skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The growing centralization of information.
Google is smart enough to write an equation that says what usage patterns are too much to be fair usage of their network for $70/month. Then they could (in theory) publish it as part of their Terms and Conditions rather than have a "non-commercial" clause. I wonder how that would work in practice...
[Want Feedback] My first Ghost Blog. What to improve?
Of course comparing apples to oranges leads to absurdities; not all things have the same attributes as all other things.
> You'd think outbound would be where all the spam problems come from, though.

They block port 25 to prevent open relays on their network (i.e. someone sends a forged email, the SMTP server does no authentication, and just forwards it on to the destination).
Some of the women behind Debian.
I was in the same boat. I spent a good portion of last year trying to use DDG as my default. It never panned out. Google was just more relevant. 99% of what I use Google for is programming related (solving problems, bringing up reference material etc) and DDGs results never seemed as good.
Actually an email server that provides mail for you is a 'non commercial use', it would be commercial if you were offering other people email accounts on it and charging them for it.

It gets a little bit dicey if you host your blog on a server (btw I just setup Ghost on an Rpi and it makes for a very cute little blog-pliance) and your blog has ads and provides you with an income stream.
Really the only difference between "residential" and "commercial" plans should be service guarantees. I do not expect Comcast's residential cable service to have any particular guarantee of service; if I had a commercial contract, I would certainly demand some sort of guarantee about available bandwidth and uptime. That is what we have now, more or less.

To put it another way, suppose nobody gets any service guarantee with their residential connection. Why should it be acceptable to say, "How dare you maximize your use of this, when it reduces availability for everyone else?!?" Nobody gets a guarantee of service at all.

Now, if we do get guarantees about our minimum service level, then there is an easy solution, which is to just reduce throughput for "heavy users" to the point where everyone else is getting their minimum guaranteed service. That would not be so bad at all: minimum service guarantees rather than maximum service limits. Of course, once you start making guarantees like that, people start expecting you to follow through and your ability to grossly oversell your network's capacity is constrained (what a tragedy).
So, is there someplace I can get my own sequencing done, and the samples destroyed or rendered useless afterwards? It'd be nice to help prevent people from making more angersocks at sometime in the distant future.
The CD and Georgetown may be the best long-term solutions for the art community. The former has too much of a crime problem still to gentrify quickly. The latter has something of a permanent noise problem that might make the neighborhood gentrification-proof, or at least put a ceiling on it.
I think that they might have an issue with you hosting the "Next Facebook" from your house, even if it's not a commercial operation.
Zero. I dislike the idea of using bitcoin for currency speculation, though I look forward to using it for normal transactions sometime in the future when it stabilizes and when buying/selling them on demand becomes more streamlined.

Basically I am interested in "bitcoin, the cryptocurrency", not "bitcoin, the investment".
The Paris metro is 214km and 303 stations. The San Francisco metro is 167km and 44 stations. The Seattle "metro" is 25km and 13 stations. (With another 5km coming online in 2016)
Well, I'd assume here vacation time from 25 years ago didn't incur compounded interest?

(I'm actually in favor of a 1~2 year cap, but I'm betting she left money on the table by not getting it paid out)
A plan for iCloud
Total bitcoins in existence ~12M

Bitcoins claimed to be owned by people participating in this poll ~35M
> Additionally, you do not "have to pay" for the experience, you choose to do so.

Actually, we _all_ have to pay, even if don't ride BART. There's a 0.5% sales tax addon to fund BART in the Bay Area. Next time, check your facts.
> (...) that's 280 times 18 = 5 GW per day. (...)
> (...) It puts out 6.8 times 24 = 163 GW/day. (...)

GW (GigaWatt) is already energy over time (Joules per second), you don't multiply it by the number of hours a day (why hours, why not seconds or anything else for example). Unless you're counting multiple plants you're adding, but that's not the case here.

edit after finishing this post: actually, you seem to be using W(att) for both W (watt, a unit of power) and Wh (Watt-hour, a unit of energy), which, besides being wrong, leads to confusion. Your post is very coherent under this new light.

