skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FCC now dictates that all are ISPs must include a statement on their public websites detailing what types of filtering, rate-limiting, traffic shaping, etc., that they do (e.g. if they prioritize their own VoIP customers over Netflix or something), but I'm not sure that many providers do. Even most of the ones that do probably intentionally try to make it hard to find.
> That the order isn't guaranteed is a feature, not a bug. It frees the implementation to collect records in the most efficient fashion and from having to maintain ordering.

Yes, I understand the theoretical argument. I'm looking for real world examples where that actually helps anything, or theoretical examples where it is superior (in the sense that "there is no way to assign order which would not move the problem to a higher complexity class").

> The cost is that you need to keep an index updated. A trite observation, but there it is. Sometimes that cost is worth paying, sometimes it isn't. SQL doesn't forcefully extract that cost, it lets the database programmer or administrator decide, based on local conditions, what is best.

My point is that ksql does the same -- except that in most cases, the cost is 0, so you get the order "for free"; when the cost is not zero, ksql doesn't make guarantees, and you'll need to ask for ordering, just like in sql. Every sql engine already assigns order in one way or another (ROWID, etc.), except it is unpredictable, non-standardized, and doesn't provide most of the benefits even though it is there.

And the "no order" default often does have a cost; e.g., if you are trying to store e.g. tax brackets in your database and find out which tax bracket a salary falls into:

Either you store both lower and upper bound of bracket in a record, which means you can't normalize (and it is hard to express the integrity requirement of "no gaps" as a constraint) - or you do normalize, and then every query is a self join or correlated query that many optimizers won't handle properly. Whereas in ksql, you store it normalized (just start-of-bracket), order by start-of-bracket, and then get the bin that corresponds to your question.
Maybe you aren't the target audience? Maybe you need something else entirely?
I want one now, but I'm in the UK. I hope Google don't drag their heels on this one.

Can anyone who has it tell me whether the web based spotify player will cast from a laptop?
Yes. The font weight is too light and it's #333333. I switched the text to black and weight 600.

Then I read the whole thing and I now wish I had stopped after two sentences like so many others.
I know some Awesome trustees, and they're not millionaires or even close to it. Just regular Joes who think it's worth $100 a month to meet some interesting people and to be part of something cool.

$100 is not 'nothing', but plenty of people would spend that on other hobbies.
what if the guy just bought the phone on the sh market and is not the actual thief?
I'm not sure I agree; aren't dest and src still variables that are being stepped up? Maybe they are not "controlled variables", I don't know what that means. This is a task that is eminently suited to repetition, any loop makes sense. Plus, the article mentions FORTRAN's DO loop (not just for loops incrementing a counter).

I was expecting an example where a loop worked, but a simpler mathematical solution exists without a loop.

Anyone else?
Odd article/rant.

I clicked through and read it as I'm huge, longtime fan of Edge, but found myself thoroughly disappointed.
Definitely agreeed. Atlanta's community is great, but Georgia Tech still has some catching up to do. David Cummings is doing absolutely amazing things with ATV and Atlanta Ventures, high hopes there.
The Evolution of a Macro
> You'll just end up with extremely general, "cheap" comments filling up the tag, with no specific topics to produce genuinely interesting conversations instead of blathering pontification.

I think that's the problem with a lot of the submissions to HN.

Something happens, and 8 different tech blogs cover it, and 3 different newspapers, and 5 different bloggers. All of these get submitted to HN. Some of them make it to the front page, where people have the same discussion.
I was about to point out solarflare's openonload. Its only compatible with an sfc nic though. With onload, i've seen about a 20% throughput increase when turning onload on.
I think if you look at submissions from a numbers standpoint, the main difference between political news submissions and "hacker news" submissions is the number. As annoying as it may be, there are more outlets (publishers/bloggers/articles etc) for political news than there are for hacker news. Therefore, when someone writes about his or her weekend project, there is one article; when a major security flaw is found in some piece of hardware or software, there are three articles/blog posts; and when something like news about SOPA/NSA/Snowden breaks, there are five to ten (or even more) articles/blog posts/news media pages.

If we generously assume that 100% of arrive on HN as submissions, then it makes sense that the distribution of submissions will weigh towards the more popular in terms of number of submissions for different articles for the same topic (visualize a histogram).

My solution would be to have a way to merge separate submissions that fall under the same topic (basically, one or more URLs per topic). How it would be implemented (tags, users marking submissions as "similar" or "flagged for merge") would be up for debate.

Edit:

Maybe a single optional "political" tag with a profile setting and/or a separate subsection for submissions marked as "political".
China's posturing isn't limited to military exercises, they're also courting Taiwan for reintegration through economic incentives. It stands to reason that Taiwan's proximity to China could also be construed as a threat, due to her Western allegiance.

