skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can be assured that they're charging for datacenter space and service management -- so that part is a wash... hell, they're probably making a little something on that.

Even if you manage to eliminate all outside telco costs, you're still going to have extra costs setting up a multi-corporate interconnect vs just routing the traffic through your own internal network.

Private service within the ISP is almost always considerably less expensive.
Life appearing independently on two different planets in the same solar system dramatically jacks up the odds that life appeared somewhere else in a universe made up of 100 billion galaxies, each of which contains 100 billion star systems.
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From the actual web site[1], describing the video of the boot process[2]:

"The raw video is in a few segments, since I had to change camera batteries a few times while filming."

[1]: http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%...

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm0POwEtiqE
Theoretically you could boot X without a hardware framebuffer emulator. X supports rendering to normal RAM as well (for example, for VNC connections).
Canadian in NYC on restrictive visa here. You can actually sponsor your own H1B now, but you need at least seed funding to be able to sponsor your own visa. It doesn't matter if you have users or paying customers -- you need to be able to show that you have the money to be able to pay yourself at least 50K-60K (for a developer) for 3 years.
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You don't say?!

Isn't this true for any statement one makes, that it seems that way to him? Isn't it also obvious that for other people, it might not seem so?

What you say is essentially: "other people disagree with that assertion". Well, you can find people that disagree with any assertion. That's not an argument pro or against the assertion.
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When I read this I assumed it was a Twitter app optimized for on-the-toilet reading...
This isn't Google Search, it's the Google corporate blog. It's an ad, essentially. Google wants people to associate the brand with fun.

Balls that bounce around is not exactly the end of the world. Yes, you don't like it. Some other people apparently do. You read the article and discussed it anyway :)
http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/04/invention-infinite-scro...

I feel your pain. So I came up with a hybrid pagination + infinite scroll solution last year. I can't implement it myself but I'd love to see someone try it.

Basically it puts in pagination links in between the content loads so you can easily skip ahead or go far back without having to scroll your fingers off.
No, the parent poster is just playing on the title. When taken literally the answer to "how to build a new Rails app is", "run `rails new appname`". ta-dum-tsss
He means hanging from the finger, not tightly wrapped.
Please understand this is just my opinion. I don't speak for anyone else nor am I necessarily an accurate representation of anything. This is my anecdote:

I have NEVER signed up for a new service that required a credit card up front. I HAVE signed up for free accounts, saw the value and then converted.

This is a little different for certain brands, i.e., AWS and such. However, for an unknown brand to want my CC info? Not a chance.
When it first started you could have written an article on cars or some other easy topic that a of people know about. Now the topics are insane that are left. (While there are still some easy stuff left, there isn't nearly as much.)

Because of the nicheness of the topics it will get increasing difficult to write on.
This is what happens when you hire someone that's overqualified for a job, I guess. :) People in that situation need to find work that will satisfy their thirst for complexity. They are making trouble for themselves and others, otherwise.
Did you just compare a workplace to a frat house party? Unreal...
I agree that you should start small. My contributions have been minor alterations to articles on obscure or esoteric topics. Like fixing a spelling error in the article for "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo." (Although that article is maybe more active than you'd think it would be.)
LyX is ok for what it is. It certainly gets some use, even in publishing.

But at least for me a big part of the appeal to TeX is that it isn't a (%*#% GUI. It's text. I can edit in an efficient plain text editor, "refactor" styling, etc. I've even at times generated TeX code programmatically (It's often less painful for stuff like receipts than writing a PDF generator by hand, usually looks better too.)

So, I'd like a better input language, but I _don't_ want to fundamentally change the way it works. Just don't make me use a textual-replacement macro language.
Thanks for the feedback! This is an area I've gone back and forth on. Originally I didn't want to accept a user/password as I realized many wouldn't trust this. Without allowing it, I was worried I'd lose people that have never used API keys before. The hope of the video link below the 'Let me have it' button showing how to make read only keys was that people would trust that they could give me a set of keys that allowed restrained access. In addition, the read only keys created could be deleted immediately afterwards if it was of concern.

Any thoughts on how I could better communicate this + build trust with users in this setting?
Fascinating stuff. However, I would still say that this evolutionarily optimized, with energy consumed being a factor in success. It is worth noting that fundamental limit discovered is achieved by evolution. It did its job right.
Why have scientific papers become so sloppy?
The best part about this is the battery pack in the picture.

I wonder if there's a niche for the equivalent of the Model 100 in today's world?

http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/model-1...

A fully mobile general purpose computer with instant boot, impressive battery life, running off 4 AA's.

