skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh dear. Looks like the work left for Google Fiber isn't done yet. Hoping they'll make a run in New York (or at least upstate where I intend to move), but that's a long shot.

I wonder how much independent ISPs could make if they stick to a small list of customers, but take up the "We Don't Throttle" stance.
The whole point is decentralisation and the absence of a regulator. That's what cannot really be made "cheaply" without very serious compromise.
Glucose-based battery has 10 times energy of lithium: researchers
Apple has blocked the old version as of 10 hours ago:

APPLE-SA-2014-02-04-1 OS X: Flash Player plug-in blocked

Due to security issues in older versions, Apple has updated the
web plug-in blocking mechanism to disable all versions prior to
Flash Player 12.0.0.44.

Information on blocked web plug-ins will be posted to:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5655
I have a first generation Surface RT and I want nothing more than to put Ubuntu on it and get real work done. Since that is not possible, it goes unused.
Netflix already do this, http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
Step by Step: How to bring JAX-RS and OSGi together
Two things:

1. I don't see how Bitcoin being sold on Paypal is competition to Paypal. Why wouldn't Paypal love to be a place where people sell bitcoins down the road? Bitcoin is a competitor to money, not to Paypal.

2. I've talked to reps at Paypal who have told me transacting BTC using Paypal or even in apps that use Paypal but transact money in other ways is against their TOS.
...and some rather heady bandwidth bills.
I'm hoping they will regenerate it :/
I deleted one photo from a bachelorette party because the cake very inappropriate and for whatever reason they chose that damn photo to be featured.
Just like Amazon they are adding their own custom services to the package which is easy to consume.

This can be storage, authentication, federation, messaging, queueing, etc.

And like Amazon they are building their own services (like AD in the cloud, Xbox Live, hosted exchange, Office 365, etc) on top of this infrastructure, so like for Amazon, the infrastructure they are selling literally comes for free.
I view it as a sanity check that's preventing us from transcending from reality into imagination, which might or might not have anything to do with how world works.
For specialized visualizations, of course, there are specialized libraries. For the more general uses I mostly wanted to provide a survey of some of the libraries that are available. It's not really intended as a recommendation of one library over another. When you really look at it, all of the general charting libraries are pretty similar. I did want to stick with true open source, so no HighCharts, for example.
Net Neutrality was dead as soon as Google became an ISP.

We all know where this is going.
Bookmarking in Firefox (Video)
You guys take this way too seriously.
Dogecoin Dice – Instant Deposit And Cashouts, So Dice, So Fair Much Profit
The author may have a point about Silicon Valley driving out employees, or deterring potential ones.

I looked into moving there, for the opportunity. I networked. I had (I flatter myself perhaps) the right skill set for my niche.

I looked at the cost of living.

I've got kids, two dogs. For any kind of a reasonable non-sh*tty living situation I'd double my living expenses, plus a two-hour commute.

I moved to Nashville instead.
That may be true. We'd need to find out how many teeth each gender has on average.
Well, that came out silly in hindsight - of course there are more options than the overhead compartment and under the chair in front of you.

What I was trying to say is that I've found it unusual that I've not been able to put my carry-on baggage under the chair in front of me and I have not noticed the flight crew having to handle any other options than the two above.
Campfire (lack of) new features
The article makes a good point, but people like symbols -- they help to compress the complexities of life and make the bigger point.

The idea that someone like you -- either nationally, ethnically or by some other characteristic can achieve something so big can be inspirational. That's a good thing.

Just to put it in a personal perspective, when my grandmother learned about my first big promotion as a "bigshot computer guy", it brought her to tears. To her, it was reinforcement that our family had "made it". She originally came from an agricultural background -- to her, I was a superstar. Kids in India now have another source of inspiration. Not a bad thing.
"That means a lot of services are going to be impacted by this." Should be easy enough for someone else to verify shortly.

No need for pitchforks, but corroboration would certainly be welcome.
Oh wow. I was being tongue in cheek about us techies, but looks like Netflix beat me to it here. awesome!
Technically yes but:

1) This is really an option for a relatively small part of Android's install base most of whom don't know F-Droid exists, let alone how to install it or why they might want to.

2) Any company wanting to produce a phone on this basis is (a) depending on a lot of other products and organisations and (b) putting out a product with - for instance - a substandard maps product next to the competition.

So yes it's open, but not in the way that I think many would like it to be (that is where a genuinely open phone that the average punter can and does use exists).
At the ISA level you're right, those do require explicit instructions (or bundling of instructions). At the programming language level no.

VLIWs can be programmed by normal compilers with well understood techniques (though variable memory latency makes static scheduling hard to do well in practice for most workloads). You just throw your C code into the compiler and it will spit out valid binaries and this has worked for as long as there have been VLIW machines.

