skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From article:

A report from earlier this year suggested that more than 1 million U.S. households disconnected their pay-TV services in 2011.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/04/over-1-million-u-s-cable-subsc...

From that article in April:

Nearly 2.65 million cable or satellite TV subscribers have canceled their service since 2008 to rely solely on Web-based services according to estimates from the Convergence Consulting Group. ... It is estimated that roughly 930,000 customers will cut the cord in 2012, for a total of 3.58 million subscribers since 2008. The group also estimates that traditional television providers will add 185,000 accounts this year, up from 112,000 in 2011.

2/3 of the way through 2012, and less than half of April's predicted 930,000 disconnections have occurred. Will more people disconnect during the fall and the holidays?
SourceForge has more bandwidth (IIRC) and has mirrors all over the world. I download from SF daily.
If you've ever seen the code behind what the IRS uses today, you'd realize that it couldn't possible integrate with anything, let alone it's own systems.

Plus this doesn't work for so many reasons, many of which people have outlined here.
The description of the arXiv is a little off, it says "Cornell's library of published academic research papers", while really the arXiv is mainly for preprints, i.e., papers that have not yet been published. It is true, however, that in some fields it is common for journals to let you keep a (non-final) version of your paper on the arXiv.
Using Gmail, I could count on one hand the number of spam emails I've received in the last few years.
Chicken, steak, rice and pork... something along those lines. I eat potatoes and beans as well.

It's really not as limiting as you'd think.
This is what I have settled on so far btw.

1. Store session data on server side (use redis for storage)

2. Only exhcnage session id b/w client and server using cookies (serialized using pickle ?)

3. Regenerate session id after login ? Is this needed though ?
Yes, that happens to be the only one I have at the moment. I have 2-3 photography ones that fit under art as well... I was also looking for art history for my own interests, and that seems to be hard to come by too.
There is a differentiation here that needs to be made. There is a problem if laws are so complicated and so strict and everyone ends up breaking them, the problem becomes a serious problem once the government has the ability to collect and record all times someone broke the law and then decide, later, for some possibly unrelated reason, to selectively enforce it.

Then a history of law breakage can be use for blackmail, threats, for silencing for coercing.

You are caught at an Occupy event and booked in. You are taken to the station and they pull up the fact that a speed camera caught you going 20 mph over speed limit. "5 years ago, it looks like IRS detected a tax discrepancy in your reporting, it would be a shame if they started an audit...maybe you should stop being involved in this movement", stuff like that.

I would almost more surprised if it won't happen sometime in the near future than if it does happen.
Note: only Chrome Canary and Chrome Dev Channel have Retina support.
http://mir.aculo.us/2012/06/26/flowchart-how-to-retinafy-you...
Thanks. I will update.
T-mobile just started routing my tethered access to an upsell page today - have been tethering with my phone for years. From what i was reading, the ruling only applies to "c-block" spectrum - i.e tmobile, sprint, at&t aren't affected by the ruling.

I'm more than annoyed, and will probably be either switching carriers or just getting a separate wimax device soon.

My plan is arguably a grey area - it's "unlimited", but only the first 5 gigs are at full speed.
Uh... it's complicated. And that ("it's complicated") is something one needs to repeat often when talking about psychology with computer folks. ;)

Yes, it's his ego driving him. No, I did not imply he's a saint. Yes, his goals are more broad.

Careful with judgements like this, since they are often projections of your own self. In other words, you saw in my statements things that irritate you, and responded to those projections.

And finally, joining and equating mumbo-jumbo with altruism is already very revealing in terms of your own attitude. ;)

And, with that, the armchair psychologist is signing off.
That graph ignores that there will be pressure to go to smaller sizes not to get more power for the same size, but to get the same power for less power usage.

On the other hand, I would like to see a graph plotting time or nanometers vs cost of the factory needed to make them. I cannot find one, but I remember seeing ones that hinted that the cost of making a production line would become prohibitive for everyone.
The tricky thing here, IMO, is that spending is based on assets + income, not just income. If I inherited $3m, make $50k/year, and spend $100k/year, it doesn't mean I'm lying about the $50k, it might just mean I have enough savings to live beyond what my income suggests.
Whether psychological or physiological, the majority of vegetables make me throw up almost instantly.

I'm perfectly healthy though. 20/20 vision, competitive for several sports, can code/sleep/socialize, and I don't really get sick anymore either.

I'll take a vitamin supplement when I remember, which usually ends up being 2-3 times a month.
That article states that one of the hypotheses of why red meat is unhealthy is because of the preservatives used in processed meat.

