skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His actions don't appear to be illegal, but do the police have the right to not investigate something that was reported as illegal? I mean, if harassment is claimed by someone should the police just shrug their shoulders? No, they should probably investigate and determine if a crime actually happened. In the meantime, telling someone what could happen if they were doing what was claimed is not what I'd call 'threatening'.

I guess don't really see the problem with the phone call from the police either. It's just a subtle 'I don't want to have to come back out here' warning that they give every day to prevent things from getting to the point that they have to intervene. It does seem like a bored police department, but I didn't hear any threats in the phone call. This article jumps the gun a little bit by inferring collusion between the police and the pizza restaurant.
Nobel Prize Winners Draw Their Discoveries
Not bad. 50ms from me (south England), only 5ms slower than pinging my servers located in the midlands.
Plus the folks at PASS and local chapters aren't usually anal drones from Redmond.
How Blippex handles the data behind its time-driven search engine
Thats a dedicated server, you are confusing it with shared hosting.
I just tried to order and it only let me choose from one country (for my personal address) and that is UK. No option to select USA.
We're searching the world for a front-end developer to join our team in time to travel with us to Nepal on August 20th. If you or anyone you know is interested, drop us a line! http://bit.ly/1boYhK8
This is fantastic news - I believe with the additional of High Quality Open Source courses, Pluralsight is now one stop resources for any Developer.
And this is why I love Linode. I have been paying $20/month for around 3 years. At first I had 256M of RAM and 12G of harddrive space... and now I have 1G of RAM and 48G of harddrive space. I dare you to look at other providers and see if they have offered such aggressive, yet free, upgrades
There's usually seating off to the side at things like this.
Here in Portugal a cup coffee usually costs between 0.50€ and 1€
Didn't moxie marlinspike have an idea for replacing the current SSL trust chain?
The Organic Seed Growers brought a class action suit against Monsanto for unfairly suing farmers whose crops were cross-pollinated with GMOs. The case was thrown out of court when they failed to produce one example of this ever happening.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B83aJv4L7U-iYzYyMzQxOTktZjY5...

Before this case, I believed the "Food Inc." claims about Monsanto being lawsuit-happy. Now I'm angry that it really appears to be the organic farmers who are manipulating the public.
I had trouble putting this in words.
By "clever politician" I mean people seeing Putin on TV or something and saying, "Ah, thats very clever" or even "Pretty amusing how he dealt with/did x". Media coverage in Central Europe is always very critical towards Putin, and while their stories may be distorted in some respects, I still believe them about many civilian rights beeing violated under his influence.
Building A Step-By-Step Guided Tour Using Intro.js
It's correct, in terms of physical servers installed. That said, there's no reliable comparison (that I know of) with VPS instances hosted by well known US companies (such as Amazon) because they are not quite as willing to release figures.
I'm not quite sure I'm parsing your sentence correctly. If you're preseeding with debconf the value is that you got to preseed the correct configuration options. This means the debs will work with anything, not just the flavour of the week devops tool. Juju, Puppet and Chef aren't the only games in town. I'll agree that they are all very useful tools, but you shouldn't need to write complex scripts/manifests/whatever around them to stand up services. That should happen out of the box without requiring anyone to jump through 50 hoops. It also means that you can scale from 1 instance all the way up to 5000 instances which is a lot better than optimizing for the 5000 instance case.

I'll definitely give you a shout on IRC.
They actually had a very serious security breach few days ago. But I would still recommend them over some of the others.
See my reply above, basically if you are outside the UK then it looks like you won't be able to complete the order form truthfully.
Sounds high. Should be closer to 60-70ms from the East Coast.
( fourth paragraph )

Why are you comparing a bad developer from Croatia with a good one from somewhere else( USA I assume ). The situation might as well be reversed, you can't assume someones skill from their geographical location.
I've been using a 1TB one for over a year as a backup, nothing was against this in the contract. Mind you, there's a 5TB per month traffic cap, after which the bandwidth is limited from 100Mbps down to 10Mbps.
T&Cs [1] state:

> 3.7 Traffic within the OVH network is not recorded.

[1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/support/termsofservice/Special_Conditi...
Yes, but the services utilize human interaction to solve the captcha and that would almost certainly prevent all the openings from being taken in <1 minute.
I don't think you're allowed to vote for those outside your district/state.
You can always attach an external usb drive to your PI. I built a Time Capsule drive with my Pi, works flawlessly through network storage.
Backbone: How to implement pagination
Leuk man!
I agree with you. Also, I want to point out that your list of real concerns would still be valid in absence of GMO tech.
That's a really good idea. We started sketching out the API a bit ago but had to put it on hold. It's something we want/need to get right. Hopefully I get some time in the next few months to get started on it.
cabalamat didn't put Myhrvold in the same context as Hitler

What? That's exactly what he did.
You're right, it is a sweeping generalization. It'd be better to say that most of the mainstream media serves as the government mouthpiece. A few key outlets continue to serve the vital role of breaking important stories such as this one.
Search terms like consumer_secret ou api_secret and you'll find lot of things... :(
https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=consumer_s...

