skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of this is seasonal traffic trends. Here in the North East when the weather starts getting hostile around November we see a big uptick in bandwidth usage among our customers. Utilization tends to peak in January and starts breaking as soon as the weather warms up. You can see a less dramatic dip on this chart from the same period last year. With the long stretches of cold weather all over the US this year I suspect ISPs all over the country got hit hard. It's also the season for many millions of new devices to get unwrapped and turned on.
They sell your debt to collection agencies who harass you until the end of time.
jwdunne said "I would prefer the 3 hour A&E (ER) waiting times".
Well... We should tell TLAs to stop spying (we already did, long time ago, with obvious results). We should make such activity illegal (it is what's happening), because a big part of problem is secrecy and legal consequences leading to inability to tell anyone they're being spied upon.

But, indeed, sole laws are not proper security measure. And for some reason I don't see calls for any technical measures to make mass surveillance costly (and strongly believe it's necessary). We have locks and safes for a reason.
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Are there any GOOD ways to watch the Olympics online?
I have been suffering through watching the Olympics on my iPad (connected to the TV) for the last few days, and I need some suggestions. The NBC Sports app crashes every 15 minutes on my iPad 2, and then I need to sit through the same 4 commercials again to restart it.

Has anyone found a good option that is less buggy and still lets me see all of the live events and replays?
Ha I can.

Sometimes api providers change the damn response format. Or their urls change. Or they blocked your ip without notifying you.
Public healthcare ought to be implemented at the local level for those that want it (which I don't). I'm quite fine with not seeking treatment when I get a terminal illness. If it ever gets to that point I would prefer euthanasia (illegal in the USA).
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> 23 deaths were tied to ketamine use.

some future ketamine deaths are on you, 70forty
I think the real problem that affects everyone in US is the cost of anything health related before insurance. This may be a consequence of the fact that everything is private, but just look at the numbers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/why-an-mri...

You may be thinking "OK, the system is not great but I'm fine because I've got a good insurance", but that's not true. Even with a good insurance you're getting ripped off before of the cost before insurance of healthcare.
This is called Deep Learning. It can automatically form clusters from unlabelled training data and that is why there is a lot of excitement around it right now.
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I had a brief foray into indie game development. Luckily, my game "Discretion" was quickly swallowed into Android Market obscurity and only sold a couple 100. Out of this I got 1 (one) real fan, who emailed me a couple of times being really positive and nagged me for the one update I did for the game. Sometimes, I count myself lucky :)

It would have been nice to keep doing that for a living, though.
I guess you probably consider Amazon's ability to remotely memory-hole books on Kindles good too. How about having all thought and speech remotely pre-screened for anything that could potentially offend someone?

Censorship is bad.
Amazing after effects of taking Flappy Bird down: Reaction on the Web
I really like the banner, although, in all honesty, I don't think this will have any effect on spying. I truly believe that the NSA cannot be stopped by words alone. People lie all the time. The only thing I think words can do in situations like this is drive it more underground, and make the NSA lie that everything is back to normal...

Presidents lie. Politicians lie.

Now, if every American refuses to work 1 day, and all head to the NSA's office, datacenter (and actually destroy the thing), that'd really mean taking matters into our own hands (extreme scenario, I know). The NSA knew people wouldn't like this, but they did it anyway, because nobody knew. We will never truly have 100% transparency what the NSA is doing. People can no longer trust them. Period.
Terrifically realistic in Full-screen mode. Nice one.
What is your experience with MIPI exactly? what kind problems did you face?
Since you guys are reading this, a huge thanks for putting the time and effort in to organize this. Here's hoping you are able to keep that up for the long haul.
You are stuck in the monetization part of your side project. Its not that your side project has stalled, it is that you have auto-piloted it without adding alternative monetization strategies.

As relix mentioned, you also need to cut costs too.

If I owned this project, I would probably pick it up again and try to add some new niche to it and find some other revenue sources.

"just under a million tokened users" I don't know if this is means almost a million users or not, but that is a massive audience already.
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yeah right, another blurb of conspiracy theorists.

who cares about those guys anyway.
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Nope. Here in Eindhoven you have to be a member to geet weed, or so I am told.
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Maybe Facebook could try something like Flattr: one user has, say, 30 likes per months for pages. If he or she likes 3000 pages in one month, then each like counts as only 0.01 normal like.
I think I'm not making my argument clear. Software development methodologies are PROMOTED as ways to improve the predictability and repeatability of software development. They are adopted because management (or customers) are scared by the usual chaos of software development.

I think I clearly communicated my opinion that no development methodology in and of itself guarantees predictability or repeatability. They fail to meet the expectations of management; in other words they don't work.

