skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everyone is overestimating the complexity here. There a stations underwater that contain optical amplifiers that necessarily boost the signal. A lot of optical amplifiers include monitor ports (splitters) built into the equipment.
BBC is forbidden to show ads. There are ads on BBC future. So BBC cannot show it in UK.

Now one would think that they could you know - strip the ads and not show them for UK IPs ...
> So what is that doing being shown on the commercial arm of the BBC?

BBC World News is distinct from BBC Worldwide, they're different commercial groups. It has a much closer relationship with BBC News, which is publicly funded. BBC Worldwide exists to make a profit, whereas BBC World News is commercially funded but not profit driven. It's...complicated.
Baseless number system
My two cents here: Benchmarking is all fine, but from my point of view, the performance-price-ratio is not sooooo important in hosting.

This discussion here reminds me of PC customers buying behavior in the 90ies. What's better AMD or Intel? ... Nowadays other features are key: What's the weight of this device? How thick is it even? Apple has changed the way we look at these things today.

Convenience also matters in hosting a lot. How much time do i have to spend to have my app up and running? Do i really want to set up and maintain everything myself? How good is the support? Do i want just bare metal computing resources or a solution provider with an eco system?

What matters the fastest server ever, when the queries are slow? The performance of any app/website relies heavily on the engineering skills of the developers. See caching, see i/o load, see frontend technolgies, see #perfmatters.

disclaimer: i am co-founder of a PHP PaaS.
I've never used a "Reader" before. Question: Were content providers able to server ads via the Reader?
I just want to know one thing. When I have only two add ons in Firefox why does it take up nearly 200m of memory with no pages displayed? IE is taking 38m with this page displayed, FF has moved to 208m. Firefox is so damn quick to eat memory it causes my laptop to start caching which decreases performance and eats battery.
Beautifulpeople.com: la bellezza vince sulla professionalità
Against this analysis, however, is the empirical fact that plenty of people did work hard and take risks under Communism - the Soviet space program is one obvious example.

It seems that in practice, a reward does not need to be an economic return in order to be an incentive. There are other kinds of rewards: eg awards, prizes, or honours. Most militaries use rewards of this kind.
The curtain falls and we see the true nature of the global hegemony, and how far it reaches.
Yes, I actually looked quite thoroughly.

It applies in that the minimum wage is too low, so the bottom end of the workers have an extraordinarily unfair salary, in spite of the fact that they probably work 40+ hour weeks driving subway trains.

I have made a histogram to illustrate this problem: http://pastie.org/8106373

You can see from the data that the highest paid worker makes at least 25x the amount of the lowest paid worker.

This is not what I'd call fair. To be clear, it's not just the BART. We could do this with salary data from any municipality or corporation in the US.

I am operating on the assumption that many of the "train operators" are full time workers, which is not indicated in the data. I'd say it's a fairly good bet, though.

That is easily one of the most hazardous and unpleasant jobs, yet they are paid dirt. See, it doesn't matter how hard you work in our society. You can dig the dirtiest hole every day, sweat, and bleed, and you will be rewarded with a substandard wage. Instead, we reward the things that propel us forward, which does make sense: anyone can dig a hole. The problem is that not everyone has equal access to the means to acquire the skills which are so jealously rewarded. Yet, they do everything right anyway, work hard, and this is what they get. A 25x lower paying job than the highest paid executive.

We can fix this by raising the minimum wage to something fair. Australia has theirs at around $16 USD.
Juries just seem like a terrible idea in general. Let's put more non-knowledgeable people in positions of power!
Reddit, Mozilla to stage Fourth of July protest against NSA spying
Forgive me I don't quite understand.

Do better than Americans?

Do you mean if the UK was in the EU proper, we Brits doing better than Americans? If so, Im not really referring to the NSA thing, rather our social economic position in general.

As for spying, and what not, no. In many ways we are worse off, with less ability to do much about it. Yes, we in the UK have more CCTV than any other country on the planet. Yes we just "got used to it", apparently. No, we don't have a constitution to protect us, but even then it seems the US gov can still circumvent the constitution as and then it sees fit.

If you mean a choice between being in the EU proper and being a 51st state, then I think it ridiculous to even think about being a 51st state. If nothing else, geography and culture. Despite the shared language, we actually have less in common with Americans than the French, but confuse similarity with a shared language. The comment was intended to be flippant. The idea of American courts fills me with dread. I would genuinely, hand on heart, rather kill myself than face the US idea of justice. Which is one of the reasons I oppose our amusing one sided extradition treaty where the US only has to accuse, no evidence required. But if we want an American for trial, we have to provide evidence, and go through much more due process. We signed up in good faith for an equal deal, we ratified it, the US ignored it. Because we Brits are spineless suckups, we keep to our side of the deal, with out any complaint. This is why you might see me say things like our gov will happily betray its own people to the US.

