skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are countries where this is being done. Uruguay is tiny and highly urbanized, but it's got a goal of achieving this very thing. Every phone line in the country, there are only about 900,000, comes with free no cost broadband. You get 1GB of traffic free, an extra GB of traffic if you visit educational sites associated with One Laptop Per Child. Speaking of which, every child in the country gets a laptop, so they can get online.

So they've achieved two goals of universal access already. They gave everybody a computer and everybody a slow but free internet connection.

Now that they achieved that, they are rolling out fiber to the country. So far it's just in some neighborhoods of the capital, but if you can get it's a pretty good deal 120M fiber connection for $83 USD per month. Beyond fixed line internet, there's 3G/4G coverage over every city/town/village with good bandwidth (i got 5m up / down last time i tried it).

How did they do this? The government treats getting good internet access as a human right. There's ANTEL, a state telco monopoly which sees it's mission as getting everybody online. There's a viable threat that if ANTEL didn't do it's job, the market could be opened to competition. Bridging the digital divide is a national priority and so Uruguay has chosen to invest heavily in making sure everybody's included and online. As a result, Uruguay has the highest internet penetration rates in Latin America.

Other parts of the state, like the energy company is well on it's way to eliminating the need of fossil fuels for electricity production, primarily through hydro and wind power.

Utilities are precisely places where the state can, has, and should continue to provide a common level of service everybody can expect. Getting universal internet access, cheap and fast, is something any country can achieve if they decide it's important. If a tiny country in south american you've never heard of with $15k gdp per capita and 3.8 cows per person can do it, the wealthiest country in the world should be able to pull it off.
Ask HN: Do you use Simple?
Does anyone use Simple? I use Bank of America and satisfied with them. Is an online-only bank a good reason to switch? BofA has a good app and photo deposits just like Simple.
I think it is. I don't know the rules, but I've never heard a US English speaker use an entity like "Disney" as plural. That said, "the police" is always plural, and I have no idea why that's different.
Could a mod correct the title which is currently misleading.
http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing... Wasn't this on here a few days ago?
Why stop at email?

`$ send_condoms --amount 2 --size normal`
You can also do something similar with TN visas with Canadians & Mexicans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status
It uses another auto trick: if the leading character is '=', the result is treated as a formula.

Thus, you can actually write formulas in your CSV and excel will interpret appropriately:

$ cat test.csv
=1+1,="1-5"
$ open -a Microsoft\ Excel test.csv

You should see the value '2' (with content `=1+1`)
The artist could go that route, and the lawyers and insurance companies will win.
And there is so much more value that comes from them providing this.
See the comment below about rarity for individuals, but note that basically every town or city has the power to write a similar compulsion to force a cable company to carry a community access station as a price for operation. If all you want is to get some airtime for a non-commercial message, you can probably go to a community access channel for free.
The geolocalisation of most frequent tags was already done by pornmd : http://www.pornmd.com/sex-search
As many others pointed out, just as with poverty/healthcare/$other_big_problem this is not a monetary issue, it's a cultural one.
The Currency Network - CCYNET – Online Startup Ecosystem TV Channel
I have no idea how git works. Where do they tell you? I'm curious to learn.
It looks like images get loaded. However, CSS doesn't, which breaks a lot of sites (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/).

This is in the latest Firefox Nightly build, and available as a pref in older Firefox versions, so you can play with it too.
What are we supposed to do with a bunch of slides? Guess what the talk was?
You messed up the numbers in the sense that it's $11 billion over 5 years, not annually. So you're over by a factor of 5.
are you on Windows or Linux? Would be great if you could help us to migrate it.

hoodie is basically CouchDB + node.js, nothing fancy. We just do local DNS magic, creating *.dev domains like http://pow.cx/, that is only compatible with Mac atm
a fellow Italian driver?
What is Platform As A Service (PaaS)?
Another comparison: Yahoo Finance says Time Warner Cable's income in 2011 is ~$20B. I'm not sure I understand why $2B/year for five years is a big obstacle. Reaching 15% of the US cable market (60M households in Q42011 per Nielsen) is 9M subscribers, which at $120/month (current Google Fiber cable replacement rate) is $12B/year.

