skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in Seattle, I had CondoInternet fiber which offered 100 mbps for $60/mo and gigabit for $120/mo.

Then I moved to Santa Clara, and my options are Comcast (currently paying for $50/mo for 50 mbps and actually receiving 10 mbps) or 24 mbps AT&T Uverse for $60/mo.

Why does Silicon Valley, of all places, have such slow and anachronistic Internet options?
Fucking good. Just because it's publicly viewable doesn't grant a license for use. Getty should know that.
No. I chose to be employed.

This has nothing to do with me anyway. I gave an example of a factor preventing someone from publishing code since you claimed "absolutely none exists."
Flagged for possibly being a joke.
Intel wakes up and smells the post-PC era
Many summers years ago, during an internship, I got tasked with setting up a development machine from old parts lying around the office. One of those parts was an, even at the time, ancient hard drive. When I first powered the computer up everything turned on just fine, but it couldn't recognize the disk. I'd run into bad hard drives before, no big deal.I went to my bosses boss, an older engineer who had seen a thing or two, and told him we'd need another drive. He took the thing out and gave it a good hard twist, and told me to try again. Lo and behold, it worked!

He explained that sometimes when older hard drives have been powered off for many years the head some times sticks to the platter and doing what he did can fix it. I could barely believe that the phenomenon was actually real. I've spoken to a few people over the years about heads sticking to platters and it turns out, while it isn't (or wasn't?) exactly common, it's not exactly rare either.
Since counting numbers are so regular I've always wondered why finding primes is so hard. Then again I have no hair so using combs is a mystery.
I am planning to release my 1st ios title in December. There are no IAP and it is not a side-scroller :-) Do you have any advice for new apps on initial pricing, how to determine it, etc?
I think this is a completely fair point. Things in mathematics are astoundingly interconnected and you never know whether a seemingly benign proof will turn out to be the key to unlocking something much more pivotal.
Can anyone tell me if there is reason for this in bash?

DEST=~~/public/walmart.graphs
Top Tesla exec George Blankenship departs
This is futile, the collision chance is unlikely low - the only thing that IS worthwile is doing dictionary attacks on brainwallets!
It's a few years old now, but Table 5 here is interesting from that perspective, showing percentage of workers in countries without minimum wages, who are instead covered by a union minimum wage: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2005/07/study/tn0507101s...

Countries like Denmark and Austria are sometimes touted as examples of how you can have no minimum wage and still good working conditions, but they really do have something very close to a minimum wage. It's negotiated through a corporatist labor framework rather than passed directly by a legislature, but the end result is that 98% of Austrian workers and about 85% of Danish workers are covered by a minimum wage (in Denmark it is 109 DKK, about €15/hr).

Germany by contrast has much lower rates of union coverage (69% as of 2003, and rapidly dropping), making that mechanism less effective. One solution could be to introduce a de jure minimum wage, as Germany now seems likely to do. Another solution could be to change Germany's labor framework so it's closer to the one that prevails in Denmark and Austria, countries that have systems that more or less guarantee that large workplaces are always unionized.
> rely on using your own words

People used to say they would "program their VCR".

Also, I didn't in any way mean to imply that they were definitely different. I did say "I look at coding and programming as different things" as opposed to "Coding and programming are different things".
c'est l'Internet.
It was presented at a LA techweek, so I assume it's supposed to be real.
One of the reasons computers are so much stronger than humans, especially in the endgame, is because they have incredibly large pre-calculated tablebases[1] of 3, 4, 5 and 6 piece positions. So, if a computer calculates ahead 15 moves, and reaches a 6 piece ending, it already knows the exact evaluation of this position. And in some of these cases, the number of moves from that position to the final position (forced draw or checkmate) can be 10-100 moves [2]. But it is already calculated, the computer doesn't have to go any further. So in effect, the computer calculating 15 or 20 moves ahead in a late stage position can actually be calculating 50 or 100 moves ahead.

This is why the second part of Carlsen's quote is so important:

"Sometimes 15 to 20 moves ahead. But the trick is evaluating the position at the end of those calculations."

A human sees a late game position and has to actually calculate it all the way to its conclusion or at least a key position where they are confident of the evaluation [3]. A computer doesn't have to, and believe me, some of those 6 piece endgame positions are really weird. You move a piece just one innocuous looking square and it can alter the outcome from a win to a draw. There in fact were many endgame positions throughout chess history which were considered solved, only for the evaluation to change after a brute force calculation.