If Taiwan integrates with China as a special economic zone then that would be a key Western ally lost, however Taiwanese reintegration has been a hot-button issue for a few decades (in both Chinese and Taiwanese politics) that has quietly remained dormant.
UX surveys are crap? How is blindly implementing something any better than listening to UX surveys?
Google is the only company on the planet with anything approaching its scale requirements. It's entirely possible that even nginx breaks down at their level of speed/concurrency/distribution.
Why YouTube Ads Always Load Quickly While The Videos Take Forever
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-youtube-buffers-the-secret-deals-that-make-and-break-online-video/
That was worded poorly - as far as I've seen, a startup isn't really a viable option for undegrads. Yes, we've definitely had our share of successes, but it's not something that is particularly encouraged, especially outside of CS. I really want to see engineering based startups coming out of Tech. We've got the talent, and we have some amazing hardware hackers but it's incredibly rare to see them start a startup.
Wired really depends on the author, IMO. I still enjoy Threat Level
Holy crap, thank you very much!
This will burn all my carma:

Can we please talk about what he says?

Is the topic in any way related to good blog design?

There are quite a few blogs without capitalization and if it is really so important to you feel free to write about it.

IMHO All those comments on design/grammar/font/... in every discussion on HN are mere distractions and add no value.
Apparently an older version was opensourced at some point. I don't see why the people who love it don't port it to x86.
This is of course total off topic, but since a lot of GNOME-bashing is already happening in the comments here, I would just like to state that I am very, very happy with GNOME3.

It perfectly fits my use case (running a few apps fully maximised) and gets out of my way. Also, it is rock solid and has never crashed on me.
To be fair you can implement any function over a finite domain using a sufficiently large lookup table.

The OP seems weird - it's clearly a beginner asking, but the answers assume an understanding of spatial frequency and Fourier transforms. I think it would be more intuitive to explain in terms of convolutions with small kernels.
Many image effects are based on shifting the color of each pixel based on the color of the 8 pixels surrounding it, for example blurring is essentially averaging the color value of the surrounding pixels. Experimenting with multiplying, dividing, combining, and inverting color values gives you effects such as emboss, drop shadow, glow, inverse, etc.
Here here. I'm from Ireland (with our own Paddy Tax) , and was surprised at the high price of things in Australia. I think Switzerland and Norway are more expensive but that could be all.
Possibly, but others I respect use it for the same things I tried too. Possibly an issue with me, rather than the framework, of course.
Perhaps this is the kind of thing GNOME devs talk about among themselves, but to write it for public consumption and submit to HN, ostensibly looking for validation (or to troll), is a pretty epic PR fail. Not only is the author not taking Machiavelli's advice, he's gloating that he isn't.
Recent Kennesaw State grad here. Some classmates and I had a few ideas for start ups but didn't have a place to further our knowledge and learn how to get started. This would be great for the Atlanta area I know of other start ups in the area but they usually aren't from college students or recent grads. It would be great to have a place to share ideas with younger people and hack ideas.
I'm on Firefox 22, and the same thing happens here. Mouse over download button, click it, download pop-up appears, click cancel on the download, button disappears. It re-appears upon giving focus back to the page.
This looks amazing. If you know who's running it, I'd love an email intro. If not, I'll shoot them an email myself :)
You mean on reddit?

Subreddit don't have admins - only moderation. Better to have full control of the rules and the enforcement of them in your own place.
That's largely because of tradition. All capital is easier to engrave in wood / stone.

Because of that all of the old signs were in all-caps. New signs with proper capitalization look odd.
If anyone's interested, I wrote up a little guide on how to prepare yourself for B3 - http://blog.jetstrap.com/2013/07/bootstrap-3-how-to-prepare-...
I meant that if you're going to call out Tor as "reasonably safe", it seems that you'd want to have the same warning for Bitcoins. My impression has been that Bitcoin isn't "untraceable" simply because of the public ledger that is out there. I just found it interesting that he called out Tor but lauded Bitcoin's security more. Not a big deal.
I believe that the high medical costs are exactly the result of Free market in the long run. Entities will always unite to get stronger, control the market and to do so they will support little by little laws that allow this. Just my 2c, but if you don't keep your laws and democratic institutions distant from the big money... the free market will transform in a legal monopoly.
And this is why you set up a way of being able to remotely hose your phone.
Imagine, if you will, that Gnome developers had control over keyboards. The first key to be removed would be sysreq, then scroll-lock, and break. And it was dubbed Keyboard 2.0

In Keyboard 2.1, the caps lock key was removed as you can use the shift key. The Windows key was surplus to requirements, there's a perfectly good alt key.

Fast forward to Keyboard 3.0. There is no longer a control key (hold down alt for 2 seconds!), numlock is gone (the top row has numbers), cursor keys gone (you can use a mouse to move around).

