skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to [1] there were 1,425,722 downloads of gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe from SourceForge last month.

According to [2] that file is 90.1 megabytes

So that one file used 122.5 TB of bandwidth in that month.

Assume for the purposes of argument this is 100% from the US and follows the cloudfront pricing outlined at [3], and per-request costs are trivial.

(10 terabytes) * (0.120 US$ per gigabyte)
+ (40 terabytes) * (0.080 US$ per gigabyte)
+ ((122.5-50) terabytes) * (0.060 US$ per gigabyte) in US$
= 8960 US$ [4]

So, for that single file, about US$ 9000 a month.

It gets more expensive if people download from other countries, and 22% of downloads were for different files not included in the download count for the most popular file, which I used above. It would be trivial to top $12,000 a month in cloudfront fees.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20...
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20...
[3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing
[4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US...
An example of such shenanigans is WeWorkRemotely.com. It was posted to HN recently, and was totally free. Less than a week later and they want $200 for a listing. Egregious behavior, especially for something put on by 37 signals.
But there are implications, human ones: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-07/an-iphone-te...
Thanks for the feedback. This was just a weekend project, so I have a lot of improvements to make, but not a ton of spare time to dedicate to them. I'll get there, though.

The low price is double occupancy-- a few people have gotten stuck on that, so I have to make it clearer.
> TokuDB is a great engine. I don't think Postgres has a storage engine that matches the benefits TokuDB brings

I have heard about TokuDB but I can't find any good resources to explain why it's so good and what it does differently. Do you know of any? The page on the MariaDB site (linked to from the OP) says very little...

Thanks!
Scraping from a few sources and coallating the data. Hoping I make some money of commissions to fund buying access to good data.
The domains are still worth a lot though.
Completely agree, also I would add that there is a factor that it's very important and I've recently come to learn. Is the example one gives to his sons (I am father of two). If you behave giving importance to money and expending, no matter what you try to teach them, they are going to value wasting money. It applies to all the parts of personality. In a way when they are very small (between 1 and 7 more or less) they mostly try to be your clon, and if you say one thing and act the oposite, they'll notice it.
I'm trying to improve myself faster than ever before, just because of that
> you sent other people's sons and daughters overseas to be maimed and killed, so now you fucking take care of them

Wouldn't it be nice if Congress had to guarantee $200,000 per year, for life for each person who's been to war?

That should serve to make Congress that much more reluctant to send people to new wars. Unfortunately, with technology advancing so rapidly, they would probably only have that much more incentive to make autonomous killer robots real, and to make massively more drones. I think they're still going for that anyway, just at a slower pace than it would happen with such a law.
I'm the creator of this site... I tried some algorithms to build something like this. The problem is that there are peak seasons that make the price crazy expensive. To be on contiguous ships all year, the best price seemed to be around $30k... if you don't care that the ports line up (which probably makes it impossible to actually do) it was around $20k.
Speaking as a former screen printer, the material costs are very low, except for very elaborate prints: clear or glitter inks, adhesive and foil, partially embroidered shirts, water-based inks with or without burning out the underlying dye in the shirt itself, and certain gradient effects like the Zune logo that required a very steady hand and some experience to produce. The last was my favorite; the complex prints were mostly to the demands of Vegas casinos.

With the caveat that my career was interesting but fairly brief, I believe that I may offer a cost analysis of what exactly the profit potential is here. The shirts and inks themselves cost a pittance, less than five dollars each as a rule. Production equipment can be moderately expensive and requires a moderate amount of warehouse space, but the highest operating cost is almost certainly going to be the Art department. Complex prints take lots of expensive man-hours and back-and-forth with clients to produce, and even simple ones need someone with a bit of domain knowledge to produce. Most designs will be spot colors rather than CMYK, because CMYK tends to look like your grandma's Christmas sweatshirt rather than e.g. a photo.

So, if you can outsource half your art department, and avoid complex designs, and avoid the need for a lot of expensive machinery, you're pretty much where these guys are at. Your big competition is likely to be Chinese, and so the real mass market (Target, Wal Mart, etc) is more or less out of reach, so if you can focus more on smaller runs of boutique prints then you can join the handful of other companies competing in this space, and make -- as other poster suggested -- a decent profit, an enjoyable product, and a career, but not likely a staggering amount of wealth.
I enjoy reading The Onion. I thank you for your sacrifice. ;)
> You are connecting from IPv4 address: --

Ha! Another site that thinks the x-forwarded-for header is real when it contains only stuff that triggers SQL injections.