The Wikireader comes close as the modern equivalent. The input method would have to be something like Siri, with an optional keyboard. With a form factor and batteries from an iPad 3, but with a slower processor and a fast refresh eInk screen, you could have truly phenomenal battery life.
But before there millions who really worked for the future and now there are few.

If you're pining for the days of Stalin, and people who pull together for a common future, North Korea amped Stalinism to 11.

Joe Bob says 'check it out'.
Promoting Document Freedom
You can see the danger of this right here in the comments. Everyone is fine with it depending on the way it's presented.

Imagine that suddenly your smaller, lesser-known favorite sites are all bandwidth limited. There are just a couple hundred sanctioned ones that you get "for free". Small endeavours like Reddit or HN don't have a chance to grow fast anymore. That's the future if you are ok with this.
"... specifically mentioning the sex of the servers, in a list of perks, was a shoddy move."

I disagree. I don't see anything wrong with it for the same reason that there's nothing wrong with advertising that scantily clad women will be walking around at a comics convention.

" It plays to traditional stereotypes of male programmers as lonely losers, and it puts women firmly in the role of subservient to men..."

In your opinion... and you only have that opinion if you actively work to extrapolate that meaning from what was actually said.

"It's lazy and stupid. It's not as if "treat people with respect"; "don't discriminate against people based on their age, sex, sexual preference, race, or ability"[1] are new concepts."

The problem is that in reality, there are differences between men and women, races/cultures and people with differing levels of ability. That you can't accept those differences and are offended by anyone else that addresses them is where the problem comes in.

That you think women are not being treated with respect here is a fault in your own understanding. There's simply nothing wrong with targeted advertising.

"She talks about the general everyday grind of stuff that she has to put up with, just because she's a women, that her male colleagues don't."

Right, but projecting those frustrations onto something completely harmless is still wrong.
So true about the documentation and APIs. In the network stack for example, if you do certain things to a POST, Flash actually stops using HTTP and starts using "XML Sockets" which runs over a different port, and AFAIK is something Abobe just made up one day. This happens silently and can be triggered in a couple different subtle ways. They need to fix nonsense like this before I can take Flash seriously again.
Ah I wasn't aware the effect was so pronounced, although I can definitely see how that would happen. Out of curiosity, what's the consensus on how an overtly sexist or racist joke told among friends in a non-serious way affects social dynamics? I'm sure we're all familiar with this type of humor and I would hope that the joke would serve to make fun of the stereotype and not reinforce it but I'm not sure.
Well, they got (at least) one thing exactly right: Doing away with the "toolchain". Having one command that can figure out how to build your code, including downloading external dependencies, is really nice.

Pity about the whole "not having generics" thing though.
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Siri (and most other voice recognition on phones) relies on a network connection, that'll put a bit of a dent in the battery life.
So, what you're saying is that any ISP could cache whatever they wanted from the web (major sites), offer it unlimited on their own network and then cap/limit/charge more for the rest of the web. What could go wrong with that?
"gopher" is the preferred demonym.
Show HN: API Jobs, a new job site focused on APIs
In my spare time to remind myself that I could actually build stuff (and learn some Python, Flask, Redis, etc) I put together a simple job board to feature the best jobs in the API industry. The jobs can be either building APIs at companies like Twilio, Box, Stripe, etc. or integrating them. In addition to featuring those jobs, I'm also aggregating API jobs from GitHub Jobs, Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, and 37signals Job Board.

Today I launched with what I would consider an 'MVP' with jobs from SendGrid, TokBox, Twilio, Zencoder, Parse, Stripe, Pusher and Box.

Check it out, I'd love to know what you think of it.

http://www.api-jobs.com
Unless the inventor held onto "prior art" that inspired him that he could pull out as a wild card if Twitter tries to enforce the patent.
How did it smell?
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This is brilliant! I checked twice to make sure it wasn't april fools day. Of course it probably slows people down during the wipe phase :-)
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> Well, shit... Alchemy+Stage3D is directly a competitor to NaCl+WebGL.

First of all, NaCl has little to do with WebGL. NaCl has it's own, non-web-standard way (like NaCl itself) to render 3D graphics. If you use NaCl, you likely do not use WebGL.

> By refusing to help NaCl become open-standards-worthy, Mozilla is going to end up watching Alchemy beat out NaCl (and Emscriptem) with a completely proprietary, revenue-shared (and therefore implicitly licensor-dependent) alternative.

Mozilla can't help NaCl become a relevant standard for the web, even if it wanted to. NaCl is still CPU-specific, still too complex and evolving to standardize and create alternate implementations of, and still will not be supported by browsers without plugins like the iOS browser and Windows 8 Metro.

