skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point with AV equipment was that these things tend to have somehow standardized sizes and mostly empty cases. Thus shipping cost tend to be dominated by "volumetric weight" and not real device weight. EMI/RFI from SMPS is valid concern for these applications but not as significant as it is often claimed to be.

More significant issue is cost: you need power supply that supplies slightly weird voltage rails that essentially has to be custom, even off the shelf SMPS modules tend to be significantly costlier than wall warts and you don't have any reason not to just stick big transformer in there (even more so because you essentially don't care about regulation of the more loaded rails)
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Something that would be cool is a purely functional programming language with an interpreter and editor that can give feedback on the execution of the code as rewrites. If "purely" starts to ring alarm bells for you, I guess you could let this interactive editing be 'purely functional', with the output of the editor as side effects, while having a separate mode of execution that is compiled (you might want to actually compile the code instead of running it interpreted, anyway) which is truly pure.
A Ponzi-style scheme is more of an exploit than a simple bug, and its the root of most economic systems.
No it's not pretty obvious. Reducing the rental cost of sold servers means directly reducing revenue, that sounds like madness to me.

The saner alternative would be to _increase_ the cost of the newer servers, but as they point out that could result in them being less competitive.

The real solution would be to devise some way where happy customers just retain their current servers, and new customers can get the latest hardware for the lowest price.

For some reason the old customers do enjoy upgrading their machines though, so this lands them in a tough spot. They can't have the best of both worlds, both the lowest prices and the freedom contracts. So they're going to take their time finding out what their strategy on this is going to be.
The notoriously complex config syntax of sendmail has also been proven to be Turing complete: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/sendmail-as-turing-machine....
I agree with you. Their internal network is crap. And recently, their external network has been horrible as well.

We have 40 servers with them and we're getting out of there. Been getting downtime almost weekly for the last couple of months.

Their prices are impossible to beat in America however. Even heavily discounted, SoftLayer is more than twice the price.
And specifically about the host club phenomenon, but surprising in other ways:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Happiness_Space%3A_T...
This is not what they want because they are trying to price their new hardware competitively by milking their older customers. If they would reduce the profit of their cash cows they can not invest in reducing the prices of the hardware that attracts new customers.
Y Combinator is an incubator for startups. Do you also get frustrated when you see pictures of cats on icanhascheezburger?
Ah okay, are these routes meant to be done together at a certain time, or anytime at all? Are they meant to be walked, biked, driven, or all the above? I got the idea from your earlier description that these might be something known locally as pub-crawls, a night out at multiple drinking establishments. But still, i'm left with more questions than answers.
Correct title: Brooklyn man arrested for crashing (not flying) drone in/to (not over) Manhattan.
I guess the price is already quite low and at some point the cost of the power, space, etc would be higher than the rental price. Do you want a new new server or a server that is 2+ years old and it's reaching its end of life?

I met people using OVH 4 years ago and they told me support wasn't great (I can't confirm this at all!) and that it was usually faster to order a new server and migrate than to wait until a faulty disk was replaced.

If people get good doing that kind of thing, it makes sense it's a problem for OVH (+150k servers): instead of waiting until a server is over 3 years old to be retired, just order a new one every year and benefit of the newest hardware. It's the same price, isn't it?
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Because it should be 'married to a jap' but for annoying and outdated historical reasons, people will think you are racist if you say that.
To a Scot, unless your husband's name is Scott, in which case I apologise for making assumptions.
"Making something people wants". All the best.
The biggest problem was they were introducing new servers with similar or better specs than servers existing customers had. And instead of dropping existing customers prices, they kept them static. So a lot of people found themselves looking at a bill 600% higher for the same server just because they were an existing customer. Who in their right mind would pay 6x times more for the same service ?

They could stop the customer churn by simply changing the price to match the new offerings.

At the time I switched to a new server type I even asked their customer team if the new pricing would be offered to existing customers and the answer was a flat no.
Speaking of which, the Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is not. He is totally technical clueless. And most of the book is just copy-pasting of different other better books about Apples history in the 80s/90s.

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42
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I just use XMBC's web interface and android application. Both work fine for me.
And a very specific .edu or .ac.uk at that. It's easy to be cool when you are leveraging exclusivity already.
download as pdf link for the paranoid

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz...
A link to the same page on Quora, but with ?share=1 appended to the URL so login isn't required: http://www.quora.com/GitHub/How-does-GitHub-handle-tasks-tha...
That's one possible solution, but then that needs to be accounted for in their price model to ensure they can pay off the cost of each server over its life, and that seems to be a substantial part of the problem they've run into:

The turnover on each new generation is higher than their models accounted for, and so reduces their lifetime expected revenue per server too much.