I'm sure almost everybody will agree that processed meats are unhealthy. But please don't say that red meat is unhealthy just because processed meats are usually made from red meat.
Bogus headline. For those of you who haven't lived on the West Coast or read up on issues with water ("Cadillac Desert" is a very accessible) Consequently there are always 'water rights' associated with parcels. Either you have them or you don't when you buy the land. This guy doesn't have rights to the water going through his property, but he is diverting the water for his own use anyway.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-...
That's not what pageouts as reported by OS X refer to. Try the following experiment:

1) Open two Terminal windows.
2) Run top in one of them.
3) Note the pageout number.
4) In the other, type echo foo > bar.txt
5) Refer again to pageout number.

You will see that it did not increase, even though the system just wrote to a file. This will be the case even if you wait a while.

On OS X, the reported pageouts are dirty memory pages being tossed, not writes of files to the filesytem.

Your definition also does not match the historical distinction between swapping and paging and the distinction you draw is idiosyncratic. Originally, swapping referred to swapping out all of a process's memory, while paging is done in chunks. No system has true "swap" in this original sense any more, so the terms "swap" and "page" are now basically interchangeable.
Congratulations on completely missing my point.

You say that this could be yet another datapoint for the IRS to collect taxes with.

The example you use has the number of Foursquare (and I'm sure Facebook) checkins within the statistical amount of noise for the actual number of people who visit the venue.

The example you give in this thread is a corporation who undoubtably has a team of dozens if not hundreds of tax attorneys on staff to ensure that the company pays exactly the amount of tax they owe, at the federal state and local levels, and not one cent more or less.

But let's take it a step further, and say that Joe's Ajax Factory in East Blogentry, California is skimming off the register. Okay-- so now you need some city clerk in East Blogentry to run this magical data analysis software which says Joe isn't putting enough into the city coffers?

Again-- this is a laughable idea. Even if the software were completely accurate (which is impossible) and admissible for a local tax audit (which it wouldn't be), and the amount of local taxes that you recouped were more than the TCO of this software (which it wouldn't be), you're assuming that the unscrupulous store owner (undoubtably laundering money a la Office Space) would just sit back and take it?
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in the other hand, Authy has few libraries (opensource too), one nice, simple and easy to use app (0 config), and 1 token for all apps.
Chrome 21 has Retina support. (It went stable a couple days ago.)
One point of emphasis should be on your front-end, which is pretty weak right now. Heres a few tips.

Use a framework like http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ or the under rated http://foundation.zurb.com/

If you're looking for something a little more complete, spend a few bucks and grab a theme from http://themeforest.net/

Something like this http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat... will make a HUGE difference on your products design and usability.

Lastly, I would recommend reading http://designforhackers.com/ and get a better understanding of general design aesthetics like font, spacing, color etc.

Good luck! You're off to a great start! If you want to chat about front-end, Im happy to help. You can email me through my profile
Also available via Google Web Fonts... DL link in the top right of the page.

http://www.google.com/webfonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Sourc...
Maybe i'm "out of the loop" but not a single word in that title means anything to me. Dont know who Don Knuth is, dont know why its volume 4, dont know what Pre-fascicle means... And I'm usually pretty with it on hackernews related interests. Not everyone here is part of the Ivy league school circle jerk.

I would have to google pretty much all of that, which is inconvenient. It should have linked to a page describing what it is, even if OP had to make it himself. Its only blogspam if you put ads on your blog... which I'd hope anyone here doesn't.
or what about a java port? it's as feasible as a c++ port.
Here's a link to an excellent music, (primarily guitar) learning class that does not get much attention in the North America: http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/. Consider adding this to you list. I appreciate the effort at building a website of curated links by the way.
Success for Voizin seems to be in minimizing the non-financial frictional cost of connecting as much as feasible possible - and doing so without being obtrusive. It'll be cool to see what they come up with. (It's always so interesting to me that people realize mutual value in something, yet never "cash-in" on that value because they're too afraid to take the first step...)
Quick thing on Terminal. I noticed that I had to limit the scroll back history in Terminal or else it eats up all your everything. For example if you have a number of term windows open and they are tailing log files or have verbose running processes open. I put it at 10k or so and things are fine now.
I think it's a personality thing. I started Njal's Saga years ago (my frame of reference is that I heard of it on Slashdot) and I'm about 3/4 of the way through. I haven't picked it up in years (I think it's under the bed) but someday I will, whenever I get around to it. It just doesn't matter when/if I finish it.

Contrast that with an old roommate of mine who thought of this stuff a lot more like Scott does. He would feel really, really guilty about starting a book and not finishing it in a reasonable time or at all. He felt he "owed" it to the author to finish it if started.

I just can't think that way. It took me three tries to get past page 100 of Dune but once I did, I absolutely loved the book. Same goes for Stars in my pocket like grains of sand: I took over five years to finish that book and it was really good.

Feel "guilty?" No, guilt is reserved for when you hurt someone.
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I used one of these at a restaurant in Palo Alto and the experience was bothersome at best.

