skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree, and my musings to the contrary were mostly just spitballing.

But to play devil's advocate because it's fun: to the degree to which it is useful to hold onto the currency you also use as a medium of exchange, then perhaps that does provide a value floor. In other words--assuming it is successful as a means of exchange--the fact that you have to pay a transaction cost to get out of a BTC position means you'd rather hold onto BTCs so you can use them later at no penalty. So then they would have intrinsic value, based on your aversion to trading them for something else; anything that makes you want to hold BTC other than their market price counts. The question there because which is the chicken and which the egg: being a successful means of exchange or being a good store of value? And of course, whether that transaction fee provides a meaningful enough floor.

I'm not convinced of that either, and it's especially weird to have the thing enforcing the floor to be falling, but it's fun to think about.
Ehm, but Google Fiber doesn't respect net neutrality, see multiple posts on HN about them forbidding servers on the network...
And that begs the question, if someone from China or India who comes here (as in many cases) with a few hundred $ and starts up a successful business, why can't someone who's born and brought up here and afforded all privileges, does not? My guess: motivation, ( the desire to work hard and succeed and not wallow in a sea of self-pity).

BTW I think that arguments also applies to the rabble who whine and moan about "foreign workers" taking "American jobs". Sure there are cases of abuse of the H1 and other visas, but on balance it has largely benefited the tech community.
IIRC either the original Xbox or the Xbox 360 was sometimes modded/jailbroken by using a modified firmware for the internal DVD drive. Not exactly the same thing, but in the same vein.
Ask HN: What happens to money provided by YC/VC if startup fails?
Let's say startup concept is liked by VC and they provide initial funds. Later, say after 3 months , startup fails. What happens to money provided by VC ? Do they execute binding agreements to return money they had provided ? What are legal implications ?
Ive always wondered why people stick to a browser, for instance why hang on to IE 10 when you can switch to IE 11?
Sysadmins of the world, unite - Appelbaum, Assange, Sarah Harrison.
Ha, made me smirk. I personally believe in creation. anyways I think it is easy to feel like there is some sort of 'cosmic' intervention beyond evolution, to help people feel a sense of purpose and place in our world and universe.
Statistically speaking because I am short I am less likely to do well in my career compared to tall people. If you told me that my code sucked because I was short, I would be pretty mad at you.

Yes, there are differences between the genders recorded by science - but you don't have to choose between science and being a good person. Science doesn't compel anyone to attempt to apply statistical differences over a large group to individuals.

Furthermore, a difference that is proven now proves nothing other than the current state of affairs. It doesn't dictate what things would be if playing fields were more level, nor does it dictate how things should be or how things will be.
Because the telcos are currently enjoying a "natural monopoly". The cost of entry to become a telco is so high, that normal competitive forces do not apply.

In situations like this, one role of government is to regulate these natural monopolies to protect citizens.

One such regulation, for instance, is that the power company cannot shut off your power in the middle of winter in Minnesota without fulfilling some pretty stringent criteria.
If this is a riff on the US, the whole premise is flawed. Only 16% of US millionaires inherited their wealth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire

That means 84% of US millionaires earned it themselves. White, black or otherwise, for most of the wealthy, it still requires a lifetime of hard work to achieve it.
Without wanting to appear "middlebrow dismissive", you can't really reach the correlation conclusion, since we have no data on the daily activities of unsuccessful people.

On the other hand, successful people will have daily activities pretty much by definition, since you very probably will have to be an expert on some thing if you are successful at it (successful amateurs are very rare), and virtually the only way to be an expert at something is to do it every day.
Actually you are sort of wrong in both cases. Because a) drone is moving; b) drone can take multiple pictures; c) multiple drones can take pictures simultaneously.

In case of multiple drones taking pictures, these can be synchronized using GPS time, down to a microsecond. And knowing the GPS coordinates of each drone you can recover the image. Pretty much with arbitrary quality. (& If you are really good at it and the object is stationary, you can do it even through heavy fog. I'm not kidding, you really can - I can point you to some fancy research in computer vision, that allows you to do just that.).
The telcos don't owe users anything more than is specified in the contract. The telcos are a company; there is no moral reason to force the ISPs to do anything more than they contracted to do.

Instead of having everyone continue to be pissed off at the shitty monopolistic telcos, and having the telcos continue to be pissed off because we keep demanding that the government squash the telcos' rights to provide a shitty service, let's work to change the situation so that telcos don't get exclusive rights to public resources like land and spectrum.
> No, when you have the website you don't need to "google" it.

You have the company name, not necessarily the website. It could be .com, .net and probably reasonably well a few other ones.
this article is from april?!
> Can you give more context on the quote you cite? I'm not sure how staring at the ground addresses suicide risk, as I do not believe anyone is dying of boredom here.

