skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA talks about favorable deals for telcos. Telcos have received one-time incentives to do things that they may or may not have done, depending on who you read. The recurring incentive is usually to keep phone service working in rural areas.

What Google got (at least in KC) that AT&T wants is no franchies fee (typically cable companies and fiber providers pay the town a percentage of their revenue for the right run lines), no pole-attach fees, and cheap/easy permitting.

The impressive thing that Google has accomplished is not delivering Gig to the home. It is convincing cities, in a budget crisis economy, that the mere presence of gig is important enough to not only give up a traditional revenue stream (franchise fee) but also to give up cost recovery charges like pole-attach and permit fees. Apparently they still have a 5% fee in Olathe, but I'd bet they have other concessions that make up for it.

This: http://techliberation.com/2012/08/07/what-google-fiber-says-...
and this:
The Student-Made Short That Got Hollywood’s Attention
I talked about shorting bitcoin to moderate the bubble, and I have some idea what I'm talking about. Don't confuse "shorting will stabilize the price" with "it's a good idea to short bitcoin".

A shorting mechanism makes it possible for people who are not bullish to participate in the price discovery process. Without a way to short, there are only two participants in the price discovery mechanism -- those who previously acquired bitcoin and now think that they're overvalued and those who think they will continue to appreciate and want to buy more. There is no way for someone who bought at $20 and got out at $100 to express an opinion that $200 is an unsustainable bubble.

Kid Dynamite wrote a good post about how an inability to borrow can keep a market irrational for a long time here: http://kiddynamitesworld.com/on-misinterpreting-pslvs-premiu...

It's irrelevant whether shorting bitcoin is going to make anyone money, or when shorting will make people money vs. when it will wipe you out on a margin call. I'm only talking about how the ability to short will make the market more efficient.
I respectfully disagree. I think it adds to the art of it for him to not come out and tell his followers exactly what it means. 'Time' is more about the emotion of the comic than a rational explanation, or a joke (like 'nerd sniping').
Aaron Swartz's Final Commit
Yep, similar experience. I don't think it yet says "You should leave for the airport now" (I think the implicit use for it is for flights you're actually on) but it does everything else: showing you where the flight is, ETA, terminal, gate.

If you use the Google Now widget, it'll prioritize the flight and show you where it is.
On the topic of online dating :)

http://blog.screenhero.com/post/45779204029/share-a-little-l...
I decide to spend right now (by donating, buying domain names, etc.) because I know I'll get it back relatively soon. The numbers in my account don't help me in any way; they don't make my life better. Why should I not spend? Oh, and I don't care about profitability directly - I care about living a happy life.

P.S. The deposit interest rates are around 5.5% actually.
Bias, sort of.

The US is actually two separate but interlinked networks.

On the one hand, residential service is 3rd world in most areas. On the other hand, I would argue that the US has the only first world broadband economy, which is our commercial network. The real networks in the US are very fast, 100gigabit fast at the core, but they slow down when you get to residences. Between Datacenters, the Internet is really amazing.

On the resi side, there was a Bush memo that reclassified resi service as "information services" instead of "Telecommunications services"[1] so they gave up the ability to enforce common carriage which is the term for sharing the last mile access.

In short, that is European bias when talking about our business networks, but quite right when referring to our residential networks.

It's a lot more complicated than this, but that's the gist of US broadband. You can't nationalize it because that's socialism and you can't force companies to build networks because that's fascist, so the telcos only build where there's competition: the datacenter.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11crawford.html?sc...

Edited to add link.
This is how you do internet. Public wire, competitive gateways into the backbone run by private competitors.

Hell, the majority of US phone / cable wire was already paid by taxpayers over the course of a hundred years, local governments just did short term gains for long term screwing by selling them off to big telecos.
> The network is managed, and I think wisely so, in a way that EWZ grants equal access to private ISPs which then compete for customers. They don't act as an ISP.

This is the model I see as ideal and it always baffles me why it's so rarely mentioned as an option. Make the fiber network a public grid like roads, water, sewer, power. Then sell access to private companies to deal with the connectivity, services (TV/VoIP) and support. I'd say the technology is mature enough that we don't need competition to pick what kind of network works best anymore.

edit: Rephrased: I don't understand why the cities would give so much free stuff to Google for them to set up their fiber network instead of just... setting up their own fiber network that's then actually owned by the public.
I can testify this. It even seems impossible to get in touch with a Youtube official without a lawyer in place or posting on public boards in the hope for an official response.
> "this press release confirms exactly the message that AT&T has been trying to deny for years: that when there's real competition, then AT&T will invest in making a better service."

