skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speed is not even the biggest thing here. Heck Verizon FiOS offers fiber to the home in NYC and has speeds of 300Mbit/s. I'm sure if they wanted to go to 1Gbit they could. As can AT&T in Austin.

The thing that's exciting about Google Fiber is what it represents -- reasonable cost, no bandwidth caps, net neutrality, etc. Google WANTS its customers to use the Internet as much as possible. The more HD videos people watch on YouTube and the more people surf the web the more ads they show and the more money they make. The opposite is true with AT&T -- they'll start metering and charging the second they can.

I'd take 100Mbit Google service over 1Gbit AT&T service any day of the week.
Not even a hint of when this is slated to happen? Talk about 'me too'-ing.
If this were happening in my city and Google came along with Fiber, and AT&T and Time Warner decided to upgrade their infrastructure in response, I'd totally jump ship to Google anyway.

I think a lot of people have been unhappy with their service providers for a long time, for more reasons than just the speed.
Can something like TechCrunch be big enough to go public?
Thanks for the feedback. Will re-post when I have more data to show.
Interesting to see Schneier make this point. Assange et al argue similarly in _Cypherpunks_.
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> I suspect this is exactly what Google wants. They don't want the burden of bringing high speed internet to everyone, but they do want everyone to have high speed access.

I suspect this overstating the case significantly -- I think its basically right in that Google's prime motivation is to push the market toward widespread, ultra-high speed access. But I think that by the time they launched Google Fiber, and certainly before they expanded it to Austin, they also had a model where it was worthwhile beyond being a lever to move the industry, between direct revenue and the opportunity to use it as leverage to promote the Android ecosystem through the Nexus devices tied to it.

As with the Chrome browser, heck and even Android itself, what Google does with the prime motivation of moving the market (and preventing another vendor from getting/keeping a monopoly which they can leverage against Google) isn't necessarily a "burden".
Wii U sales show rough tides in January
With the new version I added support for setting some colors! Right click on the extension icon and select options. I may add more options in the future as well.
You wrote this comment in multiple places, but it's wrong. All 3D printing services I am aware of accept OBJ. Many printer softwares accept it. In fact, as soon as you want to print in color, you have to move away from STL and OBJ would be a good choice.
Finally! Now I can move back to Linode. :D
North America. Specifically, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
This makes little sense to me. Instead of building in the same market as Google, go build in another market with no competition! Why layout double the infrastructure when and get into a price war when you can do the same thing somewhere else and be able to charge more? That's my pro-business argument.

My pro-customer argument is that this is great for competition in Austin.

My I-live-in-SF argument is why isn't anyone doing this for us? I can't really think of another major city in the US outside of NY, Chicaco, or Boston where this would have the most impact. You have thousands of companies built on the Internet in SF. Lots of us techies live here. Please, give us a choice beyond Comcast!
How about "Learn Python the Hard Way"?
Find a company interested in your tech, make them a customer/client and sell them a minority stake?

If its a talent acquisition it might be hard to find someone passionate enough to run your startup, and near impossible to do in your spare time.

(My experience: none)
I tend to fall in this camp as well. Maybe for an artist I already like but haven't Liked on Facebook I would do this, but it amazes me how many times I go to a band's FB page that I don't know and have to Like them to listen to their music. I have never done it, and they have lost any potential to convert me.

When we created our virtual currency that users earn for taking actions like these, we consciously decided not to make it a "Like-gate", but instead to give you credits anytime you do these things, and then you can spend them at your convenience. It may result in fewer fans, but they'll be far more qualified as someone who heard you and liked you enough to engage, as opposed to engaged in order to hear you, and then later blocks your posts in their Newsfeed.
I had to turn iMessage off on my iPhone since it was extremely flaky for me and an acquaintance: messages would not be delivered or much later. WhatsApp is better but SMS has been the most reliable so far.