Doing what you suggest is certainly possible, but would likely mean they'd need to charge more early on.
It changes to one of: IE7 Standards Mode, IE8 Standards Mode, IE9 Standards Mode, IE9 Almost-Standards Mode, IE10 Standards Mode, or IE10 Almost-Standards Mode. I wish I was joking.
So what, these foreigners ought to be denied the same opportunity?
> Consider the fact that homosexuality was labelled a mental disorder in the DSM not long ago.

It was removed in about 1975. There's plenty of dumb stuff done in many areas of science 40 years ago.
In the UK, the recruitment agents run the IT tech recruitment industry. Very rarely do companies take on the process themselves (I mean proportionately it's quite low).

In the US, it's reverse.
It may be pointless to you. That doesn't mean it's pointless.
So... voice, the telephony app can be used for sending text messages.
And hangouts, a text based chat service can be used to make phone calls. Great logic there google!
The author is running iOS 7, so his iPod Touch was already a "free" wifi phone, using FaceTime Audio.
You might as well argue that a telephone isn't for "real" friends that you see in the street every day. The truth of a modern lifestyle is that people are very mobile. I can remember losing touch with people for a few years back when your email address was from your college or employer, two moves and you were gone - until the world agreed that we'd use Facebook as a self-updating address book.
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Someone once said, "most ideas appear in the implementation". We'll see what more can we do with this.
John Hawks will also be teaching a course at Coursera starting next January:
https://www.coursera.org/course/humanevolution
This is one of the reasons that I find Android far more useful for most workflows than iOS. I was amazed that Twitter and Facebook integration had to be built in manually.
It's also a way older people or rural/Southern people would refer to African-Americans: "She dates a black"

Most people would think that's an odd or deragotory way of saying that.
I have to say, this is the kind of thing I was thinking while reading the entire article. One of the things I remember most about working in Japan is the different manners in which people would answer questions. Everything did seem so extremely indirect, yet not necessarily dishonest.
Tethering to a live high voltage line using a helicopter
How a surgical team operated on the wrong leg, and what they did after
Could not disagree more with you.

It is far from pointless. First of all the next person in line feels good, because a stranger helped them with no underhanded motives. Then there is a high chance they will pass it on, getting a second dose of feeling good, because most people feel good about helping others.

That's a double dose of feeling good. I don't see what is being cancelled out here.
The hippie/'open your mind' culture has left people feeling if someone doesn't agree with or support all of my lifestyle choices, if they tell me what I'm doing is wrong, they must be a bigot.

It's a fallacy.
Another would be to tie the customers to their current servers through other means which is what they're trying.

For example, one of the things they're trying now is to link the number of IP addresses you can have attached to the cheaper servers with how long you have been running it. Which is pretty clever if you think about it. Who are the savvy customers switching to the new offer the day it comes out? Hosters who need mutliple IPs for their users.
I had the same question has you last year, and I decided to apply to the Google Summer of Code, which is a project founded by Google to promote student engagement in the open source world (for more details https://code.google.com/p/dynnetwork/). Was awesome, and opened many doors for me :)

It's hard to start a project on your own and engage others. Get instead involved with an open source community that you find exciting, and which has already traction. This will expose you to a bigger audience, and will also give you a perception on what people really want and need.

...and as a last tipp, don't be shy to promote yourself, it's a pool of sharks out there ;)

hope this helps and good luck!
Well, I have close to 30 years Unix experience so you don't have to convince me of the power of a pipeline. But I do have to disagree with your affection for awk and sed even though in the past I have used them both extensively.

The advantage of learning perl is that you can replace both utilities in your piped command line and only have to remember one syntax. And it integrates just as well as sed and awk do in any pipeline. But quite often, it will obviate the need for piping through other utilities.

Perl is much closer to sed and awk than any of the other scripting languages you mention. As noted in other posts, you can even automatically convert awk scripts to perl. And it doesn't take much effort to convert sed scripts to perl where you can leverage more powerful pattern matching and procedural facilities to boot.

If you already know sed and awk, by all means keep using them, they're fine. But if you're new to the Unix command line, you'll get the most bang for your buck by learning perl instead of awk and sed.
> In the end, the elderly are always cared for by the young so if you have a lot of elderly and not very many young, this becomes a real problem.

Fun fact: an evolutionary explanation for "witch hunts" is that when the tribe is low on food, they're an excuse to get rid of less useful / influential elderly people. Which is why they happen more in resource constrained developing countries than rich developed ones.

