skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see some possible issues, too. If you want to take a hard line approach, this breaches net neutrality just as much as slowing or charging access to other sites. Sure, Wikipedia is already the defacto source of information for a lot of people, but this would cement a monopoly as such in those areas. This all sounds a bit silly when talking about Wikipedia, but it has implications for other services.

What if google or bing made a similar deal? Or any large corporation, for that matter? You set up an internet where the majors can buy their way into a monopoly position, not by convincing ISPs to degrade other services, but by convincing them to charge users less to use your service. This makes it harder to impossible for new companies to enter those markets.

All that being said, I think this (Wikipedia Zero) will be a net-positive thing, and I hope they succeed. I do see that this type of thing could have worrying implications for net neutrality, but ultimately they're not the first site to broker "free access" deals with mobile carriers.
Nothing on the linked page says anything about "Congress is exempt."

Everything I've read on the subject says exactly the opposite, that Congress and their staff are forced to purchase healthcare from the Healthcare Exchanges.

This pages says:

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/05/congress-and-an-exemption-f...

The law’s final language on this, written by Sen. Tom Coburn, says that: “the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff with respect to their service as a Member of Congress or congressional staff shall be health plans that are — (I) created under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act); or (II) offered through an Exchange established under this Act.”
That's to give them Quake-style vibe!
FDA says trans fats are not safe in food
I think Tesla needs to add fire suppression system found on some police cars. Shouldn't add too much price to already quite expensive car. See here it in action - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSm6Dnu0EPM
> DigitalOcean currently has data centers in San Francisco, New York City, and Amsterdam.

From here: http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/digital...
People should consider checking out Wand as well. Really nice wrapper around ImageMagick. Very good pythonic interface.
There may be an adjustment period... here's some more https://www.youtube.com/user/piteronio/videos
On the food part, I find the office worse than my house. At my house I can control what is in my fridge. At work, there is a cornucopia of candy, yogurts, nuts, drinks and other high calorie snacks that never, ever runs out. And there is 3 meal service which you'll never know the calorie counts of. Everyone has gained 10 to 15 lbs at my work.

At home it would be easy to make the food I want, controlled how I want.
> What if google or bing made a similar deal? Or any large corporation, for that matter?

Facebook already does this https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fast-and-free-facebo... and I'm sure many others do as well
I haven't thought of this; maybe that's why I get annoyed when a song I'm listening to gets interrupted.
Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.
What Does the Hummingbird Say?
There are services that offer this now. You simply change your DNS servers on the media box to the proxy providers', and they rewrite DNS answers for those specific hosts to point at their proxies for those specific services.

It's nice because it requires no network changes, only DNS settings on the media player device.
Google Helpouts hasn't helped me out much with my writing
not so suitable for media center or streaming applications, where BeagleBone and Pi excel...

Can we all just finally admit that the whole "educational" thing of the RPi is out the window?
I'm not sure about the pricing yet as I can run like 5 or 10 docker instances in one DigitalOcean VM costing 5 dollars per month.
I do think there is some risk (though I'm not sure how much delta it adds to the risk either way) that it plays into normalizing the proposals for tiering, a specific kind of non-neutral net, where ISPs would give you access to different levels of "internet content" based on your subscription level, like cable TV packages for the internet. Example: a few sites are available in the Free tier, a basic whitelisted set of sites (news, webmail, popular blogs, etc.) are in the Lite tier, everything but high-bandwidth video and torrents comes with the Standard tier, and the full internet is unlocked only by the Premium tier. The free tier would be made up of "content partners" who are a mixture of nonprofits like Wikipedia, and for-profits that pay for their inclusion in the free tier (CNN, maybe).
Article really confirms my suspicion that node.js is pretty much the new perl. (Although modern perl is still an excellent choice for new projects if you need small team high impact stuff).
this sounds like the epitome of a balanced hard working manager / team leader. It's just that it is a lot of work - and so much of it is based around keeping everyone onside, talking and not taking their ball home with them.

but am I getting too old ? I prefer people learning to take no for an answer and still knuckling down to work, knowing there will be a yes around the corner. this gets more often and so easier the faster you go.

tiptoeing round Larry Page is clearly good for your career and future prospects, but few of us will work in an office with such personal power differentials. most bosses of us are the same peons as we are - so honesty should have little opportunity cost.

in short, conflict well handled is a good thing.
Lots of comments here talk about lack of distractions making it easier to get more done in the night. My case however is a little different. I don't know why, but my brain feels a lot more awake post dinner from 10pm to about 4am - than any other time in the day and this is irrespective of having slept well.

