skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a foundation that is setting up a federation of co-operatives of Neighborhood ISP's that will offer professional, secure and anonymous fiber to the home and farm internet at speeds of 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps up to 80 Gbps. We invite everyone who wants to participate or start their own ISP with our help. We currently have more then 1000 km of backbone on three continents for everyone to hook up their DIY ISP at cost price. We can also set up new backbones in other area's. We produce our own open source hardware switches and routers with fiber, copper ethernet and wifi. You can reach us at aart at knoware dot nl
We will provide courses, tools and investment for anyone willing to attempt to built an ISP, provide privacy protection is your intent.
I started the first public internet provider in my country, to indicate that have some experience.
More here: "A vibrating watch that messes with your perception of time." http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/a-vibrating-watch-that-m...
I should have included a source :P

https://twitter.com/bgoldberg/status/419177954631901184
buy why ?
good point. that's not grousing, like i was originally thinking, but is a valid point. it expresses sympathies with your team, and in doing that you can make sure you set them up to succeed: clearing obstacles, gathering materials, resetting expectations, etc. "welcome to the suck."
You know The Truman Show? I'm probably not that, but reality is just as fucked-up.

energy WooHoo I_quit frown smile failure_is_not_an_option
high_mucky_muck I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you
Ask HN: Why are nasty comments more common on HN?
I find that there are more nasty comments here than on other similar websites. I'm not talking about trolling. These comments are thought out criticism combined with pure meanness. Stuff like "This article gave my cancer" or "This is the dumbest article I ever read". Criticism is more common online that in real life, but there is something very decisive, mean and emotional about the comments here.
I pay $0.25 per text message on Verizon (note: I don't have a text plan, which I could get for $10/month. But I don't send/receive enough texts to make it worthwhile)
That pretty much answers the question then -- if a business isn't viable enough to hire someone to keep the wheels turning, then it probably just isn't viable.

Only other option is to find a way (i.e. roll up your sleeves and do the homework... or hire a consultant temporarily to help you) find a way to get you traffic and/or ad revenue (way) up. It looks like pretty well-designed site, from first appearances, so it seems worth trying at least.
I am willing to point you to all the information and skills needed. Or teach you those skills. See my earlier comment above.
What percent of your user base is still using 5.1?

The truth is that the original iPad had very little RAM. I imagine there is a very good reason that iOS 6 (and up) didn't make it onto that device.
This is a lovely way to teach induction and proofs as part of a class. I personally prefer the dragon version of this problem. An elegant solution is provided here.

https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/undergrad/prob...
I read an essay once remarking that the ancient Greeks really wanted to square the circle (you can think of the problem as being to construct a line of length pi using only a reference line of length 1 and a compass and straightedge).

Despite not knowing that this couldn't be done, no reference survives to any Greek claiming that it could.

Today, we know perfectly well that the problem is impossible. But we get dozens of papers a year claiming to have solved it. The essay reflected that something has gone wrong in our culture.

Please don't contribute to that problem by spouting off about problems you don't understand.
I'm sorry, but you clearly don't know what the culture at MIT is like. People at MIT break into places like network closets all the time, including picking the locks (a popular hobby). It's not officially encouraged, but it's endemic, and the administration generally doesn't mind that much. Accessing places you're not supposed to be in and doing neat hacks is a big part of the culture. Lots of people "get kicked off the network" and warned about their behavior. Any administration that actively tried to tamp down on the culture would be shooting themselves in the foot in a big way, as that's a big part of what attracts a lot of people to the place. The incongruity with that normal attitude and spirit is a big part of what shocks people about this.
Ummm... where in that definition does it say that only one side in a social dispute is allowed to call its mockery "satire"? It says "shaming individuals, corporations, and even society", not "shaming The Man".

Say you disagree with it and think it's obnoxious if that's what you feel, instead of making up definitional disputes to hide behind.
My side project (http://kruipen.com) is a database of audio equipment prices (although it is for fun, not monetization). I would sometimes post relevant links on audio forums' for-sale posts. With mixed success.
I run a site called Correlated (http://www.correlated.org) that landed me a book deal (http://www.amazon.com/Correlated-Surprising-Connections-Seem...).

Although it's not recurring revenue, the income from the book advance is way more than I could have ever hoped to generate by placing ads on the site.

One unorthodox way I've driven traffic to the site is by including it in an iframe at the bottom of a little Excel-to-HTML converter I whipped up a few years ago:

http://pressbin.com/tools/excel_to_html_table/

I use a similar technique here:

http://intellicaps.correlated.org/

It's a service that allows you to convert ALL CAPS text to mixed case, and it includes a sidebar that promotes Correlated by pulling in the most recently published statistic.

