skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they just don't use standard text views and didn't go out of their way to re-enable it. Back in the early days of OS X, you'd see a lot of controls that looked like the real thing but acted in subtly different ways because they were re-implementations to add some minor feature.
I'm assuming that the various ISPs have agreements between each other to not expand onto each others "turf"? Otherwise how does competition not naturally spread? If they do, how do they get away with that?

More puzzling to me is how ISPs squash towns plans to implement their own networks.

I'm very ignorant on how things got so bad over in the US, I've always had a multitude of ISPs over here in England.
It's not. Burlington Vermont's City owned "Burlington Telecom" offers gigabit symmetrical.

http://www.burlingtontelecom.net/Residential/Internet/Broadb...
Danielle accepted his apologies and commented on his blog. Hopefully that gesture made him learn something - because by reading his apologies I feel he didn't fully understand what happened.

"I completely understand and respect your reasoning."

There are many things that I respect and understand but don't agree. I just hope this is not the case.
Wobble.js, 3d interaction with website elements.
> Until then, we recommend uninstalling Java if you don’t need it

This advice feels very rash to me. This vulnerability (and most Java vulnerabilities in its class) affects ONLY the Java browser plugin. Many users won't know if they need Java on their computer, and common services like GotoMeeting and others use it transparently. Telling them to uninstall it will cause support headaches for companies that have coached the user through Java installation in the past and now suddenly it's gone. The result will be that after wasted time on everybody's part, they'll end up reinstalling Java and will be vulnerable all over again.

It would be much better to include proper instructions for how to disable it (or set it in click-to-play mode) in the browser than telling people to uninstall it carte blanche.
Person is clearly a subclass of Mammal

Well, of course we'll need to use multiple inheritance. :-)

we should consider discarding the Suable typeclass

I would recommend keeping it as an interface definition, to make clear that it is a logically distinct thing; LegalEntity would just implement the interface.

Will the constitution refer to Person, or to LegalEntity?

Depends on the context, I would think. Sounds like we'll need plenty of coders to make this work... :-)

Why can't all LegalEntities be acted upon in the same way?

Obviously we haven't defined all the relevant interfaces and subclasses :-). The one you're looking for here is Jailable, which evidently would be implemented by Person but not Company, and so would not be implemented in the LegalEntity base class.

Obvious next question: what language do we start the implementation in? I vote for Python. Anyone for starting a github project?
"I won’t make any excuses for my actions even though it’s very challenging doing a startup and all I can say is I am still learning and it makes me hungry to try and do better."

Couldn't even make it a full sentence without contradicting himself. This is definitely not how to do an apology either.
>I think that WP will have a bigger userbase than RIM and I think that a better to compare against Android.

I think you're being extraordinarily optimistic. The latest numbers I could find quickly[1] show RIM with more than double the share of Microsoft, and with both showing a reduction in share vs. six months prior. You might be able to claim that people are abandoning RIM faster than they're abandoning Windows Phone, but even that is arguably because RIM is falling from a higher initial position.

The other problem is that .NET makes no sense for mobile apps, because neither of the two largest mobile platforms have good (if any?) support for it. Everyone who is not some kind of Microsoft evangelist is going to support Android/iOS first, which means they're not using .NET and are not going to worry about a Windows port unless Windows Phone gets enough share to be worth worrying about.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/30/comscore-android-us-marke...
The ending is the best part!

> If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering
> or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the
> Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system,
> is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
hacking is guessing. guessing is for niggers.

cereal-box decoder rings?
Sometimes we forget that the government is really a conglomeration of (mostly) normal people and just an amorphous blob of ludocracy.
i am reading David Deutsch's popular science book "the beginning of infinity", some of which of which seems to roughly line up with what you are saying here.

Deutsch argues that human progress is essentially due to the power of "good explanations", and the circumstances that allow good explanations to be generated, improved, error-corrected, and discarded in favour of better explanations.

Deutsch is critical of the idea that we should merely focus on predicting things rather than creating explanations for them.

There has been a lot of recent progress and excitement about the application of statistical/predictive ideas to business and industry - machine learning, "big data". However there there has been little (or no) progress in understanding how to generate explanations.

Deutsch argues that human creativity is a key component of the scientific method, that is often downplayed. We currently have no good explanation for how human creativity works, because if we did, he argues, we could go and program it tomorrow, and then we would have genuine AI.

