skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You clearly have never used an MVNO(Reseller)

I just went to Verizon and chose a free SmartPhone (Droid 4) with a 500MB data plan.
It was $80/mo 2 yr contract

I can buy that phone outright (brand new) for $300.

If I go to PagePlus (Verizon MVNO) and sign up for their $1200 Minute, $3000 Text/MMS 500MB $30/mo plan here is what I paid after two years.

Verizon - $80 * 24 = $1,920

PagePlus - $30 * 24 + $300 (phone) + $50 roaming (average usage cost for 2 yrs) = $1,020

And what did I get for my $900 difference? (That is $37.50/mo BTW) A big "Verizon" label on my phone, and a two year contract.

You could get two plans and phones from PagePlus and still pay less.

I realize that there are other factors like level of customer service, and no roaming charges that VZW and ATT die-hards will tell you about. Well, in my experience, the service is no better and most people almost never use roaming service while using a Verizon MVNO. I would say that i have only spent around $20 in the last two years from roaming.

Other factiods:
Have Verizon or ATT and want to change your plan options (Minutes, Data amount ETC)? Sure - that will require a new two year contract. Don't want a new phone. Well you will still be paying the same regardless. Break the contract and you will still pay the same penalty. This seems to refute your claim that you are just paying back a subsidy.

Want a new phone with your new contract? OK, choose a "free" one from a list whose retail prices have a $150-$200 difference in price. Are you going to pay less per month if you opt for the cheaper (3g) free one? If your statement was true you should.
There are a bunch of ways these can't be used, including mobile apps and embedded on web pages:
http://www.tendollarfonts.com/licenses/
So, $10 to get a license to a font that allows installation on up to three systems, which prohibits commercial use (that's $20), use on the web, on physical objects, in mobile apps, or in videos.
I think Fred might be disappointed when he switches back to t-mobile. I was a t-mobile customer for years and I agree they have awesome customer service. The big problem for me was the terrible cell reception in many buildings in NYC.
That said, I hear there are many areas in the US where t-mobile provides decent service. For people considering switching if t-mobile's international data deal isn't that important to you, you may want to check out http://www.solavei.com first. They are a t-mobile reseller (MVNO) and you may be able to save some money compared to going through t-mobile directly. Their prices are similar to straight talk (mentioned in some of the other comments) and they also allow you to refer customers to reduce your monthly bill.

Best cell phone service for the price IMO is http://www.pagepluscellular.com/ (a verizon reseller). $55 / month (including taxes and fees) for unlimited calling, unlimited texts, and 2 gigs of data. I have been a customer of theirs for a year and a half. Their customer service is pretty good, but more importantly their signal strength (coming from verizon's towers) is the best out of all the carriers in NYC.

The one big caveat with the MVNO resellers is that they don't offer LTE data and some don't support LTE phones (ie iphone 5, 5c, 5s, etc).

TL;DR - if you're down to use an iPhone 4S or other 3G smartphone you can save some serious money per month going through an MVNO reseller.
Actually, the status quo is that Linux users are more locked out of Netflix with HTML5 EME than they are with the existing solutions. Silverlight is a small enough plugin that people have figured out how to run it under Linux using Wine, likewise with the Android .apk and CyanogenMod; but I don't think anyone's even managed to get the EME-based Netflix for Chromebooks to run with developer mode enabled let alone on different hardware, and IE11's EME implementation requires the whole of IE11.
API-first architecture, or the fat vs. thin server debate
Click the middle mouse button. Move the mouse down slightly. The more you move it down, the faster it scrolls.

No need to hold any buttons.
I value Gwern's style because it corresponds to the process of discovery.

I think his essays are a narrative of how he comes to his conclusion.

So the conclusion is less important than the journey
I think parallax can be an effective way of presenting information on a page (easier to scrub than video, more cohesive than a slide deck and more lively than a static page).

But here I think they overdid it. There is too much going on, I can't tell where I am, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to get out of it. (Probably doesn't help that I don't remember much German from high school, but even then I'm not sure the actual text content would be all that helpful).
The commercial license is cheaper for 39+ systems than any other amount of systems. Seems like a bug.
And it's moot - if the author is telling the truth.

The author is not ashamed to very publicly make these (as yet) unsubstantiated claims. I assume talking to an abuse charity in private, who help with a police prosecution, causes less shame.

The only reason I can think why someone would not go to the police is because independent witnesses (see earlier references to CCTV, the likely sober bartenders over drinking buddies) would not back up a claim.

This was a crowded bar, surrounded by many people. I can only surmise that the reason they have not sought a prosecution is because they are lying/misleading, and they know they will be caught out.
I'm kind of surprised this list doesn't include Darren Aronofsky's "Pi". The film touches on a lot of interesting topics such as digit repetition in pi, financial market machine learning, fibonacci spirals and number theory.
Except he died of cancer (probably related to his work on the manhattan project) in 1989.

