skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, I, like most of us, hate ISPs who advertise "unlimited" data but it really is limited. However, this particular case, the guy used 77TB (jaw dropping) and it probably makes sense for Verizon to step in.

Now. going back to the unlimited thing. I really want some kind of govt control here and make it unlawful for these companies to advertise "unlimited" because lets face it, it never is. There is always a "cap" or "Throttle" (EDIT). So instead of advertising as "unlimited", why not say "Use as much as you want upto xyz GB". Yes this does not sound nice for marketing but honestly, claiming unlimited with a fine print is really getting old and boring.
There are other reasons to buy graphics cards than just bitcoin mining. If you get $400 worth of enjoyment from the graphics card and $2 of revenue from mining, that's a profit.
jkurnia, I just want to say that I'm really grateful you made this. Between Watsi and Zidisha, you've made it easy and rewarding to help the health and livelihoods of those in need.

Best of luck!
I like Zidisha. I was looking for ways to do micro loans and everything I read about kiva and the way they work through a middleman was a big turn off. Lots of reports about swindling and what not.

I'm surprised there aren't more p2p loan services in general, especially for those of us in the USA, etc.

edit: Just found out about Kiva Zip. So I guess they're making some attempt there.
Technotopianism at it's finest.
The original claim is outlandish and devoid of any perspective, but comparing this to the "War on Terror" is just mind boggling. You do realize that there's a world outside the US where the "War on Terror" has had some pretty devastating effects.

Or was that a joke?
I'm curious (not necessarily in relation to you specifically) what people's thoughts have been in a similar vein about iMessage vs SMS.
Relative line numbers are especially useful when you have mis- or not configured moving by paragraphs/defuns/classes/etc. for some particular mode. C-16 C-p will move the point 16 lines up, for example, supposedly exactly where you want it to be. But that's not the use case I need line numbers for - actually, well configured movement commands + isearch + ace-jump + iy-goto-char + occur is a combo which makes relative line numbering completely unnecessary.

I use (non-relative) line numbers quite often though, and it when I need to tell my colleague that there is this function in some file, on line 323, with a some interesting statement between lines 330 and 336. This makes it extremely easy for them to get to where I am and see exactly what I see; and on the other hand I don't need to move point to those three lines to read their numbers or - absolutely nightmarish - to count the positions manually - they are just there, for me to see.

It would be better to show and hide linum with some simple binding, but I'm already used to them, so it's not a big deal for me.
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Even if they paid you in bitcoins I wouldn't deal with them. Terrible
What I'm pointing out though is that their point about "national security" really came down to "we don't trust China"/"we don't trust america". And it passed through Parliament fine because it pretty much had the support of Canadians.
IMO this actually makes Verizon look pretty nice as an ISP.

If this guy was only told to upgrade to business after running a rack of servers and averaging 50 TB a month, then I'd think almost any "normal" usage would be fine.
"You need to configure your browser to trust our SSL certificate authority as part of your account creation and router setup process....oh by the way we are also going to use it to inspect your SSL connections."
The "visualize some words" graph is awesome; took me a minute to realize it was interactive. I'd be interested in another post about how Minuum incorporates personal typing habits over time.
Agreed, Python with NumPy is definitely a key player in this space, probably more significant these days than Matlab. Don't forget Octave which continues to hold it's place as a Open Matlab compatible(ish) option. Whilst I'm a fan of R for experimentation and prototyping it is often let down by poor performance, particularly on matrix calculations. R's forte is really in providing reference implementations of an amazing array of statistical methods, often by the author of the technique.

One of advantages of Julia touted by the authors is that much of the Julia system is written in the Julia language making it easy for users to understand many of the algorithms and contribute to the system. In practice I don't know how true that is (it seemed to spend a long time compiling C/C++ code when I last built it) but I can see the rationale.
Additionally, when the dust settles and people figure out what's really going on in all those data-collection companies, we need clear regulations what kind of data may be collected, how it is used and when it must be deleted.

The data, properly analyzed, represents an immense power and has to be transparent and under democratic control. In the EU the first steps go into this direction already.
The headline is sensationalist but incorrect. There is no cost for posting - only if you land a successful hire, similar to how some others in the space work.
Corporate dev job or startup tech support?
I'm at a crossroads with making a decision about my job search so I wanted to get the HN communities feedback.