Alchemy might beat out NaCl. It works in far more places than NaCl, but it's slower, so that will be interesting to watch. But I very much doubt Alchemy will beat 3D gaming on the open web. It isn't just Emscripten, it's also Mandreel and several other C++ to JS compilers in the industry. That approach reaches more people than even Alchemy, and it reaches them with 0 license fees.
Some shameless self-promotion: I wrote a Chrome extension for downloading Udacity videos (http://nzmsv.github.com/udacity-dl/). If there's any interest in a batch version I could look into it. Alternatively, feel free to write it and let me know :)
Is just changing the source code for the next update on the servers a privacy violation? Every zombie machine will download it by itself.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with Windows stuff. This library might be more what you have in mind then:

https://github.com/AllenDang/w32
The linked blog post misses the interesting bits. Yes, it boots Ubuntu (slowly) via an ARM emulator written for AVR. That's just software.

What struck me is that he wrote a controller for an 8 bit FPM DRAM bus instead of just using a big SRAM. That's surprising, and not at all trivial to do over a bunch of GPIO pins.
I've never like the following expression.

"If you don't have enough time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

It always seemed to me that an answer of "later" is potentially completely valid.
Managing the things I mentioned fixes a lot of problems common to broken development processes. [Insert your agile method here] provides a useful framework upon which to build a working development process.
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(The fact that they'd even think, let alone think first, to blame the users is just a giant head-scratcher)

Logically, I can see this. However, when you survey the world, you see a whole lot of blame directed at users. (With certain tech/business subcultures as notable exceptions.) I'll note that when our brains evolved, there was no software nor was there UX, and the only suitable targets for blame were people and critters. I'd bet this is a human cognitive bias.
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Nah its good because of you it got to the front page.
The problem with this implementation is that you can't have multiple entries for items with the same value. For example, you might be doing metrics for each user in a web application, and want to measure access times. The obvious identifier is IP address for the key, and timestamp for the value, but when you insert a new key/value pair into a ZSET, any previous value for the same item will be replaced.

Therefore, it makes it kind of difficult to use ZSETS for metrics unless you only care about uniques.
check what out? you didn't link anything.
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No, they used the same method to judge edits over the entire sample space.

> To test the hypothesis ... we randomly sampled the first edits of newcomers to the English Wikipedia from the earliest days of the project to the present. With the help of some experienced Wikipedians, we hand-categorized the edits of 2,100 new users according to a four point quality scale
this is an amazing hack. Well done for this guy, and his totally useless project.
Revenue also opens the door for loans which can be a great if dangerous source of funding as you don't give up equity and can still scale slightly ahead of your growth curve.
I didn't see Dustin's supposedly arrogant comments back when this shitstorm blew in, but I still don't understand why anyone thinks this is OK. Was Dustin upset about people copying the backend? because, I don't see a problem with someone taking his "ideas instead of drafts" bit and running with it. What is completely unacceptable is the wholesale copying of his visual deign. We now have two different "open source" blogging systems that allow people to create websites that look pretty much exactly like Dustin's, without his permission. That's shitty and wrong. Dustin created a visual brand for himself, and yes, six others. No one has the right to take that and use it for themselves without his permission. There is no "liberation" in using someone else's design, there is only theft.
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>There is even a market for traders paying tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for l

That's not for consumer broadband access. It's not even for commercial broadband access. It's a specific use, point-to-point network connection. It's important to separate general broadband access from special-purpose network connections for net neutrality purposes.

Paying a company to bring fiber into your area and then leveraging their service over that fiber is very different from consumers dealing with (typically) municipal contractually-enforced monopolies that restrict their access to the internet. I'm a capitalist kind of a guy, but monopolies destroy the dynamics of the free market and have to be kept firmly in check.

>Given that ISPs charge each other for transporting traffic [4] it costs more to broker traffi[...]

I don't think anyone is arguing that there isn't a cost motive for providing tiered pricing. Of course there is.

The issue is that monopolies must either be broken up or they must provide special protections for both consumers and the health of the free market in general. Net neutrality is that protection and it trumps Comcast's cost-based-pricing motives.
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Brilliant idea indeed! I would like to see it more customized though, especially to print #tag results... Later to choose your paper depending on your mood.
I think the API keys are fine by themselves, I think the willingness to accept the API keys only shows that you have a commitment to keeping their data secure. You could offer a "free" consultation service to show people have to make the API keys so that if they do become lost or don't know what they are doing, you can guide them and they know that your first priority is not only their service, but the security of their data.
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Ask HN: Co-workers at my startup are frequently sick
I work at a startup in San Francisco. We're all packed into a very small office, work hard and stay late.