Edit:

> The email you've sent has leaked your ip! The IP on your email was 83.161.210.237

No shit, that's the mailserver's IP. Who says it was actually sent from that IP? The headers it cites are merely listing "received from $mailserver ($reversedns [$ip])", not my client's IP address.
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Now more than ever, it is clear that no American social networking media company will ever have substantial market share in China. The Chinese government will never let it fly, it's as simple as that.

A free market in Internet companies in China is not possible until regime change in China. I think a change in government in China to a post-communist system is moderately possible, although various geopolitical trade-offs have caused this to take longer in China than it did in most parts of eastern Europe. The bubble economy in China makes it likely that there will be internal pressure there for regime change when the bubble pops.
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You could easily combine both worlds. You don't have to bake in the lighting. Just export the light maps, and then use them with a tool like Sprite Lamp to dynamically merge them in at runtime.
Google is a 350 billion dollar advertising company...
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Warning: lots of profanity. Because I have a sort of violent, tell-it-like-it-is personality.
Great work, man.
Genetics and environment each play a part, I suppose, but cruelty can be a learned behavior. The price point means this is more likely to be used by people who will take it seriously, but it just struck me as a particularly ghoulish piece of kit to put next to the microscope and chemistry set. I read "A Father's Story" not too long ago, so maybe that doesn't help the cause.

On the other hand, most of us had at least a couple dissections under our belt by high school, and it wasn't like those critters willingly offered themselves up towards our erudition, either. A practical education in science did seem to involve doing things we could have just read about in books, even if it caused a few nitric acid stains here and there and dozens of fetal pigs to lay down their lives, so maybe I'm being too quick to judge.

Now, are marketeers in general psychopaths? I don't think it's a hard and fast rule...
Yes, and that's why I agree that bitcoin is "digital gold", rather than the Holy Grail of ecommerce. But that doesn't make peercoin a good idea. If I want to spend I have credit card and a paypal account, I don't need whatevercoin to help me with that.
Author of the post, confirmed asshole, here. In most cruise ships you do not tip for anything until the end, and it is a flat rate. Enjoy.
>Most companies block torrents.

Most companies also block random software like PortableApps.com.
Tipping etiquette is far from basic and almost downright intimidating. Even when I thought I had tipping at restaurants under control, I then lived in fear of embarrassing myself not tipping people in hotels and I'd stayed in a dozen hotels before I suspected that the maid cleaning the room expected a tip! Once got caught without change in a bathroom in a club in Hollywood and was so embarrassed that I handed over $10 foreign currency to a guy who handed me a towel - insane on every level.
Original author here... I wrote the post in transit between those ports. On cruises you go to a lot of ports... this particular one ends up in Florida (Florence to Florida, with 8 stops or so)
Thank you. I love you, too.
Will be writing that post very soon... I don't normally submit my own posts to HN, but I will submit that one if no one else does.
'Race' is a dumb concept. We know that there are groups of people that are biologically distinct from others. Not to say that they can't interbreed, merely that there are genetic/phenotypic differences between groups.

Probably the most obvious example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease#Epidemiolog... which is a condition that mostly appears in people with ancestry in regions that expose them to malaria.

Skin color is obviously a biological difference that distinguishes different human populations, it just doesn't correlate with all the stuff we actually care about, for instance intelligence. 'Race' is loosely correlated with some specific biological traits, for instance http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide/...

As for hyper-successful people breeding themselves into a sub-group with specific traits, for better or for worse, this is obviously possible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognathism#History
Thank you! I actually redesigned it to be simpler on the flight over to where the cruise started.
It is really a sad state of things that people misunderstand deflation. They have this idea that no one will spend, but it doesn't stand any scrutiny, really. Please read these articles, we made a real effort here to explain why deflation wouldn't be a bad thing:

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/66215430631/deflationary-spira...
http://snitko.ru/blog/the-beauty-of-deflation.html
My Nexus 5 was stolen by UPS
Isn't there a guideline about editorializing submission titles?
> Boring a hole in the head, and then another hole in the chest

According to the article and the instructions[1] there is only one hole and it is in the thorax (through the exoskeleton), which is the middle section and not the head at all (remember from primary school biology, insects have a head, thorax and abdomen).

Not making a case for or against this method or product, just saying.

[1] http://wiki.backyardbrains.com/RoboRoach_Surgery
Yeah... this is my 12th cruise or so now. I really love them. For a while I was going twice a year pretty regularly. The cruise aggregator started as a way for me to find the best prices (because cruisehotsheet.com went down), and I decided to try to make money with it to fund access to better cruise data.