Would you personally rather take a job at a giant corporate consulting firm where you get trained to program in Java and become a software engineer, or take a much lower paying position at a mature startup (over 300 employees) with awesome culture doing product tech support with a possibility of growing with the company?
Ssssshhh....

http://anyurl.quora.com/?share=1
That frustrates me. "Real Name" policies or otherwise, Google didn't magic her name out of the ether. She gave it to them at some point, whether she remembers or not.
Not random, we've just been doing it for new companies joining the platform.
> If the field of medicine is anything like engineering and computer science I'd rather chance my own opinion over trusting the advice of a random doctor

I'd certainly trust a random doctor's medical opinion over a random programmer's (my own). And I think a doctor should trust a random programmer's opinion about software over his/her own.

In both cases, the solution is to find a reputable practitioner, not substitute an untrained opinion for a trained one.
User acquisition will be greatly helped if you can provide evidence. Specifically, have some friends or people you know use the service and document the results. Show that the service works.

Overall, good idea (assuming everything works effortlessly).
If I understand trademark law correctly, a company must defend its trademarks or risk losing them. It wasn't about "a quick buck," it was about fulfilling the responsibilities of owning a trademark.

It's hardly fair to fault TigerDirect for doing what the law requires of them.

In this particular case, a judge had to make a judgement call about whether Apple's new "Tiger" OS trademark was an infringement on TigerDirect's trademark. It could have gone either way. That's why a judge was needed.
The difference was that they knew exactly where the team would break in. The difference between "there will probably be people trying to enter the room" and "I'll shoot that guy once he breaks the window over there"
And embedding (and its documentation) will likely get much better very soon.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4997
> I really wish Google would put more pressure on the US ISP market

You want to know what Google's biggest issue is getting fiber out?

Quote:

In California in particular, environmental regulations prevent companies from improving the telecommunications infrastructure, Medin said.

“Google is a big believer in protecting the environment for future generations, but certain types of state and local environmental rules make investment very difficult,” he explained. ” Laws like the California Environmental Quality Act can make it prohibitively expensive for companies to invest in new projects, such as our fiber project, within California.

“Many fine California city proposals for the Google Fiber project were ultimately passed over in part because of the regulatory complexity here brought about by CEQA and other rules. Other states have equivalent processes in place to protect the environment without causing such harm to business processes, and therefore create incentives for new services to be deployed there instead.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/08/04/how-kan...
I wasn't saying HSTS is useless, just pointing out one of the issues with it. I think HSTS a great thing!

With XFO, doing something like adding 'reddit.com/' before the domain to see if it's been submitted becomes much more computationally intensive on reddit's side if they can't just put it in a frame. This is where I run into issues mostly, with tools such as that. That said, there are other things it could do (take me to a submit page or a discussion page instead of framing the page). And frames suck anyway, so there is that.

I can see the usefulness in CSP, I just feel like it's a band-aid on larger problems.
Houkounchi is a friend of mine. Interesting to see this story show up here almost a year late.

http://whatpulse.org/stats/bandwidth/
I find it interesting that you apply the auto-immune disease metaphor to privacy advocates and not the post-9/11 security state itself.
Right - but at some point she gave them the other name, whether she claims she didn't, or "doesn't remember". Google didn't pull her name out of a hat, and it's not magically associating it via advertising / cross site correlation otherwise.
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> not an insider from the attacking side (which would be very interesting indeed).

This might not be exactly what you're interested in, but it was reported that the Global Climate Coalition, "a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels" that "led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming", was advised by it's own scientific and technical experts that "the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted".

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24deny.html?...
To be fair the comments were pretty grim for the first hour. Positive comments seem to take more time? I'd hate to be the author and see that kind of response.
I'm usually pretty sympathetic to these stories of people getting screwed on "unlimited" data with, say, 5 gig or whatever caps, but in this case... cry me a river, man.

Data caps aside, this is like saturating a quarter-gigabit connection nearly full-time. I can't even get a connection like that at home to begin with.
Seems there's a lot of hate for FreedomPop, but they aren't as bad as it seems. The way I see it is, you get what you pay for. I've been using them since 2012 and they've never overcharged me or ripped me off. Yes, they use to charge you for inactivity, but they no longer do that. If anything, I was always able to resolve any issues with a quick email. They've even given me credits on occasion. To date, I must have only paid them $20-$30, strictly relying on the free MBs from referrals. They aren't perfect, but for the price I'm paying (nothing), I'll happily deal with some issues on occasion.
Was Perl not a language that just had stuff thrown in? It wasn't difficult to use, but difficult to master I would say.
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I've been idly working on an essay for... I don't know, 5 years now? about how computers and the Internet catalyze harm, by shielding people who cause harm from the impact of their action, and by making harmful actions practically indistinguishable from benign ones --- "click this button and 'like' someone on Facebook, click this other button and help DDoS someone whose politics you disagree with".