In this cyber week in Congress, I wish our loyal representatives would pay more attention to this instead of focusing on taking away our rights or ramming another CISPA/SOPA down our throats.
It's not. The First Amendment guarantees you a voice, but not an audience. Youtube has every right to tell you to sod off if they don't like your content for any reason.
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You actually went further than disputing the goals, you specifically said "though I don't think such education should be paywalled for monetization". So unless I am misunderstanding, you seem to begin with a negative bias towards education in exchange for money. Furthermore, I find it strange to focus so much on the monetary goal as some sort of sinister motive. When Elon Musk tells me he wants to make an electric car, I believe that goal. I don't think to myself "well this car is for profit, so what's really going on here Mr. Musk?". When DropBox tells me they want make it easier for people to put their data in the cloud, I don't question their real motives because they charge for it. Yes, companies make money. Yes, they need profit to survive. I guess I just don't think these two goals intrinsically conflict. I personally find it somewhat wonderful when people find a way to take something they care about and charge for it so they can focus on it entirely, instead of only in their free time.

Additionally, so what if there are already free offerings? There's room for both. I agree people should look into all the options before choosing one, that's just common sense. Perhaps the free one is better, perhaps not? This is a purely voluntary thing here, so I see no harm in a paid-for alternative. You'll for example see many people on Hacker News telling startups "please charge for your product so I know it won't go away in the future." It's possible that the same applies here. By pricing this product the motivation I see is a clear incentive to continue improving the product full-time, as opposed to when you can find people to help out.
This is a terrific discussion of the Antikythera mechanism, its analysis, and how it worked
The default is pretty horrid I think. The sidebar's blue draws way too much attention. Folders and files aren't differentiated nearly enough. The tabs also draw too much attention to themselves. Honestly it looks like the most barebones Mac app that there is, which is exactly what it is. The icon isn't much better. Looks very generic and 99 Design-y, doesn't express what Sublime is about at all. I personally prefer this one: http://dribbble.com/shots/311515-A-Sublime-Text-2-Icon-that-...
As I recall, the telcos already got their chance to hook everyone up with fiber with super favorable terms from governments and huge tax breaks in the 90's. They made the promise, took the money and ran.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060131/2021240_F.shtml

Google's turn.
I have Verizon DSL with 3mbps up / 1mbps down a hundred miles north of Philly. Local cable co would be an option, but my mother watches a lot of netflix and I download youtube videos by night (because I can't concurrently watch anything across 2 screens) and the cable company due to their monopoly puts up 50 gig caps. And that is the $60 a month 15/1 plan.

I used 195 GB in January, for example.

So I'm stuck on Verizon. They have jacked the rates up from $25 in 2004 to $40 today for the exact same (nonexistent) service. No other options in the area. At least they don't put bandwidth caps on their DSL service. Yet.

If that happens, I'm moving to Kansas City or Austin. I'll take a plane and go door to door at startups or tech companies to find work from a hotel room. My college had crap internet too, but back home it is so bad it is like the dark ages.
Here's another animated version:

http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/
How? Are you in Google Kansas?
Userbase and popularity *can* stop innovation
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> The app store ranking is almost entirely based on download velocity, so your ranking goes up.

I wonder how much the App Store's rankings would change if Apple only counted a download "impression" once the app had had, say, 10 minutes of (non-contiguous) runtime on your device? These perversely-incentivized game users would be filtered out of the metrics, but all the drive-by "download, look around, oh this app isn't what I wanted, delete" users would as well.
There is already plenty of competition, especially outside the US.

Since Google has always heavily "moderated" videos based on American values and American commercial interests, most countries had a viable market for an alternative for a long time.

The same also applies to the other end of the market, because YouTube is a bit of a cesspool when it comes to thing Google doesn't want to censor (like racism and homophobia). Many don't want to be associated with that in any way.
A real-word example from a project of mine: http://dash.furidamu.org:3030/dash (which hasn't really started yet, but the dash is up)
"clook"
And they had to get a sizable amount of other people to truly care about the thing enough to spend lots of their spare time dicking around on it. Reddit, Amazon, Facebook, HN, Wikipedia, and Twitter depend on unimaginable amounts of hours spent by volunteers all over the world who get $0 for contributing the actual content and camraderie, which really is almost the entire value (except the case of Amazon, where it's only a pretty big part).
The city of Munich in Germany does something similar (though without the battles) with FTTB service provided by M-Net (regional provider, closely affiliated with local utility Stadtwerke München)
All marketing lies.

Make any company seeking such guarantees put up a $1 Billion bond that will be forfeit if they don't complete in a few years and watch AT&T back down.

And for pete's sake stop giving tax deferments on the FRONT END. If a company claims they are going to make jobs or supply a service do not give them the tax break until that actually happens.
Generated 5 Sentence Summary for http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30...

