skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's generally unkind to come in and trash other peoples' work, especially when it's work that is something designed to help make others' jobs easier and is being open sourced.
People who didn't upvote it aren't, either
Wireless Carriers Price Data Like it's a Precious (and non-renewable) Commodity
You're right. I'm going to delete the submission. I thought they authorized it being on the internet, but I don't know for sure.
Just saw the FAQ, thanks.
Even if you trust the Obama administration implicitly, I do not believe you can trust every subsequent administration not to abuse the powers given them, or indeed in this case simply use them.

By the way, he's actually drafting such a bill, he said so an hour or so ago in his filibuster.
I dumped it into a file out of habit, which sort of ruined the effect. I did wonder why a ~300 line textfile took so long to DL, though.
Our attorney general isn't capable of handling a "stupid" question?

That's a primary qualification for the job, isn't it?
While I love your site, I have to respectfully disagree with much of what you are saying here.

First, I agree on one main point--your site is not a "startup" or even really a "company" at this point. That said, you still very much have a product, and you are actively monetizing it.

But then let's get into this point by point...

You say that your ads are "non-targeted" but that is not at all accurate. Just because you aren't doing anything actively to target it, doesn't mean Google isn't. Google's AdSense network has a TON of targeting on the back-end that is determining what ads to serve. This can be based on the profile of the user, retargeting lists they may be a part of, the category of site Google has you categorized as (possibly health?) etc. Your ads are VERY targeted. That is actually part of the beauty of the AdSense product.

The second point I really take issue with is that you don't seem to think your site falls into the "if you're not paying for it, you're the product" bucket. Or at least that's how I parsed what you wrote there (apologies if I was off on that).

People aren't paying for your product, and so you are making money by serving them ads. By the nature of it, any ad-supported site falls into that bucket. You require more user impressions/eye balls and that is what you are "selling" to advertisers/Google. This is not inherently evil, and I don't think one needs to prey on their users to leverage advertising. That doesn't mean the saying doesn't apply to them though.

Again, I like what you're doing and think the single banner is a tactful approach (although you'd probably make a lot more by recommending sleep/health-related products and using affiliate links). But those two things you said just aren't accurate so I wanted to clarify on those a bit.
> However, the idea that the CFAA is the best we can do in the way of legislation is just laughable. I really can't stand this futile notion that because the law can't be totally perfect, we might as well just give up and allow it to be catastrophically bad. No to that. We can't make it perfect but we can make it a lot better than it is.

You're exactly right but careful about what you're arguing against. I don't think anyone is actually claiming that CFAA is the best achievable law we could have, or that we shouldn't try to improve it (even if we accept that the law will be mostly written and almost completely enforced by those without technical training in computers and networking).
I'm just lamenting to no one in particular that in the universe of available words/acronyms/abbreviations to describe projects we have as many collisions as we do. If I had to choose (ugh), DJB's NaCL acronym is at least more specific to its purpose than NaCl meaning "Native Client" just to make a salt + pepper pun. I guess all I'm saying is that if I ever write an open-source slab allocator, I won't call it OpenSSl.
"Before" meaning 2008. Every year after they gave out freebies. Further that is irrelevant regardless given that the pre-sales isn't to some sort of "loyal since 2008" group, but rather is whoever happened to get in the prior year. And I believe such pre-sales have only happened for the past two years.
Bitcoin can't stay cheap forever, either more people use it and it has to gain value (because its so small at the moment) or people stop using it and the value ends at 0.

Those are your two options. Grow until the Bitcoin economy is worth some 10 Billion at least, or it'll be evidently dead and close to 0.

Its much more unlikely Bitcoins will stay around $20 - $60 for the next 5 years. (Although still possible)
I prob wouldn't mix the term 'Economics 101' with a early adopter currency that has fluctuated between $0.001 and $50 in less than 5 years and between $5 and $50 in the last 10 months.
[meteor dev] Ted and Nick found the issue. The site was running in development mode (what you get with "$ meteor run") instead of the direct bundle. That's now fixed.

In development mode, we wrap the whole application inside a monitoring process that includes a proxy server. It's how we support hot code push on a laptop, among other things. But it's not a configuration we intended for production use at scale. We'll think about how to make a clearer recommendation in the docs.
A: I'm concerned you have the power to do x. Do you have such a power?

B: Well, I haven't used it yet, and probably won't.
Similar beginning, different goals :)
It's not only inflation. The argument is making more low-skilled youngsters unemployable and thus preventing them from stepping on the lowest step of the skills ladder which eventually would take them to higher wages. It also precludes people that are unable to generate enough value to justify minimum wage from earning any income instead of completely relying on state assistance. Inflation can be counteracting this - since if dollar costs less, eventually the value of it would fall low enough so that value generated by an unskilled worker is worth the dollars state prescribes to pay him - but that'd take time, and getting on the dole is easier than getting off.
I think the key part of the story is the market research the guy does to confirm his idea is solid:

At the time, back in 2004, they were kind of the place to figure out what Google searches were happening and what people were looking for. I did a very simple bit of market research. I did a Word Tracker search for “Ferrari rental New York City.” Very straightforward keyword search.