In Keyboard 3.1 they removed the shift key as stylistically capitals aren't necessary.

in keyboard 3.2 they removed the comma and semicolon. these really aren't necessary as you don't need to pause when reading.

in keyboard 33 there is no need for single quotes because you should not use contractions. that just causes confusion and besides the amount of debates and derision around it were getting ridiculous. justification: world peace and an end to grammar nazis.

in keyboard 35 they are seriously considering removing the enter key the exclamation mark and any characters that require umlauts. this will help with a cleaner text rendering codebase.
In the EU you have better rights if you buy online than in a shop. If you buy online, you can get a refund within 7 days, even if you just changed your mind.
I use "1-Click Youtube Video Downloader"[0] in Iceweasel on Debian unstable and it works great (it puts a "Download" button below the video between the Subscribe button and the number of views.

I've only used it a few times but it seems to work well. You can choose which video (resolution/quality) to download and then I usually watch 'em later using VLC.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-click-youtu...
We have a command-economy model with market-features.

It's not a free market, because by law, the Federal government gets the best deal. And they define what that best deal is (ie. price floor). Just like other price-control measures implemented in the late 60's and early 70's (the 1973 oil crisis is another good example), the results are higher costs.
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It may suit your political narrative to claim that junk white bread costs over $4 a loaf but the facts are markedly different. http://www.news.com.au/business/first-it-was-milk-now-grocer...

Please don't shoot from the hip when you are so ill informed.
As somebody who studied mathematical logic, this is crankery of the highest order.
For better or worse US is still the most influential country in the world with disproportionately big military spending and the cradle of the majority of tech industry giants. It is important what goes on there. US also is one of the big bastions of freedoms at least on paper. The erosion of rights and liberties there is scary.
Thoughts on Attending Bradley Manning's Computer Crimes Trial
Right - everything has to be a sprite. That way you can represent the screen with something like 360 (20x18) sprites, instead of 23040 (160x144)) pixels. The sprites are also done by blitting hardware, the Z80 CPU presumably couldn't update a 160x144 screen at a playable framerate if it had to update pixel by pixel.
very unlikely, most of these markets would have a standard procedure to wipe/reset everything.
Submitted 2 days ago, maybe your timing is better.
Seeing as how the HDTV in my bedroom is about 7 years old and only has two HDMI ports right next to each other, I'm willing to bet I'm going to need that when my Chromecast arrives Saturday.
#6: The target audience is generally one who is interested in computers and is less resistant to change.

If they had created a new product instead of bumping Gnome's version number all these problems would have gone away because the user's expectation is to have something different instead of an evolution of an existing product.
Personally, I think the "Download Bootstrap" button is too ambiguous. Why is the default color the same as the background color, it is just confusing and ugly
Just had heart surgery. It's closer to $170,000 here in the states. :-/
Do you have hot and cold running nonsense where you live?

Selling to Australians takes place in Australian dollars and the transactions are cleared by Australian banks. This makes them pretty easy to get a legal grip on.

And you will also find that the large companies who are doing most of the price discrimination have local subsidiaries which can be dragged into court without too much fuss. If they try something like yanking funds to avoid court judgements, they're violating various laws and privileges and our government can and would be able to seek enforcement from courts in the USA.

People think that trading across boundaries gives you magical immunity from national laws. It doesn't. Where you have a nexus with a country, you can be enforced against through that nexus. Where the laws are similar, brother courts will typically reciprocally enforce them.
you could have a ring of people, with their own loyalty cards, use them for a bit, rotate around, offset any loyalty points differences with a bitcoin transfer.
NeoCities web sites now have property rights
(We) Spanish speakers also tend to make the same mistake.
And cartridges could have additional RAM for games that needed it.
And I would be even more precise : US based political news.
Are you asking why you got downvotes?

I don't know, but perhaps it's because of tone.

> Oh yeah, more articles about Bootstrap 3 please. I hear it got released or something, and it has flat buttons.

There are different ways of saying that. The way you said it isn't awful, but it is adversarial.

You then have a weirdly aggressive paragraph about people patting themselves on the back while delivering toys to politicians, which misses the point that many people don't deliver those toys to politicians, they specifically opted-out of military or defence work.

Your final paragraph is, again, weirdly combative.

> What's so horrible about that? What kind of fucked up beauty sleep does it disturb?

Someone suggests that there are too many political articles on HN, and that it has affected the tone of the site. To respond like that is an excellent demonstration of the problem.

Your next post, asking people to put their mouths where their downvotes are, seems to indicate that you don't think the problem is with your posts, but with the idiots who don't understand you and who just downvote rather than discussing.
Nice catch! You are correct, it's the reimbursement that counts, not what the hospital claims are its expenses!

The differences in payment between the hospitals is due to the DRG payment adjustments for local cost of living, disproportionate share, etc.
You're exactly who we're trying to target. Tech has a bunch of great resources, but nothing that's really entry level. Flashpoint, Startup Gauntlet, ATDC are all great, but there's nothing out there that's going to take in people with ideas and show them everything we have to offer.