First i thought that was the idea, but I think "the ground" is "the aftermath" here, as in bodies and carnage on the ground.
The problem is that telecom is already a heavy regulated area (for historical and technical reasons). Besides this, connecting to your competitor network is going to be always a rigged game, just a handful of players will connect between them, that leads to monopoly... So I think it is virtually impossible to setup your own new company... I live in France and it is quite interesting to see the raise of the provider Free.fr, quite impressive how they defied all other big companies... (Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this ISP).

edit: typos.
The writer was an Air Force imagery analyst.

"Heather Linebaugh served in the United Stated Air Force from 2009 until March 2012. She worked in intelligence as an imagery analyst and geo-spatial analyst for the drone program during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan."

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/heather-linebaugh
Across all cultures (perhaps across all of history), women are more risk averse.

In fact, feminist activists didn't push to get more women into tech until tech was a higher paying, lower risk endeavor.

Only then did it become scandalous that young women were choosing different career paths (but interestingly, the fact that young women are earning more than young men and graduating from college in far greater rates than young men isn't scandalous).
The upcoming USB standard connector is apparently going to adapt and extend most of the nice features of Lightning. There is a nice article on appleinsider about it [1].

I'll bet that the new EU standard adapts that, rather than enshrining some current solution. In fact, the sort-of-non-mandatory previous EU standard (which was micro-USB) was allowed to expire, since they were working on the next one.

As for whether this is possible - yes, it's certainly possible to require compliance with a certain standard as part of product certification for marketing in the EU. To what extent they want to make it mandatory (extra fees, or outright requirement if you want to market in the EU) - we'll see.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/04/next-gen-usb-conne...
Because switching is harder than not.
If you're interested in Toyota's manufacturing principles, "The Toyota Way" by Jeffrey Liker is worth reading.
That has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality.

Forbidding servers on their network is a completely rational stance for them to take.

Do you also get upset at "all-you-can-eat" buffets when they don't let you fill a barrel full of food to take home and eat later?
I agree with you on principle, if there was a free market for providing internet services. However, this is totally not the case .. ISPs gain local monopolies by virtue of agreements with local governments.

For example, Verizon struck a deal to provide fiber access a few years ago with my parents' hometown. Part of this deal was that no other provider could do the same.

This impinges on the subscriber's freedom to leave for another provider, so your argument falls flat, unless you are ready to invalidate all such agreements with local governments.
This is a ridiculous practical weakness to the web we have created. At a technical level it is designed to be relatively decentralised and fault tolerant, but what we have built on top is anything but :(
How's the 'invisible hand' working for healthcare again?

I'm very against government regulation, but something it's necessary.
The question to ask is this: if this law were already in place, would Apple (or any manufacturer) ever innovate something like Lightning or the magnetic mac chargers, given that they then also have to support the common standard, putting them at a significant cost disadvantage?

This kind of regulation, while arguably well-meaning, always seems to end up distorting market forces and discouraging innovation.
The problem with MOOCs is that they have a pretty low retention rate. Sure you can repeat the material until you know it, but how many people actually will? The benefit of having a physical class is that you can turn to the professor or TAs for help if you're having trouble. It's also more difficult to completely fall behind because there are milestones in place (tests, assignments, projects, etc.). This isn't to say that MOOCs don't have their place, but they are not a replacement for the traditional classroom model.
I have written two different web apps (Clojure+Clojurescript: http://my-foc.us/ and using Meteor: http://our-foc.us/) that I have used.

I am also experimenting with the Deft package for Emacs that is pretty good.
Agreed totally, except for the order of what should happen. The monopolies, which are usually granted by agreements with local governments, should end first.
Consumers don't have the flexibility to decide if they're dealing with only a small number of sellers working in collusion. The cost of entry into this market is astronomically high -- even Google, with all its money and all the dark fiber it snapped up, hasn't established a foothold yet.

Setting up telecommunications networks is expensive and legally complex, and the resources involved are extremely limited. The likelihood of a functioning free market in this space is essentially nil. In the absence of a functioning free market, the government is the only entity with the authority to apply regulations for the benefit of the citizenry.
That's been cleared up. You can run personal servers from your home.
Me yes, but the bash/vi/emacs guys not.
The punishment should fit the crime, and I believe the punishment was far too excessive. In my opinion, I think a solution exists where when one searches for rap genius, rap genius results are on top, not on the 7th page.

I am not defending rap genius for what they did, but criticizing Google for their actions.
Cue 1000 barely-thought-out comparisons with other snippets of history and pseudo-intellectual posturing ad infinitum. Welcome to Hacker News.
Is there a way to download this? It won't buffer properly for me for some reason.

