skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wired. Also have tried going direct through the cable modem. ISP's techs can't resolve this after many calls and site visits. (Some techs say this is the expected behavior of the connection.)

While streaming in Firefox, reported speed rate jumps to expected (i.e. non-peak rate) when running through a proxy server outside my ISP's network. Speed drops instantly when the proxy setting is disabled. Flipping the proxy switch on/off literally changes my observed speed by ~10+ Mbps. This experiment has has been confirmed over weeks, different devices, etc.

So...I'm not blaming the ISP, but using a proxy server clearly works for me. So I'm going to do that so I quit wasting time trying to figure out why it doesn't work. I just need to be able to do it at the router level and not the computer level so it works for e.g. the Apple TV.
man. the day IceCube talks about my startup changing his life will be a damn Good Day.
Google Seems To Realize That Robots Are Going To Run Everything Soon
The Denver-Boulder corridor is going to start losing it's place as one of the top tech startup areas in the country if it doesn't get itself on this list of potential fiber installs.
This looks interesting and it's shipping tomorrow. Though I don't think it's designed as well as Coin, I do think it's headed in a better direction. Products like this move us toward electronic payments, whereas Coin supports the existing card-required payment system.
New Zealand appeals court reverses ruling that Megaupload warrants were illegal
there's a video of his beating online, he was severely beaten up by government-controlled thugs with baseball bats and then shot by police
Oldie but goodie.
From the linked Wikipedia article:

> All experiments were conducted on PCs equipped with an Intel Core i5-2500K CPU running at 3.30GHz and 16GB of RAM.

Why are these experiments not being conducted on a more powerful computer or a cluster?
We basically already are.

I'm not 100% certain on this, but all porcelain/ceramic pieces should be dateable through Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon methods.

You'll never see it used in archeology as it's only useful for fairly old (greater than a few hundred thousand years) samples, but Potassium-Argon (and the complimentary Argon-Argon) is a _very_ common dating method for geologic samples.

Porcelain is mostly made from kaolinite, but usually includes quite a bit of various feldspars as well. I think (?) the process of making ceramics should get the feldspars involved up above the Curie temperature, if not entirely melting and re-crystallizing them.

If so, you should be able to date porcelain/ceramics in the far, far distant future.
Monstrous mobile SEO implications, thanks to Big Data
I know of at least one in my circle of acquaintances, who is a highly intelligent and accomplished engineer. There's lots of fascinating stuff to do at a water company: industrial control systems (software and hardware), large structure engineering, resource management, etc.
You don't have to wait for Google (or Bell, etc.)...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/small-alberta-town-gets-ma...
I've seen detailed cellphone signal quality map (sensorly.com) and I can only confirm: the block around the CEO’s houses have far better signal. Having acquaintances rejoice over the ten-fold improvement (and how crisp their grand-children are on Skype now!) at the Club House would indeed hurt.
Questions arise about stem cell breakthrough
The thing that's not made explicit about "positive thinking" is that:

(1) It is not enough to think positively. You actually have to change how you feel. If you are out of touch with your feelings, then no amount of positive thinking will change anything.

(2) In order to be in touch with how you feel, you first have to tune into how you feel right now -- whether that is "good" or "bad". Then accept it for what it is now. It's only after that, that change happens.
Hang on a second, in what way is "last-mile connectivity providers cannot selectively extort content providers based on business considerations" NOT identifying and addressing a market failure?

I pay for the pipes on my end, I want the same data-rate regardless of whether the data originally came from a netflix server or a NBC-affiliated company's server.

If netflix needs to beef up their peering arrangements in order to get the data to comcast's network, that's one thing, but they absolutely should not have to pay an additional fee to comcast to protect themselves from being penalized.
Imagine in your brain a standard, boring geosync comsat. There it is, hovering over some spot of land in Africa or WTF, 24x7. (well, its not quite that simple, but close enough). Now take two jumpropes and throw one down and one up. No problemo its still "motionless" WRT the ground. Now make those jumpropes ridiculously long until suddenly the lower one hits the ground. There's never a point as it stretches where it gets all spun around and stuff.

