skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s better. We have things like fibre and VDSL2 with unlimited caps now. Like properly unlimited ones (not just "unlimited"). You can get a gigabit internet connection -- or even dark fibre between private premises -- in many cases.

For example, one residential ISP just released a statement apparently clarifying their policy regarding "unlimited" plans [1]:

“Customers are free to go crazy and use as much data as they want. We have some customers using nine terabytes per month on our residential unlimited plans which shows just how unlimited they really are."

9TB at home?!

Personally I use a different ISP at my house: I have ADSL2+ and get a quota of 260 GB per month for about $50. This is a "naked" service so I receive it via a copper line whose regular landline dial-tone service has been disconnected.

[1] https://www.orcon.net.nz/about/article/orcons_unlimited_broa...
One of the biggest problems with bitcoin as a currency that i see, is that everyone still deals in usd amounts and comparison when offering products, when webhosting is a flat btc price regardless of market fluctuations and when people buy and sell items based on their btc price without first translating it into a fiat currency equivalent, that is when bitcoin will truly be mainstream.
I used to go tour Williamsburg as a child. I used to love the shot towers and the tricorns and the proximity to the beach. I used to love the ferrier and the the legislators and the town harlot. I had been to jamestown and I had been to my own family's homestead which predated Williamsburg and their delicious recreation of a duck potpie. I respected Jamestown and I like to think even as a child I knew the recreation for what it was, the type of people who'd be there and yes, I too, would rather be wearing a uniform and protecting ponies on assiteague but creative anachronism at jamestown pays better because more people want to visit pocohontas than get yelled at for swimming with horses.

I guess my point is hackers are like ren faire workers these days. the problems are and have always been people not who works for them.
An easy solution is just to use different profiles. Chrome supports having different users on the same browser. I use this feature at work to keep corp and private profiles separate.
Social justice is a cult. It's dogmatic, it's detached from reality, and it's insane. I hate all cults equally.

I've pointed out numerous lies being perpetrated by your cohorts (or, more likely, sockpuppets) in this thread.

You won't get anywhere with shit. Not here. You need to just go.
Off on a tangent here, but I'm curious if you're willing to divulge, does your religious bend ever conflict with you being a biochemistry major, and if so how do you resolve the conflictions?
You have hit upon a truth that many do not ever discover. What you take into your hands or eyes, you take into yourself.

If you read negative hateful rubbish, it will rub off on you.

If you watch a lot of pron, you will develop a warped sense of what human relationships are about.

If you absorb a lot of politics from a biased (one way or the other) source, you will start to dehumanise your political opponents.

Balance and real human discussions are the key. Your time is precious. Your keystrokes are precious - you only so many of them - http://keysleft.com/ - don't waste your keystrokes of pointless ragefests.
I'm glad all of these threads happened. Now I know that Coinbase isn't a reputable company and I should never trust them with my money.

All of these posts show the truth, even when YC posts things like this:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/coinbase-yc-s12-is-becoming-the-...
A decade later you stumble across code they still had checked out in the ancient VSS repo. And then the rest of your day is a bit crappier.
This is great. As I develop as an engineer I feel more and more confident about my abilities; great to read something like this blast away the Dunning-Kruger effect and help me recognize I still have a lot to learn. And not just about particular technologies. Very humbling.
I would note that being "the Island" in combination with "the Hoarder" is probably symptomatic of Social Anxiety. (Speaking from experience.)
Sure. Perception, physical labor, bodily danger, advancement prospects, hours, locations, unions, a direct involvement in the lives of others, and, if you like, social status. Fine. Are you gonna drop the relevant part on me now?
Ask HN: Mailing list options?
I have a blog which I wrote myself in PHP. I want to create a mailing list sign up so people can receive my updates by email. My web host has a limit of 150 outbound emails an hour so I looked at mail chimp and for a mailing list of only 10,000 emails they want about $80 a month. This seems rather high seeing as I'm only going to be sending a post or two on an average month.

Are there any alternatives or services I should know about which can do this more affordably?
I like to summarize all that with: No fat Somalians.

People tend not to argue.
I'd rather be a writer or an artist working on one's creation and dropping dead than die for someone's marginal materialistic desires.

It doesn't seem to me like he died "for" work.

People die, often randomly, and sometimes at surprisingly young ages. It's a Gompertz curve. With the Internet, we hear about it a lot more than we would have, 25 or 50 years ago (even though early death was more common in the past).