Anyone else understand why this is poor ROI? Obviously network construction is only part of the operational cost of a big network. But if it's a tiny part, then it seems even stranger that it's being presented as an obstacle. Internet-only rates would be ~$6B/yr, but that has substantially less overhead cost of content associated.
Wake me when someone creates an TB expansion worth having at costs that aren't prohibitive.

The only thing that TB can do that USB3 can't right now is either running multiple very high-res displays, or putting the graphics card off-motherboard.

I'd love to pair a MB Air with a "desktop dock" that had it's own graphics system and replacing all my connectors other than power and TB.
Ah, yes, you're right. Sorry.

For what it's worth I was grumpy in those situations too. I wrote polite letters. Where possible I opted out.

But your point - this kind of this happens all the time, and has been going on for years, and noone is doing anything to stop it even though it's wrong - is taken.
* Disclaimer - I wrote the post
Thanks for suggesting I look young :)

I have a hard time taking advice from young people too. Well ... until Brian Wong, schooled me during a tech conference we were both panelists for.

A lot of super smart valley entrepreneurs "bypass" what it takes to be a well rounded business person ... I guess. But I doubt that has anything to do with age, and more to do with the current frothy acquisition and funding environment.
NodeFly Buzz profiles BirdReader with Glynn Bird
I suppose this is inevitable. The speed advantage is pretty impressive. And the ability to run everything on your "desk" over one cable to the "computer" is pretty handy too. Seem's like the NeXT cube [1] was only a bit more than 20 years before its time :-)

[1] http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/2006/0611.html
$11b to destroy a media and internet distribution monopoly?

Owning the distribution can allow them to enter markets that don't seem so crazy when you consider that google could do offer a YouTube user an upgrade to publish their channel to their local market for a fee.

There are probably a dozen things I can't think of that Google can do with a media monopoly so I'm not ready to say that $11b is too much.
Oh my! You are right: http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm (business week) shows that the H-1B is used mostly by Indian Outsourcing companies. It's the "outsourcing visa".

If companies want to outsource there is little capital controls preventing them. There doesn't need to be these "inexepensive labor" U.S. government provided subsidies for big companies in the form of guest workers.

I'd recommend vaccinations for expatriate managers and not more "outsourcing visas".
My apologies. I'll rephrase the question slightly.
Something i've been working on.
It's pretty basic yet >.<
https://github.com/gabriel-felipe/MagicHTML
Arduino sales-o-matic: nerdest way to visualize your startup sales
One thing that Canada has in it's favour is that for competent CS graduates, you're competing with stultifying companies rather than companies in the SF bubble. PagerDuty is one of those companies that I expect Canada would've been happy to keep, and we're loving it in SF, but we're fighting with a lot of similar companies for people.

This year, we opened up an office in Toronto, and even though our standards are the same (exact same interview process everywhere) we've had a measurably easier time attracting CS talent.
From the article:

That means insecure scripts, stylesheets, plug-in contents, inline frames, Web fonts and WebSockets are blocked on secure pages, and a notification is displayed instead.

That seems to me like a complete list and does not include images.
We could also eliminate first past the post hiring by having a defined period for H1-B submissions and only letting in the highest paid 100000 that are submitted.
What is it with scoops of ice cream and HN? First there was http://django.2scoops.org/ and now http://www.zerocater.com/? People should use porn instead, much larger market.
has* ?
Ask HN: What is this long Get In Touch string at the end of Balanced job post?
In Newest, Balanced has:

"Get in touch: aXdhbnR0b21ha2VhZGlmZmVyZW5jZStobkBiYWxhbmNlZHBheW1lbnRzLmNvbQ=="

Is this some sort of known encryption of their email? Or I guess part of the challenge is to decrypt this?
A company like Disney doesn't really ever lawyer up, because that would imply that they are ever lawyered down. I have to agree with scott_s on this. You're in a bad enough situation pitting the lawyer you can afford against Disney's team. If you try and face them by yourself, you're going to get screwed.
What keeps Light Table from being your primary editor?
Not true. Last year the cap was reached in mid-June (http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...)
Thanks for writing all that up. What I still don't understand is,

> Once people are reluctant to spend then, the economy will stay depressed because, people expect deflation AND deflation will continue because the economy remains depressed.