Some people were just built for the night.
Because buying XScale back from Marvell would look stupid?
Looks like it's currently slightly overwhelmed.
Wouldn't "Container" fit the analogy best?
Any credible sources you can point me in the direction of? I'm more than willing to be wrong provided I learn something new.
The IE vision of embracing the web is being incredibly dogmatic about "you shouldn't have to do anything special for IE" while simultaneously introducing a slew of IE-specific awful.
Robust Java benchmarking, Part 1: Issues
FDA announces plan to regulate trans-fats
Here's what I don't get. After we liberalize drugs, abolish patents, and fill the world with generics- what do we do when private companies stop researching new drugs because the generics market will destroy ROI?
I said nothing about tables. I specifically referred to the TeX boxes+glue model.

In addition, if the web was truly meant to be printed — an assertion I have never heard before; it sounds blatantly false — then not adopting the massively successful TeX system sounds even more insane.
The biggest challenge for me is that I'm starting to realize that people don't really get asynchronous communication as much as I thought they would.

Putting on your headphones at the office and trying to get work done is seen as antisocial and hostile (especially daring to direct people to try to get you on im or email), and you find yourself shut out of critical decision points meetings because people will say "we didn't want to bother you" (what they're really saying is "fuck you, thats what you get for isolating yourself").

People want to be able to get immediate responses and interrupt each other whenever they like, and its easy to be pegged as an "asshole" if you don't play along. If you extrapolate from there, it starts to make sense why remote work is still such a hard sell in a lot of places (last stat I saw is that only about 4% of American workers work from home, thats up from 2% last year, but still)

"Hell is other People"
--- Jean Paul Sartre
Love how "well connected" HN commentators are.
Hey! are you on my Country?

Recently declared as "the most innovate-foster culture of Latin America" or something like that.

But is also WORSE. You need to spend 6 months, half-time attending talks, filling stuff and more or less wasting time... all for the chance to finally meet the investor.

Is a great business for the "accelerators" that are giving US20.000 for each startup (they "Value"), but only US 2.000 in cash, for the kind of thing THEY decide to buy (and no startup accelerator program here help in pay salaries, ie, the people you truly need. Is for buy business cards. Seriously).

The time I waste on that is one of the things I regret more. Saddly, you don't know the full terms UNTIL you have "win" in the top 100 of 1000, get pass the interview, fill stuff then get to the point of get that amazing benefits.
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but you cannot work on a million ideas - you have to pick the few that are actually good. Having a million ideas clearly makes it more likely you have the Big One, but I am interested in the mental process in picking and in committing.

or has Mr Page done a ridiculous amount of crazy that will never work things?
I wondered about that too--I didn't see any mention of any software testing. Definitely user/outcome testing, but no unit tests or functional tests were mentioned.
Yep just noticed it in the latest devtools blog post, the color swatches are awesome too!
Most of the time it's like that, but sometimes you have a situation like nominal loss aversion/sticky wages where humans are very consistent about their irrationality and that irrationality has very important effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_wages

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/09/why_dont_wages.h...
There is no such thing as 'real' or 'true' value. Looking for it is akin to waiting for Godot.

The only way you can ascribe value is from the point of view any one particular entity (including yourself) at any one particular time. The only way you can see it is when a transaction takes place.
Wow, it totally is. It's the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. GP are you just pulling stuff out of your ass?
Because the availability of IE is part of the Windows platform -- a Windows program gets to assume that IE is installed and the various APIs provided by IE are available.

If Microsoft wants older Windows software to work, it has to ensure that when an app written against IE4 invokes the WebBrowser control in IE11 it still behaves as expected.

IE doesn't need Windows so much as Windows needs IE.
I want to love this idea. I want to love wikipedia.

But before I can do that, I need to be able to use wikipedia. And by use, I don't mean consume - I mean, be a full participant in a collective online encyclopedia.

This is currently not possible.

Rather than explain or give examples, let me challenge you to start any new article, or make any decent sized edit to any article, and let's assume for the discussion that your facts, grammar, form, and adherence to wikipedia style are perfect.

Come back and let us know how that goes.
I'm not impressed - this is leadership 101.
I think jnbiche has a potentially interesting point. There are only five sample questions revealed in the article, however, so we can't know, unless we have access to all the data, whether his claimed pattern actually holds.

Of the five, four are quantitative. Of those, #1 does not follow jnbiche's pattern; #2, the literacy question, does follow the pattern if you look at the "all respondents" number, but, as you suggest, the numbers are too close; #3 follows the pattern, but there are two answers equidistant from the correct answer, which complicates the analysis; #5 does follow the pattern.