(EDIT: Also, I don't know who made that video interface, but a "HD" button where clicking does not make it obvious whether or not you set or unset the HD option and have to wait for the video to load or not is pretty terrible)
I would love to see someone take the speculation of blackmail further. It's obviously speculation and not fact, but it's reasonable speculation that is entirely possible and no longer in the realm of tin-foil hattery and that's why it matters. We no longer required a tortured conspiracy theory to consider blackmail a likely explanation of why this horrific judgement was made, and that's frightening in and of itself.
AQ doesn't buy directly from Juniper (I think), but they definitely use networks which are Juniper powered (at least based on the Juniper sales volumes I saw going to Middle Eastern carriers). The point would be to attack a carrier in a foreign country, then use that to attack their users (who may be AQ).
Ever heard of that thing called inertia?
The USB type C connector is currently under development (slim form factor and reversible), Apple should just make the effort to ensure it's compatible with the Lightning connector, e.g. license the design. Problem solved.
Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care
I agree; I just shrugged and made a mental note to use Bing whenever I look for lyrics. I already use it for image searching and translation.
The home cable broadband is in competition with ADSL throughout much of the nation...

Except the only cable company and the only phone company often collude to convince the state legislature to outlaw anything that could actually compete with them, like municipal fiber projects.
The only thing that needs to be enforced is anti-trust law. Monopolies are what give ISPs the ability, and perhaps the incentive, to filter and editorialize the Internet. The FTC should be involved in defending consumers against those behaviors.

Net neutrality arises naturally. It didn't need enforcement 30 years ago. In some contexts, like exotic network protocols, it may not even make sense.

I wouldn't care much if it was a limited authority granted to the FCC, but they are claiming an authority which is limitless in scope and using net neutrality as an excuse to exercise it.
It's not simplistic at all.

I'm currently a junior in college, and I read this last year by suggestion of another student who said it was an excellent precursor to our college's Computer Organization course (haven't taken it yet, so I don't know). It was also one of the books given to one of the CS department's Outstanding Seniors last year.

The beginning is a little slow if you know some physics, but it picks up and gets really interesting.
So stick with whatever you want, but what gives you the right to demand that by law, Apple must support your preferred charger configuration? If you don't like what Apple has to offer, vote with your wallet and choose a different vendor.
That's a rather poor example - healthcare is an exceptionally heavily-regulated industry. There's an argument to be made that many of the ills in the industry are a result of over-regulation.
How do I write an adding function?
In a far off land, bounceyball was the national sport. A funny cross between basketball and volleyball, it was hugely popular, and to be a professional player was considered the most prestigious occupation.

A minor scandal erupted when was noted that there were few women in the co-ed national league, and a huge about of effort was made to recruit female players. Every family wanted the prestige, fame, and fortune that came with having a daughter in the league. Male players wanted more females playing so it didn't feel like a damn sausagefest all the time, and to help with dating (for some odd reason, most
male bounceyball players were surprisingly unattractive).

Eventually it was suggested that the problem lay upstream, so major efforts were made to recruit teenage girls for the middle and high school leagues, which were also coed.

However, for some reason this attempt also failed.
Finally, an anonymous poster on the Internet noted that, as a broad generalization, taller bounceyball players were more suited to the game, scoring more points. Perhaps a gender difference in height was to blame, discouraging female players and hurting them in the draft. The poster tracked down these differences in height to a disparity in average male and female birth weights, and suggested that perhaps a cocktail of experimental prenatal hormones (primarily testosterone), continued until age 15, would do the trick.

The anonymous poster was promptly downvoted and the discussion turned to topics of sexism, discrimination, and cultural bias in the bounceyball leagues. Various horror stories were recounted by female bounceyball players and a new round of self-flagellation began among those in the industry.
A clever idea I read about scheduling recurring jobs is to use prime numbers for interval durations to avoid inadvertent synchronization of jobs.
It still use sequential matching[0]. What i meant is something like AST implementation in routing algorithm, which is obviously faster than sequential algorithm [1] [2]

[0]: https://github.com/jmathai/epiphany/blob/master/src/EpiRoute...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm

[2]: http://blog.bigbinary.com/2013/01/29/journey-into-rails-rout...
How do you propose to distribute access to fiber networks laid in public land, then? Are the new competitors in these markets going to make individual contracts with every property owner they come in contact with, too?
i'm a total newbie at technology and programming. I'm an accountant, but in the last year I've developed a passion for computing and learning to code. I was never exposed to coding or making growing up, everything was a dark hole or a black box that just worked (most of the time). My answer to your question is that if you want to 'reach' or 'help' them your energy will mostly be wasted. You can't install curiosity, motivation, or a lust for knowledge in a person. They have to want it, there is already enough resources to keep anyone's head spinning. (at least there is for me)
It may be a mistake to assume that small alternative cryptocurrencies are automatically viable. 51% attacks may become a severe problem, especially for very small mining networks. We may eventually see enough 51% attacks on altcoins that most people revert to the few largest networks (Bitcoin, Litecoin, and maybe a couple more). Or maybe we won't, and each new altcoin inflates the system.
Ask HN: How much money is enough?
Facing a potential exit and not sure if I should take it.
That is still light years ahead of coding with vi/emacs in UNIX SYSTEM V style, like many here still seem to do.

