skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel like a jerk, actually, for asking a reasonable question (especially since you indicate in other replies that the room is backed by a company credit card). Do you feel like a jerk for either your snarky responses or your complicity in small-time theft (unless you called out those who did abuse the minibar and not pay)?

If novotel isn't charging the company credit card for all incidentals after-the-fact, then yes, I think they're doing business foolishly in that regard. And it's hardly news that being dishonest can get you free things - so can shoplifting from the grocery, why not simplify your life and just do that if you want free cashews so badly?
Funny you should mention Santa Cruz, as I've also noticed there's a variety of styles of coffee shop in the area.

There's Verve downtown, where low table-density in a big room with a high ceiling creates islands where patrons can isolate themselves from one another. I'm guessing this makes it a place where (mostly young?) people can be productive on their devices.

Then there's a place like Lulu's (right across the street!), that's more cramped and has a more traditional/low-light ambiance, where it's basically impossible to ignore the people around you (I hope I don't make it sound like that's a bad thing).
>Who would have thought that a brand new language wouldn't have the features, library support and optimization that the more popular languages have?

Because there are "brand new languages" out there that are more mature than Go, and better than it for his needs. Scala and Clojure come to mind, but even something like Nimrod would be perfectly capable.

You mention it as if being "new" is some kind of excuse.
"They were fined for not doing their job"

Which in this case was also the SEC's job... Your statement doesn't contradict refub's
Microwaving bread briefly can make it de-stale long enough to eat.
> "Can" result, perhaps, but there seems to be little real word data behind that claim.

The wording of the claim is particularly relevant. You seemed to acknowledge it, but then ignored it. The claim doesn't require data; it's using a priori reasoning. In particular, it assumes that the GPL is one potential road block preventing certain entities from using software. If a roadblock is removed, then that can result in a larger community. (N.B. Removing a road block, in and of itself, doesn't imply that more people will come.)

This is specifically one practical reason why I use permissive licenses. I want to maximize the number of people using my software. If I use the GPL, due to its infectious nature, people tell me they can't use it because their employer won't allow it. This conflicts with my goal of maximizing the number of people who can use my software.

> As a counter example: The Linux kernel seems to be the most commercially backed OSS project of all. If what you say would be true, why would the major players not flock to the BSD:s instead?

That's not a counter example. The claim in question here does not imply that GPL projects cannot have large communities.
And for testing your servers: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
Sub $500 4K Monitor
That $50 is not what you actually pay. You'll find another 12 or so fees and taxes on land lines and cell phones which can add up to another $10-$15.

One which really rankles me is the telcos charge a fee to comply with the law. Tmo currently charge almost two dollars a line per month for that ("Regulatory Programs Fee"). I kid you not - the fee literally is for them to comply with legal requirements. This is all a side effect of the regulatory capture of the FCC.

Here are the taxes for California http://www.mywireless.org/state-issues/california/ - and note that doesn't cover federal taxes. You can see a sample tmobile bill on their support site - http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1101 - and notice the section at the bottom taking up almost a quarter of the space is the taxes. They didn't include their fees in that example either.
Some info on how to correct this on common browsers where it can be corrected (I use FF 26; marked bad, and comments in this thread say that some of the problems can be fixed) would be a great improvement.
Spreed.io - Desktop-sharing via browser
To contribute a little to an excellent post:

The best class I ever took was Race, Rhetoric, and Poetry, which stitched together early African-American poetry and hiphop. The central thesis of the class was that self-expression is proof of humanity, especially for African-Americans: one of the most iconic parts of being a slave (and thus being subhuman) was illiteracy; just as Wheatley, Hammond, et al argued their humanity through their works (explicitly and implicitly), generations of hip hop artists escaped their fates by recording their life and finding success in the written and spoken word.

There's a lot of depth and lineage in hiphop, lurking barely under the surface: whether it's Drake sampling Gil Scott-Heron who references Nat Turner, or Kanye cribbing Nina Simone's cover of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit (which of course was written by Abel Meeropol). There's a reason that self-glorification and bildungsromans are such pervasive motifs; it's not just self-aggrandizement, its self-affirmation.

If hip-hop was a codebase, it would be a massive lump of spaghetti, spiraling into itself with migraine-inducing dependencies. It would be impossible to refactor or decouple, and I mean this in an incredibly positive way.
Perhaps it doesn't work that well because people don't have any software that can pay attention to that automatically.
Steko - I think toomuchtodo is asking if you get unlimited voice/text and a comparable amount of data for that amount of money with AT&T.
@pc: You guys should allow authorizations to last much longer than 7 days. PayPal allows up to 30 days before expiration.
I highly disagree that the N5 is more comparable to the 5C than the 5S [1]. It matches or beats the 5S on almost every single spec.