The techniques for auto-parallelizing 'for' loops by compilers into SIMD instructions are a more recent development, but they certainly exist. The Intel C Compiler is particularly good at that, but Clang and GCC can do this too.
So that is what's going on! What should we do?
Ah I knew I was missing something there. Thanks.
Things are not looking good in my area... http://imgur.com/pxlpxO9
52% of app devs that target tablets prioritise iOS- just 28% prioritise Android
M-Lab provides a suite of tools to test a lot of net neutrality related stuff: http://www.measurementlab.net/
A rough look at the data suggests that Verizon DLS used to be around a stable 1.4 Mbps until October 2013 and is on a continuous decline since then with a current low of 1.17 Mbps. That would support the OPs theory, but it's only a single datapoint that may have other underlying causes.
This doesn't at all answer your question, but it's close. http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php
Unfortunately their US data only goes to December. Looks like Verizon dipped prior to the net neutrality ruling. http://imgur.com/xOfjRf0
Comcast/Verizon/AT&T/et al already have terrible reputations. They also have dominant local monopolies and the legislative power to defend them.
The Rugby on Sunday. They were looking very good actually, might be a dark horse for the Six Nations.
Banks Don’t Do Much Banking Anymore—and That’s a Serious Problem
Wow.js – Reveal Animations When You Scroll
By far the most correct observation. These guys are just following a script - they probably don't even know what half of the words mean. Please don't read anything into it or assume the outsourced support is somehow privy to anything at all that goes on inside Verizon other than what the FAQ system he's using tells him on screen.
So there's no issue with a business line? Sounds like they're NOT throttling Netflix per se but rather residential lines. That would make sense since businesses pay more and generally consume less.

Welcome to the future.
Apple has increased the number of MBAs since Jobs passed. See: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/24/apple-tim-cook-ceo/

This may indicate a corporate shift from a visionary outlook to a managing perspective. Someone on the inside would have better insight, but as an outsider I have to wonder.
My feeling exactly. The idea that one man's decision to live and work in another country besmirches his originally country decades later when he finds great success is itself the real insult here.
The headline is inflammatory linkbait.

The article context is thoughtful, introspective, and focused mainly on what India could change internally to be more inclusive and help give people a leg up.

It is disappointing that the headline is drawing the online discussion away from the meat of the article.

But such is linkbait.
Do you have a link to the actual paper?

Do you have a math relationship between time and CMB temperature?

Interested to know how long this early era of habitability lasted (not mentioned in the article).
Welcome to a world with no mozart, no Jesus, no Buddha, no Poe, no Pele, no Einstein .....
Ask PG: please add the option to open links in new window/tab
I'm often frustrated about the fact that links (titles but links in comments as well) open in the same window. Fully aware of the fact that some users actually prefer the current setting, but could you consider making it an option?

(and yes, I know I can right-click, use a plugin for chrome/ff/etc, etc etc, but I want it to be the same across all devices I use when logged in)

Thanks for listening!
Meet the next CEO of Microsoft: Bill Gates
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

It could be any number of things, like a problem with one of their peering providers. I wouldn't take one customer support agent's word for it.
File a compliant with the FCC. Yes, I know, but you have to start somewhere to let them know how their action/inaction/decisions affect consumers. The more complaints, the better.
Learning Is A Circuit
Perfecting Product Design – Make Jony Ive weep with joy
Interestingly, the net neutrality ruling wasn't until last month.
What you did was wild speculation.
I share your viewpoint but I think there is a potential solution to this problem (not that I advocate doing it, treat it as a thought experiment): implant the blank slate hardware for the digital copy years before it takes over everyday operation and let it observe your brain to learn. Give the digital copy all the same inputs as the biological brain and make sure the (at first unused) continuous output of the digital copy matches true brain behavior to a desired level of error. Slowly assign control of the biological body to the digital copy over years of time -- somewhere in there "you" may have died but nobody will notice, including yourself. Then when the biological body dies, the digital copy will have already been "you" for quite some time and you're ready to be dropped directly into a mechanical body or a virtual world -- though those would also likely be gradual processes.

(I also think the underlying problem of thinking the digital copy isn't you may even be an illusory one in that our consciousness experiences a discontinuity every night when we go to sleep.)
Firefox just simply never lives up to the experience I get from Chrome or Chromium. It crashes very often on certain pages (harmless and trustworthy pages from sites that shouldn't be causing crashes) and extensions like 1Password just don't work properly all the time and scrolling/performance is never as good as Chrome. I always give it a third/fourth/fifth chance but can't stand Firefox for more than five minutes.
C# and .net killed MS. The same virus killed Sun and will kill oracle. Technologies that try to isolate the coder from the machine by creating a funnelled dumbed-down common interface are inherently flawed because the HW evolves faster than the software.
I wouldn't read into this even if it wasn't an outsourced support person.

