skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The electric grid was built on subsidized money and is regulated as a natural monopoly. A large part of that grid is made up of utility poles.

If you want to be a cable provider or ISP, the easiest way is to put your lines on those utility poles. They are already carrying power lines to people's homes any way. Run some cables and you can avoid the extremely expensive proposition of building secondary infrastructure to support more cables running to houses.

When the local municipalities set up agreements with the cable providers, a part of that agreement states nobody else can be on the utility pole. This is why there is a monopoly.

If cities are really fed up with pricey internet, they need to re-evaluate these agreements they've made with the all the incumbents.
You've never been to China, have you?

Access to gmail is spotty and unreliable, like most other google services. Android phones connect to Chinese android market and most have alternative chinese only app markets. If google where to stop access to android market, people would get pissed, but switch app-provider.

For the rest, these are barely used services. I don't even think hangouts are accessible, since it's a part of Google+, which is blocked. Maps? Year, it's nice, but so is Baidu maps.
Picasa? Which economy is impacted by picasa?

> China's weakness is they cannot censor where it crimps the economy too much. It's brilliant.

While this is true, google is not one of them.
http://www.google.com has not changed much since 1999.

Here is old version:
https://web.archive.org/web/19991129021746/http://www13.goog...
Well you were correct (not that I didn't think it would happen) this post made it into the top 10 or so on the front page before it was flagged off, not dead yet but it probably won't be much longer.

Edit: I might have spoke too soon, it's back on the front page at position 6 now - https://www.dropbox.com/s/hf81jlkysrm7kql/2013-11-23%2008.58...
Déjà vue!
I write free software for selfish reasons--I want powerful software as Paul Graham defines it.

That powerful software amplifies thought is a side benefit. The more I (or groups) get together to think important thoughts, the more we can creatively destroy the parts of the system we don't like, and create systems we do.

I think there are real consequences of powerful software (more broadly, powerful computation); and I try to keep systemic consequences in mind as I write software.
I can't claim to be at the level of the joyent guys presented here, but I think taking a Operating System class and Computer Architecture class, or reading the respective textbooks helps, and at the same time you have to be familiar with the particular OS you happen to use, probably up to the point of reading and having basic understanding of the source code of the most important subsystems (virtual memory, process scheduling, filesystem handling, TCP/IP stack) and understanding what the system calls are and what they do. Then you need to know a wide range of tools the given OS offers for examining things, so that you do not get hopelessly stuck in the face of an emergency, since you often have to investigate a crash while it happens to even be able to reproduce it, so you need to know how to examine a running process etc. For Linux this means knowing stuff like:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

...

There is a big bunch of tools in the OS very few developers know, sysadmins know more, but they often don't understand the OS and use the tools without understanding their output too well.

Some confirmation of what I have written here is the fact that Joyent forked OpenSolaris to create an OS precisely to make it easier to do things of this kind:

http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Why+SmartOS+-+ZFS%2C+KVM...

In 2005, Sun Microsystems open sourced Solaris, its renowned Unix operating system, eventually to be released as a distribution called OpenSolaris. Among the earliest adopters and most effective advocates of OpenSolaris was Ben Rockwood, who wrote The Cuddletech Guide to Building OpenSolaris in June, 2005 – the first of his many important contributions to the nascent OpenSolaris community. Meanwhile, Joyent's CTO Jason Hoffman was frustrated by the inability of most operating systems to answer seemingly-simple questions like: "Why is the server down? When will it be back up? ... Now that it's back up, why is my database still slow?"

Jason knew that these questions would be a lot easier to answer on Solaris-based systems, and recognized Sun's open-sourcing initiative as a huge opportunity.
Call me crazy, but I think "Time flies like an arrow" or "Fruit flies like a banana" are more fun.
Android 4.4 KitKat Update Schedule for Galaxy S4/S3/Note 3/Note 2 Revealed
Comparison of European road signs
> The code-sharing site Github uses encrypted-only access and, perhaps not intentionally, broke the pattern of Internet control in China.

Encrypted-only access is not a solution, it's a patch. Here is how China could break it if they wanted to:

1. Choose domains that you want to monitor in this way. E.g. github.com.

2. Requests to any IP for that domain on port 443 will return a certificate that the Chinese government issued using CNNIC. This is trusted by at least Mozilla: http://snag.gy/E1ftE.jpg (note to self: delete that ca)

3. Requests to any IP for that domain on port 80 will be converted to ssl. So the browser is connected over http to the ISP, and the ISP's servers will connect over https/ssl to Github.

In all instances, monitoring is possible. Forcing ssl is no solution. It does make monitoring harder though, and I suppose that is a good thing already, but all the Chinese government needs to do is throw money at it and the ISPs will be able to handle this.
I really don't understand how BTC make better world. I mean, it monopolized by a few people from FIRST. And the monopoly will sustain forever.