But it goes to show that if young people feel that the elderly are more burdensome than useful, they may find a way to get rid of them.
Were you able to do this all with the dummy accounts that Facebook provides for the Bug Bounty program or did any steps require a genuine account? Just curious as I always wonder whether there are bugs that affect genuine accounts and not dummy accounts or vice-versa.
Or, you know, people prefer narratives, and there's nothing inherently bad to them, compared to "detailed scientific analysis" (of which, 90% is also shit anyways).
What do you mean using anecdotal evidence instead? The author cites data and surveys, which clearly show the problem.

"Japan already has one of the world's lowest birth rates. Its population of 126 million, which has been shrinking for the past decade, is projected to plunge a further one-third by 2060."

"The number of single people has reached a record high. A survey in 2011 found that 61% of unmarried men and 49% of women aged 18-34 were not in any kind of romantic relationship, a rise of almost 10% from five years earlier. Another study found that a third of people under 30 had never dated at all."

"A survey earlier this year by the Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA) found that 45% of women aged 16-24 "were not interested in or despised sexual contact". More than a quarter of men felt the same way."

"Official alarmism doesn't help. Fewer babies were born here in 2012 than any year on record. (This was also the year, as the number of elderly people shoots up, that adult incontinence pants outsold baby nappies in Japan for the first time.)"
> from the exorbitant costs of buying property in Japan

Well they are living on an island. You can't grow your population forever in a finite space without increased competition.
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"turn their backs on typical "masculine" and corporate roles"

So they're basically hippies, although for cultural reasons the girls don't think their hippies are cool, so they get less sex not more.

One interesting effect of huge rates of freeters and neets is some segment of the salarymen feel they're just one bad review or whatever from permanent downgrade into freeter / neet status, or at least the girls may think that about them. So the percentage of people behaving like freeters / neets probably is somewhat larger than the demographic percentage of freeter/neets.

Well, no girl my age would ever have anything to do with me because I'm poor and have no future, so, uh, yeah I'm not looking thats the story I'll tell so I feel a little better. Pout and quit is hardly unknown in the west "Oh so you guys are cheating and stacking the game against me, well F you I'm taking my (two) balls and going home". Although with the decline of casual neighborhood play this might be an unknown social situation for our young... In the past it was not unheard of, screw over the kid who brought the tennis ball and he takes it and goes home and no one plays...

Don't end up like a teen parent, don't have relationships and kids until you can afford it... well, what if the economic deck is stacked such that 25% will never, ever be able to afford it? Well, until the inevitable revolution, you'll get weird things like young people not having sex.

Finally the whole topic is super hetro-normative so I think we can all safely assume at least 5% or so are in the closet.

So 5% in closet, in 2000, in better times, 10% were NEETs per govt figures, in better times 30% were freeters (some of whom do get some...) maybe 10% of salarymen (or more precisely, the girls checking them out) accurately or inaccurately believe they're one unlucky event away from permanent downgrade into freeter/neet (is there significant upward mobility in Japan from freeter/neet? Not that I've read/heard?) So that's 55% right there although some of the freeters ARE probably getting some. Of course not everyone reacts to being screwed over by withdrawing; in the US they sometimes go out shooting, etc. Fixing the withdrawl problem without fixing the economic stressors is likely just to result in different negative social reactions WRT weapons etc.
Why is it stupid? Obviously they don't mean every single Japanese young person hasn't stopped having sex. What the author means is that as a trend, they've stopped having sex, as evidenced by the declining population, the lack of young people in relationships, etc. From the data they cited from the surveys, it seems pretty incontrovertible that there is some sort of problem, despite your own personal anecdotes.
We could at least preserve raw knowledge, though. "Most diseases are caused by germs, so wash your hands" could save countless lives. And some basic notions of things like force and energy could enable machines to make peoples' lives better quickly, too.
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Ah, yes, you want a surplus, but a surplus of what exactly? No one cares about the burgers. It's a surplus of good-will and happiness that they want to create, and I think to that end it's very effective indeed.
>I have a small RC helicopter, I could run it into a baby's face at full power and it'd barely tickle.

That sounds very reassuring. Have you tried it?
Buddy has been doing this for a while with an old 3GS. Problem is if he's not on wifi he can't take a call so I end up leaving home a voicemail and waiting hours for him to call back.
Also, if you're looking for open-source firmware for 3G/4G USB-enabled routers, then check out ROOter. ROOter is based on OpenWRT, and supports most of the popular routers and 3G/4G USB dongles.

http://ofmodemsandmen.com/supported.html
The expression was popularized by the best-selling novel “Pay It Forward” ... The protagonist does three good deeds and asks the beneficiaries to do three good deeds and so on.

