skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rate that the battery charges is independent from the capacity of the battery. Assuming the new tech is 10x less energy dense and has a 10x faster charge rate, if you compare one of these new batteries with capacity equal to that of the Model S battery, the new battery will charge 10x faster but occupy 10x the volume, since it is less energy dense. A new battery of this kind that occupied the same volume as a Model S would contain 10x less energy than the Model S battery, but it would charge to full capacity 100x faster than the Model S.
Wish this had happened a year ago; it's not entirely clear what the effect will be on me and everyone else who already has a service contract on the iProvo network. I suppose if Google is upgrading the network, though, that can only be good.
So in LTR languages, the second one?
There should be two multipliers though right? If it charges 10x faster and you are charging to a 10x less total energy it should charge 100x faster right?
Stipulating all the other points you've made, exactly what is the purpose of hiding from a server a long random string generated by that server and useful only to that server?
You're basing an entire alternate reality off one outcome; what about the one where your startup succeeded and ended up costing google tens of millions?

The startup where I worked was completely unrelated to the idea that would have saved G+.

I'm saying that, had that startup succeeded and had I ended up at Google around the same time, I would have had the credibility to actually roll up my sleeves, push a few idiots out of the way, and save those tens of millions of dollars. But I didn't have that credibility, at least not then, so I had to sit back and watch as enormous amounts of value were incinerated before my eyes.
about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.
The language has already been corrupted. I am correcting that. It's amazing what people can get comfortable with when Kermit Gosnell is "snipping" "fetuses" instead of beheading babies.

The fact is that real people that would have existed now don't (50 million Americans since Roe v. Wade). That may not be murder, but it is certainly something akin. Filling the language with euphemisms doesn't change the reality.
Provo is a city in Utah. It is most notable for being the home of BYU (Brigham Young University) the main University of the LDS Church (Mormons).
That's what we call capitalism. The difference is that politicians are supposed to represent the people, not just the people with money, but in practice they are also capitalists.
they could use some faster servers too
Realistically speaking, if all these various roll outs go smoothly for Google, how many years until we see Google Fiber in major cities (LA, SF, NY, etc.)?
... a trial period of 7 years.
Decoding the structure of bone
While I agree with this article's primary point - that fear of failure alone should not stop or paralyze you, I disagree with most of the rest.

To me, articles like this are the same as the rich guy telling the poor guy "C'mon, just buy the car. What's the worst that can happen?" The fact of the matter is that a lot can happen that can have long-term consequences that should be weighed and considered.

I admire entrepreneurs that can make incredible leaps of faith, but we typically only hear about the ones who succeed. There's also ones who took the leap with nothing to land on and came up short. There's also ones who carefully planned and took a "controlled leap."

Also, what does every action sports star, race car driver or soldier say? They say it would be more dangerous if they weren't at least a little scared of failing, and that elements of fear keep you attentive and energized. The same applies in entrepreneurship.

"Failure" carries different consequences depending on the person and the situation. To some, failing means they lost some investor's money and are on to the next project, or for some could mean having to find a job. While it could mean bankruptcy to others. Depending on circumstances, not everyone can afford to be so cavalier and needs to be a little more analytical.

Fear of failure is part of entrepreneurship and its historically the hurdle that separates entrepreneurs from everyone else. It certainly shouldn't be taken lightly.
"The courts are made up by politically chosen representatives, not a jury, which further contributes to the banana republic sentencing."

As it is in the US, too. There aren't exactly elections for Supreme Court Justices.
I've noticed that even in the USA, it is much more common for smaller "Mom & Pop" shops and restaurants owned and operated by Asians (not just Japanese, but Chinese, Filipinos, etc) to be cash-only, or if they do accept debit/credit cards they have very high minimum purchase requirements.

