skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While we believe that 300 GB is more than enough to meet the Internet usage needs of most customers, Comcast will automatically add blocks of 50 GB to your account for an additional $10, should you exceed the 300 GB included in your plan in a month."

That made my jaw drop. Netflix usage eats that in no time. Online gaming eats that in no time. Actually, web browsing for a family of 4 (which includes Youtube, etc.) eats that in no time. Today's "regular" Internet usage eats that in no time.

Which dinosaur thought that 300 GB was "more than enough?"
Silicone mask detection with a Raspberry Pi and open source
When small start-ups I’ve spoken with do make money, they often find it difficult to recruit additional investment because most venture capitalists — and often the entrepreneurs they finance — are not interested in building viable long-term businesses. Rather, they’re interested in pumping up enough hype and valuation to find a quick exit through an acquisition at an eye-popping premium.

This highlights the difference between VC and bootstrapped firms. The VC expects 30-50% annualized returns. To get that you need hypergrowth. If you want modest growth, avoid the VCs. But they exist because there is a need for people to fund moonshots. They would rather have one business succeed with a 20x exit and have 4 fail, then have 5 firms exit at 2x.

Where I differ from the OP is I don't see this as a morality play. I see "getting an exit" as a way to redeploy risk capital. Once the business is stable, ownership should transfer from risk investors to more traditional one. Or to more traditional companies.

To get to Everpix - could they have succeeded if they just bootstrapped and focused more on Marketing earlier on? I don't know. I wish their founders well.
Thanks vapor. It gives me something to benchmark.
As someone who does marketing and writes code, I've seen that programmers think there's secrets to marketing that they don't know (hence the programmer who says he "is clueless about marketing")

The reality is that a marketer who seems to have everything together is putting on a great show. Marketing broken down into its simplest form is just running tests, measuring them, and finding out what works and what doesn't.

Each business is different, and marketers deal with irrational humans instead of computers. If you're a marketer and think you know everything, it's a bad combination.
Actually LeanPub's terms are more or less similar (I guess this is why he also has published it there.) Thinking about purchasing it, too
Without installation or anything: https://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/WebQuake/Client/WebQuake.ht...
This is not about the state of embedded software. It is about one program, the accelerator control of a Toyota.

The author of the article is linkbaiting and fearmongering to get you to purchase his/her static code analyzer for C++.

As embedded software becomes ever more complex, it will benefit from methodologies developed for other platforms, such as desktop applications, etc. That is all that needs to be said. Please refrain from the "EEs don't know how to program" comments. Thank you.
>when the solutions that third-wave feminists put forth further disadvantage men in areas like unemployment and education

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.

Notice the word equal. I really believe that feminism deals with men's rights as well when there exist inequities that favor women. True men's rights.
Steam is in Jessie repository: http://packages.debian.org/jessie/steam
I wonder how many people here planned to do this. Thank you and congratulations on the speed.
I've had a similar issue with an old game, I think it was "Broken Sword", when I tried to install it on a newer machine except the problem was not RAM but hard disk space. The setup was attempting to find out how much space was left on the disk before install but the counter wrapped around since I had several hundreds of GB free on my disk which was probably an insanely large amount in 1996 when the game was released.

Anyway, my "clever" solution back then had been to fill up my disk enough before the install so that the setup would detect more free space.
On a resource and computing-power constrained system used for a very specific function it would not be too far off if one said something like that(with caveats). Anything past that category and he would be dead wrong.

In other words, if you only have 2K or RAM to play with, a limited stack depth, a CPU clock of, say, 12MHz and a 12 clock instruction cycle you have no choice but to get very clever.

Pushing and popping a bunch of registers on every function call could rob you of much needed performance and resources. In fact, on such a system that alone could cause unintended side effects and introduce potential safety issues (talking real-time systems with a requirement for deterministic response). You could also have a situation where you overflow the stack and things go from bad to worst very quickly.

BTW, this, among other things, is one of the reasons I abandoned such small, 8-bit, resource-constrained architectures for most embedded projects a long time ago. The 8051 derivatives (Silicon Labs) have always been some of my favorites. I might still use them for small projects such as small control panels or simple sensor pre-processing. These days you can buy 32 bit processors running in the tens to hundreds of MHz for $10 or less. These provide you with the ability to write "proper" embedded software with all the luxuries of greatly increased resources and operating speed.
what happens when non marketers market--see we know this kind of stuff. :) Also, just because a company is in the "pack" doesn't mean it's right for your startup. Many of these products are way too expensive to keep for more than 90 days; and the switching costs of taking them out are inappropriate for the value given.
This comment assumes Comcast cannot provide unlimited data and clarity, which I believe could be a better option.
Quake Live has better matchmaking support etc.
Handbrakes usually brake only the rear wheels. If you turn the handbrake fully on while driving at higher speeds, you may lose directional-control.
This is why the Bay Area is a horrible region for a lot of startups, especially ones that plan on pursing monetization early. Few startups can afford inflated Bay Area salaries with minimal VC funding. Unless you're really capitalizing big-time on the VC culture of the Valley, it's a bad place to be for a startup--and this is illustration of that.

