skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's pretty evil. I wonder what would happen if a reasonably popular ios app started using a desktop-like User-Agent in communications to its server!
Eh, in the UK they have / had a package of "unlimited" 3g, £30 for 90 days.

Unlimited means they do weird stuff to prevent some content from working after one gigabyte per month - flash videos don't work, for example.

They throw up interstitial warning pages which break forms and the back button, which can be annoying.

They have fierce image compression proxies, but the Windows client (if you chose to use it, you don't have to) allows you to turn it off.

I carefully checked that it was unlimited, and I gave them fair warning that I consider myself a heavy internet user, and I made sure they knew before they took me on that I'd be hammering the bandwidth. And I do.
Well, I think this the intent of people who wrote that book.

I mean, "they didn't think of it" argument does not work because the law is pretty old and the failure in question happens all the time and gets in the press.

So either they wanted to punish teenagers OR they were so afraid of missing one or two real child pornographers that millions of false positives and hundreds of cases didn't counterweight them to add respective exceptions.
Anyway, we're dealing with people who are very, very misguided to the point of being danger for humanity.
Actually not much, but it´s totally a passive income source. A recipe blog, www.delicie.com.br, around US$20,00/month (R$40,00). So far 800 recipes, 10k visitors/months.
He was being humorous.

(HN is so pedantic)
This would make sense if other phones are throttled similarly. And the article suggests they are not.

(an android user)
That depends whether you agree with the parents having the choice of how the money they earned is used. My point is that if we take the money from the children on the grounds that they do not deserve it, we implicitly deny the parents that choice. Which may be what you want. But if you do give them the choice of how to spend what they earn, you must accept that they may choose to spend it on people (or charities, or products etc.) that you consider undeserving.
Could this be changed to also accept other cryptocurrencies?
Implementation of the rendering algorithm.

That's the only similarity.
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You... you're the one! :-)

Nice work. I'm curious about where you got the video, was that something you recorded, or got from somewhere? I don't really work with video, but I'm sure I can find something useful for it in the future.
It really sucks that carriers do this, but I think it's important to realize that the issue is transparency, not that they do it.

Verizon and AT&T have a problem with scaling. They should be honest and upfront about what speeds you're realistically going to attain, but I don't think they have an obligation not to throttle people. It's honestly hard to exist without it. I don't know if Verizon and AT&T could operate such competitive networks without throttling.

Another thing to realize is that this also happens to internet download/upload speeds. How often do you realistically hit the maximum speeds you're advertised?

I think there should be accountability for lack of transparency, but I can't say I blame them for throttling. I don't have enough expertise on cell tower networking to know if they could stay profitable with competitively sized networks otherwise.
We use Riak in production and LevelDB is a must IMHO (except for some edge cases); bitcask is nice, but 2i is nicer.
Thought this was interesting since HN likes to discuss office layouts sometimes. The small team rooms with optional privacy doors is one of the best I've ever seen IMHO.
For me this depends very much on who it is that's trying to help.

If they've not experienced something similar to the mental health problems I'm suffering from it's usually best if they treat me as normal. The effort required to try and explain aspects of what I'm going through, usually with little success, is often far more detrimental than any benefit they could hope to provide. Being distracted from the problems, even if only for a short while, can be blissful and hugely appreciated.

On the other hand, I'm usually happy to be treated differently by people that have had similar experiences to me. I can often communicate to them in a sentence things which would take hours of conversation with somebody who'd not been there before.

It's a difficult situation for both the supporter and the supported, particularly in the early days.
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This is truly amazing. This airplane weighs less than one of the most famous and popular gliders, the PW-5 Smyk.

I hope one day to be able to buy one of these to go back and forth from work.

Any plans for a dual seater version? That would be awesome and would totally destroy the high end coupé cars market
Apparently with my Retina MacBook Pro with 10.8.4 and Safari 6.0.5, I "need to upgrade my video drivers", according to the site...
> until about 20-21 .. fear and common sense .. isn't fully developed

Total nonsense. It's just used to retrocon why teenagers are given less and less responsibility.

For virtually all of recorded history by 20-21 you were an adult with approximately 3 kids. If people had no common sense by that age they would be dead.

The brain responds to input - if you are given no responsibility, then your brain never learns responsibility. People keep "chasing" the magical age when you are responsible, when actually you have to learn it. And you have to learn it by doing it.

You can't wait until after you have it - it doesn't work that way.

