skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NASA page has much better copy about the object:

Much of the rock is bright-toned, nearly white. A
portion is deep red in color. Pinnacle Island may
have been flipped upside down when a wheel dislodged
it, providing an unusual circumstance for examining
the underside of a Martian rock.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mer/rock-pinnacle-island-pia17761/in...

From this, I get the impression that the other rock you see in the photo is actually bright white as well, but is covered by red martian dust. This is probably the most interesting thing about the whole photograph.
... coming to a united kingdom or state near you soon!

Edited: so soon that it's already happened: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/massive-domestic-mo...
It seems that 95% of the time was spent in making the video rather than building the product.
I probably over-estimated what I'd need. I was just basing the number on what I make currently and the difference in COL. It wouldn't be possible for me to maintain my current savings goals on $95k in Manhattan.
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It's not that simple. Comcast/Time Warner are monopolies in their area because we tax payers subsidized the laying of the lines. Verizon tried to expand FIOS to compete and took huge losses. My wife works for a fiber company, and seeing the numbers, it's basically impossible to make the investment worth it unsubsidized at at a price competitive with Comcast.
The big deal for me is that a unity3d headless server only runs on windows. I have an architecture the produces customized video content, I'd love to write a unity module but cannot until Linux is supported.
They haven't really hurt anybody physically this time would be a more accurate way to put it. Its hard to imagine that he and his family aren't going to be up late nights worrying about what comes next. I'm truly stunned to see folks on hn defending this behavior.
Google Cache Servers. It also saves the ISP money by keeping popular traffic within it's own network/reducing carrier interconnect bandwidth.
I'm a marxist - certainly not aligned with any right wing libertarians. But right from the headline that article disgusts me.

Unless they have concrete proof that this specific guy have done something particularly bad (and they've not presented any), calling him out by name and with photos of his home is way over the line to begin with.

Not only is it creepy, it is deeply counterproductive and will only serve to alienate people that might otherwise be sympathetic.

What they describe as a "pompous two story palace with stone lions guarding the door" looks to me like a quite average suburban house. Yes, I get that there are people substantially worse off, but they're not getting any sympathy with crap like that.

Further, trying to dehumanise him with their descriptions of him as a "robot" and contrasting him with his child, and their use of words like "evil" ought to make everyone concerned.

This is not progressive. On the contrary, this is moronic petit bourgeois luddites staging ineffective and creepy demonstrations that will achieve nothing but play straight into the hands of their opponents.

It also shows that they fundamentally fail to understand the mechanisms they are fighting. Everyone on the other side will see what they are doing as perfectly reasonable. They are just "hacking the system" and following consequences. The moment they are described as "evil" and faced with personal demonstrations, these guys start creating enemies, when they could instead have searched for partners.

But these clowns use socialist terms while they clearly don't understand much of its basis. Marx, for example, was very clear in his agitation against the kind of moronic vilification demonstrated in this text: The typical capitalist, and those aiding him, according to Marx, is no more evil than the worker he oppresses - capitalist and worker alike for the most part are trapped in the same machine, and have little choice but to stick to their roles: A capitalist that stops exploiting labour will fail, and end up a labourer by necessity himself. Marx was not against the capitalist. He was not even against the capitalist system per se - on the contrary, he realised that for any chance of socialism to succeed, it would be _essential_ to bring about the economic development and automation required to be able to meet the needs of everyone.

In fact, socialism as an idea is a child of the industrial revolution more than anything: It arose out of the hope that the industrial revolution would bring about such wealth that poverty could finally be beaten, Marx held that the capitalist system would play out its role once production had reached such a height that poverty could be eradicated.

Socialism originated as an ideology deeply intertwined with a positive view of technology and automation as tools of liberation. To see these guys play modern day luddites and drag out socialism in the same breath just shows a staggering degree of lack of awareness of history. To see them target individuals rather than the system equally so.
Building the ultimate paper airplane, one manila folder at a time
It's definitely been on CNN. The elevators in my building have little TVs playing CNN all day long so I get it in 30 second snippets.
Comes with a single PCIe 3.0 x16 link on die, good for 16Gbyte/s.

This is the area where Intel is just killing it with their E5 chips, along with being able to write directly to the L3 from I/O. (I have no idea if AMD does this.)

The E5 is so good that it lets you do entirely different architectures from what came before it. Total game changer.
Others have addressed your questions about Java & Ruby, so let me handle the job angle.

If you are ever unsatisfied with your job or your self-development, by all means move on. Life is short, and everyone deserves fulfilling and rewarding work. This is my advice regardless of profession; although it applies double for you, as this is literally the best job market we have ever seen for good people with technical skills.