(n.b. this is all hugely paraphrased and possibly misrepresents Deutsch's arguments. But another of Deutsch's arguments is that creativity on behalf of the human recipient allows ideas to survive transmission through awfully lossy mediums, such as this one)
I was under the impression that local governments offer them franchise agreements and keep competitors out.
Ask HN: Are there good books about computers that aren't textbooks?
If someone without a computer [science] background was interested in learning more about computers, what they can do, programming, etc., but did not want to read a textbook, what books would be good to recommend?
That is hilarious! Can we all vote on making Paul Shawcross the official responder to all WH petitions? Ok, maybe just the silly frivolous ones?
Data mining.

https://xkcd.com/882/
We definitely used that site clinically (STS risk score) when I was rotating through the CVSICU at JHH. I don't usually barf out whatever I'm thinking, but I figured some people on HN would also be interested to know that this is actively used.
There are a whole host of reasons:

1) Verizon isn't peddling a lucrative side business to multiply their return on network capital expenditures. Google Fiber is not only making money on the connection fees, but also making money when you use your newly-found bandwidth to put your documents on Google Drive where they mine it and sell your information.

2) The major network providers in the U.S. are the legacy of the telecom utility monopolies. They have enormous networks that are the result of mandates to serve not just Kansas City, but suburban and exurban and rural Kansas. Google has the advantage of starting fresh.

3) ISP's don't have a lot of incentive to do capital investments because they are natural monopolies (in addition to being the legacy of utility monopolies). So you need government involvement to introduce competition in one way or another. However, there are no votes for such involvement. As a practical matter, super speed internet is something that only makes economic sense right now to build out in urban areas. But districts in the U.S. are heavily gerry-mandered to the point where rural votes count for much more than urban votes. At the governmental level, if you want to bring super speed internet to Kansas City, the whole debate will get bogged down in "but what about rural Kansas?"

We look enviously at South Korea's high speed internet, but nobody ever points out that more than half of the country lives in Seoul If everyone in the U.S. lived in NYC we'd probably have awesome internet here.
I didn't know about the j & k keys in G+. Just tried it and it is a pretty good substitute for the space, though I do hope that gets fixed.
This is inspired. I don't think it would have been possible to pen a better response here. Even the call to action was brilliant.
So every 10 minutes you have a 50% of taking over the chain? If so, sounds like a guaranteed win if you have some time to spend.
Firefox is already shipping with pdf.js[1], which for me has obviated the need to have a PDF reader installed at all. And they're working on Shumway[2] for the ability to emulate Flash in Javascript.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
You may find http://www.astro.auth.gr/~tsagas/Publications/Journals/MNRAS... interesting if you haven't seen it already, suggesting FLRW could still be consistent with observations. But yeah, totally agree that this would be a neat simulation to run!
If you're just asking for point examples, Dropcam (my company) could stream at higher quality (1080p+) and/or support many more cameras per household.

At 1Gbps, cloud storage/backup becomes fast like local storage, but has the benefit of being geographically redundant.
They don't have agreements (which would be illegal), but they don't need them. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly.

When Comcast owns all the fiber in, say Chicago, it's pretty much impossible to encroach on their turf in a cost-effective way. Say Verizon wanted to come in. They'd have to build their own network, and so could never compete with Comcast on price because of the huge capital expenditure required.
Rovio active users closing in on Zynga at 263M
I think there is a distinction here that needs to be made: copyright is about the marketplace, not actual ownership. If I drew a mouse cartoon and really liked it, and maybe just showed it to my kids every year, I could keep it secret and I (or my heirs) could own it forever. The public isn't owed any private works or any compensation for what could-have-been in the public domain.

But if I want to commercialize this art, then I need to release it into the marketplace. As soon as it is released, it can be copied (or there will eventually be a technology to copy it). Therefore, copyright is society's (and the government's) way of protecting my ability to profit while making my art public. In exchage for that protection, the US laws used to impose (there was not choice, other than secrecy or copyright) the release into the public domain after a certain time.

The issue is, marketplace protection (legislation, enforcement) costs money. The richness of public domain material seemed to justify the cost on society. If copyrights become perpertual, it would make sense to me that the ones who benefit should pay for it. Then again, they could argue that an open marketplace full of desireable content is valuable in and of itself (to both society and the economy).
>There's very little pirating of content that is over 20 years old

There's an enormous amount of pirating of content that is over 20 years old.
The End of Crypto
Canada and Australia have it worse (bandwidth limits, etc).

Anyhow, the US government should make this a national priority. The faster the internet, the better the economic growth. How can the US continue to dominate (and/or influence) the internet if they do not have the proper infrastructure for it?

A clear message needs to be sent: the telecom/cable duopoly is no longer assured. A "put up" or shut up" attitude needs to be put in play. If they don't like it, then don't take subsidies.

There definitely needs to be more players in order for the market to function properly. I welcome Google or any other to change the game.
I am the target market for this. Unless I have to pay.
Any details about the deal? Cash or stock? Vesting? Last year the price of the Groupon stock dropped a lot, now it appears to be stable, but ...