Despite our problems, I'd rather have our problems, and EU problems, than US ones any day of the week. I would never ever want to be American or governed by Americans. Simply, US culture is not something I either understand or identify with once you get below the surface. No problem with America existing as it stands, and if that is how Americans want to be, then I completely support that, in the same was I support people who want to have, say, an Islamic government. Its their right to choose. Also, always remember our histories. We, US, UK, and that hypothetical Islamic country, all have different histories and reasons for being where we are. We are different. Equally valid, but different. And as the French say, vive la différence.

I really hope that answers your question. If I have missed you point entirely, after all that, then I'm going to cry under my desk!!!!
Sherlock alone is enough to disprove that hyperbolic statement.

They aren't perfect by any means but have managed to produce some gems. They often don't fully appreciate that they are gems when making them mind you.
I'm studying it, Yii is very powerfull and easy to learn and the community is really active!
Should ISPs block adverts at a network level?
Thanks, it certainly is :)
As a EU citizen, I'm really ashamed of this. Are we the guard dogs of US interest, even when the US so obviously disregards our own interests - and rights - as in this case?
do they need to tap fiber? snowden has said that they can hack backbone routers.

https://www.google.cl/search?q=snowden+backbone+routers
I know humor doesn't work so well here, but FAB1? Seriously? International rescue?

No?

I'll get my coat.
Any institution that has given us the ending of Blackadder Goes Forth (the best 90 seconds of television ever filmed), Top Gear, Red Dwarf, Blake's 7 and The New Statesman and Sherlock just cannot do much wrong in my opinion.
>> Whats the world coming too when even Russia is emasculated before the United States. Its expected, though I would prefer otherwise, that the EU countries bend over, but damn its getting silly now.

I don't think Russia is very eager to get into discussions about the ethics of international espionage and the way intelligence agencies operate. Somehow I also don't think they have much sympathy for whistleblowers exposing said ethics. The last guy who was a little too open about how the FSB and KGB operates was 'mysteriously' poisoned with pollonium.
A series of Downton Abbey costs approx £12MM and reaches 13MM people in the UK alone[1].

The 2hr pilot episode of LOST cost $12MM[2]. Each episode of Game of Thrones has a budget of $6MM[3].

So no, they don't cost a lot of money to make, relatively speaking.

Edit: sources.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8717969/Trench...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

[3] http://www.contactmusic.com/news/game-of-thrones-costs-6-mil...
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The same is true for the US politicians. They also have all their phone calls recorded and all their emails and messages read. And accessible by millions of private contractors of unknown allegiances. Start reading boiling frogs post and listening to the interviews to understand the true situation.
They're simply not allowed to have ads (or direct subscriber fees) in front of the license-paid British public. The same content may be available elsewhere with adverts or fees (and that does provide a substantial chunk of their income), but those extra money-making bits are only allowed offshore. The British public have already paid for what they get, so double-dipping is not allowed. (And unlike some other "public" broadcasters, your programming isn't regularly preempted for fundraising begathons featuring programming that almost none of the regular viewers like.)
Quantum Will: Determinism meets Quantum Mechanics
You've reinvented polynomials.

1

x + 1

x² + 2x + 1

x³ + 3x² + 3x + 1

...

You can think of Pascal's triangle as repeated multiplication by (x + 1).
I think it's really important to have some context for this. It's not just a matter of "we can't show ads" - more that the BBC cannot enter certain markets in the UK that fall outside their remit.

A number of years ago, the BBC ran a lot of websites that were extremely useful but not directly related to their broadcast output.

Unfortunately (for the general public), commercial broadcasters and publishers made persistant and vocal complaints that they were being irreparably harmed by the BBC entering into markets that were well outside their broadcasting remit. This led to a number of those sites getting shut down, and the BBC's web remit being considerably tightened inside the UK.

BBC Worldwide operates to a certain degree 'at arms length' from the publicly funded BBC, and is able to enter markets that are outside the BBC's normal remit. However, it is severely restrained on entering those markets in the UK, due to the perceived advantage the company has over other commercial competitors.
France's involvement in particular makes my blood boil. To feign complete outrage over being spied upon yet happily tarnish relations with a sovereign nation to catch the whistleblower.
Unsurprisingly its Austria, their politicians would obey KGB [1][2] and now NSA.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14202371

[2] http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/07/lit...
As a fellow european, I absolutely agree. The only way out I see is to become a federal country, but I don't see that happening with all our internal infighting. Divide et impera.
I wanted to read this exact same article yesterday, clicked on the link and got the same "reason" page. I thought about configuring a proxy to try and get it to load, but then thought "fuck it" and just gave up.

