skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This enables them to offer an upsale for an unlimited package in the future, which is what ISPs here in Canada have begun doing.

I pay extra for unlimited, and I need to since my family uses HD Netflix to watch TV, and I download a lot of entertainment content.
For those who think this is a bad thing, consider that "unlimited" most often means "limited in an opaque way you cannot control". This cap and pricing structure adds some very nice clarity to exactly when you might exceed you quota. Personally, I would rather pay for the extra GB's than get my connection throttled at the end of the month.

Pricing May or may not be acceptable to some, but the model itself is better than "we will limit you if we feel like it".
I agree. Google doesn't seem to understand that the way in which a thing is expressed is important. It's like they don't understand the difference between something announced at a press conference, and something mentioned in passing to a friend. My inability to reason about the social context of online interactions tends to seriously discourage me from expressing much in an non-(semi)-anonymous way.
Craig Venter on moving at the speed of light
I'm trying to come up with a reason why someone would want, specifically, $10k worth of XL ultimate frisbee tshirts.
Who said anything about not making display advertising work? I'm talking about the whole vertical integration to television that so many analysts are basing their 75X revenues pricing on.
Bzzt, logical fallacy - "either work for free, or snoop around in user's data for monetizable content." Hint: there's a very, very wide spectrum between these extremes.
I know a few good firmware engineers. A reason why they, too, produce "crap" is:

- Many of them come across hardware errors or suboptimal designs during a later stage in the FW development. In most cases they hack a workaround that doesn't involve a redesign to be able to move on with the next item on the list. Folks higher up the chain of command see this as an excuse to avoid a redesign: "we're not going to do a redesign for that, Mark fixed it in software". Examples: pretty much every ARM System Board out there.

- Someone picked a device that was available during the design phase, but went EOL a few months later before production. It happens.

- Someone found a cheaper device than originally planned but it doesn't really do what it says on the box. Typically peripheral stuff like ethernet or usb.

- And here's the big one: !!Crappy Datasheet!! Some companies, some really really big IC companies produce crap datasheets. Yo get accustomed to the fact that this new Cortex-M µC will probably have an errata or updated datasheet every few months.

- the redesign fixed their EMC problem to get the certificate, someone fixed the power supply. But now you get into trouble if you drive this and that device because the voltage takes a dip.

But I'd like to add: I agree with your post.
"Will I get more data included in my monthly data usage plan if I upgrade to a higher Internet tier? While you may upgrade your Internet service at any time to receive more speed and performance, all of our tiers of service include data usage plans with 300 GB of data per month."

http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/data-u...

Sigh.
Could you possibly minify it?
> I am not a native speaker, but English felt natural. The first version of my book was horrible to read. There were tons of grammar and spelling errors. I decided to work with an editor who helped me: Zach Low. If you buy the book, you can expect a book in well-written English.
Nope, all the "features" are built into desktop environment (unity) rather than ubuntu itself.
So A/B testing does not work because people using it don't understand the underlying statistics and don't have a large enough sample size. So the solution is an even more complex test with even more variable? Makes sense to me.
Is this how you treat your customers?
You could try getting on the testing release which (as far as I can tell) is still ten times as stable as Ubuntu while still getting frequent updates. Testing is the best of both worlds IMO (stability <-> freshness)
While I see why people are unhappy with the sale of their data and ads, I have to agree with you on this. While obviously I don't enjoy having my information collected and sold without me really knowing by default, they do need to get money somehow.

I feel like we're in a weird transitional period where the "free internet" in which all major apps and services we used were VC funded and growing, completely free with no ads and nothing you have to pay for, and are suddenly starting to realize that they have to make money. So they start selling data, serving tons of ads, etc and then people get angry that their data is stolen, they are being showed ads, posts from people they don't follow are getting injected into their streams, etc.

There's nothing to be angry about here, it's just this now gigantic company putting in work on something you love and use all the time trying to get the funds to continue working on it.

I understand that a lot of people just won't pay for things no matter what, and you know what, that's fine - they can use the versions that are packed full of ads and sell your data. But what I would really love to see is when you use a service for them to give you an option between the two. You can either use this for free and we'll sell your data and show you ads, or you can pay us and we won't do any of the above. At least that way it's clear, and if you choose to use it for free then you are conscious that they are making money off you somehow.

I think the closest model I've seen to this honestly is in the app store - a lot of apps release 2 versions, a free and a paid version. The free version is somewhat limited and has ads all over the place, and the paid one has none of the aforementioned flaws.