Back in March, Yahoo bought a startup called Summly for $30 million. Before Yahoo shut it down, Summly was a news aggregation app for smartphones. According to Summly's own Web site, the technology behind the app was "built" by an organization called "SRI International," not by the startup's employees. And indeed, inside Yahoo, Summly is called "Yahoo's Siri." A source close to Yahoo says that CEO Marissa Mayer believes summarization technology is "going to be huge for Yahoo" as it builds "personalized news feeds" into mobile versions of its "core experiences," including Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports. The job of implementing this technology at Yahoo will not be given to anyone from Summly, including its young CEO.

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Edit: Adding this...

Generated 3 Sentence Summary of Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
Can't agree more. All the breakpoints are placed so thoughtfully without sacrificing content for flair, certainly one of the most well-executed responsive sites I've come across. I'll most likely be poring through the reviews for hours to come.
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This is a place where we talk about the technical merits of projects and provide useful feedback for making them better.

Posting a comment just to say that someone shouldn't have built it in the first place is profoundly unhelpful. Actually, its worse than that. Its un-useful.
Thanks for the clarification. Without additional data, one assumes that the submitter agrees with the submitted thesis.
just a heads-up in case others overlook the note in the readme, the canonical repo is now at https://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit

(per https://github.com/schacon/ticgit#readme)
haha! :) Yeah, this was kinda fueled by the news of the summly acquisition and too many red bulls drunk during the drive from LA to SFO after wondercon.
> There is a lot to learn in a CS program, and it really requires a single language from start to finish.

Why would a CS program require one language from start to finish?! Wouldn't exposing students and researchers to as many languages and technologies as possible be the actual point? This is how you get people to come with new ideas, you expose them to as many existing ideas as possible, in as many forms and languages as possible... If I were to design a CS curriculum, language wise, I'd first expose people to Scheme via SICP, then push them from theory to practice with a language like Common Lisp and on a parallel track, more related to EE, move up from an idealized teaching-optimized assembly to real-assembly to C and then to very basic C++, then expose them to "engineery" concepts like OOP in two ways at the same time (the classic C++ way and the multiple-dispatch way in CL), and on a third more "pure CS" track have students choose any of the languages or techs from the other 2 tracks to solve the programming parts of the theoretical problems in this part - yeah, grading and teaching a class of such "polyglots" with their minds all over the map would be hell for any teachers, same as managing a research project with the same maddening diversity, but imho the people that are mentally equipped to handle such environments should be the ones teaching the new generations, not the ivory-tower one-problem-focused types.

Don't get me wrong, I'm against this new "hyperpoliglot wave" of using half a dozen languages in one project, but I'm against it in industry, and from a business perspective, because it wastes brainpower that can be put to other use and bring actual business value, but not in academia, because here the whole point is to explore everything, and you don't really have ugly time constraints and the need to provide "quality of service" assuring to real customers - something like a phd program lasts a few years and at it the end of you don't even have to provide a product that works in the real world (like support a certain load, not be littered with security exploits, be extendable to easily surpass or match the competition on new features etc.).

Maybe I have a weird way of looking at things, but the whole software universe seems upside down to me: academia / CS programs limit themselves to a very small number of technologies to use and problems to solve and this way they do very little "exploration of the problems' space", while the industry jumped into a madness of polyglot-everything way of doing things, with 100 choices of doing everything, none proven to work better for a particular case, and 90% of the time spend learning the tools instead of solving the problems. Shouldn't industry standardize and academia explore? Why are things the other way around in the IT world?
SXSW Interactive is not a tech conference anymore
> Sure, recursion is possible in Java, but it's rarely used because of the inevitability of hitting a StackOverflowError given a sufficiently large value of n.

That's a good reason for not using recursive algorithms in production Java code, but it doesn't make Java unsuitable for teaching CS including recursion (Python, which IMO is a much better general purpose teaching language than Java, faces the same problem; plenty of intro CS classes that cover recursion well use Python.)

> Teaching recursion doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you're using a functional language where loop iteration is not the paradigm.

It makes perfect sense independently of what is idiomatic in the language: teaching CS using a language isn't teaching the idioms of the language. Teaching iteration and recursion in the same language is useful, particularly because doing so is useful in underlining that recursion and iteration are different approaches for the same problems, even though in most languages one of the two options will tend to be more idiomatic.
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Canadá, Una victoria para las víctimas de las sensibilidades ambientales
Would be a great native app for AppleTV. Hope Apple does that soon.
Using external kernels isn't in any way fundamental to the way Xen works. Most standard setups (even PV) have the kernel inside the VM, which allows for standard upgrades, etc.
Of course it isn't. YouTube isn't the government, so it doesn't even apply. My comment was poking fun at people who forget about that.
good luck with the play store then:
http://unleashthephones.com/2013/04/09/google-removed-60000-...

