi, so you'll have all your songs when you're out and about (and underground!) without using so much of your 3G bandwidth.
Many VCs and angels will invest outside their geographic area. (For example, I think USV has three investments in Europe now, and a batch on the West Coast.)

Your location isn't an advantage, but if you would benefit from a raise, I wouldn't let that stop you from trying.
EULA is shown to user, only after purchase is made.
SONY or their authorized retailers should first ask user if he/she agrees to EULA and only then take his/her money. Once you taking money upfront - you agree to any use of your device.
> But to criticize the social equality programs in colleges because they get students with lower SAT scores into colleges is a very imprecise argument to make.

Is it? The SAT folks claim that SATs correlate somewhat with college achievement, and the college folks seem to agree (otherwise they wouldn't use it).

What do you think that the goal of college admissions is?
It isn't unlimited anyways, because the effective limit is the bandwidth available to your phone.

Still, 500 MB is a joke.
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1.) Price of starting a startup has nothing to do with overvaluation of companies and the corresponding investment into those companies, which defines a bubble. Such as "oh I'm sure that those photo-sharing apps will find a revenue model eventually", etc.

2.) We're in a great depression. Not a run-of-a-mill recession. And "if you are not going to put your money in tech, where are you going to put them?" is precisely what a bubble mentality is.
I would REALLY like to know this too. I have a game getting 1.6 Million impressions every 6-8 hours and I only want to put ads on the game if it makes financial sense.
But what if my favorite way of hacking, what makes me feel amazing is something more like Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development (clojure.blip.tv/file/4457042/)?

Of course I don't get a chance to do this as much as I'd like at my day job. Still, some of my most satisfying programming experience has been when I've spent days researching and thinking about a problem, had a moment of enlightenment, and wrote 200 lines of beautifully simple code that strikes at the heart of the problem. That makes me feel like a programming god.

And I'd argue the result is somewhat better than "innocently" hammering out reams of code without taking time to really consider it.
There is a separate statement somewhere released by MPEG LA that extended that particular policy to “forever”, explicitly stating it would thus exceed the previous deadline of December 31, 2015. That applies only the two conditions outlined in the article _combined_ though.
Initially, it will use more memory. But for a longer-running, large application, we usually come out ahead.

We also set the JVM up to a fairly high maximum heap (500MB) which you can tweak back down a la -J-Xmx200M.
I thought Microsoft bought some Facebook stock, 1.6% for $240 million but I don't see them in there.
Actually, Apple does deserve some credit. H.264 is a standard in the video industry, along with Final Cut Pro (which revolutionized digital video production).

Flash adopted H.264 later.
I've seen the Galaxy, and while it's nice, there's no way I'd rather have it than the iPad. It feels clunky, and let's face it...right now the app store is one of the appeals of the iPad.
Most fair coverage? You must be joking. His opinion "If you don't agree with me, your view is ideological" is stated 6 times.

I don't see how you can call this article even approaching to be fair.
When coding fast, nobody knows your code like you do. Reviews are then either a) too late to do any good, or b) shallow. Both are nearly useless.

If you have a mentor and are new, then the mentor's review can help. But in that case, the mentor probably could have written your code faster than you did. The review may be useful to you, but the project would have in fact gone faster had you not been there.

If you code fast, outrun the others around you, are any good at all, then code review is at best annoying.
"When in doubt, shut down ALL the garbage mashers."
If it was the right thing to do, then it was the right thing to do despite any previous work. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
sigh Here we go with the "predicted" housing bubble again:

If I make 10 predictions per day, per year, statistically one of them will probably come true. Get mainstream media involved, ignorant "financial" bloggers, etc. and suddenly I'm a freaking genius who predicted something long before anyone else did!

This doesn't make me start, trustworthy, or anything else, and it certainly doesn't warrant investing billions of dollars with.
Interesting that you say Lift developers could benefit from Ruby packages; generally a big pro for Lift/Scala is access the the multitude of Java packages. JRuby, Scala, Clojure and other JVM languages all benefit from that ecosystem.
I've always been under the impression that the reason Flash is embedded in Chrome was for security reasons (faster time to patch+auto patch) and not ideology ones.

All the outcry over this I've read is basically a complaint that you can't ship one codec for HTML5 video, which you've never been able to do. That's what the whole argument over the video tag has always been about. The only difference this makes is that this cements the split instead of everybody expecting Firefox and Opera to give up and adopt H.264. If you were willing to ship just H.264 and flash fallback for Firefox/Opera, why wouldn't you be willing to ship H.264 and flash fallback for Chrome?
4 Euros per GB per month

My mouth is agape. I would kill for a fair, per-GB smartphone plan here in the United States. $10/GB, no matter whether it's your phone, your tablet/netbook/laptop tethered to your phone, etc.
It does sound like an XT. The first PC I used was an XT-286; the precursor to the AT. It had a massive 20 MB hard drive!

