skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wasn't my claim but I don't think the online payments are as low energy as you may believe. In order to allow the Internet to exist such that online payments are so efficient, we must necessarily have all the servers, cables, routers, all the infrastructure, on all the time or otherwise not even a single online payment would go through. That's a lot of air conditioning, alone. So, fine but let's not think online payments use magnitudes less energy by using simplistic calculations.
Comcast is prepared to provide that bandwidth to its customers subject to it's fair use cap of 300 Gigabytes. What they aren't prepared to do (for better or worse) is install larger circuits to Cogent so that Cogent's customers have unblocked access to Comcast's customers.

Netflix could have held out, and made Comcast out to be the bad guy, or could have leaned on Cogent to get the circuits installed - but, in this case, they folded and just decided to pay Comcast. This will probably set a very bad precedent for them when it comes to renew those agreements in 5-10 years, or however long they will be. Maybe they are hoping for some competition to enter the US environment by then.
I bought a really inexpensive soft tone mute on the basis of this comparison review in the ITA Jourmal: http://www.trombone.org/articles/library/viewarticles.asp?Ar...

Sadly, that article is a few years out of date. Still, my big takeaway was that I would be willing to forego some attenuation and even cope with modest back pressure if the mute didn't mess with the tuning properties.

I've been pretty happy with the soft tone mute. It's pretty quiet (but louder than most), is better than many practice mutes for back pressure, and seems to have little impact on tuning. For reference, I'm playing a King 3b, no f attachment.

Maybe if I start spending more time with my horn again, I'll consider the silent brass as it seems pretty sweet for recording.
I actually like using the ternary operator in this sort of assignment, so I only need to type the variable name once instead of 3 times. The only real problem in your example is that everything is in one line. It woulf be better to indent that and to add some extra parenthesis to make the precedence clearer.
What Companies in the Bay Area are Dog Friendly?
Was just wondering. :)
You are both right and wrong.

Postgres is not popular if we talk enterprise world that has been buying Oracle. Oracle is an immense behemoth in that space with skilled salesmen, and they make lots of money.

I once asked an Oracle salesman what he thought of MySQL and PostgreSQL and he laughed, and basically said they are seen as joke by his customers. Maybe he was brainwashed sure, but I suspect that reflects (reflected? that was 2-4 years ago) the reality in that market.

Now with companies outside the enterprise (startups) and for internal projects, I feel Postgres has been very popular. MySQL effectively become unappealing after its trademark issues. Postgres gained a some of those users. It also gained disillusioned NoSQL people, some didn't RTFM, some were mislead, some didn't understand the problem well enough and so on.
Flash is the most distributed piece of software in the world. A few years ago it was installed on 1 billion devices. A very nice security target.
If anything, I'd assume both Apple and the NSA can find people who can sneak an intentional bug in that's a lot harder to spot than an extra "goto fail;". I've also seen enough silly bugs (1) result from merges or other tedious mechanical changes, and (2) escape detection in code review that I don't find it that hard to believe this was unintentional.

It's amazing how elusive the obvious can be when your mind's on something else. Given that, I personally assume good faith until there's significant reason to doubt that assumption.

Here's an embarrassingly stupid bug I created (or rather, the one-line patch that fixes it): https://github.com/LnxPrgr3/message_queue/commit/b21944ab63f...
Your friends are gatekeepers
Just one idea. Could anyone take these two stories from today:

Telecom firms mine for gold in big data despite privacy concerns https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286080

Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7287155

... and create a bitcoin like wallet/api of a consumer's permission to trade data.

A Twitter User Is Worth $110; Facebook's $98; LinkedIn's $93.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2013/11/07/a-twitte...
>rather to grab the idea and slowly believe that paying for better connection with a site/ISP is normal.

Is is normal. ISPs are not equal. There's a reason you pay Level(3) a lot more than HE.
For anybody who doesn't need this much detail, there's a great intro to this topic in the Web Dev course on Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-cs253/l-48666069/m...
My understanding is that it's the same as for the threads. There's a "score" which is effectively points divided by some power of the age, with a penalty applied for flags. Then they are sorted by that score.

A version of the source is available - it will be pretty similar.

Why do you ask?
It's also noticeably not in compliance with US CAN-SPAM law.
The coin flip works surprisingly well for me, and for the exact reason you stated. Given the choice between two options that I can't decide between, I flip a coin. The actual result of the flip is irrelevant, because I'll invariably know which result I want before the coin even lands. It forces me to make a decision in spite of myself.
Agree it doesn't make sense particularly since Firefox OS is meant for "emerging markets" where internet connectivity may be uneven or patchy. In other words, offline capability is even more important.

