skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be more useful if it controlled for what plans people are on.

You really need a scatterplot here, or to look for clusters at certain speeds. Say you're looking around 15 Mbps. At that rate, which company has all the subscribers coming in at 16, and which ones at 13 or 14?

Since there are a relatively small number of speed options, it should be possible to notice these sorts of clusters in the data.

Also, how sensitive is a certain company's speeds to time of day? Whose average dips the most during peak viewing times?

It seems like even a little data analysis would go a long way here...
Their tagline "Mother knows everything" is terrifying.
As a young person who wants to remember to take her pills, to cut down on her soda consumption, to track how much she exercises (and maybe turn it into a game of walking further every week), and no doubt some more that I can't think of right now, this product sounds like it'd be amazing.

The video is a brilliant marketing asset. It showed me some very real problems of mine, and how it could help me solve them (by tracking things that I want to, and gamifying them).

The only issue is cost. As a young, single person, £166 is prohibitively expensive. It's likely not worth it for me. Is it worth it for people with families and kids? If they had £166 to spend, could they find something more pressing to spend it on?
The son could have easily tricked the sensor.
No, it's: know what you want in life.

If you want to be a founder, don't paint yourself into a corner with life decisions that prevent you from being a founder, and then blame ageism.
>> Do they?

Yes, yes they do. Take a look at the proceeds from those industries and tell me people are not handing over money for said content.

>> So not happily then...

Ah, I see the problem. When I said happily I meant this definition: "felicitously; aptly; appropriately". Meaning they pay because that's what they are supposed to do. My bad. What they want and what they do are two different things. You see, they don't want to pay for multiple copies but they do, not because of DRM. They do so because that's what they are "supposed" to do. This is more of a philosophical, economical, and/or legal issue they complain about, not technological. DRM is technology that most people are probably not even that much aware of in their day-to-day lives.

>> ... many choose piracy...

I didn't claim otherwise. But, as you say, they have the choice to not participate. That's my current answer to what I feel is outlandish cable subscription fees as compared to my perceived value of what they offer. It doesn't work for me, therefore I don't pay for cable. I use other means to access the media that I wish to consume.

>> The general public are dolts...

I think it's rude of you to apply your viewpoint on a large group of people that aren't even aware of your problem. Then when they don't go along with what you think they should be doing or what you think they should know, your method to convince them otherwise is to insult them? You're not going to win anyone over with your argument.

>> Then they have failed...

Due to record profits, I think the situation has worked out quite nicely for them. I think you are exaggerating in your own mind the number of kids who are sharing movies with their families and the impact this actually has.

>> Serious piracy efforts...

If you think trading torrents is serious piracy, then you need to read up on what true media piracy is. I'm not talking streaming or torrenting content. There are areas of the world where you can buy a perfect copy of a DVD or Blu-Ray for very little and the original content owners get nothing. It's a huge industry and I'm not talking just movies/music here. Plus in these areas this is practically endorsed by the local governments as legal. And I believe there's been a few cases of big-time streamers having legal troubles, Megaupload comes to mind. Before you say anything, that fell apart because of government incompetence, not because of the lack of anyone actually breaking the law.

>> It is...

Then you are naive. Stupid people don't make that kind of money and do the things they do. Just because you think they're stupid and you can cast opinions on things they do as stupid doesn't make it true. Their anti-customer interests, which is only a recent thing mind you, are possible due to carefully crafted legal systems that took years of planning and execution that you claim they are too stupid to have accomplished. If you're going to fight this battle then you need to understand what you're up against.
I'm not sure this is all the design team's fault.

I remember reading an article a while back re: changes from hand-drawn manual layout to automated layout methods for the chips. The assertion was that manual layout is often better for compute performance, while automated layout makes more efficient use of die area.

AMD, of course, spun off GlobalFoundries years ago and now pays a 3rd party to fab their processors. They also led the charge to incorporate graphics cores into the same die, and modern GPUs are very transistor-intensive.

Basically, I would not be surprised if this is as much about process as it is about design.
Also a river in India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveri).
This is not news. Most campus have filtering software and the university administration will use it to block websites that make them look bad.
Nice! You saved me a lot of time man
Fair voters = valid pages linking to RapGenius

Bought voters = manipulated SEO spam blog posts

Fair voters >> bought voters

Not reacting to the SEO manipulation would have meant accepting a fraction of bought voters.

Banning RG completely would have meant to ignore the even bigger fraction of valid voters.

Google's actual decision seems to be the most democratic: Forcing RG to decrease the number of bought voters while not dictating over the voice of the valid voters.
Preventing malware outbreaks on the Yale internal network?

Many University networks are intentionally pretty open on the inside. Last I was at Uni, for example, CIFS was not blocked. CIFS is a common vector for malware to spread across a network.