For comparison, a $60k/year starting salary is the norm in most American cities (and it provides exactly the same lifestyle that $100k does in Silicon Valley).
Brilliant stuff! Would've been better if it had the names of the places. Kinda like a virtual globe. ;)
Right, that would be "nominative fair use" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_%28U.S._trademark_law... which applies to trademarks, not the copyright version of fair use.
My guess is yes. Picasa is already being merged into G+ and I hate that. It's totally confused the whole product.
When I had Comcast, they had a data cap of 250 GB. The HN headline is misleading.
While this would be interesting as a matter of engineering curiosity, Everpix's AWS bill was not close to the #1 hurdle between them and profitability. It seems like low hanging fruit, but you'd be optimizing away something small relative to, say, their employee costs or per user revenue.
I tried it with, I think, 13.04 and you could see they need people testing it. For a raw Gnome distro Fedora is the better choice.
Another way of doing this (without versors):

Let u and v be the unit vectors of the initial and final click location. We want an R s.t. Ru = v. Create an orthonormal basis ON(u) and ON(v) (you can use the QR decomposition for the vector concatenated with I).

R = ON(v) ON(u)^-1 = ON(v) ON(u)^T
People work for survial or greed. This just takes the survival part out of the equation. People will still work because they will make more money.
They don't really want to do that because like cell carriers they have a large number of people using very little data and overpaying. They want to keep these people paying for much more than they use.
You're making a very basic logical error. Youtube comments on the whole may be horrible, but that doesn't discount the possibility (in fact, I'd say certainty) that some youtube comments could be good, even valuable. There are many channels on youtube where the comments are fairly high quality, even by HN standards.

The downside is that the people who put in the effort to nurture high quality comments on their channels, and the people who have been high quality commenters on youtube are the most negatively impacted by these changes. And the negative impact on the highest quality of comments might end up reducing the average quality much more than any moderate impact on the volume of the lower quality comments.
In this case secrecy is a clear negative, since we know who is involved - the crooked minded DRM lobby who created DMCA 1201 and tries to spread this sickness with each and every opportunity.
+1. I was about to recommend it to a startup I'm friendly with until I saw that. No one likes to be deceived.
Also not trying to blame the victim, but it seems the even more obvious/natural approach would be to use the brakes. Those are hydraulic, and plenty powerful enough to counteract any force generated by a Camry's engine.
More on peak driving and its implications
The headline seems incorrect. Comcast has had data caps for a while now. They are increasing them from 250 gb to 300 gb.
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Arch too, though I won't use it on a server anymore.

The rolling release schedule is too much for me to manage there.. but for my daily-driven workstation, I find it to be a fantastic OS.
Switch to Sonic Fusion DSL if you're in their service area (Bay Area, perhaps elsewhere?).

http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/

Far cheaper than Comcast and no gimmicks. The service runs about $50/month with all the little FCC charges, taxes, etc tacked on and comes with an unlimited nationwide phone line too. The speed is dependent on your distance from the central switching station of the phone company. I've had it in two locations with speeds ranging from 8 to 16MBit/s, on par with Comcast. Perfect for streaming any TV show you want to watch.
Unicorns, Syndicates and the tools to track them
If you check youtube there is a penguin that goes everyday to the fish market for a family and returns with dinner.
Exactly. I live in Indonesia, and the price of Apple product here is ridiculously expensive. I want Ubuntu to be the equivalent of OSX, but can support as many hardware configuration as possible
It's kind of sad that this is the only way Ubuntu figured they can make money.
For the cases where you do want to allow inbound connections, enabling them becomes simple and reliable
How is paying for how much you actually use barbaric?
>In some ways marketing is harder than programming. Writing a program, you can see your errors and find the root problem with stack traces.

That doesn't make programming easier, because expections are way higher for programming. Code correctness is orders of magnitudes higher than "marketing correctness". Marketing models are extremely fuzzy when compared to the average software.

In other words, if someone did invent a "stack trace for marketing", then the expected level of correctness for marketing would increase by a huge amount.
Coming up with a successful app idea
I've often wondered if the feedback provided by Kinect could be used to induce trance states. As an amateur magician I spent some time studying stage hypnotism and NLP. It seems that a lot of the cues used for that could be detected through the Kinect in its current state.
Please understand that I don't mean hypnotizing someone to be an assassin or cluck like a chicken every time they hear the word 'avocado'. I'm talking about making some people more prone to suggestion than they would normally be.
The trend seems to be going up, but I am really curious to know what kind of traffic you guys expect when 100.000 somewhat targeted followers see a retweet about Blogvio, a tool they potentially can use.

