skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a college student it's hilarious how big the discrepancy is between residential on-campus broadband and off-campus housing "broadband". While in the dorms, I measured around 600mbps down/200mbps up (this service didn't seem to add any considerable amount to housing cost). I now live the same distance from my classes/buildings, but technically off-campus and pay $53 a month for 5mbps down/768k up DSL. Usually I would have the slightly better (but still terrible option) of 20mbps down cable, but another cable provider has a monopoly on my apartment building. I stick to DSL because that's actually the better option, believe it or not.

This isn't even in some remote area of the US or something like that. (Westwood, Los Angeles, California.)
Ask HN: Where else do you find your news?
In other words, where do most of you find the content that you then post on HN?
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Wow, it had been a long time since I'd played DONKEY.BAS. http://jsmachines.net/demos/pc/donkey/
Based on everything I've read, LinkedIn didn't develop this technology. They bought it when they acquired Rapportive (which, by the way, was a Y Combinator startup).

Can someone explain the technical details here a little more? I feel like a few steps are missing in the explanation. Why does Rapportive/Intro need a separate IMAP account attached to the device? How could LinkedIn ever think email could be secure? Email is a plain-text protocol based on trust. Can't people just spoof source addresses and inject whatever they want into the next email server in the chain?
Wow, I totally forgot about needing to hold down on the mouse button to keep menu's open.
Yep, still as slow and glitchy as I remember it :)

This trend of retro computing is a wonderful trend.
Science is working exactly the way it has always worked.

Most papers have always been flawed, wrong, or not reproducible. There has always been pressure to publish--going back even to Newton's battles with Hooke over gravity, or Darwin's rush to publish On the Origin of Species before Wallace.

What has changed are the cultural expectations. Culturally, we've become spoiled by physics. We're used to the precision, speed, and accuracy of physics and engineering. Moore's law, the iPhone, incredible bridges, the 787 and 380 airplanes--they all just work, safely and reliably.

Note that the reproduction problems are most prevalent in chemistry, biology, medicine, etc. These are areas of science that are far more complex, and about which we know far less, than physics. It will take a long time, and a lot of failed research, to even start to approach that level of knowledge. Given the complexity, it might be impossible.
Further to my response to a comment stating that this does not fall foul of AUSTRAC's requirements, I think it does break the law with respect to the Corporations Act's requirements for an Australian Financial Services License (AFSL)...

http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/ASIC.NSF/byHeadline/Licensing

"An Australian financial services (AFS) licence authorises licensees to:

1 provide financial product advice to clients;

2 deal in a financial product;

3 make a market for a financial product;

4 operate a registered scheme;

5 PROVIDE A CUSTODIAL OR DEPOSITORY SERVICE;

6 provide traditional trustee company services."

I think you are performing #5 above, therefore are breaking the law by operating without an AFSL (if you do have an AFSL, the license number should be displayed on your website).

Plus consider the Electronic Funds Transfer Code of Conduct...

http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byheadline/Electronic+F...

Not trying to rain on your parade, just making sure you are aware of the relevant laws you (may) be breaking!
Lease a leaf, buy a tesla seems like the best plan then. I suspect resale value of tesla smokes the leaf.

I've never bought a new car, but 110k on an awd S p85+ actually seems like a legitimate reason to borrow money at ?5%, assuming you drive a lot. Real depreciation is probably way less than on a similar electric car, and if it is just miles vs rough use or time, a battery/tire/brake swap should refurb bit pretty completely after 150-200k miles in 4-5y. If you get reimbursed at government rate for driving, ....
Very nice. I wonder if a similar lens could be purchased individually so a bunch of laser pointers don't have to be sacrificed.
Looks like he deleted his GitHub account: https://github.com/classpm

I changed my fork of his repo to private. Let me know if you need it for anything.
Can you shoot me an email at eric@spoon16.com. I'd like to learn about the type of work you are doing in Central WA.
...so why would companies do that?

Because flavor. It turns out that when you remove fat from a foodstuff, it tends not to taste nearly as good.
Indecision is the key to flexibility
IPv6 is irrelevant, but there is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Ko.... And you can't play games hosted in SK without an SK SSN (so they can control and limit the amount of time kids play) -- IIRC from /r/starcraft. So they are paying for a less good internet, but its quality drop has nothing to do with the economics of the situation.
I'd read the article, but apparently I've read my 10 NYT articles for the month. I'm sure there's a way around it, but I don't want to bother.

THAT is why folks like Glenn Greenwald are the future, because they won't hide behind foolish paywalls.
Well if Rapportive was acquired by Linkedin, Linkedin will have had a big influence on this project.
No it isn't. It is theft if you are making wages at X price with the understanding that X bought you Y goods in return. If inflation drives up the costs for Y goods so you get Y-Z goods in return then suddenly you got less than you intended for your labor. In a free market prices generally fall.