Sharing it at a table is impossible.
The UI is laggy and annoying (jumping shopping cart).
There's no quick way to scan the menu.
It does not display the total cost before placing an order.
Yup, as Will Rogers said: "Just be glad you're not getting all the government you pay for"

Sure it's kind of annoying when they're building a highway or something useful but the rest of the time it's a pretty good thing that it moves at the pace of molasses.
New York, for one. NY's tax revenues (both the state's and the city's, since NYC has its own income tax) are heavily dependent on year-end bonuses on Wall Street, so if Wall Street has a bad year, so does NY.
Yes and no.

Checks and balances are good. But the Senate becoming a body that needs 60 votes to get anything done, is not.
QuicklyChat introduces multi-user video walkie-talkie and more
Monospace is beautiful! Sad to see it's not included
What if you're the only person that reports to your boss?
Yes. What'll happen is that since there is a practical limit on the number of people the government can put in prison, they'll just "defer" huge amounts of crime for people as long as they stay on good behavior.

Then, when the government chooses, they'll let the entire bomb drop on the guy. Of course there's also the blackmail and coercion potential (Looking at these traffic and land-use violations, you really don't want to criticize the governor in that way, do you?) It used to be that whichever party won the White House, the next year all the NGOs that supported the other party would be due for a tax audit. This increases that kind of thing by several orders of magnitude.

We voted for politicians who made promises and changes based on an existing manual system. All of those hundreds of years of voting and changing were inside of a system that doesn't exist any more. The feedback loop of the democracy was based on real humans going out there and enforcing the laws against real other humans, not the idea that whatever was said would automatically magically happen. Tom Smith in 1880 could get elected mayor on a platform of prohibiting spitting on the sidewalk because we all knew Tom, and we all knew that the entire purpose of the law was Joe, proliferate sidewalk spitter. Nobody cared about that law because once Tom got elected, he made Joe stop spitting and that was that. And who cared if it stayed on the books for the next 130 years?

But the world where laws were made by people, for people, to be enforced against people doesn't exist any more. Now we have technology that can take pictures all day long of people spitting, do facial recognition, and add it to a little file somewhere.

It's almost like we need to completely start over. We've built a machine that never could work, so it has all these patches and over-engineered pieces. Now that we're actually getting it to work, it'll eat us alive.
Gross compared to retina-enabled apps or gross compared to a non-retina MBP?
He's showed me bank statements, things like 'points' and 'cashback' and other 'features' of the card all seem to come back to the merchant as deductions against the amount billed vs the amount payed. He summed up the total billed (what he charged at the register) and the total deposited, and computed the difference, that difference was 8.5% rounded to the first decimal place.
You're wrong.
Also Ontario is huge, and Toronto is a miniscule part of it. The people outside of Toronto/Ottawa in Ontario are completely different from the people who live in those two areas.
If you'd had been to any other parts of Canada aside from Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, you'd realise how much more there is to see, and how much more diverse the country really is.
"It's not about size. It's about the diversity of cultures and climates." Give me a break. Canada, Australia and Russia are more diverse climate wise than China or India. How is China more culturally diverse answer me that?

edit:
From the cia world factbook(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)
China
Ethnic groups:
Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5% (2000 census)

Yep.. that's a real melting pot there.
Yes they do. It's a sobering truth to reflect on.
Kunvay: the Paypal of copyright and IP transfers
OT: It really confuses me what it takes for someone to have all their new comments marked as 'dead', kenrikm seems to have a perfectly reasonable submission and comment history with the exception of the last submission which was marked as 'dead'...
The APIs That I Depend On For My Business
You are more productive than most people, according this Quora's answer. http://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-do-most-people-actually-...
The Problem With iCloud
1. The text wasn't voted on. The vote to stop talking about the issue and actually hold the vote on the text, failed.

2. It's not at all bizarre to see a Republican attach an abortion restriction onto a bill they want to kill.
They will still claim it. And it will still work, because no one but a couple policy wonk nerds actually care. Unless you can make it a theme like "waffles" or "flip-flops".

They'll claim it until someone brings a gun to a theatre and then we're all distracted and wondering what they'll do about this situation.

Even miraculously if people do care what they are going to say is that they are politicians who are responsive to grass roots movements and what the community wants and that they are changing their position to bring the people's message to corrupt fatcats in Washington.

(Ever notice how your politician is honest jim the used car salesman and every other politician is a washington fatcat?)
Personally, I prefer VNC to X's network transparency, because all my applications don't get closed if my internet connection drops.
The same is true for Direct3D.

If the user's GPU doesn't support D3D 11, you have to supply a fallback.
While this is true... the significant factor here is that these children are saving.

If there were no saving, the money would have been spent/stolen/taken almost for certain. I can understand the feeling of the boy who saved ₹4000 in 7 months. Given the living standards and challenges these children face, it would have impossible to have even a quarter of that left over in 7 months.