I still recall that the expensive accounting software for which my father purchased the computer required an ISA card to run it. Now that's anti-piracy!
Here in America advertised speed doesn't even have to relate to actual speed. "Unlimited XMb/s" means "You will never get more than XMb/s, and there's a cap, but you'll have to figure out what it is on your own. Don't worry, it's very large."
The fact that the scientific community at large suspected or outright rejected the bogus study from the beginning sure is inconvenient, isn't it?

I'm baffled at people who seem to think the entire industry is committing fraud instead of just the very small number of people have supported Wakefield's paper.
This article really shows how passionate he is about understanding and accepting human nature.

OK I must be weird! I am a software engineer (I know you are shocked, SHOCKED that there's are hackers/engineers/programmers on HN!) and I am an introvert and a bit of a misanthrope.

But all of this Machiavellian/Human nature/How to make friends and influence people stuff just seems SO obvious to me! Yes, even the real deep parts of it!

I distinctly recall first confronting it on the school yard, like grade 1, basically as soon as I interacted with anyone who wasn't my parents.

And I remember the second big point of confusion at puberty, but by my mid teens ALL of this was just so old and so obvious. And I've done it and decided not to do any more then necessary because it can be intellectually and emotionally draining.

And I'm happy to trudge along as a well paid big co. software engineer while thinking about what kind of startup I might create some day.

But then there all these people, and not the typical aspie folks, or people who were home schooled (pardon my stereotype strawmen), no like happy social folks and to them this explicitly written down stuff is like this huge revelation! But you're all already doing it!? Are you that oblivious of what you're doing on auto-pilot?

Am I just weird? Do I just think I know more then I actually do? Or are there A LOT of people who are consciously oblivious to what they are subconsciously masters of?

I man Robert Greene had to really think why his boss might have something against him? Really? I mean really! You can find his bos' behavior in fairy tales, complete with background for why it's happening! Who's the prettiest in all the land, anyone?
The limit justifications are fairly simple, you've already listed a dozen things you don't do that you know would take you over the limit.

In the presence of no limit, you, and most people, would do those things. It would use radically more bandwidth.
Sure we can meetup you can contact me at my twitter @ishish or email: ishish (at) gmail
One more :) xkcd Real programmers :http://xkcd.com/378/
IndexedDB in Firefox 4
Interesting, the wording when I was reading up on all this was that data on PAYG was still being bought monthly. If I'd known that sort of deal was available I might well have gone for it - I'm already carrying a netbook most of the time so the need for a smartphone as well isn't enormous, if the data can be had separately so cheaply.... Oh well.

Overall though, I've not been so impressed by the data network. Slower than one might hope and too many odd times when it's claiming 3G signal but sites simply aren't responding with usable speed. Primary usage further south than you in Beds/Bucks but with some in Derbyshire too.
tracing the links back to the source gets you here: http://twitpic.com/3or8of

and before that? nobody knows...
PHP class to query the web by an SQL like language
What Matters More? A Carrier Or A Phone?
Yep, CodeDom and a little better VS integration and I would ditch C# for most purposes in favor of F#. I really like the language and wrote a couple small projects in it before the 2010 release, but since then I haven't found myself making an F# library in an existing C# project. On what criteria should I base such a decision, given that I'm not doing scientific computing, and have to inter-operate with existing mutable data structures, etc.? I wouldn't put an arbitrary VB library into a C# project either for that matter.
Just wait till you add unicode.doc, text_encodings_in_all_their_formats.doc and really unknown languages to the mix. Quite a nightmare...
I'm hardly a veteran but you get 50 promo codes for every version that hits the store. These promo codes now work overseas so start hitting the streets and handing out codes to App review sites and see if you can get a few write ups. Do it every time you send out a new version, the smaller the site the more likely you'll get a review. The bigger ones won't give you the time of day so don't waste your codes on sites that you think are the big fish.
That some company had to create and entirely new journal just to publish a bogus paper doesn't really seem to support your thesis. If "the medical establishment" were really corrupt, you should be able to just publish your bogus paper in any of the established journals.

