skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bandwidth is not like gas. It's not something that you buy, and consume it, and then go out and buy more.

Instead, there's an infrastructure that need to be built. That infrastructure has a certain capacity; at any given time, only so many bits per second can be flowing over it.

Now, most people don't use all of their capacity at a continuous, constant rate. Rather, their usage is quite bursty. You use a lot of bandwidth for a short amount of time when loading a video, and then none while you're watching it. Or you use lots of small bursts while surfing the web.

If they sold 100 Mbps (no one sells 100 MB/s) and guaranteed that to you, it would be astronomically expensive. But selling you service that gets 100 Mbps in bursts if people have average personal-use utilization patterns is perfectly possible.

Now, how exactly should they advertise that? That's a tough question. If they were going to advertise the minimum guaranteed bandwidth, it would be laughably low (and of course, they could never really guarantee any minimum, since how much bandwidth you get for a given transfer depends not only on your connection, but the backbones in between and server's connection; there is no way to guarantee any particular amount of bandwidth in any meaningful way). And you would almost always get more than that, so that would be a fairly meaningless number.

Perhaps they could advertise an aggregate average bandwidth? That would be pretty hard to define and test (what sample period are you measuring over? How do you know when a transfer has stalled due to congestion somewhere vs being finished?), and wouldn't really give you much meaningful. Are you really going to go out an canvas your neighbors to determine if your neigbhorhood really is getting the promised average aggregate bandwidth?

The only really meaningful thing they can give you is what the actual maximimum bandwidth they will allow over your connection. That is a hard and fast number, and can be tested fairly easily. Of course, that doesn't say much about your bandwidth accessing any particular site, but there's nothing you can really do about that without control of the entire network.

Now, actually in practice, it appears that when I buy a certain level from Comcast, they don't actually use that as a hard maximum. I've seen bursts that were higher than the advertised bandwidth; and of course, I've seen transfers that were lower.

I know that everyone likes to criticize ISPs, and there is definitely some behavior that I find odious (blocking particular protocols, attempts to subvert net-neutrality). But over-selling bandwidth is not one of them. I can't really imagine a system that would work better than over-selling bandwidth.
[Other] Bazqux - https://bazqux.com/
Sports apps, 'checkin fatigue' and social fans
Why broadcasting rights are making sports apps bad and how we can fix that by tapping social media savvy sports fans' dedication.
The way you describe it, he sounds like an inept manager who moves from job to job and tries to re-create that one success he had that one time, and forces some tool or technique out of context every he goes.
the difference being that they kept discovering gold. bitcoin will effectively eventually run out.
This is most of them: http://bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-boot...
https://code.google.com/p/simple-flight-controller/

Any use?

The build log link could also be useful
Checkout the ArduPilot source code: http://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot
But they include a little line that says 'terms and conditions may apply', or similar.
Eradicated Alphabets and Radical Algorithms
n 1928, the parliament of the newly established, secular Turkish Republic legislated a nationwide shift from Arabic to Latin alphabetic characters. In the wake of this shift, Arabic writing became criminal in Turkey in all but one public space -- the mosque.
It's pretty common in Europe to write a bachelor's thesis as the capstone of an undergraduate degree. They're not always considered formally published, though (may vary by country).
The protocol handles that pretty well by automatically adjusting every 2016 blocks to target one block every 10 minutes. There have been many "breakthroughs" in mining, from CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison for comparisons).

Or are you talking about breaking the crypto primitives like ECC and SHA256? If there's adequate warning (months? years?) then it's possible to transition to new algorithms, otherwise, yeah, that could be a problem.
I guess it's not actually about OO, more a syntactic thing of having that special implicit parameter, and needing to transform methods methods into procs that call call the method on their parameter, rather than just passing around functions.

edit: I suppose that the code "f", invokes f with no arguments rather than returns the method with name f also complicates things
Thank you for the detailed commentary. Fighting for simplicity is rough because the virtue doesn't always have a champion, while every new complexity increasing function has one. At my last firm, every feature had management committee sponsorship. Simplicity? A dirty word.

So I see your point. Thanks for elucidating.
> Dilbert started out as just one of many get-rich schemes I was willing to try. When it started to look as if it might be a success, my passion for cartooning increased because I realized it could be my golden ticket. In hindsight, it looks as if the projects that I was most passionate about were also the ones that worked. But objectively, my passion level moved with my success. Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

I'd argue that Scott Adams' argument about passion isn't telling the whole story. I think Tom Kelley of IDEO said it best - He said to imagine a Venn diagram with three circles (1) What you love, (2) What you're great at, and (3) What makes money. Finding something that satisfies all three is ideal (but probably unattainable for most), while Scott Adams seems to be arguing that having (2) and (3) without (1) is the "best bet". Both are fair points, I think.
I'm not necessarily comparing to WordPress. What I'm saying is that they should be going in the other direction; towards better backwards compatibility.