I guess the general technique could be summed up as: Make something useful (even if it's boring), get traffic, promote something completely useless but fun, and hope that it piques their interest.
Blackberry sues over Ryan Seacrest's 'Typo' iPhone keyboard case
Apparently because "fascists".
If you think HN has a large proportion of nasty comments, you clearly haven't visited any other website.
OK, I was referencing some older info:
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/2339/arin-stupid-policies
I have to admit, this is very reminiscent of "Add Service Reference" in Visual Studio, a capability to which I have grown to despise over the years. The code was almost always incomprehensible. I cannot tell you how much I loath seeing the comment at the top of a file "This was generated by a tool".

Having said that, this tool does look interesting. I hope that a goal is to always make sure that the generated code is as readable, and maintainable, as possible. Also, as mentioned by others, adding generated tests to the generated client libraries is extremely important.
The Code Conference
I sure hope this happens at the federation level too and becomes intrinsically tied to it. But what I am sure of, is that these aspects are some of the main drivers for people I had the pleasure to meet irl, and who are behind these initiatives.
1.) Get the prototype in your customers' hands.

2.) Get feedback from your customers (i.e. you need to find out asap if they will use, or better yet pay, for your product).

If you hear the words "interesting," "cool," or "maybe" in their feedback; something is wrong with your idea. There's no product market fit.

If in your conversation they ask you how much does it cost or how do they sign up, then you might be on to something. This is what's known as a "win." A "win" doesn't necessarily mean you've struck gold, only that you might be digging in the right area.

Your goal is to accumulate as many of these little "wins" as possible to stay alive and ensure you're working on something somebody somewhere wants.

Good luck! Sounds like you're on the right track!
Yes on both of those- I really love python and find myself way more productive in it. D3 is undoubtedly powerful and if you are an expert I'm sure you can be efficient at it. But as a novice it takes a while. I do my analysis onipython/ matplotlib and then implementa public chart using d3. And I havea love hate relationship with angular. When you are using stock or already made directives, it's magic. But it can take FOREVER to solve the obscure bugs you create when you are doing something new.
Oddly enough, that's exactly what people were saying last time there was a tech bubble. "This isn't a bubble, it's a paradigm shift!" See http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.09/zeros.html for kk's version of this post from Sept. 99, only months before the bubble burst. Also about when I stopped reading Wired.
Be sure to check out Reel:

https://github.com/celluloid/reel
US Government Appeals Ruling Invalidating NSA Surveillance
Any country in charge of its own currency can always fund a war without a vote by simply printing more of it for itself (debasing the currency of course via "invisible tax"), which is why I support cryptocurrencies.

Any person who is OK with mass surveillance has clearly never seen the movie The Lives of Others ("Das Leben der Anderen," yes it's German with English subtitles, deal with it) http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lives_of_others/ because to watch that movie is to watch the fall of a country which was destroyed by "too much introspection," as it were.
Why Snowden Won’t (and Shouldn’t) Get Clemency
This reminds me of feelSpace[1]. It is a belt which has vibrating motors all around it and a compass. I believe the point is to give you an extra "sense" which after you have worn it enough you incorporate with your other senses.

[1] - http://feelspace.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/
...and some people are born outside the ball park and still manage to work their way in, practice 12 hours per day for years, hit home run after home run and have snarky people automatically assume that everything they have is due to luck or birth lottery.
Blogging Tips: Should You Moderate Blog Comments?
I find it incredibly amusing that people apparently think this is a real article.
Thanks. But it looks like the "Firmware Password Utility" is not available by default in OSX 10.9, and those instructions only describe how to get it for OSX 10.5 and below. Thoughts?
Designing for Android
Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me
I used to use Inkscape but switched to FW a few years ago because Inkscape was buggy and slow. Maybe it's better now.

I'm hoping for a Win+Mac solution because I switch from one to the other regularly.

I'll have to try Sketch sometime even though it's Mac only.
http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
As someone who was lost family members to cancer, any news of advances in the fight against cancer is very exciting.
Pardon? The parent's comment is correct.

Edit: my comment is still correct thanks to parent's 2nd edit.
I think the power dynamics are pretty clear in this situation.

If you really, really, really want to claim that the tech crowd is being trampled by everyone else in the Bay Area, I'm not sure we're going to be able to come to any kind of reasonable discussion.
Going to take this down later this week. My free micro-instance-on-AWS period is over. I get a constant drive of traffic from reddit. Could've thrown in ads, but I really din't want to keep it going. It's kinda stupid, but kinda cool?

Memes As A Service
http://maas.rohits.me/
That looks fantastic, and seems to be in alignment with some things I have been doing lately (generating the server side controller of the API in Clojure + a set of documentation, from a set of definitions of API methods).
Good job!
I saw your deleted comment, and while I do believe you worked a lot, you should probably also realize that what you did was also a product of it's time. Now a days one cannot just write a compiler in isolation and then make a million bucks (eg: as the author of turbo-c did).