It is ridiculous and the lawyers that cause this to happen are so short sighted about how the internet works that its laughable. However as my actions show, it is annoying enough for people to give up and just accept it.
Most people fail to realize that the EU is above all a harmonizing regulatory and commerce framework, and the impact of that for trade is far higher than most people think, which is why most right-wing UK politicians talk to the talk on the EU but fail to walk the walk.
Learning to Wait: Asynchronous Becomes Normal
Top Gear is privatized. That's what BBC Worldwide is about. They sell the programme to foreign markets, they also licence it if countries want to make their own version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%282002_TV_series%29#...
Well, just my 2 cents...

The indexation doesn't need to happen immediately upon boot. Do one directory every minute or so, let the computer start up and do other things while your background task runs.

Changes are detected because the operating system notifies dropbox of changes made, they're not continuously scanning the drive. From other comments it sounds like dropbox has registered a hook like that for the entire filesystem, instead of just the working folder. That seems unnecessary.
I'm a programmer and a Christian fundamentalist.

Do you think because I have a religion that I am a poor empiricist? Or that because I know programming languages in the high double-digits I am a poor believer?

Einstein's 1930 NYT article [1] might serve as common ground for us to discuss this rationally. I have to point out, though, that my faith is not out of "fear, social morality, [or] a cosmic religious feeling." I believe as I do because it is an essential part of who I am (identity).

I actually agree with you that there is plenty of unwarranted, blind nationalism in the USA.

[1] Summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Albert_Eins...
Please send an email to the BBC Trust asking them to reassess wether this policy really is in the best interests of the BBC and the licence payer.

Please abstain from just complaining. The BBC is a complex beast and I genuinely believe this policy was drafted with the BBC and the licence payers best interests at heart, but perhaps they should take another look at this policy and debate wether or not there is a better way to comply with the BBC charter whilst not limiting access to content for license fee payers.

trust.enquiries@bbc.co.uk

You may also contact Maria Miller, who is the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to perhaps urge the BBC Trust to look into this issue.

enquiries@culture.gov.uk

And it wouldn't hurt to CC your local MP.
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If it doesn't cost money, then you're the product
Restore the Fourth in Time Magazine
BYOD - A Possibility or a Threat?
The NSA comes recruiting
I would make a deliberate attempt to avoid ANY business that displays this in their window.
Good 3d drawing
This is maybe the best 3D drawing I have ever seen!
The swearing in The GodFather is an important part of the story. It contributes to the end goal of those who made the film. The bad UI in Dwarf Fortress is not deliberate. It is the result of neglect of that aspect of the game. People who play the game and enjoy it do so despite the UI. I have yet to meet someone who thinks the existing UI makes the game better in any way.
There's only one equation in international politics, POWER. There's nothing wrong or right, there's only power.
Weird .nyud.net (coral cdn ) doesn't work from my network with any website. Damn you Pakistani censorship :< .
This applies also to BBC Travel, which is run in partnership with Lonely Planet, last I checked. I used to really enjoy those articles, now I never read them because I can't be faffed to proxy up every time...
I may well try asking about it.

IMHO this is just breaking the net, and blatantly weird.
I'm surprised Wikipedia isn't participating in at least putting a call to action to call your representatives like they did with SOPA last time. I'm not surprised Google isn't doing it, because I expected as much from them this time around, but I'm disappointed. It seems they only participate in these actions when there's immediate gain for them (like not passing SOPA, or ITU's "sender pays" policy). I just hope they realize that we might not be "available" to help them next time they need the public's support for something.
I never said I didn't like it, I said it was drivel. I'm quite partial to the odd well produced period drama.

What I'm trying to say is that recently they tend produce content with a mind to how the US will receive this new content. Dr who, top gear and downton abbey for instance. All of these are popular in the US and while that isn't a bad thing (more money to the BBC to hopefully make more content) what I disagree with is that all they produce is more of the SAME content. They've lost innovation and only make content in a few genres with recurring themes.