You are tangentially correct in that its a huge dynamic problem to dampen waves. You wanna piss off / terrify legacy earthlings today? Get in an elevator with 500 foot cables and start hopping up and down while its moving. You'll scare them half to death as the whole cabin starts bouncing. Now try a couple thousand mile long cable with multiple cabins all wiggling. Its going to give the control system engineers headaches. Solvable, just a PITA.
I believe the FIOS demand wasn't high enough to justify the costs of expanding it any further.
Yes, you can replay another standard argument for inflation. It's still not enough: the question is how to model the cost of making people spend sooner than they otherwise would, so you can compare to the benefit thereof. Mentioning executions was just to show what happens when you ignore costs and only talk about policy benefits.

For those "taxes of other things", you still need to model its social cost to know whether it outweighs the benefit. You can't just dismiss the point as "this isn't execution".

Edit: Important thing to note: in most discussion of taxation, the theme is "how to avoid the deadweight loss", i.e. how to write the tax in a way where it just transfers money without inducing changes in behavior. Advocating inflation as a behavior-changing tax is a sharp deviation from this, requiring a very different justification and model than traditional taxation.
Two things you're forgetting:

1) Internet isn't a luxury anymore, it's a necessity. One can't live in society today with much success without some form of Internet access.

2) The free market is not at work when it comes to the proverbial "pipe" that's been laid - the Internet backbone. Getting a fiber cable to your house, to your neighborhood, and to your city was a task that cost a lot of money, and was paid for in part by the US government and state governments. Despite this fact, companies like Time Warner do not share "their" infrastructure to 3rd party ISPs. This, in turn creates an artificial monopoly where Time Warner unfairly benefits from publicly funded infrastructure.

People can't avoid Time Warner, because in many places, they have literally no other option. There is no hope for these folks.
Why is there not a single city in the northeast or the Rust Belt?

Chicago, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh are all major cities that are at least "on the map" as far as tech is concerned. I know for a fact that the local authorities in Detroit, Cincinnati and Cleveland would bend over backwards for any project that has even the slightest whiff of economic development.

I can understand NYC being a special case that they don't want to deal with, but there are plenty of other cities in the region.
Yes, the author cherry picks numerous inept counterexamples like the one you cite and this one:

“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong;"

This is utter pessimism. I feel sorry for people who are on board with it. In my experience, the gains garnished from being super optimistic and taking chances have been much greater than had I sat around on the couch not trying. I never achieve up to the level of my goals and imagination - but that's because I continuously push them higher and higher. Instead, I aim for Alpha Centauri and land on the moon.

I should also add that the emotion of _curiosity_ is a very powerful one for me. When I imagine the future, and I _don't know_ what something will be like, the curiosity is a very powerful motivator for me to at least try it out.
Assuming multiple application servers despite 99.9999% websites not needing them doesn't make much sense.
Enabling Java in Latency Sensitive Environments
Any reason prevented you from posting the link to the video?
Comcast and Time Warner: Broadband competition at risk without regulation
Do you own a phone with Firefox OS?
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1431081/ukrainian-jou...
> It essentially just moves each vertex toward the average height of its neighbors, which turns out to propagate waves that look like water ripples.

If you look at the equations that govern the liquid surface, the assumptions that this model is based on are not that bad. Reality is a bit more complex, but the average-of-neighbors seems like a good start. Pretty simple too, which is always good computationally.

> The reflection and refraction raytracing is all hard-coded for the geometry in the scene, which makes it really easy.

Which reminds me...