That said, do not quit without having another job lined up if you only have a year or two of experience. Look around, read up on career searching, call some companies, figure out what you want, and then pursue it. Get a company interested in you and negotiate for the best possible offer. When you have an offer, give your two weeks notice.
Is it not market cap > $1 billion? For pre ipo companies with no free cash flow it is amount someone invested divided by perecent equity they got > $1 billion.
5mbps per user, times tens or hundreds of thousands of users in a metro area.

Video is the thing that will finally get us faster IP networks, as it slowly replaces TV as the modern opiate of the masses. Even BitTorrent wasn't enough.
Ask HN: Which Distro and Why?
Need some collective wisdom.

I am preparing to install Linux as an alternative bootable OS on my main computer alongside Windows 8.1.

The iron is older but still very capable:

Dell Precision T7400
2x E5405 Xeon [Harpertown]
Video: Nvidia Quadro FX 1700
Two Displays with different Native resolutions
12GB RAM ECC
RAID 1 [mirroring] using onboard Dell Virtual Disk

The considerations for the Distribution:

[] Reasonably straight forward installation and configuration for my hardware including X11. Bleeding edge not important. Reasonable robustness is.

[] I plan to use Linux for programming. Comprehensive package support for programming languages and development tools is important. I don't need MSOffice knock-offs or lots of multimedia applications, or games, etc. Right now, the plan is mainly Emacs from the desktop.

[] Other considerations being roughly equivalent, leaner is better.

[] Other considerations being equivalent, more GNU is better than less GNU.

[] FHS definately. LSB other considerations being equivalent.

[] LFS/BLFS are for another day.

[] Critical mass supporting the distro.

[] Plan to use Windows Boot Manger to maintain existing stability. Might change it down the road, but I don't boot often enough to be bothered by Windows 8's slower process.

Thanks for your help.
I mostly use flask. I have not come across a complete SAAS boilerplate in flask but you can probbaly put one together by using some of these great flask extensions:

Flask-Security [0] . Takes care of the following:

Session based authentication
Role management
Password encryption
Basic HTTP authentication
Token based authentication
Token based account activation (optional)
Token based password recovery / resetting (optional)
User registration (optional)
Login tracking (optional)
JSON/Ajax Support

Many of these features are made possible by integrating various Flask extensions and libraries. They include:

Flask-Login
Flask-Mail
Flask-Principal
Flask-Script
Flask-WTF
itsdangerous
passlib

Additionally, it assumes you’ll be using a common library for your database connections and model definitions. Flask-Security supports the following Flask extensions out of the box for data persistence:

Flask-SQLAlchemy
Flask-MongoEngine
Flask-Peewee

Using stripe with Flask [1]: Follow this guide on stripe's docs.

[0] http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Security/

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/flask
Check out https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/hack/MAINTAIN...

And in general the rest of that hack/ directory. We use a process that is completely open and not at all limited to Docker, inc. Several core maintainers (and countless contributors) are not employed at Docker inc.

Generally speaking the reference for how we organize is Linux.
Inspired by faker, I created https://github.com/alexmic/mongoose-fakery for Mongoose.
Brighthouse (TWC subsidiary) throttles quite a few services these days, Youtube being the biggest one. The throttling is so intense 24 hours a day that Google's streaming algorithm (download a little, play a little, repeat) can't continue downloading after the first initial burst. I can easily break it by VPNing into Work or School.

They very recently started throttling Netflix. I have a 90mbps down connection, and I can hit those speeds even at peak times.

ISPs are trying to strangle companies like Netflix into paying them for use of their network...you know...because Netflix doesn't already pay for an internet connection...they get free internet...because they're Netflix.

This is like the Mob walking into your laundromat and saying:

Mobster: "We own this whole block, and we want you to pay protection".

Laundromat Owner: "But we already pay rent, and protection!"

Mobster: "No, Clothing Protection. You're making a lot of money off dirty clothes, dirty clothes that get cleaned in our building. We want a cut. It would be a shame if someone left a sharpie in every washing machine wouldn't it? Then no one would come to your laundromat."

Netflix: "What if we don't let anyone in who has a sharpie?"

Google: "What if I just tell everyone the Mob ruined their clothes?"
So basically...it's a series of tubes.
Except that those "solutions" might not necessarily work either. I had even read on HN people arguing that the solution would be MS to fork android (something that we had seen already) or just stay still and don't do anything (again we had seen that before too)

The way I see it, MS started to get lost once they "accomplished" their mission "computer on every desk". At that point they were just like "Now.. what?".
I don't run Windows and never an Apple product for my own use, which is why I replied to this thread in the first place, if this dev environment would run on Linux and the games produced by it do and they can work on Steam like the sample I tried with the Steam SDK; great, I'd consider buying it, the development environment, for Linux.
Bit flip
Under the net neutrality paradigm, the entities "paying" for the last-network bandwidth are the ISP customers, not the content providers. The content they choose to receive has traditionally been expected to be treated "neutrally" without requiring payment by the provider. This argument has been had, and in virtually all cases our community has agreed (contra the positions of many regulators it seems) that it's a good thing.

