skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the proof isn't large, just the output of the search. Assuming my understanding of the problem and the result are correct, the reporting on this is so poor as to be meaningless and misleading. As such, the comments are well-meaning, but (to me) seem meaningless.

Of course, my "understanding" may be completely wrong.
There was a time last year when they banned us (BuySellAds) from advertising on AdWords. I doubt that it was any sort of intentional target toward us; however, it seemed rather convenient to ban us for having customer testimonials where our users spoke of earning more money through BuySellAds than through AdSense.

It took me a while (month or so) and dozens of emails to get our AdWords account un-banned by them, all while using the AdSense landing page to show the contrast of the language they use to advertise their OWN products and how it was much more aggressive than the language we use (through customer testimonials) to advertise our product.

We didn't read too much into it though, as I suspect they had better things to do than strong-arm a (comparatively speaking) super-tiny competitor.

Edit: spelling mistake
This is a really beautiful hack. Not just some SQL injection run-of-the-mill vulnerability. Very clever.
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Maybe it was originally viewed through a performance perspective only, with the idea that all of the data crunching should happen on the front end to provide a faster server response?
Sounds exactly like 802.11ac.

See: http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/bang-for-the-buck-with-expl...
Hey this is Naveen from Immunity Project. We had a great experience w/ Crowdhoster. It performed well for us and Ajay + team were super responsive. Highly recommend it for those who are considering crowdfunding on their own domain.
> I don't see what is patentable ...

Being a critic of software patents myself, and given how much this idea relies on software and mathematics (mathematics is definitely unpatentable), I agree that it's an issue.

I suspect that the entire method is patentable even though each element taken separately isn't.
I have to leave this here: http://youtu.be/M94ii6MVilw
I apologize if you felt like I was correcting you. The article isn't very tech heavy.
I'm fine with the idea of buying from startups, but when it comes to *aaS services from startups that suddenly become useless if the company folds, I've seen way too many articles with the title:

"The Future of XYZ"

where the gist is "The Future of XYZ... doesn't exist".
Here's how things tends to work:

Beliefs -> Emotions -> Thoughts -> Actions.

So trying to force positive thoughts on top of negative beliefs will last as long as that exercise.

When you "forget" to think positively - you get back to the default polarity of beliefs.

So to make the change positive and lasting the beliefs needs to be addressed either directly or via associated emotions.
"Meanwhile a sleepy hacker is waking up and making breakfast in the kitchen. The climate is wonderful."

...really? It sounds more to me like that hacker in the kitchen is being overworked and feels compelled to not even go home at night. Going straight from the bed to the computer (or vice versa) is an unhealthy, unsustainable lifestyle.
>I was able to tune into the darker emotions and learned how to release them. There are lots and lots of methods to do this, much literature, teachings, and trainings on this. The darker emotions stay within you and color how you experience the world; unless you've had a lot of training and practice at being aware of yourself, it is unlikely that you would even know how much crap you carry, though it would feel as if you were being neutral. (It isn't that you are neutral; it is that it feels normal to you).

I think it's pretty unbalanced to not have any darker emotions. I mean, certainly, one can take it too far, but I find this social pressure to be always happy to be... very fake, and very irritating.
In every metro area they've chosen, the vast majority of dwellings are single-family, owner occupied. So they can run cables above ground next to the existing telco equipment, and approach homeowners directly when it comes to installing the drop.

In Chicago, about 60 percent of the city is NOT owner-occupied. I'm sure New York is significantly higher. MDU runs are much more expensive, even with cooperative landlords.
Compared to using Store Kit, this is super complicated to build and manage.

The App Store also provides marketing, which is huge. Where is the public listing of WebGL games that you can quickly browse and start playing?
Well when you consider the second half of that type of statement is that you are expected to earn less because you are being given a large equity opportunity in the company you will help build...the statement makes a lot more sense.

To flip your question around: Is there any other for-profit industry where employers wouldn't laugh in your face for saying you would like 0.8% of the company worth in stock options in addition to your salary...

It all boils down to whether you believe in the company you are building. If it is positioned to do great, then of course you would want the equity for that IPO. If you don't have that faith, then what are you doing interviewing at that company anyways...Use your skills to get a higher paying job without the options.
How would geostationary orbit have only a few hours of shadow per year? My understanding is geostationary orbit requires you be pretty much over the equator, which would mean the satellite spent as much time on the far side of the earth as the near.
Meh. I understand the BSDs are great for server applications and that's where I'd happily use them.