Back in the days of 386 CPUs, I did a real-time 3D ray-tracer that drew a few spheres rotating around each other, with a fixed light source, and correct illumination depending on incidence angle at any point on the spheres. All on a 30 MHz 386 CPU, nothing pre-rendered, no assembly code, no GPU, running at high frame rate. Bricks where shat when people saw it.

The reality was that the math was highly optimized for that specific scene. I massaged the equations until I worked out of them all the expensive functions. No sin() or cos(). I think the worst thing I had was a sqrt(), and even that was used sparingly.

> The "ambient occlusion" is done by making parts of the objects darker when they get near each other.

You're basically modelling Le Sage's theory of gravitation, with surface illumination representing "pressure" from the "corpuscles".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sage%27s_theory_of_gravitati...
What federal agency dictates what services and prices a gas station in the middle of desert can offer?
There are a lot of folks on forums like this who think networks like FiOS should be regulated into being essentially dumb pipes. Verizon and their investors see some chance of this happening, and even if it didn't, it turns out there aren't a lot of "value added" services you can sell to consumers over a proprietary network; they just want the internet.

You can't make the margins as a "dumb pipe" that Verizon needs to justify the capital investment in FiOS. That's the long and the short of it. They had dreams of selling pay-per-view movies, video chat, and a dozen other applications over their network for big $$$. Instead they're fighting with Comcast over the same $120 in cable and internet bills, while Netflix, Google, and Apple build their high-margin businesses on VZ's fiber.
This is my little side project Lump.co. It's like Pinterest, but you build the gallery by searching the web for photos, rather than having to download photos, collect them, and then reupload to Pinterest.

It's quick as heck, works pretty well on iOS, and is a blast to use.

Motivation/Scratching an itch:

I'm always sending Google Image Search results to people, but I got really frustrated by the long URLs and inability to edit/reorder the results.

I love working on Lump because I use it ten times a day, just for myself. Things like:

1. Picking things to buy visually: http://lump.co/amazon-standing-ashtray

2. Finding recipes by my "desired result" (what I want my food to look like.. sounds silly but it works!) http://lump.co/pork-shoulder-recipes

3. Understanding concepts by quick visuals (I find this to be a really effective way to learn when you don't have time to read a lot of material) http://lump.co/understanding-ios-delegates

4. Creating visual mood boards/inspiration boards

It's still pretty buggy at this point, and I think it really needs to be a native iOS app for the best UI/UX, but for now I am ready to submit it for HN's denunciation. :) I'd be eager to hear what everyone thinks!
I live in Philadelphia, where we have a subway station named after AT&T and the tallest building is the Comcast center (until they build their new Comcast building, which will be even taller), and if Verizon can't get fiber to my house (never mind that free wifi movement that sputtered out six or seven years ago) there's absolutely no hope for Google fiber happening here. Between old infrastructure and big players, decent fiber internet is just something I accept that I'm not going to get in this city. There's plenty of other reasons I like it here, but Comcast domination is not one of them.
But, even your "diagnostic technique" is flawed, and doesn't necessarily point at the ISP. If we merely look at what you've said, all we know is that your connection to Netflix's local CDN provider is lower than required for optimal performance.

We can't say the ISP is in any way at fault here.

Try installing DD-WRT onto your router. It has features for things like this.
Google Exploring bringing Fiber to 34 new cities
I wonder how many people honestly care about what internet provider they have? Do most people want FIOS? Or would more people prefer to have a much better connection on the phone/iPad?

On top of that, as was mentioned above, it's probably cheaper to update to LTE than it is to run fiber everywhere, and on top of that, it's probably worth more money to them on the $x/mo for LTE service since to add another customer in the area is trivial compared to FIOS.
Very definitely. I couldn't make it much past the first pages of The Secret.

I absolutely hate messianic-style writing.
I say no because the system relies on multiple antennas, but beyond a few, the advantage evaporates while the workload increases. I wouldn't be surprised if the system limits itself to three well-placed antennas surrounding the target device, just to simplify the calculations.