I have some sympathy for defendants who are blindsided by the impact of simple, trivial-seeming actions; things that just see like pranks or political statements. But I'm also very familiar with the real damage these actions cause. I see the gap. I don't know how to resolve it. And I think it occurs all over the place, not just in computer intrusions but in things like mass file sharing, online trolling, defamation, revenge porn and sexting.

I don't have the right words yet for it, as you can see; I'll probably still be mulling it 5 years from now.

Anyways: the fix I'd want to see for the CFAA is the one that applies approximately the same consequence to pulling 10 accounts from an AT&T endpoint as it does for 100,000, and so keeps Auernheimer from facing a long custodial sentence for abusing an AT&T web service simply because he ran his script too long. From the way these things are prosecuted, constraining sentences also (a) makes it safer to push back on potentially unjust charges --- since you're most likely looking at probation anyways, and (b) might keep them out of court to begin with.

I don't know what you do about the guy who fed his admin credentials to Anonymous to help them deface a newspaper. That seems overtly criminal no matter what rules we come up with.
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I want to buy Minuum, but I really like SwiftKey. Has anyone else made the jump from SwiftKey -> Minuum? Pros/Cons you can offer?
That may not be true, and actively isn't true for other parts of the developing world.

I rather vividly remember a presentation given by PAHO a couple years ago on their rubella control efforts in South America, and how frustrating it was to have outbreaks kicked off by import cases from wealthier European and North American countries.
Unless you really need the money, it's always best to find the position where you will grow more. What skills will you pick up at the consulting firm? What skills will you pick up at the startup?
"In Robin's example, AI is the machine that can do all tasks. But we don't need to build such amazing machines before putting a lot of people out of work. Most jobs are not AI-complete."

I didn't watch the video yet, but one thing often missed in the whole automation debate is that for a given task, you don't need to replace 100% of the people to cause great, painful economic shifts. Just complementary-automating things enough so that 5 people can do the work that 10 people used to do is incredibly impactful.
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You are paying for those things, but it's being paid indirectly. Paying 40% or more of your gross income for health care, social security and taxes is another thing that Americans would probably find to be high.
I've confirmed that it works fine when I proxy through Chicago.
not having to write the same code twice.
I've had a few returns with them over the years and they all went well.
There was this talk by a programmer with bipolar and I think ADHD. He couldn't hold a job for more than a year. I can't find it, but very inspiring and helpful to understanding both.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/116730/progra...
I remember there being talk of eventually being able to call Julia from within Python. I've also been quite happy using Numba as an alternative to Cython for some things when I need speed. It's a lot more light-weight with less boilerplate, although still a little rough around the edges.
Yeah, lets wait and see how fast they get their $25M. Giiven that photo sharing apps can get billions of dollars just like that, if the Immunity Project will have to struggle for their $25M, I'm giving up on SV altogether.
Maybe I misinterpreted what you meant by "solid 8", especially in the context of your reply. Does that mean you don't take lunch?
As the father of a nearly 6 year old girl, my first reaction when seeing the nice drawings and "programming for kids" was "COOOL! How much? Let me get my wallet out!". But then I saw "32 pages", and... yeah, that flipped my skeptic bit too. 32 pages is fine, but what am I getting there? An extremely broad but shallow overview? A few concepts explained... how? A neat story about how cool computers are? I don't really get a good sense of what all is covered in the book. Any of those things might make a fine book that I would buy - I really like the art shown - but "computer programming for kids" in such a short book just doesn't sound realistic.
Python is very popular. I need to explore Pandas / Numpy more, but I was under the impression that they are closely linked to the underlying C arrays to provide high performance.

In my opinion the problem with computational biology is that most biologists are not keen to improve beyond a basic level of programming.
Interesting that you mention IJulia. My concern with it is that when you are trying to develop a new technique or algorithm, the idea of introducing extra layers of code running in another system (in this case IPython) seems like a lot to deal with. Maybe I'm just a wimp ;)
I realize there is a bit of snark in that comment but the interesting bit is known as COGS. Part of the "value" of a business is the rate at which it can make money, and the server business is limited in its rate by how many machines you can build and the price you can sell them for. Most internet businesses (like Snapchat) are limited only by the amount of money you can extract from users and the number of users you can sign up. While the sunk costs of hosting servers and infrastructure is non-zero, the marginal cost of an additional customer is tiny compared to the marginal revenue they could generate.