Also, we had someone from Kennesaw State drive out to ATL for 3 Day Startup last Spring. Made our day at the hackathon.
Which reset and grid system do you use? I have the same experience, and I end up un-checking every option except one or two on bootstrap's customization page for most of my projects.
There s a nuclear option that Australia (or other countries) could use. Declare copyrighted goods that are too expensive lose copyright. That film that you won't sell for the same price as the USA? it's now public domain, a local market of people pressing DVDs will spring up.
I agree with jvzr, I think it goes hand in hand with a true "mobile first" design.

Most likely, you want to use the full width for your most important stuff going on in your site, and then as the screen gets bigger, maybe you include some extra stuff
Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer
They could, but they don't have any obligation to. How many of their online service they shut down was eventually open-sourced? I can't think of any.

Also there are other things to consider, we know that Greader was running on auto-pilot for a long time, and the people who worked on it are either not with Google any more or are working on some other project. In order for them to open source this project, they either had to get those people back to help them opensource it or they would have to get new people to run down the whole codebase and take out portions that can be potential security/vulnerability issue. Looks like to me thats a lot of work.

There are tons of free and open-source RSS readers out there, some are pretty darn good. Why bother?
Thanks for the feedback.

Its really understand your point which was the one thing that was stopping me from building it but I felt the fact that the app "forces you" to focus on the important things which is something I needed.

I have 10 users already and I'm already working on my next project.
Easy, confidence. BAM, instant relationships. :P
Sorry to hear about that- and I encourage you to reapply (even with the same ideas again!). Sometimes it isn't that your idea wasn't awesome, but that there were just a lot of other awesome ideas coming in that month.

- David Fisher (AF trustee/co-founder)
"I think when your medical system becomes so expensive it's cheaper for people to fly out of the country, pay for accommodation and even some spending money to get the same level of care" - I wonder why this not happened on a large scale yet. It seems so simple - fly out stay for 10 days and get the surgery done, visit some exotic places such as the Taj Mahal and come back. Almost heart surgeries are planned, so planning is also not a concern. These days booking a flight in and out is a non-issue as is the issue of staying in a hotel. What's stopping people from adopting this on a large scale ?
Signs of declining economic security
Good point, but as an undergraduate from the school of Biomedical Engineering. I can say for sure most undergrads in this building have never realized the possibility of beginning a startup in their career. The startup culture is largely, and almost entirely isolated to the CS department.
That seems absurdly low. I stay in Chennai and typical taxi rates run upwards of 18Rs per KM (approx 0.48US$ per mile). I agree there is a considerable difference in the cost of living, but what you likely paid the guy was a tip for the entire week. Even assuming the car, gas etc. was paid by your company, the amount still seems low for a driver's fee for a week. My dad's driver makes 11,000INR a month.

94,000 Rupees is a lot of money in India but it is not so huge either. A small local doctor in a city will make around that money in a month.

(ps: If you actually had a guy driving you for 25$ in Chennai, do pass me his number. I will happily use him.)
There are plenty of sub-optimal alternatives - I just don't want to name them.

A lot of people who create alternatives have way too much confidence in "the launch". It's better if they actually have a good community to show for it instead of some glorified CMS with "potential".

Hacker News like success stories, so that would be a good angle to promote a new community with - rather than announcing an inconsequential launch.
Why small companies should be more successful than enterprises
The next generation of world class developers is here
Tim Hwang's (guy who pulled us all together at first) blog is... http://brosephstalin.com/

;)
Compressed air is not an energy source, it's a short term energy storage medium. The same static/non-static correlation between electric and gasoline exists. Most compressors in static installations are electric. Compressors that must be used in the field are frequently powered by a small internal combustion engine.

Compressed air is used because the powerhead is much smaller and lighter than an electric motor (at available voltages) of comparable power. This makes it suitable for handheld tools. Otherwise, compressed air represents a NET loss of energy, and would be avoided.
> I have to switch my iPhone to airplane mode

This doesn't work. The iPhone still tracks your location even when in airplane mode. To test:

1) Turn on Airplane mode
2) Take a picture
3) Turn off Airplane mode
4) Go to Photos app, "Places" tab. Note that the picture you took has been correctly geolocated.

The only way to not be tracked by your smartphone is to leave it in a Faraday device of some kind, like a refrigerator.

EDIT: Ok, not a fridge. Thanks, Titanous.
I have no use for it myself. If I need a simple Bootstrap design, I can just copy some of the elements in plain old CSS and have a much simpler setup. If I need something complicated, Bootstrap is limiting - you end up rewriting it all anyhow.

And the idea of keeping up with Bootstrap versions is just plain crazy to me.

To each his own, I suppose.