With great power, comes great responsibility.
As for whether knowing him matters, the question is not whether you know him personally, but whether you actually understand what he does or is trying to do. Honestly I think most people who pay judgement do not, but it is too painful to see otherwise sane members of the HN community scapegoating someone without knowledge.

TerraPower is one of the most courageous and exciting approaches in technology today. It is absurd to think it is being done for PR purposes.

---

See my reply to Staunch as how I see it. One response to your phrase:

"Tax collector on innovation."

I think the concept at issue here is whether or not invention -- the creation of an idea and how to actual execute it -- is worth anything versus innovation -- brining a new concept to market.

Having been involved in both, it does seem invention is massively short changed versus innovation.

I disagree somewhat with the methods.

But the complete view of it would be that IV is trying to collect taxes from rulers, innovators, and all out copiers, and pay the inventors.

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They actually do pay inventors.

Possibly too much. Word on the street is that they are not profitable. Or possibly the overhead is too high. Or perhaps they are simply not as aggressive as people might imagine.
dank U wel!
Source info

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx?day=20130724

It was Roll call #412, the Amash ammendment for Bill H.r. 2397

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2397
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h412
Sounds a bit high as well. I'm pinging London-based servers from my OVH servers in less than 25ms
How do you ban bots with out implementing an arcane, clunky, painful, expensive manual system?

PS: your answer isn't allowed to be captcha.
MongoDB as a service on Clever Cloud
Did we mention our "Basic" account is free and gives you 200 credits to use? https://search.nerdydata.com/pricing?hackerNews
My rule of thumb is take what you'd expect at a full-time job and divide by 1000. So, if you'd make $130k in salary, charge $130/hr for that work as a freelancer.
You have to use their french website to select other countries: http://www.ovh.com/fr/index.xml
> The Atom is Intel's line of chips designed to compete against the iPad

The Atom came out in 2008, two years before the iPad, and come from a lineage started in 2003. It was designed for the now dead netbook category that required low power consumption.

64-bit versions have been available since 2010, both versions used by OVH are x86-64. There are also server-specific versions with support for ECC memory, though they doesn't seem to be using them.
Hi, Author here. I don't have any plans to write that blog post, but I'll can provide some resources:

1. http://timsalimans.com/observing-dark-worlds/
2. http://timsalimans.com/winning-the-dont-overfit-competition/

You mention: "trained in mathematical Bayesian Inference in an Econometrics class but I never did anything practical with it" . This book tries to bridge that, from theory to practice. The examples I provide tend to be very practical.
Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7
Could you construct a closed cycle path of 35 deg internal angles in 3D?
5 Hackers Charged in Largest Data-Breach Scheme in U.S.
130ms from the mid-Atlantic US
For $20/month, Digital Ocean provide 2GB memory, 2 cores, 40GB SSD disk and 3TB transfer.
PillPack: personalized, dated prescription packets by mail
Strange, got a malware warning :

Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on camdavidsonpilon.github.io.
Content from ctan.yazd.ac.ir, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your Mac with malware.
> it's probably a good idea to avoid operating systems that may be compromised by default.

It is if you're targeted. But then, if the US government is after you, you're already screwed anyway.

The point is to impede generalized surveillance of everyone without probable cause. Even if MS-Windows and OSX are bugged, which is almost certain, the NSA can't siphon all your data through your routers inconspicuously. It can only grab selected data from the computers of high-value targets, at a considerable cost, which is fine.

It's not about preventing states from surveilling legitimate suspects, it's about forcing them to respect the privacy of average joes, and limiting their control on the Internet as a whole.
Why Los Angeles Will Outpace Silicon Valley As The Tech Startup Capital (2012)
Your account is less than 2 months old. Why not just sign up again with a new name?
Agreed. My bigger problem with auctions is that you can rarely get a deal that's worth the added risk.
You should be at the top of this thread Eric. I can't imagine any other investor in the world who would stay up all night coding for us while on vacation in Europe.
Facebook Is Currently Worth $24 Billion Less Than When It First Went Public
Also, a KS has 100mbps bp.
This is one area where I commonly see farmers with this worry being told "yeah but that has never happened!"

We worry about a lot of things in computer science that has never happened and may never happen. There's common discussion several times a year on HN about the ethical rights of artificial intelligence or lab-grown brains. It's still important to worry about things that haven't happened and may never happen, if only to ensure that they really do never happen.

It's completely plausible that a company could sue over this farmer's fear. Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't happen, or that we shouldn't worry about it.
I'm still new to freelancing, so I don't have a ton to add, but I'll note that many freelancers (myself included) don't interface directly with the customer. As a solo programmer, I do a lot of work for firms that themselves are working with the customer.