But the proof is in the pudding, the speed tests speak for themselves, no?
At the time this was written, it seemed as if Microsoft was dying, so calling it dead might be a "safe" prediction.

However, even a dying wounded can get intensive care and get back to life...
Bootstrap Co-Founders with Shahab Kaviani of CoFounder’s Lab
Oh well I wrote "scary" at first then I thought "no it must be 'scaring'".

No need for apology when you give me a chance to improve my English.

Thank you.
Play to Cure: Genes in Space – How it was developed
Disqus site shows suicidal man being shot to death, labeled 'Entertainment'
It's because it is a sad depiction of life and totally misguided for the purposes of making a catchy post. He took the games analogy to far the way of mechanical games that emphasize the hamster wheel approach to life.

That's not to say game play doesn't provide a very good analogy. Life makes much more sense when you relate to it like a variety of games each with their own rules. When you know the rules, everything becomes more clear. What you do with it is still up to you, but it's better than being in the dark.

Having a more playful approach to life and finding the fun in the most trivial of activities is rewarding. But unlike what the author emphasizes the in-the-moment experiences matter more than the milestones one reaches for the sake of reaching milestones.
> I am a strong believer in free will and it's what makes us so different than animals. Animals have instincts and very little free will.

Let me give you a friendly advice. Belief in free will has a purpose on it's own, just like belief in God. But if you choose to believe, stay away from attempts to explain it scientifically. You will only waste everyone's time and energy. Just assume free will as a fact and move on.

And keep animals out of it. They have as much free will as you.
What does Amazon use for its build and release system
George Orwell wrote my favourite piece on this issue in his essay, Notes on Nationalism[1].

[1] http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat
Slightly off topic:

I'm very lucky to live in the Netherlands if I compare the average speeds, even with the mediocre ISPs, with the rest of the countries where Netflix is active.

See: http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/netherlands
I believe that's a few months after Netflix started heavily using Cogent as a provider, and thus Cogent's peering disputes with Verizon and Comcast began:

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/17/having-problems-with-your-netfl...

My company uses Cogent as an ISP, and remote workers have had nothing but trouble trying to use VPN and other connections back home via Comcast or Verizon because the Cogent/Comcast+Verizon peering points are severely overloaded, dropping packets at a 5%+ clip at some times during the day.
This is true and has been true for everything non-Intel forever. I really thought open source operating systems would be a game changer for MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, and others but it was a challenge getting hardware just to port stuff to. Literally, it took heroic efforts within those companies just get hardware to like a Linus or something.

It's a little different with some of the raspberry pi like platforms on arm but you have some work to do if you want a specific late model processor. Sort of seems like an opportunity of Someone to build arm atx and miniitx like hardware but I don't know anybody doing it. It's all custom application specific stuff anyways...
I still don't understand why basecamp is so popular. In my opinion it's just an average product, nothing special about it, but it has so many users.
Google to make 'significant' changes to avoid EU fine
Really? Look through the history books and see how people who made their mark followed this formula?
w3m was (is?) the most popular way read html pages in emacs http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org
Yes that's perfectly true, but the initial funding frequently requires the talent to go find the money.

Take YC for example; Many people from Europe would love it if YC accepted applications from London or Berlin - and - let them stay there for the duration. But instead if they want to join, they're required to move out to California for a while. Because it's not possible (or at least, easily feasible) for PG to run it remotely, or franchise, or double-up each year, etc...

It's the sheer concentration of talent and capital that gives SV its lead imo. I wouldn't necessarily go there just looking for a job, but I certainly would when looking for funding, even though that would be an international leap for me. Then if the startup fails, there's dozens of others looking for talented people of any skillset in the area, there may not necessarily be so elsewhere. Then after a while, you can go try founding another startup of your own.

The safety net of being able to easily jump to another startup can't be underestimated.

NB: Also note that SV has international reputation that can't be understated either. I can imagine shifting from London to SV for funding, but it's a much harder sell to shift to Austin just because the rent is cheaper. If I'm following the rent rather than the funding/talent, why not move elsewhere within my own country?
No but that's not the point. If you know seed of PRNG you can based on predecessors find next element. Also it's a joke :)
We have "Paper" in our name too. And that's fine.
If that's the case, did life spontaneously come to exist on their lump of rock?
I think it varies in terms of what a given viewer is looking for, but generally having a voice I can listen to for long stretches, some amount of humor, and competence at the game you're playing. You also need to be able to commentate on it in an interesting manner and do interesting things - nobody wants to watch a Let's Play when they don't understand what's going on, and nobody's going to sit through an hour of you strip-mining some mountain in Minecraft.