I also think I clearly expressed my surprise that even without management pressure programmers will adopt methodologies and then force themselves to follow the rituals. Maybe this happens because programmers don't know better. I think it has more to do with creating a firewall of process and so-called best practices to avoid oversight and criticism. Sometimes there's an element of showing off -- look at how Agile/OOP/TDD/whatever I am, and no one told me to do it!
"Western culture"... In Portuguese too you say to your teacher "can the teacher open the window please?"
Minor bug in the otherwise pretty good article:

Don't start by editing the file permanently. If the worst happens (typo, whatever) you're either not going to boot or have a somewhat rough time of it. So the first thing you do is boot, in grub hit "e" to edit the boot, find the kernel line and the "quiet" parameter (most likely) then edit/add the init line as seen in the article. Then boot. Did it work? Cool, think about making it permanent. If it crash down in flames? Well, no problem, that edit wasn't permanent, just reboot and its all good. When/if you make it permanent, if you make a typo, you can edit to boot and fix it using the same "hit E to edit" technique you just used to test, so no fear.

I made the change permanent on Jan 6th on my work desktop and its been pretty boring indeed since then. Just works. I'm not personally very happy with the design, but so far it hasn't bit me.

Its possible to put some significant effort in and permanently remove sysvinit but its easier just to install both in parallel and simply boot into systemd. As far as I could find as of a month ago there was no problem having both sysvinit and systemd installed simultaneously and select at boot time. Someone with more time on hands/motivation could make an entirely new grub stanza to simply select from the grub menu if you want sysvinit or systemd.

Its a good article other than that minor "test before making permanent" thing.
You still haven't even attempted to address the original argument.

Are you trolling or just naturally obnoxious?
As a patient, I'm not really arsed. As a patient, I actively discourage putting strain on the system when unnecessary. I'm really moaning about how doctors are treated, and they are spread thin and are not rewarded by the system fairly by the effort they put in. The targets in place mean they cannot give patients the care they want to give, meaning there is little intrinsic motivation too.

I care, many people care. When you're feeling like shit, you don't want to be made to feel worse. It's simple.

I don't mind a 3 hour wait. The 3 hour wait just shows how thin doctors are spread. Lets face it, a 3 hour wait for any sick person in an uncomfortable chair is NOT going to do them any good.
Yep, this is possible and a much better use of ad spend that's allocated for FB. The only downside is the admin required to single out individual posts for paid (fake) promotion.

It's also a much cheaper method than paying FB to promote to your click farm fans.
Skeptical or not, we've already sequenced a complete blueprint for it that is running on billions of copies of firmware in the wild. True, we can't even emulate the firmware ourselves.

But we know it's possible and literally have a copy of the code that builds it. We just have to figure out how to emulate it. That puts a hard upper limit on how long all this can take. (It can't be "forever" since there is no requirement for the emulation to happen in real-time.)

As far as processing speedups, meanwhile, we don't even have 3D chips yet, just a single layer of silicon. Recent innovation: http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-true-3d-microchip-created-ca...

Given that a human brain is like 3 pounds of goo, and we have the genetic code that builds it, the rest is just biological reverse engineering + code refactoring of a binary blob without comments.

I am not saying this process is easy, but the idea that we can't make some solid predictions is fairly weak. We already do genetic engineering.

I wouldn't place much money on a true artificial mind still not existing in 40 years.
Doesn't sound like he's looking, sounds like the better-paying job found him/her.
Well, it's in the best interest of society as a whole to keep people in good health. For many reasons but in particular public health, because if people don't get vaccines or don't cure infectious diseases it can spread and potentially affect everyone.

This is why in France we have universal healthcare, that goes beyond legal residents but also benefits illegals (with AME, Aide Médicale d'État).
I meant in the sense that by enabling that feature there are also security issues introduced to the platform and for most people those costs outweigh the benefit gained by adding the feature. So if you look at it as a missing feature you could consider it a weakness. If you look at the effects of introducing it to the platform, overall, leaving it out is not a weakness - it's a smart decision.
Oh, the page is interactive; drop downs work, which makes this better than a bunch of static images. Ironic that a page demonstrating ui/ux variation has low usability.
That depends on what is downloaded. Downloading copyrighted software is illegal in NL, downloading movies, music and books is not.
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It's been a long long time, but I'm pretty sure that looks like the set up used for alcohol titration ... which at least at my school we did in teams for 4 or so. Did you not do this? If I did it, I'd assume that it's a standard part of the UK Curriculum (though again, that was some time ago).