I hope Firefox OS gains traction - an open source mobile OS that values your privacy and doesn't track you to death is something to be welcomed.
The 2007 book Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge addresses this topic from a science fiction perspective. A major plot element is the ability of individuals to enter into "affliances": digital, automatically-escrowed contracts between individuals providing small services in networks created on-demand to produce larger-scale goods and services. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
YC for robots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286808

The project I'm working on has robots in it's future, couple years of software to lay the foundation first though.
Thinking in C++ vol 1 & 2
Unsaid among all this - Netflix could have simply paid a higher quality transit provider (Level 3) to provide them transit, and there wouldn't have been any problems (Level 3 maintains some headroom on their peering circuits).

The reality is that it was likely cheaper for Netflix to just pay for peering with Comcast directly.
Indeed, my power company shows a chart of which of my appliances use the most power, deduced from their usage patterns.
You forgot the best, and most informative, C++ reference:

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
So your expectation is that if Netflix intentionally prevents users from using their service because they don't like the user's choice of ISP, that will turn out well for Netflix?
Good refutation. You are correct if they do not extend the tax to new entrants (which I had forgotten was currently the case.)

Still, perhaps Comcast will deem all of the companies big enough to compete with Netflix large enough to pay the tax.
Great summary, thanks! I've looked at a few blog posts on bcrypt and they were so convoluted I left more confused than when I began.
New York does NOT have choice. I live in Manhattan (Upper East Side) and have the choice between $60 1/15Mbps Time Warner Cable and $40 1Mbps Verizon DSL. Theoretically some people in the city have access to Verizon FiOS but I haven't met these people and complaining about ISPs is pretty common for the locals.

The only factor that determines the quality of your ISP options is having a competitive player in the market.
What it’s really like to grow a team when you’re focused on culture-fit
transactional emails are not marketing emails.
I'm looking forward to chipotle_coyote response on this, but I don't think he's referring to the circuits that commercial customers pay for, but instead the ISP peering circuits - which are usually expected to run at much less utilization.
ObNitPick: Her name is 'danah boyd'. All lowercase. As her friend, Clive Thompson shouldn't have allowed that mistake to remain uncorrected.
I've got a site. It has large files. Is Comcast required to provide free peering for me? Where do I sign up for my 10GbE port (my site's small so 10G is enough)?

Oh wait, I buy from a friend who runs an ISP. Turns out, he only has a single 10G connection for all his customers. Can he call Comcast for a free peering arrangement now?

That's not how things work.
You're not wrong that there's less pools, I think it's just somewhat due to a lot of miners not understanding how pools work. There's an unfortunate misconception that the size of the pool impacts your income, so they gravitate to the largest pool. Ghash.io is almost certainly evil (attacking sites by double spending in the past), but there's not much we can do about it unfortunately. Hopefully p2pool can eventually become larger and more significant, then the issue goes away somewhat.
The idea is that usage-based pricing doesn't make sense for customers because there is a hard limit on consumption simply based on the terrible state of last mile connections. Simply put, charging 2014 dollars for usage on a line with a capacity that was last relevant in 1985 is not motivated by actual capacity limitations, but a simple money grab.

(Not to mention that there are no inherent variable costs to transporting bits. Water needs to be purified, electricity is obviously usage priced - but you can be pushing bits forever once you have the hardware setup.)
Interesting idea, but let's fix some things before I answer your questions.

Firstly, technical bible? You do realize that quite a few christians in prime markets like the USA might take offence to this? The world is full of a lot of sensitive people, so try another catch-phrase without including any religious element/s.

I like how you categorize the landing page with pictures + text. Even though I am someone who might read all the text, most of your target audience are likely impatient, so you could probably get away with: more pictures and big catch-phrases (you could use a "learn more" link below each catch-phrase) or use some type of video instead. People seem to like videos, but keep it at 40 seconds max.

1) Your core idea only comes towards the end of the page. It first seems like you are addressing the 'problem' of being unable to code but wanting an MVP and your final solution is "I will help you find a tech co-founder". There is a broken link there. Would it assist a non-tech founder though? Definitely (if you get your marketing right)

2) Very little. Then again, I may be the exception here. There are plenty of people out there who have 'brilliant' tech ideas and might be willing to pay like $10 or maybe even $25? You can't ask people to give you pricing options when you yourself don't know what to value the course at. Maybe a freemium model might work too.

3) I can't answer this. I know how to code basic things. The problem with learning to code is the disconnect between what codecademy and its ilk teach you and what building an MVP is. Plus there are a ton of tools out there where you can build a basic not-so-technical app or site. A tough question to answer though...