We are just so accustomed to not paying for anything, and I feel like when reality comes crushing down that oh wait, now that the VC funds have dried up and the company needs to actually be profitable, the money has to come from somewhere.

tl;dr pay for the things you use, because they are worth it. and if not, stop using them.
Why is economic growth the goal over exploitation. You say it's nationalistic but why should what family I'm born into give me any more freedom/advantage. Completely changes society. Automation happens alot faster in this scenario. Fast food dispears why would someone wait on another if tehy can survive without being someones servant?
here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/

It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc.

I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04
Canada doesn't provide free legal services to employed people. In this particular case, you can get assistance with legal fees for an employment-related dispute, but that by no means extends to other legal matters.
"eBay, Amazon, Paypal, Google, Alibaba etc"

One thing that is different about airbnb vs. the companies you mention is the amount of interaction as well as the transaction size and importance.

The network effect at, say ebay or amazon, is bolstered by repeated interaction of small (and of course some large) transactions. That repetition is important because it keeps the service in the forefront of your mind as the go to place for many things, not just one thing. I am in the habit of using amazon so it's my go to place for things. I just bought a ladder from Lowes only after checking amazon first. Because I buy all sorts of small things from Amazon and rarely need to visit the Lowes site.

Airbnb otoh has the same thing but to a much lesser degree. The habit part in other words. Because the amount of time you need a room is less there is less reason to think about it and more of a chance that (because of the lack of habit) you might try something else.

Habits (and small transactions) are very important. Starbucks for example hates to close their locations for renovation because they have found that once people break the habit many times they fail to return (finding another acceptable morning place to get coffee.)
> How would one productively store previously seen hash outputs?

You can't, that's why your argument works here. It wouldn't work on a system where the objective was to find a secret number in 1 to N.
I hate to say it, but when Schönfinkel Curried, he in fact Freged, as even currying was anticipated by Frege.

See here, for example: http://books.google.de/books?id=OeAPiy-6L74C&pg=PA134&lpg=PA...
Spain requires 15 working days notice for example, although if you leave on good terms there's usually a certain amount of flexibility.
And the second one too: "git pull --rebase remotename master"
Death at the Summit: How the Feds Killed Intrade
I just gave up and use SourceTree. I don't like git's syntax at all, but have to work with it, so a nice GUI works best for me. Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe I just prefer a better designed command line interface (for my personal projects I'm using Fossil and am quite happy with the command line there.)
Thoughts on picking software tools
They say for $300.00 but neglect to say where to get the ink.
Large amounts of appreciation to anyone who finds out.
"Quantitative analysis of the evolution of novelty in cinema"
You don't see what difference it makes because you have no context. There are a lot of things I thought/did as a young man with no wife or children that I don't do today now that I have both. I can't tell whether you are being willfully dense (or "captious" as yesterday's word of the day taught us) or you just haven't taken the time to think from someone else's perspective.
My interpretation of that thread (I don't know any more than what is written there) is that Mint turns off security updates for those packages. There's no mention of them using another source for updates. AIUI, there are no updates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694674

Duplicate.
The people you know don't use stock Ubuntu. My mom and yours don't even know what a package manager is.
That's a nice ethos to adopt as a government, but he can't ignore the crippling taxes his government have instated since taking up office. I feel very sorry for business owners in France at the moment.
We run into this a lot around the 8-9pm hour. Netflix on xbox seems to be the exception though. Everything else slows down equally (Bluray, phones, ipad, etc.)...not noticeable on anything other than the bluray player though but network stats definitely show it.
s/fix ubuntu/fork ubuntu/g
fixubuntu.com could reasonably be assumed to be an Ubuntu troubleshooting site.
Oh, I'm all for banning tobacco. Caffeine's withdrawal is minor an alcohol is only physically addictive to some people.
Just out of curiosity, why do you even need an account to comment on a video?
"...I suspect this isn't worth most people's time...."

Doesn't have to be.

Only needs to be worth one person's time to render the effort commercially dubious.
The market is not rational. To not ascribe rationality to the market. Do not anthropomorphize the market.
http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
There, fixed :)
The NSA does have its own fab and partners with commercial fabs, but its fab is small and apparently out of date, and so it seems to be primarily for producing legacy hardware. I looked this up once for reasons that had nothing to do with Bitcoin: http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law#fn24
I like very much ubuntu-gnome. They need some help http://ubuntugnome.org/
Reducing the Federal Prison Population
The Unreal Engine 3 was ported in one week by a few developers, so porting the much smaller Quake Live codebase should be reasonable. ( http://www.unrealengine.com/en/news/epic_games_releases_epic... )

As a long-time fan of the Doom&Quake games I would personally want to volunteer to help out on the JS porting aspect (I work on Emscripten, the compiler used in the Unreal Engine port and others).

