skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about enforcement. It's about deniability and ass-covering.

My sport (paragliding) has been destroyed by similar actions from the governing body in the last 18 months. They don't need to say "you should do X". All they need to say is "we think that maybe you should do X" and suddenly everybody falls into line and does X. It's not about enforcement, it's about not being seen to contradict a perceived authority.
How are Windows 8 sales? Still too early to tell
No VC: Why Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera Resists Investors
It may be a stretch of the word 'playable', but pretty neat.
UXmas: Wishing you a great experience through the festive season
Clear throttles customers after a certain threshold. In addition ozi's comment is accurate.
The fact that they apparently don't have to protect your information or tell you the manner in which they have communicated your information (via radio or via computer) is really bad. Also, since I would bet that a large section of the population that listens to police scanner feeds are criminals, this probably isn't a good thing.
Full Show 12/3/12: Will the Eisenhower Republican Party Return?
Working With HTML5 Forms
Mashable Redesign
Wow, have you ever seen such a dramatic redesign of a site? Reminds me when Digg did their redesign.
Tacky message at the end totally ruined it. That is going to lose you sales.
One way to think of this is as a cat and mouse game.

Another way is that some people are developing high-bandwidth, distributed, and anonymous internet software and some other people are writing tests that this software is expected to fail presently but that the developers must pass in order to make it to the next level of hardened security and reliability.
Woah, I thought it would be too distracting before I clicked through, but it actually wasn't. Great way to keep your site fun and original.
Hi, how much trouble have non-US people had getting (US) jobs afterwards? I know you support yourselves by acting as recruiters and it seems likely that it would be really hard for people without permanent residence to get visas.
My internet isn't driven by rage... I guess I am doing it wrong.
That makes sense. Because the broadside shove impacts the atmosphere with a relatively smooth voltage gradient if the solar wind is fairly even, then the atmosphere may not break down and conduct, and the resulting e field differential will impart kinetic energy into the molecules of the upper atmosphere. This energy has to go somewhere, so it just turns into random turbulence in the air until all the energy that was supplied is consumed.

But surely lightning strikes must also cause heating? Electric arc discharges on the order of gigajoules and milliseconds [1] works out to a lot of watts. I guess it averages out though because the amount of timespace with no-lightning-strike is much greater than that with lightning-strike.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Harvesting_lightning_...
I don't really understand. Does it grant nodejs root privileges? I assumed it ONLY allowed for binding to port 80, not all root privileges...
Java 6 allowed to live just a little longer
Perhaps there are no Toyota Tundras for sale in your area? Both of your cited searches work fine for me (Bay Area).
> It’s important to note that, for me, there wasn’t some trigger event. In a snap decision, I just had this feeling that came to me the second I walked in the door one evening—it was kind of a voice saying, “yep, done for now.”

I did this exact thing with reddit recently. I'd been on reddit almost since the first day it existed, and I was kind of addicted. Woke up one morning and went "you know, I could just delete my account." Before I gave myself time to think about it, it was done.
Since this is pay as you go at a rather high rate (versus an all-you-can-eat subscription), throttling would only disadvantage the providers, especially since Karma probably pays Clearwire by bandwidth as well.
I'm totally not affiliated with that website. I actually found it by accident searching for some Javascript information
I'm still seeing the old site after demoing the new and switching back as there's no user script to scrobble to Last.fm yet. Fingers crossed that sticks for a while, I like being able to track my listening habbits!
I find twitter more interesting when it was consumed with flipboard.
You can use a Brita pitcher in places where you're not allowed to install things under the sink, like when you're renting. But most importantly, a Brita pitcher gives you a good excuse to keep your drinking water in the fridge, so you never have to contend with having to drink warm or lukewarm water again.
Let's not swap one assumption for another perhaps hidden one. In this case, the assumption that the product life cycle is long enough that you ever have "mature" products. The article points out that the appliance product life cycles used to be 7 years or so and now they're 2-3 years and that a good bit of the monetary advantage to building in the US came from product improvements that arose from co-locating engineering and manufacturing and getting them to cooperate.
Did Reddit delete karma millionaire and rewsmith 1986?
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully taught themselves algorithms via CLRS
I keep seeing Corman et al's book recommended around the net in answer to "how can I teach myself algorithms?". Now I had it as a textbook in college, and it was great, but I'm somewhat sceptical about its value as a self-study book. The presentation seems far more geared towards an instructor-led course of study.

Has anyone actually used CLR(S) as a primary self-study guide and stuck with it all the way through?
I've used Brita filters for years and I've never experienced black dots. Did you change the filter too often? Not often enough?
First, there is and was on launch both One Republic and Adele on the site. And all of their songs are tagged correctly. Also he commented within 10 minutes of me posting it so including time see the post, listen to songs, and write the comment was certainly almost none especially considering this HN which is a place that has rules for quality of comments and good discussion.