Goodluck!
So is this what what 72 hour bender of no sleep and reading about Bitcoin and scifi get you? This is getting into ratings of a madman sort of territory.
Why a blog?
I was thinking to start a blog for sometime but never find the right time but now and here it is.
Flyertalk is basically everything that was ever good about HN, Reddit, Slashdot, without the negatives. I don't understand how it has remained so awesome for so long.
We might talk instead about the dignity of endeavour for its own sake, or the dignity of contribution to society. Such phrases may seem to have the makings of a social infrastructure for socialism. Indeed they do, for a world in which machines can do much of the work will need to become more socialistic if it is not to become intolerably unequal.

You know we're in new territory when the Economist puts forward something like this without pulling it apart in the next paragraph and explaining why a free market solution is preferable.
I don't know if that's necessarily true. I wouldn't want a Rails on Node per say,,mainly because even if you have everything(and no, none of the Rails clones do Rails very well) your still stuck with callbacks, or generators, or promises, etc.

I think Rails is a good example of a great framework with the right language. Kind of the right place at the right time.

I came to Rails from Play framework(and also Node briefly) which actually got a lot of the Rails clone stuff right(they rarely ever do), and I was still stuck with Java(Play 1), and then later on Scala(Play 1 and 2) which turned out to be terrible.

Anyway, I'm not sure why people always spew FUD about the Ruby concurrency stuff. I guess the JRuby guys are doing a terrible marketing job. Charles Nutter has even admitted to that on Ruby Rogues if I'm not mistaken.

The process concurrency is fine for a lot, if not most, applications. Everything I've done at my job has been MRI except for one specific instance where I used JRuby. That wasn't because of concurrency though, it was just to talk to some existing Java stuff.

The only language I can see even peaking my interest is Go. Even then I've been so traumatized by doing Rest API's in static typed languages that I swore I'd never use them ever again. At the rate I'm seeing, get back to me with Gorilla in 3 years and Revel in 10 years. Granted Rails is not really the goal of these projects.
Racist Scumbags in Glasgow Attacking a Busker
I assume you're not using this as an example of a study which demonstrates an _inherent_ difference in the sexes..? (it isn't, this study is about as valuable as showing that the mean hair length of females is longer than males. It is an observation of a socialised group. This is irrelevant to the debate about nature vs nurture about sex differences) And yes Baron-Cohen pioneered the notion of the male and female brain. Of course 'scientific' justifications for sexism existed before Baron-Cohen however his studies, and ideas similar to his, dominate scientifically justified sexism at the moment (see: any discussion on womens' inherent lack of logical thinking and hence their role as caregivers and not programmers)
Thank you for introducing me to that fantastic poem. In case others are interested as well: http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html
wow...

how is this really possible at all ?

I mean a $75 or $100 smartphone, I would be "yaay", but $25 ? Isn't this a little too cheap ? How do you cut costs that much ?
> Netflix could have held out, and made Comcast out to be the bad guy, or could have leaned on Cogent to get the circuits installed - but, in this case, they folded and just decided to pay Comcast.

How would that work? Comcast customers by and large can't switch to another broadband provider and Netflix customers can certainly switch to another video provider (Comcast!). It's not like this is a brand new issue, Netflix has held out for a long time. The Comcast / TWC merger is what finally did it, 30M combined customers is too big to risk on a public game of net neutrality chicken.

Surely they're still working on lobbying efforts to make it illegal for a company like Comcast to simultaneously have a monopoly on selling broadband and compete with services using said broadband. It's pretty obvious at this point that internet access is a utility and it should be treated as such.
You can build arbitration into contracts right now, and they're largely enforceable. Bitcoin just reduces the enforcement cost. The challenge for arbitration, programmatic or otherwise, is deciding who the arbitrator will be. One of the problems is that arbitrators have their own perverse incentive to decide things in the favor of "repeat players" rather than on a truly objective basis.
heh that was supposed to be a clarification, definitely not sarcasm, what he said didnt make sense, Firefox OS doesnt use any more, and probably uses a lot less 'cloud services' that other smartphones.
Nobody here mentioned competition across sectors and price compression?

Competition across sectors example is land lord can ask for a 10% increase, but the renter is totally free to say forget it and downsize to a rental at the original rental rate, while buying a xbox or whatever with the new income. Or paying off that .edu loan. Or paying for healthcare. Or whatever. Mandatory expenses like healthcare, tuition, iDevices, they're free to go up as high as they want and probably will. Most things are not mandatory.

