skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I've been more or less this for years, although I have a white set and a dark (black or navy blue) set.

As soon as the current set starts to show wear (holes, ripping out when putting them on), I demote all the socks in that set to cleaning rags and buy a dozen or so new pairs, all exactly alike.

I don't think it's especially wasteful -- assuming the socks are chosen at random they should all be about equally worn, and I do recycle the old ones for cleaning, shoe polishing, and so on. They're actually great for that, especially if you turn them inside out so the rough texture is on the outside.
Define "rest of the world", in most of South America, people get 100kb/s down and 20kb/s up. I guess most of Africa and Asia bar Japan, South Korea and a few others aren't fast either.
Is it possible that the real problem is that the CC BY-NC license is not well explained?

The actual license (CC BY-NC 3.0 [1]) says, in section 4b:

> You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above [2] in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works.

This is rather more precise than just saying "noncommercial". I'm not sure whether it's precise enough or not ... but it seemed worth pointing out.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

[2] These rights are the right to reproduce the work, to create adaptations of it, and to distribute or publicly perform the work or adaptations of it.
Dick Cheney has phylacteries (Horcruxes).
You could just send an email to the author asking for clarification, though.
So much that you made a whole novelty account about it?
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YUI from the outside
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You think "taxpayers paying for a commercial service whether they use it or not" sounds like a problem. Other people think this sounds like economic development.
Yeah the 48ms ping was a dead giveaway that something in that test wasn't right. Bad wireless, dodgy connection, poorly chosen server.

An Ethernet→router→fibre→local-speedtest node trip should be closer to 5ms, if that.
Ok, if we're going to talk about 'vibes' then lets talk about this one, "Why is someone who is a search engine marketer deconstructing on Google's infrastructure build?" and why is that same article posted to a tech news site by a user with the name of an entrenched infrastructure player? Ok, so it smells like astroturf, but let's set that aside for a moment.

Remember reading all those articles about how SpaceX was 'cheating' or risking safety because their costs were so much less than what 'people who knew how to build rockets' charged? Its a simple rhetoric technique, compare X to Y when X and Y aren't correlated or even have a casual relationship.

Anyway, rather than devolve into some sort of ad-hominem rebuttal, lay out what the costs are for putting fiber into an area. There are easement costs (ok the City covered that), there are facilities (cooling and power for a bunch of switches and routers), IP transit costs and general IP costs (like routable addresses or not). Then there are the sunk costs of installing this stuff.

So one source [1] puts getting fiber to the home at less than $1,000. How many homes are there in KS? The census puts it at about 463,200 [2]. So lets say the average house hold is 2.0 people so that represents 231,700 homes? or $231,700,000 to install fiber to all of them? A lot lower than the estimates put out by the OP.

What is the long term value of customers there? Well we can pretty much assume nobody would be stupid enough to pick Comcast or a bell company for Internet service (10x the cost for 1/100th the bandwidh) so lets say that Internet penetration is 60% [3] so 139 thousand homes, if they got the 'cheap' stuff at $70/month that is $9.73M / month. So how much does Google earn on that revenue? We don't know but we can work it backwards, lets say all up it cost Google 4x what it costs Verizon to lay fiber so $1B, lets further say that fiber is good for 20 years of lifetime. $9.73M$/month times 20 years of 12 months is $2.3B. That is double the investment of $1B back in 20 years. Now not a great rate of return, most would like to see it double twice in 20 years. But not an insane proposition either.

Personally, if ComCast is right and Google is making a huge mistake, I think they should just sit back and watch it happen right? So clearly going to fail at this, their job is done, they can just eat popcorn while the big G sinks under the waves and stops being a thorn in their side. Me though, I would not bet against Google on this one.

[1] http://connectedplanetonline.com/mag/telecom_riding_fttp_cos...

[2] http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&#...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/06/us-20th-in-broadb...
> Possibly more accurate with this qualification.

Accuracy? Close to 9000.
This is actually a pretty bad idea because it would discourage people from commenting on anything but the top posts on the first page. Commenting on something interesting that's 3 pages deep would basically mean throwing away karma unless that post manages to get up-voted, which is never a sure thing. Of course, some good discussion is often what gets good material upvoted! This change, while it might improve comment quality, would drastically impair the upvoting process.
I didn't know him and never heard of him but it sounds like world is a bit worse off without him. Too young. RIP fellow Geek.
Yes, that is correct. The idea is just to help the company grow as much as possible, continuing to hire and pay others first. I guess I've been acting as a partner in the company for a while now but not been an official equity partner on paper.