Also... I didn't post either of these... did one of my 2 minute cruise-internet email checks and was pretty surprised to see that I was on the front page twice.
This is not citizen science. It's just a toy. There's no science taught here. It's just idle noodling. There's nothing about scientific method or repeatability or changing parameters or anything.

You mention the fear that has caused chemistry sets to be reduced, but that's only part of the problem. The other problem is really bad toys being sold as "science" with nothing sciency about them.
No, I'm not going to let you misinterpret my argument, keep trying. I'm quoting the article which is suggesting that people breed with the best mate they can, inevitably creating inequality. I am asking how we, as a modern society, reconcile this with the goal of equality. It's really a simple question, do you personally think the nature of mate-choosing could lead to inequality over time? Because I do, and I don't think we have any duty as a society to "regulate" how we choose mates to further the goal of equality. That is not to say I am against all attempts an promoting equality, but this specifically is a line in the sand for me (both aesthetically and morally) and I am curious how others feel. The article is practically aghast that such a facet of our nature could cause inequality (among all the other innumerable mutations we incur) and I find it laughable. If you read The Republic by Plato the section on the Kalipolis does a great job of demonstrating why an attempt at perfect equality is so ridiculous: Imagine what would happen to meritocracy if we didn't value with whom we mated and perhaps you will finally get it.

Edit-It's a question of cultural inequality, not genetic, in my mind.
If the problem is sending people to be killed, I don't see how a pension for life helps.
It happens in Chromium too... it's literally a 1 minute code search to find out where this is constructed:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

Looks harmless enough. It just provides omnibox autocomplete timings to search engines.
This has been one of my favourite wikipedia pages for a long time. It's a shame that it's so hard to search through.
> Edit: Morals and halos don't pay journalist salaries.

Yeah, but at some point in their behavior, you kinda have to stop calling them "journalist" salaries.
> I don't see "rights for cockroaches" picking up mass support.

About 6% of the world population is Buddhist. That's about 350m people who believe cockroaches have rights.

EDIT: mr_luc and thaumasiotes point out my obvious error!
The fact that it sends it in Incognito mode too, is very concerning.
According to the website [1], it is fairly debatable that they "feel pain" and if they do, they are anaesthetised.

> Criticism: This enables and encourages kids to harm animals

> The cockroach is anesthetized during the surgery to avoid the risk of the cockroach experiencing pain (though it is debatable whether they experience pain at all), and the cockroach adapts to the stimulation rapidly. The 55 Hz stimulation we use is the same frequency used in electrical stimulation to treat human diseases such as Parkinson's.

[1] https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach
pttrns looked awesome until I noticed that its only iOS designs
You could probably wipe the whole US military excepting the nuclear program and not have to worry about anything except an internal coup d'etat/assassination spree initiated by the mostly useless contractors/generals that get fired as a result.

Does the nation run the army or does the army and its assorted industrial parasites run the nation? I doubt anyone in Washington has the testicular fortitude to find out.

Criticism: "B-b-b-but you can't use nukes to put down internal rebellions(1) or bring liberty to the oppressed nations of the world(2)!!"

Response to 1: "That's what the police+national guard is for."

Response to 2: "Damn fucking straight."
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>If you want to use Google, use the barebones search query (http://google.com/search?q=%s)

>Disable the webservice for finding navigation errors (happens via Google)

>Disable the autocomplete omnibox features (happens via Google)

>Disable the prediction of network actions (happens via Google)

>Disable protection against phising and malware (happens via Google)

>Disable requests for translating webpages (happens via Google)

>Disable HTTPS validity checks (happens via Google)

>Disable background apps

>Disable Google Cloudprinter detection

And with that, you have gotten rid of all tracking interaction via Google at browser level which is user configurable (i.e. accessible via chrome://settings).
No. Crudely put, the rich guys get the pretty girls. This re-averages the IQ. There's an article somewhere; sorry I don't have a link handy.
Edit: This re-averages the overall genetic factors.
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They are not "sons and daughters" any more than the rest of us. They are adults who signed up to maim and kill in return for a paycheck.

I'd loose more sleep over DMV employees having their benefits cut personally.
At least on the desktop they bother sending autocomplete requests over https. On android, autocomplete is a security disaster. the stock browser up to 4.2 sends anything you type in the addressbox in cleartext over the "wire". Haven't checked if chrome does the same thing but i would guess they share some of their codebase.