So, blocking access to known malware hotspots works as a form of preventative maintenance. With a student body of 5,000 you are virtually guaranteed to have a cohort of that archetype of user that acquires new malware on a daily basis.

Edit: Obviously that isn't a good reason to block THIS website, just responding to the general question of filtering in the first place.
Kennedy doesn't speak that fast compared to people in manic-caffeine-squirrel mode. He downright ambles through his talks compared to many I've heard, and he slows down for the important bits too!

Also, comprehension doesn't always result in retention, which is what you really want your audience to come out of your talk with, unless you're a politician and you just want to leave an emotional impression like "Wow, this guy is really great and I'm so happy I'll probably even vote for him again!". In fact, I bet the very last thing most politicians want is for you to remember everything they said four years ago! For most of us, public speaking is about sharing ideas, and if you can say something with fewer words your audience has a better chance of remembering it.
Well "small [caring] mother" certainly sounds less intrusive than "big [intimidating] brother".
WPEngine has an awesome affiliate program for bloggers $150 per customer - dwarfs other programs I've received...I wrote this up:
http://jeffreifman.com/2013/12/20/top-affiliate-program-for-...
Python, Clojure & Julia - a contest of text and grouping
I think this is a good, well reasoned writeup. One thing I'd take exception with is the idea that they have to rewrite a million lines of code.

> Very little use of existing libraries ("not invented here" syndrome)

The senior dev and PM could sit down over a few weeks and do a assessment of other languages that had good library coverage for lots of the existing system without writing a line of code.

I'd bet the project size would shrink considerably.

At an old startup I worked in, we had a legacy codebase of about 600k lines with 15 years of cruft in an ancient dialect of C++ with lots of not invented here syndrome.

By that point the system was so old and fragile that it simply had to be rewritten. The few libraries that we did use and didn't write were no longer supported, modern OSs wouldn't run the software correctly, vendors had simply gone out of business and so on.

A good 70% of the system functionality was rewritten in C# by just a couple guys part-time over the course of a year basically just gluing together existing libraries.
Not all full-time, salaried positions are bad. He mentioned he wasn't satisfied with the meetings and late nights, but that can't be the case for everyone. Some people like stability, don't want to deal with clients, and just want to code all day. That's fine for some, not for others.
Something like this happened at the university in the city I live in. There was an apparently awful service for signing up for classes called BearTracks [1] and someone made a scraped version of it that was better called BearScat [2]. Eventually the university basically incorporated the better version into theirs (to, I understand, mixed results).

[1] https://www.beartracks.ualberta.ca/
[2] http://www.bearscat.ca/
Assuming that human intelligence is purely an application of physical processes, and not some metaphysical "soul", then simply by artificially arranging the right configuration of matter, it is possible to equal human intelligence artificially and, presuming human intelligence isn't the maximum physically possible, to exceed it as well.

TL;DR - yes, its hypothetically possible.
Having FIRE's[1] RSS feed[2] in my daily reading has dissuaded me from that belief. "Unlearning Liberty" by Greg Lukianoff (FIRE's President) has a chapter of Yale.

1) http://thefire.org

2) http://thefire.org/feeds/news/
>This is not news.

If you're numb to it, then it's imperative that it is news.

Imagine when the headlines read "Millions killed in Nazi camps" and people said "This is not news."
in a corporate environment, you usually have control over the workstations themselves, and can inject your own mitm certificate.
You're Wasting Your 10,000 Hours
Apparently they capture movement and temperature, and they can detect when they are near their mother or not, they can store up to ten days worth of data, and they have a one year battery life, using cell batteries. Not rechargeable from what I gather.
Very cool! Add some secure features and exporting tools and you're onto something.
Threads in Ruby
I'll save you money. I'll be Dad. Stop drinking soda and walk more.
The paranoia fascinates me as well--I feel it, too. I was surprised by my own disappointment in the Nest acquisition. I think there was a time earlier when I would have been tremendously excited.

There seems to be a tipping point for a company when people move slowly from cheering for you to against you. I think it's both a combination of size and behavior. I do fell that Google's push with G+ has harmed their brand in some respects. It was one of the first times personally that I felt that my wants and needs were no longer aligned with theirs. Then the Gmail changes, less room for organic search, etc. I am not saying no one is rooting for Google. I am saying their brand is in a new, unfamiliar area of public opinion and there's something more behind it than their ravenous ambition.
My university installed a root CA as part of the signup process for WiFi access. Three of them in fact.
> As it stands now, the use-case for this patch is rather hypothetical.

I agreed with you up to this point. As it stands, many utility plugins (like CtrlP and Syntastic) and bundles/ftplugins (vim-python, my own vim-pantondoc) would be improved by this functionality. It is obviously wanted/needed by the Floobits plugin, which motivated the creation of the patches proposed last year. So, I don't think the effort can be reasonably put into question, as you say, even today. People do need async in vim, and also people would want upstream to handle this ASAP, by deciding on some strategy to provide it.