Yes 7.5% is more than nothing. I'm trying to figure though if that number is low or high. What do you think based on this information? What does your gut say?
I am one of the biggest fan of facebook's privacy settings and bat for them for providing such granular control. However, this has creeped the fuck out of me! I make extensive use of this feature and am going back through a bunch of posts reevaluating the settings knowing the person can see it.

Almost 100% of my posts in past 6 months have custom settings but there is no way I can go through each one of them.

This is HUGE from my perspective. I am typically the guy to tell others constantly bitching about fb's privacy settings to move on. But alas, the day has come when I am officially scared to use facebook.
You're speaking inaccurately. People in the middle 20% paid an effective rate of 15.5 percent. And trying to add in corporate tax rates is a bit-too-clever slight of hand.
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If you're being paid by your employer to attend meetings,
what phone call could possibly be so important that you
can't let it go to voicemail and you get to it after the
meeting?

Do you remember a few months ago when Amazon's EC2 had problems and took down Quora, Pintrest, Heroku and that lot? [1] Or when Knight Capital managed to lose $440 million in 45 minutes due to a software glitch? [2]

What meeting could possibly be so important that you can't postpone it to deal with a critical production issue?

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/07/01/survey-...
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2...
Only rarely:

http://blog.bitemyapp.com/

http://bitemyapp.tumblr.com/

I don't generally find myself with anything profoundly useful (to others) to say outside of any specific context.

If you have a topic/post suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you for the compliment, you're a very patient man.
Who in there right mind ever thought there was not a 'make money' angle here. Still want it, still trying to get wife to move to KC.
Cool interview, I wish they would have gone more in depth. A Mixergy interview with Elon would be great.

I've always been most fascinated with people who start car companies. It's always been something that I would love to do as an entrepreneur and auto enthusiast but creating a car company has it's obvious barriers to entry.
Agree that this only matters to 10% of the population. And yes, I'm totally oversimplifying it by creating only two categories. As to whether the distinction really exists, I personally believe that it does -- and the best anecdote I have is looking back on my reasons to leave Google. When I joined I wanted to work on hard/interesting problems, and when I left I wanted to work on interesting/impactful products.
And think of the data they can mine by having full access to your Internet usage.
While them showing the Except list may be a bug, them listing out individual users you have made something visible to is a feature. I only started seeing it yesterday and just went back to delete any individual user-only post that I could easily remember having made. Here is what I see when I click on some of the custom icons:

"These are other people who can see ----'s post. When you share with a specific set of friends, they can see the audience. However, your friends can't see when you put them on a list like Close Friends or Acquaintances."

This feature makes NO SENSE. Please remove this, facebook.
I can't think of a better role model for engineers than Elon Musk. Some good stuff from this video:

1) Doesn't want to speculate on Hyperloop before he's sure it can exist

2) Freely admits he was too shy to talk to anyone in the Netscape lobby when he went there fresh out of college looking for a job

3) Doesn't read a lot of general business books. Instead reads auto-/biographies of scientists and entrepreneurs.

Plus, he likes Burning Man (I love it but it's not for everyone) and casually mentions he had the idea for a "super-sonic vertical takeoff and landing plane" there. In comparison, I just got back from BM and my only work-related idea was that I should really put some more effort into my work.

So far I haven't heard any stories about him being an ass either, which is very reassuring for those of us who don't want to be like Steve Jobs. Even in this interview he seems reluctant to reveal too much information about people he didn't like working with.

I just wish people like him were more attracted to politics. I wonder if it's because nobody would elect people like Elon Musk or because those people avoid politics.
Half the history of the United States has been about establishing utopias of one sort or another.

Some aspects have worked out better than others.
In future, I'd probably do that as I'm bringing on editorial staff for my various ventures. So far, it's just quicker to avoid certain content as running a one man media business is hard and I have to run fast :-) Long term? I hope to do what you say because there is surely some great -NC content out there where being used on commercial properties could help the creator as much as the publisher (while still avoiding someone taking advantage of them).
I don't like that advice at all. So many fences have been installed for lousy reasons. And the results might be hard to predict so better to actually experience them. If you make a mistake, you can always re-install.
It was on the reddit front page when pg made it public a long time ago. Well, 2027 days ago according to my created field. The only way to have an account older than 2027 days (as of today) is if you were in YC before news.yc was public.
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Benevolent Dictator For Life is probably the most productive form. The problem lies with finding a truly benevolent dictator. When it's been done, it's worked wonders. But most fall pretty short.
Extreme libertarianism is anarchy, but the vast majority of libertarians are not anarchists.
What really is the difference between a FLIR gun and a wifi card in promiscuous mode?