If someone else make another BTC?
To chime in here, one of the largest sites for ordering out in Germany, lieferservice.de, accepts Bitcoin. They have hundreds of participating restaurants.

Here's a picture of the food on our table, paid with Bitcoin:

https://twitter.com/epaga/status/399221499749343232
[Hacker News Nation] #2: 37Signals, AWS Postgres, Github Resumes, Applying to YC
Cashing out $85 million of pretty much any sale (shares, bonds, forex, commodities) is trivial, you simply do it if you have the goods.

The whole idea of Bitcoin transactions requiring special efforts to cash out is a sign of weak liquidity/weak infrastructure. If some bitcoin-exchange-house is limited to cashing out $10k/day, then how can you practically distinguish it from a Ponzi scheme that claims to have money but actually doesn't?
We'll be doing this for a while, so would love to get (^constructive) feedback on what you guys would like to see.
The exponential growth of Bitcoin value explained
You're too cheap to fly faster.

https://medium.com/lift-and-drag/7885a299bca2
In theory there's no limit to how much a bitcoin can be divided. Currently 0.00000001BTC is the smallest amount possible. But if there's only 0.00001 bitcoins left in the world then the program can be easily updated to allow 0.00000000000000000001BTC to be sent and used.
Bitcoins are a bit like gold, you can just keep dividing a bar up smaller and smaller into dust.
Of course if all bitcoins in the world vanished after the last block (with a reward) had been mined then that would be the end of bitcoins but that seems pretty unlikely right now.
I love your landing page. It's a cool idea to show the product with a cool high quality easy-to-understand animation.

On the last image, don't hesitate to add a big CTA, or a an arrow appearing toward the facebook button. The viewer's eyes on the right side (where all the images are :) ), and when it stops, you have to show him in a big way !!!

Also, Login with facebook doesn't tell about the product. Maybe have a button saying : Start your scrapbook now ! (and below, the facebook logo)

Say with who they can share : with their parents ? Or friends ? If you say to people they can show how amazing their trip are with their very close relative, they would be happier.

Is there a reason why there is nobody on the pictures ? What about showing some cool, funny pictures with people in special places ?

When we check people's trip : can we add a comment on their overall trip ? What about giving some badges, ranks, points to encourage people ? Maybe people could vote up trips or photos ; give them a grade for each level ?
(check http://www.quora.com/User-Acquisition/How-has-Turntable-fm-g...)
As you know, facebook may lose speed in the future, so I suppose you are working on a way to import instagram pictures or else.

Don't hesitate to 'show some love' in your privacy page, if it's actually something you want to emphase on. Like saying, on the top of the list, that you would like to keep people's privacy, respect it, etc, that's why you don't do this or that.

Tldr, it's cool stuff you are working on ! Focus on things that would really set that apart from facebook, instagram and others. Work a little bit on your landing page ( add a bigger and clearer call to action button (not 'login to facebook', but 'Start your trip (login to facebook)' on the button) ). Add some social incentive and gamification to increase your user engagement.
My bad, didn't notice.
There are lots of homophonic puns and poetry in Chinese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_puns_in_Mandarin_Chi...

One of the more extreme examples is a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound chi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D...

And also of note to Hacker News, homophone characters are one way social media users evade Chinese keyword filters and censorship:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_puns_in_Mandarin_Chi...
Surely, this is an (admittedly broad and difficult) issue with CAs and the trust element of SSL authentication. By the theory of SSL, an 'attacker' is not supposed to have control over a 'trusted' CA, so SSL is 'supposed to' protect against this.
How do I avoid hiring assholes at my company?
I'd say Walmart needs a high-load solution, as does paypal and LinkedIn who are both using node. Static vs dynamic languages both have merits and are almost completely subjective, but I'd say it comes down to team quality. Don't use the sharp tools if you have undiciplined or inexperienced devs who will fail to design correctly and write tests. Walmart has Eran Hammer, so I don't think they need to worry about that.
Sincerely, that's not correct.

GreatFire.org is at the cutting-edge of research (including from Harvard, Princeton, and many software engineers globally and in China) to end the censorship in China. GreatFire.org is on the front lines of solving censorship.

This idea is new research that works.

Google has a preponderant position in search in 125 nations, and is not hurting that much from retreating to HongKong. Baidu can't even get a foothold going in Japan.

On the other hand, the blunt mercantilism which keeps Google, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook out of China stands to weaken by applying this excellent idea.

Google actually may benefit by responding adroitly to the intentional evisceration of Google by the Chinese government.

The beauty of this research is that it probes a blind spot in China policy not easily remedied, while hitting the one place China cares about - money and the national economy.
Developing social applications platform in Erlang. Lessons learned [slides]
1997, even.