Rosling's discovery, that we do worse than random on tests like these, is fascinating, despite so many people here becoming distracted by the rhetorical device of the chimpanzee. But that only holds if you merely tabulate right and wrong answers. jnbiche is pointing out that there might be a deeper pattern to the data that could make us look better, perhaps almost as good as random.

I wonder how easy it would be to design other surveys that exploited bad preconceptions to get a worse-than-random result. Maybe in other fields, like science.
> When $25b of wealth is being created

Woah there. I think this is the fundamental issue. $25b of wealth hasn't been created. It's not free money. It's a scam.
Because Apple's agreements with these companies will include a clause stating that they cannot publicly acknowledge they supply Apple.
So, not wanting to maintain two separate codebases is laziness? How about the ROI on such a solution is hideously low.
Looks interesting. Is there an option to also display certain billing address fields? I use minFraud and it requires a country, state, city, and postal code for distance checks.

Personally, I also hate dropdowns for expiration. Isn't it far easier to just type in what's on the card and validate that as a valid date?
The banking and financial industry is barely regulated at all unless our measurement of the degree of regulation is measured by LoR (Lines of Rules). Most of those rules are to keep actors in the industry from screwing over other actors in the industry - and the rest are unenforced.
Bottom line: this company is extremely overvalued at the moment. It may or may not grow into that valuation, but for the next several years, it will be nothing more than a speculative play. The fact that the company priced itself at a much lower valuation shows how irrational the current market value is.
This is what drives me crazy with MS. They really improved IE this time around and actually fixed my biggest beef, which is the lack of decent web developer tools.

So yeah, they fixed that, then once I started using the tools, I suddenly realized they completely stripped out the Document Mode/Browser Mode so now you have to figure out some other way of testing old versions.

Oh, but wait! Browser Mode is now back in, not in an update mind you, but only available in Windows 8.1. Seriously, WTF!?
One comment... Google and Facebook each tried to stick it to the bankers in their own ways. In the end both struggled as a result. Google tried to cut out bankers and make them play by special "Just for the Google IPO" rules and rates. By creating a custom-IPO process, they saved on banker fees but wound up leaving an awful lot of money on the table.

Facebook went the other way. They tried to grab every last penny on the table. Their stock underperformed post-IPO which isn't good either.

You can put Twitter in an overreaction the other way - they didn't want to leave money on the table (raising the shares to 26) but didn't want to be too greedy either.

The bankers get paid to line up supply and demand. They may be helped by being an oligopoly, but right now the market isn't set up to cut them out of the loop.
I'd say that minecraft is in the realm of "AAA" profit and userbase, though not "AAA" budget or graphics.

That is the only example I can think of though, and it is certainly a stretch. (also their X-Box version isn't Java)
When radioactive products were in vogue
I highly recommend this: http://www.artima.com/shop/overview_of_the_new_cpp

By Scott Meyers
It seems it's not actually a CSS framework (was personally excited about the prospect of an iOS7 CSS kit), it allows you to use css to style your iphone app.
Taking On Multiple Roles At Startups
Meet Microsoft's new anime IE 'it' girl, Inori Aizawa
I agree that it's too bad that there's no official licensure process (at least in the US). Strangely enough, when I asked on HN and reddit there seemed to be a lot of hostility to the idea. [1][2]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6318923

[2]http://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/1lmnjq/thoughts...
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> if it is worthless to you, it is

When I was 8, I was selling some baseball cards at our yardsale, priced per their trade book value. At the end of the day, I was distraught because the only offers I got were well below the cards' value. The response from my mom still resonates to this day:

"Things are only worth what people are willing to pay"
What does that have to do with this? From the writeup it sounds like the Wikipedia Zero initiative is explicitly about the consumption side of the project ("accessing free knowledge"). Should they not do anything to make Wikipedia more accessible to non-contributing readers until every problem with contribution is resolved? The problems are separate and could be worked on separately -- why even assume that they can't walk and chew gum at the same time?
How to pick a name for your new startup?
No, that website is mistaken, or at least not addressing the same thing we're talking about.

http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?br...
I never really meant to imply that Bitcoin was a competitor to Chase. I just referred to them because of the concern that was raised in the comment I replied to. As for Bitcoin being a competitor to centrally controlled government currencies on the other hand...
To be clear, "replication" in this case is "multi-master replication."

Riak's Replication:
http://docs.basho.com/riak/1.3.2/references/appendices/conce...

CouchDB's Replication:
http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/replication/intro.html

Riak's is for data safety within the cluster.

CouchDB's is multi-master, cross-cluster, cross-device, etc. It can either be uni-directional (push or pull) or (if you do both) it can serve to synchronize two distributed master databases--each serving as a primary write point in the architecture.