1. http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Google-Nexus-5,Appl...
From what I see he has been the CEO for a little over 2 years.

In business, 2 years is not a long time at all.

My personal opinion is it's unprofessional and not appropriate language. (I can see by the downvotes that others don't agree).

If you are an entertainer that's one thing and you can be outrageous so you stand out (but you probably wouldn't even in all entertainment venues). [1] But you also don't want to come across as a lose canon either. In business people need to feel they can trust you and one of the things they look for is a certain amount of conformity to accepted standards.

Maybe this example will make sense. You meet the woman of your dreams. You want to marry her. You would die if you lost her. It's that important. You meet her father and grandfather. How will you behave? Will you watch what you say a bit? Or will you act the same way as with your fraternity brothers or friends when you are just hanging out?

[1] And yes I can definitely see the PR value of what he is doing.
You get tethering when you switch to the mobile share plan. If you are grandfathered into the unlimited plan then you don't get tethering.
Breaks on some broken websites without a bunch of fallbacks/workarounds in place. They are in newer Firefox versions, though.
Whatever, but that's not what the current legislation says.

Which JPM agreed to be in compliance with in order to be granted a license to go out and do this "banking" thing.
How Valve Is Building A New Way To Play Games
It's not my project, but I'm sure it's useful for you.

I use it for presentations, so there is no need for clients to install remote viewing software.
> Starbucks doesn't sell good coffee and tea and yet they are packed.

Arguably, the first clause of that sentence is disproved by the second one.

I'm not particularly fond of Starbucks coffee, either. But clearly plenty of people are, and their preferences are no less valid than mine.
Crap political work is necessary in any complex cooperative human endeavor.

Communication is complex, and no matter how careful at scale there will be misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and bruised egos.

Resources are limited, and reaching a decision, if not a consensus, is an important part of successful engineering.

Time is valuable, and at times for survival a feature must be cut and a product direction abandoned. The handling of the removal of responsibilities and resources is necessary, but never something that is happily accepted by everyone.
You can't get it directly from tmo any more, but you can get it from Walmart http://see.walmart.com/t-mobile/ (jump to plans)
The feds get uninvited: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/for-first-time-ever-...
Bitcoin's Intentions
Not every possible action is a freedom. There is no right to own others in any cohesive ethical framework. (It would violate the principle that all humans ought to have the same rights.)
No, but if you have £9 a day you can buy a single loaf of bread and still have £8 left over.

I guess if you were homeless it might be worth £9 a day to have somewhere warm and indoors to stay, but the free entry museums, art galleries and libraries don't seem to get full of homeless people.

I have heard reports of 'pay what you like' restaurants getting filled up with homeless people, so I can see where you're coming from.
I use language like that in certain settings as well. But not in business. And not in a college interview.

Now if I was going to hire you for a big freelance project and you used language like that over the phone while I was asking you some questions it would definitely change my confidence in hiring you.
There's a really neat talk on reverse engineering the 6502: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5miMbqYB4E

It's pretty long but well worth a listen, there's some really fascinating stuff in it.
Do you have some stats? I'm interested in the "TLS Compression" part (e.g. can I remove the breach-mitigation-rails gem from my project)
So that's half the problem - the other half is the locked handsets. With TMobile, you pay for unlocked you get a fully unlocked handset. If you are on the TMO installment plan, your phone is locked until you pay up, at which point they unlock it - no 2 years required.
Fast-Paced Best Seller: Author Russell Blake Thrives on Volumes
How do you understand something like Webkit? Its so huge.
When I get a chance to finish the 6GB of the District Courts I'll try and remember to come back and update you all

However, I can say that I extracted my state's cases and it came out to 100k+ so it's certainly more comprehensive than any other free data source (for my state)

EDIT: Downloads went down (Dropbox) right as I posted so I reached out to author to see how to get my hands on the rest of the files

FINAL EDIT: See my note below about him being on vacation and taking a look when he gets back near better internet.
Not at all.

The Transmeta is a really fascinating CPU architecture based around "code morphing", modern CPUs use something at a bit of a lower level: micro-op translation.
All I can say is when I started working for Ben back in 1999, he was relentless in his passion for HipHop and Rap, and spent some time trying to educate us in the difference between the two genres. His love for that broad category of music goes way back. Also possibly related - the Oakland Raiders were his favorite team at the time...
This sounds ridiculously frugal, but if you're hard up for cash but have a freezer and a toaster, then freezing bread and toasting it up again can make some pretty awesome sandwiches. You can also stick really cheap bulk-buy cheese on it and make a mini cheese toastie.