I judged his feedback unnecessary and negative, not anything personal, which is more to say than what you did. I've read that post and thats talking about someone judging 300 sites not one.
Personality research on hackers
Good read, but it's going to take more than a rant to turn that behemoth of a mess around.
They already know they are rulers. It's for the rest of the people.

I have heard people seriously say "Of course I prefer it with copy protection! It protects my copy!" back in the day when DRM was called copy protection. I'm sure they would have been wiser if the thing was called "Copy Restriction", because that's what it does. Similarly, I'm sure more people would realize what DRM means if it was called Digital Restriction Management (which is what it really is).

These things run deep. Who would dare oppose the PATRIOT act? Real patriots should, but none would. These terms run very, very deep.
As a software engineer, the idea of streaming video to listen to music (ignoring video output) hurts my soul. You're wasting all those bits!

In a normal world it wouldn't make much sense to allow video to keep playing while the screen is unavailable. I guess in our world, however, Youtube is one of the few reliable sorta-legal sources of free music.
I'm seriously considering applying, but I'd have to leave a full time job in order to do so. What kind of job placement rate is there post"grad"? Average salary?

At my current position I'm being paid well but I don't feel like I'm improving at all as a programmer. This would be a huge risk for me, but I feel like I'd be better prepared for the future.

Any alums leave a job to go to hacker school? What was your experience like?
Check out micasaverde.com and mios.com. Offers the same type of home automation products with no service fee, and there's an API if you want to hack it.
GitHub gets Yelp’s old CFO to help manage its new $100M budget
I was thinking about this too, but there is one problem with a purely pay-it-forward type model - there is no 'debt'.

That is, how does one earn karma in order to buy uptime?

You can 'sell' your connection to someone else, but where do they get their karma from?

Part of the solution might be to provide 'seed' karma to new users, but then you inevitably will have users who don't spend the karma they gain and so become karma sinks.

This all assumes a zero sum economy, so perhaps a different model is a better idea. Keep track of metrics like how much bandwidth someone has shared or used (somehow), and then allow providers to define a measure for who can share their connection based on those metrics.

For example, one provider might let anyone connect no matter what, while someone else might only let people who have shared their own connection connect.

Determining what to share and to whom is a hard question, and when there are upstream costs to the provider the balance seems like it would be hard to find. The yourkarma model is more or less a loss-leading strategy (we pay you in bandwidth to sign up new users) and it's hard to see that being sustainable long term for the user. It's not completely obvious if the 100mb is for new karma users connecting, or for any connection, but based on their help page[1] it seems to be only new users:

Why do I get extra bandwidth when I share my connection?

Every time another person uses Karma, our company grows a little bigger. The more the merrier! So when you share your connection, you are essentially helping us and we feel like we should help you. After all, we’re not called Karma for nothing.

What I am really interested in are the ad-hoc networking projects [2], that will be able to route data by hopping between networked devices, reducing the need of centralised ISPs. Simply being part of that network adds value, however similar problems will probably arise in any case.

[1] https://yourkarma.com/help/82-why-do-i-get-extra-bandwidth-w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc_network
The main limit to bandwith is speed of routing the packets. This is why QoS typically fails for IP; it is usually cheaper to just use a faster dumb router than to use a slower smart router.
Does it cost anything to display a static image? (which is what most youtube songs are)
In-Depth Introduction to Backbone.js
I think it depends if you are building a consumer API or an internal API. If you are just looking for a way to build a client to your already known (and owned) service, you could write a trivial client if the API implements HATEOAS.

For building something that uses an API but provides something else (not just a dummy client), I find it unnecessary.

At the same time, for me at least, the idea is you do not need to go 100% with this. In fact, I prefer to just take some ideas out of it. For instance, maybe an API call returns a list of _things_. Assuming you have another point on your API that provides more resources from this _thing_ (resources that are so numerous you would not provide on the previous point), you could include an href on each one of these objects. That way, if clients implement it correctly, you can keep some retro compatibility or control on the way these _things_ are served.

Now that I think of it, this article[1] linked in a comment[2] on another story may answer your question better.

[1]: http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4870322l
For a second here, I was thinking this was an open source implementation of a decentralized Redis/Memcached store that caches and proxies API queries to the Twitter API - thus possibly presenting an approach to aggregating Twitter API calls and reducing API limit problems for consumers.

Sort of a "de-duplication" process for Twitter API calls.

But, it's not.
setcap solves the problem in the wrong way in this scenario imho: With setcap, any user could run node with a node script using ports < 1024.