The person that claims a right to privacy needs to take reasonable steps. Behind a solid wall, is a reasonable step to take. As is building a wall. Failing to secure your network, that you set up to "broadcast" in open mode, is arguably different.
http://news.ycombinator.com/classic is a version of the front page sorted only by votes from accounts over one year old. Generally the ranking is not too different, at least for top items. (I know this is not the same thing you're talking about; it just reminded me of it. Also note that /classic was created at a time when there were far fewer accounts that old; perhaps a higher threshold would be more interesting now.)

Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271

Personally I've been here for 1472 days (3.5 years) and on the leaderboard for much of that time. I feel like the quality has gone through several up-and-down cycles, though some of that is probably because my tastes have changed too. Overall it feels much as it did several years ago.
Its actually quite fair. When Twitter launched there was no Twitter. Now App.net is basically Twitter for a certain segment of the market. You can compare them now because people are already familiar with and have proved to be ready to adopt the idea. Now if App.net was a direct competitor from the early days of Twitter then it'd be less fair.
Comcast, near where I live (in MB/s, all prices are in addtion to a $7/mo modem rental )

3/.768 - $40/mo

20/4 - $30/mo 6 month promotional (incl. cable box rental), $42-62 afterwards (varies)

30/6 - $73/mo

50/10 - $119/mo

105/20 - $199/mo

Comcast seriously needs competition, and I unfortunately don't live in an sonic.net area.

I can't wait for Google to disrupt the hell out of this situation.
This is incredibly disingenuous I don't know whether to laugh or fucking cry.

We are talking about Kansas City here! A city that has long since been a shadow of its former self -- once a major US hub facilitating cross-statewide trade -- now a landscape of empty derelict factories and office buildings.

At least it was before the City Planners (read: OMG! The Government) did something about it.

For the last few years there has been a huge concerted effect to revive Kansas City and save it from a fate of "Detroitism". Is that so bad? No, it isn't, unless you're of the belief that all of America's cities' outside of LA/NYC should just "suck it up and deal with it" and be the subject of the next "Ruin Porn" hipster tumblr blog.

We are now starting to see some the fruits of these efforts: Sprint Center (Stadium), Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts and many many other revitalization projects, including Google Fiber.

Spare me.
Sure, and that makes it a lot harder. But it's like the Federal Reserve isn't responsible if I pay cash for something and a vendor screws me over. The beef is between customer and vendor.

I don't know about the US, but here in the UK it's not difficult to take someone to small claims court and this TOS would work pretty well in the claimant's favor.
Ask HN: Looking for someone to host me in SF next week
I'm a longtime member of HN, since before it was even called HN, but I rarely post or comment here.

Next week me and two friends will be visiting San Francisco from Monday to Friday, and we are looking for a place to stay. It would be awesome if someone would be kind enough to host us.

I am a 26 year old male student, originally American but have been living in Israel for a long time. My computer related interests are mainly programming (currently really into theoretical stuff and Haskell, but I've done everything from 3d graphics to web).

My friends are two girls (23 years old), not quite sure that they would consider themselves as "hackers", although one of them did study computer science for a year and a half! (and she also is an expert level rock band vocals player :)

My github user name is bitc, and my email is in my profile. I would be happy to also chat by skype video or phone. The three of us are nice people, easy going, and fun! :)

We should be able to squeeze into even a small room. The girls can share a bed and I can manage with a couch or whatever.

Thanks!
... if we weren't so occupied making our websites work for users ...
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deal with it: or not.
Sure, some investors are more helpful than others, and GV is probably above average for VC funds. But an investor would have to be really good to invest on a note with a lower cap than previous investors without messing up the startup's fundraising. It can work if the investor is a domain expert that the startup wants to recruit as an advisor, but not otherwise in my experience.
I wish I could post the video from the talk, but here are some slides at least. Good supporting talk on the pitfalls of making assumptions about how disks work, from OSCON '11:

http://www.slideshare.net/iammutex/what-every-data-programme...
Sadly, "designer" is a poorly-qualified term. When I hear someone say that it's hard to tell whether they mean a graphic designer or a UI/UX designer (or possibly even a product manager or something).

And yes, there is a huge difference between the two. UI/UXers need to have extremely strong graphic design skills (and for 98% of the projects out there, they will be good enough by themselves), but for a perfectly-tweaked, masterfully perfected paint job to layer over the final UX, you should hire a graphic designer for a final pass (Apple does this, for example). Similarly, graphic designers, if asked to design UI, will usually produce something that looks gorgeous and is completely unusable (or, more frequently, completely ignores the corner cases that end up being deal breakers).