In the current market they rise at random rates across sectors. Currently we have people spending a lot of time figuring out how to pay for medical care and higher education because that's where the inflation has hit the hardest.
The problem isn't density, as some have mentioned. It's structure.

In the US, the pipes are owned by the providers. Those pipes were built out with subsidized funding or exclusive contract guarantees. In other words, it becomes very difficult for a competitor to come in and build pipes, because their competition already got the leg up.

A better structure would be where all the pipes are public property and the town hires outside firms to upgrade/maintain them. Much like roads. Providers pay a fee to the town for access to them and for usage. An unlimited number of providers can enter the market. Users pay the providers. Competition between providers reduces prices.

P.S. NYC is somewhat moving toward this with their WiFi project.
Incredible. I can't remember... were the labels really "Hot" "Cool" "Essential" and "In Progress"?
It's the HDL/Cholesterol and triglyceride/HDL ratios that predict risk. Check it out.
Here's a question: how many "professional" economists sounded the alarm about the last bubble?
Most of the elites spend their money on buying more influence. They hold debt instead of cash if they hold anything at all outside of whatever they consider to be balanced portfolio.
This is good advice. Even a CEO needs to feel comfortable taking advice (ie, following) his direct reports.
Hypercard "Player"? Oh the pain, it's all coming back to me!

(To those who don't understand... Hypercard was originally free but when it was spun off as part of Claris, they tried to charge for the real thing and only offered the "Player" for free. Hypercard was already disintegrating from neglect but this really hastened its demise.)
Then Amazon will be a very different company under someone else's leadership.
"...a pity-PhD consisting of no serious publications" ... right... that would probably be the worst of all worlds, considering that the piece of paper doesn't offer any guarantees, so hanging around just to get the diploma would be risky.
There needs to be some separation between configuring the system and auditing it. If you could only push configs through something like rancid, made it read only to auditors or users, and could ensure configs only could get pushed through that, it would be reasonably to trust it. It is hard when anyone can either bypass config management to add logging, or where the audit doesn't include all systems in scope, or is only done yearly (so bad stuff can happen in between).
the hard linking of directories is a hack not really a feature. There's a good reason why filesystems ( including HFS+ when not being used for Time Machine) do not do it.
I can let you have the recipe for chocolate milk.
Most Austrians understand mainstream economic theory much better than mainstream economists understand Austrian theories. Evidence being Krugman's disastrous attempts to discredit Austrian Business Cycle Theory. It isn't a perfect theory but Krugman can't even explain it let alone criticize it.
That's because it's super easy to rationalize things like this. From the outside, hearing about Intro for the first time, our initial reaction may be "WTF?". But from inside the company it was a slow boil. You know that you mean no harm, and the people you work with are good people, and they mean no harm either. And hey, you're taking all these precautions like using separate servers, and getting security audit checks. And hey, isn't this a clever way to add a cool feature?

Before you know it, it's too late to say "no". Something that may have started as a good idea has transformed into a monster. Human cognitive biases will then kick into action and save you from admitting to yourself that you're part of the problem.
A US PhD is considered more substantial and held in higher esteem than a European one.
Virtually everyone you encounter in the government subscribes to Keynesian economics to the degree that they understand anything at all about economics. When economics is explained in the media at all it is through the lens of Keynesian economics.
Sorry - I tried to keep the post to a reasonable length. I'll be following up with a more detailed post later. :)

The separate IMAP account is likely so that they wouldn't ever touch the user's Gmail credentials. This way, they do everything via the OAuth token they retrieve. Also, I'm not sure if they can know for sure that the user has synced their Gmail account to their iPhone or not.

I don't know how Linkedin thought this was a good idea. This is clearly one of those cases where the functionality benefits are greatly outweighed by the security risks. This shouldn't have been made.

Thanks for reading!
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They sure were :)
How do you think they should finance their operations?

Honest question. If you have something brilliant there's obviously a market opportunity here.
Do you plan on making this open source? I ask because other similar projects were not made open source
Habit cues for language learning are complex and hard to pin down
Yes, damn that content creator wanting to try and charge you for their content!
Why hasn't the tech industry disrupted the textbook industry yet?
>And your story is now one of them.

MDX, I fear that you're being flagged only because you took a stance (go you! :) ), and that stance doesn't keep the 'bigger picture' in mind. Allow me to elaborate -

Any branding around that price is going to yield something that simply says "Try us out. We're serious about what we're doing, but we haven't reached success yet". Once more successful, sure, they should look to spend thousands on branding; it'll be worth it. But even if the OP had spent twice the amount (still <$100!), they would still be delivering the same message.