But the market for a free desktop is tiny--for a BSD desktop (!OSX) miniscule. I see no problem with letting the burden of maintaining ports fall on those who would use them. (Assuming what he wrote was true, that they aren't making ports to *BSD difficult.)
Yes, whereas Europe puts everything underground, US operators will go cheap and string stuff across poles. My supplier of infrastructure management software was astonished when they saw at our data an realized we have almost no aerial spans in France.
Awesome, thanks for the reply. Do you know of any way to find out if they're brokering the domain for someone or selling it themselves?
I'm not sure if I'm reading you right (not my area of expertise), but my understanding of the system is that this does increase total bandwidth. Each cell phone gains access to the entire spectrum of the transmitting source, rather than all phones splitting/sharing the available spectrum. It's as if only a single cell phone was in a given tower cell, and the tower was dedicating all its bandwidth to that single phone.
Works excellent for NY real estate brokers.
Yeah - that is the usual reasoning, but acting as if does not make it so.
Interesting background stuff! I didn't know, thanks for sharing.
Actually, once the frame collapses and gets covered in earth, it'll likely decay way faster than bone. Note the incredible lack of early iron age tools compared to bronze age tools.

That said, it's super unlikely that all, or even most traces of humanity will be gone. As you point out, the redistribution of resources - most specifically our landfills will probably be clear signals on the time scales of at least 10s or maybe 100s of thousands of years.
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But can be very costly to your business.

SQL Injection--not html parsing ;)
I've always wondered if this could work, but I thought surely apps don't send the exact coordinates of a user.
If you want to save money with Fiber, it's okay. But please use VPN with encryption or other traffic-encryption methods to no let Big Brother intercept all of your your data.
We had to go with Paychex because we have some remote employees in states ZenPayroll isn't available in.
By your reasoning, every landlord can raise their rent by an infinite amount and maintain at least the same revenue.
You'd work 9-5 for a year to keep a semi-valuable domain name, currently "valued" at $54k, for some future potential pipe-dream of using that name in another startup where the name is equally relevant?
There is of course a way around the problems cited in the article.

If the referees ran the software on the preprint it would find the same problem.

I agree this isn't as good, but it would be a step forward.
Are you implying that it's up to your judgement? What if someone else judges things differently?
"I know it's completely backwards nowadays, but funny how what you've learned sticks."
Looking at the SERP for "experiment", I actually don't see them having much trouble ranking for it after a bit of time has gone by. Most of the results are informative and they're spread across different sectors (There isn't a heavy commercial influence in the SERPs).

Just look at Box.com...they rank for "box" now, for the same reasons experiment.com will eventually come to rank for "experiment" so long as they nail the basics for SEO.
I'm the CEO of ZenPayroll and I made a comment to the main thread with more background on the company, and our mission.

Here's a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7265814

There are also two recent blog posts we've made which might be helpful. The first is about the funding, and second is our 2013 Year-In-Review, which highlights what we've been working on.

https://zenpayroll.com/blog/series-a-funding
https://zenpayroll.com/blog/zenpayroll-2013-year-in-review

Hope this helps!
I agree that $1000/yr would be too high for your average person but I think raising it to $100/yr should be reasonable enough and would still solve a lot of the squatting issues.
Well, if you're just after anonymous communication, use Tor over anonymously paid VPN.

If you're after real-life faked ID (as in real passport), you basically have to have relationships deep within the underworld and a lot of pocket money. Fake passports run between 5 and 10K EUR.
Knowing the FCT as well as I do, I have to say that I and many of my colleagues do not consider the H-A proof to be anything like automated reasoning. The work that Gowers and associates are now doing is very much so, but programming a computer to conduct a specific search, and for every item found compute whether it has a specific characteristic is really just like getting a machine to carry out a factoring algorithm.

We run the risk of arguing past each other, and potentially being in "violent agreement," but consider this. If you take an 8x8 chessboard and remove any black square and any white square, the resulting mutilated chess-board is guaranteed to be exactly coverable by dominoes, each of which covers exactly two squares. We can program a computer to conduct an exhaustive search to show that this is true. Would you consider the program to be an automated reasoner?

With what I know of this recent result, the work seems equivalent. It's a big problem fed to a SAT solver.

Edit: See the last paragraph of section 1 in the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2184.pdf
... dangit, I wish I knew more about electrical work. Why was that so dangerous? I mean, besides 250 volts and rotted-out insulation. The writer makes it sound like he just discovered an unexploded bomb.
Before it was overpopulation, now it is declining birthrate? Why does the narrative always have to be doom? All objective evidence shows substantial progress yet everyone wants to believe in doom.
Outrage Over Wall. St Pay, But Shrugs for Silicon Valley?
The original owner could have added the right to buy the domain back from the new owners at a fixed cost should they wish to sell it in the future (or right of first refusal, etc) if he was worried about that.