I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, but I don't think we have any good reason to assume his death was work-related.
The crazy thing for me is that i keep getting advertised with my own products. Just a bit of bug-finding on the company site, and voila! that's all I see, no matter where I go.

The funny thing is when people with no clue about how internet advertising works, and they rage at a site for advertising something. Something like 'I cannot believe your site has ads for XYZ! That is outrageous and hypocritical!'. When there is a good chance they have been shopping for XYZ themselves, and that's why the ad popped up.
Great advice. Thanks for sharing!
Things get a bit more strange when you don't meet the people you work with. I work somewhere with a large staff that's entirely remote. In the five years that I've been working here, we've had three deaths (so that's about 1 in 400). One was a very grotesque suicide by somebody who was very unhappy and everyone they interacted with knew it. The other two were strokes. The whole company gets an email when this happens but little more than that. I don't even think we offer grief counseling.

I'm very senior here and know that I worked with the people but don't remember any of their names by now. Very few people do, in fact. Only one person I know remembers the name of the guy who killed himself.

There is one name that I remember though. We had a guy who had a very debilitating stroke and tried to come back to work. After about a month of some incredibly strange behavior from him, he was let go. He just never came back the same after his stroke.

Sitting down all day is really bad for your health. So is not having regular interaction with other people. When working remote it's really important to have some regular group activity that you do.
Show HN: [x] driven development
Thanks for sponsoring the Telegram product. (Even though I think what they are trying to do could be done much better.)

Could you please ask the Telegram team to post the exact contents of the first message that Paul sent to Nick, except with the secret email address X'ed out? I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937631 that if the MT protocol is secure, then there is no risk in posting such a "known plaintext", so the Telegram team should have no problem posting it.
These aren't simply customer quibbles, Coinbase is literally causing customers to lose thousands of dollars of their own money. They clearly are an untrustworthy company, and people should be informed - especially when there are large sums of money on the line.
Standard programming model? Please stop. You have two options with CUDA, no one is tying your hands in a knot, NVidia doesn't have a committee setting standards on which of their 2 flavors of toolkit you need to use. You are so biased it hurts.

Considering you use OpenCL at work every day it would help all the hackers here if you don't spread mistruths. There are no statics in opencl unless they are in constant memory and set in the program source. And we both know constant memory is quite limited and this fact would require you to interpolate your data into a byte array to sprintf it into source.

There are no persistent global in opencl. You must pass all your globals to your kernel. We both know setKernelArg is persistent across kernel calls- but who cares? In CUDA you don't need an argument and you don't need to dereference it either. Way better.

http://www.khronos.org/message_boards/showthread.php/6437-Gl...
Karoushi incidents are national news and are rare (although overwork is common, for reasons that are too much to get into in this post). These also happen in Korea and other parts of Asia; more so than Japan now, possibly.

I'm breath taken by the casual disregard for life that you imply the Japanese have.
One might say that random pseudo-scientific crap is another unfortunate thing expelled by Fukushima.

I mean, however ridiculous the "whatever is happening, it must be radiation" crowd might be, the serious, ongoing disaster in Fukushima makes their opposites, technological panglossians, seem at least as dangerous.
And here are chesses from 3 to infinity.

http://www.chessvariants.org/alphabet.html
Do you have some sort of contact? Like IRC/Steam or something?
I don't consider a computer properly open unless (if I had the available fab tech) I could replicate every part by spec and program everything with blueprints and documentation without breaking any bullcrap trademark or patent without just reproducing the parts verbatim (IE, using novel circuit printing, re-implement the hardware of the computer itself with no barriers and complete information, I am lenient on having short-term no direct replication proceedings, though I think those are still dumb).

The fact that seems so impossible I believe is one of the reasons our IP and information sharing ideologies are so completely fucked right now.
This happened to me last year. A young guy with a wife and two kids hit his head getting out of a cab and died a few days later from sudden complications. He was the life of the party type of guy, kinda like the Kramer of the group. Really well liked. I had a voicemail from him on my phone that I hadn't listened to yet.

It really does make you think for a while that you shouldn't take any day for granted. But, just like in the article, after a few months we all just settle back into our routines.
I know you've actually read this thread (we're the only ones at this point!) so you know my original comment was in reply to wavefunction, who claimed the "GOP blocked closing down Gitmo". So your comment about Presidential power being bound by legislation was apropos of nothing?
Derek, I did the same thing 6 years ago.

I ended up north of you by just a tad bit, in Takaka. It was a long and winding 90 minute drive to get to Nelson, but it definitely felt like the "big city" compared to Golden Bay.