This article seems to appear every couple of months. Still enjoyable and useful however.
Hopefully we will make that even crazier with http://coinkite.com bitcoin terminals, as anyone will be able to operate in BTC.

We bought our office coffee in btc http://blog.coinkite.com/post/63374862563/weve-just-ordered-...
I thought the content of the presentation was good, but the format was kind of confusing. There wasn't any indication of where to click to advance the slideshow, or any indication that you were supposed to press space or right arrow to go on. In fact, I didn't even realize it was a slideshow until I came onto the Hacker News comments and saw what people had posted. After clicking around a bit, I had just assumed that the page was broken due to heavy load, or maybe there was an issue in my browser.

I think clicking on the black border isn't something that is obvious at all. Perhaps you could have some arrow icons on the side to navigate? Or even a text tooltip indicating that this is in fact a slideshow, and you can click on the borders or use keyboard shortcuts to continue.
Overall this is a nice, clean UI.

Starting out with an empty location list felt a little confusing. Is there a fast way to add the current location? Maybe that should be the default, if the location list is empty?

Once I add a location, I see a "Not Observed" message on the top right and a missing graphic(?) "N/A" on the top left. It's not clear what these mean until I add more locations and get one that works. It looks like that should read "Sunny" with a graphic?

The UI suggests a "pull to refresh" interface: there's a spinner. But it wasn't clear to me whether or not it did anything. Maybe some extra text alongside "Issued: %d minutes ago" for the refresh state? Similar for the parent view.

Can the display of atmospheric pressure also indicate whether pressure is rising or falling?

The displays for wind, pressure, etc. suggest that they might do something when tapped. Maybe drill down to charts?

The settings icon is on the top left. I tend to look for it on the top right, but maybe that's just me.
I just put a rock on top of Page Down.
There is a longer texts at the end of each of the three distinct sections, informing you about the specific font you just saw, as well as its included features.

You can skip between these sections be clicking on the little markers on the right.

All the other text is there to show you the fonts and their features in action, be it ligatures, be it international diacritics or different font weights.
Wireless community networks are where there is much research going on for fully decentralized systems. Check out Guifi.net, the world's largest wireless community network with over 20,000 nodes. All the protocols are decentralized, from DNS to routing to HTTP Proxies for internet access.
my buddy's mom makes $82/hour on the internet. She has been without a job for seven months but last month her check was $15448 just working on the internet for a few hours. Get More Information
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Amazon Redshift: JSON Functions
Huh. An ancient tribe of Crossfit-ers. Who woulda thunk?
I'm pretty sure they even take a walk around his factory with him in the movie
Miles or km? 10k miles is a more recent change since about 2007 - 2008 or so with better synthetic oils.
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My Subaru Impreza has a 7.5k mile oil change schedule, and i wouldn't call it a high end car.
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What do you base that on? He founded ECD in 1960, was the CEO for 46 years, built it into a 300m+/year revenue company. Left it in 2006.. it went bankrupt in 2012.

The bonds that led to the bankruptcy were issued in 2008 by his replacement/

The trustee recently filed suit against 3 chineese companies saying ECD went bankrupt because of their price fixing.

Are you saying that because it went bankrupt 6 years after he left, that he was a bad businessman?

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732382910...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230344200457912...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Conversion_Devices
I wrote this about 2.5 years ago:

http://myownstream.com/blog#2011-05-21
Generally, MVNO customers have lowest priority on a network. I know AT&T, for example, gives network priority to Postpaid first, then Prepaid, then MVNOs. So on a congested network, you'd be the first to be kicked off.
Google Nexus 5 and Android Kit Kat 4.4 to release on October 15th?
Oh, you, Tom Scott, made it? :D I'm a big fan.

A few suggestions, then:

1. Don't use i as the name of the parameter. A lot of people use that as the name of loop variables, and it means breaking habit or wasting time changing the name.

2. For test 3, try some multiple-extension files to make sure they did it right (some.file.multiple.extensions, should return "extensions")

3. For test 5, it says "integers". Try some non-integers during testing, to make sure that it's only checking for integers.

4. For test 5, it says "arrays". Try some objects to make sure they're not being lazy and using typeof thing === "object"

Anyway, thanks for making this. I love it!
While this is a subject I would be interested in, I took one look at the front page, saw that it appeared to be video-only, and gave up.

This is precisely the reaction that news sites get from me when I click on a link to a story and find video-only content.