Edit: added the rupee symbol
I've been watching this with keen interest since it was first announced here sometime ago. Unfortunately, at the pace Pixate is raising funds on Kickstarter, it doesn't look like they'll achieve their goal. Does this mean they're screwed, or will they still push this product out the door through their corporate sponsor Appcelerator?
Passive income is a return on equity. Not 'an ec2 instance that makes money'.
I think it's wrong to see the Republicans as being on the citizenry's/the ACLU's "side" in this.

Every indication is that this is just their standard-for-the-session move to filibuster anything they can as part of their election strategy.
Speaking as someone who's had his "tone" addressed in emails, and the survivor of many a blunt conversation with my boss, the best way to get a point across is to just state the facts. Don't be pompous, don't feign ignorance, or try to blame others, just spit it out, and have whatever you need to tell them written or typed out on a piece of paper. The last thing is to be respectful. Even if you don't respect them, they ARE in a position above you, and that DOES mean something, not only to them, but to others as well. Keep it civil, state the facts, and never apologize (unless you're the one who messed up. If that is the case, do so sincerely and politely).
That means they have 700+ million 'real' users.
How do better graphics drivers have anything to do with making concessions to become more Windows-like? Or is it using Linux as a full-time desktop operating system you're objecting to?
You say "they" like this is some outside entity. It isn't. It's me, and others on these forums. And I can't really accept ambiguity.

If Facebook tells me I'm reaching 1,000,000 people, I better be reaching 1,000,000 people. If that number is really 930,000, and Facebook knows that the number is 930,000, they better be damn sure to tell me so I can calculate the correct ad-spend. As an advertiser, this figure shouldn't be ambiguous. That's kind of ridiculous.

But Facebook is in a catch-22: if they do tell me that figure, it's going to result in lower spends (and thus lower revenues) because their value comes from the massive audience. Remember, this started as "There is no fake account problem". Now it's, "Almost 10% of our accounts are fake". How big is the problem?
I've often found something suitable at iStockPhoto.com

If you have some budget for it, you might also consider having something custom done. I'm really fond of Duane Bibby's illustrations, for example (he did the illustrations for The TeXBook, The Little Schemer, etc.), and I've worked with him before.
If it is labeled "extra virgin olive oil" you really don't know what kind of oil it is. Particularly if it has Italy anywhere near the name.

Yes, in theory it should be extra virgin olive oil. In theory there are people who inspect it. But if they raise doubt about the authenticity of a clearly subpar product, they get sued in a stacked court system. So everyone cheats and nobody calls them on it.

See http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/05/business/la-fi-olive... for an example of a lawsuit that was filed over this in the USA. (Because you really can't sue about it in Italy.)
That link should be https://makr.io/pro_tips. But thanks though, thats awesome of you
Have you made a pledge? ;-)
I actually set Google Calendar to send me an email at 6pm every day to update the tracker.

But I'd rather it didn't send me an email if I'd already updated.
I thought about developing a piece of software for businesses to use in-house for employees to ask questions, anonymously. In the end, however, I decided that even though you would be "anonymous," there's a lot of guessing of who is actually asking the questions (especially new hires, people who ask a lot of questions, etc).
The tasks were at most 8 hour estimates. Perhaps I should try 4 hours next time.
$50K over 5 years, not so much.
100,000 shares, maybe.
Is there a font that supports both European and Asian languages available for free anywhere?
Bad analogies. Your car would fall apart long before it cranked up to a speed even approaching speed of light. It's not designed to do that - it's just a hunk of iron and plastic.

Mail is 1s and 0s.

There is no reason why we can't have intelligence acting on those bits: doing rote tasks is what computers are good at.

If you're happy with mail as-is, great.

But consider that it could be better.
This comes close to dancing around the Open Source Definition (http://opensource.org/osd.html/) I think. The restriction on "not sold by themselves" would seem to be a violation of the "No Restriction on Fields of Endeavor" requirement. But it's close.

It seems like a silly restriction anyway. What advantage would someone gain over Adobe by selling freely available fonts "by themselves" with no added value?
No, but that's funny.
360 feedback is good. But if you want to use this to remain anonymous, then this excerpt from their "Promises" section doesn't instill the greatest level of confidence:

"If you do not use insults, verbal abuse or foul language, we will do everything in our power to keep your identity hidden. In other words, don't be mean and we'll have your back."
Even with a boatload of patience and very, very low expectations calling the current state of Mac gaming "formidable" is extremely charitable. It's better than it was pre-Steam & pre-App Store, but that's not saying much. I'll get excited when big studios other than Valve and Blizzard are targeting the Mac as a first-party platform rather than relying on half-assed third-party Cider or Wine-based ports that barely work on even the latest hardware.