I worked for a start-up that acquired a smaller company (complete with an awesome name) for cash/shares. Smaller company supposedly had a clause in their contract saying they could buy the company back for £1 should the new owner run out of money. Fast forward 2 years: parent company failed and smaller company carried on...
Nope:
http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/4_0_release_notes.html#act...

That one is staying, most of the others are going (e.g. find_all_by_xxx, find_last_by_xxx)
It's actually pretty interesting to see these donations come in. No one would ever give $0.0001 to a crowdfunding campaign but we're seeing a lot of micro donations on the scale of 10-20 doges.
I disagree a little bit: my Samsung Galaxy III has a very nice Java IDE on it, and I can plug it into a monitor with a HDMI adapter.

I totally like the idea of in the future having just a phone,with standard docking stations when a keyboard, large monitor, bluray burners, whatever... are needed. Something like a Chromebook but even more portable.
Ask HN: How does this actually work?
It's a cool project! Don't take the above to mean I think the control part is faked.
This is where I'm at. What's the point of WebGL from Apple's perspective? If a developer wants to create a game, I'll just use OpenGL or CoreGraphics to do it.
it's obvious isn't it? it's like "if you can't learn calculous I'm pretty sure you haven't the skills to do rocket propulsion calculations"

Someone with only one language or a "main language" is someone who just simply has a lower level of skill than is needed for embedded programming- which requires lots of different skills and languages. Being able to learn more than one thing is a prerequisite.
The article conflates thinking positively with hubris or denial.

Positive thinking, in my view, is more about saying "What do I need to do make this happen." instead of saying "I will never be able to make this happen." This article seems to use a destructive type of thought that is more like "This will happen to me!"

"Gabriele Oettingen and Doris Mayer asked eighty-three German students to rate the extent to which they “experienced positive thoughts, images, or fantasies on the subject of transition into work life, graduating from university, looking for and finding a job."

I agree that simply imagining things simply working out for you can be damaging. But I think that there's something like positive thinking that doesn't include baseless fantasizing. To think "I get an interview from 1/3 of the applications I send out, and I might be hired for 1/5 of the positions I apply for, so if I make sure I am applying, I will likely find a job" is reasonably positive thinking, but it's more constructive than thinking "Ah, I'm awesome, there's a job I want, and I'm certain they will hire me because I'm thinking positively. I won't bother applying elsewhere, I'm special, they'll need to take me" and then falling into a depression when you don't even get invited for an interview.

On the other hand, both of those situations are better than sitting at home and thinking "I'm never going to get a job anyways, I might as well not apply".

To me positive thinking is about looking at all of the angles, not being afraid to see where things go differently, but still have a positive outlook. "If I do this, there's a 25% chance it will fail. If it fails, I will lose my money, if it succeeds I will make 200 times what I invested. I have enough set aside to try this 10 times. It's worth doing it, and I wont ruin myself if it doesn't work out."

It's that sort of thinking that shows that failure isn't bad, it's just a possibility. Recognizing that and planning to make the best of both the bad situation and the good situation is positive thinking.

Thinking "I'm going to start this business, I'm going to throw everything I have at it, but I'm going to pay myself a fair salary and save. When I succeed, I will be rich. When I fail, I'll be in a comfortable position to start again. Life is good." is positive.

Thinking "I'm going to start this business and throw everything I have into it, and if it starts to look bad, I'm going to throw even more into it until I'm a hollow shell of a man who can't live with the idea that I could fail" is ignorant. Wishful thinking, but there's a difference between thinking positively and being ignorant of the circumstances.
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I get that, but all these articles are worried about the fact that no human could possibly read and verify the output of the program. So why even bother? Why not just verify the software and hardware that generates the output?
The last mile monopoly is the market failure, saying that internet connectivity should be just a "dumb pipe" is the ideology. Legislating wireline providers into being "dumb pipes" doesn't do anything to directly address the last mile issue, but instead uses the last mile issue as a hook for imposing an idealistic vision of what internet services should look like. There's no nexus between QoS or prioritization or the other sorts of things an ISP might want to do and the last mile monopoly.

A better legislative approach would be something like having municipal utilities own the last mile coax, and allowing different ISPs to plug into it. That would eliminate the market failure directly, and allow the industry to evolve into whatever structure makes sense. I think you wouldn't see them end up as dumb pipes in a competitive market. Some ISP would come along and make a deal with the NFL to have high quality streaming only on their network, etc. Just like how there's no monopoly in shipping but Amazon still has an advantage by being able to cut special deals.
Geostationary orbit is 36,000 km above the earth surface. The earth is 12,000 km in diameter. The sun is 150 MILLION km away. The about of time the something in geo-stat stays in earth's shadow is tiny.