>> Please don't project your own opinions onto the rest of the UK.
how is my stating a personal opinion 'projecting my opinion onto the rest of the UK'? Isn't the point of a discussion to discuss your personal opinion or must I refrain from commenting because I happen to think strictly come dancing is a pile of poo and you think claudia 'needs a haircut' winkleman is brilliant? :D
(although Downton Abbey is an ITV programme)
see me clarifying above :) they produce new content with a mind to the US audience which is my main bugbear with the BBC. They are still producing content.
GMail has a very real incentive to read all your mail. As soon as this plugin gets any real traction Google will trivially circumvent it.
You falsely attribute a niche's draw to the fact that it's niche. I find it unlikely that people would base their interest in a game on its popularity, or lack thereof. If the game is fun, people will play it. If it's not, they won't.
Can anyone confirm his findings? I imagine that if this is real, then this is a problem for all MacBook owners not just the latest MacBook Air.

I have a 13" MacBook Air, medio 2011. I bought it almost right after it was released and have used it as my only computer almost every day since. I have the Dropbox agent running all the time.

While working last Sunday I got 5.5 hours of battery life out of it and I've never taken good care of the battery. I never drain it unless I'm not near a power outlet, in which case I just have it plugged in all day.

My current battery health information shows:
Cycle Count: 253,
Condition: Normal
Snowden's Father: "betrayed US government, not US people" [video]
Reminds me a bit of this, what have the BBC ever done for us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEJGRNrbmNc
Except that Javascript cannot access that, unless some glaring design flaws have been made.

If you disagree with me, and believe it can, I would just love to see a webpage that dumps out valuable data inside my browser. I'll visit it without any browser plugins using the same session I have been using for over a month, promise!
I wish someone would actually go to court vs. Craig; they're not as bad as Intellectual Ventures, but only because copyright law sucks somewhat less than patent law.
I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but you have to wonder what we still don't know if this is the extent to which the US is willing to go to get this guy.

Not only are they further torpedoing their international image, I would imagine they severely strained their reach with nations like France when it turns out he wasn't on board.
that doesn't make it right..
They'd also be held to other requirements though, for example if an article were seen to be promoting a particular brand, etc.

bbc.co.uk does exactly that, there are ads shown externally but not internally.
No idea why you are voted down here. From a US POV Bolivia is nothing. Replies about US reputation are irrelevant. We clearly see that US reputation is irrelevant, since it has the financial and military power force its will.
Blame Canada?
Oh I understand the context. But I find the outcome and the excuses ridiculous.
Collisions and subtle differences that make the two robots look close enough would make this a vector of attack.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night
Have you heard of BBC4?
That's good for you, but you ran the gauntlet (the UI) and earned the level of comfort you now have with it. Just because you're one of the brave (and extremely patient and persistent) souls who have done so, does not mean that having to do so is a good thing, or is not a significant barrier to others.
Logging is the new commenting
That has definitely changed: not only does Firefox start up much faster than before, but Chrome starts up much slower than it did before. (Of course, I just mean on my machines, have no idea if it would be true on your system.) If start up time matters to you, you probably want to switch back to Firefox.
Very helpful to show use case and step by step. THANKS!
That's the attitude that's made your country so despised by so many.
Brilliant. I remember reading on HN some comments a while ago (long before PRISM) about refusing jobs at the NSA or being willing to help companies develop surveillance software and such, and some were say that "why would they refuse the jobs? It's not like it will make a difference. Others will just take the job instead".

Maybe, but it's the same with protesting and boycotting. The more opposition, the better, and every little bit helps to turn things around.

When they come to recruit you next time, do what these students did, shame them in public for lying and abusing their power, and refuse to work for them. Think of it as "taking a stand" for protecting your own rights, by refusing to be part of the group of people that is making the country worse.
Mostly Brits can only screw over Brits. The US can screw over countries. Same nasty deal, sure, but the scope of the US is much, much bigger.
You mean there is not one european politician with the least bit of integrity? You mean they _all_ care more for there career than for the truth? I desperately hope your wrong but I guess you are right.
This just made me realize that how desperate the US government is to capture Snowden ,
Kinda makes you think he (snowden) has something up his sleeve that the US doesn't want out.
Now I am interested.
No but large swaths of the UK probably don't watch BBC1 or BBC2 on a regular basis as they have a sky or cable and I agree with them, they shouldn't need to fund the BBC if they don't use the content.

Reports suggest we'd make 6-7 billion on a sell off. Sell it and put the money towards buying back openreach because an infrastructure is what .gov should do, not content. =p
You know what's probably the worst part of all of this?

It's at I'm afraid to say what I want to say about the topic online.
yeah but a 3rd party might spread the rumour to test the waters, eg Russia
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