I only do it when I am left without any other choice, maybe growing up with Amiga/Smalltalk/Oberon GUIs has spoiled me.
I was wrong: Chrome OS Web Traffic Share According to StatCounter
I used to live in France, DSL providers are a joke here. Verizon advertised $30 for single play (no phone, no television). In the end they added "fees" and taxes (what those are not included?), the price was $56 per month. The router is as shitty as it gets too. Now I moved and for $55 I have cable with optimum and it's way better. Still more expensive than Free, and still no tv/phone included.
Apple is not going to do that.
Your argument is that the free market will favor ISPs that support/don't oppose net-neutrality.

I argue that most people won't care about their "choice" (air quotes, because most people can't pick from more than 2 ISPs) of ISP until it's too late.

Already you have ISPs throttling access to streaming video sites (netflix, youtube, twitch) with little to no REAL blowback.

With the barriers to entry as high as they are, there's no way for a competitor to succeed in the market solely on the basis of being net-neutral.

Google Fiber, in markets where it's available, has led to competitors reducing prices and offering better service. However, there's no word of change regarding net neutrality.
Yes.

It's not simplistic at all. It's easy to understand, but it goes fairly in depth as to the internals of computing.

It has a very incremental approach. It starts with Morse code, Braille, numbering systems, moves on to logic gates, Boolean logic until it reaches microprocessors, character encoding, operating systems and finally some notes on high-level languages.

It's renowned as a classic anywhere you go. Very entertaining, too. It has a casual writing style.
I didn't even know he had published anything in the field of theoretical informatics.
I don't understand this. It's pretty much standardised on micro-usb anyway. Any enforcement of this is just going to be a pain as better technologies arise (USB type C).
I'm usually for standards however in the case of apple, it's basically it's own standard and in the case of MagSafe far superior.
> metrosexual stuff.

That's a funny word, to me. Apparently grooming has a lot to do with sexual orientation.
I don't think the product itself is disliked, just the founders.
Sure. And if industry collusion is such a shitty practice, just let the consumers decide.
Thank you, i made an assumption, i thought it was published on behalf of an anonymous source.
Maybe they'll force manufacturers to use that hideous new USB 3.0 Micro-B standard. Personally, I'd much rather use a great connector designed by someone at Apple (such as Lightning, MagSafe, etc.) than one chosen by a bureaucrat.
Are you talking about first party connectors? We have projects in rural primary schools in Malawi and are yet to have single cable failure with our dozens of lightning iPads there.
Telcos and cablecos that own the lines in the ground are not an ordinary company; they often have a monopoly granted by the city that prevents others from running a parallel physical deployment, which would be wasteful anyway. Further, the last mile physical deployments are often subsidized by taxes.

As you say in your second paragraph, removing the exclusive rights held by telcos and cablecos would be one option, but since running parallel cables is physically wasteful, I'd prefer common ownership or regulation of the last mile to save companies and customers the expense of running a parallel cable, while ensuring competition beyond the last mile.
The only entity capable of governing, is government in some form or another.
You are coming off as incredibly pretentious. I was unaware that by typing in the search field and expecting relevant results I wasn't using Google correctly.
I suppose using it as a claim for unlimited authority isn't a good situation, but I don't know if I see breaking net neutrality as being a trust.

Considering where the term anti-trust came from, ISPs who block certain sites without customer consent aren't really being monopolistic in nature. Which makes, to me, defending net neutrality a separate issue than breaking trusts and monopolies...
https://d3fenhwk93s16g.cloudfront.net/9r2j9t/webm.webm

Would appear to be a direct link (you'll probably want to right-click, save as). Sorry if this is uncouth.
"It's hard to determine how bad some of the less nasty communist regimes such as Cuba and Vietnam would have been without massive economic sanctions from the US"

Hahahahaha. Have you taken a good, long look at the U.S. recently (not via U.S. state-propoganda-driven media)?
I did. Which is why I have a Nokia Lumia 820 (which charges via USB or wireless charger).

It's not about preferred configuration. It's about not producing tonnes of electronic waste by having to require an unreasonable magnitude of charger and device configurations.
The distinguishing factor should be how the government protects net neutrality. Should the FCC have a limitless authority to regulate the Internet, which they happen to apply to net neutrality for now? Or should the FTC have authority to bring suits against monopolistic ISPs to discourage these behaviors?
Yes, the cables shipped with the devices.