Imagine a base runner in baseball after a home run. Spends half the time on the far side of the pitcher from the homeplate umpire, but he is only occluded from the homeplate umpire by the pitcher for a very short amount of time. That's (very!!) roughly the scales involved here.
If the FCC classifies a carrier as a common carrier, does that apply just to the service, or also to the infrastructure itself? If cable companies were made into a common carrier would cable television also have the same regulations applied to it?
The trick is getting that many antennas deployed in an urban area. They also have to be wired, and have reliable
low latency connections to the datacenter.
$100 million business is one where you make $100 off a million people per year. Which means that 312 people out of ~313 would never buy your product.
How many people have no access to Verizon Wireless, AT&T wireless, Tmobile, Sprint, or telephone DSL?

There is competition in the residential Internet business.

If you say that "all those alternatives are too slow," I say: too slow for what? Too slow or too throttled for Internet video: perhaps. But the argument you are making is that "one can't live without some form of Internet access." Most people have Internet access available, in multiple forms.

I agree that Internet is not a luxury, but 10 or 50 megabit Internet is. True, you need Internet to apply for jobs and even in some cases to interact with your government. Do you need 50 megabits for that? No.

People can avoid Time Warner. They might not get their Netflix with their slower Internet, but the government should not be getting involved to preserve something as trivial as streaming video.
Are these links RF or Land Based? Are there any examples of fast (> 1 megabit) RF Mesh Networks with greater than 5 hops in the RF Mesh and, say, around 20 active talkers at once behind the last hops of the Mesh?

I'm happy to get 100 kbits/talker in that scenario with todays FHSS technology, 500 meters/hop, 1 watt power, 200 kHz channel width and 20 MHz of spectrum in the ISM band.

Of course, the advantage of Mesh Networks is they require little in the way of infrastructure, and scale up into the millions of nodes, with 50 million active node networks practical. But high data rates are not one of the properties of such networks.
Pretty cool, but why's it all in one .c file?
In my personal experience there's no way to truly blunt the sting of failure. If I go in optimistic and fail unexpectedly or pessimistically and fail as expected the pain is the same. I don't see the use in torturing myself in the meantime.
Its a shame, regulated pipes is starting to look like the most reasonable solution when providers are doing exactly what you said, eyeing up higher margin models and drooling.

Regardless of opinions on free market, political leanings, etc, the fact that this is standing in the way of progress is bad news for everyone.
> The problem is that postgresql doesn't have stored procedures

Of course it has: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-createfunction...

And you can choose between 4 languages: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/xplang.html
It's in the extremely nascent stages right now. I think they'll be turning on the first residential gigabit customers in downtown shortly. We've occasionally discussed the idea of getting my condo complex in Arvada lit up -- it's technically feasible, although I suppose the numbers would have to work out.
> Calling this a machine is like calling the first car a horseless carriage.

So it's an excellent description which leverages an analogy everyone is currently familiar with? :P
That would prove to be insurmountably difficult:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_the...
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Not if you moved the lens in time with the supposed trajectory.
Not for one client device, but it definitely helps when handling lots of clients. The more antennas the fewer spots
with unwanted constructive interference.
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No, I don't think so. If that were true, the cell system would have to upgrade its throughput. That would make this scheme unattractive to cell companies.

I think the reason for all the attention given to this method is because it greatly improves the performance of a cell system without requiring any bandwidth increase. Remember that dropped packets are at times a big limitation on cell system performance, and much existing bandwidth is often wasted on packets that don't get decoded properly because of weak signals.

> It's as if only a single cell phone was in a given tower cell, and the tower was dedicating all its bandwidth to that single phone.

If the system can adjust the phases of the transmitting antennas to maximize the signal strength to a particular device, for each transmitted packet, then for all practical purposes that's true -- the entire bandwidth of the system really does become available to that particular device, for the duration of each packet meant for it.

I don't know the statistics on dropped packets, but I think it's substantial in modern times for high-speed networks. The ratio of dropped packets essentially represents a bandwidth decrease. If that could be eliminated, it would improve throughput, and someone will be tempted to claim that bandwidth has increased. Only sort of.
I don't think this included iLO firmware, only system BIOS and CPLD.
I don't understand, obviously there is a demand for this, so why aren't more companies rolling this stuff out? Give the people what they want!
Why wouldn't you be able to subpoena a witness?