Car insurance goes down after 22 because by then most people have had 6-8 years of driving experience. If you started drivers earlier, then insurance rates would go down earlier as well.
I agree with you in principle, but to be honest, I think this analogy gives people the wrong idea. They're attacking it based on phones being non-lethal, which is probably unproductive to your point.
ISTR once reading about a HN-specific tool like that. (The URL above points to a tool that returns results for Reddit and Twitter as well as HN.) Anyone know of anything like that?
Well there is always the argument over what a proper poboy is, and what the texture of authentic french bread is.
Assuming that you meant, "It wasn't coming," that sounds reasonable. Restated, my general complaint is that, in general (not necessarily on HN), people are more likely to say "there must be more to the story" if the accused is portrayed as even moderately sympathetic than if the accused is painted as scum. In other words, prosecutors and police are given the benefit of the doubt more frequently than those they target.
Nevermind, I found the video on youtube.
I love this. Can anyone recommend me a good blender tutorial? From very basics to character rigging and the more advanced stuff? Also going into scripting?
You are not going to be using the peak capacity constantly.

If you are listening to music / watching videos, then the rate at which you are downloading is limited to the quality of those streams which is often not close to the peak.

If you are downloading an app, it can use peak bandwidth, but you are done in seconds.

If you are browsing the internet, you are not bothering anyone at all.

The only issue I see is if you are torrenting from your phone. How many people would you see doing that ?
How long are you in the area?
Honest question: is it any good? I deal with A LOT of pdf files on a daily basis (theoretical physics) and I've always wanted a big-screen, e-ink reader (plus free wireless access to Wikipedia, if I remember correctly).
Zhang's Prime Result Being Improved Everyday
This TmoNews post should give you a bit more information on what the "refarming" means: http://www.tmonews.com/2013/05/why-now-is-a-great-time-to-be...

Basically they currently have GSM on the 1900MHz band and HSPA+ on the AWS bands (1700/2100). They're in the process of reducing the capacity allocated to GSM, splitting HSPA+ onto all the frequency ranges, and adding limited LTE on the AWS bands. Later on they're going to reduce the GSM capacity a bit further while expanding the LTE capacity on the AWS bands. There's a nice little chart that shows this much better than I described it, while continuing to gloss over any technical details.
Are people really not aware nowadays that Depression is used wildly and can be a real neuro-disease?

Did you know they can surgically put a pacemaker in your brain to "treat" you?

I thought it was common knowledge.
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Ok, you got me I live under a rock. I wasn't even aware it was "gone". Did they stop selling this temporarily?
That's because all the work here is being done through WebGL shaders. Your parent experienced a software fallback, I guess.
as a customer, why would I ever sign up for bank account payments vs card? with credit cards, one call to amex and a $5k charge gets instantly removed and I get the credit line adjustment, but with a checking account, this can take much longer and stuck cash-less for a while
I can confirm this. On Chrome, though (same machine and same webkit, I guess) it runs smoothly.
You know, I'm a little surprised that Socal doesn't have a similar concentration around LA.
This might even be the one with full free 3G browsing, full stop. I believe I remember that being available on the K3 Keyboard and the DX.
We hope so! This is only v1 of our service. We will be adding UPS, Fedex and OnTrac support shortly. We will find the fastest or cheapest option with all supporting carriers on the fly.

Size of the box is also a very important factor. Using the free USPS boxes, it can be double or even triple the cost of a tight fitting box. Size does matters ;) We currently have 20 different sized boxes in our warehouse.

We are trying to offer an amazing service but still remain competitive to current pricing.

Saying that, there will be a ton of people who will do anything to save a dollar. I value my time very highly and assume a lot of other people do as well.
There may be things the DX is good for. PDFs are not one of them. The DX is heavy, and the Amazon PDF software was pretty terrible. The biggest problem is that most PDFs worth reading are the print-layout 2-column format, which is hard to cram into a small screen like the DX's.

I found a Nexus 7, which weighs less and has about the same resolution, to be far superior, because at least you can scroll around easily.

In most cases, I end up actually printing out any long papers I want to read, because I've found no good way to view them electronically. It's idiotically backwards, considering all the advances in tech.

I'd love to use e-ink to read papers, but so far there doesn't seem to be a good way. I'd happily pay for software that can properly change 2-column PDF layouts into single-column.
You can negotiate with them to get proper unlimited.
Probably a bad idea if you want to take notes or quickly skim through content. Pretty good though if you want to read from cover to cover without making to much fuzz with notes etc.
I was being a tad hyperbolic, which I suppose makes your point. I don't care if we kill them off literally or not, so long as they are confined to life away from the rest of us. I have thought about your point, and I think it has some merit. On the other hand, perhaps we need to ratchet up the reaction a bit as I could also see harm being done by downplaying what is at its core a vicious crime. What is the cost of a victim watching a perpetrator of a horrible crime walking free with a slap on the wrist?

I certainly don't advocate teaching children to fear strangers or filling them with thoughts of horrible boogeymen sex offenders. But once in hand, and convicted, the punishment should prevent further abuses by the offender.
Cool, but this is still the same old 150ppi screen. Not the updated 212ppi screen like on the paperwhite.