This is the fundamental way in which the information economy is different than the goods economy. And that makes comparing a business in one, with a business in the other, invalid.
And just like the War on Drugs, laws have been (CFAA) and will continue to be passed out of panic or cluelessness that will affect people for decades to come, unless we try to stop them today.
What a baseless statement.

Gmail started April 2004.

Facebook started February 2004.

At which time Myspace was a year old.

Let's not be disingenuous and throw around nonsensical claims like "when you signed up for an email account a decade before "social network" was even a thing"...
rent varies drastically throughout Germany.

To get a feeling, use the well frequented http://www.immonet.de/
http://www.immobilienscout24.de/de/finden/wohnen/index.jsp;j...

..and it is true, unfurnished is standard
If Amazon instantaneously converted all USD they received into another currency, and transacted all of their business in that other currency, I think we'd be entirely reasonable to say that they didn't embrace USD.
> I'm more saying that I don't see any similarity between BTC and the Indian independence movement.

There doesn't have to be; that quote applies to a lot more things than just the Indian independence movement.
How does Julia interface with C? Is it easy to interface Julia with C because all it does is compile the C with Clang/LLVM?
Pretty cool, especially when you consider that in a month of march there are 2,678,400 seconds and 77TB is ~ 77,000,000 MB. So he sustained on average throughput of 28.75 megabytes a second for the entire month.

Another interesting titbit from the article is Verizon engineer claiming the OP used 30,000% of average Verizon user. Simple calculation shows that average Verizon user uses a little over 255 Gigabytes per household per month (I assume this is combined bandwidth).
Lots of things are difficult to accomplish in meat space when you have a one party state governed by career politicians.
Obligatory link: http://nullprogram.com/blog/2009/06/23/

I don't get why this is a problem - almost everything that comes with default Emacs installation is not loaded by default and so you don't even need to know it's there. Or you can just remove these modes altogether from your installation, no problem. On the other hand, if something made it to the Emacs core, it's probably more stable and easier integrated with other plugins. There are many plugins in the wild which do a great job by themselves, but fail miserably in the presence of other plugins enabled, and such plugins are not in Emacs (or I didn't see them yet).
It depends on where I saw my career going. Was I more interested in learning java or going the product route.

It's also obviously a question of culture. Which would you thrive in?

Me personally? I'm not sure what you mean by product support, but if you mean something like help desk/tech support for a product they make then I can't go that route. I've done it before and I was absolutely miserable.

Between the two choices you gave I'd have to choose the corporate firm and learn java even though I'd probably be more interested at the startup in a different position.
..and booming, there are a lot of very interesting companies and jobs there.

Shame that it's 90 mins drive from here :(
Hi Christian -
textbooksplease looks great. nice job!
I was wondering:
1 - how do you monetize?
2 - how does the post-stickers-get-tshirt marketing channel perform (and how do you know, as it's hard to track..)

cheers!
Or get your favorite journalist involved.
Excellent explanation of your process.
The calls are straight forward and direct. If you have not qualified the prospect already, then you must do this in the first 15 seconds.

The basic steps are
1.) Identify yourself
2.) Very short intro to why you're calling
3.) Ask a qualifying question
4.) If prospect is not qualified, end call
5.) If qualified, then start a dialog to see if they have the problem you solve
Sure there are cases of abusing their power, this is normal for any industry, doesn't mean it is the norm.
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I really don't like the anti-intellectual tone of the beginning.

"The problem with most programming languages is they're designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don't much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth."

can be rewritten as:

"The problem with most software is that they are designed by computer geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don't much care for. Information security, thread safety, modularity, hardware acceleration, system design, and so forth."
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Expecting, yes. Watching your every move in real-time, in 1972, no.

Remember, this was in the early days of television - not the continuous video/metadata surveillance state we have now, with commensurate capabilities available to any idiot with a motive and few hundred bucks. Sure, the police assumed the terrorists were expecting a raid somewhere between right now & hours/days from now and involving a lot of heavily-armored police with lots of firepower, but wouldn't know which second and the exact arrangement & capabilities of forces involved. Even seeing all the TV cameras around, the police hadn't learned to make the instant & automatic connection between a video crew and the TV set on in the hotel room about to get raided. This was the first time the targets of a raid were able to see that there were, in fact, right now, 12 cops standing just feet from the windows, and 5 approaching the front door carrying machine-guns and about to bash in the door with a battering-ram in 7...6...5...4...
It's a non-sequitur to have an economy that can handle damage from any of a number of disasters - including extreme climate change?
I like that he is totally cool with switching back to business class. He is just confused that they're freaking out over the extra 50$ a month. That 50$ a month isn't covering the difference between himself and the average consumer class customer.
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