Being one step removed from the customer means I don't have as much bargaining power to charge based on the value I'm providing. The firm I'm working with has already charged based on value, and now I need to fit within their budget.

I know the answer is to "break out" of this situation, but especially as a programmer (and not designer, marketer, etc) I've found it difficult to charge based on business value when there is a sea of programmers out there willing to work for way less than me. Just to be clear, I think this is good advice, but boy, implementing it is a daunting task.
Ashton Kutcher: Steve Jobs Was the Leonardo da Vinci of Our Generation
Also, remind me to donate heavily to their competitor if they voted against.
What is the context? Is this for production? Is there a ton of bandwidth to be used?
Here's the thing though: you've got two people who are eagerly waiting for the purchase / booking of something to become available. One of them is going to do it all manually. The 2nd person has a bot to do all the form filling in leg work but will manually solve the captcha.

Who wins?
LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes
No , because yesterday it was 49$ or 99$ Idon't remember exactly :). Good move I think to let people like me use it and find value in it as the promise is great.
I don't think rorr was implying that smoking was the cause of Ilya's cancer, but rather is the cause of 20% of stomach cancer cases in the UK.
He probably should have said 'the chance of a bad developer from...' If you are local and have references your risk is drastically reduced. Clients pay for that.
The Founder & CEO of Freshbooks released a free eBook on this topic. Really quick read and I found it useful. http://breakingthetimebarrier.freshbooks.com/
> £2.49 excl. VAT /month
> ( £2.99 VAT inc)

That's £2.69 service and £0.50 VAT. Seems reasonable to me.
And they don't have a poor track record with regards to handling security breaches.
I am using the US version of their dedicated server to run URL unshortening API service http://api.unshort.me/api.html . The web stack is Nginx + Python (Flask) + Couchbase. So far, I haven't notice any issue with their server.
The NSA Won Yesterday’s Battle, But It Could Lose The War
"Solving problems is the lowest form of design."

Well, that may be right or wrong, but it is thought-provoking. In a Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, sort of way.
Let me know when you have a beta or something. We could definitely have used it for the crypto challenges, and we have a much bigger set of (non-crypto) challenges coming up that I'd love to plug directly into Watsi.

If we'd had an API, we would probably have done smaller-dollar donations for people who got (say) halfway through.

Also, weird as this will sound: it feels very awkward talking up donations from the challenges (for one thing, the dollar amounts we're talking about are a pittance), and so I rarely do. But if the donations were automated, we'd automatically post the donation totals as well. The way things like Twitter work, repetition is hugely valuable.
Meanwhile, $20 a month at digitalocean gets you 2G of RAM and 40 Gb of ssd.

Not to diss Linode, I use them myself, but they're not the cheapest. It's quite evident to me that these free upgrades are a defensive tactic.

How much memory or disk space would $20 a month get from other providers 3 years ago?
May vary based on last-mile stuff. I'm getting 55ms to you from my residential DSL in Copenhagen, but I get 20ms if I ping from a university server, also in Copenhagen.

Surprisingly constant 148ms from a VPS on the west-coast US.
It was just a symbolic reference.

In Spain (where I did grow) as well as in The Netherlands (where I work now) you can.

Of course, in both places, you can get more expensive ones too. Depends on the shop.
GMO crops hold incredible potential to feed a world population that continues to grow by leaps and bounds. It has the power to do that with reduced pesticide use, taking pressures off of endangered species, and by bringing crops to parts of the world where they will not grow. There is ZERO evidence that GMO crops have any detrimental health effects, and as hackers we have to stand up to this anti-science nonsense[1].

As for Monsanto. After the Organic Seed Growers brought a class-action suit against the company for unjustly suing innocent farmers whose crops were inadvertently cross-pollinated, I found it incredibly damning that the judge had to throw the case out because the organic farmers could not produce one single example of this ever happening[2]. Nevertheless, this case being dismissed for lack of a victim has actually been used as more proof of Monsanto's control over all branches and departments of government by the tin-foil hat brigade.

[1] http://ideonexus.com/2011/12/05/gmo-foods-and-the-promise-a-...

[2] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B83aJv4L7U-iYzYyMzQxOTktZjY5...
U.S. Senate bill authorizes sanctions on any country offering Snowden asylum
I see the same, although the VPS has basically zero load most of the time due to what it does. (Munin host and Buildserver)
Not to nitpick but by including angular you are including jqlite which is a subset of jquery. But yeah, your point still stands.
Charity:Water seperated donations from overhead too. Great interview here: http://revision3.com/foundation/scottharrison
I think charging for search in general is going to be their downfall. There are so many search engines these days that without bringing something truly revolutionary to the table, you'll be hard pressed to get much notice even offering it for free. Charging for it? Not a chance. There are other ways to monetize search.
DC photos can be found at https://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-1/. It doesn't get any cheaper than that.