I first did the actual search, and nothing came up. I said, “Okay, well, all right, am I the only one searching for it?” So then, with a combination of the Yahoo keyword tool at the time and Word Tracker, came up with an estimate that somewhere between 50 and 100 people per month were searching for the phrase “Ferrari rental New York.” That’s just New York City. It had nothing to do with any other part of the country.

Essentially, he did that before moving forward on other steps. Is market research one of the "Top 10 Traits of Successful Founders"?
We could introduce popular control of government between elections. I believe this is called "direct democracy". (It may introduce other problems, of course.)

Our election process is totally broken. The parties are the kingmakers. They have vast fundraising and promotional networks that extend into every state and key regions of each state, with powerful connections to incumbent governments. Which is kind of surprising because it seems like neither party is very good.

The only other network that has that kind of reach is the Internet. think it's worth thinking about the possibility that the internet could displace traditional political parties.
Happened to me this morning with the Coca-Cola thing. Was around #6, got bombed to the mid-80's
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It is my impression that BTC are mostly used by people who either a) want to stock up for the future "just in case" or b) want to minimize their digital paper trail for online purchases.

Think of it as "cash" but for the online world. Some people pay cash for everything possible just to eliminate the paper trail. Not because they have anything to hide, but just to reduce their digital footprint. A noble goal, I think, and one that I'm glad to see is starting to become a realistic goal online.
I'm running a boilerplate firefox and on first load, I saw the same thing.
Inspectacle — Commenting for Dropbox images and files
For fun, my partner Ryan and I built something on top of Dropbox to help me get feedback designs as I work.

http://inspectacle.com

The web-app attaches a Disqus comment interface to any image you save to your Inspectacle Dropbox folder. For example, here is a to-do app I was mocking up http://www.inspectacle.com/users/4088146/file?path=%2FchoreUI.png — feel free to leave me a comment on it.

I attempted to make any linked file the focus of the page, by hiding the comment UI under the comment/view count, and by hiding all interface while you scroll.

After you connect your Dropbox account it should take you to your file index. If you do not see a getting_started.png file please check out this one: http://www.inspectacle.com/users/4088146/file?path=%2FGetting_Started.png

If anyone finds this useful we plan on adding the following:
-.psd, .ai, etc browser-rending
-commenting on specific versions
-short-links

Any and all critique (both on the Visual Design and Product) is appreciated!
How would it be different? show more times in the morning? The 90 minute cycles it shows you are still valid 45 minute cycles too...

I assume you need more cycles than people who have 90 minute cycles?
Well you were being a bit dishonest; the actual maximum sentence was 50 years. :P

> Why does trespassing onto a network fit into a category of crimes for which prosecution can (and does) seek worse punishment than for actual physical assault?

In a word: automation. It can be (note: doesn't mean always is) entirely different in scope to be a network trespasser than to trespass in real life.

The Allies executed Germans after WWII who never so much as met their victims, based only on the fact that they wrote, approved and otherwise perpetuated policies that caused millions on the same continent to later perish.

I'm not trying to say that Aaron or anyone else is killing people obviously, just that there's a lot of things you can conceivably affect on a computer network, which might make a computer-related charge even more serious than a similar charge in real life.
Nice one. I like how it does not depend on the rate parameter
There's a big one missing from this list that is somewhat recent.

Selling the placement of audience segmentation/retargeting cookies on a publisher's site to a data aggregator like Bluekai (typically on a CPM bases) who then sells that aggregated data to DSPs/DMPs for use in display advertising.

If you want to learn about a whole different layer of the ad tech industry, just start perusing some of the questions on Quora for Bluekai (http://www.quora.com/BlueKai) and then do some digging on the companies in the Data Aggregator and Data Supplier buckets of the LUMAscape for display advertising (http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/display-ad-tech-lumas...).
Today's Google Plus improvements are nice, if minor
Just signed up and downloaded the Android app. I saw this in your EULA:

When buying or selling bitcoin, you are buying or selling from Coinbase directly. Coinbase does not act as an intermediary or marketplace between other buyers and sellers of bitcoin.

What's the effective exchange rate for customers? You already say you take 1% of each transaction; is the exchange rate tied to the current trading price of one of the major exchanges, or are you setting that yourself (like retailers do for foreign currency)?

I imagine you're doing some of your own arbitrage, here. That's fine as long as prices keep going up. What happens if prices crash and a bunch of people put in buy orders? I assume this is where the 48hr window you give yourself to "retrieve offline funds" comes in. In that event, what price do your customers pay? The market rate when they put in the buy order, or the rate 48 hrs later when you deliver the bitcoins?