This said, this new message queue API seems cleaner than Floobits', but it seems to cater to python interop only, which is a mayor downside, since many vim plugin users opt out on python or simply lack python support.
I'm glad I was around as BearScat came out and before the killed it.
> The mortgage company only cares about that $30/hr

That's not true in my experience. When I was looking for a mortgage a few years back, the lender was practically throwing money at me once I presented my business financials. Perhaps it depends on who you are dealing with?
The founders of Google also work for a dollar... and liquidate millions of dollars in stock options every week. So salary isn't everything.
Does anyone know how the signals are being sent from the cookie to Mother? The company mentioned in a CES video that they werent using the traditional bluetooth, wifi, etc.
Beside the branding thing, i've lost my fitbit one in less than 2 weeks. How long till i lose one of the cookies? Dongles are not for me.
But how is it harmful to you personally exactly? How is it harmful to anyone?
We're making visual feedback simpler.
It doesn't matter whether you control the user environment to covertly install the MITM certificate. You simple notify your network users this is happening with instructions on how to install the certificate.

Either the user installs it or not, it's their choice.

I am in no way advocating this abhorrent system of 'security'. Simply noting that it is obviously done in the workplaces and in many workplaces. That it can also be done here under 'security' pretences.
There are lots, and a quick Google search would have cured your unnecessary scepticism. It would be more surprising if this method didn't work than that it does.

Imatinib[1] is a good, and pretty old example:

Imatinib was developed by rational drug design. After the Philadelphia chromosome mutation and hyperactive bcr-abl protein were discovered, the investigators screened chemical libraries to find a drug that would inhibit that protein. With high-throughput screening, they identified 2-phenylaminopyrimidine. This lead compound was then tested and modified by the introduction of methyl and benzamide groups to give it enhanced binding properties, resulting in imatinib

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib#History
That was a really poor choice of a name. It took me less than 10 seconds to start hearing Pink Floyd's "Mother" [1] in my head. Once that started happening, I just couldn't stay objective while looking at the pitch.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HrrR9QDQU
Like the computer named "Mother" in Alien.
The sync module reminds me of the Nabaztag ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag ) and I wondered whether Mother was going to have signals and indicators so that you didn't have to use a mobile device for insight.
Yeah it would. So browers will either get that big red warning or the user can be asked/required to install the certificate to be on the network.

It's not a technical limitation but a moral one.
Will it send me a notification that says "don't disappoint mother" if I forget to do something?
tl;dr -- the crux of the issue (right or wrong) is making the evaluation information too public. From the news story:

> "[Administrators' primary concern was] making YC [Yale College] course evaluation available to many who are not authorized to view this information,”

> "[Administrators also asked] how they [the site operators] obtained the information, who gave them permission to use it and where the information is hosted."

Edit: Agreed, I don't buy these are the real reasons.
Should You Rethink Your Nest Purchase?
I would argue that within the Valley your second paragraph actually isn't true. I've found that most people coming out of startups have a very easy time finding a job, unless they choose not to (i.e. they start their own business, etc.). I can't speak to other locales.
I can't dispute the age thing, given that I'm in the oldest 5 or 10% of the community according to the various age polls we've had over the years, but my reaction (not having read Cringley's review) was, "Can this thing get any creepier? Oh, look; it can."
God, the future is so fucking weird.
I nickled-and-dimed a client on change requests, alienating that client and making myself appear less professional.
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I should have just sucked it up and done the work, leaving both of us with warm fuzzes in the end, even if I took a slight loss on the contract.

It's interesting the OP lists this as a mistake. I'd say he made the right move, as some clients will "just one more thing" you to death. Once the changes go beyond the agreed-upon scope, you should start charging. Alternatively, adjust your estimate to take into account client changes.

Said client did not have a whole lot of money, and while the initial contract amount was commensurately very low, she really didn’t appreciate me charging additional for some very minor changes.

This was the real mistake.
You don't think they probably force their students through a HTTP Proxy (which will have a different address) than the one a ping ends up originating from?

I'm with the parent, I doubt they're doing DPI here.
Anyone else remember this device from Star Wars - The Phantom Menace when Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui Gon Jinn swim down to Jar Jar's people? lol.

If this were real and it isn't - it sounds like a rebreather (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather) only several orders of magnitude smaller and without the extra tank full of pure O2.

Fun to think about though.
I have this problem about once a day. It's usually a flash advert or other such nonsense.
"It threatens the very basis of academic freedom and net neutrality"

So pretentious, did a teenager write this?
Better Pink Floyd's "Mother" than Danzig's, which is where my poor brain went.
VT-d is still useful without any hypervisor, to guard against DMA attacks by malicious connected devices.
I don't know where to begin with this. This is just nuts!