That said, if I were still poor, I wouldn't want to keep my stuff in the freezer at one of these pay-per-minute cafes, because it'd be gone by the next time you got to it. I also assume that they lock up at night, so I'm not really sure how this'd help vagrants all that much.

However, if you happened to be lucky with the other people in the cafe (i.e. no-one being obnoxious or noisy), then it makes a ridiculously cheap coworking space.
defuse? a new superyacht is just going to make this worse. i mean seriously, why can't they take caltrain?
Just for the record, the FSF considers software licensed under permissive licenses to be "free software" (assuming no patent issues). The worry is that future modifications may not remain free software.
Seriously. It's pretty funny to see a community that normally goes straight for the jugular on dismissing personal experience in favor of demands for data completely abandon that when it's /their/ personal experience being questioned (and, in this case, it's one of the few that we actually have great science on).
It's just my experience, but the people I know for whom Java was a genuinely first language seem to have a harder time than anyone else grokking pointers.
There are a number of results about a giant connected component emerging as a Erdos-Renyi random graph increases in size.

A hub however will simply arise as the result of variance.
Finding a low-memory browser
Indeed, Google Books actually does this.
Or his little sister.
This guy reminds me of the Poochie character from the The Simpsons. Poochie was a dog on the Itchy and Scratchy show that they created to try and make the show more edgy and cool. Poochie wore sunglasses, a backwards hat, and carried around a surfboard saying hip things.
> You aren't often clicking an icon in a 3D game.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying. In case I'm not, here are some counterexamples.

Check out the first two pictures in this thread (most things on that UI are clickable):

https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/leaked...

Clickable chat UI (Planetside 2):

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6746/planetside2201302131...

Clickable UI within a 3D world (Doom 3 had a bunch of these):

http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_super/gamespot/imag...
They didn't tell Madoff's banker probably because they couldn't as a result of Chinese wall requirements between the two businesses. They didn't tell the SEC because they were in London, but they did tell the UK authorities. Why didn't the UK authorities figure it out? Why should JPM, which sort-of has the job of detecting fraud, be expected to do better than the regulators for whom it is their primary purpose?
You can "fix" the result on this webpage by flipping some settings in Firefox, but it will cause some websites to no longer work (guess why they aren't defaulted?). Newer versions (27 and up) will detect this and work around appropriately. They also have those settings by default.

If you absolutely require this website to tell you you're safe so you get a warm fuzzy feeling and can sleep at night, update to Firefox Beta. Don't just randomly go and change the settings, then wonder 2 weeks later why your banking website no longer works.

Also note that the site marks Firefox as Bad with TLS 1.0 because it can't verify for sure whether you have BEAST mitigation. But Firefox has BEAST mitigation.
That was my understanding, yes. On Balanced you have to have a customer record with an associated card to do a debit.
Intel was doing micro-op translation way before 2005...it was something they introduced with the Pentium Pro. Their patent problems with transmeta was probably coincidental infringement (in that one can patent the obvious).

Transmeta's code morphing was quite different: they were going to VLIW instead of RISCy Pentium Pro operands. It never worked very well, but for the same reason Itanium/Merced failed: it is just really hard to transparently schedule VLIW instructions efficiently without programmer intervention.
I already replace it with Emacs
Desmos Calculator and the inverse proportionality of price (free) and value
>Now if I was going to hire you for a big freelance project and you used language like that over the phone while I was asking you some questions it would definitely change my confidence in hiring you.

And that would make rethink working for you.

What's the problem with the language?
Myo's gesture-control bracelet makes using Kinect look like drunk charades
Is the cafe very loud? Are people generally respectful of each other? These are the only real concerns I'd have with using such a cafe as a working space.
Have a look at http://opensignal.com/ - the map is built by data submitted from their app on phones. Unfortunately they do not show areas where the phone reports no signal.

In my area (Santa Cruz, CA) tmo are weak. Heck I barely get coverage in my house, and walking along West Cliff drive has sections with no coverage. Verizon is strong.

However I very rarely actually use the phone as a phone so I mostly don't care.
Snowden Left in Russia’s Cold as Obama Prepares NSA Limit
I've emailed Jonathan at his Stanford email to ask him to put it up as a torrent

Will update if I hear back
In many old city centers, there isn't much room for segregated routing.