> The more antennas you have, the cleaner you can keep the beam and minimize constructive interference happening in the wrong places.

Beyond three antennas surrounding a given device, this just isn't true -- more antennas don't produce a proportional increase in performance to compensate for the increased computation workload.
a protest against putin's manipulation was violently attacked by police.

this drew more protesters.

there was a law passed in late december that effectively outlaws protests. this also drew more protesters, and they grew more militant.
And here is a cool cross section of what lies underneath New York City:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/nyunderground/
Since you think that the research that investigates the effectiveness of positive thinking (such as this one: http://www.psych.nyu.edu/oettingen/Barry%20Kappes,%20H.,%20&..., linked from the article) has a methodological defect, how would you design an experiment so that we could correct for the problem?

That is, your point is that the research conducted over-simplified the technique. If I understand your point, "thinking positively" is not enough; the subjects in the experiment did one step, but not the others that you think are required. So how do you design an experiment where thinking positively necessarily motivates "one to build successful habits"?
If pgbouncer makes this big a difference to performance, is it included in managed PostgreSQL services, such as Amazon RDS and Heroku Postgres?

Or would you have to roll your own pgbouncer setup for these systems?
Google Fiber has so far only been an experiment. I see it as a very expensive, very ambitious proof of concept the likes of which only Google is capable of creating. This new announcement is evidence that their experiment of the last 4 years has succeeded.

Google can only move so fast with this given the stranglehold Comcast has on the market right now and the regulatory obstacles. There is a killing to be made by undercutting the monopolistic pricing and terrible service Comcast provides right now (not to mention the ways ownership of distribution might benefit Google's content).

TL;DR This is the next step in Google's big, slow play to become a major ISP.
I'm not sure why you think websites should cater to you if you're using plugins that disable browser functionality.
Because it only took 6 hours anyway.
Are you implying that authors and journals are conspiring to push through to publication papers with obvious flaws for some sort of monetary gain?

...or did you not read the article?
I plan to organize with my neighbors and cooperate to survive doomsday. It has been a proven effective method in the aggregate for the history of the world. Lone survivalists have a pretty dismal survival rate.
To be fair, the first iPhone demo didn't "really work". The order in which things were presented was determined by what was least likely to crash on stage. Longish article, but it's an interesting read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-sa...

It was demoable in a lab setting, but you certainly couldn't have given one to a consumer and expected it to go well.
If you were just going to settle on a generic, flat design, you could have used a free css framework and gotten the same result.
So far Google isn't "tearing up" anything; they've been targeting cities with overhead power lines they can piggyback.
When major Telco players decide how much to invest in opposing Google, the first place they look for a measuring stick is the potential lost revenue numbers.

The huge customers in cities on the coasts would give them every reason to fight tooth and nail. Going for small potatoes first represents a larger financial risk for Google, but it gives them a better chance to work out the kinks in their product in relative peace.
Possible counter point: while the unit-tester is busy writing perfect software. I'll be lazy... and perhaps I'll beat them to market and will use the resulting money to perfect the software.
I'm JUST out of their coverage area and am consigned to Comcast. Tis a terrible fate.

That hurts. We're looking for a new place to live and I have been asking landlords if their buildings get FiOS service. It doesn't seem to be an uncommon question, and the ones without it seem somewhat unhappy about the situation.
New car UI reinvents automotive touchscreen functionality
For what it's worth, Wikipedia disagrees:

"Security through obscurity is generally a pejorative term referring to a principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy of design or implementation to provide security."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

"When talking about computer or network security it is used to describe any mechanism that attempts to defend a system by hiding something."

That is again a definition which would include ssh keys, which is to say a useless definition.

"One of the classic examples of security by obscurity is when a person disables the broadcasting of the SSID on a wireless router."

I'm not sure that's an example at all, since hidden SSIDs can be readily sniffed from a publicly documented protocol.
> If you cant learn anything else pretty sure you havent the skills to program any "embedded device".