That seems unique.
Thanks for all the comments. I should obviously have used Pillow instead of PIL. This is the first time that I'm using a graphical library in Python. I hope to find the time to update the current post or write a new one that will address this.
On Edit 2 - The banks don't double their money on large bets. They make smaller risk free sums. The banks are generally paid a certain % of the deal size, and are expected to make markets in the stock.

Most of the people who bought at $26 and flipped at $40 or $45 were individual customers of the banks. These could be retail investors, but they were largely institutional.

Generally institutional funds that do IPOs aren't flippers (investors prefer stable capital, so banks don't allocate as much to hedge funds) but they were the ones who had the shares.

Net - the banks weren't the ones getting rich from flipping, their customers were.
I see what you mean - Wikipedia essentially promotes oligopoly on knowledge. Relatively few privileged, old time crew, can enforce their views through bureaucratic like process.

I am not sure that can be fixed though - what we can fix are which people get to be in charge of the article by some kind of peer voting mechanism where greater weight is given to academics who actually study the problem. To know which people are academics Wikipedia can start some kind of initiative with universities that would verify credentials.
Domain Logic in Rails
What do you mean by 'dogfood our service'?
An Empirical Study of Cryptographic Misuse in Android Applications [pdf]
HackATL - Startup Weekend / Hackathon for all students in the southeast
This is a very small niggle, but I've noticed at least one other website that invites me to tweet select quotes from the article. I find this invitation obnoxious and smug. It suggests (incorrectly, I'm sure) that the author is a little too pleased with their own profundity.
To provide some context, many of my clients are nonprofits and foundations. My suggestion is to take those 27 issues and do one of them really, really well. You could build a business around any of the areas you mentioned, but not all of them.

If you choose issue/cause discovery, focus on disaster relief organizations. Create partnerships with companies that already provide these organizations with software and services. Become the vendor of the NPO's vendor.

Right now, it's not clear what problem you're solving and who you're solving it for.
"The good thing about flat design is that people with terrible design skills like myself can now create sites using just rectangles and "background-color: blue;" and it will look modern yet still terrible."

There fixed that for ya.
I think you are right to point out the value proposition to a text-only internet. But the implementation risks are probably more second-order and worth considering.

The contra case is that someone will twist this into a model to charge <up> for everything else. its better to create better public goods, than bargain for special access to private assets, when the quid-pro-quo will surely be some form of reciporacal monopoly rights (ie, special interest regulation).
Such a situation may enhance the issue the author addresses, but his point remains paramount: don't expect what you don't inspect. If anything, hiring "mercenaries half-way around the world" requires more of what he enumerates, which is the objectively practical form of, as you say, "do a lot to create real human connection".
> Creditcard.js avoids these design mistakes, providing an HTML/CSS/JS solution compatible with any payment form.

If it requires JS, then it isn't compatible with any payment form.
> the repeal of the parts of Glass-Steagall that separated commercial and investment banks, is what caused the banking catastrophe.

This is like saying that pulling a card from a house of cards is what "caused" its collapse. When in fact, the imposition of the unsustainable system onto us in the first place was the true problem. Everything else is just consequences.

> despite using (sort of) similar protocols and having (sort of) similar names, these are not similar at all.

Both are p2p protocols designed to enable censorship-resistance by eliminating centralized points of failure.

Just as Napster was replaced by Bittorrent, so also E-Gold is replaced by Bitcoin. The persecution is actually what is driving the development of these liberating protocols.

> What do we regulate that can't be swapped for "bitcoin" in that sentence? IE: we can't regulate drugs, at best we can only regulate how we plan to use violence against people who use drugs.

This is exactly true! We can never "regulate" drugs (or Bitcoin) -- we can only regulate how we use _violence_ against people who use drugs (or Bitcoin.)

But the question is, do we have a _right_ to use violence against people who are not thieves and murderers? And is it even possible to delegate such powers?

For example, I have a right to defend myself using force. Therefore I have a right to hire a _bodyguard_ to defend me. Therefore we have the right to elect a _sheriff_ to defend us. (In fact it is the same right -- delegated.)

But I do NOT have a right to beat and rob people. Therefore, neither do I have any right to hire a _bodyguard_ to beat and rob people.

...Therefore, neither does our _sheriff_ have any right to beat and rob people -- even if we voted for him to do so! Because you cannot delegate powers you never had.

Perhaps you should be asking what makes us believe, as a society, that we have any right to use violence at all, except in defense from violence. Because if the authorities use violence for any other purpose, then aren't they the true criminals?

Careful not to throw out the precedent from the Nuremberg Trials -- that just because someone is in authority, doesn't give them the right to victimize people. (Even if they were voted into power.)
The adverse effects of profanity
I think you have different requirements on what constitutes "wealth".