In fact, your example seems to support the opposite thesis. The medical community in general is rather good at spotting and filtering out corruption.
I work in defense, and I think I agree with you. The "crisis of conscience" I have is that, on one hand, there are all sorts of colossal fuck-ups and budget overruns that everybody points to when they talk about bloat in the federal budget. On the other hand, though, you have things like the underpinnings of the Internet or work into prosthetics and robotics that have come out of military research but have been highly beneficial outside of the military realm. I chose to put more weight on the "other hand" when I chose to work in defense, but I definitely wish that the country put more emphasis on hard technical problems than it does.
I love how Sean Parker is noted as "Justin Timberlake's character in the movie"
He also points to Compcert: a certified compiler for a subset of C. The compiler is specified, programmed and proved in Coq. It is a really impressive project: http://compcert.inria.fr/compcert-C.html
The big-bang did not create particles or atoms, merely energy. In the very initial stages of the big-bang all of the mass of the entire Universe was locked up in bosons (photons, W & Z bosons, etc.), with virtual quarks and other exotic particles existing only ephemerally. At this stage the Universe is essentially an enormously hot photon gas. As the Universe cooled lower energy particles (such as electrons and protons) became more stable, and more and more energy started to become locked up in them. Interactions involving high energy photons can create particle / anti-particle pairs, in theory these should be exactly balanced. However, in practice it appears as though there is much more matter than anti-matter in the Universe. Likely this is due to some slight imbalance in particle/anti-particle pair creation, but we do not sufficiently understand this (though there have been a few hints).
Microsoft received 3,094 patents in 2010
Dirac Testbed Reveals How Applications are Written
Doing that rather than switching into write-allowed position is a good example of fail-safe design. But yeah, I've had that happen more than once.
Going dual stack means approximately 1 in 2000 people can't visit my website. It is a simple tech blog. I am ok with those figures. Other sites obviously wont be.
Fascinating read.

Does anyone have any examples or explanations for how these CPU bugs are caused? I probably have enough knowledge of CPU architecture from school to follow an explanation, but not enough to make my own guess.
Played by Humans, Scored By Nature, Online Game Helps Unravel Secrets of RNA
If I wasn't clear, I wasn't suggesting that massive websites use free tunnel brokers.

I was suggesting that geeks set up their own services with ipv6 capability in order to learn how it works so they know what to do when it becomes more important.
The Archimedes would format any floppy to any density, so you didn't need the hole punch.
Just wait for Facebook to file their S-1 Registration with the SEC for the real numbers.
Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots
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For that matter it won't be long before children have no idea what a music CD is, if we're not there already.
The CDN should pass through whatever you give it. If your servers return gzip content for a request, the CDN will cache it.

It sounds like you want a configurable distributed web server instead of a CDN proxy cache.
Who Owns Facebook?
The U.S. prices really are ridiculous – what about Canada?

Also on the .eu side, I pay 13.90€/mo for an unlimited and uncapped dual-SIM data plan, i.e. phone and mobile broadband. The regular phone plan is an additional 0.66€/mo + 0.066€ per text or minute (I chose no package since I use those very little).
The Pandora app is great if, like me, you don't have satellite radio in your car and sometimes don't enjoy whatever's on NPR. If you have a specific song you want to play for someone, youtube is indispensible.
I can't help but think about the x64 NOP story: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=6
Quick, a multiple choice exam!

Elsevier is best known as being:

a) A publishing company who are in the business of selling ink on paper, whose success is evaluated by their shareholders on the basis of their profitability

b) A medical research organization who are in the business of pushing back the frontier of human knowledge, whose success is evaluated by their peers on the basis of their replicable research findings

Answer: [ a ]

(Meta: the point I'm trying to make is that the publishing houses who produce the scholarly journals are not themselves engaged in scientific research. They hold a vital position within the research community, but their actual goal is commercial success. Consequently their goals sometimes become disastrously misaligned with those of their host sector.)
His fund is investing in much more than just stocks:

His fund seeks to profit from broad economic trends by trading everything from currencies to commodities, a strategy known as macro investing. Such hedge funds returned an average of 2.2 percent last year, 12.6 percent in 2009 and 5.9 percent in 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

...

The bulk of Thiel’s losses last year came in April, June, September and November. The Clarium fund declined 6.5 percent in April, as losing bets in U.S. equities and overseas debt offset gains made in commodities, according to an investor letter. Two months later it slumped 7.7 percent through stocks and currencies.

The biggest losses came in September, when the fund slumped 8.4 percent on stock bets, according to a letter. Two months later Clarium dropped 7.8 percent because of currencies and fixed income.

...

In October, the Clarium fund had a gross exposure to currencies of 33 percent, which increased to 45 percent the following month.
I didn't concede my point. Selectively enforced laws are intrinsically evil. Just because they aren't being applied to evil purposes right now is irrelevant.

A gun is designed to kill people, and I can't argue against that fact by claiming that at present guns are only used to crack nuts open with their handles. Just because a gun isn't being used to kill people right now does nothing to make it any less deadly.
I'm guessing they're part of the "Other Investors" chunk, along with a lot of others.
I agree that the equipment trickles...or rather floods down. What doesn't come down to the lower levels are the expert personnel of professional teams. The other thing issue is that children are not little adults. Procedures developed out of research in the NFL is unlikely to be appropriate in a pediatric setting.