I'm guessing they buy mini-itx boards from China by the container load.
From Metro Boston:
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 100.297/104.900/110.846/3.406 ms
http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/insidertrading/cases.shtml
Aeria Games bringing free-to-play F.E.A.R. Online to U.S. gamers
I believed Scientific American was a scientific magazine.

Instead I find this as a shill article complete void of data or any other information whatsoever. It seems like a paid placement article for me.

In science "you don't trust anything", you make experiments and get data.

Personally I am fine with GMO provided 1 thing: You label your food as GMO, and then if people decide they want to be guinea pigs of new developments with their own money so be it.

But they don't want letting people to choose. In the US you can't choose. As the article says "hey, it is making Monsanto lots of money so it is very good".
... they are kind of too new to have a track record one way or the other aren't they?

Same for the hardware. they are the new kids on the block. For now it's the newest and shiniest but long term lets see how they keep pace. Linode's been around a while and done a good job of dragging all it's customer's along to newer hardware.
Also, no one talks about their awesome Croatian developer...its like a trade secret. Everyone talks about their horror stories.
Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software?
Allow me to explain:

From their geographic location, I can assume that they are likely to charge significantly less than me.

From the quality of just plain not being me, I can assume they aren't as good as me. I have yet to have experience prove this assumption wrong.

I've worked on projects with other developers in San Diego, Chicago, Miami, Iran, India, Croatia, and many other places. They've all been pretty crappy developers whom I can only imagine lied about their credentials, because I just can't imagine how it is possible they make any software for anyone. The client has eventually fired them all because they realized what a bad deal they were. The only difference between them was the hourly rate they charged, meaning there were often more from India than San Diego.
The french site http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ (not sure it's accessible outside France) shows the new prices. It seems the german site hasn't been updated yet.
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Why Syrian Hackers Targeted a Skype Rival
You're thinking of 'slow glass', from Bob Shaw's short story 'Light of Other Days': http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/10/slow-glass-seen-from-all-ar...
I completely agree. I've always wondered what the obsession about "outing" liars on the internet is about. If the person can craft an interesting enough story to keep people engaged for a short period of time, who cares if its "true"? This is the internet, the value is derived from what is communicated, not what actually happened on the other side of the terminal. Now when someone is asking for donations or whatnot, skepticism is warranted. But this? Just take it for what it is; enjoy it or move along.
How can VAT cost more than the service itself, when VAT is set at 20% of the cost?

(I believe its £2.49 without VAT, £2.99 with VAT included)
The Monkeysphere Project
I guess we'll have to wait and see. It is going to be interesting to see where we are in 10 more years.
Nonsense. This is why we pay taxes. #getoffmylawn :)
If you have very large buffers for InnoDB to flush and safely write out to disk it can take a long time. Usually not 15 minutes but it can be several minutes.
Any way to ask question or add comments about the challenges?
Mostly, capital gains taxes. Long term or short term depending on how long you've held the asset. You may be assessed these by both the US federal government and your state of residence. (The situation is more complicated internationally... as always.) In the United States, you almost always want things structure such that income is classified as capital gains rather than ordinary income, because your effective tax rate will almost certainly be lower that way. (This is, again, almost certainly what will happen as a result of your exit. That's not totally guaranteed, though -- just like we geeks are pretty good about getting integers to behave like strings when we need them to, a good lawyer or accountant can often propose a way to structure a transaction such that it has desirable properties.)

Talk to an accountant before you found a company (goes for you and for everybody else) and talk to them again before and after the sale; there are some subtleties.

Ask about "qualified small business stock" if you're pretty sure this is not your last rodeo and you've been doing your startup for 5+ years.

An example of a good reason to talk to accountants prior to doing things: I invested a very small amount of money in a tech startup. My accountant suggested that I consider investing through a self-directed Roth IRA, which would (if the company IPOed) let me avoid paying any capital gains taxes on it or any investments made subsequently with that money (if I were willing to wait until retirement to touch the funds). In the event that retirement wasn't an option, there's a plan B: the magic words are "substantially equal periodic payments" and your accountant can explain the calculation to you.
Your assertion (a correct one in my view) probably explains a good bit of the vitriol about Mr. Snowden's recent disclosures.
Anyone who's signed up at the concierge-level of service will always get that level of service. And if we ultimately go self-service, I'd still keep the concierge-level of service around, just at a premium. We might even consider adding a concierge-level of service tier to Basecamp.
Yes, from what I gather you should be able to even power off your phone, and the stream is still going. The device itself is running chrome, and opening up netflix itself. Your phone or whatever device you use to talk to it, is more of a peripheral used to control the chromecast device.

Basically your phone is not only practically, but technically, just a remote.