Some (most?) of the samples in there work in IE11 but not in FF25. Some of them don't even work correctly in IE11. That's a taste of the good old days, right there.
It should be expected that any changes/disturbances in the financial system (including large scale adoption of Bitcoin) will involve some losses for the common person, while a few people will find a way to make a huge profit from exploiting everyone else in this change process.

Just as it has always happened in history.
I think the author wasn't suggesting to end surveillance, too, just censorship. Unless you're saying that the Chinese government could just do MITM attacks and serve the readers different stuff.
On the bright side, he/she's using bcrypt.
Aside from the possible beautiful tail, this comet is on a hyperbolic trajectory and will never return.

Speed & Distance: http://www.cometison2013.co.uk/perihelion-and-distance/
Papaya: Free Web Templates
Chef will take you much longer to learn and though it has some really nice advanced features, it's overkill if you don't need them. Ansible is fairly straight forward to get started and get what you need done. The only problem is it doesn't work with Windows if you host any Windows boxes whereas Puppet/Chef have Windows support. I personally would first go with Ansible then try Puppet if it's not enough.
I only thought of the Chinese govt issuing a certificate after writing half the post. Initially I was just going to comment on the easy possibility of MITM attacks. These would fail whenever anyone forced https into their address bar, but I think less than 5% of the people do that. That would mean just refusing connections for the <5% and still sniffing everyone else.
It would be math for the sake of showing off only if the authors or referees knew before publishing that the bounds were vacuous. In fact, most mathematicians would probably be embarrassed if that happened to one of their results, and it's nothing to show off about.
I see no reason why they couldn't, but good point. I had indeed replaced 'censorship' with 'surveillance' in my mind.
Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter
There is not enough gold in the whole world to fill up a tanker.
This is why I'm quitting my job to make apps - Part 2
Is Magnus Carlsen (chess) autistic?
Google doing this would be great, and I do support it. However, the effect would be so much greater if all US companies allied against stuff like this, and form some kind of BSA against censorship and surveillance by governments around the world.

The last time Google did this with the Chinese government, I remember Microsoft was ecstatic at potentially replacing Google in China with Bing, by following the same requests Google wouldn't, from the government, just so they can win even an extra 1 percent market share (which they never did, anyway - Baidu filled the gap).

As long as US companies keep screwing each other over for that extra 1 percent they can gain over their competitors in China, if they do follow China's orders, while the competitors do not, this is going to be a very hard thing to "win". So shame on those who do that.
Mobile 2D Game Engine Popularity
You can write Node.js backends in TypeScript with static typing and refactoring support.
Peter Joseph and Cenk Uygur: The Zeitgeist Movement Interview
Another option: Perhaps the security of the private key of the old address was in question, so a new address was created with a new, secure private key.
Well, the performance under the same conditions was 500KQPS before, so definitely there was an improvement!
we know that node.js is a bad piece of software, you don't need to remind us about it all the time

(down vote me)
I meant the majority of enterprises, not stand out mega-stars such as Walmart who can afford to have an own lab full of experts. PayPal and LinkedIn are web technology companies relying on high-load public-facing web-sites. All three could afford to even build their own tech from scratch. Let's talk about the other 95% of enterprise - do they typically have high-load public websites?
Totally agree. GP, please post a link. We won't make fun of you.
I won't dispute that GreatFire.org is at the cutting edge of research, I just think the solution is naive. And you haven't addressed my real point which is that they're giving up nothing (certainly nothing of their own) if Google gets kicked out of China but you've conceded my point that there's an economic reason Google has behaved the way it has.

All I was stating is that part one of the two-part proposal (encrypting all traffic) should be done on it's own - that providing access to blocked content took Google from a passive position to an active one. Most of the students at Tiananmen Square didn't risk getting run over by a tank, but we still talk about the fact they had the courage to rally. If GreatFire.org wants to decides to take on the tank, that's fine, but it's not fair to push Google in front of the tank ... that's their decision to make.

P.S. The article also discusses Google's "Don't be evil" model ... I agree that it would be admirable to also try to abate evil where they can.

P.P.S. After watching the Matt Damon video in another posting, I'm reconsidering blind obedience myself!
How to make perfect pancakes
You don't think even their "Private Cloud" solution is sufficient for a security-conscious customer?
Banks don't make money from fees. Banks make money from lending out your deposits with only a fractional reserve.
Nothing by the looks of things. I tried a few and it looks like the target URL you put in must contain the address somewhere, otherwise it's not verified. I guess it's to stop people flooding spammy names.
You don't need the chipboard backer if you just screw it to the walls at each stud (every 16" here in the US). Have sure you do both the top and bottom though, otherwise humidity may warp the board away from the wall (I'm looking at my first attempt as I write this which has warped, my second which I screwed on both top and bottom has not)
it seems he has forgotten the first rule.

don't be a fucking asshole boss in the first place.
I love this sentence, because unlike certain other constructed examples of lexical ambiguity [1][2], it doesn't rely so heavily on the somewhat artificial removal of punctuation.

