skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only we really were... Blowing up stuff is one of the best introductions to science a kid can get!

If a kid today were to do now what I did as a kid, they'd have a criminal record a mile long, destined to be nothing more than a drain on society since they'd be permanently branded and unemployable in most places. That's not a good way to build up your future economy and industry, not to mention international competitiveness!

Punishing a child by permanently destroying their hopes and dreams shows some badly misplaced priorities.
If you read the article, his data usage wasn't the reason he was cut off. He was caught because of it, but the reason he's being forced to business class is that he's running a server (multiple actually.) Residential has it in their TOS, no hosting servers on that connection. If anything Verizon should be applauded compared to companies like Comcast... they didn't even throttle him before they called to find out what was going on. He willingly gave himself away.
It's also better for most video content; an iPad watching a 16:9 TV stream is only using 75% of the screen. Apple itself has moved to a widescreen format for the iPhone 5, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a future iPad do that too. I think there's lots of value to squarer aspect ratios for desktop/text usage (c.f. the Chromebook Pixel moving slightly in the opposite direction), but for a media device like a phone or tablet I'd expect them all to converge on the aspect used by content.

Obviously none of that has to do with the bad math in the MS ad. The iPad screen is, in fact, larger than the Asus one.
The first world has the money.

Medical image sharing has more red tape, it's more challenging.
But "banks" aren't a currency. They may have issued their own currencies during the gold standard, but then again nothing prevents banks from issuing their own currency in an (absolutely hypothetical) bitcoin standard.
as if working from Starbucks did.
You're only the ten millionth person to voice that desire. Sadly, the universe is not obligated to be intuitive. At this point we probably have to accept that the parts of the universe that we didn't evolve to understand are free to be as utterly weird as they want to be.
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Presumably, they either used Javascript via:

document.location.href = "http://www.google.com/ "

or the HTML meta redirect:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.google.com/ ">

Both of which can redirect your browser to another location.
Refresh the page.

Server problems, sorry. I added page caching a little while ago and also moved the image to dropbox instead of my own server (I hope that is OK to do).
However, traffic most months is in the 30TB range. That sort of bandwidth would cost thousands of dollars per month in most colocation facilities

Huh? That's about a maxed out 100Mbps line. I'm not super familiar with different DC pricing for this tier of speed but from what I've seen this seems to be very misleading. For 100Mbps managed with IPS/IDS, I've seen $3000/Mo. But usually the offer is for unmanaged and with that the price can be in the hundreds or less. Any DC experts care to comment?
Yes, which suggests that what the Web needs is proper support for aggregating / merging comments on a story when those comments are spread across multiple domains. Ideally, you should be able to go to

http://www.example.org/blog/a_post_about_something.html

and see in the "comments" section the comments from HN, reddit, G+, and elsewhere.

From what I remember when I started looking into something like this a few years ago, from a technical perspective, SIOC[1] and FOAF[2] give us some of the building blocks to do something like that. But it'll probably never catch on just due to the economics...

At least if you blog on Blogger, they have integrated G+ discussions now, which turns out to be kinda nifty.

[1]: http://sioc-project.org/

[2]: http://www.foaf-project.org/
When you click does the tooltip appear at all? We'd love to get it fixed up.
This makes me wonder where Sidecar is headed. I'm in Boston so I do not get to experience Lyft except when visiting SF twice a year. Sidecar seems to be a much looser experience than Lyft with the drivers feeling more like the friend of a friend that may or may not get you home alive.

That's obviously somewhat of an exaggeration but I've found the few Lyft rides I've taken to be more "professional" than those I've done with Sidecar (and by professional I'm referring to the way the drivers operate their vehicles). Uber is obviously the leader in this but Lyft seems a few steps above Sidecar.