When people ask me how my 3 years in New Zealand were, it's hard for me to answer. A part of me was working hard, so I spent most of my hours behind my desk, at home, looking at the paddocks across the street. You could have probably put a backdrop behind that window and it would have felt like a beach in Fiji, or downtown Munich, etc. When I wasn't behind my desk however, it was a big realization that I was far away from home. After traveling to Europe for conferences a lot, you begin to realize that you are IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (or somewhere). It is very far from everything else. A 90 minute drive to Nelson, a flight to Auckland, a 14 hour flight to LAX, then a 12 hour flight to Heathrow. Yikes. When I'd get back to my little house in Takaka however... it felt like home. Small towns, beautiful scenery, great people. My only downfall was that I actually ended up yearning for a market like Whole Foods. I was used to having a HUGE selection of everything to fill my taste buds, and that's hard to come by unless you are in some of the larger cities there. Get ready for a lot of fish and chips, and beetroot on hamburgers. I bet you $100 you're going to miss your asian cuisine... badly.

That said, here is a list of things that come to mind:

- Go to the Mussel Inn near Onekaka in the evening. Enjoy their beer, food, and chat with the owner Andrew who has great stories (he's the tall guy that looks like Bob Dylan).

- Meet up with Galen King in Nelson. He's a good friend, a smart technologist, and a great person.

- Go to Collingwood and hit up the chocolatier there, Rosie Glows.

- Walk around Te Waikoropupū springs and be amazed.

I wouldn't trade the experience for anything (my second kid was even born there!). Enjoy New Zealand, and make sure to check out Australia while you're down there too. You're close as you're ever going to be =)

Noho ora mai rā, nā!
This can be re-written almost as "the development of the young programmer" where the external forces exert themselves and you get forced into some of the roles...
- sometimes the pressure is speed of project completion
- sometimes the pressure is production quality
- sometimes the pressure is code quality / reusability
- sometimes the pressure is following specs
- sometimes the pressure is "looking modern"
- sometimes the culture is whack and needs to be changed
- sometimes the pressure is team communication
- sometimes your tech stack only includes an AS400

Whatever the pressure you can seemingly get pidgeon-holed. I think this is where experience comes in and can guide you to the happy medium where external pressures are ignored and you balance the best you can.
If it's ever used in court, it'll be construed as a hacker or terrorist tool by some barely literate computer forensic "expert".
For $55M they designed two fairly sophisticated processors and were working on the third generation. It's possible they could have been leaner, but I don't know by how much.
I have read a line (it might have been Steve Wozniak, or perhaps even Paul Graham, I forget) but it said that, when the idea of 'Personal Computer' was mentioned, it was audacious, like saying 'Personal Satellite' now.

When the term PC was coined, computers were fridge sized horrifically expensive things that ran in research institutions and very large companies. The idea of having your own was...crazy.

It is weird how the name has come to mean something based on the Wintel nexus, but that's marketing and differentiation for you.
Or even use a proper IDE to code other than gedit/notepad !!
You know, I'd almost be willing to give ad companies access to my credit card statements, so they'd know when I bought something and stop telling me to buy it.

And I bet ad companies realize this. This privacy-invasion paradigm is only getting started.
Intel packages a "microcode" Linux module to inject said fixes at OS boot. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&...
Are you talking about suicide? The man in the article died of natural causes.

Even so, I totally agree with regards to failure and its magnitude not necessarily (or even frequently) having a relationship to the self loathing one can feel due to that failure.

I struggle with this a couple times a year. Holding one's self to overly high standards can be unhealthy.
That's actually at the very core in why I went into biochemistry (aside from a naive belief in the triviality of curing cancer and the abundance of nobel prizes). In studying biochemistry I'm able to see how the math and the physics and the chemistry become biology. That is, I can actually know how life works and comes into being. I'll tell you what, God is the ultimate programmer. My studies have only worked to strengthen my faith.
Options for home broadband have improved, but cellular data speeds are low and free wifi is uncommon.
Ask HN: Can any of you use a technical video tutorial creator/trainer?
Hi.
I am looking for work and figure there are tons of software start ups that could use a person like me to learn their software and then produces video tutorials. Here is an example of my work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GK4oEr-XKA

My info is in my profile.
The first Xbox also had unified memory. If it was that similar to a PC, you'd expect there to be several good Xbox emulators around.
That's a good question, it was...10, 11 years ago? I think it was spring or early summer. Looking back, I think the endless ceremonies, reminiscing, room naming...his office was a shrine for a couple months and nobody emptied it of his personal affects until his widow came and asked...I think it extended out the difficult feelings longer than it would have if everybody had been driven back to work or gone on vacations or something.
Add some consistency checks on your probability distributions (do the marginals sum up?).