Here's the first screenshot, next one coming on Monday: http://o7.no/1bikU1r
Bullshit. This is monopolistic abuse by a rent-seeking monopoly that should be broken up.
in the paper they say they use an ink that costs ~$200 for 100mL.

Specifically, "Mitsubishi NBSIJ-MU01"
We don't plan to share any numbers yet. We think it makes it more interesting to hear your expectations first.
Why you shouldn't paste code from websites directly into terminal: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
For reference, Romania's area is a little smaller than Michigan (the 11th largest US state). And about the same population as the state of New York.

So, it's not like it's a tiny country. We should be able to do that pricing in U.S.
What's wrong with Nautilus? I'm just curious.
SourceTree is the best. Without it, it is easy to get lost with Git.
Feels like a step back.
Exactly. The problem right now is that if you have no job, you get government assistance. If you get a job, you lose the government assistance, so a job that pays $1200/month only allows you to keep $200 in your pocket because you've lost $1000 in government benefits by taking the job and no longer "needing" the assistance. We've created a de facto 80+% marginal tax rate on the working class vs. being unemployed, which is economically Very Bad.
If they failed to see that, the Nazi uniforms should have been a dead giveaway. Plus Neil Patrick Harris in a Darth Vader suit...
check out the CueNotes app for Chrome for YouTube. The CueNotes comment system is much much better, allows you to stay anonymous on YouTube but still get quality comments, follow people, tag stuff by time, etc. really fun.
Other than Valve what AAA developers are porting their games to Linux? I suspect opinions differ wildly on what constitutes a AAA developer. None of the developers that regularly top the console sales charts are working on Linux ports.
That would be great! Comments aren't cumulative--1,000+ comments of low quality aren't as a whole better than 50 comments of high quality.
This is what I use porn mode (aka incognito mode) for.
I second this.

No Netflix , Amazon , Roku or any set top box based streaming of any other kind either.

No gaming either.

This is my usage for the past three months:

http://i.imgur.com/ZDNGYVI.jpg
Path is another interesting example. They seem to be circling the drain right now, but they might still be able to raise funding at a flat valuation (same valuation as last time).
Would you rather have them cut off your internet access entirely when you watch too many episodes of Breaking Bad in a row?

I will agree that most ISP's are fairly evil, but I would rather know where I stand with them than just get a notice that I am cut off for no good reason.
Devices to draw energy from ambient WiFi signals and microwaves
Not saying that it's a good decision, but I imagine Comcast has data on the Internet usage of millions of customers.
you can keep saying no. they keep pleading for me to use my "real" name and I keep switching it back to my artist name.

its amazing that they host video by artists and yet do not allow the artists to use their artist names. all in the name of stamping out comment wars.
IPv6 doesn't NAT to get to IPv4 addresses - you'll need to run both in parallell to get to IPv4 addresses, until everyone is switched over.

And the advantage is that when you _do_ want to go direct you aren't stuck with being behind NAT on your router and then another NAT at your ISP, and then possibly another NAT level, and then the same in reverse at the other end, so that it's possible at all.

And sure, it might not give _you_ anything you particularly care about. But when you find that you can't do something, because there are several layers of indirection between you and someone else, and now you need to run your own server in order to hook two machines to each other over the internet, then you'll wish IPv6 was available.
More unequal? Maybe. More for everyone? Certainly.

It's not like "computers" can be stopped...
What can't you do without Google+?
So does this increase the quality of comments now that anything you post will turn up in search results with your name?
Countries with widespread ADSL can attest to some of its downfalls. For example, try getting upload of more than 130kB/s on ADSL2+. ;)
Qrafter (pretty much the best qr-code reader in existence) out-performs on this test.

I was able to scan at least two that the author said weren't scannable.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/qrafter-qr-code-barcode-read...
> My only consolation is that Google+ is accumulating a lot of vitriol and hate across the web. It's shaping up to be the most hated "social" product in the entire Internet.

Maybe a little offtopic: I have multiple GMail accounts that I use. Now (since maybe 2 weeks?) after logging out and trying to log in with a different acc I get a 'account chooser' dialog where I can only select accounts I have linked to my person. To get the 'enter email / password' prompt I have to turn on private browsing or delete all cookies.