As a customer I want as many ride providers as possible to keep competition intense. I'm very curious to see where this market goes.
Hmm, what happens? I have the same setup, and it works just fine. Are there errors in the console?
He's ultimately right, but few will listen. And those that do are "fanbois", of course. That's just how it is.
I believe Go purpose is exactly that of replacing more familiar languages with a static compiled version that is palatable. It's fulfilling a niche where, otherwise, one would resort to C/C++.
Python is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of data science; but there the vast majority of your inner loop isn't Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, numba, theano; C, Fortran, assembler, Cython, LLVM, CUDA...).

Basically Python is the glue language data people wanted, it turns out.
Technically, they dinged him for violating their TOS, not for hitting a bandwidth cap.

(Although the concept of "running a server" is pretty meaningless, too.)
Totally agree with you on this. Perhaps, the writer meant in the same was as drugs has, allegedly, effect on creativity.
> Very bizarre and shockingly disgusting way to advertise

Seems more direct than the alternative. If you believe you have strengths compared to your major competitor, why is it bad to lay out the comparison explicitly in your marketing? Sure, comparative advertising can go to far, but why not leave it up the company doing the advertising to make sure they don't come off looking petty?
Sure. The operative part of that sentence is: if the way you agree to measure size is diagonally
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We're most certainly missing a lot of things. But quantum mechanics is in no way wrong. It may not be complete, but not wrong.

Ontologically, there is not reason for us not to discover other things about nature that are (more) fundamental.
Sure, but what are the odds the universe fundamentally defies intuitive logic versus the odds our small brains currently can't see the full picture but in the meantime have invented insane (but cool) mathematical machinations? I guess it's unknowable.
To talk about this from a marketing perspective:

Comparative advertising is best described as a necessary evil. Marketers hate using it -- it's their equivalent of the nuclear option. It's cheap, unimaginative, and universally weakens the customer's evaluation of the brand.

The issue is that it, like a nuclear bomb, it's incredibly effective. Customers remember comparative advertising better, digest it more effectively, and it helps disseminate cognitive information clearly. Ironically, customers internalize comparative advertising more often with regards to the product being denigrated (ie. "This product is worse!") than with the product being promoted (ie. "This product is better!") This is important with low-effort purchases like <$20 consumer goods.

(As an aside: I think the idea of making comparative advertisements illegal is absolutely absurd. What should be made illegal, though, are advertisements like this, which are blatantly false no matter what the fine print says.)
Does this work only in one direction? Is there any reason to see the first measurement as causal? Could the second measurement be interpreted as causal that then propagates backward in time?

I'm really trying to get at if the linear description of events in the article is just a convenient simplification, or if physicists thinks that there is time order here.
reminds of the ad Microsoft is running that they call "Scroogled". They claim that Bing is better than google and even have ppl on TV test it out. I tried taking that challenge and bing fails 95% of the time compared to google results.
So the redirect was there all along, waiting for a trigger?
I think Julia (http://julialang.org/) might be a better alternative to Scientific Python than Go. I'm not sure you can get the same flexibility/expressiveness you get in Numpy/R/Matlab in Go.
Doesn't load at all for me. I can load other WebGL demos on this browser, just not this one.
Running a Startup
All i wanna do is BANG BANG and make some money...
>Apache is great at serving content; Apache isn't the best choice anymore for serving applications.

What is?
What kind of budget are you working with? I've had success getting through customer discovery and validating demand with adwords. Basically just drove ~$100-200 to a basic landing page and decided a 20% conversion rate was worth pursuing further.
If you're on a tablet, I think you would much appreciate an ePub. I most definitely would. It's mainly for reflowing text. I know reflowable PDF is possible but I have never seen one in the wild.
> Why would I want to upload gigabytes of video

To archive them. To share them.

> If I care about archiving things - why would I want to archive just my video files?

You wouldn't. You'd want to archive anything. I genuinely don't understand the point you were trying to make here.

> it's not solving users' problems very well at all

I disagree. It solves my problems better than most other devices. "Playing my videos," it does extremely well. Step one, I shoot them on my Android, so they're instantly uploaded. If I have a video that's not on Android, I upload it to YouTube to archive and share it.