Folks frequently get sick, sometimes 1-2 times per month. I feel as though I've been sick more often as we add more people.

I wonder what may be causing it, or if anyone else in a similar environment is experiencing the same thing, and how to avoid the issue.
Updated: https://gist.github.com/882555 - Same URL as on http://brubeck.io/readme.html, but with new data I just finished collecting.
I was impossibly confused until I realized you meant to write "noprocrast". As in "no procrastination".
+1 on having seeing the pricing first. I wonder how you are going to keep up with orders :)
Link! http://www.api-jobs.com
Edited! Thanks :)
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Yeah, it's a start. But there's definitely a Catch 22 situation whereby you have to convince an investor that you're worth the extra time and uncertainty involved.
I always joked about creating a twitter account named "shittr" where I would tweet a message describing every bowel movement I had.
The movie is filled with impossibilities, true. But have you seen Bollywood movies? Have you known the Indian audience they cater to? The impossibilities are the reason the movie did well; no half educated person is going to seriously attempt delivering a child with a vacuum over a webcam. At the same time, these stupid feats brought people to the movie, and forced them to realize how pathetically screwed up our education system is. Sure, we didn't do anything to fix it from that one movie--but for at least a few months, every time the movie was brought up, people started caring about changing the way our kids were taught.

I'm not suggesting this movie was something that raised awareness about an unknown issue, but it did succeed in bringing it to the forefront for quite a while, as Aamir's movies have been known to do. If you've seen other Bollywood movies, you know that 3 Idiots is a godsend when compared to the literally thousands of song filled intellectually vacuous love stories that we've been inundated with.

Furthermore, that suicide wasn't for the helicopter. It was after the dean called his (sick?) father, and told him that his son was not graduating that year. I do not remember the specific circumstances (I have terrible memory and watched this movie a few months ago), but claiming that the suicide was due to an engineering failure is ignoring many aspects of the student's life.

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As for the string solution--I don't really see why you need precision in cutting a pizza in 11 slices for a random customer. It's an interesting solution, one I hadn't thought of, and I'd say one that many others hadn't thought of. The point was to deal with what a cook would have in his hands, not a mathematically sound approach. While the latter might be clean, it would be physically impossible to implement with a pizza cutter that might not be sharp enough, or a pizza where the cheese and sauce still oozed over the crust* (in which case you never could get equal slices).

* You can tell I haven't had lunch yet.
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Depends on what early-stage means. If that means no funding money, then this statement is simply not true in many cases. Suppose you're tring to sell software and support. How are you going to sell a 1-year support contract if the customer can tell there's no guarantee you'll be around in 3 months? I'm speaking from personal experience. OTOH I'm sure the situation is better for web startups that are selling a service on a monthly basis.
This kind of has been my experience as well in Statistics/EE/Machine Learning. While, IEEE/ACM have word style files, I have seen very few submissions that use word. In fact, I know reviewers who have had a significant bias (which whether it is right or not exists) against word submissions.
Honestly, I'd love to wipe my ass with shit people say.
Like it! One quick usability fix - can you make it so that when you click "tweets", "timeline", "favourites" etc, the relevant radio button is selected? :)

You just need to update the ID in the <label> tags to the relevant radio button id, e.g. feed_feed_type_tweets, feed_feed_type_timeline, feed_feed_type_favorites etc.
You have a valid point there :)
Viewing the behavior might not be enough to consider the method inside to have been revealed.

But also, in the US, you have a one year grace period after public disclosure to file for a patent.
This is hilarious, but if you could replace photo links with inlined photos, I'd be more likely to buy. Nothing beats soiling photos of my friends, family, and favorite food.
From what I understand everything above TeX is one giant text manipulation macro, which means it all has to be available to the programs in text form, you could compress it but that would me decompressing hundreds (thousands?) of files every time you compile.
I've got one in my basement but getting a working 8 bit scsi interface might be harder.
Of course they're charging for it (in this case via a subsidy from Microsoft). But they'd charge for it in either architecture. The argument is that they can get away with discounting it to their customers (i.e. dropping the bandwidth cap) because it's "cheaper".

And I don't entirely buy that, nor have you managed to sell me. You're simply asserting the same stuff without evidence: you think the cost of user-driven bandwidth (to pull content from Microsoft) is higher than managing the infrastructure to host it locally. And I don't see why that's true without numbers to back it up.
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Learn how to use your ALT-keys.
With docutils you can already convert restructuredtext to pdf directly (not very nice) or to latex.
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