Well, if people are expecting deflation, then that expectation becomes built into the value of the currency, such that there exists an equilibrium between people expecting it to deflate further, and people expecting it do the opposite, because it's already overly valuable.

I can't see how everyone would just hoard it until there's infinite demand and zero supply, and a bitcoin has infinite value. There's always a semi-stable price.

And like I said, I don't see how the standard macroeconomic arguments apply, because right now bitcoin is just a currency "on the side", totally unable to affect economies on a large scale. And if it ever did reach that scale, governments could do things like force contracts to be denominated in some government-controlled ratio to bitcoins, so that the government would still be able to "control" the money supply, and increase or decrease it as desired. (That's just one crude example of how.)

Just because people are using bitcoins, doesn't mean that long-term contracts have to be denominated in bitcoins.

So I guess this is what confuses me about people saying that bitcoin deflation is bad. Deflation=bad arguments seem to rest on entire countries being solely dependent on a single currency, which is not the case with bitcoin. And even that became the case, it would presumably take place in a whole new way. But I still don't see anything inherently wrong with a deflationary currency, especially one used alongside "official" ones.
Whoops. I can't edit it. But thanks for the note.
Ever heard of Cable or Satellite?
Google close to buying WhatsApp for $1B
Sources for what? What's the controversial point in dispute, I'm unclear?

Oil prices? The current oil price and the oil price during the time of peak oil production of the North Sea fields is publicly available and googleable as are flow rates and production stats.

..or the fact that the West used oil prices as a weapon against the Soviets? Again a much-written about topic that you can do your own research on quite easily.

TheOilDrum.com has a lot of good links to info. What is the point that you deem controversial and in need of sourcing?

Edit: Oh wait, I see the point that you need a source for, that was Scottie in Star Trek.

Second Edit: Now, if this isn't just a rhetorical point of yours and if you are seriously interested in the oil industry and trends regarding North Sea production, and the problems the UK is facing because it flipped from 4th largest exporter in the world to net importer a few years back, I'm happy to chat about it and do the leg work to find you some interesting reads on that, but this post probably isn't the place for it (though I'll be blogging from richarddjordan.com as soon as I get by github pages set up, and you can always ask me there). It's a fascinating topic, and one that often takes people by surprise when they learn some of the rather concerning details.
permissions is handled directly by CouchDB. Every user has an own database that only he/she has access to. Synchronization between accounts can be done via shares.

We don't have validation at the moment. You can store whatever you like, it's just JSON. We could add validation at some point, but it's currently not on our agenda.

We try to keep it really simple at the moment, getting the core right, then empowering others to build modules on top of it.
Complete nonsense... Did I say Ƀ was the standard? Did I say ฿ was the standard?

No, I noted they used Ƀ and gave the previous article props for bringing that symbol more recognition. Did I say they invented it? No.

All of you need to stop trolling, comments like the ones in response to my OP are what ruins HackerNews.
Are our immigration attorneys crazy, or am I mixing up last year and a year before?
I suggested nothing of the sort. Your comment is a perfect example of the need to discuss inequality outside of the moral framework.

Just for reference, in terms of efficiency, you'd want every available worker producing added value. Unless your definition of "get rid" is deport or kill, having unemployment worsens efficiency.
Reminds of of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4349781

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/ifjld/launching_...
Destroy or create?
Sigh,
this lottery reminds of those grim years of 2007/08 when the lottery was in effect.
The demand then was largely due to the "bodyshopping" companies filing H1s even when they did not have a valid client. USCIS cracked down on them in the following years.
Now it appears the general demand for IT has gone up.