Personally I don't need the backlight, but I'm not gonna buy something for reading that is only 150ppi. I really do want a large format kindle like this but can't do the barbaric screen.
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I need to figure out my password on instagram because someone hacked into mine and they won't tell me.What should I do.
Besides the fact that most commercial monitors have pitiful ppi, the fact that monitor manufacturers are selling mostly widescreen monitors with a poverty of vertical room drives me crazy. It's hard to read a pdf of a book when its resolution makes it hard to fit a single page onto your screen. There is something about continuous scrolling that makes it harder for me to remember the text that I'm reading.

So a large screen e-reader (that won't have any backlight issues) could be a great gadget to have. I tried a Kindle DX in 2010, but I found panning around in PDFs to be too slow for enjoyment. If and when the technology improves enough, there could be a big student market for a large screen e-ink reader that can display PDFs (or saner formats, like DJVU).
The original blog post they did on STM is well worth reading, especially if you're not familiar with the python GIL and STM.

http://morepypy.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/we-need-software-tra...
It's basically impossible to enforce a ban on "real" images but not fake ones. You could just claim all of the images are fake and unless they find the pictures on your camera, they would have a hard time prosecuting anybody.
It was written on paper, and then a human converted it to machine language by hand.
Not interested in taking notes -- and yes, I read those files thoroughly (and, sometimes, painfully...) from the beginning to the end.
Counterpoint -- nothing is more expensive than a cheap lawyer, except for an expensive law firm that knows how to churn your bill.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/suit-offers-a-peek-at...
Girl Badly Misses Jump Into Pool, Mom Wants Internet to Pay Her Medical Bills
As long as your pdfs translate well to grayscale it should be fine.

The new kindle web browser is quite nice (I believe it uses webkit) but isn't something you'll want to use for anything that you want to get done quickly.

I haven't tried this new DX but I love eink screens and feel that they are much easier to read than laptop/ipad or other birgh screens.
Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't intuiting the difference between air and water.
Question: How are you going to protect my shipments from being damaged if they're not packaged? Or do you package on my site?
I don't know anything about the Kindle DX, but I do think K2pdfopt is an essential piece of software for reading PDFs on an e-reader (I have a Kobo Glo). It allows you to reflow the text, and convert two column text into a single column. Even image based (scanned) PDFs.

http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
> > until about 20-21 .. fear and common sense .. isn't fully developed

> For virtually all of recorded history by 20-21 you were an adult. If people had no common sense by that age they would be dead.

There is a pretty gigantic difference between "isn't fully developed" and "doesn't exist at all". Try not completely rewriting the position you are responding to just so you have something laughably easy to rebut.

This is particularly silly in a medium where the original you are responding to is readily available, and even more silly when you quote the bit you are radically rewriting in your own response.
> and while we're at it, how about doing away with the vitriol even when you don't like someone or their opinion

Fair enough. Sorry for the way I wrote what I wrote.

What I was trying to convey is that calling the article out for being misleading, because we can't yet know, goes against what the stated research determined. Admonishing commenters for cheering on nuclear power just because you don't think the research is complete seems suspect.

I don't think anyone is saying "but there was no damage done, yay for a perfect energy source". What they're saying is "it's the best we've got and scare campaigns against nuclear power are ridiculous - thankfully someone has exposed them".

What happened was terrible. But tearing down the nuclear power plants across the globe is not the correct reaction.
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Can Stripe now be used to accept ACH payments as well as send them?
Works for me on Ubuntu 13.04, Chrome 28(beta), Firefox 21, using Nvidia drivers.
Not really. Too slow, low dpi compared with current Kindles, no wifi and it's 3G only.

A colleague bought one expecting to read papers on it & as far as I know has barely used it. That said, it is better than the other Kindles if you want to read a lot of A4 PDFs & can cope with the slow (oh so slow) page turn.
"There is something about continuous scrolling that makes it harder for me to remember the text that I'm reading."

Yes! I've tried both now, and I vastly prefer a page-turning interface over continuous scrolling. I can't really explain why, though. Is it just because I'm old?
Until the retina iPad, I preferred my old original Kindle DX for reading black and white PDFs.

I now prefer the retina iPad for PDFs I need to rapidly navigate, but still appreciate the DX for reading research.
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I don't understand. How much funding does it take to install a browser (or even an IDE)? Do they really save money by wasting an entire semester or more doing something that should be so quick and simple?
We have custom bags that have heavy padding on the inside. We have designed them to transport fragile items. If multiple items are going in the same package, we bubble wrap each individually on site.

We take these bags with contents to our warehouse where we professional package all items for transport.
Just going to second or third the mobile interest. Half or more of the time I look at my feeds, it's on a phone or tablet.
My wife spent about half a year in North Carolina for work, where "y'all" seemed to translate to the singular "you", while "all y'alls" was used to refer to "you" plural.
> On top of that, doing anything economical with the analytics is very rare.