What would be more useful is the ability to allow a _user_ to open a privileged port. In my option mappu's answer is the right way to go, i.e. using authbind to allow a certain user to open a port or a range of ports.
For some reason the URL and page say "search" on them...
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Absolutely agree. Late at night in the labs in MC, it is not uncommon to hear students arguing about functional vs. OOP paradigms or the relevancy of SQL in "big data".
this is the worst article i've ever read on this blog
Using facts and citations to back up your point? You sly dog!
If you would have pasted a larger part of the quote, you would have included the part of increasing the window size (e.g. window scaling, selective ACKs, like almost everything out there supports) and the mention of satellite links to refer to high latency conditions. And that notwithstanding that, we are talking about additional latency of microseconds against a typical delay of at least 30 milliseconds. "drop sharply" just doesn't apply here.

If you want to argue against DPI that's fine but "it'll make the Internet slower" comes off as whining plus you're fighting against the exponential effects of Moore's law. A quick Google search tells me there are several products that'll do line rate DPI at 10Gbps.

There are much better arguments to be made against DPI such as privacy, a slippery slope to a walled garden, or just plain unfairness.
It's like we have a bunch of Sisyphus clones running around.
Ask HN: Who do you use for donains/DNS?
Any recommendations? I'm with Mediatemple right now, but I'd like to have my domains separate to my hosting.
Non-Game uses of the Unity Engine
I think the bigger and more established the company, the more willing they are to allow telecommuting full time. I know people who work for Bank of America and IBM and they have never been to the office. Those companies have tens of thousands of employees, and the math just makes sense for them. Each remote employee is money saved on office space, parking passes, pots of coffee, etc.

For smaller companies, it seems to be harder to accept telecommuting. It could be that in smaller companies, the focus is growth, which is often aided by the type of face-to-face collaboration you get from having everyone in the office. Or it could be that bosses just don't trust what they can't see, and in smaller companies, they are in a better position to regulate it.

The strange part is, I am many times more productive working from home than in the office, and I have demonstrated it on many occasions at multiple companies. Sometimes I can get a whole week's work done in a few hours at home. Other times I sit in the office and surf the 'net all day, not getting any work done. The bosses have never complained when they catch people goofing off at work, as long as they put in a full day, but they are always suspicious of people who work from home, requesting email updates throughout the day.
Student group to sue Facebook over privacy concerns
"EPIC FAIL ... epic fail ... Epic Fail Whale"
$2400 for a 1 week virtual course on Linux?!!
I always wanted to sharpen my skills - are there any other courses that are more open source?
This is not worthy of "the sky is falling" levels of panic.

My experience with standardization efforts is that they generally run well behind the technology innovators. DPI has been around for a while. A DPI standard (or series of standards) out of the ITU will simply make public the baseline expectations of vendors and users of DPI systems.

On the other hand, CALEA has been on the books for over 15 years, and that is the kind of thing to watch out for -- it does mandate features that provide snooping to the government on demand.

(Speaking as someone who has implemented [shallow] inspection/filtering and CALEA-type features on comms equipment for markets both in and outside of the US.)
If you are on Solaris (10 or higher works from experience) you can grant a single user the ability to bind to the lower ports:

usermod -K defaultpriv=basic,net_privaddr ${user}

You can off course also assign the privileges to a role, and then assign the user that role so as required they can su to the role and use the privileges.

Here is a pretty neat description of what is possible and why it is pretty awesome: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4075-Less-known-Solaris-fea...

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On FreeBSD if you have the MAC framework enabled, you can use the portacl module to give new privileges:

sysctl security.mac.portacl.rules=uid:$user_id:tcp:80

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ma... for more information.
High-Frequency Trading: Networks of Wealth and the Concentration of Power
I always thought tl;dr was some sort of utf 8 encoded symbol or something that didn't come across on my browser.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4874152

The answer you are looking for in Solaris...
Which Tablet Is Right For You?
It's all emotion and no meat.

Yes, we get that you're mad at google for doing this, but explain the reasons. Why is this worse than ping? Do they have evidence yet that there are less reviews than expected? Are they different quality?

I wanted to read a rational argument as to why it's a bad idea, and I left hungry.
This statement might be correct (although I've never seen any evidence to support it), but it's still misleading because "forward the packet" is always going to require fewer resources than "read the packet, parse it using this set of algos, use the parse results to search your DB of shit you want to fuck with, optionally fuck with the packet, optionally forward the packet". An exception to this would be if you have big iron on the edge that protects resource-poor interior nodes. This situation is unavoidable sometimes (DDOS), but it's not what anyone should aim for.
I run a start up that works specifically in this space. We've done deals with some of the biggest MLS's in North America to get access to the raw data.

Look into "IDX" and "RETS". You'll need to sign agreements with the MLS to get access to this data.