Am I the only one, or would it be a really good idea to provide transcripts of the interviews?
The problems inherent to the STS design - which make it so expensive to operate, among other things - would maintain even if it weren't man rated. You'd still have to rebuild the skin of the vehicle and the solid rocket boosters every time you used it. If you messed that up with an unmanned version you'd still risk blowing up your very, very expensive toy every time.

We could launch Apollo capsules and big cargo containers with Saturn rockets, before STS.
"Smalltalk is that extremely rare case of software that it makes coding just flow, with no interruptions and no small annoyances. We call this style of coding "Live Coding" and its definetly the biggest reason to try smalltalk and even more try Pharo."

These couple of sentences give the reason that made me persist with Smalltalk (Pharo mostly). For those of you who come from, say Python, Java, C#..., this may be unsettling at first. The way you use the debugger to point you in the right direction and keep working without stopping. It feels all wrong in other, more pedestrian languages.
I love this speech so much I wrote an italian translation for my blog. Which other speeches in science do you think are worth a translation?
Am I the only one, or would it be a really good idea to provide transcripts of the interviews?

No, there are at least a few of us.
> In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another.

Sometimes I think if we could extend this principle to human communication in general, we'd end up with a lot less misinformation.

I try to communicate doubts or possible weaknesses in my arguments when I can, though it's difficult and I'm sure I've failed to do so on numerous occasions. It occurs to me that perhaps we simply don't have the cognitive capacity to include that level of information in our everyday communications. Still, I wonder if perhaps this should be an ideal to strive for. Information travels so fast now, and it seems like most people aren't very mindful of how they participate in this transmission.
I’m not involved with Factor development, just a casual user and concatenative evangelist. Factor still lacks a package manager; the notion, I suppose, is that the standard library is the standard package repository like npmjs.org for Node or Hackage for Haskell.
Open-source tool to measure performance directly from your users' browsers.
I feel the same, and have filed a bug https://github.com/frabcus/redecentralize-website/issues/22
A featureless website with no info or anything?

edit: oh, I see from the comments that it's a presentation and you have to click on the black border where there's no indication that you should click.

Allow me to use this opportunity to mention how awful this is from a UI/UX perspective. Terrible design.
It is a fad, let's face it. That's not to say that it isn't pretty and it is great to experiment but we don't really colour the scroll bar pink anymore.
> concretely tho, it generally means hosting stuff on your own machine, on a connection you pay for. That's okay. But it's hard for non-specialists.

To this end, I'm optimistic about lightweight containers, especially a la docker.io[1]. Releasing an application as a container can help solve dependency hell. Nesting containers for a complex application (i.e. with multiple disjoint services) looks promising to me, as well.

[1] Not that LXC and/or docker are ready out-of-the-box for non-specialists (yet) - but that seems achievable. A friendly wrapper around vagrant might do the job.
My experience with tmobile and Att is probably reversed: tmobile found ways to add hidden or mysterious charges that others couldn't (I.e. $10 / month android charge). Most of the customer service reps in recent years got worse and worse.

I finally switched to Att about 2 years ago and I have to admit: every time I called, everyone was friendly and helpful. Nothing was hidden: they laid out their charges and I agreed to them. They may have even slightly higher ($10 a month), but I have excellent nationwide coverage and very good internet speeds when I need it.

This was just my experience, and it may be different for others.
Meanwhile, our governments or are in bed with the corporations or are unprepared to deal with their lobby in a way that dont hurt people, innovation, fair competition and democracy..

If you think politics in Europe (at the local, national and european level) doesn't have political corruption, I've got a bridge I can sell you.
Ask HN: What (do you think) is Edward Snowden's skillset?
The Wikipedia section doesn't do much to provide detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Childhood.2C_family.2C_and_education

NYT has a slightly more involved overview; still limited: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/us/resume-shows-snowden-honed-hacking-skills.html?_r=0
I'd say he was more of The Tesla of our age, than The Edison (as The Economist titled it's article http://www.economist.com/node/8312367)
Ha, funny but there is concurrency library (actors, CSP) for Clojure with the same name. http://puniverse.github.io/pulsar/
it appears to me that you're misunderstanding those cases.

in texas gulf sulfur, the defendants were officers at the company. they were directors at texas gulf sulfur and they were trading on texas gulf sulfur stock. they have a fiduciary duty to the company that a stranger doesn't have.

that's what the judge in carpenter is referring to. if you acquire the info by virtual of a fiduciary relationship, you aren't free to trade on that info. in texas gulf sulfur, they had the fiduciary relationship to the company because they were officers at that company. not so here.
Launching the Open Speech Initiative
From the third video:

"And it's led us to a point, in our relationship with the government, where we have an executive of the Department of Justice, that's unwilling to prosecute high officials who lied to Congress and the country on camera! But they'll stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth. And that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy."