Of course, one way to achieve this is less reliance on add-ons, so you have less API surface to expose. Having a usable WordPress install relies so heavily on add-ons that it's kind of pointless to consider WordPress alone.
I grudgingly use Feedly. I don't like it (too much mystery meat navigation), but it's good enough.
That's silly. Google, Facebook, and Amazon barely existed at the beginning of this timeframe, and Apple was near death. Microsoft on the other hand was a several hundred billion dollar company. To expect similar growth rates is absurd, and only one of these companies is actually a direct competitor.
Grand Central to Stamford takes like 45 minutes, there is something like 100 trains/day, and only doesn't run from 3:00am to 6:30am.

This is vastly, vastly better service than Caltrain SF-SJ.
For some perverse reason, I've found clients get less uppity about a day rate than an hourly rate. Plus that way your timesheets are simpler.
The new page is actually my primary way to read HN.
Zero. They are hard to find, but there are good recruiters that already do all that for free. That you charge for it does not automatically put you in the 'good recruiter' category :)

If I was a consultant probably my answer would change - I hate the job search, and if you could keep the work coming in it might be worth it. But, you would have to have better resources and charge less than just signing up with a consulting shop would provide.

Realistically, for you to be my "agent" you really need to take the time to get to know me. I've had a few recruiters do that, but they pretty much worked for the financial HFT companies that have obscene amounts of cash to throw at hiring (where 250K is a modest baseline salary). I have trouble thinking that you can afford the amount of time and work that it would take for you to represent me better than I can represent myself. I'm in the valley, I have friends, I can go to meetups if I want to network in a tech area, I can read reviews on glassdoor, and I can let my cell phone go to voice mail. That seems to cover most of what you offer, for free. The rest I can get from other recruiters, for free.
If you believe Gladwell, no. It's a combination of crazy work ethic and being born in the right place and time. Now whether or not we should believe Gladwell is being debated elsewhere... :-)
The US certainly has assets that other would be willing to buy. As an obviously inflammatory/terrible example: I am sure many corporations or nations would leap at the chance to buy the mineral rights of national parks. How much would the Chinese give us for the right to stripmine Yosemite? A lot I bet. (Obviously that is a horrible idea, we should never stripmine our national parks...)
The strongest indicator of a child's ACT score is the INCOME of the parents. Increasingly IQ tests are being revealed as being culturally-based, too. And the things that you list; things like impulse control, general responsibility, mental health, are strongly influenced by the environment that the subject must contend with.

Eugenics always seem so seductive, but, like phrenology, much is revealed about the outlook and tendencies of the practitioner rather than the subject.
Time and time again they get so much press. There are way better services in almost every direction such as those offered by Counsyl (https://www.counsyl.com/). Forget 23andme, it just seems to be the tech celebrity/ivy league circuit at work.
Nope, the new discoveries of gold were usually marginal vs the actual worldwide gold reserves. Bitcoin is following the exact same model. Mining will become marginal over time.
No, as someone who lives on both sides of that comparison, I would like both kinds of freedom. I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive as long as we set up a few basic rules about the use of infrastructure that everyone needs. Most actual net neutrality proposals go way beyond what is necessary. Much like the GPL.
Feedly because of this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noinnion.a...
Show HN: Measuring client-side app performance
Because I'm often more interested in the commentary than in the article itself.
Are you sure you're learning?
Open Hardware Bitcoin Miner
It's what many people with a reasonable understanding of web development and limited experience of writing a CMS think.

It's a well-trodden rite of passage for many web developers to end up writing a CMS or three from scratch (which are always limited, clunky, and unmaintainable) - until they get sick of getting caught out by edge cases on things like multiple editors in race conditions, CSRF on forms, scheduled revisions, password reset flows, user synchronisation, localisation etc.

That may be a great learning experience for a developer but expensive for businesses that end up having to migrate and re-platform after a year or two. It's really hard (and dull) to create a good CMS, and even then the considerations go beyond technical as this is a piece of business infrastructure. Why do you think Wordpress has so little competition even though it's a large and valuable market?
Rescale's Sunny Manivannan attends ISC Cloud '13 conference
The counterfactual we don't know is "would they have survived anyway?" The deck was stacked against them before the self inflicted gunshot.
We could sell California to China I guess.
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I saw the Zenefits guy at a college talk recently, and I loved his perspective, which was diametrically opposite to silicon valley hype. His take was, find an "unsexy" problem and build your startup on that, because the chances that you're solving a real problem that real people encounter is much higher. Glad to see it's working out for him!
> since bitcoin's value curve becomes almost flat when you reach that point