This is using T-Mobile in the Netherlands.
My reading comprehension is apparently poor today. I could've sworn the parent comment said "Dallas," not Austin.
Not to mention the latency. Apparently gFiber has much better ping times.
I keep my ST2 package manager config stored in my dotfiles repo, so setting up a new Sublime instance is as easy as just opening ST2 for the first time and letting the package manager fetch the appropriate plugins automatically.
No, this is a fucking stupid idea. Better would be to encourage everyone to create as much wealth as they possibly can.
Thanks. I will add it to the GitHub wiki. I should also point out that in general this stuff was not designed to run in production.
Honestly, the fact that they're called "public keys" at all should clue you in to the fact that they can be made available. The concept doesn't work if they aren't made available.
If you're running any kind of intensive database I/O and your databases are larger than RAM, then look for a dedicated server. It tried switching many VPS offerings, but there are always bottlenecks when you share the disk I/O with everyone else. For example, on one provider, I had problems that everyone is placing some heavy cron jobs at midnight and completely kills the disk I/O for 10-15 minutes.
Gah! Just pushed a fix. Moved too quickly and broke that.
What's wrong with the markup is that it conforms to the Bootstrap documentation, and the way the Bootstrap docs recommend writing HTML is absolute garbage.

<i class="dipshit-icon"> is the spacer.gif of my generation.
You're right, it does. I know where you coming from because i see it often myself, but you should never make assumptions about people because there's always exceptions.

Its not that the CLI isn't simple, it's that the GUI is just easier. From your post i think i can safely assume you sit in a CLI all day so it makes sense you would prefer to use it. I spend the majority of my day in windows & IDEs and while i always have a few bash cygwin shells handy its just easier to right click -> commit/push/pull/switch branch/fetch&rebase then to switch context and type it out. Oh and merging, I just find visual diff/merge tools nicer.

When i need to actually do anything complicated the CLI is where i go, but generally, i really don't need to.

I'll turn it around and ask why, for simple tasks, is the CLI any better than a GUI ignoring personal preferences?
Unless Google gets killed by a better search engine. Which is a real possibility.
Hey,

I don't know whom you may be able to get to help, but I would bet that the government doesn't actually have great data on custom wait time- I've never seen them track someone from entry to pass-through. I strongly doubt they have that.

Rather, I think you may have come upon a really cool opportunity- find a way to track it! You'll have data no one else on the planet has. It's like when Uber starts in a new city- the error on their time estimate starts high and decreases over time. If enough people use it, you'll get really got at predicting the wait time based on the factors you mentioned.

Idea: let the traveler download a free companion to the app. Then the user links to the traveler. Once the traveler lands, they can turn on their phone and let you see location.

The user gets an alert "Bob has landed!" and actually see where the traveler is. Over time, you'll get really great at refining the wait time prediction algorithm. You can ask nationality, etc.

Potential problems: No phone, international traveler can't use phone in destination due to roaming charges, can't have phone on in certain custom areas.
The applicability of this to the wisdom of using Bitcoins to pay for drinks (or anything else) is left as an exercise for the reader.
I tried search for a direct link and didn't immediately see one, but Buffett himself has said before that he likes Google and, if it were older and had a slightly less risky profile for him, it would be the ideal company. It's core business is vitally important and is very capital efficient.
Yes, I think you're correct. I didn't build the landing page, but perhaps I will optimize that. It's currently just shifting the various cloud layers using JQuery's animate() method. I imagine the main hit is layout & rendering, but that's just a preliminary guess. Specific ideas for improvements?
Hi Aleksandr, We do screen companies but many of them are hiring for various roles and levels of experience.
There is a difference between building software for us (developers/hobbiests/etc) and building software for them (consumers). We will tinker, extend, reverse, tweak, hack and out will come something new for other people to build upon, possibly ground-shaking like the Basic interpreter. On the other hand, consumers will use it a few times, maybe click on an ad, and forget about it. I believe that frisco is lamenting the scopelessness of the project, which I do as well.
Yes: how dare he attempt to monetize his efforts...
http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/econ439/2012/07/06/why-competin...
Just as a warning to anyone else who clicks the upgrade button too quickly you get entered straight into the queue and it doesn't look like there is anyway to cancel after you've committed.