What's more important - and this is the OP's argument, and which I am supporting - is that his Odesk experience was positive because of the time saved, i.e. the "Ship Shit Quickly Principle". The cost difference for finding an equivalent logo (say, -$20 or -$30) is minimal compared to the opportunity cost of spending time searching for such a logo. Instead, the logo "does the job" - it's not perfect (or even good), but it presents a fun, memorable brand and getting it done quickly (which is what Odesk allowed him to do) allows OP to focus on the other important facets of their startup (which hasn't even launched yet).

Of course, I might have the 'bigger picture' wrong or even share a flawed view with the OP. In that case, I invite explanations against this view.

P.s., OP, and this may not be your priority... but I have no idea what glue.im does; "gluing phones together" doesn't mean anything to me :( (though is a fun catchphrase that I'm sure will make sense :) )
I only wish it was a bit more flexible in W8 :(
The basic problem is that the models are not testable in the way you think they might be. Economics is inherently a deductive discipline and anything you can think of as coming from economics that is valuable in any way came from someone's head and not from testing models. Economists get into trouble by trying to pretend they are physicists.
Who isn't biased? Greenwald is adversarial to the point of flaming on Twitter, yes, but he's admitted that it's more of a stress relief activity. I do hope he'll tone it down when the venture starts (and he has already toned it down for the Snowden stories afaict)
Pathology resident here. I really like this hack, but a fair amount of my work is at higher magnification, and requires much better correction. However, I have been very impressed with the magnifi by arcturus labs. If you already have a scope and just want to take pictures, I highly recommend it. I can take better pictures with my iphone 5 and my magnifi than some folks seem to be able to take with their far more expensive dedicated cameras. http://arcturuslabs.com/

Not a shill, just a very satisfied customer.

Also, check out http://reddit.com/r/pathology for lots of what-is-that? pics!
> Why does Rapportive/Intro need a separate IMAP account attached to the device?

Because LinkedIn is literally MITM attacking all of your mail, to add a little CSS bar with contact info.

This also means that they can collect information about all the patterns of all your email habits and sell it to third parties.
Followupthen.com recently added support for tasks, which is basically this, I think?
The Mac Classic II was my first computer, wow does this bring back some old memories :)
The "Sorry, a system error occurred" dialog box is still deeply startling to me after all these years, even when I'm anticipating it. (I caused it to happen by moving the System file from the System Folder to the root Macintosh HD and restarted.)
So far the predictive value of these models has been zero and Austrians tend to have a much clearer understanding of what is happening on a macro level. That's been my experience over the last decade or so. After awhile it helps to notice such things.
I'm guessing this is fake. A laser pointer lens would let your iPhone see cells?
Actually, the companies involved have already admitted wrongdoing and settled with the DOJ.

> The allegations prompted an investigation in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Justice to determine if the companies had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. A year later, the agency announced a settlement in which the companies acknowledged having had agreements to not "cold-call" employees at certain firms. They agreed to refrain from such no-poaching-pacts for five years, but the deal provided no compensation for their employees.

This new case is a civil class action on the same issue.
I wouldn't say 'exiled': it seems more like 'distributed', but still feeding off the same pool of legal/editorial/technical expertise. What Bill Keller seems to be advocating for is a central system that tries to be objective; Greenwald's system is more like a cacophony of different prejudices that users can pick and choose individually. Theoretically, the central system is better, but in practice, it has clearly been compromised. Worse is better.

Edit: isn't there a sociological theory that basically says that an organization tends to be controlled by the people who care about the continuity of the organization, instead of the goals it represents? Like any bureaucracy, or unions. Omidyar's common pool of expertise will not have the same goals and incentives as the journalists. I'm curious how they're planning to address that issue.
I use an ad blocker. I used to use it without a filter list and would manually block any ad I found intrusive (e.g. Flash ads, ads that pick words out of the page content and highlight them, animated image ads), but then it simply became too much work. The tipping point for switching to filter list was spending two hours trying to figure out how to block YouTube video ads.

I want to support the sites I browse, but ad networks that host intrusive ads give all ads a bad name. Even worse are the irresponsible ad networks that allow advertisers to execute JavaScript, embed PDFs, embed Java applets, or even embed an entire iframe with a URL of the advertiser's choosing.
JamHive (http://beta.jamhive.com) -- a service for musicians to collaborate regardless of physical distance and time constraints.

Back Story

I love music and would love to do a jam session with old friends, but it is difficult to schedule a time or we live too far away (ie: SF & Amsterdam & Tokyo).

Why Cool

* Musicians work together on a single jam (up to 5 instrument/vocal tracks)

* Record directly into browser or upload a pre-recorded audio file

* Basic editing and filtering of sound waves

And I am looking for feedback & advise!