It's an intriguing and exciting service, but I fear you're either leaving yourself open to massive liability, or are going to be forced to screw over your customers in the event of rapid swings in the value of BtC.
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My guess is that a LOT of the Bitcoin owners today are early adopters that own very little BTC as a novelty and/or with the idea that "Hey, who knows. Maybe my 4 BTC will be worth $1000s in a few years".

This makes for a super volatile market. Especially coupled with the new Mining ASIC rigs coming to market, small volume trading etc.

I would suspect that it will take a LONG time before we see if/how the 'currency' will actually stabilize.

One must remember, less than 5 years ago, BTC were selling for $0.001! Today it topped out at around $50.
I've been concerned about this for a long time. The USPS has operated without government funding for years but is in the hole because they have been forced to pay more into the civil service retirement fund than needed.

I consistently get better service from USPS than from FedEx, UPS, or any competitor, at a far better price. They're also the second largest employer in America.

While I admit this article is a tad political, I would like to raise awareness of this as it is really a critical problem. UPS, FedEx, etc, will not go out of their way to deliver your mail in emergencies. USPS will. The post office is truly a staple of our country, and I would hate to see it go.
While due process doesn't mandate a trial or situation-specific court review, it's hard to argue that it doesn't demand input from any other federal branch at all.

I would entirely agree that the AUMF (which underpins the administration's policy on the use of drones) is overbroad and that Congress should either drastically narrow its scope or consider rescinding it completely after US troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014, after which we would arguably no longer be in a state of war.

Likewise, I think it's past time for Congress to develop legislation on the scope of military technology - not least because we are approaching or already at the point where we have technology capable of automatically identifying and firing on targets more quickly and accurately than any human. We don't have the technology for making ethical or legal determinations about the rightness of targeting someone; I'm talking purely about the physical capabilities of machines v. humans.

Only Congress can bind the Executive on such matters. The incumbent administration can eschew any intention of using drones domestically (as they have done) but can't bind future administrations.
All of those issues exist already. The main distinction is that wearable computers 1) have an even easier form factor to expedite surveillance and 2) the whole "continuous connection to the cloud" fear of footage and data being uploaded. Certainly the latter issue can also apply to smartphones, but this is more literally in your face.
Yeup.

Volatile thing continues to be volatile hardly seems to be news.
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Screenwriting may be atypical, but arithmetics that produces this problem is very typical. If you set a minimal price for certain item, that makes anybody holding the same item with lesser value effectively unable to sell it. If you set a minmal price for a car at $20k, you wouldn't be able to sell a used car once its value fell below $20k. Selling one's services abides by the same laws - price floor means excluding items with value less than the floor.
Neither did John Gotti's. You could as easily claim Aaron's guilty because Carmen Ortiz thought so.
... and, back to $34.
speculators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Why both redis and memcached?
that's pretty much what I'm doing. I bought 3 on the chance that they pop up at some point. I'm not fully convinced of their stability, and I'm not going to drop thousands into it until I feel better about it- just don't have the funds or risk appetite for that much outlay.
The overwhelming majority of app users would not pay a cent for any app, much less a game.

Free sells.
I sent Coinbase the following email:

I paid for bitcoins on Feb 27, 2013. My natural assumption was that bitcoins will be deposited into my account in the next couple of days. It did not happen: the transaction was marked "pending". After a week, I suddenly hot an email saying: "Unfortunately, we have decided to cancel this order because it appears to be high risk."
I must say that this response is quite disappointing. Accusing an honest new customer excited about your new product of potential fraud as the first communication from coinbase.com is probably the worst thing a company can do for its PR.
This has been a valuable lesson for me that accusing customers of fraud before they actually commit it is not a great way of promoting a new service. I saw posts to this end on news.ycombinator.com (i.e. do not use Coinbase to purchase bitcoins), but I ignored them and tried anyway...

The result was: "we have white listed your account", so now I am free to buy bitcoins at 30% more than what I wanted to.
I cannot explain to them that the attitude "guilty until proven innocent" will cost them more in good will of new users long term than the actual money lost on fraud otherwise, had they relaxed their insane risk controls.
Comic sans is nothing compared to its much more distinguished brother comic serif (https://typekit.com/fonts/comic-serif-pro)
For Costco, probably not - I won't drive as far as Mexico for some cheaper eggs :)
Meanwhile: Bitcoin gains nearly 10US$ in less than an hour
There is a lot of variance in sleep cycles between individuals, between nights, between different types of sleep. Saying 'a sleep cycle is 90 minutes' is like saying 'The left side of the brain is for logic'. There is a rough element of truth there, but nothing to hang your hat on.