My curiosity got the better of me and would have preferred to have planned a bit better for the downtime but am now 23 out of 28 in a queue and moving pretty fast...
Imprecision (one significant digit) + Benford's law (most numbers start with 1) means most numbers needing citation are of the form 10^n. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law

Interestingly, this would be true even if we had 8 fingers per hand. If we had 16 total fingers, 16 (base 10) would be written as "10" (base 16). 15 (base 10) would be a one digit number in base 16.

On the other hand, you'd rather have six fingers. Base 12 would be great because it has whole thirds! Also 12 is divisible by four numbers (2, 3, 4, and 6). 10 is divisible only by only 2 and 5, and fifths are much less common than thirds.

That's why 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard is a nice way to measure things (though the rest of the imperial system, excepting maybe Fahrenheit, has no excuse!)
AT&T proposed this back in the 90s, yes, in Austin.

Lots of trenching around town, tons of interduct.

Then the winds shifted, and they shut the project down.
Sure, most people don't care about what the car can or can't do most of the time. Many new cars do not allow unlicensed people to repair the car. You need a signed key to do changes to the car, repair it, or adjust the engine.

In the end, most people will get the normal use out of their car. It might be a bit more expensive and inconvenient, but in the end it will be just enthusiasts that actually care about being able to install custom parts on the car, or adjust the engine, or for that matter do repairs themselves.
Great advice from the professor. "Get the easy stuff right."
So, in your opinion the main problems are: 1. transfer speed. 2. high volatility. Is that right?
System And Level Design For Breakout-style Games
"""- Provisioning is conceptually cheap, and this is their killer feature. You click the "Make a new VPS" button, you pick your distro, how much RAM you want, and an SSH key, and they spit out an IP address less than a minute later. `ssh root@198.xxx.xxx.xxx`

This is much nicer than eg. finding or downloading a box to mess with Vagrant or taking who knows how many hours to set up your own distribution in VirtualBox."""

I don't get this; finding or creating a base box for each disribution you want to use is a one-time cost. There are many existing boxes listed at http://www.vagrantbox.es/.
I think it's too small to make any kind of judgement on that, first ATT networks were probably very good. That said, I'm sure they will keep up the quality
Startup idea: Waze for waiting in lines - insights into line length/wait times, when to join the line etc.

Potential applications: airports; theme parks; customs; popular restaurants; product launches; movie premieres.
Agreed. I think the icon has changed in Sublime Text 3, though.
And that is no fault of your own - I applaud your effort to make a useful WYSIWYG editor for markup. Its the fault of the creators of Bootstrap for making it really easy for lots of people to write terrible HTML.
Unfortunately its all in Dutch, otherwise I would buy one on the spot.

/e Apparently google sent me to the dutch one by default! Thanks google!
With ARIN likely to be 100% out of contiguos space by the end of this year, everybody really wants to discourage things like simple blog hosting taking up a /32 on its own. I'm sure they'd be happy to cut you a good deal if you were willing to only use 6, but fair market value for an IP will arguably be > $5/month in the not too distant future.
"This is the quintessential first world problem."

Aside from being an overstatement, this is correct. And if anyone would think about it, that's something working in their favor. Unless you're one of those "profit is evil" people, when you're building a business with the intention of making money, you'll probably want to target a market that actually has disposable income.

Yep, it's very much a first world problem, but the negativity on that point is unwarranted. I doubt they started it with the intention of fixing society.
> Make it one, Google will almost certainly close shop soon after AT & T does theirs.