So this :

> It looks like 5 kWh/m2 for Arizona, so that's 38.85 GW per day irradiance on 7.77 sq km. Assuming the plant can put out its maximum capacity for the 18 hours it runs each day, that's 280 times 18 = 5 GW per day.

Actually becomes :

5 kWh/m²/day -> 5/24 kW/m² (since there are 24 hours a day and a kWh is the energy of 1 kW power over 1 hour), so 7.77 x 1000000 x 1000 x 5 / 24 Watt = about 1.6 GW for 7.77 km².

And assuming the plant can run at 280 MW for 18 hours per day, its average power output is 280 x 18 / 24 = 210 MW.
Sounds like the only possible comments here would be about the topic that became a flamewar, or comments about moderation, which are recommended against in the guidelines:
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Neither seems advisable... flag?
I flag stories like the one in question, because the HN comments are predictably unproductive. I don't know what the solution is, but talking about these incidents here clearly isn't it.
How much would I pay? Nothing.

Recruiters are a big part of what's deeply wrong with the current process. The vast majority I've dealt with seem to be congenitally dishonest. I really don't see any light at the end of the tunnel in working with them.
Agree. It's definitely a sub-par user experience. You often have to sift through dozens of connection invitations for people who clearly haven't found you on the cousin identification list -- instead they've simply searched by country name, or city name, and are randomly asking people if they might be related. Given that the system has a pretty reliable way of identifying 10th-or-closer cousins and immediate family relations, it seems pointless to have any other way to connect with people on the site. More frustrating still is that most of the time when you try to make contact with people who have been identified as very likely 3rd or 4th cousins, those invitations are met with silence.
> Those of us that ride BART daily ....

and then

> I hated people like you when I commuted daily on BART.

Which is it? Do you take the BART daily or not?
His point is that he'd have made 150% just buying the bitcoins rather than the mining gear.
The guardian missing point on Google glass & telepathy one?
I'm pretty sure it has been broken into more than once, and I know plenty of others who have had their cars broken into while they were living in Baltimore as well - it is an unusually high anecdotal occurrence that I have not heard of from my friends living in any other major/semi-major city. One of my friends even had his apartment broken into and all his video games stolen (amongst other stuff) - the same friend also had his car broken into and all his stuff stolen from it, the night before he moved out.

And that doesn't even touch some of the things friends have seen happen, including killings, outright prostitution, and much more.

It's not a city that gives off good vibes, and I grew up spending plenty of time in not so good places in the Bronx and Yonkers. I remember 5 years back or so it was in the top 3 for murders (I want to say #1 or #2, which tended to juggle between Baltimore and Philly - and this was over NYC, which is a pretty amazing stat in itself).
You somehow forget that less than 20% of Americans live, or are born into poverty. With 20% of Forbes list having poverty background, this kind of, means that if you are poor in childhood, you have higher chances to get to Forbes list than if you are middle (well, really middle) class. Hard to explain.

Maybe because poor have nothing to lose so they are more prone to risky things that stand at the root of their business? Or reverse, they have medicaid so can afford more risk being less dependent on employers paying for their health insurance?
I didn't know what snapchat was, so I had a quick read. I really don't see how this does anything that taking a screenshot wont, or does snapchat do videos too or somehow block the screenshot function on non-jailbroken devices?
But wouldn't you be happier if all sites asked for zip first?
User's time is precious even if they're not angry at you for wasting it.

If you are saying positioning the zip field first actually wastes more user time because it's so jarring, there are so many possible improvements:

- Don't change layout but populate city & state if zip is entered first. I know, hard to justify the effort.

- Populate zip from address.

- Offer city, state completions when you start typing city.

- Offer full-address completions from street address & geoip.

- Just statically populate city, state (and possibly zip?) from geoip.
This is the reason I love the app Lift so much. It has literally changed my life.