A quick google appears to back me up to some degree?[1] (See "Student Activity 3")

[1]: http://www.scienceinschool.org/2012/issue24/wine
That's unfortunate and possibly the downfall of many good things. Much of the objection to the EU has come form nationalists around Europe. We have many.

The worst case scenario is when/if European politics gets dichotomized into Eurocrat vs Nationalist. Instead i would like to see the EU go back to basics. I don't think it's too late. A reaffirmation of basic principles. Free movement. Free trade. The core tenants of a united Europe. I don't give much of a damn about sovereignty, but I do care about local lawmaking.
Damn it! I thought it said "How to develop PCP on a low budget", anyway this is awesome!
This is an excellent essay. I remember sitting in my parents’ basement in high school with a fully assembled electronics board that I’d soldered together from a schematic, and no idea what to do about the fact that it didn’t work. Had I understood that learning how to build involved learning how to debug, I’d probably have built more things and fewer programs (for better or worse).

I must have known this about software and math, in order to be doing what I was doing in those areas then, but not figured out to generalize it to {electronics, mechanical objects, project plans, social interactions, habits and motivational systems, and creative writing} — and only partially to writing essays.
I'm not a pro (not even an amateur, actually), but the very premise of “shuffling the deck” bewilders me. Shuffling the whole deck is so obviously bug-prone. Why not just pick random elements from decks instead? If I ever wrote a deck simulator I'd never shuffle anything, just picked 1 out of n < 52 when needed. Is this approach too naive and well-known to be somehow flawed as well?
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That's a shame the developer was doing quite good with "Flappy Birds" he should probably re-consider taking it off the genie is already out of the bottle and taking it off now would not change anything.

Fuck it dude it doesn't matter just ignore anything relating to it it will go away eventually.

Give it time the internet has a short attention span. They'll see something more shiny soon enough.
1. Hitler said that Stalin would never be able to stop Nazi if he still had his "tzar generals" - nickname for those military highranks executed in 37.

2. Kanaris (nazi intelligence director) said after 37 their spy network didn't exist any more in Russia.

While you can't deny that there were innocent cases, one can't deny that many people were sued for a reason, as Stalin knew the war was inevitable and was doing anything to support the state.

Another interesting story is that as a spy you could get a smaller term than for some other crimes, so criminals happily became spies and local authorities happily reported their success to Moscow.

As for "dark rotten times", in the 20's Stalin was talking to English ambassador who asked Stalin if there would be a world war and Stalin replied that there would be a war and it would be much worse as with Germany, Japan would also attack from the east.

All actions of 20-30s and Stalin's decisions should be estimated from the war preparations that started in the early 20s. Young Soviet country didn't have friends and did everything it could to survive. Were Stalin's methods brutal and inhuman? Probably. Would civilization as we know it exist now if Hitler managed to get rich Russian resources? No. So sometimes ends justify means.

Just my point of view based on numerous historical books I read.
I didn't mean to belittle it all, I'm well impressed with it. Nicely explained for the most part and I saw afterwards that it's up on github too so it's easy to send in corrections for it.

I had to look up Friendica and Movim to see what they were (I'd never heard of them before), it'd be nice to have links to the respective homepages, so off I'll go and add them in.
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I'm naturally obnoxious towards manchilds who refuse to face the reality.
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Yes, it is. But DDoS attacks to EU or the US aren't launched from China/Africa anyway.

You need relatively low capacity to start an amplification attack, so a server at some ISP which doesn't care is enough. There are some ISPs which knowingly allow this, like Ecatel in The Netherlands which is probably the most notorious example.
This is just an accidental filter for our species. I mean, look at Japan. It has decreasing amounts of young people wanting to procreate or socially interact.

The people who can handle junk food, tv, porn, and the internet, will carry on. Maybe some will go crazy or become dysfunctional, but let's look at the other side of this either or grouping.

The people who can't handle these vices will more than the average, die from unhealthy foods, become depressed or kill themselves due to bad habits/addictions with porn/internet/media.

Eventually, more people who can handle these adaptations will be born than those who can't. It may be a hard pill to swallow, but that's how I see it.

Of course, we all may not be capable of a certain severity of these stimuli, so the truth may be more cynical.

My hope is that we change directions. But I think we have to ask ourselves whether we deserve to exist as a species. We certainly have our faults, and one could say we've crafted our own end if you choose to believe that's where we're heading.
I get the same feeling.

From the website:
Governments worldwide need to know that mass surveillance, like that conducted by the NSA, is always a violation of our inalienable human rights.

Sorry, but the governments of the world already know this. Obama, Merkel, Hollande, Cameron or Putin isn't going to stand up proclaim: "I'm sorry, we didn't know".