I'm not particularly good at chess [4], but in slow games I will routinely calculate 10 moves ahead in some sharp positions. Now, I'm not comparing my calculating ability to a GM, which is obviously better in every way, but the fact that a GM calculates 15-20 moves ahead is not why they are good. It is that at every step of that calculation they are evaluating the position incredibly accurately and are deciding the right moves to calculate.

In fact, due to the horizon effect, the reason computers got a lot better than humans wasn't due to raw calculation speed, it was due to massive improvements in their evaluation ability (like endgame tablebases) allowing them to put that massive calculation advantage to good use.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase

2: All of which are already in the tablebase by definition, because you can't add to the number of pieces on the chess board

3: For example, if I can calculate a position to where I have a rook and a king and you only have a king, I don't have to think any further, I know this is a win for me.

4: ~1300 rating
Spotify raises $250 million at a $4 billion valuation
TextExpander rejected
It's nice looking to start, and I really like your logo, but I fail to understand what your site is about.

"Where you get updates about your favorite band, sports team, gadgets...", ok, I get that, but it isn't 'the place I get updates', I get updates from Twitter, following them on Facebook, I've never heard of Rileeq before, so you'll have to show me that my favorites are already there before I sign-up.

Also, what does the photo of the guy and girl on the bike have to do with your product? I don't think it's an appropriate photo.
Katie Couric reportedly leaving ABC to launch interview show with Yahoo
All of their other products sound surreal in nature and are most likely fake. Well done though!
Thank you, I really enjoy detailed write-ups like this. It is fascinating to see how an engineer approaches an elusive problem.
Some basic calculations (based on creating 30000 bitcoin keys per second) tell me it would take you approximately 1.2239x10e60 centuries just to get through 1% of all possible addresses.

Math is fun.
Sure. {n, n + 2, n + 4} is a 3-tuple that is not admissible: One of n, n + 2, and n + 4 will always be divisible by three, so the tuple has no chance to ever represent three prime numbers for one value of n. (Except for n = 3.)

Conversely, {n, n + 2, n + 6} is an admissible 3-tuple. There's no fixed integer that will always divide at least one of n, n + 2, and n + 6, so we believe that there are infinitely many n for which n, n + 2, and n + 6 are all prime.
From the article: "This doesn't have to mean providing public financing. One way is to offer regulatory flexibility, speeding up the process of acquiring permits."

Seems Ars is similarly citing unspecified regulations. It's often the case that regulations that vary by city aren't the most straightforward topic to describe.
>>You simply need to have supporting documentation to defeat an audit if the IRS audits your return and challenges to applicability of the capital gains rates.

This is the crux of the matter: what supporting documentation will be sufficient for the IRS? As Silk Road and other black market operations show, it is not easy to trace transactions and ascertain ownership.

The flip side is that hopefully one can try to use the blockchain to "prove" to the IRS that even though coins may have been transferred to different addresses (example: cold storage address cycling), all such addresses in the chain were owned by the same owner which would substantiate and satisfy the IRS.

Fun times.
Quoting a colleague of mine that I asked this of today:

"No data is leaked provided the encryption scheme is IND-CPA. AES CBC with a random IV is believed to meet that security definition (within a bound of ~2^64 separate encryptions with the same key and assuming the AES PRP is itself secure)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext_indistinguishability
I'm sorry, I misspoke. Not centuries. 1.2239x10e60 millennia.
Frederick Sanger: The father of genomics
If you store binaries on the system and the system can recognize them, it could change the served versions to insert malware.

This attack isn't purely theoretical. I believe Ian Goldberg and David Wagner's group at UC Berkeley demonstrated it in the 1990s against a LAN-based NFS server that was serving shared software to workstations. Instead of making the NFS server itself malicious, they raced against it to provide modified binaries that the workstations would then execute. However, if the NFS server had been malicious, it could have carried out the same attack, without directly leaking user data to the Internet.

I guess this is a reference to that work:

https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/endpoint-security.ht...

If you could compromise workstations this way, you could then try to find another channel through which to have the workstations themselves exfiltrate data. One example might be a variant on the Telex system:

https://telex.cc/

Instead of signaling Internet routers with requests to browse censored websites, you could signal them with the content of exfiltrated files.
"Born in 1999, Nicolas Dupont is currently a high school student attending a prominent Preparatory School in Central Florida. This young prodigy, founder of Cyborg Industries, will be unveiling his four groundbreaking innovations during his unique session at Techweek LA. These innovative inventions will launch the start of a new era in computing, and will offer instantaneous data transfer, limitless data compression, and truly unbreakable encryption. Nicolas will be hosting his session at 2 PM, on November 21st, where he will be revealing his revolutionary technology for the first time ever. Solely developed by Nicolas, these innovations and inventions will provide multiple markets with a truly limitless technology."
Here are more details:

Spectrocable, his first invention to be launched and brought to market, is a new optical fiber system that uses 16 million different colors to increase data transfer speeds significantly, compared to technologies on the market today. With Spectrocable, data transfer will be instantaneous which will revolutionize the way we use the internet and share information. For example, the entire 40TB of the Library of Congress could be downloaded in less than half a second. At Techweek Los Angeles, Dupont will be demoing this technology and revealing how it works for the first time with a working prototype.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/14-year-old-inventor...
> It relies on an old fork of Webkit that has none of the features of the modern web, no GPU support, and a lot of outright bugs

That's really not true. It's an old version of Webkit NOW, yes, but it wasn't when it was still being updated all the way up to Android 4.0. And it absolutely has GPU support - it's had GPU accelerated compositing for CSS 3D transforms, fixed position elements, and scrollable divs since 3.0. It had all that before Chrome did.

In fact Chrome's GPU & rendering architecture today matches what Android Browser has had since 4.1. Chrome had to catch up to Android Browser in many respects.

> I'm hoping all the OEMs build their own browsers off the Chromium WebView that ships in KitKat

Chromium WebView is a requirement. Unless OEMs decide to start maintaining their own webkit forks (something they have not done so far), there will be nothing else but Chromium on Android from 4.4 onwards.
My sentence was poorly written. I wanted to say "Programming is the critical thinking aspects of developing software and critical thinking is a skill that everyone should master: starting with children."

I don't want everyone to think like programmers. I want programmers to think like everyone else and hope some day that everyone can be programmers.

> It seems like you have a horse in this race.

Ya. We do. We've been working on a new development methodology and from that a visual object language and framework. Initially we coded against the framework but have found that you can visually represent usage of the framework equally well.

> really appropriate for programming beyond toys (or maybe data modeling, but not procedural programming)

Funny you say that. I also agree if you are using traditional approaches to software development (aka procedure programming). However, our framework does not use procedural programming per-se in that it has no paramaterized procedures/methods/functions/sub-routines.
People used silver for a long time too, but it was demonetized in 20th century.

http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/silver-a-brief-history-of-d...
Was JFK assassinated by mossad over israeli nukes?
I hope you realize this isn't a rational argument.
Some silliness going on here. OK, it's clear, he can look through it and see his students reactions as he writes, OK. The writing is backwards so no one can read it direct, it is shown by camera flipped. Then there's no point in all the extra stuff to make the lines fluoresce since it is unreadable unaltered anyway. He just needed a clear touch surface, which is common anyway since we slap them on top of LCDs in countless products. Making the unreadable lines bright is actually a disadvantage, since they are unreadable and they are blocking the sight between the parties.
It's always April 1st somewhere!

Edit: I've once thought of a system which would allow virtually unlimited compression, the only drawback is that it would take an insane amount of time to execute.

Imagine a chess board, a 8x8 grid of alternating black and white tiles. Now you write an algorithm that performs permutations, 2 by 2, 4 by 4, etc, in a predefined order.

If you do enough permutations, at some point you're going to have all the white tiles on one side of the board, and the black ones on the other side.

You can now store your board as its size, 2 expressions representing the 2 halfs, and the number of permutations you need to reach the original state.

Looking forward to additional info on this joke/hoax!
Split/ Segment/ Divide/ Separate a DVD9 into 2 DVD5s by title and chapter
This is a tutorial for "DVD Copy - customize split" copy mode of DVDFab . Split a DVD9 into 2 DVD5s by title and chapter.letting you avoid the expense of a DVD9 blank but still get a high quality backup copy with little or no compression.
Also it's a fantastic file converter & transfer which can rip and convert DVD/Blu-ray movies or transfer your local files to various portable devices like iPod,iPhone,PSP,cell phone,ZUNE,etc.
About DVDFab:http://www.dvdfab.com/
DVDFab is the all-in-one software package for copying Blu-ray/DVD and converting video files.
Great advice. One more thing is the slow down in metabolism that occurs as one gets older which means that diet plays a much larger role in contributing to overall fitness and flab eradication.
Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. Imagine Visa/Mastercard suddenly decided, as a way to combat credit card fraud, that a human had to visually verify the transaction, and that would take anywhere between 2 and 5 minutes. It would end the use of cards in the majority of in-person transactions.
Canadian governmental guidance is just as vague (for a layman) as IRS guidance. Broadly speaking, the government issued a statement saying that digital currencies are taxable. Exactly how they're going to be characterized (income vs. capital gains) is the key question for many people.

Reading both the digital currency fact sheet linked and the referenced Canada Income Tax Act[1] doesn't give a clear indication of how bitcoins will be characterized.