Competition is a lot stiffer, things are way more complex (at multiple levels), and finding super unique and 'big bang' ideas are not on every street corner.

In other words, the 80s was the low hanging fruit, the 90s slightly less low hanging, and so on and so forth.
Looking back after 1 year of productizing our service business
I agree with you. Additionally:

> When the number of blue-eyed people is 1, the blue-eyed person did not know there were any blue-eyed people in the tribe. Knowledge is added by the statement.

Wouldn't the blue-eyed person think either:

a) The visitor is lying, and wonder why everyone else doesn't think they are blue-eyed, thus committing suicide?

b) Since they know no one else is blue-eyed, deduce that they are the sole blue-eyed person and commit suicide?

> When the number of blue-eyed people is 2, the blue-eyed people knew that there was a blue-eyed person but did not know that the blue-eyed person knew that the tribe had any blue-eyed people. Knowledge is added by the statement.

Wouldn't these two people wonder why the other blue-eyed person isn't committing suicide, and deduce that they too must also be blue-eyed?
Wow... I've been having this idea for a watch for a while.. someone with the hardware knowledge pulled it off. Did the creators try having a short vibration for five minutes and than a longer vibration for an hour?
It looks like a WSDL-like spec (although not as complete) with a code generator as well.

I wonder if we'll see JSON versions of DISCO and whatnot as well.
That's what I figured, and I'm glad to have it confirmed.

I've seen enough projects that have a rigid "if your dev environment isn't perfect, your code's no good to us" mindset that I was wary.

Also, just wanted to say that the Docker installation process and the rest of the Docker docs have been amazing. Originally, I was looking at writing a quick guide on getting up and running with Docker on Linode, but we decided linking the official docs made more sense considering how comprehensive they are.
I think there is a big difference between private contact discovery and contact discovery that isn't brute forceable like we are seeing with SnapChat and others. One change that could be made for these very small pre image corpuses would be to ask the target user if they should be exposed to the searcher.

1) I upload the hashes of my contacts which enqueues a request to those that match the hashes

2) The target of the request dequeues those requests and is given the option to expose themselves to the other user

3) If approved, the original uploader gets access to that user on the service

This would stop the massive discovery issue and would only put a medium amount of friction into the growth engine. It obviously doesn't cover the issue that the service itself has access to the contacts which means they could potentially be exposed. However, if the service discards hashes without matching queues and removes matches when dequeued, the risk to the user is much reduced from the full address book storage case.

This was written off the top of my head, so forgive me if I have left a big hole somewhere.
Sneering and attacking those who call out techies for elitism, sexism, or whatever it may be is the wrong way to go. Especially when you write an article that sounds as elitist and uninformed as this.

(One thing that stood out for me was the quote: "Did you know that those guys had two kids when they were your age? That is how things are supposed to work." A lot of people who don't have access to sex education have kids because they weren't informed, or they didn't have access to birth control, or otherwise, not because they're trying to force their lifestyle on entrepreneurs.)

We (the tech community) should lead by example. Yes, it's hard when you're scrutinized so often. But what's going to sway the public's opinion: an offensive snarky article? Or taking the high road?
It is not clear to me that the difference between Downtown SF and Downtown LA is bigger than, say, Downtown SF and Hunter's Point.

I mean, take someone from SF and have them live in Stockton for a month, and Fresno for a month, and LA for a month, and see which cultural divide is greatest.
I love stuff like this. I've been doing some of my own work around this idea by measuring the time it takes me to do certain everyday tasks.

My morning routine is about 15 minutes. So is going to the coffee cart on the corner for coffee and a doughnut. However, I often perceive and think about the latter as taking much longer.
Hackpacking across the US
I think your apartment vs 20 minutes 'shorter commute' is actually vastly simplifying it. I live roughly in hayes valley (I moved here only 5 years ago, before the latest bunch, so I qualify as an 'old timer'), and my commute to my last office job by bike was 8 minute. You'd be hard pressed to find a 28 minute commute that reduces your rent a ton.

As you know the trade off tends to be money vs space vs commute. Rents in concord are still in the $3000 range - only you get an entire house for it.

Also you do realize this article was satire, and points out that the so-called "rich tech" folk arent really that rich... $80k a year is plenty, but most BART and Muni employees are making that much.
Interesting thought. Reminds me of when people around me had an hourly chime on their watch... Usually inadvertently.

I'm downloading a interval timer app to test it out. My guess is that it will drive me nuts soon.

Edit: I didn't find any good options free for ios yet.
"Wake me up" works well, but not in the background.
Author pointed out three problems with drones:

1. Battery life is insufficient. This one is true, batteries are not there yet.

2. Warehouses are far from target areas. This one is true as well, in order to make drones work warehouses/dispatch centers should be fairly close by. One solution would be to utilize hyperloop kind of system to quickly deliver drones to where they need to go.