If this was true, then A/B testing would be useless, while it's quite the opposite.
"Betable...has received an undisclosed amount of money from 25 investors including Greylock Discovery Fund, FF Angel LLC, True Ventures, Dave Morin...and Yuri Milner..."
http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/09/betable-could-disrupt-soci... "
Not to put words in his mouth but, I think the GP was referring to the information density rather than the information quality itself. Likely as the comparison he was making was to the presentation quality.

I think you are both capable of being correct... but then I must think that because I agree with both of you :)
Thanks for the demo link, that clears things up a bit.

FYI, I don't think you're using the work "cohort" correctly in the video. Cohorts are stable groups, composed of the same people over time. "Users who send 5 links" is not a cohort, as the group's composition changes over time.
Notably, the designers of KoL have also abided by that -- your actions per day are limited, but there's no way to directly turn real world money into more turns. (There are indirect ways, but you can almost always get them cheaply with in-game currency as well.)
Not referring to dating sites in particular, but the requirement of a Facebook sign-up for start-ups I think is a good idea. For everybody who says "I don't want to give you my details", I suspect their are 50 who will just be thankful for not having to give you an e-mail password and remember login details, get spam, etc. etc.

That's why I almost always look at a project as allowing Facebook sign-up first, then e-mail/twitter/google/linkedin, etc. etc.
I've been thinking about how a large e-ink screen could provide an endless series of black and white pictures to hang on my wall. But the normal kindle isn't big enough, one of these (or four of them hacked together) might be ...
I felt it was good when it first came out. After using the Kindle Paperwhite with touchscreen, it was hard for me to go back to the DX.

One of the most annoying parts about the DX was the PDF zoom. If the margins on your PDF are too big, the zoom doesn't function to remove the margins and zoom in towards the center. If I remember correctly, it zooms towards the left, leaving right half of the page cut off and still fat margins. It was so bad with some textbooks and papers that I had to go manually cut out the margins of the PDFs using an editor.

You can always read PDFs in Landscape mode, but that tended to be clunky on anything with 2 columns. In landscape mode, 1 page will become 2-3 "pages" that need to be traversed back and forth to read the separate columns. The Kindle caches the next page of the PDF but not the previous, so using the back button on PDFs could take a little bit depending on how big the PDF file was.
> the most comprehensive review of the SSRI studies (by Irving Kirsch et. al.) found no clinical significance beyond placebo for the vast majority of patients.

No. Biological theories of mental health and mental illness are very much established.

And yours is a complete mischaracterization of the work of Kirsch et al.

Their meta-analysis found that in ALL cases of depression, there is statistically significant improvement in quantitative measures of depression treated with SSRI. In moderate to severe cases of depression, the improvement was clinically significant (ie a clinician and patient clearly note the improvement). The meta-analysis done on clinical trials were overwhelmingly trials of 6 weeks of SSRI or less. Suicidal patients are almost all excluded from such trials. Treatment groups were treated with SSRIs via research protocols, and not usual clinical practice: there were no attempts made to match patients to an SSRI that would be most likely to help, to wait on a response, to use SSRIs that were helpful based on a family history; dose adjustments were typically prescribed by study protocol and not by patient response, patients were not switched to another SSRI when there was no response or if intolerable side effects developed, often no attempt to treat side effects with other agents were done, etc. In other words, none of the things any physician routinely does to optimize treatment were done in those trials, and yet there were STILL improvements in measures of depression across the board.

No reputable psychiatrist or physician will fail to recommend an SSRI in cases of moderate to severe depression. Therapy can also be helpful, but the evidence is overwhelming that SSRIs help in clinically significant ways in moderate to severe depression. There is no credible doubt about it.

Despite your assertions about what "people very much want to believe" - in my experience, people very much want to believe that the brain is somehow different - that something beyond biology is at work. Believing that somehow depressed or otherwise mentally ill people can just "snap out of it" or "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" is erroneous, unhelpful, but fits nicely into really completely shitty and cruel narratives about human beings.

But please. Perhaps you'd like to advance a theory on how an organ like the brain differs from every other organ and does its work in ways not explainable by biology, chemistry, physics, etc.
the real-time-filtering would still be cool without replacing the background.
I've been using T-mobile for about 5 years as well and have been tethering for about 3 years with no issue. I just have a regular data plan. No hotspot option or anything.

I wonder why this isn't happening to everyone?
A lot of extensions don't run in Incognito mode- sounds like an extension might be your problem.
It's doing a fine job replacing Google Reader for me (I was otherwise going to use Feedly, who require me to learn a different UI).

Are you already using your own backend? It seems so, since it's showing me different articles and not sync read status from Google Reader (which seems to show new content sooner).

What's the meaning of the orange circle empty/filled?