Or perhaps you mean _product design_, which involves a terrifying gestalt of UI/UX design, technical design (eng), and market planning/vision (management, PM, ...?). The person (or people) in charge of that varies by project and company, but in the most successful cases seems to be either someone who is good at all three or a 2-4 man group of representatives from the three domains.
Why is that the definition of "badass, rockstar, ninja, etc."?
It never occurred to me that profitability was a goal for google fiber. From the start I took it to be a pilot program to understand how people would be using the internet a few years in the future.
Messkit.org

ImproveThings.org

OpenHousehold.org
I find this very interesting and welcome news. How do you find the talent pool though as you expand your business? Are you hiring locals, or remote workers (primarily a question relating to developers but interested in the process of filling other positions as well)?
Well this is just yet another dumb comparison that exploits the drop off in sales before a key Apple event. It's well know that the iPad Mini and a possible iPad update is scheduled either next week or sometime shortly after.

The only sales period that makes sense is the Christmas Holiday season. It's where you will have the best from all companies competing at the same time.
To you or I, yes; securing your wireless network is obvious.

Can you really say that about the general population? Certainly there is a non-trivial portion of that population, if not a majority, that lacks an understanding of the mechanics behind how wifi works. Even more technically inclined users may reasonably be under the impression that MAC filtering, hidden SSIDs, or WEP provide privacy. Why should any of these people be any less deserving of privacy than the rest of us?

Knowledge of the basic properties of visible light is built into most of us. The laws were written with that in mind. However you cannot say the same about wifi.
Interesting to see how you feel bad about shortcuts you make at the beginning of a project to save time, and later regret them wishing you had done it 'right' to begin with. However the cost of doing it right at the beginning sometimes is greater than the difficulty of hacking to the finish line at the end.
Domain hijacking doesn't seem like an issue here, given HTTPS; if someone can MITM that they can do the same to my own site.

However, just because I trust a service to process payments or do any other specific business-critical task doesn't mean I trust that service to run arbitrary Javascript code in the context of my site. Customers may have significantly more sensitive data than just payment information, and third-party Javascript represents a major issue. I need the ability to confidently say to customers that no third-party service has access to their private data.

Given this new approach, I'd have to sandbox payment code off on a separate domain that has no access to other user data.
This seems like a more prudent approach. While you still have a host country to deal with, I doubt being out at sea would offer much incremental insulation.

I followed "Laissez Faire City" which was trying to do something like this (a "Gault's Gulch") in the 90s and 00s in Costa Rica and Nicaragua but I don't think got too far.
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Could you write more about the countries you're looking at, and their benefits and downsides? I'm looking at a similar approach to you, and dubai looks good to me. (warm, tax free, cheaper than where I am now).
It would be interesting if, alongside this charter city, people would set up a liberal-socialist city-state, an authoritarian-capatilist city-state, and an authoritarian-socialist city-state.
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I think it would be good to do a targeted posting rate eg. 30 posts per hour[1] or something of that nature.

If last 20 min when regressed predict under 30 posts in the next hour it should cost 0 karma to post. However, for every post/hour over the target rate should cost the user some karma eg.

karma_loss = floor(alpha*max(PREDICTED_RATE - TARGET_RATE, 0))

where alpha is a tune-able "cost" constant.

The posting page should of course warn the user of the karma loss and confirm that they really want to post.

[1] 30 posts/hour stands for whatever target rate you want

EDIT:

it occurs to me you could apply a learning algorithm to learn what alpha should be based on experience of what yields the closest posting rate to the target rate. you could also reward people for posting when it gets slow.
The "service providers" in those other "essential industries" that can't "deny provision" because they "don't like them" have, as a general rule, been granted monopolies. This is a silly conversation. The system that works the way you seem to want it to is the subject the thread; it's Paypal.
> I just wish people like him were more attracted to politics. I wonder if it's because nobody would elect people like Elon Musk or because those people avoid politics.

I'm starting to think that I'm OK with the great scientists and entrepreneurs not dabbling in politics. I'd rather have a world where politicians keep doing what they're doing, so long as they don't ruin everything, and entrepreneurs keep doing the same. But maybe this is just a phase in my own thinking.

More succinctly, Mr. Musk would have a much lesser impact as POTUS than as himself in his current role.
Would love to hear what people think about Genius+Match vs Pandora or any of the other streaming services.
> ... you can make inferences about a collection of data based on its hashes.

Quite a few cryptographers have learned this the hard way!
Sure, there are some people that are important enough to warrant interrupting a meeting, but the vast majority of the people that I've seen that get up to leave a meeting to answer the phone don't fit in that category.