What? The value of a currency is not only determined by how much of it there is, but by how much the economy needs to function. If the economy grows bitcoins will have to depreciate to allow smaller and smaller pieces to be traded. That's deflation, and it's bad. Divisibility isn't a feature, it's a bug that'll kill the currency in the long run because prices are sticky (people raise prices faster than they drop them) and the economy handles inflation far better than it handles deflation.
Given the amount of things we don't know about DNA, I would not put my trust in this kind of endeavour. Just look at the fast developing area of epigenetics, or the simple fact that many studies appear not to be replicable, or the fact that when money is involved groups tend to paint a certain picture that may not necessarily be accurate. The genome project was a hyped up affair and its results nowhere near as revolutionary as people made out to be in advance. Meanwhile, the downsides of large scale DNA testing are potentially chilling. Given how 'kindly' organisations treat sensitive information, there's no basis for this kind of trust.
Not paying is also illegal, though. So if they don't increase the debt ceiling there's no way not to break the law.
If he is unable to fulfill his obligations as required by law, I guess the only legal option is resignation.
Illumina does WGS for $5000. It's more than just that, there is a whole conference you attend to learn more about the process and what it means. I think you also get an iPad. :-)

http://www.illumina.com/company/events/understand-your-genom...

It's new business development- Illumina's interested in jumpstarting the clinical WGS/consumer genetics industry, so they hold things like this, expecting other companies will pick up the model and focus on it).

Because Illumina makes money on the consumables, having such an industry will be very profitable for them.
The "third-party doctrine" is the shorthand name for a rule that only holds for Fourth Amendment protection (whether you take it as a placeholder for "reasonable expectation of privacy" or other interpretations). Disclosing your data to other companies wouldn't be protected by the Fourth even without it. Suing for breaking ToS is always an option, if the company isn't already bankrupt by that point. Definitely something important to consider.

It looks like you're correct that 23andMe is not covered by HIPAA:

http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2009/10/27/federa...
I actually butted heads with this part of the AUP when I was a teenager.

I was young, naive, and trying to set up my own mail server.
Ended up creating an open SMTP relay instead.

Received a phone call within 15 minutes of successfully testing my mail server! They were calling to tell me they suspect a computer in my house has a virus. I chatted with support for a while and we eventually figured out it was my mail server.

They were rather pleasant about it actually, they explained that it doesn't necessarily violate their AUP but it's hard to configure a mail server correctly.

I'd later learn that since my IP address was from their dynamically allocated pool: most popular mail servers would reject my messages as spam anyways.

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This was with TimeWarner cable about 7 or 8 years ago.
Netvibes! I've used Netvibes for many years and love it. I'm honestly quite surprised it's not more popular in the hacker community. It's quite tweakable and flexible.

One major drawback: They still have no native mobile apps and a pretty poor mobile web offering.
It appears that we are in agreement that Bob is overpaying. The point in contention seems to be whether Bob is "better off" than he was before the purchase. I am unpersuaded by the circular argument "Bob made the purchase, therefore he is better off, otherwise he would have not made it". The whole point of ads is to confuse Bob into making the wrong decisions, and given the size of the ads industry, it's obviously working.
This person is talking about doing something that could land them in jail.

The only correct advice is "see a lawyer".
[Other] wrote my own rss to email gateway: https://github.com/peterkeen/feeds
A cool idea could be to randomly infuse the front page with "new" links to make sure that they get read and voted on, and that everyone is curating the top links and not just readers of /newest.
If you're planning on making this a business, the real risk is losing money, time, and failing.
Being an asshole does not make you awesome
Me too, smack dab between "most of the time" and "rarely". There's a hole in this poll.
What is the difference then for kids? "Here is the family at the lion enclosure at the zoo"?
I do mostly cardio. 45 minutes walking 3 miles in the morning, 45 minutes on a stationary bike at night. I do pushups as well, but that's it for anything resembling strength training.

I was completely sedentary before that, and I've lost about 100 pounds since Jan 1 of this year. Eat less, exercise some. Made a big cognitive difference.
I would find that a little tough to believe. I could see long walks occasionally, but sustained walks of ~8 hours a day just doesn't make sense. Where would we have been walking? Just giant circles?
You should add Feedspot and Goread. Both are reasonably faithful clones of the original.

Goread has the advantage of also being open-source, in Go, so you can install your own on Google App Engine.
https://github.com/mjibson/goread
The South Bay does not think SF is its nucleus.
The Most Important Questions In Science
You own Blackberry stock. It's your largest holding. You've seen it lose 90% of its value in the last 5 years. The CEO asks if you'd like to buy a cafeteria pass, good for free meals at the company cafeteria for the next 50 years.

Most investors would say no. If a company is selling its cafeteria food to stay afloat, chances are (a) there won't be a company tomorrow or (b) it will find some way to repudiate inconvenient contracts, e.g. go bankrupt.