Feel free to reach out to me through my profile. I'd be happy to talk it over with you and see if there is anything that the inroads my start up has made can assist you with.
I don't see how Google is losing with this. I doubt the store reviews matter to them. For example would it bother them if an app gets 50 reviews instead of 500? I wonder if this will make any difference to final review scores which is the real test.

There is a trend in many places to remove anonymity such as when commenting. Note how many places do not allow anonymous comments any more. Heck some only let you comment with an (allegedly) strong identity such as Facebook.

Google is always going to do what is in Google's interest - we really don't matter to them.
A Computer for Your Car's Windshield
Learn your talk as a bullet list not as a script. Know each slide and what it means: which bullet points it matches. Assume that you will ad-lib on the day. Put as little of the real text as you can into the slides themselves. Never read anything: not even a quote.

Have a go at doing your slides backwards (or at least your main slides if you tend to have lots of slides per topic).
Be sure that you are making a clear message at the end. Then have a go midway (pulp fiction style). Your message should still be clear.

You are fully prepared when you can click through your slides while (mostly) looking forward.
Google Cranks Up Its Patent Engine
I really like DNSimple.com. I've been a customer for over a year and highly recommend it.
Everyone gets interrupted. Why do we (developers) think that we're unique and should be the only ones immune to interruptions in the workplace?

Nearly everyone is going to work better with blocks of time dedicated to their task(s). How about we all (developers + non-tech people) work together to reduce the amount of noise that our companies generate so that everyone can be more efficient?
The dependency story becomes significantly less compelling if something like this proposed module system for C/C++ takes off: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832568
Is it weird that reading this news actually brought a tear to my eye? No, not because I am such a Disney or Marvel fan that I couldn't live without their content being available to stream at my convenience.

No... I just honestly think it's truly beautiful to see companies bring elements of what I always conceived would be part of "the future" into my actual (non-imaginary) life. I think this deal could perhaps finally solidify the Internet as being the mainstream medium of digital content delivery.

Don't worry, I'm not forgetting about iTunes. But this is DISNEY. Maybe I'm just biased because I was one of those 90s kids (not really so long ago!) with shelves full of Disney VHS's. Perhaps it's a strange trigger; but the breakneck speed of our innovative times has finally hit me.
Chemist here:

Drinking bottled water is like paying taxes twice. Drink tap water unless the taste is prohibitive.

This company seems just another gimmick. The only person who might have a clue of the chemistry going on is the "world expert" David Beeman, who chooses to entertain us with marketing gibberish rather than facts. The vocabulary is chosen to confound the chemistry-illiterate viewer and appeal to chemophobia.

Organic, BPA, PLA, vegan, plastic, "Catalytic activated coconut shell carbon", etc. I would like to have a chat with this "world expert".

A big chunk of the world would give everything they have for access to our tap water. Gimme a break with your pathetic fear mongering.
Timbuk2 still manufactures made-to-order products in America, where just-in-time production makes sense. Who is going to wait six weeks for a custom bag?

Price-minimized, zero-margin, off-the-shelf crap for big box stores are a different story. Then they can trade on their brand equity built with embroidered logo bags and sell trash to the mass market.
Well, chromium pops up a bar on the top with buttons for denying or accepting the request of the website to disable the cursor before it does anything.
"Sorry the princess doesn't put out. Let it go" - Really? (at the end of the level)
> As a Netflix subscriber, I'd rather see them signing more non-exclusive deals than fewer exclusive deals.

It seems like a deal like this would be more intended to attract customers of competing services than appease current subscribers (many of whom are overwhelmingly likely to resubscribe by default month after month). I could easily imagine people switching from <Amazon/Hulu/some 2016 subscription service> to Netflix because the former no longer has Disney content and the latter does.

I agree with you on Disney though - I don't really see the logic in it on their part, unless they foresee Netflix being enough of a monopoly in 2016 (possibly due in significant part to this deal itself - maybe they even expect other media titans to join in) that the sales from all competing services combined over whatever time period the deal covers would be less than the lump sum Netflix offered.
SoftLayer now provides MongoDB hosting
how do you pour the water out? don't you run into the same issue of taking that filter out? and the shame wastes so much space in the fridge, for better or worse, Brita ones are pretty efficient, space-wise
Full scale Millenium Falcon
I really like how hn has started "reporting" these kinds of app updates. It's great to see apps become first class citizens of the news feed.
There is a quote in this clip http://youtu.be/gQ3HEVelBFY?t=4m7s which goes: "we have to shift from long sequential thinking, to short parallel thinking". I think that because computers have permeated our lifes so much, they are enabling a new pattern of dynamic adjustment to the world around us. The article didn't persuade me this new pattern is unworkable – I believe focus is still attainable, it just requires a more complex kind of management.

Edit: nevermind, I think my comment is almost completely offtopic.