I get the reasoning behind why they do this (to avoid the handling charge overhead), but I've always wondered why the decision to do so seems to be far more prevalent with some cultures than others and I've always wondered if it is really a net negative for them as there are quite a few places I would otherwise go to frequently but avoid (because I know that as someone who prefers not to carry around a lot of cash that paying will be a bit of a pain in the ass at those places). Presumably I'm not the only one who makes this choice regularly.
If you can see the bus from the bus stop, it will probably arrive soon.
right on the number for me. 33.
Just read it. Unless I'm mistaken there's a liability shield. If that's true, this bill is bullshit. Liability shields do not protect consumers. They use the force of the State to protect corporations, which is totally against the free market.

"EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY.—No civil or
criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in
Federal or State court against a protected entity,
self-protected entity, cybersecurity provider, or an
officer, employee, or agent of a protected entity, self-
protected entity, or cybersecurity provider, acting in
good faith"
and better admins, but let's not be mean :)
Good god I hope these announcements light a fire under the butts of the other US providers.
HQ of Novell and Qualtrics apparently.
It said I was 28, I'm 19.
Spot on for me too. Wow.
Damn. Hadn't thought of that. :(
Here is an alternate algorithm, based on mcherm's suggestion. Choose a publicly available number, such as NYSE closing price, that is not revealed until after the lottery closes. The hash of this is the target. The exact format of what is hashed is announced in advance.

All purchasers' bitcoin addresses are posted publicly, in the order they come in. They are salted with the ticket number, i.e. mybitcoinaddress-001 represents the first ticket I bought. All of these addresses (including salt) are hashed. The one that is closest to the target is the winner. Closeness can be measured as integers (absolute value) with ties possible but extremely unlikely.
Dear Google,

please buy EPB's fiber network in Chattanooga, TN.

Love,
Ad-blockers, the games press, and why sexy cosplay leads to better reporting
The growth hacking manifesto
If they are getting into the habit of buying failing public-sector fibre networks, can they come and take over Digital Region South Yorkshire too? It works reasonably well, but is incredibly ineptly run, has a tiny number of users and has been facing the axe for as long as I've been using it.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/general-news...
Totally agree. The key here is that you're doing the work to implement the algorithms, not your customers. If they had to do it, they probably just wouldn't use it.
> choosing not to work at the company (which doesn't take the same position) your actions put you at risk of committing the same sins that a hiring manager might make of choosing not to hire someone because of a difference of opinion

It's a perfectly rational, and intelligent decision to avoid working at a job where you report to a bigot whose opinions are directly opposed to your own.

He was willing to spend hard-earned money to deprive people of legal rights. What on earth would make you think it's smart to trust him to be fair and even-handed in the workplace?

In a perfect world he'd only be a horrible bigot at home, but in the real world that's unlikely.

There are plenty of jobs elsewhere. Jobs that don't involve reporting to a bigot.
Not accurate for me. I'm 51 and it guessed 32. I'd be interested in what the key factors are.
More Conversions
Not even close. Said I was 29 and I am 48.
Sure... and what caused the action? Was it not the belief? So should I have said "beliefs indirectly ruin lives"? Actually, does the action even directly ruin lives, or is it the way you react to an action that will ruin your life or not? Bah. It's just a nitpick, isn't it?
It said 33, I am 40.
And it will be available in 10 years.
Wasn't this announce from the very beginning?

A bit slower(100Mb?) with a one-time installation fee(~700USD I think) that could be financed.
said 33, im 30.
Holy cow that's great! I sure hope that means they can easily expand to Salt Lake City (about 50 miles North of there—and where I am) after building the infrastructure there.

There is already a fiber ISP in the area called Utopia who are in cities near here, but have been disallowed into the bigger cities (Provo and Salt Lake) apparently due to lobbying by the Qwest / CenturyLink and Comcast ISPs.