Have you flipped on net neutrality or are you just confused because Google is the party harmed in this case?
I am fascinated and bewildered. I had not known fliering is a word.
Are you running one of the affected hardware models?
The Internet of Things, Beyond the Home
Our first post on the Robin blog...there's been a lot of media coverage about the Internet of Things from CES and because of the Nest acquisition and it seems like more people than ever are aware of what the Internet of Things is, but many also doubt its usefulness. So here I address some of these concerns with some examples of the Internet of Things that people may not be aware of, and I explain the actual value these use cases offer. Let me know what you think.
Those are infotainment / political agitprop sites. May as well complain about TMZ not covering it. If you go to bb.co.uk or reuters.com or news.google.com or reddit its front page news.
I actually have much more faith in Google's capacity and CDN than I do in Verizon's history of sleaze.

After all, Google doesn't have a conflict of interest, Verizon does. The better Netflix and YouTube get, the closer I am to canceling my Verizon TV service.
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Why did this get removed from the front page? I hadn't even heard of this news until seeing it here.
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Just speaking off the top of my head here, but services like HireFire ping the Heroku API to poll for information on when to scale. The Heroku API is a little rate limited. You'll probably get a more responsive result using GA.
I'm not totally buying this - why is it when I have this extension[1] enabled, YouTube FLIES and works just as I remember it to work back in 2007?

[1] - https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter
Facebook Will Lose 80% Of Its Users By 2017
It's certainly known that they do the tracking part - in the UK as long as a decades ago you'd see police at demonstrations with cameras catching as many faces as possible (and weren't secretive about their purposes). What they then did with that information could range on a scale from nothing to conspiracy theory level, I'm not sure.
Princeton Researchers: "Facebook Will Die Off Like an 'Infectious Disease'"
Same thing happened to me with AT&T in Tulsa with their fastest offering (I think it was 24/3 at the time). All speed tests, downloads, uploads were almost always the advertised speeds, but I couldn't watch Netflix or HBO GO, or Hulu. I could, but it was unbearable. To the point of kicking over magazine stands and throwing Nintendo controllers at the TV.

When I called support about this they claimed it was my setup. A Time Capsule connected to their modem/router. Whatever.

I switched to Cox (100/25) and get better than advertised speeds in all downloads, uploads, and speed tests, and have not had a single issue with buffering on any service. I have even been choosing the 1080p option on YouTube without any buffering.

The only problem I have now is whenever my Time Capsule is directly connected to my Motorola modem it causes the modem to restart, so I had to use a slower, older Linksys in-between the two until I figure out what's the cause of that.
"Gentrification" became a bad word at some point.

I don't see it that way.

I hope that the tech industry gentrifies the hell out of SF to get rid of nutcases such as these people.
I'm confused how Samsung's lawyers failed to show prior art or the fact that it was an obvious development. Autocomplete is on every IDE worth a bean, every T9-based phone... even if iOS was the first to bring it to the touch-screen, that's not exactly a huge leap.
My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew.

I think I heard that before who said it?
A group posts pictures of your house, your name, and detailed descriptions that attempt to dehumanise you and paint you as some supervillain.

Would I feel threatened and oppressed if I was the target of that? Yes. I'd probably make sure I had weapons in the house.

My lunatic meter went off time and time again while reading their flier. I would not for a second trust that there's not at least one crazy guy that decides to take things one step too far in that group.
Is it me, or is this website subtly paying homage to Sen. Ted Stevens' famous "Series of Tubes" anti-net-neutrality speech.
Well, I'm on a resold Telekom VDSL connection, and so far all I see is "Results from your location are not yet available."

I've had major problems with YouTube videos in the past (despite having a very reliable 50Mbit down), but recently it's been fine.
We spent a week making Trello boards load fast
Not quite: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/386665/league-of-legend...
I recently discovered this too, which led to a talk at a local meet up, check it out! http://jenko.me/breaking-bugs/ (vid: http://vimeo.com/83349876)
Yes, because the customers of the networks have already paid for the bandwidth!

I buy internet access and that includes access to youtube!
Yup. This article is a not so subtle jab at this and trying to educate consumers that their poor video experience isn't Google's fault. Both Google and Netflix are raising the bar here, customer demand/complaints are providing the necessary energy and the ISPs are maneuvering to get more money out of someone.
I'm very much lacking in math education and this seems like it would be a great approach for learning linear algebra. Do you know how this compares with "Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science"? The two approaches sound very similar.
If I'm quoting somebody I'm doing it unconsciously - I've been trotting that line out for a while but I thought it was original.
For one, ESR isn't asking that the FSF change (directly). He's asking that FSF change with respect to GCC and the audience it serves. There's many developers, and especially young developers, that feel the GPL & FSF are "over-principled". I think we can all agree that "Open Source" has largely won.