Yeah, just like Google stopped making Chrome once other browser vendors followed their lead with a focus on JavaScript performance.
brian initially started work on the extension, then I did for a few months, now it's back on brian's plate. In my experience it was rough debugging anything within the webview after being used to the power of chrome dev tools and firebug. For the most part I was able to test the webview bits in an actual browser, but it was those times where the embedded browser behaved differently that really made things rough.

Debugging things within AIR was easy though, and although I had near-nil prior experience with actionscript my javascript background got me up and running right away.
Content sites and blog networks would have a very tough time going public, they're even tough to make into profitable businesses. But if you can build a profitable business that makes you rich and you're not beholden to investors, you don't need to worry about getting acquired or getting pressured by anyone.
Ron Johnson's mistakes in his own words
If you don't mind me asking - What did you spend $15k on? For just a "fun side project" that sounds like an outrageous amount so spend, and I can't particularly think of what it would be spent on as I'm assuming flight information is public. Don't mean for this to sound judgmental - just genuinely curious as I must be missing something.
Monthly basis? I use it every day and I don't see it go down on a "monthly basis".
Thanks for the clarification!

Here's the docs for DO's API: https://www.digitalocean.com/api I agree that UI isn't strictly necessary, but the reason why I brought up the UI was because as an "amateur" user, that's what I care about.
Be more productive at your next Startup weekend
This doesn't have anything to do with startups specifically. Any sane company understands that sales and marketing go hand and hand, like peanut butter and jelly, or apple pie and vanilla ice cream. PR belongs in the mix as well. All these elements have to work in concert with each other, fulfilling a cohesive strategy, to be maximally effective.

Marketing drives inbound leads for sales, marketing softens the market for cold calling salespeople. Sales people "sell the company" when dealing with customers, in order to facilitate future up-selling and cross-selling.

Come to think of it, customer support has a role in marketing and sales as well... they are, in many ways, the face of the company in a lot of scenarios. Who better to "sell the company" and help generate leads for up-sell /cross-sell opportunities.

And why is it that "the PR guy/gal" often has a binder full of articles that he/she got placed, that no one in sales or marketing has ever seen? This is brain dead.

This, to me, is one of the prime missions of the leader of an organization... to make sure the different sub-groups within the organization are actually working together, with a common sense of purpose, in a synergistic manner, and not - worst case - actually working at odds with each other in a self-defeating manner.
How to rock a speech you feel nervous about
Such a rule-of-thumb needs a crucial caveat (said by others better than I'll say it here): You need N years of steadily, deliberately advancing full-time work.

There's a fundamental difference between gaining 10 years of experience, and gaining 1 year of experience 10 times.

It's harder than one might think to sustain continual real advancement over such a period; generally the employer paying the bills needs us to occasionally "take one for the team" and do scut-work for a while, simply due to normal business unpredictability; or the work dries up completely and you have a hiccup while you start somewhere new.

A source of work where opportunity continuously keeps up with ability is a precious thing.
http://getglimpse.com/

> Glimpse gathers and presents detailed diagnostic information about the
> behavior and execution of your web application.

> It is used in a similar manner to client side diagnostics and debugging
> tools (such as FireBug or Chrome Developer Tools), but instead focuses on
> concepts such as server configuration, model binding, url routing, and
> execution profiling.

Currently implemented for .NET; it has a pretty shiny cross-browser UI which might be useful as a target instead of the Chrome console.
Plus the usual "We will never sell your email info" etc. etc.

Also, the "Learn More" blue text disappears on a gray background. That part needs to pop.
Show HN: Automatically setup a rails project with commonly used Gems
Wood: The fuel of the future
Storing branch names in git, so not "Only the Gods" will know
Fulfilling the promise of an officeless world
I feel sorry for the student. This is going to be another of those "someone makes a dumb faux pas" stories that's copy-pasted all over the internet for everyone to jump on their high horse about.
As someone else pointed out, when you have an entire OS built on being connected to the cloud, connection speeds becomes an important issue.
> Heck Verizon FiOS offers fiber to the home in NYC and has speeds of 300Mbit/s

Where? The entire time I've lived in NYC, in neighborhoods with population density between 30k to 70k people per square mile, I've never, ever, ever had FIOS available to me.