Here is the distribution of H1-bs amongst companies last year (the cap was filled on June-11th I think).

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2013-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

Look at the number of offshoring companies in that list! And look at the average salaries they pay (still higher than the stipulated 60k I think). I am also aware of some of these offshoring companies who file for h1 and then don't bring the person to US in the year (they reserve it for future).

There should be some way to weed out these Indian offshorers who file for h1 and never use it.

Good luck to all who are hoping to get a H1! (that includes me)
I third Simple Made Easy. Totally changed the way I think about complexity.
Tab-seperated is also very common, and I find better - how often are you storing text-formatting within cell for a data interchange? Similar to pipes, tabs are much less common than commas.
Pretty cool idea. Was hoping it would instead spit out an obfuscated or dummy email address I could use on forms and signups which would proxy (perhaps for a limited time only) to my real email address.
Thank you for an informative response! I'm gonna keep this in mind when I start applying for jobs. Currently I spend evenings and weekends programming and learning on my own.
I'm watching it right now and there is nothing wrong with the delivery whatsoever. I also didn't get the feeling that the talk was too long. Sure, you can sum up pretty much anything with a TL;DR, but that's not the point of giving a talk, right? I mean at its core a presentation is meant to inform or entertain and this one here did both. So I really don't get where the criticism is coming from.
I'm not a native speaker, and learned British English in school, American English through informal practice while living there, so I may not have picked the greatest example. :)
A) It's still in alpha.

B) It's not Vim.

C) The questionnaire asks "which other editors do you use" and uses radio buttons.
Disney's consumer merchandise is sourced by third party suppliers (see below).

It is most likely one of these suppliers claimed to have created or licensed the image.

The artist will probably end up negotiating with the handbag maker.

https://www.disneyconsumerproducts.com/Home/display.jsp?cont...
QuakeCon 2012 Panel - Capture the Fan
As I said, no real specification. It reads "This section documents the format that seems to be followed by most implementations". Another part reads "Each field may or may not be enclosed in double quotes (however some programs, such as Microsoft Excel, do not use double quotes at all)."

The RFC is a useful collection of anecdotes...
What data are you looking for?! His argument is fairly basic stuff, based on well-known figures that are pretty much general knowledge.
Yes, the first one is without doubt a copyright violation, the second however I can't agree with.

If so then we'd have an insane amount of art that is stolen. The pose is the same, but this is totally different art in a totally different style with ha different dress etc. I personally don't think that should constitute as a copied/derived work, but that's just my opinion.

The first one however, clear cut copyright infringement, it IS the same artwork. Will be interesting to see how Disney spins this given how they forced daycare centers to paint over murals with Disney characters over trademark infringement.
Ooh, that's something to consider... thanks!
Do the slides not work for you?

This is the time I've submitted something here so I've no idea what the norms are. Is slideshare considered bad form?
I am an expert user. I've been using git almost every day for months. I've read about it's underlying data model and could write a tool that used it if I really needed to.

I _still_ have to use Google whenever I try to do anything with git that falls outside my normal workflow.
More people are watching NYC area stations -> charge more for advertising on those stations => why is this a problem?

Likewise the issue of "we won't get rebroadcast fees in this area" seems spurious. If people cut the cord, they won't get the rebroadcast fees either.