The origins of this term are somewhat different, and worth noting. The normal mode of reciporocity is to 'pay it back'. However, there are certain times when this would be physically impossible. This is the origin of 'pay it forward'. It results from the humble notion: I can never pay it back, so I will pay it forward. It has nothing to do with scaling (3x), nor contingency (i did this for you, now you do this...etc). It is a response to an actual act of kindness or generosity that precisely lacks such a contingency (most usually because you will never interact with the person that helped you out, ever again). It would have been nice for the NY Times piece to note this correctly! Its just too bad that the actual understanding of the term could not be promulgated through what is otherwise a good piece (likely to be widely read).
As a user, i interacted a lot on you're blog (read many articles and etc).

It's very well designed, has interesting content and it's easy to just read the next article.

It's probably one of the best blogs i've ever met (excellent place for your links (at the end of your article for a follow-up story).

And, you have converted me to the panda show. Great music!

So congrats and nice job :)

PS. You didn't convert a lot of your users, because it had nothing to do with Tubelytics. It was an awesome read, but probably missed your core audience attention :-) (personal opinion though).
The problem is generally overstated, because of (a) efficiency gains and (b) unemployment.

Some people were alarmist about the ageing population in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Their doomsday predictions turned out to be wrong because of technological advances that meant fewer working people could provide the real goods and services for more non-working people.

And what cannot be buffered by technology simply leads to lower unemployment, which is a good thing as well.
I'm having trouble following the logic because I keep thinking stuff like "so, that's why NASCAR fans all ride the bus, or ...?" I'm having trouble thinking about the proposed rules of the game as applied to sex when compared to any other game from car racing to watching TV.
I have no interest in what's available in Tokyo, only in how Abigail got that mess of an article taken seriously.

You have bold claims regarding my understanding and intent to offend. Elaborate.
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Page caching with Rails 4
Quartz - the thing that let Apple jump to Retina with such ease.

I'm curious to how Carbon or Classic apps would behave if they could still run.
I guess you could argue after a few hours he wouldn't care any more either because he didn't remember it. I was hoping that ultimately he wasn't just a science experiment to the people that surrounded him and that he was treated accordingly.
More information can be found in this blog post:
http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
I think this fact will become much more apparent as drones and droids become more common. The desire to control resources will become stronger when people can project that control "more cleanly". Battle robots and drones will be treated like a barbed wired fence used to keep people out.
Neither "declining population" nor "lack of young people in relationships" indicates people not having sex. It only indicates people not wanting families or kids.
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Problem is, when is the last time google voice has been improved? Sounds like it's going down the hole of google reader.
Here is another awk version of that script that's a little more concise and sorts, like the above, using newer features that are in gawk:

#!/usr/local/bin/gawk -E
BEGIN{
FS=","
}
{
total_wins[$1]+=$7;
total_losses[$1]+=$8;
}
END{
print "manager,total_wins,total_losses"
n = asorti(total_wins, managers)
for (i=1; i<=n; i++){
m = managers[i]
print m "," total_wins[m] "," total_losses[m]
}
}

(I recommend using gawk over mawk or nawk. You might need to install it over the awk that came with your OS.)
As far as I know, FaceTime audio only allows you to call other FaceTime users, not old-fashioned landlines, mobile phones etc.

Google Voice is nothing new though. Google voice already offered VOIP (I regularly use an app called "Talkatone" for this). What's changed is that Google now offers a nicely packaged, official app for this.
This is a meta test piece also on the power of sequels ! Once people are sold on a story, you can double-down quite readily by a small incremental expenditure of work on the n+1 piece of information that enlightens/informs the previous one that people have a previous investment in (learning the plot/characters/setting, etc).

Good work !

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150+ points on HN
170+ comments on HN

280+ points on HN
90+ comments on HN

The sequel has ~2x upvotes, plus a better karma/comment ratio as well...
It is bad in the sense that it is an alternative, and growingly a replacement, to using our biological escape from Reality - the Imagination.

Actively engaging the Imagination has a much greater potential to cross over into Reality and affect it in such a way that escape is no longer necessary. Escaping from Reality by relying on external input feeds and output sinks only passively engages the Imagination and does not produce the same internal Imagination-Reality-Manifestation loop.

As with most things, a healthy balance of both internal and external escapism is probably the best. Calvin and Hobbes explains this the best.
"From" no longer implies ethnicity and may even not imply culture.
My HTPC setup at home is to have my content on my laptop, running Plex server and I connect my android phone to my TV with the Plex Android app.

Really, really good - in fact, I have seen people do the same with the 20$ android media sticks that you can buy off dealextreme or someplace.

A great alternative to chromecast.
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For those of you that know french.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PRPnG_se_o&hd=1
Isn't it? OP was suggesting boycotting a particular company and someone responded to essentially say "Boycott them in favour of whom?"
Great comment, very interesting. Have you considered emailing the author/editor? Genuine corrections have a decent chance of being included.
Another good example, 620 nm, is that red or orange light?