Many people in Moore, OK are shifting through rubble, looking for family photos. I think backing photos and videos up online makes a ton of sense...
The programming languages that I could say I know fully are PHP, node and python.
I only studied some basic c and c++ so no, I can't explain your example.
Also thanks for suggestion about ruby.
I think the fundamental problem is the idea that there is more than one thing. As soon as you see there is only one thing, it's no surprise that everything is related. http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/4751/2992
The problem is not that he was using a lot of bandwidth. If the usage didn't violate the Verizon ToS (no servers), he would have a good case.

But he (presumably) agreed to the ToS when he signed up for the service, he violated the ToS by running servers, and then got threatened to lose his service if he didn't upgrade to business without such restrictions.

Is everyone surprised because Verizon came knocking on his door after using 30,000% more bandwidth than anyone else?? If you were running this network, wouldn't you want to know what was causing such high usage?
More than likely, the way I would do it would be to wait for content entry, IE, your "o.O", post my message along with a redirect for a few seconds lag. To give you time to read that you were being redirected before redirecting you.
Except the whole "Don't run servers on a residential connection" part of the service agreement, which he clearly in violation of. That's the real story here.
It isn't a real person, its all done in Javascript. Seems to me like your NoScript isn't working properly, or isn't configured properly.

The Javascript is run from here:
http://image.tutorvista.com/js/top_chat_box_popup.js?17

The code responsible for redirecting you is here:
function startMsg_popup(type) {
if(type == 'payment'){
addMsg_popup(tutor_name,"We have the right package for you.",1500,function(){
addMsg_popup(tutor_name,"Please answer a few questions on the following page.",1500, function(){
addMsg_popup("sys","Loading Questionare",500,function(){
gotoquestionare_popup();
});
});
});

}
else{
addMsg_popup(tutor_name,"Let us start working on the whiteboard.",2000,function(){
addMsg_popup(tutor_name,"Please wait while the whiteboard loads",2000, function(){
addMsg_popup("sys","Loading Whiteboard",1000,function(){
gotowhiteboard_popup();
});
});
});
}

}

Edit: More details there is a function called "areakeyup_popup" which is called every on every keyup event. It checks to see if the enter key was pressed. If it does it calls "startMsg_popup" which springs into action the "Please wait while the whiteboard loads" message, before calling, "gotowhiteboard_popup" which creates and submits a form for you pragmatically, `redirecting` you to their `whiteboard`.
This looks pretty sweet! Will you guys be adding visualizations of which touches are currently occurring as well?
They have an iFrame of http://www.tutorvista.com/iframe_container/iframe_popup_buyn...

with their own JavaScript of
http://image.tutorvista.com/js/buynow_popup.js?9

It's not a real person.
I have to agree wholeheartedly. I find SQlite a great choice for web apps and small DBD websites as it's so much easier to deploy and more than fast-enought for most projects. Plus it is easy to upgrade if the need arises as the queries are for the most-part identical to SQL.
Don’t make links that open new windows or tabs; it’s grossly hostile to the reader.

I don't really agree with this one. From my perspective as a reader, I prefer when links have target="_blank" set, because it means if I forget to (or couldn't be arsed to) ctrl+click or right-click -> open link in new tab, I still don't lose my place on the current page, and can go poke around at the linked content at my leisure.

Maybe I'm weird (OK, obviously I'm weird in some regards) but I prefer to open links as I go, but read the main text-stream first, then go back and read linked articles, posts, citations, etc. If they are conveniently opened in a pile of tabs, it makes my life easier.

Curious how the rest of the HN readership feels about this...
Yes the GC has a large impact on this and yes C to Go inter-op has a heavy penalty. Memcachier did a talk at a Go meetup where they discussed a custom slab allocator they built to workaround some of these problems.

Like C, Go is compiled to a native binary. Certainly something like GCC will tend to produce faster code, but there's nothing fundamental here preventing you from writing code that can run fast in Go.