3. Problem with delivering. This one is super simple. Make drone subscription costs high and deliver to customer a drop off pad. Make a clause in prime air agreement that you must find enough open space on private land for drop off pad to serve as drone beacon and unload zone. Drop off pad can have RFID/other location beacons that would let drone know exactly where it is.

TL:DR author is right, while this can be built right now - it is simply not economical, and likely will not become economical in near future due to point #2 above.
As you suggest part of the confusion is a lack of an agreed-upon definition of "bubble." Another part is poorly defining what constitutes the bubble. Is the bubble technology in general? Obviously not -- people aren't going to stop using computers like they stopped buying tulip bulbs. So it's easy to point to that, say "look, 5 billion smartphones!" and conclude that there cannot be a bubble, unless you expect everything to stop using smartphones.

On the other hand, there may well be some bubble-esque things going on in the VC/startup area. It's a bit of sleight of hand to try to disprove that by looking at smartphone sales, because those are generally all sold by big established companies like Apple and Samsung, not by startups.

Personally, I don't expect the startup scene to come crashing to the ground any time soon, but at the same time it helps to be more precise in defining what exactly the bubble is supposed to be. The fact that Apple and Samsung continue to turn a profit doesn't necessarily have anything to do with startups like Snapchat.
Can you clarify which integration tests you're referring to? I'd be happy to run them and provide the output.

I ran through the whole process linked from the Github repo (http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/contributing/devenvironment/), though I only gist'd step 5
6 Things That Will Kill Your Call Center in 2014
I know this article sounds like one giant commercial for ClearView, but regardless of whether you use ClearView or not, find something to solve these problems before they weigh you down and make you fall behind your competition!
I think HN is better than many other websites, but certainly worse than some. Obvious reasons:

1. Internet disinhibition effect enhanced by pseudonymity - anyone can create an account called 'internettoughguy3' and start talking shit to people; blatant sockpuppetry/nastiness is punished by the mods, but one can get away with it on an occasional basis.

2. Common interest in hacking-type stuff brings together people whose views diverge on other things, like religion and especially politics; conflict ensues.

3. Persistence; sort of the opposite of #1, many of us have been here for years and know how to 'push each others' buttons,' so lingering dislike or disagreement between individuals will occasionally boil over into a cutting remark.

4. Geeks tend to be introverted and so less good at social modeling. http://xkcd.com/610/ sums this up, though I think the dig at Ayn Rand fans is a bit unfair because such thinking is equally prevalent on the left.

None of the above apply to me, of course. I am perfect.
This website is so advanced that it no longer displays. Its the logical next step.
This is hard to wrap my head around.
>he had this high end printer and would copy and print $1 bills and take 20 at a time over to the vending machines

I'm embarassed to admit that in middle school my friend and I did something similar as his dad ran a printing business out of his garage. It surprised us then that this worked so easily. Luckily we only used them on vending machines and we quit doing it before we got caught. It makes me wonder what more sophisticated criminals can get away with.
Perhaps they'll initiate less meaningless smalltalk with me once they realize that I prefer to engage in honest, substantial conversations.

Don't want to know what I think? Don't ask me.
What tools could be used to boot off a trusted, non-writable USB stick to checksum the BIOS?

Difficulty level: Macbook Air
Anecdotally

I've gone on keto 3 times, for different periods of time, and after being off of them for a month or so, I've developed kidney stones.

I have no idea if they're related, but I am the only one in my family that gets them (no medical history) and it's the only 'abnormality' in my normal, generally healthy, life.
The time which everyone made an accurate count was the new common knowledge. I believe the traveler's words added no new information, or even his presence (other than bringing everyone together). It was the gathering together, where everyone could see everyone else, and know that counts were synchronized.

I think if there were an earlier all-hands-meeting without the traveler, the counts would have been synchronized then.

So, the faux pas had no effect, but he still "caused" it by accident. So, to combine the two arguments from the main link:

The foreigner's words have no effect, because his comments do not tell the tribe anything that they do not already know. On the 100th day, the blue eyed people commit suicide, unless they die/leave/disappear first.
Well, they have to get a court to decide that, now don't they.
Match Box is a Dropbox type clone that you can install on your personal server
Well let's try the experiment a few times and see if our results match up with our theories in double-blind tests.
The idea might be good, but the price is extravagant. I think the parts should cost only $60-70, maybe less, so charging nearly $148 is laughable. Especially when I can get a nice, brand-name watch for $118 or so.
In a similar discussion, I said something about hashing phone number pairs. The graph has a lot more edges than nodes.

Still doesn't stop someone from attacking a single number though.
On other websites it's trolling. Here it's not.
Nitpick: Bubble's really short for speculative bubble.

Stock market bubbles might be the most common kind of speculative bubble, but they're not the only kind. Tulips and houses come to mind as clear counter-examples.