However, how feasible this would be would depend on how portable the codebase is and so forth, which is not publicly known.
Currently I average around 200GB per month. Some months are closer to 300GB and 350GB and I pay the $10 overage fees. I only pay for Internet and only use Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime and that pretty much is what my B/W is tied to. If I could switch to something faster with greater B/W I would in a heartbeat but I just have no motivation since its paid for through work-related usage.
Microsoft CEO Candidate Elop Said to Mull Windows Shift
This is getting close to my point. If:
1) outbound only is going to be the default,
and
2) most services already need 'man in the middle' (directly service at least)
and
3) IPv6 is going to need to NAT to get to the legacy IPv4 addresses anyway

What advantage is IPv6 for most of my devices giving me?
As one more hacker who works in marketing, my suggestion is to start as soon as possible to spend some time building relationships with the influencers you'll want to talk about your launch and then your new releases etc.

Unless you're funded by some well-connected VC, you're going to need those relationships.
There's an option to donate when you download the .iso, so I suppose you could just do that and then uninstall the Amazon stuff.
No - I'm actually willing to pay for a good fast, stable linux with multimonitor support (that doesnt suck), has excellent suspend/hibernate/resume behavior and has very good compatibility with multimedia (TV HDMI, etc.)

I'm in India - and I cannot afford a Mac (and maybe dont want to). Build this system on top of SteamOS or Android or something (for hardware compatibility) and you will get my money.
Because the single to noise ratio on Youtube was beyond a joke. This is, possibly, an easy way to mitigate that.
Raspberry Pi carrier-grade radio broadcaster
Problem is, rich countries already have welfare systems and hardly anyone would support completely eliminating them. So people are already paid to breathe. The question is how to do so while minimizing perverse incentives.
Since it is basically possible to get an "ad free" version by disabling that feature, and it is possible to donate to them. Yes?
My hope is that they eventually conform all plans into one (at a locked speed/price), and then offer plans in varying amounts of capacity at a certain speed.

Much closer reflects a usage-based model, which makes sense for internet billing, whether people like it or not.
Am I missing something? How exactly is this increasing "the amount of data included in your XFINITY Internet Service"?
Seriously, they should have went with dedicated boxes on something like Softlayer comme Dropbox. Unlike CPU-cycles, storage needs are relatively predictable as people usually don't remove photos after uploading them.
Good question. I've seen a lot of people claiming AWS was the wrong choice from the start, but IMO at the stage Everpix was at, the flexibility of AWS would still have been a reasonable and viable choice.

But $35k for only 55k users just doesn't add up in the absolute sense, AWS or not.
Great work! This is a really nice use of d3 and a great visualization tool.
Yes, I prefer to have it typed. Credit card forms vary a lot, but the ones that are shaped like credit cards have usually just have 2 text fields with a slash in between.
My parents use Xubuntu because it's the closest you can get to WindowsXP ;)
I notice this very same thing in my area. The mornings on workdays are considerably faster than evenings on the same days. I notice this when downloading ISOs for operating systems especially. I usually try and save my downloading of these things for morning so that it completes in 10 minutes vs 50 minutes.
Whilst abandoning the browser plugin stuff makes every sense (it never worked well, on any platform), dropping Linux/OS X at a time where those platforms are on the rise (especially with Valve's move to Linux and Windows 8 being universally disliked) is probably not the right direction.
literally prior art:

http://research.swtch.com/qart

and this one has the benefit of allowing you to make a qr code with your face on it :)
It's funny how the history repeat itself when the company that support certain disro want to monetize it. A long time ago, it's Redhat. Then, SUSE with their licensing deal with Microsoft. Anyone knows what happens to Xandros and Mandriva?

I think Canonical should be more honest that they need money. People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough. I think the combination of Stable OS, lots of Apps that is close to the current upstream relase, and good hardware support is the winning formula here..

My dream is that I want Ubuntu to be essentially the equivalent of OSX, but I can install it on as many hardware configuration as possible, not just Mac
Nobody starts a company for the initial salary.
> With 2006's 3D performance

WebGL runs at basically full speed on the GPU. And JS can run at about half the speed of native code, when compiling a C++ codebase like we are talking about here.

So this would be far faster than typical 2006 perf.

> and access to all source code.