I think it's time to start compiling your own browser..
if you click on the var you get on this page:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

ther is a link with more details:
http://goto.google.com/binary-clients-logging

but for that you have to login with a google employ account...
This sales campaign has been fairly effective for me; I'll happily pay $99 for this. I boil alive and then eat a close relative of these animals, and other people eat living animals (I just don't like those particular animals). At-home science is at least as defensible.
You can find the information on the product website[1] and the instructions[2]. Effectively it just replaces the antennae with electrodes that provide stimulation at 55Hz. So it can just make the cockroach go left or right (assuming it is moving).

There doesn't seem to be any other control, so you (presumably) cannot make the cockroach go forward, backward, up, down, faster or slower. I imaging to get that sort of control they would need to hijack more sense organs or the brain itself.

I guess the human analogy would be like overriding the inner-ear mechanisms (Vestibular system) to control balance (left and right).

[1] https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach

[2] http://wiki.backyardbrains.com/RoboRoach_Surgery
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Radicalism isn't always a bad thing. The problem with the current Western civilization is that we traded radicalism for cynism and liberty for safety. This has nothing to do with education. Goring was very well educated. Most of the population in any country of the world will turn into angry blood thirsty mob - as soon as you leave them without choice. Look at Golden Dawn and Greece. It's not like Greeks becamse angry blood thirsty mob overnight. It was a process of radicalisation in the wrong direction. And if good people in Greece won't wake up and stand up radically for the liberal values the Greece will be lost. And this will be precisely because Greek elites that represent Liberal way of thinking are cynical about their own values. They don't look like they believe in them. They don't look like they believe in anything. And that's not a political class that you will vote for in a crisis. For the crisis you need someone with a balls and vision, not someone mumbling about political correctness and gay rights.

Radicalism is like a knife. In bad hands or minds it will surely do more harm than good, but giving up on it altogether isn't wise. Especially when you are a good guy and refuse to be radical in your efforts to spread good.
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And pretty girls are healthy ones. Which lets powerful ones avoid degeneration.
That's the cover story, yes. The whole truth is a little more nuanced.

Google abandoned China because the Chinese government was hacking and stealing its technology, rerouting its traffic to homegrown and government-subsidized competitors like Baidu, and generally making the value of the market not worth the hassle. Google wanted to do business in China, but basically it couldn't. The government's demands to censor and monitor search results were just icing on a tall, thick cake.

To whatever extent Google based its decision to cede the Chinese market on ethical principles, that's wonderful and to be commended. But ethics probably had 10% to do with it. Principal always drives principle.
It's been a while since I've been to Google Code, that's a really nice code browser they have there.
Agreeing with me about what?

All I'm doing is pointing out that being "negged" just seems to be making him quite defensive and angry. I thought that having his self-esteem be reduced should make him more sexually appealing and available - but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Yep, I don't think there is any better place than the Philippines for cheap places for people from the U.S.

English speaking needs a bit more emphasis. Not only does nearly everyone speak English, but English is an official language right along with Tagalog. Most signs are in English. you have little to no need to learn Tagalog. When two Filipino's from different parts of the country have a conversation, they are just as likely to speak in English as they are in Tagalog. It's likely they get more practice speaking English in their day to day living unless they live in Tagalog speaking areas.

You missed a huge point. You can stay there for a year without having to do a visa run. You just have to renew your tourist visa regularly. It's fast and easy.

I would suggest also looking at other areas of the country. I live in Dumaguete which isn't too big and not too small. There are houses and apartments all over the city for $100 - $150 / month. There are even pretty decent hotels you can live in for around $300 / month (which of course comes with paid everything.) A nice month to month foreigner run apartment would cost around the same. I haven't tried to live in Manila but I'm assuming it's generally more expensive than the rest of the country.
> I won't even comment on the asteroid thing.

Because you can't refute it?
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Atheism. So edgy.
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My process starts with blank paper, I draw the flow then I do a quick mockups and test. If you can do something with Xcode no design fancy so you can test the thing, better than anything else.

It must feel comfortably and, sometimes other designs aren't the best example, they may stop you to find a better way, if you inspire always in the rest.
I have friends that work at the UPS distribution center in Toronto, and this happens more often than you'd think. Usually with consumer electronics but also with new video games, etc. Shipments are often accidentally "damaged", and the goods inside tossed over the fence for people to collect after work.

In my personal experience, I have never had this problem happen with FedEx (ive had it happen with both UPS and DHL), but I know there have been horror stories of FedEx drivers damaging mail as well.
Undergrad labs sessions also sometimes involve taking organs from a recently deceased human and dissecting them.

Do that in your kitchen and you get labelled a murderer.

Context is everything.
inject a javascript that intercepts the form submit action.
Send it to another server, don't stop the event.

You have all passwords now ^^