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48zQ7q7VxYI
The Secret To Einstein’s Genius? Unusually Well-Connected Hemispheres
I stopped doing Coursera courses because of this.
> video-only

Videos are a lower-bandwidth medium than text for explaining things. I can read a lot faster than I can listen to a person talk.

Seriously, this website doesn't realize that?
Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
One year of tracking mouse movement and clicks
From the fourth video:

"People all over the world are realizing that these programs don't make us more safe. They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to think, and live, and be creative. To have relationships. To associate freely. And they're going, "This doesn't make us more safe, this makes us less safe. It puts us at risk of coming into conflict with our own government." And there's a far cry, between legal programs, legitimate spying, legitimate law enforcement, where it's targeted, it's based on reasonable suspicion, individualized suspicion, and warranted action, and sort of dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations, under sort of an eye that sees everything, even when it's not needed!"

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyy3Odda33k
Pays? Shouldn't that be compensates? I do believe there's a distinct difference.
It's quite ironic that a website about decentralization is using Github [1].

Gitlab [2] would is an alternative with similar functionality that's more consistent with the ideology they're trying to promote.

[1] https://github.com/frabcus/redecentralize-website

[2] http://gitlab.org/
I immediately went for the arrow keys. That being said, I noticed that most people really aren't sure what to do when they see an intro slide [0]. A couple of arrows in the bottom corner never hurt anybody.

[0]: http://jdan.github.io/cleaver/
This article is full of fabrication.

The girl claims to live on $1000 a month in NYC, and she only pays $135 a week for an extra room in a crap neighborhood.

Leaving her, with $540 to live on... In NYC, for 30 days. Now, I'm sure this is possible, but she is sitting there on a macbook. Welp, there goes your budget for the entire year! And this article claims less is making these people happier. Not really, and they are just exploiting their so called frugality to make a buck from selling their story. Of course they wouldn't be lying about collecting welfare and hypocritically supporting #OWS.

TL;DR The article fails to mention these people are also exploiting the system collecting welfare.
If you know why people behave like they do, it's easier to make them stop.
I would definitely do something like this if I didn't happen to live in latitudes where it's cold and snowy in the winter.
To elaborate, Sprint and T-Mobile have been trying to merge, arguing that scale is fundamental in competing in the market. Regulators have argued that 4 carriers are essential to keeping parity and competition in the market.
> Except he died of cancer (probably related to his work on the manhattan project)

Feynman was a theoretical physicist. Direct exposure to fissile materials in a lab or factory environment is hard enough to reliably correlate with cancer rates[1][2] (we're all exposed to a lot of ionizing radiation over the course of our lives), but Feynman's exposure during the Manhattan project would have been extremely minimal, making any connection to his eventual cancer is virtually impossible.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9314220

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10098774
From an author's point of view - particularly an author who might write about something controversial at some point - knowing how far an editor will stick their neck out for you is probably the primary measure of that editor's usefulness. Doubly so in a format like blogging where the editor doesn't intend to give direct feedback on the author's text.

Now the SciAm bloggers know.
At what point does it count as starving? When they don't eat for a week at the end of the month so they can make rent? When they have chronic malnourishment? When they manage to live by visiting food banks or soup kitchens? When they dumpster-dive for discarded food? All this happens in America.
No, what's fishy is the $135/week rent, even a small room can cost more than that--unless it's a really, really bad area. But you can live on $540, for a while. Food can be very cheap in the bodegas and the rest can largely be controlled by only getting what's really needed. Of course a hospital visit will set you back 1-5 years of living expenses but that's different.
I would have thought it would be Peano's axioms for natural numbers or whatever axiomatic system is being used; depends on what area of mathematics one is studying.
You're free to do as you please, but I for one believe the presumption of innocence to be a useful stance both in the courtroom as well as beyond it; particularly so when the accuser is a party known to have previously routinely lied in order to secure false convictions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman is a brilliant read. My high school Physics teacher lent it to me a few years ago; it really opened my eyes and increased my love for the subject.
When I visit the US from the UK I use T-Mobile pay-as-you-go SIM cards to get data on my iPhone. It works great - you go in to a T-Mobile store, pay for the SIM and $3/day of credit (I normally spend about $25), they set up the phone and profile for you and you walk out within a few minutes with a working iPhone.

I used to use AT&T GoPhone for this, until they sold me a "special deal for SXSW" in Austin that would keep my number and data working for multiple trips three years for $100. A few months later they cancelled the data portion of the plan (naturally refusing to refund my $100 since voice still works) and made it impossible to get pay-as-you-go data on an iPhone no matter how much money you give them.

They might have fixed that now, but they've lost me to T-Mobile.