"Google removed 60,000 Low-Quality Apps from Play Store in February"

how does Google define low-quality again?
There's also a wiki: http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/XKCD_Time_Wiki
It reminds me of http://ducksboard.com/
Want to buy a top 100 ranking in the French Kindle Store? Easy...
I actually haven't eaten at McDonalds in awhile. Just love using the Chicken McNuggets pricing strategy. I could never spend that much for it though.
There are lots of expensive software products that I may have an occasional need for but not enough to justify purchasing a license. For example :

- Microsoft Office

- Various (possibly obsolete) versions of Windows

- Non-Express versions of Visual Studio

- Matlab and Toolkits

- Mathematica

- Photoshop

- SolidWorks

One reason for this is that I tend to do a lot of short-term freelancing projects, some of which may require access to these products.

Monthly licensing for products like these could be very useful, either locally or in some cases via a remote VM.

Unfortunately only the IP owners could make this happen and they don't seem to have much interest in that type of business model.
37 Reasons to Love Haskell (playing off the Ruby article)
It's not risky if you know when and by how much it's going to go down. However, you need to have a time machine for that.
Just finished a ruby implementation:

https://rubygems.org/gems/chrome_logger

You can now use the plugin with any Rack compatible Ruby framework.
The actual announcement isn't linked until the third paragraph: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung...

Which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486495
i wouldn't need to trust google; there would always be a way to get my app to users who want it whether or not google wants it in their official play store. that is the huge difference between apple and google - google says "if we think your app is good quality we'll carry it in our store, otherwise find some other way to promote and sell it"; apple says "if we think your app is good quality we'll allow it on the iphone". with apple, there is no "otherwise".
Do users also have to pay extra to get audio through the headphone jack?

One could argue that all features add value. Should all features then be à la carte via in-app purchases? That'd be absurd.

Things can be both absurd and simple. Really.
Well, the client side is compiled by eclipse automatically and the client can be configured for development so that many classes aren't cached so you can test cosmetic changes without a restart.

On the server side however if you add new components, services or introduce new fields in existing entities you have to restart the JBoss and build the changed component.

It is enterprise, I'm working on the market-leading MES (Manufacturing Execution System) solution for the pharma- and biotech area. Our internal framework alone consists of around 3.700 classes.
College is waste of time - real work gives the true value.

If you ask me - quit and follow your dreams (i did so). Even if you make mistakes you will learn faster from them than the college.

College is for people that don't know what to do and are looking for orientation. Also if you don't have a degree, some people say it will be harder to get a job, which is one more reason to get your company of the ground.
This misses the most important line in the article: Acquiring Summly seems to have been an almost incidental side effect of a deal Yahoo made with SRI for a piece of "summarization technology".
Some bitcoin wallet clients, like Electrum, can recover your wallet from a seed that you can write down or email to yourself.

Electrum: http://electrum.org/
YES. As a college student, this is amazing for those long readings for classes one isn't interested int. I wanted to build sort of the reverse of this at one point (take a question/prompt as input, generate a response).

Are you planning on open sourcing this?
Because this is what happens when you try to do stuff like that in the Bay Area:

http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2011/11/15/no-att-lightspeed-inter...
NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days
Well maybe I'll just buy a Windows phone :|
I was waiting for you to end that anecdote with "and my house caught fire and killed all the bugs".
Very Dilbert.
the algo is still kinda "dumb". It basically tries to get top N keywords - most frequent non stopwords, stems them and goes through the sentences looking for which of them (upto max summary length) contain the keywords. I'll keep whittling at it over nights/weekends to see if I can make it more "semantically aware"

edit: some work is needed on the tokenization also. currently, I don't preserve non-period punctuation.
It probably isn't, I got that number from a rumor blog.
I wonder if he realizes they were taking payments for placements? (A few people mentioned 100k)
Well, since they get the email address, they can easily check that it ends in @gmail and stop everyone else. Of course, only supporting gmail means they have to write _more code_ than supporting every provider, so lets hope lazyness wins.
yeah, I plan on open sourcing this. waiting on some technicalities.
How much do you want to bet AT&T never builds anything? This is a classic tactic of them to announce the development of a network and then never build it. They often do this as a means to extract honey from regulators, but it also works to distract consumers and municipalities. It's the equivalent of networking FUD.

Examples:
http://www.muninetworks.org/content/atts-many-broken-merger-...

And of course the biggest scam of all:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...