It's not that we shouldn't do anything, nor do I have the answer as to what we're suppose to do, but this, "The Day We Fight Back", is pointless. Changing your Twitter icon to green didn't stop the war in Libya, the Internet "Blackout" is already forgotten and just pissed people of, it didn't encouraged anyone to resolve or change anything.
Not just drop downs, but you can click on, e.g, restart and the page will restart. Took me a couple of minutes to get it.
You should also consider the stability of the job. Double the money this year isn't worth much if they go out of business, and you have to spend another year looking for a job. I would personally stick with a more stable job for less money every time, but you should decide which you value more.
Adding to the chorus of people who disagree with you, I'd like to also say that this was put up very quickly. I'm sure when time permits they'll build out the front end further.
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I claim that there is MUCH MORE to this Flappy Bird story then his feelings were hurt so bad he left $50,000 a day.

The on going rumor is he bought reviews and that he was found out. The hammer from Apple and Google was going to come down, but now he can save face and come out with a game a few months later with clean reviews.

Glad the programer was able to make $1,500,000 so far it seems. Maybe he just retired and is going to enjoy life, I hope this is the real answer.
Snowden, the NSA scandals and the subsequent political and media responses are very clear example of our right eroding. But, they are mostly concerned with the US Government and US citizens.

This is a global fight. The perpetrators and the victims are everywhere.
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Any idea which ads network is used in Flappy Bird? iAds?
I was taught version control. In fact, university made very sure to emphasise proper source control in our second year group project, even to the extent of making one person in each group the "code librarian", responsible for making sure the code of the various members fitted together, was properly controlled, and safely backed up (which was me).

And of course the nightmare situation occurred. The project manager (read: no !*&^£ clue) "accidentally" deleted the entire source control repository. Reconstructed from backups from three hours previously, plus changes from peoples' working copies within half an hour.
I find it a weirdly ironic that a protest opposing government collection of personal information, such as political affiliation, from opt in data stores on the internet consist of declaring your political affiliation in an opt in data store on the internet.
Obviously yes. Even for an anycast network like CloudFlare. Not that they can't mitigate it, but it's hard and not free to do so.
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Best bet is to fly to Switzerland when terminally ill, it's what I plan if it ever happens to me.
Unfortunately GEM on Atari ST didn't have a restart dialog. Otherwise I'd be loudly complaining the page being badly incomplete.
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I disagree - it gives your current employer the chance to retain you, assuming that you are on great terms with that employer and you really like the job.

It's just business. Everyone knows that the quality employees almost always already have jobs - chances are good that your company also will poach candidates similarly.
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I think the point was that it was Russian, not Polish.
Surprisingly this is actually really interesting.

Nice to see OS/2 in there!
> s/retarding/retargeting/?

Ooops, a typo.

> I guess targeting assembly is way harder, you must deal with register allocation and other scary-sounding topics.

Not necessarily, if you are ok with just getting something to run.

You can pre-define a set of generation templates for each AST node, no need for register allocation.
I think facebook's official mobile SDK will let you do this.
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Now that's a cool spin on this.

Any chance sharing the server side? Curious how something like that is done.
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That game has horrible input lag. Flappy Bird doesn't/
Acutally that would make a lot more sense, having a: "Click here to fund our own lobbying group".
There are lots of them that compile to native code.
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> I'm quite fine with not seeking treatment when I get a terminal illness. If it ever gets to that point I would prefer euthanasia (illegal in the USA).

You say that now, but I guarantee you the moment you get diagnosed you change your mind. Especially considering so many terminal illnesses can in fact be cured with (very expensive) treatments.

Also, what about all the non-terminal illnessess? What happens if you break your leg? Or get stabbed? Or get in a car accident? Or any of the millions of other things that can happen?
I don't think this article is anywhere near accurate of the current situation. The author doesn't know the creator of Happy Birds personally, and makes a lot of presumptions whilst perhaps projecting a lot of his own issues onto him.

I'm more inclined to think the creator took the game down to save himself being sued to oblivion and keep whatever money he currently has.
What is the difference between that and someone listening on the network with a tool such as wireshark? It may be a little to get the ciphered text easier, but it doesn't weaken the security in any way.
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Rumors are what they are, in the absence of very strong evidence, I'd take it at face value. Almost everyone I know has/had Flappy Bird.
Yeah, millions of people that died in Siberia were there for a reason. They must have been criminals, otherwise good father Stalin wouldn't imprison them. Yeah, of course.
But I'm pretty sure Hitler's victory would be a lesser evil for USSR and neighboring countries.