This might work for some snazzy valley startup with 16 people all working on the same code base, but this is just completely, shall I say, naive and shortsighted. It smacks of someone who hasn't been involved in anything big, complex or been in the industry for any length of time.

Some people don't like to use sports analogies, but I do so I will.

An NFL team typically has a head coach, an offensive coordinator, a defensive coordinator, a special teams coach, QB/WR/RB/DB/LB/Oline/Dline coach as well as a strength coach, among some more in certain cases. Then there are the players. Offensive, defensive, special teams.

Imagine you are the head coach. Should you spend 30% of your time doing ANYTHING any of the players are doing? Should the OC or DC being doing the drills or what not? Maybe, maybe working out, but probably not like the players.

My position is akin to the OC on an NFL team. I'm in charge of teams of teams of people. Developers (in different areas/focuses), QA, infra, release, ops etc etc. This is LOTS of people. So, if I'm "coding" 30% of my time, I'm effectively looking at only one area. Should I be spending 30% (or some % number) of my time doing jobs in those other areas? And do I want my managers in those areas to do those things? Well, probably not. I want them to understand them, yes, have done that job previously, yes. More over, I want someone who can 1. engage the team 2. direct the team 3. hold the team responsible 4. tell me (or others) "no" and intelligently show the way for their area and 5. lead up and down. Coding is literally so far down the list it isn't funny.

So, no, a manager shouldn't be coding 30% of their time. If they want to and it doesn't get in the way of their actual job, fine, but that is not their job. Their job is to set or enact direction, lead and protect their team.

To go back to the NFL example. If I'm the head coach, I want the OC to know exactly the type of offense I want to run, put in the system in place, coach the coaches on that system and make sure everyone is on the same page. I don't want them running routes with the WR or practicing blocking drills with the linemen.
Not necessarily, but a janitor should be paid a living wage. It's very easy to imagine an executive declaring that any employee who doesn't produce quantifiable profits should get peanuts. (Or "minimum wage," which is not a living wage in most of the US.)
How did founder salary change with regards to level of funding, break even, and profitability?
> I was under the impression that growth is secondary to supplementing the animal's immune system, especially since factory farms are terribly unsanitary.

Antibiotic use for growth and for prophylactic treatment due to farm conditions are both common uses, and industry is pretty unapologetic about both.

Watching a presentation by the National Pork Board at a public health conference was...eye-opening.

Or at least it was before I walked out because I couldn't take the disingenuousness anymore.
It kind of seems that way. I was wondering the same thing so I tried out - sure enough, launching it in metro mode and it looks like what I expect ChromeOS would be (I don't actually have a device running ChromeOS), with an apps bar, a clock, and "start/apps" button.
A lot of Project Euler is very "mathy", requiring you to read up on some mathematical shortcuts - I think https://www.hackerrank.com/ is a bit more CS-focused, i.e., there's always a specific data-structure or algorithm that solves the problem.
If you scroll down far enough, you get to the 'technical details', where the device is described as 'a white mother'. I just found that funny, haha.
Well, I was talking mostly about food.

But if I use my culture as a basis for a song that I write and I wish to sell it to make money, then you're dang right I see it as stealing if someone takes it without my permission.

If an artist wants to share it openly, then that's excellent. But if the artist wishes to make money from their effort why is it your "right" to demand otherwise?

It's not about being business-minded, it's called having rights over your own property.
Ask HN: What topic would be fine to create a new HN?
Well I want to create a new HN, but I don't know to talk about.

Give me ideas, what do you like? Marketing? Sports? Off-topic?

Thanks in advance.
Tech Workers, Political Speech and Economic Threat
Pharocloud – Hosting for Smalltalk web-applications
If anything, it's symbolic and indicative of future actions. The university has demonstrated 'defending itself' and now they have evidence of anti-authoritarian protest and dissent directed at the them, and the next logical step is legal action.

This public shaming will be received as insulting and provocative, and the deans will attempt to assert their dominance through the courts.

Preventing students from accessing the website is neither the goal nor is it a desired side-effect -- the goal is intimidation and generating evidence of wrong-doing. It's a game of poker for the administration and they showed their hand, and now they're waiting for the OP to call their bluff. This will not end well.
It corrupts the Open Web, meaning that one cannot simply decide to write a web client that will be able to display any standards-compliant content. It corrupts the W3C, in that it weakens their position in maintaining the Open Web, and lessens their value in the eyes of everyone except for the MPAA and its ilk. It harms culture, in that valuable cultural artifacts will be locked up in a way that will render them inaccessible to future generations, or people on non-blessed hardware.