What makes articles like this impressive is that they involve a problem at a different level of abstraction. For example, what if your model didn't work because multiplication broke for specific inputs?
This makes no sense.

過労死 is just a compound word basically consisting of "too much work death."

Using your "they have a word for it so it's common and blithely ignored" logic, you could say that "infanticide" happens all the time and is ignored in English-speaking countries simply because there's a word for it.
Don't agree.

Something like "because my kids can receive great education here" would be a great answer, but just "lovin' it" means nothing. And having good friends is not a good reason either, because real friends are those that stay close to you when you are far away.

Moreover, I'd say adult people's life should not be constructed around their kids. It should be the opposite: kids follow their parents where they go until they can fly alone. I think it has been the case for most of humanity most of the time (the only exceptions could have been "baby kings" like Louis XIII, but they do not count).

In the same vein, if you father or mother love hiking, find a way to hike with kids. If you love snorkeling just teach them to snorkel early. If you prefer reading books at home just stay at home. They will follow. Having happy parents is the best gift for kids.

In our new society, having kids often means becoming their slave, and you are frowned upon if you dare keeping your hobbies once you have them. This is one of the most worrying mistakes I can imagine. I mean educational mistake. Kids do not need, or even like to be baby dictators.
It's easy to blame the government but the majority of Americans vote for the government they have or none at all. That means they are either happy with it or they're incompetent and should not be allowed to vote. It's easy to blame politicians but really it's the short-sighted self-interested voters who are at fault. If you vote for a party with a history of doing terrible things then you are asking them to do more terrible things.
You make what you should make in SV - I think 100-120 base is about average for new hires. Guys at Buffer are underpaid though.
It might just be that the next generation grows up knowing about this incredible range of renumeration that exists and has less personal self esteem caught up in that number. A grocery bagger knows his doctor neighbor makes more than him. But perhaps his personal self worth is less tied into that and doesn't really care. I think such information is much more transparent than it's been historically.
recently(not quite) there was a talk in php internals about changing that.

read this:

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2013/09/t-paamayim-nekudotayi...
i don't mean this crassly: that CEO probably needs more than one assistant, from the sounds of it.
I'm also glad people are posting about Coinbase. Thankfully I've only entrusted them with 1 BTC...but I will surely not be using them for anything else.
The thing is that Buffer does not pay well... I will say that they pay on the lower side of acceptable.
Hacker News would be better off with a long-form blogpost about the business and technical aspects of this purported problem with Coinbase.
A Secret clearance also comes with a cost. You will have to accept a level of control from the government. You will have to agree that you will be subject to harsher penalties than a typical citizen, if you pass on ANY classified information to an authorised person. For example, reading or passing on a Snowden document, without authorisation, will become a crime for you. An individual can't revoke the clearance once granted, so the obligations last a lifetime.

A Secret clearance isn't a romantic carte blanche to read secret documents of your choosing. That world is compartmentalised and you will be fed information on a "need to know" basis. In a computer analogy, a clearance isn't a loosening of permissions, but a tightening, in that you are agreeing to harsher penalties if you stray outside the boundaries of what others decide you "need to know".
That's fine that they can reverse transactions that are fraud. However after investigating the transaction and determining that it isn't fraud, then they should be on the hook for honoring the transaction. Incorrectly flagging legitimate transactions as fraudulent is their problem, not the customer's. They should either improve the algorithm or provide additional controls that give them confidence that a transaction is not fraudulent (e.g. two factor authentication. linking bank accounts and confirming a person's identity). If a person has completed all the security requirements Coinbase has, then that person should be able to make a transaction with the confidence actually will clear.
This blog piece is not a taxonomy. A real taxonomy would provide sample taxa living or stuffed in formaldehyde.

At most, this piece is just a literary exercise that provides no solutions for the imaginary problems it suggests.

I would definitely change my opinion if facts were pointed to of actual projects and persons.
Reminded me of the classic flame warriors, but lacking the artwork.

[NSFHN] http://www.flamewarriorsguide.com/
I understand the down votes, and kind of expected it. But this is the actual practical reality, guys. Large software companies avoid GPLv3 like the plague. If you want your software to be used widely, then you need to use BSD/MIT/Apache/etc.