This seems to me to be more "change is scary" than "they're stealing our stuff and not paying us"
Messy situation, but pretty risky move on Heather Harde's part. In this case, until the facts come out, it is best to stay away. If his girlfriend/ prior girlfriends have proof, then they should present it on a court of law.
Does anyone here know of a good 3-way merge tool for Git that's available on OSX?
Just visited secure NYT link on Chrome 26 and none of the CSS and few images loaded there either. Console reports loads of [blocked] insecure content.
Some "import from PDF" functionality would be immensely valuable. It's not impossible.
Sure, it's a nice trick, but now it's not really a CSV file any more. If I have to create a file that can only be read by Excel it might as well be XLSX.
If U.S. citizens do not like a Supreme Court ruling, they can pass a Constitutional amendment overturning it. After the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified, overturning the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and allowing former slaves and their children to become citizens.

That Amendment has since provided the legal power behind most civil rights decisions, including desegregation and (if they win) marriage equality. The "equal protection" clause justifies rulings against needless discrimination, and the "due process" clause makes those rulings apply to state and local laws in addition to federal law.

So here is an example where a huge swatch of what people take for granted today as Constitutional protections, in fact dates only to the 1860s.

If Americans as a whole wanted to get rid of the 2nd Amendment, they could pass a Constitutional amendment revoking it. They did it to Prohibition. The reason that is not happening is that most Americans like guns, or at least they respect the desire of other Americans to own them.
There's your interconnect for the upcoming Mac Pro with a Retina desktop display.
RDF is a graph based data format (serialised to XML). It is based on triples. Such as: Peter hasParent Paal.

To query RDF, we use the graph query language SPARQL. You create a graph with variables in it, and the query engine will find subgraphs that match the graph.

On top of this we can do reasoning (based on 1st order logics and datalog). With RDFS (simple) and OWL (advanced).

And to bring all this together there are many open vocabularies and open data sets linked together. One notable one: DBpedia (based on wikipedia).

A grand view of linked data: http://lod-cloud.net/versions/2011-09-19/lod-cloud.html

A sample SPARQL query on DBpedia listing software by date:

http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbp...

The actual query:

select ?a min(?b) (min(?date) as ?date2) where {

?a a dbpedia-owl:Software;
rdfs:label ?b;
dbpedia-owl:latestReleaseDate ?date.

}
group by ?a
order by ?date2
LIMIT 100
Wow, somebody should make a game, where everybody could "invest" in companies. Basically it would just be copying Angellist and everybody would get $1M of play money in the beginning, then there would be a leaderboard of "investors", who made the most return on their startups. This could be an interesting reputation system and everybody would have equal chances.
Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype
Thinking about it, I'm sure they can be just as good. Regardless of age. I would guess it's like anything else. Constant exposure and practicing will breed excellence. I would just be scared of all the mistakes they haven't made yet.

It's funny you mention Brian Wong, his company is a competitor of the company i work for. He's a smart guy, from what i can tell, but he would actually be one of the examples i'd use to cite lack of experience.

In software development, lack of experience can be a really big issue. For example, with lack of experience you may choose core piece of technology based on hype. coughmongodb and kiipcough

But, I digress, thanks for the article. Learned a bit about the Canadian start up eco-system.
http://mindmup.github.io/bootstrap-wysiwyg/
In other words, start using the `//url.to/something-here/` shortcut and the world will be a better place.

EDIT: Use `//` instead of `http://` or `https://` and it will use whatever the protocol of the page being fetched is using.

EDIT 2: Double check when you use the `//` shortcut that the website you are linking to supports HTTPS, some still don't and they don't redirect properly...
Rotting fruits release ethylene gas which is a ripening agent. This causes fruit next to rotting fruit to ripen then rot.

An interesting mechanism I think. Before looking that up I would have suspected a biological transmission of infection or something, not a chemical transmission.
If you want to help the startup industry, then how about making health insurance portable for the people over 35 that the start up industry won't hire? Then they could start their own garage based firms and compete the with the Sand Hill Road backed companies.
That is just the initial work to provide the basic infrastructure (and a solution to a couple of the simplest use cases) and not fully fledged materialized views.

In 9.3 materialized views will only be refreshable by recomputing the entire view and they will be locked while they are being refreshed. To shorten the lock you would have to swap the view with ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW.
Ron Johnson fired from JC Penney