* @Musicians, how is the recording & editing experience?

* @Engineers, currently, this is built with RoR, Bootstrap, Heroku, AWS and a huge mishmash of the Web Audio API - how can I make this scale better for smartphone, tablets, more browsers (currently only Chrome and Firefox)?

* @Engineers, advice on improving (speed & security) data upload / download
Just got this error when hitting the site. I guess node isn't the end-all-be-all magic bullet for scalability everyone thinks it is?

Error: EMFILE, too many open files '/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/views/index.html'
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:427:18)
at fs.readFileSync (fs.js:284:15)
at View.exports.renderFile [as engine] (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/ejs/lib/ejs.js:312:9)
at View.render (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:75:8)
at Function.app.render (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:504:10)
at ServerResponse.res.render (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:753:7)
at exports.index (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/routes/index.js:8:9)
at callbacks (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:161:37)
at param (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:135:11)
at pass (/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:142:5)
Yeah it's not great, but I wonder if I don't prefer this over maintainers that let their project die, don't answer PR/issues and never tell they would like someone else to take over.

I mean, I understand that it's part of FLOSS, a maintainer owe nothing to his users, but adding a line to a readme to explicitly say it would be appreciated.
> ...the use of quantitative models and such. But without them, how can you measure the efficacy of your policies?

Here's a better question: if you measure the efficacy of your policies and find that they have not achieved the intended effect, on what would you base the extension and expansion of those policies? Faith? Insanity?

The reason I ask is that a few months ago, two senior economists at the SF and NY Feds published a letter, "How Stimulatory Are Large-Scale Asset Purchases?"[1]. Their conclusion:

"Asset purchase programs like QE2 appear to have, at best, moderate effects on economic growth and inflation."

Emphasis mine. For reference, QE2 involved $600 billion of Treasury purchases.

[1] http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic...
A friend and I once decided to look into how much it costs to lease the communications space on public utility poles. This is the space well below the power lines that the cable and telephone companies lease from your local government. Read more here: http://www.annsgarden.com/poles/poles.htm

Truth is, almost nobody at the local level has any idea how one could go about doing this. Even though they are publicly owned poles and communications companies pay rent to use them, the cities have no mechanism on how to actually rent pole space to any company other than the phone company and the cable company.

I think we could see a resurgence of local ISPs and even metropolitan area networks if city governments would take up this one issue -- open up the utility polls to more companies and publish the rental rates for the poles. As a bonus, they could even earn more tax proceeds.
The basic problem is that you're playing the devil's game when it comes to debt. You might think you are getting the upper hand but the house always wins. The banks always win in this scenario because they get bailed out when they lose and they collect your interest when you "win". It becomes difficult to see how this scenario helps the common man.
Replying to myself now that I've had a chance to research, here's the relevant link: http://torrentfreak.com/how-nsa-proof-are-vpn-providers-1310... partway down the page, in the section on National Security Letters and Private Internet Access.

Quoting Andrew Lee: “However, to remain in the US, meant, as well, the relinquishing of my access to the PIA systems/network. Administrators, developers and co-founders everywhere can relate to the difficulty of doing so, but the reality is that it was a requirement if I was to remain here. This policy is in place, and relinquished access I have.”

There's significantly more information in the original article.
It may be worth noting that in many areas of CS, you can still do research and think deeply about hard problems even if you don't go to grad school. You can read papers on the internet, which are free in some cases, and use your own computer. It will be a lot harder to publish anything, you won't have a faculty adviser to steer you in the right direction, and you won't get to go to conferences. But nothing stops you from doing research anyway, and if you happen to solve some important problem and can prove it, eventually word will get out and people will notice (one would hope).
There is some issue with the mouse. When I click on terminal.exe and try to click on "File", the mouse is coming out of the emulator. You would probably want to create an interface like a VM, where the mouse comes out of the emulator only when you press some combination of keys.
Or in conjunction with. Surgery, chemo and radiation therapy together are very common.
Zero unless they are rewriting history to claim they saw it 6 months to a year out when it was obvious to anyone who wasn't drunk on soaring home and equity prices.
"this NYT writer" was the executive editor of New York Times for 8 years, a period during which he headed the entire NYT newsroom. Not that it should change the way we view his opinion, but it still helps to know.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped...
Run-of-the-mill hackers should know this.

You pick a sufficiently low-level abstraction layer and implement it in Javascript. Everything above that layer 'just works'TM.
I dislike the whole idea of teaching code to kids, only if they show interested in logic stuff and stuff alike.

Maybe they're talented at other stuff you know, like literacy, painting, etc... Why would they need to learn how to code?

However, making programming a general subject is good though. Show them their career choice early.