Also, why would pedestrians or even cyclists care about one way streets? Even if they do, consider the case where streams of cyclists enter a one way street just in front of an automatic car. That could easily happen in Amsterdam (for an impression, see http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/amsterdam-bicyc... or http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/world/europe/a-sea-of-bike...)
I don't "throw" it. I speak the way I normally speak. It has come up as a problem before with non-jargony terms too. I'll use something like "modus operandi" or whatever and get blank stares from people. Actually, a recent one I remember using that got blank stares was just "cryptography". That was actually awesome because I knew the etymology off the top of my head, so teaching that one was fun.
What Start-ups Can Learn From Sports
Start-ups are a wonderful part of our generation. They are constantly pushing to achieve greatness, create new opportunities and disrupt old, but more importantly broken, sectors. Something that I have realised over my short time working in the start-up world is what they can learn from successful sports teams.
Reddit, like HN, actually deals with a huge range of sources where all the content is written very differently.

News sites are written consistently. All news stories follow the same format, with the first paragraphs summarising the story. The news site knows if a picture in the story is relevant.

Reddit & HN actually tell us nothing about the best format for news because they quite literally can't serve their links up in a format like this. Each source is too different.

Though I also think it's too busy. But I do not agree at all that HN or Reddit can tell us anything about news sites.
I like it. You should also take a look at these:

https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer

https://github.com/dennybritz/rails_startup_template
Did you? It isn't about speed, it is about scaling.
http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-somewhereinamerica-lyrics#note-19...

Jay-Z is fairly well known to have reached considerable wealth prior to Reasonable Doubt. The 'Classic Albums: Reasonable Doubt' doc covers this quite well. The route of selling 'In My Lifetime' out of his car was one in turn that he escaped.
I hope you didn't infer from my comment that I'm a NoSQL proponent. SQL may suck, but E. F. Codd is a god.
France slaps Google with Euro 150,000 fine
This assumes that people are going there for the drinks. Given the statement by the parent poster, it seems that they're hanging around long after they've finished their drinks, so that's probably not the reason they're there.
Shoot, you are correct! Thanks for the correction.
The information in that article is incorrect. The Café at Google Campus is (and has always been) free to use, although the tea and coffee is indeed paid separately. Alternatively you can pay to become a 'Resident' on the other floors where you can enjoy free tea and coffee.

I think the author was hoping to encourage startups out of the free seats! ;)

[1] - Campus London FAQ - http://www.campuslondon.com/faq/

[2] - Campus London Price List (managed by TechHub) - http://www.techhub.com/blog/types-of-membership/
Life becomes less valuable when you can do less with it. In the extreme case, we could all spend our lives in styrofoam boxes hooked up to feeding tubes, but what sort of life would that be? I would argue, a valueless one.

Is a collective devaluing of human life worth saving a few individual lives?

Consider if we cut down all trees within a dozen or so meters of roads, and installed guardrails everywhere. We could probably save many lives, but at the cost of devaluing the beauty of the countryside. Everyone's lives would become just that much more depressingly monotonous and sterile, for the sake of a preventing a few roadside deaths.

Safety should not be our society's primary concern. Quality of life is a much better thing to strive for.
Interesting.

FWIW, this isn't 30 hz vs 60 hz. My windows box is limited to the same 30 hz and has no issues.
The Verge sends usernames/passwords without SSL
He does mention his 'distaste for higher education'. I assume he's just too spineless to drop out and is trying to get someone else to force it on him.
Replying here, since HN likes me to calm down or something and hides the direct reply link.

First of all: Thanks a lot for taking me somewhat serious. :)

This is enforced by the letter of my company that states "Our Employee is staying in your hotel. We will cover his room, breakfast, wifi, parking. Please charge the following CC". Everything else is my business. If I eat at the hotel's restaurant I can charge that to my room. When I check out, I have to pay up for the things that aren't cleared for the CC - i.e. still open.

Even if I steal from the hotel and run off with the couch in this room: The company specifically offered their CC for a number of services, paying for me stealing furniture isn't part of that agreement. If I break something they cannot charge the company CC (but at a certain amount will certainly ask my company, which is on file and well-known, to relay a bill to me).

Just having a CC number is not enough to charge it with random things.
The first Chinese game console: Huawei’s Tron
Show HN: UChicago Roulette - WebRTC Chatroulette clone (currently open to all)
You throw around that phrase "in business" a lot. Guess what, TMobile is "in business". They do lots of business. So it works.

Sorry if the profanity bothers you. I consider the anti-consumer stance of other telecom CEOs to be more profane.

Substance > Formality, and so far TMobile has been delivering.
By break0, it looks like we're just writing Haskell-ified C. (Lots of ugly, similar safety guarantees.)
Using Machine Learning to Recommend Heroes for Dota 2 Matches
Yeah, that one is a good deal. I think there's only 100 talk minutes though. That's not going to work for everyone. Plus, no roaming.
What's wrong with TED talks? Benjamin Bratton at TEDxSanDiego 2013