You setup daily habits and it encourages you to keep doing those habits every day.
How about this: for $50/mo you get a guarantee of at least 1Mbps of continuous throughput (or at least a best effort at that), with no restriction on your usage beyond that? Why does it need to be black or white? Why not just dynamically adjust the throughput for "heavy users" so that nobody sees speeds below some level regardless of how others are utilizing the network?

Oh, wait, these connections are so grossly oversold that the only such guarantee that could be made would be on the order of dialup speeds. Why should we feel pity for ISPs that create such a situation, when they are charging us more and providing us with less than what people pay and enjoy in other countries?
true, I realized that a little bit after :)
When I took my new position, I stopped because it's in the peninsula. It was a recent transition. Before that I rode it daily for years. I'm not sure what you're getting at; in the first instance I'm referencing an aggregate group that I consider myself a part of.
> SF may have crime but its nowhere near the danger level of oakland.

Oakland is not the whole East Bay.

Oakland, Emeryville, Richmond, and San Pablo have high crime rates, sure.

The rest of the East Bay, not so much.

(And, of course, the East Bay isn't the only place one can commute into San Francisco from -- the Peninsula exists, too.)
Although if your blog has Adwords, maybe they wouldn't mind... :)
It seems only a matter of time until the data base leaks, and I wonder how valuable that information might be.

Could it be used to find matches for organ donation, for example (with subsequent accidents happen to matching donors)? I know, very "movie scenario" threat, but it is just one creepy idea.
All of those examples except D.C.-Baltimore are from a major city to a suburb or minor city. San Jose is actually a larger city than San Francisco and along the route you'll find half a dozen cities on the scale of Wilmington or Trenton.
I'm sorry, but I'm only a passing student of cryptography, and I've known that both RC4 and MD5 have been broken for quite some time now.

I don't remember the timeline, but if you're implementing code for algorithms and you decide to use the defaults "just because", you're being negligent - that is to say being pretty damn stupid.
He just said that he intends to include more movement in his daily routine [0]... nowhere did he say that it was exercise, or sport, or a physical feat.

Seriously. Why do all of you born-again iron men have to come out of the wood-works as soon as people start sharing (not even bragging) their incremental efforts (you said it yourself: persistence) to lead healthier lives? We get it: you are better than them when it comes to fitness (well, the grandparent could be a former Olympian, for all we know. Or he might be an amateur sportsman who also has a sedentary job). Please stop one-upping people that are just getting off their feet when it comes to this.

[0] The importance of which seems to be distinct from exercising regularly, at least if you don't have time to exercise for hours on end each day:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/oct/21/is-sitti...
How about this: if I rent a car for one day, and the rental describes itself as "unlimited mileage", I expect to be able to use it for 24 hours straight.

If I get fined for using it for the full 24 hours because that puts wear and tear on the car that the car rental business did not anticipate, then I am going to accuse them of false advertising. I don't care if everybody doing that would ruin their business; if they don't want me to use as many miles as I please during the rental period, then they shouldn't call it "unlimited". "We only offered it to you at that rate because we counted on you not actually using it that much" doesn't fly with me.

Seriously, Hertz offers unlimited miles on most of their rentals. Do you think they would get pissed if I put 1500 miles on one of their cars next Saturday? No, I doubt it, even though if everybody did that their car would be on it's last legs in mere months. That is exactly the sort of thing that ISPs get bitchy over though.

I don't think this is apples and oranges in the slightest.
D-Link router backdoor vulnerability allows full access to settings
use evil-mode for vim-in-emacs
won't find anything simmilar in vim.
It's not 50 miles. The halfway point would be 25 miles from SF and 25 miles from San Jose.
This needs to be analyzed from a revenue viewpoint. How much money does someone make when I search for how good the finale of breaking bad vs when I search for car insurance or home mortgage rates. Both searches are likely to some revenue but it's hundredths of a penny vs thousands of dollars over the lifetime of the customer.

Is google becoming less likely source for some searches? Maybe

Can I buy car insurance or get a mortgage on Amazon?
Not yet.