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/grpn/interactive-chart?timefram...
Why is Google insisting on the use of NativeClient?

Not insinuating anything, but a NaCl-compiled distributed task would be an excellent fit for farming out to unsuspecting browser clients. (Reminds me about that sneaky javascript-based bitcoin miner that was injected on a few web sites some time ago)
The book Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing doesn't read like a textbook to me, and it's quite interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmics-Spirit-Computing-David-Ha...

The New Turing Omnibus

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Turing-Omnibus-Excursions/dp/0...

is also good, as is Code by Charles Petzold.

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...

AFTER EDIT: While I thought about the first three books I mentioned, I thought of another, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine by Randall Hyde.

http://www.amazon.com/Write-Great-Code-Understanding-ebook/d...
Seems they have not altered the deal to respond to petitions if it hits a threshold. Let's pray these responses are not altered in the future.
"The Administration does not support blowing up planets."

I guess we're going to have to wait until the Republicans are back in the executive branch.
I assume you mean Groupon suckers people out of money, not Glassmap. As far as I can tell Glassmap never charged anyone anything, so either they're really good at suckering local businesses out of money, or they weren't doing so.

I also have some issues with Groupon's business practices (mainly, in that they have taken relatively unsophisticated small businesses for a ride at times, and the early cash-out by their finance guys was shady), but:

1) Glassmap looks like a mostly-tech/design team, and are good people. They're not going to be involved in anything shady, and are moral/ethical enough that they're exactly the kind of people you want to have working at a company like Groupon.

2) Groupon actually works great for certain kinds of businesses. For someone with high customer acquisition costs and good lifetime value, and low marginal cost, it's amazing. Like, "get one free laser hair removal session for $25", works great when you then sell the resulting 5 sessions at a "special discount of 25% if you pay after the first session". It's shitty for something like an airport restaurant, and in some cases those businesses stupidly went with the daily deals because they didn't think it through.

In a few years, I suspect the daily deals model will be evolved even more, and local/mobile will have a lot to do with that.
Testing Software Passionately, Together
In the UK our situation is much better, although BT owns most of the physical cable "Local loop unbundling" forces them to share their lines with competitors.

It seems in the US the only people you can buy from own the physical infrastructure. Once one company has already built their network in an area they form a natural monopoly - it's not economical for competitors to come in and rebuild the network when they know they'll only be able to get a certain % of households to switch.
The US should do what it does for gas mileage (CAFE Rules). A national roadmap for bandwidth speed (and latency).
Correct with one important caveat: because * is a shell expansion, it will not process any directories starting with a ".". e.g., imap maildir directories.
None of these points have anything to do with an intrinsic value for bitcoin; all of them presuppose that bitcoin is intrinsically valuable.

Bitcoin can be worthless and yet hard to counterfeit; I can sign a random number right now and it's worth nothing. I can Tweet that number or create a permanent record in any number of other ways.

Your second point is the same as your first; it again presumes that there is some value to bitcoin.

I can store a lot of things without meaningful cost. That doesn't make them valuable. My application server with seven gigs of dev logs isn't a treasure trove either, despite the ease with which I managed the data relative to bars of gold.

Bitcoins are easier to transfer than gold coins. That is true. But spent facial tissue is also easier to transfer than gold.

You can form contracts with all manner of instruments, from cows to gravel to pork bellies. Every commodities trader in Chicago has a story about a friend of a friend who ended up with a garage full of pork when they failed to sell a futures contract in time.
You should check out iperf as well.
Not in all countries, in fact, in most countries governments consist of goblins. I think there is a correlation between the national wealth and the percentage of normal people in the government.
I'm not sure what I would need to see to believe that someone who was such an asshole isn't anymore, but this ain't it.
Yeah, it's really interesting what happens if you sell to a company which is having tough times in the stock market in a largely-stock deal. If you had something (either tech or a great team) who could help turn it around, you could have a lot of the upside of a successful startup, with less risk.

Turning Groupon around is probably easier than making an arbitrary startup successful, too.

I guess it depends on what kind of problems you like to solve. You could probably find a bunch of scale-related or efficiency problems at a lot of faltering larger companies during a turnaround, so if that's your thing, that might be better than overbuilding an earlier stage startup.
That was my take on it too. If your going to apologize, why not call it an apology...
I'm living in a small beach town in Vietnam and I can get fiber directly to my house now. That this is easier here than it was for me in Oakland should really be a source of shame.
From the article:
>Computers & Tele-Comm, Inc. (CTC) has been offering a 1 gigabit wireless service in Kansas City since before Google Fiber

Why Kansas City is getting all the love?
John McAfee Movie in the Works at Warner Bros.
Coding for Good finalist makes the cut by copying Instamatch - is that original?
I just spent 3 weeks of my life making a unique program to submit to the Coding for Good challenge. I see that one of the three finalists simply copied a memory game like Instamatch. The rules said that submissions must be original.