I wonder if this announcement has anything to do with the fact that Comcast recently doubled my speeds (from 25/5Mbps to 50/10Mbps)
It was off by a good decade for me.
If you really want to put them in .bashrc instead of .inputrc, you can source readline directives with the 'bind' command, like so:

bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward' # up-arrow
bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward' # down-arrow
Adobe has a dev center there (unsurprising, given Adobe's history.)
I use pg up/pg dn for history searching and leave the arrows for simple up and down lines, like so (in zsh):

[[ -n "${key[Up]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Up]}" up-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Down]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[Down]}" down-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[PageUp]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[PageUp]}" history-search-backward
[[ -n "${key[PageDown]}" ]] && bindkey "${key[PageDown]}" history-search-forward
I think one of the things I'm most excited for is canceling my absurd Comcast agreement.
Very cool. I'll have to check this out. That profile tool looks interesting too. I've been using the rack-mini-profiler gem but it might be a good idea to do a deeper dive.

As always GH, thanks for sharing.
The liability shield is practically the whole point of the bill; there are something like 10 federal laws that restrict what information can be shared in any circumstance, intentionally or not, which precludes a bunch of different forms of cooperation during attack.

A simple use case for this law: you are under a concerted DDOS attack. Your network deals with, say, drivers records. Drivers records are protected under the DPPA. You want to share NetFlow information with a 3rd party DDOS tracking service. Today, your general counsel needs to authorize any such sharing explicitly. Post-CISPA, you could make arrangements to share that information automatically.
Off by a year. Not bad.
Sorry but I disagree. The best engineers are the ones that can plan reliable estimates and hit their targets. They deserve to be highly paid, since they create stability and predictability in an otherwise chaotic process. You don't have to be a speedy coder in order to be highly valued. You just need to be reliable, and the team needs to have confidence in the work that you do.

To do things like cut the number of features in half and double time estimates, as is advocated by the author, are things that only contribute to red tape and chaos.
I just want to say, this is such an amazing HN thread. No snark, no one trying to feel superior. Just pure excitement over something that (at this point) is no where near having a serious impact. Just the joy of pre-smartphone nerdery.

Best of all, an incredible amount of information. I know nothing of this low-level system stuff, yet i cant stop reading.
Most of the numbers are around 30~ I don't think there is anything accurate about it.
I wonder if the duration of a "quick break" is taken into account for their calculations?
That was largely due to their acquisition of Omniture.
are you serious???
I can see how buying fiber networks like this helps their implementation strategy, but Provo where? I've literally never heard of this town. I'm wondering if these Google Fiber experiments wouldn't be more impactful if they weren't in big cities. KC and Austin are good choices with solid tech centers to see innovation from high network speeds, but Provo, Utah? Really?
said 31, I'm 41. yay?
RTP Hackers & Founders meeeting, tomorrow, April 18th, Tylers in Carrboro
Fortunately, a friend of mine had kept his old PDP-11 and was able to retrieve some files for me from some old media that I'd overlooked transferring decades ago.
I live in Europe, but airfare and hotel would bump the cost of admission up too much.

I currently don't work at a tech company, so the salary there - or employer-paid expense - would definitely improve my chances. :)
As someone who lives in provo aka silicon slopes, this is great news!

I don't think most people realize how tech-based this area is and this should only help the companies in the area!
I'm almost 35, it said 32. Close enough. I wonder if it just uses time to click or if there's something involving extraneous clicks or noticing the patterns. Interesting in any case.
from the article: "we’d offer our Free Internet service (5 Mbps speeds) to every home along the existing Provo network, for a $30 activation fee and no monthly charge for at least seven years"
Guessed 30, I am 28.
Steve Brill’s Bitter Pill should have ended with a bang, not a whimper
It really depends on the niche market. Though some markets are absent from the web for a reason. Some people just don't care or get having a website.
If they (Google) are purchasing the whole iProvo network, then I would think they could also undo the service contracts so you could sign up for their normal services? Or, maybe you mean that you have a contract to work on the network—like a technician or something?
Bandsintown telling 5mil users when their favorite bands are... you guessed it
He says they started out with contractors and moved to in-house people because of a lack of quality.
I am 29 and it said 29.
Not very close. Said 32. I'm 47. From the other comments, seems like a pretty narrow range of guesses.
I didn't realize that, thanks. I figured it was an old-school Utah tech connection.
I gathered as much. But in practice, how often do you see RFC 2617 Digest authc used in non-browser scenarios? (I'm genuinely curious. I haven't seen it used much at all outside of web browsers, so I'm curious what others may have come across).
It got me within 4 years
Free Internet at 5 mb up/down for a $300 installation fee.
Not far off, but not amazing - 29 vs 33.
Utopia is around 1Gbps for $600 though, right? I actually work right across the street from their facility on Redwood Rd.
Hello nilkn, MyClean does not contract cleaners. All of our employee's are W-2 employee's of our company.
That Rails has an escape_once method is a big part of the reason I stopped using Rails. If you think "double escaping" is a problem to be solved by creating a helper method that won't escape what's already escaped, now you have two problems.