The day I can go direct to Amazon for these items is a scary day for google.
Ah, well, there ya go. Shows I haven't put much thought into it. I'll have to find another reason to justify building a Pi cluster! ;)
Any finite state PRNG has to be periodic. Good luck implementing an infinite state one.
Lloyd's 2 recent papers are pretty interesting ... http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0411 http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0471
Can't comment on this one in particular, but the threshold most often set forth for this or that health benefit from exercise is 30 minutes of elevated heart rate a day, aka 3-5 hours a week.
Yep. Lived on 14th and Lakeside all of last year. I have been stranded in SF multiple times. The trick is to not take Uber and pay cash.

Furthermore, unless you get stuck out multiple times a week half the rent cost still puts you way ahead. I was paying $1200 with parking for 800 sq ft and a dishwasher right on Lake Merritt. I never felt in danger there.

Living in Emeryville on San Pablo was another story... That was only $600 though ha.
Sorry I just saw this:

>"That meets my definition of "profit", but apparently not yours. So we may be talking somewhat at cross purposes."

is that the same definition you used here?

>"It looks like Ovishinsky's corporation did make a profit, at least while he was running it. "

Profit is defined as total income minus expenditure. When talking about corporations, that is, by convention, the one unambiguous meaning in that context. But you now say that simply having income at all, is good enough to be considered "profitable". Huh!

You know it is very dishonest to just go around changing the meaning of words mid conversation, sir.

> In a sane world the Red Cross would be a normal corporation that was selling the service of helping people.

HELP ME! HELP ME I AM DYING.

RC: Sure thing. That will be $1200. Don't worry we'll send the bill to your family.

you know, like this sort of sane world?

House Burns Down While Firefighters Watch [1]

[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/tennessee-family-home-b...
Yes, that's the one - thanks! Not the Haight at all, but apparently there's at least 2 others along Haight, for a total of about 6 in the city.
Yes, pie charts are poor visualization tools. But most people who utilize them are simply unaware of their shortcomings and so they aren't 'lying' (a lie requires intent).

The misuse of language is another way to mislead and confuse people -- intential or not.

We should strive for accuracy in words and charts!
I don't agree.

While yes, very often, I will land on the same few websites when searching for something (wikipedia, stack overflow, google+/google maps reviews, youtube videos), I still use google to actually get there.

Google still has, after all, a better search results ranking than wikipedia, twitter or stack overflow.
And all the companies ignoring that are really annoying me. I have a very common name and my email used to be firstname.lastname@gmail.com (not my primary anymore but I still forward the mail). Now the personal email I get is okay, I actually ask where the guy they sent the mail to is coming from. But newsletters without verification? Give me a break. I do report all of those as spam.
Better make sure you run adblock while browsing through your VPN to home- wouldn't want anything commercial to go on.

It's all good: Google is just trying to protect you from the evils of money.
That uses, as far as I can tell, ActiveMerchant anyway. ActiveMerchant was built by Shopify if I remember correctly
Recently I had a site reject my email address. The only thing I can imagine is that they used a really old whitelist of TLDs and .me wasn't included yet…
If it only applies to 1 in a million, it is not even demonstrably useful information about the upper class itself.

From a matter of plain definitions, Bill Gates started in the upper class from the moment of his birth. His circumstance did not require him to work a single day, in order to live comfortably for his entire life; ergo, he is upper class.

It may be true he rose from "upper class" to "very upper class" based on 99.9% his own achievement, but it is a non-argument regarding the ossification of the aristocracy in general. Guessing about the other 99% of the aristocracy based on the particulars of the most extreme 1% of the aristocracy is not logical.
> my group of friends are more interesting than yours
Earth’s atmosphere before the age of dinosaurs
China's State Press Calls for 'Building a de-Americanized World'
The author has a major point, we new need a new type of search engine. The most useful searches come from structured data, not web pages. It should return answers, not blue links. If you want to try that new search engine, I'm building it. Sign up at http://toinfinit.com/
The problem with "grinders" and taking the passion out of business is that it implicitly encourages amorality. One of the biggest reasons that Google's "don't be evil" mantra gets so much play is because it is so rare for a modern corporation to even acknowledge the concept of morality, much less explicitly name it as a goal even if the execution is imperfect.