If a contest says "all submissions must be original", do you think it means that only the code must be original, or the whole concept?
Education Reform in Indonesia Likely to Backfire
I am stuck with 5 Mbps for $50 sadly.
Maybe this will be the final nail in the coffin of the java browser plugin. I can only hope...
That really captures the truth of the whole matter! +++++
Still super flaky. Alternating between Application Error and half-loaded pages. :(
I was wondering when it makes sense to use MapReduce graphs at work? And how it works in a real setting?
What operating system are you using? It looks great on OS X 10.8.2.
Erwin Schrodinger would not like a word with you.
Slight correction: the C64 certainly had raster interrupts, see http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Raster_interrupt
Now that they write a joke response to a joke petition, it would be nice to see a serious response to a serious petition.
This is one of the best things I've read all day ;)
It's not actually, but ...

I work at Penn State (one of the Internet2 participants) and have blazing fast internet at work. I've clocked it as high as 485MBps. When I go home (to a small village 4 miles from the campus), I have to suffer with Verizon DSL, Comcast cable modem service or a similarly rated line of sight radio service.

Verizon planned to install FiOS in central PA, but the FiOS roll-out has been cancelled. Why can't I have high-speed and affordable Internet at home? Because the ISPs don't want me to get used to it. Nor do they want me to know how much they've been overcharging me the last 15 years.
It didn't recognise the cat in this picture (http://i.imgur.com/TgFaJh.jpg) so I'm doubtful of it's practicality.
Windows 8 Usage Sinks Below Vista Levels
Groupon is actually a Big Thing. You might have heard about the economy having a downturn, and tons of young people being stranded without great careers?

Well it turns out Groupon allows them to live the lifestyle the media has led them to expect, and people across the country are buying Groupons on a daily basis.

Have you checked out the site recently? For a random trip to Groupon, I'm more likely to buy something than I am through Amazon's recommendation system. It's gone from a coupon a day gimmick to a remarkable candyland of consumption.

Remember how much you liked Woot? Groupon is a bit like woot on DMT. Except old people who type 'google' into their bing toolbars bring up what they bought on Groupon yesterday, when they've never heard of Woot.

Groupon has some of the highest customer service and business satisfaction ratings in the industry. (Apple has them beat though. So maybe they are crap. heh)

They have problems, thats for sure. And while they're profitable, they aren't 'magic' profitable. But I've managed to start letting go of the bitterness that came from the fact that I could have thought of the idea, and the fact that all it took was an idea 'anyone' could have had to launch the business (no genius technical skills or miracles of operations) and begun to embrace Groupon. Coupons to restaurants out of my price range have helped me seal the deal in two relationships so far. I've bought well-received presents for family and friends from their Goods program. I see they have a Point of Sale system that seems to be appearing in more and more businesses in my area. They have a square alternative. They have an unheard-of calendaring system that helps shitty non-tech businesses schedule appointments and incentivize slow periods , and it doesn't even have competition, period.

Yeah, they should have kissed ass on Hacker news a bit more. I don't think Mason even reads this site. But in the end, aren't we a bit of a circlejerk here?

No, Groupon is a very Real Thing. They have business relationships with every business in the country they're interested in. Their competitors are dying off. The cat has sprayed a Groupon logo on as many businesses as have a Twitter or Facebook sticker in their windows. And they're in an interesting phase now. Mason may be on the way out. The founding work may have been done. The product lines may be settled. "Real" management may be on it's way in, and they have a juicy company to cut fat from and pour resources into the right directions.

I'd stake my etrade on it.
essentially ...

"Market research group Net Applications, a research service that tracks traffic across 8,000 affiliates' sites and 3 million registered users, reports that Windows 8 at the end of December accounted for a mere 1.72 percent of traffic."
Just hilarious! May the Force be with you!
From what I've read, the national government is a lot more consistent and essentially "good" than some of the local government leaders, which is kind of the opposite of the US.

(I'd still far prefer the US to China, and don't think either the US or China are perfect, but most China's regional governments seem to be really bad even in comparison to the national government.)
Ouch, Ross, you're getting a well deserved flogging. In case your apology was just a step in the direction of understanding that you are probably kind of an ass, I think you owe it to yourself to make more steps in that direction and then changing. I can only imagine what it must feel like to deal with such a public flogging among your peers, so I am even somewhat sympathetic, but I hope you take this experience as a humbling experience that makes you accept and internalize that it might just be that so many people might just not be wrong.

I look forward to you emerging as only having an asshole, and not you being it.
Because NaCl is a fully sandboxed way to run full-performance native code.
Why Are Investors In Like With Facebook Again?