The real question isn't "can go achieve C latency" but rather "will every-day code written in Go achieve the same latency as every-day code written in C". And the answer is probably: it'll be slower, though usually in the same ballpark, but it will be easier to write, easier to maintain and have fewer bugs.
yes, in Europe it's subtle at least.

remember a BMW (or audi, or benz) comercial where it showed a spy type scaping from several bad guys, and all the bad guys had the competitor car (i think the bad guys had mbenz) and they were all sliding off curves and crashing...
But what do you think physicists do all day? Exactly what you just described. Unfortunately we pretty much have the answer, and it's kind of a resounding NO. Look up "local hidden variable theory".
Ethernet turns 40 years old today
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What about legalzoom.com and similar services? All those wills, patent applications, incorporations, etc. were once performed by legal assistants, paralegals and junior lawyers. Now someone just fills in some forms and ticks off various options. Or think of online insurance quotes, tax preparation and basic accounting again mostly junior level jobs to be sure but this is only the beginning!
Google Starts Using Computer Vision To Let You Search Your Google+ Photos
Ask HN: Canadian Accounting software which inetgrates with itunes
I am looking for a Canadian accounting software which can integrate with itunes for reporting app sales.
Or if you have any suggestion for how to easily report app sales in any other accounting software for Canadian regulations.
Fortunately, it's not as black and white in the real world. Quick and dirty hacks are a real thing that will never go away. If anything, having the ability to do those under stressful scenarios is a good quality to have.
Evernote is simple to learn. His system is architecturally simpler.
>If our experts can't agree on the value of bitcoin, why should consumers?

This is quite possibly the dumbest rhetorical question I've ever heard. On like 3 different levels. Replace 'bitcoin' with, like, anything. Oranges. Trees. Cars. What the eff are you talking about, lady.
Hey. I just found the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. I guess I could study that and select a language that I enjoy and master it.
It goes through Haskell, erlang, scala, io, prolog and ruby.
That's the plan. We want to make sure you can see the exact actions a user takes (and the user can also see the exact actions the agent is taking).

We also plan to add an overlay so there's no confusion as to when your screen is being viewed.
Cans of soda. That's what we're arguing about. Its a rounding error on a balance sheet. If you can't offer perks because you're worried you're going to lose less than what a decent cellphone plan for 1 person costs monthly, find somewhere else to work than tech. People are people, and getting bent out of shape over soda is insane.
Which add is not deceitful because it highlights	strengths and hides weaknesses? It makes absolutely no sense to attack a single add, they all do it, so if you want to complain, complain about all adds.
I want to comment on these threads, but I always wonder "What's the statute of limitations on these things, anyways?"
Go is the new Scala.
But the way we measure the size of things is ... by their size. We could just as well say their statement is true if we agree to define "bigger" as "smaller" and vice-versa.
I'd say "duh" but thats too obvious :)

If you're looking at a threat model for this, its exactly the same as a Zipgun and in fact it probably costs a heck of a lot more than a zipgun so its even less likely to be used. Zipguns have existed for over a century so its not like this is some huge threat.

This is only a problem if you believe guns are {evil, sentient, bombs} or something. The problem is always the wielder, never the tool, so if you account for that you will always be prepared for any type of weapon...
Don't break my browser defaults for your preferences.

If I want it to open in a new window I'll shift+click and if I want a new tab I'll ctrl+click or middle mouse click.
This ad is not highlighting strengths and hiding weaknesses... it is straight up lying.
please read Anathem http://www.amazon.com/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061694940/... (if you've not already) I think you will enjoy it :)

[edit: removed wikipedia link... too many spoilers :(]
It depends. I usually prefer to stay on the same page. There are use cases however when i am ok with a new window. For example, a help window/pop-up, details on a field while filling out a form (you need it sometimes) etc. Sidenot, the worst thing that I hate: clicking on a link only to find out that the new page now has no menu/link to go back to anything else and rely on the dreaded browser back button.

oh btw, if I prefer a new window, I can always right click and say "Open in new tab" etc.
sensationalist hype? It presents calculations of area, and states that the objective comparisons made by MS are objectively wrong.