But if you ask about "Free Software," and take github as data point, I'd say "Free Software" is losing, and is losing because, like proprietary software, it's "over-principled". Young people everywhere, "feel" like content, many forms of "public" data, and the tools to use, create, play, view, and store such content & data ought to be "free as in beer" (or close to it) based on the principle that the effort to copy & transfer data, content, binary, and source is "almost free". Whether there is a restriction in creating plug-ins, linking or modifying code (as in the GPL/Free Software), or copying binaries and/or content as in proprietary software, these are still restrictions.

This is the reason why I prefer the more permissive licenses for my works like the BSD and MIT licenses. Essentially, my work is a gift, in the purist sense, to the entire universe. To place restrictions on my gift is to have given the world a poison and not a gift.

The reason why is easier to understand when you consider the quote by Jim Warren from a 1976 ACM Programming Language newsletter [1], referencing Bill Gates' famous letter to the Homebrew Computing Club, "There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning 'ripping off' software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it's easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won't be 'stolen'."

Said another way, people will continue to do the "wrong" thing so long as it takes less effort than to do the "right" thing. In my mind, we should be incentivizing the "right" things, like openness, sharing, technical merit, and capability.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC#An_early_free_softwa...
$60-80 a month for each one of those users (our bill is about $120 counting TV as well).

Not counting the fact that local governments subsidize the last mile. Also that routers and networking equipment keeps getting cheaper and faster.

It'll take a lot before I start to feel sorry for my ISP.

The thing is, I get amazing speeds from other sites and very good speeds from my EC2 boxes. Downloading MS/Ubuntu ISOs are just beautiful.

But those just aren't mainstream uses so I'm sure Verizon doesn't throttle those servers.
Actually, Ukraine's natural gas production has been picking up. Significant shale deposits have been found and off-shore drilling has begun in the Black Sea.
Are you seriously suggesting, Citizen, that the same standard applies both to the oppressor and the oppressed? Have a care, Citizen; such regressionist attitudes court accusations of reactionism.
Usually it's the peering between google/youtube and the ISP that is the bottleneck, internal ISP network and google CDN are usually fine there's just an unwillingness to upgrade the connection between them (usually because parties can't agree on terms, some ISP would like to be paid when peering).
Im normally all for having a go at Americans for being so insula, and not realising there is a rest of the world out there, well, the NSA know, but, you know... stereotypes and all that.

But in all fairness, the Ukraine borders the EU and there are political ties or ambitions there concerning the EU. No, I don't know all the details and I wont pretend to, but ultimately, it affects the EU. The US, on the other hand, is a world away and frankly what goes on in the Ukraine is not exactly a big deal to the US or its people. Yes, on a being informed of big events in the world level, it should be reported in the US, but I can understand the US not being that interested. Im sure there are levels of concern for the US, but its a much bigger deal to us in Europe.
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This is what it looks like when Chinese hackers make your VPS a zombie
thanks, this clarifies it!
MemSQL (YC W11) raises $35M to future-proof your company’s database
It's likely they'll just start doing analytics on the streaming speeds as we go about streaming youtube videos. They'll extract the ISP from our IP.

That's how I'm guessing Netflix does it: http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
Google, would you please stop making these pretty advertisements and actually fix the problems? Thanks, Internet.
"[YourLongAndComplexPasswort]H4ck3rn3w$"

This is not a good approach. The problem arises when some thrid aprty stores your password in clear text or some easily reverisible format that allows hackers to easily get this "[YourLongAndComplexPasswort]" part thus reducing your password to the easily predictable suffix.

If your unique Hack News suffix is H4ck3rn3w$ it's a fairly safe bet that $l4shd0t, R3dd!+, Gm4i! will also be easily predictable
Worth mentioning that Netflix has a similar effort: http://blog.netflix.com/2014/01/new-isp-performance-data-for... http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
Zero info on homepage = not interested.
I also wrote one for fun at http://cretz.github.io/pratphall, but I have come to the conclusion that cross compiling to PHP isn't practical. The whole point is that it's easy to write and see the results right away.
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No, we don't need more of these pseudo-news articles. Who the hell keeps posting them to HN?
You might be interested in something like https://github.com/buger/gor
Regardless of the product itself, I think the name alone is going to turn people off.
Hopefully other people that get this email will google it and see this post. I'm sure many non-technical people fall for this sort of thing.
A STRONG second on that support for AirWatch biff!