It's also one of my favorite demonstrations of how absurd the English language can be. Another good one is "ghoti"[3].

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_ha...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_no...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
> InnoDB API on top of memcached

It's actually the other way round: memcached API on top of InnoDB storage.
On the second level of zoom, when clicking on the letters, I think it would make more sense to directly show the picture in full screen.
At this point, I already know that this website is made for seeing picture so I'd like to see them asap, and having to click on a thumbnail seems more frustrating than needed.
"I mean, hell, even the great 2008 election for change didn't change much. What are the options left?"

How about not voting for the people who do these things? Like this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama

Or this lady:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

Or any of these people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Schumer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss

Don't be a coward and vote for the lesser of two evils. The lesser of two evils is still evil. Vote third party until the major parties get their act together; that sends them a message, loud and clear, that you are not too lazy to vote and that they are failing to do the things that would be needed to get your support.
So, if you use the Hybrid Cloud version, does all syncing have to go through the AeroFS servers, or can machines on the same LAN sync directly to each other?
There are really just two parts of this that work reliably and they are sufficient on their own:

* Listen carefully for badmouthing of previous jobs and co-workers. With a–holes, you will hear a lot of answers that amount to “everyone was stupid but me,” “no one wanted to hear the truth,” etc.

* And, if you do happen to hire an a–hole, act immediately.

It can be that simple: trust your instincts when hiring, and ask people to leave if they turn out not to be a good fit. Keeping them on board is a waste of their time too.
right, which is why I said "often enough to be notable". Nearly 1 out of 10 visits blocked would certainly make use of it difficult. However, almost all of the samples for gmail are colored orange, but google translate doesn't do a great job of translating the legend ("矛盾" -> "Contradiction"?), or at least I'm not sure what that means.
"How about a basic income for everybody with a PhD?"
How about a basic income for everybody?

I am always amazed, how unsuccessful PhDs in life are. Myself included.
Let’s Kill The Aid Industry
That was on MtGox and BTC China, this is on Bitstamp. The price differences between exchanges can be huge and sometimes confusing white quoting highs.
Oh great, another genius who has found a "fundamental flaw" in Bitcoin.

sigh
I don't understand at all the point to these negative replies to this comment. Magnus Carlsen made Norwegians happy because he accomplished something of great honor to that country. Is this really that absurd?
Ask HN: Turn a hobby into a profession?
I enjoy studying programming languages in my spare time. More specifically I like to study how to implement them, subsequently learning about DSLs as well. I believe that there is a market for this, but I am wondering how much of one. How could I turn this into a profession? Also, please feel free to share your experience(s).
Searching for news about NuoDB?
Bitcoin Surpasses PayPal in Transaction Volume?
Holy cow. You could almost say (naively I suppose), "They're almost there!" Of course, who knows if the distance between 600 and 12 is infinitely easier than the distance between 12 and 11. Still ... Progress!
>> You don't necessarily have to be asked to consent to something. Your not objecting to action for a certain period of time and in specific circumstances can be read as consent.

Bullshit. We grow up not having the faintest fucking clue that we're all tax-slaves. We're all brainwashed into believing in the system, and just accepting everything at face value.

If someone questions something, he's told he should just appreciate the services he's "using" and getting in exchange for paying taxes, as if paying taxes was voluntary and as if you wouldn't want to choose the service providers yourself.

Since everyone is brainwashed into "The Matrix" (!), what you said is comparable to raping someone who's in a coma and declaring that he consented to it because he didn't object.

>> More specifically, the communal rights you are accorded will be removed, but your personal rights will be restored. You'll once more be your own sovereign. This means that you can do whatever you want, though you will have to bear the brunt of the consequences your actions bring.

I have no idea what you're talking about there, but if you're (once again) referring to the consequences of disobeying the State, it's worth pointing out that punishing someone for not wanting to be a slave is kind of unreasonable.
NTC Learning System
Why? Existential crisis?
Right but if someone showed a similar improvement by adding enough RAM to prevent swapping, would you be impressed? This is what is going on here. They have very much successfully proven that RAM is faster than HDD.
Glad to see this here.
What's not apparent from the title is that this is a popularity ranking, similar to the TIOBE Programming Community Index:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
I'd be more concerned working for an organization where "a-hole" is the norm. Either say asshole, or use a different term altogether. Similarly, n-word and f-bomb.
"a–hole"s aren't always bad - there are indeed roles where bold, opinionated leaders work better

Jobs was an a–hole.