GeopLP's Assassin's Creed series is to me the gold standard in a lot of ways: http://www.youtube.com/user/GeopLP/videos?view=1&flow=grid

But people like different degrees of all that stuff - I generally find YogsCast to be too silly, but thousands of subscribers obviously disagree with me, and I'm sure there are Starcraft or LoL watchers who hate all the contextual strategic commentary that I find absolutely vital in those videos. Similarly, different people and different formats like differing amounts of audience participation - I usually watch stuff on YouTube or Twitch weeks after it was recorded, so Q&Aing with your chatroom means I'm missing half the conversation, but for guys watching it live that's pretty awesome.
You are still making a value judgement.

That is, why shouldn't people with genes more suited to the environment they live in enjoy more success?

To answer that question, you have to assign some values to things, which is not a strictly logical process.
Symposium on Obfuscation – Obfuscation Tools
I'm not taking into account centripetal acceleration, but it is small in ordinary planets. In order for the planet to actually be a torus, it needs to be spinning extraordinarily quickly, precisely because gravity does not help maintain the torus shape.

From my reading, the author's simulations presupposed what s/he believed the gravitational field is. (This is actually a reasonable thing to do, and I don't fault him for it.)
Thank You Economy – Vaynerchuk’s Guide to making Money on Social Media
While most of us use social media websites for entertainment, there’s an increasing number of people (and I’m emphasizing on people, not companies) who make money through these platforms. And not any kind of money, but big money.
That makes another assumption that everything is being done in company's best interests, not individual people's interests. A lot of brilliant people has been let go because they had a conflicting vision. Is being more conservative a sign of brilliance? Also Azure is run by Scott Guthrie, but it could also be attributed to Steve Ballmer since he was the CEO when it started.
North Korea borrows liberally from Apple's OS X in new 'Red Star OS' update
New York, NY – Product Development Lab, http://futureof.io/

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Prove that the principles of lean-startups, when applied to a prestigious company with 50 million+ customers, can accelerate our pace of change. You’ll disrupt a company from the inside out, while producing ideas that have a meaningful effect on the daily lives of millions.

We're hiring: product managers, engineers, and UX/UI designers. H1B welcome.

More info at: http://futureof.io/payments
One other thing we can be very sure about this law: there's going to be a bunch of "unintended consequences", and some of them will be good. Some are likely to be very good.
The UK Hour of Code
While I mostly agree with you, one could also argue that there is a meaning to life and that is not to be happy but is to instead do all that one can do to further human survival (or whatever we end up turning into). One person providing some obscure service eventually bubbles up to the guys colonizing other worlds.

There is a default meaning to our life, and it's merely survival. I believe there is a balance between giving into ones emotions and not; doing many great and small things which accumulate into mattering in the grand scheme of it all, determining ones worth.

You're lying on your death bed and you ask yourself; how meaningful were my actions to this universe?
You know something is wrong with finance and economics undergrad education when the Phd programs look for folks with other majors. :-)

This should be a sign to more people that science and engineering programs are places where you can solve real problems.
I think the best way to test this would be to open a VPN connection, and connect to AWS or watch Netflix via VPN
Here's the whole article: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-echo-park-gang-20140126,0...
It's pretty well documented that Basecamp is for a certain type of business. There's no reason to bash it. It serves a purpose, just not the one your small division found useful.

I admire a company sticking to their values when they could easily throw them out the window and grow into a massive corporate machine.

Something as trivial as time tracking can easily be done with an external application[1] that plugs directly into Basecamp.

1.) https://www.toggl.com/
IMHO the surface of such a planet should be nothing more than molten lava, as the outer parts of the torus are probably going to rotate much slower than the inner parts (much like the rings of Saturn do). This would not allow for any solid crust to form.

I agree with srl: gravitation must get gradually closer to zero in the inner part, where the molten lava, not being pulled down by any gravity, continually explodes due to the pressure of the internal gases, forming a fuzzy ring of (cooling?) debris, a gradually spreading chaotic mix of rocks, the greater part going towards the torus' real centre of gravity, leaving underlying molten rock exposed to follow their fate later on - in short a crumbling effect that cannot be arrested. This rocky chaos may later start collapsing in the middle of the hole, forming the seed of the future planet.
BTW any large enough asteroid impact would also spell doom to the whole torus planet and either wreak havoc, rip it apart (in interesting ways, depending on location and direction of the impact) or cause the central "hole" to collapse sooner, finally reducing the planet into a more spherical shape - enter the Torusmageddon :)

Just my two cents.
Did you check out the other countries. We get the shaft on speeds for sure.
What technical details are missing? I was under the impression that Intel has the most open SoCs around. The only thing I can think of is the PowerVR GPUs in some of their older chips, but those aren't theirs to open, and they stopped using them in recent SoCs in favor of their own GPUs.