Some very smart people bought into an Argentinian oil and gas deal. Then the friendly government became less friendly and their deeds were worthless pieces of paper.
http://ardupilot.com/

http://www.diydrones.com/notes/ArduPilot
"To serve and protect"

Excellent work.
Sometimes I wonder if people act hostile to support staff from the get go in order to get a response so that they can build up an interesting communication history for a blog post.

Seriously though, why not be nice first, and ask for the things you need, before saying you are gonna post publicly about something. You have to consider that maybe the person communicating with you is just a support flunky that doesn't know how to grab the data you need off of your disk images.

Think of the amount of skilled labor they would need to expend to get your data off the disk images. Even if its just an hour, most engineers cost $80-100/hour. If you are paying $5/month for your basic Digital Ocean instance, that means more than a year worth of revenue on your account needs to be spent to make you whole, because you fucked something up and allowed a third party to exploit your server.

If you don't make backups and don't administer your websites correctly, I think Digital Ocean will probably be happy to see you go, since you are probably a negative revenue customer in the long run. They send you to Amazon or Google with their blessings.

edit: they should definitely have emailed you to let you know that they were suspending your account though.
I don't think it will necessarily stabilize due to lack of any intrinsic value.

The best future for Bitcoin is instantaneous on-demand conversion from other currencies.
Also, where else are you going to put this button? The screen has limited space, and you want it near the top. You put it as a link in the Table, but that makes it strange and out of place with the other contents of the table. And if it is near the top it is in an even more awkward position.
Au contraire, the best time to find a bargain is from a forced seller!
I will now that I know about it :|
http://startbootstrap.com/
How much is a Big Mac meal price in Alberta? Is McD's profit higher in SF?
Show HN: A Comic Book Marketplace (with a few twists)
I've just launched my comic book marketplace into public beta.

At first glance, it's a fairly standard marketplace. Now, those twists I mentioned:

First, we aim to create liquidity in markets that traditionally do not have it. Our users can add an item to a "wantlist", which when a particular item reaches a significant amount of wants a feed is sent to a list of dealers. They compete to claim the 'bounty' of the item based on how many wants it has. Additionally, our transaction platform is decoupled from the site listings... users need not go through our site to track a transaction using our platform and feedback tools. External transactions can be brought in (from forums, blogs, craigslist, whatever) for free.

This is my first startup (man, the hours!) and any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!

For tech: the site was built with Laravel 4 (my first project with Laravel).

Link: http://comicswap.com/
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php
Forced student labour is central to the Chinese economic miracle
Online application woes make students anxious and put colleges behind schedule
Or is he just deliberately choosing to misinterpret ambiguous language to mean he can't talk to his lawyers in order to make the government look bad? This is the same man that printed out his key in 4 point font when presented with a court order.
Sorta. If I were to hold 10 it would still be a small percent of my total assets .. mostly comprising various stocks (I don't currently own real estate so I do indeed have some assets rather than debts, lol).

I'm in a position where I can wait for the next massive crash and buy up maybe 10 or 15 as essentially a form of gambling. Because why the fuck not.
Also 10 great reasons to replace JavaScript with a better language.
Updating Your Utility Belt
My take is that it is essentially that ruby's methods (the basis of OO) are basically based on a simple system of (what ruby refers to as) procs and lambdas (ok, the way they are implemented is not quite the same as the 'proc'/'lambda' objects but you can easily convert between them). These are quite functional and lisp-like. Not that it is done, but you can reduce all of your complex methods to classless functions if you want.

Not sure if this was new in Ruby or came from Smalltalk or somewhere else though.
I never had before until now, but will start doing so more often. Noticed a bunch of interesting links.
The problem is then the signal-to-noise ratio decreases and therefore making the front page less attractive to new (maybe even to more experienced) users.
The trick is to just cross out pairs of negatives. Same thing for reading news stories like "court overturns ban on prohibiting suppression of car share services". Is that positive or negative for car2go?
Not only does it make sense, that's the whole point.
After trying out a few of the alternatives pre- and post-shutdown, I ended up subscribing to Feed Wrangler mainly because it integrated well with reeder on my iphone. I also liked the fact that the website isn't overdesigned or confusing, although the two features it sorely needs are (i) sorting preferences and (ii) the ability to open tabs in the background in chrome (I had a chrome extension that did this for google reader).
This made me think of Dragon Ball's Spirit Bomb somehow
Nobody outside of the US cares about what's legal (in this instance), they just want assurances the inmates aren't running the asylum and the house of cards won't come tumbling down.
I used to take Caltrain and now drive. The problem is not so much the train being slow, but on reaching your station it's still several miles and a bus ride to your office because the density is so low.
I only occasionally read it. There's two main reasons why I don't do so more regularly:

1) There seems to be quite a lot of low-quality content (blogspam, etc.)

2) I primarily read HN for the comments, and the new page stories usually don't have any comments