Look at optimized+minified compilation output in JS, it is just as unreadable as a native binary.
This is indeed scary.

It's hard to imagine a person with all those skills and who prefers to grind patents instead of doing something productive.
The "most disabled person" who is not independently wealthy is not going to achieve the same standard of living as the average person. If you need a special vehicle and you can't afford it, you can live across the street from a grocery store and get a job working there.

You're basically talking about the "heart transplant problem." Suppose you have zero dollars and no job and you need a heart transplant which will cost $200,000, which will cause you to live for another two years, or else you will die today. The government can't afford to pay for that -- people can say "death panels" all day long but the fact is that with the current state of medicine and technology we cannot save everyone, and it is not productive to bankrupt the government paying for measures that are more expensive than they are effective. Moreover, the fairest way to distribute government services is to give the same amount to everyone. If you need more than that amount, seek charity. There is a point past which government cannot fix every problem, and we can't calibrate society to the level of the "most disabled person."

> I guess by the second point I mean the short term unemployed more than the "poor" per se. Consider a person who has just graduated from a university in SF and wants to remain there while they look for a job in SV. If they can't afford this , they might have to move to a poor area with less opportunity.

So how is that different with a basic income than it is today?
The reason, IMO, that IPv6 has not taken off is that it is far too complex. As a networking professional, it seems like an absolute nightmare, even if all equipment properly supported the protocol.

I still never understood why they couldn't just extend IPv4 by adding another octet, and then making all existing IPv4 addresses 0.{current_address}. This would give us about 1 trillion addresses and would make things dead simple.
Oh yeah, I understand the fun that's had by playing with friends. I have 2 or 3 friends I play games with regularly...and I can find out if they want to play Borderlands by texting them, 'Want to play Borderlands?'

I realize my own experience can't invalidate the entire idea of needing consoles to be so 'community' centric. I'm just wondering if it's true that a significant amount of gamers (or even an insignificant amount) are getting so many messages and invitations over Xbox Live or PSN that switching inputs for a second completely destroys their experience.
So what is next? Youtube becomes Google+ its video section.
If you're already an Ubuntu user, you can just sudo apt-get install xfce and sudo apt-get remove unity*.
Nope. You create your own templates, which can literally be anything - any language, any framework, any library.

I'm planning to make it a "Show HN" post once it's more or less tested and ready for others to check out.
Nope. Everything does not work properly as you described. Yes, your devices can get online, but you cannot get to your devices. For example your Nest thermostat must connect to an external server to communicate with your phone when you are not at home. This is a bad thing, since it means that you are now relying on a third party to provide connectivity.

Also, let's say you want to connect to your Time Capsule when you are on the go. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to connect to its public static IP address directly (assuming you set your firewall to allow such connections).

Lastly, as the Internet goes IPv6 only, your IPv4 only devices will get cut off. This will happen sooner than you might imagine.

Yes, there are large swatches of unused IPv4 addresses, but the demand for new allocations is much greater. Why cling to an old system just to offset its death by a few months when we can spend the effort on making the new system work better?
I read that report a few days ago. It's indeed shocking.
One way to explain it is that, the split of EE and CS in universities, most firmware engineers are EE graduates, who knows the hardware to the register level, but not as good on software, not at all.
The life-threatening related products, such as cars, medical devices, rockets,etc, probably some strict certificate on software development is good, otherwise it's totally subjective.
The so-called computer engineering major is a nice try, students take courses in both EE and CS fields.
Do what exactly? Most areas in the US are served either by one provider that does whatever the hell it wants or multiple providers that offer the same awful service at the same terrible prices (ish). We can't vote with our money and we can't vote with our votes since our politicians (1) are clueless about all things technology (2) get the little knowledge they have from lobbyists and (3) won't do anything about internet problems unless they hear about it from a lot of voters, most of whom are also clueless about all things technology.
I think with basic income you would get $2100.
I hate comcast so much, they compress the shit out of their television content
Good point. That raises the exit amount the investors seek quite substantially.
I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them.

Regarding swap compression:

I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm not exactly sure here). There is also zswap². I'm running Linux 3.11

To enable zcache edit /etc/default/grub and add zcache to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

To enable zswap add zswap.enable=1

Both can't be running at the same time.

1: http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/

2: http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/
you don't have to click for select boxes... just use tab and type the numbers...
>According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on stock exchanges, making it impossible for investors to either purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices...

...on average. Which is what makes "beating" the market, over enough time, impossible.

But we know there are pricing discrepancies and information asymmetries in finite periods of time because we see them every day.
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