Sure, I've heard about the rare building that has it, but as far as I can tell, it's marketing with just enough actual deployment that we can't call it vaporware.
Show HN: My 1st project - Clearli Weather
Over the last couple of months I've been teaching myself Ruby and finally decided this week that I was going to put my mind to something and try to ship some sort of a product. Like I said this is the first thing I've ever built so I'm sure it's full of errors problems but I just wanted to put it out there!

Cheers
sigh Tell me about it. sigh
Something I've come to realize is that there are now only two kinds of people: those that have successfully managed that simple exercise, and those that think Bitcoins are the magical future.

The 'in-between' has long since faded.
Nice review! I've been using DigitalOcean since it was reported here in HN. If I'm not wrong, I've selected the european location in Amesterdam since I'm located in the UK. Very fast, reliable, etc!

I'm using it to learn nodeJs and do other experiments. When I was trying to find a VPS, I couldn't afford Linode.

Nothing to complain about but, I'd like to have a new option for payments, recurring payments using paypal would be awesome!
Ah, cool. I was in the CAD space for a while, so your list made me twitch a bit. :)

Is your project open-source?
Thankfully lots of other people (limo and taxi drivers in particular) feel differently. Some ppl have actually stated that they would pay significantly more than the current price.
That's interesting and I stand corrected, I was under the impression for some reason that subscriptions existed. As an aside, have you had a look at the Carna botnet output, and if so how does it compare to your data?
I actually don't feel sorry for the student. I wish I'd had a professor smack some sense into me earlier. For me, it took a tough supervisor a few years out of school to get the message through. The sad part is that I had it together better than many others I've met even then.
It was no surprise this was coming after the handouts at SXSW.

We did an interview with Linode last month about some of their new upgrades: http://blog.serverbear.com/interview/linode/

You can also see some benchmark data from the new E5 CPU's here:

Dallas - http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/04/07/FxVC0fV6q5GAMa1j
Fremont - http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/4/6/TX3w1Zx5dRK13MJi
Post author here - I'm about to go dark for the day but I'd love to hear how you're dealing with this both as site builders and as parents.
Why are they announcing it the same day as Google? And in the same city, no less? If they've had this capability all this time, what has prevented them from offering good service to customers up until now?
> So you're claiming that there is never any good that comes from speaking up against discrimination unless the law is involved?

Why, in discussions like this, do people struggle so hard to invent position the other person has never taken?

> How do you think laws get made?

No, the operative question is how do you think it happens? A group's wishes are compared to the wishes of other groups and to the Constitution. If the Constitution isn't violated and there's a public mandate (meaning there is something other than two equal groups, one for, one against), then there might be a new law.

> She quit because of the abuse.

Already answered -- let her start her own company. That's what a man would do in the same circumstances, and women are just as qualified as men to start a company. Or do you disagree?

> That's a professional and economic problem.

Yes, and it is one that women need to solve without trying to blame men for their problems. The sell-by date on that idea has passed.

Women need to wake up to the fact that there's no longer a man standing in the road, obstructing the path to the future -- only a straw man, one invented by women.

My favorite feminist anecdote took place during the MacArthur administration in Japan after the end of World War II. As part of MacArthur's constitutional reforms, women were immediately given the right to vote.

After the first election, the number of elected women became a matter of public comment -- they were elected in greater numbers than the pollsters had predicted. The newly enfranchised women were asked about it, and many said, "Oh, we thought we were only allowed to vote for women. Sumimasen (small bow)."
In the FAQ for the benchmarks, could you also add a bit about how you configured the JVM (OpenJDK?). Curious about heap settings, etc.? Did you just use the default install?
e.g. http://planet.jboss.org/post/rhel_openjdk_performance_tuning
http://www.jaspersoft.com/sunopenjdk-jvm-garbage-collection-...