EDIT TO ELABORATE:

Problem 1 is the original problem, that parts of your code do not agree upon what a particular string represents. This is the "strings problem," the mother of XSS and injection vulnerabilities. [1]

Problem 2 is that the escape_once method papers over these problems, making them harder to detect, and preventing you from hunting down the logic errors that cause them. (Since these errors often occur in upstream code, you need to find them before they execute to be safe, which is why compile-time methods [2] work best.)

[1] http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2007-08-15-a-bright-future-sec...

[2] http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-10-18-a-type-based-soluti...
Does that thing just throw random numbers between 28 and 33 ? Looks like that if I read the comments :D .
No idea, it's a similar issue with the busses in LA, all of those that cooperate with the LA metro system are on nextbus, but the few that don't (santa monica) aren't on nextbus at all. I suspect it has something to do with cost of the hardware that the busses have.
>The packaging pseudo-filesystem is going to be sitting between the user/kernel, interdicted through a file, and then through a file system, for all access to all installed software.

A pseudo-filesystem is not high-overhead, unless you believe symlinks and pointers are high-overhead.

>First of all, you just called PATH straight-forward. Try explaining PATH to the average desktop or mobile OS user, and then try explaining why this is better than the App Store or drag-installs.

Here's the thing: an 'average user' doesn't care about 'a ton of files splatted over the disk' either. How many Windows users bother even looking in the Windows directory or Program Files directory? The 'a ton of files splatted over the disk' issue is only an issue for power users, who like to feel in complete control of their system.

As for App Stores, they're just like a traditional package manager but with a simpler UI and the option to buy software before downloading it. If you're familiar with Ubuntu, compare Synaptic with the Ubuntu Software Centre? See a difference beyond the cosmetic layer? Now compare the Ubuntu Software Centre with the Apple App Store, can you see a difference beyond the cosmetic layer?

I've got a strong feeling of déjà-vu discussing this, are you a Haiku-OS.org forum member?
It said 29 and I don't turn 30 for a few more weeks.
Me, ATT... <10Mbps is a joke....
It's a college town, probably more creatively vibrant than you would think at first glance, anti-Mormon prejudices aside.
Said 40, I'm 21, really off!
I click like a younger model.
Networking Budgets Continue Increases, But Show Signs of Flattening
Not even close - guessed 44 and I'm 25.
Bang on for me.
Is this just a clever way to collect survey data? Based on the guesses being in a pretty narrow range I suspect that's the real goal.
Yes.

To expand on this, it searches based on what's on the left side of your cursor. So if your cursor is all the way on the left side, it acts as it did before. You lose nothing!
Probably has more to do with the age of your average HN reader.
Lessons learned from a failed shot
I'm 36, it says I'm 31. I feel like an atomic superman. Also my fingers hurt.
It even says 33 for over 50 year old folks here
If a car battery can be made to charge to 50% capacity in about a minute with a total range greater than 60 miles or so, then a very novel solution to charging electric cars becomes possible -- induction coils at stop lights and along highways.
This would seem to require figuring out what I think about CISPA, first. I don't feel very strongly about it either way -- slightly positive toward some aspects, slightly negative toward other aspects, but it feels pretty much like a legislative no-op.
this has very deep and far reaching implications for pro-level starcraft players!!! :p
There might not be much buzz yet, but there are type definitions for almost all decent JS frameworks:

https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
Xplenty launch - Code free Hadoop as a service
Thanks for the post larrys. You make some excellent points and the companies you have pointed out are all excellent companies. The large national franchise model is slightly different form our tech oriented urban based model however. We plan to expand soon and want to continue to contribute positively to the economy through job creation and opportunities for growth and advancement for our employee's.
28 for 33
Not sure about 1Gbps speeds—that always seemed so out of reach to me, I never paid attention. Their normal residential speed was said to be about $70 / month for 50Mbps up and down.
I was at BYU when iProvo was launched. I believe it was offering 10mbps up/down at the time, which was 10x faster than the DSL I had. Unfortunately, I was in an apartment building and they couldn't install the service without permission from the building owner.

Also, the Salt Lake City corridor was involved in building a fiber network around the same time, I believe called "Utopia".
For me it also said 30 although I'm few years younger actually.
- aliens (as in fake grey aliens)

I wonder how well real aliens would do.
My friends made this software tool to help get Marathon pictures to the FBI
I also got 29, but I'm 33. You click like a 33 year old! ;)
My Carver amp & preamp stereo still plays all day every day and has for the last 30 years. I'll be sad when it finally fails. It's driving some old Dahlquist speakers of the same vintage, also working forever. A couple of the best purchases I ever made.

About the only change is I no longer use a CD player, cassette player, etc., but drive it from an Audiotron box that sucks the tunes off of my computer. The Audiotron is > 10 years old, and I still haven't found anything better.

(The Carver amp on-off switch did wear out last year, but I just plugged it into a bus strip to use as the switch.)
I would like to think that HN is free of any anti-Mormon prejudices.
I am really amazed more people on HN aren't using fish. Everyone should check it out: http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/
You're right MattGrommes, thanks for the post.
We need some volunteers to grab their kids and have them try it.
Guessed 31. I'm 26. Crap. I must have awful motor skills.
Show HN: Breadcrumbs - see what's happening at your favorite places
Hey HN

If you're more visual, here's a video I recorded: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6jrkwo09fr2zgw/HardRock.mov
The first minute shows the app, the last three minutes is a very cool demo. I'll be sitting here all day answering questions and taking suggestions. Ask me anything and I'll respond immediately.

Breadcrumbs is an app that allows you to see what's happening at all your favorite places - all in one dashboard. Instead of going to a business' Facebook page or a Twitter page or relying on your newsfeed to show you info you want to see, simply "Remember" a business and you can manage all of that information in one place.

http://breadcrumbs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/phone-places-list.png

What's cool is that a business doesn't have to participate in our program for us to provide useful information about them. We match Foursquare locations with social media pages (currently only support Facebook) and so Breadcrumbs works for a business whether it's located in San Francisco, San Diego, or Cedar Rapids.

The coolest part is when a business is participating in our program. If you're tracking a business and you're in the area when they've got something going on, you'll get a notification encouraging you to drop by. Since you only receive notifications from places you choose to "Remember", there's no need to worry about spam.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g29cvgqvg6n53e2/2013-04-17%2012.57.57.png

We've got 20 pilot programs onboard right now and it has been a pretty easy sell to get them to give an incentive to their customers to download the app. Breadcrumbs functions like a business' app, so instead of dropping $1,000 to get "John's Restaurant" app, sign up for Breadcrumbs instead.

We're backed by Qualcomm Labs and we're based out of the EvoNexus tech incubator in beautiful Downtown San Diego.

-Sean
It told me I was 33 also and I'm 25.

The survey at the end was fairly short. I wonder what factors they might be missing. I type most of the day in a terminal and rarely use my touchpad except for scrolling and occasional clicks on websites. I also don't play video games often. It seems like both of those facts could have affected my speed.
woah - that post is worth reading. Thank you for linking to it.