How did you arrive at this conclusion?
> (network cables are "property" for property tax purposes)

WUT.
They finally pushed through the Freedom to Fish Act (More commonly known as Obamafish)? God Bless America!
Google Starts Making The New Google Maps The Default For Everybody
A lot of people would disagree that this is as bad as you paint it:

"On August 14, with 8 days until the deadline, the campaign passed the $10 million milestone.[8] The campaign passed the record for the most funded crowdfunding campaign held previously by the Pebble smartwatch on August 15."

"The campaign ended on August 21 with a final sum of $12,809,906, but was not able to meet its goal of $32 million to kickstart the project."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge
If done right they can be huge. The fact that they do nothing when you just do "prepare" followed immediately by "execute" in place of just running the query directly is not a problem with postgresql or prepared statements, it is a problem of doing something dumb. For simple selects the parsing and planning stage can be 90% of the time spent. The problem is that postgresql doesn't have stored procedures, so you have to make sure every connection is initialized by running all of your "prepare"s before it is made available to the pool.
I would guess that most people are more interested in watching something than they are in fighting Time Warner Comcast. As such, if the cable ISPs throttle Netflix (or de facto throttle it by choosing suboptimal peering arrangements), even if consumers would have preferred Netflix, they will watch cable because they don't have any other option.
I've seen a lot of complaints about the caps (wasn't sure if they were widespread or not). What keeps the caps in place if they're universally disliked? I've always thought of Canada as a fairly responsive democracy.
See the link from anonymoushn below
I see it the opposite way: Deploying fiber is easy if the city gives you carte blanche as KC did. Doing something easy proves nothing. If Google Fiber wants to prove that their model is replicable they need to deploy it at a profit in a politically hostile environment.
Google flat out tells us that they are using the content of emails to direct ads. Secret, deep-packet snooping on a broadband connection? That's a whole new level of evil.
I'm not sure it's unfolded quite the way you imagine. The protesters are not "burning down the place", they built a camp in a public square to support their efforts as a base of operation, which is common. My understanding is that riot police chose to invade this space and try to shut down the protest, and that in the process of this, the protester camp has been set afire.

Reckless use of explosive teargas canisters could be to blame, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the riot cops are just setting things on fire.

You may have seen some pictures of protesters with molotov cocktails, makeshift firebombs consisting of a bottle filled with explosive liquid and maybe a piece of a torn shirt as a fuse. That's probably a reaction to the behavior of the police and the regime in general. When your buddy just got shot in the face, you are likely to put away the long-game because you are clearly now just fighting for your right to disagree, to be in the street.

Or in other words, you may escalate beyond peaceful / nonviolent tactics to protect the right to assemble and demonstrate peacefully. Or some people might on your behalf, whether you like it or not.
I would have liked to have seen one in Ohio.
Reddit has an office in Salt Lake City?? Need any DevOps? :-P
Yes, but Google Fiber is a product I can pay for. I don't mind trading personal information / eyeballs for Google's services but I much prefer to give them money to get a superior service I'm already paying someone else for.
I've always thought that it was the 800-pound gorilla, so I thought that the OP just made a mistake, but no, the 900-pound gorilla is a thing: an article (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-05/features/ct-tr...) in Chicago Tribune talking about the origins of the 800PG phrase has this:

Sometimes the gorilla surpasses a mere 800 pounds. ("Whose the 900-pound gorilla now?" asked a headline on a recent tech story about Facebook overtaking Google as the biggest web site in 2010. Sometimes the gorilla sheds a few hundred pounds. ( Colorado's governor-elect was quoted last month calling the state's billion-dollar shortfall "the 600-pound gorilla.")

For some reason, the 900PG is common in tech posts, this may be due to the effect of a rock band with that name. We may be witnessing a the emergence of a differentiation like the soda/pop one.
Bitcoin Experiment in Real Life