Back taxes, penalties and accrued interest are nasty surprises to be receiving down the road. Whether the amounts in question are modest or large, it's never fun to be on the receiving end. Unfortunately, I speak from experience. The age-old issue is brought to the forefront here where taxdollars pay for income tax agencies to pursue you and prove your innocence. Given that audits are supposedly a small percentage of the overall tax-filing population, once you are selected or flagged, the onus is on the filer to substantiate all claims and characterizations, and hope that the tax agencies concur.

[1] http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tp/it479r/README.html
People often refer to Seth Godin's The Dip as a book that helps address this question. Personally, I didn't find it all that insightful, but I'm mentioning it here anyway to solicit others' opinions.
The logo was a bit confusing to me, it looks nice but it doesn't really communicate a concept I can understand and connect to the site. You would have to give me something more than a landing page and a facebook connect prompt for me to sign up.... although I can get to the terms of service fine, knowing what exactly the service is and what it looks like and why it's awesome is kind of difficult to uncover.

I can tell it's supposed to be some kind of aggregator or feed or... something. But it's so generic... show me something to care about.

tl;dr - less sizzle more steak.
It's tough to decide, but don't hesitate to be over 99 cents. People will pay for quality, but look at similar games and their costs. If your game is a 2D puzzle game, you don't want to be priced with Call of Duty etc...

Also, December is a busy month because EA and the big guys all do a lot of sales. January is much quieter, but up to you :)
Because the author is a bad writer, a very very bad writer :(
a proxy for the public opinion of a company's net worth

vs.

current trading price of something with no intrinsic value
I think any skills can be created and honed by highschoolers.

But I think it's extremely rare in the cases you mentioned.
Check out this graphic http://atlas.media.mit.edu/explore/tree_map/export/chl/all/s...
Wouldn't that would work against you unless you cash out your gains slowly to avoid being flagged?

I mean, if you have no proof of the OTC transaction, then on whichever amount the government tried to contest they may try to tax you on the full value of the coins at time of sale versus only taxing you on the (presumably positive) price delta.
I don't know about you, but no, I can't do that.
"Spectrocable, data transfer will be instantaneous"

So... he solved the issue of going past the speed of light?

I think the DOD just found their MVP for the next 10 000 years for he shall sit upon a golden throne and rule mankind with that kind of intellect.
Good point. If they outsourced the enforcement to a private contractor, the contractor could charge the government 10 times the actual operating expenses, keep any tax actually collected as an incentive bonus, and their employees would be underpaid with worthless benefits, so they will be constantly surly and take out their frustrations on the filthy tax evading scum. There's no downside!
iOS Engineer Wanted at drchrono
Find me this girl, get $500.
Previous discussion here

272 points, 93 comments, 3 days ago.
I can't wait to see in which format HN decides to shit on it.
You're not actually under the impression that Bitcoin value will maintain value over time, are you? If you use banks because of the "cost" of holding cash then you will very well have to engage in the same type of speculation as the "cost" of holding Bitcoin. At least the bank can effectively guarantee your investment will be worth more in numerical terms over time, raw Bitcoin can guarantee no such thing.
Concorde happened. The market didn't sustain it.
Your first link doesn't contain a single complaint claiming that people's videos were not viewed. It does, however, link to the second link, and the other two links it contains make no references to this sort of complaint.

The second link has exactly one person clearly stating that they've received zero launches and zero video plays. There is a second person that states "Yeah, same here. We had a workflow setup to send us notifications if any new used the app and received none." Notice that he/she doesn't mention video plays.

So, in total, we have exactly one person that says that they've received zero launches and zero video plays. If I've unfairly characterized the data behind your links, please let me know. But that's all that I can find.

In trying to find out if they have a valid complaint, I've discovered that the person behind that complaint is responsible for a significant portion of all of the discussions and complaints at the challenge site.

One thing is clear: their submission is in the same area as the winning entry. In their shoes, I might be disappointed for that reason alone. But for the sake of transparency, here are the two entries:

The winning entry (which is admittedly being evaluated to see if they conformed to all rules):

http://salesforce1million.challengepost.com/submissions/18552-healthcare-love

The entry for the person or group that claimed that their video was never viewed:

http://vimeo.com/79921465

In any case, I encourage you to look at the two videos and tell me if you think there was an injustice with the rank ordering.
Games aren't a stepping stone. The holodeck is just the ultimate game.
Yeah, sabbaticals are not unheard of. I think Larry Page and Sergey Brin are still on academic leave from Stanford, and only recently Harvard kicked Mark Zuckerberg out after his sabbatical took longer than expected.