Price compression is the $10M skyscraper penthouse isn't going to change because its a rounding error, but this could have a huge effect in a slumlord area. Where I live is in between, I already make about 3x median household income so going to 3.5 or so isn't going to change much.
Mozilla Sets Up Firefox OS for Growth
On the other hand, I'm sure that FB has something in the terms or customer agreement saying that the locations are recommendations and that the ads may be shown anywhere, even if you only request a certain region.
Ustream: Jim Weirich's Funeral
The bit about recruiting is definitely on to something. Management and culture are significantly more important than hiring the absolute best people. I've had the (mis) fortune to witness individuals flounder in a poorly manage company only to shine later on in good ones. Great employees won't fix a broken company; Great companies will succeed with good (but not necessarily great) people who are motivated.
I think it's better to make that decision when you're 18, not 16. Always best to keep your options open because you don't know how you or the world will change, even in the near future.
What they aren't prepared to do (for better or worse) is install larger circuits to Cogent so that Cogent's customers have unblocked access to Comcast's customers.

That's totally backwards. Comcast's customers are paying for access to Cogent's customers, including Netflix.
If you drive to your customers house over a private road, you can't complain if they charge toll.
When you can afford the best lawyers, you can always find some way to be in the right. He would never directly fight against the right to frack. He needs to find something else that would prevent the fracking without affecting the right that he lobbied so hard to get.
Most US municipalities have a franchise agreement for a particular service. The franchisee has exclusive rights to provide a service in the franchised area. So there is often one cable tv provider and one wired telephone provider in an area. This naturally leads to one cable internet and one DSL provider. Some areas do also have a fiber provider (Verizon FiOS, Google Fiber).

These same areas are often also serviced by wireless providers, either cellular, satellite or some other kind of fixed wireless.

Note that while DSL tends to be available in every market, it may not actually be available at your home due to distance from the CO. Or it may be available but you're so far away that the performance would not be worth what it cost.

So the problem is that there's a clear hierarchy of what's good in any area. Where I live it's cable > DSL >> wireless/satellite. Compound this with the pricing structure: where I live it's wireless/satellite >> cable == dsl, with cable having some speed tiers that DSL can't match. At the end of the day, for any consumer trying to make a decision on value and performance, there's often really only one option.

I'm going to assert that this is how it looks for the majority of the geographical US. I'm not sure about the larger metro areas.
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Ukraine, house of attorney general
no, Opera Mini

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

"Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's servers, which process and compress them before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many mobile phone data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones."

i refused to use it because they could in theory MITM ssl sites, etc. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#Privacy_and_security
You do know that there are no communities that have zoning ordinances allowing 160ft water towers, right?

So there's always a variance of some sort involved if fracking is done near any residential community, but I don't think that's stopped the guy or Dick before. I still think the hypocrite card can quite validly be played here.
> There just isn't that much money.

Sorry, but the idea scales from almost zero spending into infinity. You can not claim that there isn't enough money.

Our future looks very interesting because our machines promise to make goods very, very cheap. But they also promise to put almost everybody out of work. Left to a market, most of the population will starve, and very few become very rich. But almost any level of basic income will solve this, even if today it's too little.
Plan to divide California into 6 states advances
Why do they do it? Because it allows the easier control of workers and a direct clawback of wages to the company, while being fairly quality-inelastic.

To be honest, I have a hard time believing you're asking these questions in good faith. This is basic stuff.
Bcrypt offers no increase in security, and can add huge delays in your sign-on, user creation, and open you up to computational attacks by doing repeated sign-ins.

My "Goofy" scheme is based on the practices which Microsoft, LinkedIn, and FaceBook all use. You know which of those use Bcrypt? Zero.

Maybe you shouldn't blindly follow things people say.
Again:

Ray ID: 1016efc2440906ee
Internet companies that are also cable providers have an inherent conflict of interest; they want to keep as many people as possible tied to the dinosaur technology of cable as long as they can--so it's in their interest not to provide sufficiently good service to let people cut the cable, or to strong-arm networks into not providing their programming via the net.
I have seen a $80 Firefox OS phone. The ZTE Open. I think it was $80, maybe it was 80EUR.

It's unusable. Completely unusable. I can't fathom how a $25 phone works.
Bram Moolenaar just gave his opinion on Neovim. See here for his answer:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/vim_dev/x0BF9Y0Uby...
I talked to a Comcast Loyalty Agent 2 days ago about my troubles keeping Netflix going on my devices and was told that Comcast has "superior" Netflix performance and if I am having any trouble it certainly isn't Comcast.
Is this two-bulb room problem not identical to the OP's Prison Switcharoo problem?
Have you ever closed down one list, but kept the DB of subscriber emails, and then started a new list, months later, that the 'subscriber' would have to unsubscribe from again?

Because that definitely happens.
Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7272540

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7264929

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7269272

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261551