I think moral behavior can only come from passion. If you don't have strong beliefs about the role of your business in society then it is entirely too easy to rationalize socially destructive practices in pursuit of financial success.

I'm not saying passion is a cure-all, there is no such thing as a cure-all and it is clearly possible to be passionate about a socially destructive idea. But from a social perspective, I think we are better off with a lot of passionate failures and a few passionate successes than a lot of purely financial successes.
And if you skip 3 I will report any automatically sent mail as spam where ever I can in the hopes of getting you on as many blacklists as possible.
Back in 1994, I was planning a bike trip down the US west coast, Washington State to Mexico. I wanted to know sunrise and sunset times. At the time, the town library was across the street. So, I walked over, asked the nice lady at the desk to suggest a reference, and pumped in the nickels to xerox the pages I needed. Nowadays, I wouldn't even have to get up from my desk.

These days, if I were doing serious library research, I would bring along a computer or tablet. I would let Google take me as far into the subject as possible, so that I would know where to begin when looking for dead tree resources. I expect my main problems would be along the lines of, Google says this book is relevant, does the library have it? Or similarly relevant books?
That's a much better analogy, yes.
Seems pinned on some random employees.

How much risk is there that criminals will "buy off" employees of large software companies to build out a massive botnet?

Are malware profits high enough / deniable complicity easy enough / the number of employees who could do something like this around the world large enough that we should expect this sort of thing in the future?
Yes, it's always interesting how different presentations of the same basic idea are received. "Is X false?" gets a much different response than "why is X true?". It's good to keep in mind that the second one tends to elicit more helpful replies.
Seems like no one really agrees with this. So that's a relief to me.
Five Reasons Why I Moved My High Tech Business from Silicon Valley to Michigan
For those who still want email verification, I believe Mailgun offers a pretty good API.

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-w...
There are several bars and restaurants in my neighbourhood that accept BitCoin, so I'm happy to have some for day-by-day use. Especially as most places in Berlin don't accept cards
Used to have Bellsouth DSL, and they did this. SMTP/TLS on a different port worked though. But obviously you couldn't run your own e-mail server.
I would prefer minimum service guarantees rather than maximum usage allowances. If I want to maximize my use of my connection, the only thing my ISP should do is reduce my throughput when someone else is trying to check their email, so that I do not get in their way. Other than that Internet connections should be a free-for-all.

The real problem here is that ISPs are so grossly overselling their networks' capacities that they cannot provide any guarantee beyond dialup speeds unless people take turns. Rather than admit this, they try to assign blame to people who foolishly think that "Up to 20Mbps!!!" means "up to 20Mbps" when in fact the ISPs want it to mean "up to 20Mbps in occasional short bursts, and only for the things we think you should be doing."

I am not asking for commercial-grade service. I am asking that my neighbors be able to stream videos while I am seeding Debian torrents. Nobody expects some kind of Internet-connection-utopia, but it is not wrong or unreasonable to expect to be allowed to use my Internet connection as I wish, particularly when I am paying more and receiving less than my overseas friends.
Eh, I don't think having a site that allows people to sign up on behalf of other people easily is a good thing.
Since you are defending this kind of practices, I must ask you: Can you name a single other service or product in the world that include such restrictions, and "up to X" quantity?

If I only got 50% of the actually contracted time of an rented apartment (say they wrote "up to 1 month"), I would sue. If the fine print said apartment had restrictions such as only 10 enter/exits, no commercial activities inside it like programming, no more than 2 visiting friends per month, and only allowed using the apartment for 12hrs per day, I would sue.

Why do we still allow this for Internet connectivity when we wouldn't for any other kind of utility service?