Maybe someone from Google reads this: Please add a small link (or a different easy to access way) to completely log out. There are accounts that I don't want to link together. (Hint: Google Apps for Business)
Crap I just looked at my usage. Basically looks like I will be paying $10-$20 a month more. Not much money but that really irritates me.
I assume Romanians are somewhat (equally) clueless about technology on average. What's the difference, then? What are they doing right?
If you like this sort of thing, read comp.risks ( http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks ). On the other hand, it might give you an omnipresent sense of fear about all the computer-controlled safety critical devices around you.
That's an awful hope. My hope is that they are declared an illegal monopoly and an environment is created where actual competition can occur so we end up paying what bandwidth actually costs.
I'm not surprised, although I wonder if that's a violation of Twitter's API guidelines.
Well you're on a good track complain politicians don't care as much about the masses as they do about the noisy few on the news.

And sitting back complaining there's no competition won't get things done so build a company that actually strives to give customers a better service instead of milking them for every cent they can.

I'm not saying it's easy but if everybody is just complaining it will never get done.
Actually this happened in Cyprus very recently...
You're not going to text 24 friends and see if they want to play Borderlands. What I'm talking about is more like "Cheers": there's a place that everybody you know hangs out, and you show up, and there's people already there. You chat with them, do stuff, catch up. That's the currently reality of console gaming for tons of people, and it's very common.
Feds closer to approving bitcoin political donations
XP->7 was probably way easier than doing it with Vista as an intermediate!
google templates.
Related, Monty getting righteous on behalf of VP8 during the Q&A on WebRTC MTI, calling out blatantly anti-competitive moves on behalf of the patent cartels:

http://recordings.conf.meetecho.com/Recordings/watch.jsp?rec...
I think this is the best solution, with swapoff -a of course. If you use programs that keep memory allocated, the modern kernels will kill them at some point, before chocking. You can/should then disable that though, see some good article here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-d...
Does usage based billing truly make sense for an ISP like Comcast? If it's 4 AM and Comcast's network is mostly idle, does it matter how much bandwidth you use? Likewise, if everyone in your city uses their 300 GB between 5 PM and 8 PM, Comcast ends up having to spend more money to upgrade their network (or they just provide shit service). I wonder if some kind of billing during peak hours makes more sense.

Taken to an extreme I think you'd have pricing like Uber's demand-based pricing, which is really "fun" to think about.

Edited to add: Not that I want this at all! I'm just saying that billing based on network utilization seems to make more sense to me, since the bits on the cable are essentially free once you've got it set up. It quite possibly makes Comcast more money to bill based on bytes, and it's probably much easier to explain too.
The dinasour that figured out the maximum amount they could get away with charging.
If Comcast simultaneously were to commit to a 100% neutrality policy regarding the serving of that data, and would also commit to not traffic shaping - I.E. For my $50 a month, I would get a non-screwed-around-with-by-their-traffic-shapers 50 megabit/second stream - I might agree with you.

Unfortunately I suspect we will get both - a data cap, and Comcast will continue to screw around with your traffic feed so they can profit off the front end and the back end (charging for enhanced access to their customer) - basically screwing the customer in both directions.
For the most part yes. There are always naysayers, always conservatives. If you listen to them, no progress can ever be made. You have to decide on a course and take it.

Ultimately, if integration with Google ruins Youtube, then a competitor will eviscerate them. If it ultimately improves it, the criticisms will fade away.
If you're not using any video streaming sites, what are you using that uses up to 250GB a month?
A bit of an overreaction, considering the quality of YouTube comments has notoriously been below acceptable levels for quite some time.

While I can't agree that Google is doing the right thing by forcing +, they are mitigating the problem by doing so. We'll know in a week if the quality of comments goes up dramatically or stays the same in a few days.
> Smart software... is ushering in an era of "hyper-meritocracy."

> ...the cognitive requirements of working with smart software...

> Online education... will only deepen inequality... Because of the premium it places on conscientiousness. some people are pure self-starters... But at the same time, I think it’s a pretty small percentage of the population.

These are all excellent points.

It's funny -- centuries ago, when there was no meritocracy, if you stayed poor, it probably wasn't your fault. You were born a peasant, and there really wasn't any way out of it. Some people argue that it made for happier people. (And if you were rich, it wasn't because you were really smart or capable, you were probably just born into aristocracy.)

But the kind of ruthless economic meritocracy we have today is much less forgiving, as your shortcomings are made so much more obvious. If you're the kind of person who enjoys reading programming manuals and studying Fourier transformations for fun, then you'll probably have a great career ahead of you. But that's just not the case for most people.
This is great! It's nice to know there's others out there ripping out unknown unity shit too!
Do you have any idea what the following do and if they can be removed easily also ?
goa-daemon, zeitgeist, mission-control, bamfdaemon
And now I feel nostalgic for the times when there was shooting if the shooters.

There was always something special about the Quake 3 (and 2) engines - the fluidity, freedom and speed they provided in the games were unmatched. I don't know if it was the engine itself or the developers that flocked to these engines but the feeling of the shooting and movement on the games developed on the Unreal base is much more clumsy. Don't know exactly why.
You appear to have fallen short of 300GB all three months?