It doesn't even say that the ASUS tablet is worse or that the iPad is better. This is possibly the least sensationalist article I've ever seen that mentions both Apple and Microsoft.
The standard library templating in Go is one of my favorite features. Between html.template and text.template, I probably use it in over half of the programs I've written.
He'd have a hard time arguing legitimate use in _any_ case, considering that running a full-bitrate, un-recompressed Blu-Ray stream 24/7 would only be 11.7TB/month. Anyone using more than that is either running servers or hitting alt.binaries.* a bit hard...
Ahh yes, but he had to tell them he was running servers. They just saw the overage and called to ask. What is a "any type of server" anyway? A p2p client listening for connections? A personal VPN end-point? Its a grey area ripe for selective TOS enforcement. Clearly this guy was over the top but its all part of "unlimited as long as you don't use it too much". Why should they care what runs on a connection? Just sell the damn bandwidth already.
>With bitcoin you don't show your whole wallet to anyone. You only make a single transaction to a single address. Merchant cannot possibly leak anything that will give someone ability to spend your money. Instead of spreading your identifying information to 1000s of shops you only keep it in a single place that you control directly (but you should be careful here). So you don't need chargebacks if no one can easily steal your money.

But your wallet is only as secure as the place it's stored at. If it's on an internet connected machine, you need to make sure that you're as protected as possible. If it's on a third party's server, you need to have faith in their security.

Bitcoin wallets are identical to CC numbers in this regard, because if the wallet or CC # is stolen, you can clean out the account.

But with Bitcoin, there is no way to undo the damage once everything was taken. If your system gets compromised and your wallet stolen(or the service you're using to store the wallet gets compromised), you're out of luck.
Heavy-f'n-metal! Usually of the melodic death variety.
Currently: disarmonia mundi, from Italy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXYhmqs4OaM

Really gets the blood pumping!
Video looks accurate to me. iPad taller and less wide.
I was wrong

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After reviewing the source code, they use javascript to submit a form which redirects you to another website, carrying along some marketing data such as what brought you to them, etc.
Back in 2003-2005, when I was managing telecom for a smart grid company, I was negotiating with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T for wireless data plans. A conversation with them, Verizon in particular, was like a comedy sketch.

Me: So, for $90/month, how much data do I get?
Rep: It's Unlimited.
Me: Great - so how much is "Unlimited?"
Rep: We have no Limit.
Me: So, can you tell me how that is?
Rep: Seriously, it's "Unlimited!"
Me: So, you're telling me there no cap, right?
Rep: Exactly!
Me: Great - can I purchase 1000 circuits, I'll be
downloading approximately 32 gigabytes/circuit/month.
Rep: Woah - hold on there - that's over the limit.
Me: Yes, of course - so, for $90/month, how much data do I get?
> it's an incredibly stably developed and well-tested piece of software.

It also has a policy of safe by default, fast at your risk (mmap is itself an example, it is disabled by default), which is the only sane attitude when working with databases.

Contrast this to "modern" databases such as MongoDB, which is crazy fast out of the box, but then you start enabling durability, synchronous updates, etc... it becomes slower than standard DBs. This makes you win benchmarks, but in the long term causes a lot of headache and drives users away.
300mbit connection - max theoretical bandwidth usage is: (((300/8) * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365)/12)/(1024^2) = ~94GB. This guy did pretty good work!
I think they took a loan guarantee from DOE because nobody else was lending money back then and they needed funding to develop the Model S.
Don't worry, in 500 years, after everything that is now studied is well understood, there will be one or more underlying principles discovered which will simplify it all.
Never thought of this... It turns out it is dual licensed:

http://fallabs.com/license/

Although I'm not sure how difficult it would be to get a license, the author now works for google and doesn't seem to answer to that email (when asking technical question anyway - offering money might get a different reaction).
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