Source: once worked as an overnight sleep lab technician, collaborated with sleep specialists in next job working for the lab equipment maker.

Also, a timer with 90 minute steps inherently includes 45-minute steps. If you do desperately want the in-between steps, it's a trivial mental calculation on the four steps you do get given at the site.
There's no good Github-like service for Word/Excel/etc that's appreciably better than passing redlined documents back and forth.

Considering the amount of changes, and the terrible interface that Word has for viewing history/tracking changes, Google Docs is perfect for making these kinds of edits, reviewing history and tracking changes. To top it off, legal documents have none of the "requirements" of the "extra features" that people normally complain about when it comes to why they can't stop using Microsoft Office products.

They could still print them out, red-line them by hand, and keep legal assistants employed who update the canonical on-line version.

I've received attachments from someone sent to multiple people with instructions of "make your changes and send it back to me". And then the sender spends time manually merging people's changes into a single document. What a waste.

The amount of effort and time saved in not having to keep track of the most recent version from the multitude of revisions that litter your inbox as attachments and which one is/should be considered canonical would more than make up for any other perceived drawback.

It's purely momentum that keeps MS Office entrenched in this area.
I don't know if other thunderbolt displays (are there any yet?) support it, but Apple's do not support daisychaining a display through another display.
> I realize the diagram is likely heavily over-simplified, but what's the reason for the nginx layer

probably to load balance between unicorn instances in the particular amazon EC2 instance
It's interesting how 'Bitcoin falls $10!!' is news, while the fact that it's gone up 50%+ in less than a month, and over 1000% in 1 year somehow is not.
Germany is also practically communist when compared with the USA. It has a public healthcare system, invented the modern welfare state and up until recently used its conscription laws to get young adults to staff its nursing homes and ambulances (amongst other things) for about €3/hour.
By the way, pro cycling had pretty much managed to kick its doping habit. You've seen all of the scandals over the past few years because they got more serious about cracking down on it, and once a few of the top pros were caught, they pointed the finger at the others. I think that most people believe that the last few Tours have been clean.
Ever hear of "free samples"? How about $0.00 for the part and $0.00 for shipping.

So many chip manufacturers will send a few parts to whoever wants to order them.

Atmel sample store:
https://secure.atmel.com/forms/secure/verifylogin.aspx?targe...

For students on a budget, or anyone interested in electronics, you should be ordering free samples.

May latest score is two ADXL362 chips, normally sell for ~$9 each in qty 1. I got them shipped express from asia, totally free.

I've gotten tons of microcontroller chips, small graphic LCDs (as well as the associated touch-screens), even a laptop touchpad, all types of LEDs, and many other components. My workbench would make most EE labs blush, and a lot of it was totally FREE, including shipping.
>Further that is irrelevant regardless given that the pre-sales isn't to some sort of "loyal since 2008" group

But there is a presale aimed at exactly this group.

They've had the "I/ON" group (aka "loyal since 2008") since 2010, if I remember correctly. There was no presale but it also took 90 days for the 2010 conference to sell out, so it wasn't like you needed one. The 2010 I/ON group got priority seating at the keynote, a different T-shirt, and some other trinkets.

In 2011 they did presale for I/ONs two weeks prior to general registration, and a presale for other 2010 attendees one week prior to open registration (and only for attendees who paid full price in 2010, not academic discounted tickets).

2012 had just a presale for I/ONs, no early registration at all for 2011 attendees.
Keep in mind that surgeons had plenty of empirical evidence that hand washing saved lives; but refused to adopt the discipline for several decades claiming, among other things, that doctors did not have time to keep washing their hands.
The thing is, it doesn't matter. As far as I know, nobody prices anything in Bitcoins, they price things in USD/AUD/<insert currency> and then convert that amount to Bitcoins for the transaction.

You might end up paying 1.00 BTC, or 0.6 BTC, but it still works out to the be same in USD/AUD/<currency> (numbers made up for example)
In my opinion, the app is not deserving of 5 stars. The mechanics are grating and difficult to use. I spent 3 minutes trying to draw a path on level 10, and every time after rounding the corner a that I did not intend to change would change. After a while, I gave up and deleted the app. It looks nice, but there are more fundamental flaws in the gameplay.
Just looking at Mt. Gox, the volume in each hour of the day is such a small representation of the overall amount of BTC out there, it seems perfectly reasonable you'd see such crazy swings. Most hours it seems there is <= 5,000 volume. If there is no real liquidity when buying or selling any instrument, the price will swing.
Yep. I am pretty much acting the same way. I have a few BTC that I got years ago and a small ASIC mining rig ordered just 'For teh lulz'.
if you game isn't good enough to be in the IGF then may be it isn't high quality enough to succeed with out cheating the app store. therefore indoor game devs should strive to make these unique games instead of piling same old clones into the app store and resort to cheating to get noticed