skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The technology would do away with wireless network congestion by giving each smartphone and tablet its own super-fast connection instead of asking these devices to share bandwidth pumped out by a cell tower."

"In demonstrations at his laboratory, Perlman showed off iPhones, Surface tablets, and TVs streaming massive files—the 4K UltraHD version of House of Cards from Netflix, for example—via his own wireless networking equipment"

These are both bandwidth narratives, not signal quality narratives. (granted they are the naive reporter's narratives but still). His breakthrough is that "all these devices can stream 4K ultra HD" that says that somehow he getting more bits to more machines, and that is a function of bandwidth not signal strength.

Lets assume for the moment that the basestation is connected to some multi-lambda super fiber with a 40G connection back to the Internet. He's going to give every LTE phone a 100Mbps to 1Gbps connection to that? That works for the first 400 or 40 people but then what? 5 bars and stuttering video?

This story, and others like it, have made the argument that the problem is congestion not signal clarity. Congestion is a function of channel bandwidth and operation rate. That is what leaves me dubious, I haven't seen how he can increase the bandwidth of the channel with his gizmo.
The will quickly gain legal powers to investigate transactions coming from addresses where they have the paperwork to seize them but not the keys.

(I would speculate that they could easily get subpenas to support that type of investigation, without any new law)
The TED talk "Smile or Die" explains problems arising when positivity is used as corporate or government policy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
The losses when transmitting through vacuum are pretty negligible; it's only the last fifteen miles that really cost you.
Facebook was our inspiration for this perk. I think they had it ~2004-2008 and it was a one mile radius. I was working at Zazzle at the time and many of my classmates who joined Facebook lived in the downtown Palo Alto area as a result.
To read, inspect <body> and disable {font-family: FontAwesome}.
Sincerely, I have chills. Can't wait to start using this!
Isn't the find_by_XXX style (soon to be?) deprecated?
These are not addressed in pop-sci articles, but are actually considered quite seriously.

There is lateral force from the climber to the cable, yes. But if the net mass flow to/from the top is zero, you don't have to compensate. You only compensate for the net flow. You do that by applying orbital corrections to the station at the top.

If the climber is not rising at hypersonic speeds, the lateral force is pretty tiny - literally lost in the error margin, compared to the tension in most of the cable length.

The climbers would have to rise fast, and the journey would be long anyway, yes. Basically, we would have to marry high-speed train technology (for speed) with Orient Express or ocean liner amenities (against boredom). The view would be spectacular, and would be a major part of the entertainment.

It's probably best to build cables in pairs, one going up, the other down.
Author of the article here. No, it was a straight-up cash purchase with no equity involved.
Post author here. Absolutely agree that any company transition, whether an acqui-hire or divestiture or acquisition or shutdown or product version sunset, that hurts customers is a a horrible thing. That said, the acqui-hires and shutdowns get a lot more of the press than the companies that serve their customers quietly.

Customers are investors. They invest their time, people, and budget into your product. That's true whether you're the newest NoSQL database to hit the market or Oracle.

When you sell to a customer, you're making them a promise.
As a rock climber, this seems so apropos: I've seen so many different people bouldering and rock climbing, that were different not just in physically obvious ways (ie, height, arm reach, etc), but in how they approached problems (skill versus strength, etc), that it really resonates that there's no one perfect way for anyone to learn.
As a resident of greater Denver-Boulder, I, too, was disappointed to see the big empty space on the map around Colorado. At least one ISP here is experimenting with residential gigabit, though -- I'm hoping that maybe someday I can get it in my neighborhood: http://fiber.forethought.net/
AWS Elastic Load Balancing adds Perfect Forward Secrecy
Grounding and solidity does not necessarily make something feel more real. Rather, grounding and solidity feels real to you. There are other modes of consciousness where less grounded and less solid experiences will feel real. It is also possible to train your awareness to slip between these different modes of consciousness.

Most people tend to stick with one or two modes of consciousness as that feels the most familiar and comfortable.

Further, depending on what kind of emotional triggers you have, you might be leaking a kind of emotion that is perceived as negative to other people. To you, you might be looking at something "realistically". Perhaps others are afraid to look at that stuff. Or perhaps, you have some form of aversion yourself where you avoid experiencing the "positive". (I cannot really tell just by reading your comment, just offering possibilities).

In all these cases, I don't think there is necessarily anything wrong with a person, whether they are experiencing different modes of consciousness or they have aversions.

Having said all of that, I had mentioned in other parts of the thread: "positive thinking" is usually taught incorrectly by people who suck at it. To use it correctly, you actually do have to look at what you don't want to look at. It is also not enough to think positively; you need to generate a different feeling until that feeling feels "real", from which the thinking will naturally shift into a different direction. As such, this kind of stuff requires quite a bit of skill with emotions.
The strange part, though, is that there's so much money pouring into tech startups right now, and so with a little bit of negotiation skills, you can find all the sexiness and get paid really well.

(This is not meant as a criticism of ZenPayroll or their front-end lead in particular, especially since this instance is just hearsay, but I've come across the attitude described before and have found it personally baffling every time.)
tl;dr;tl;dr; - use a connection pool.
Backup is T+1. Now think T+10000.
Backing up negative (or neutral) thinking with action happens more often or to the better result, studies seem to suggest.
This blog post is down, try here: http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk.nyud.net/pmr/2014/02/18/machines-a...
its gorgeous, but discoverability seems...low. I know for a fact my parents would never be able to figure this out, which would mean that car manufactures would be less likely to use something like this. Their menus are ugly overcrowded and skeuomorphic because it replicates the analog version of the same thing. It means people understand it as a button.

That being said - absolutely gorgeous and I wish I could have it in my car.
Working on fixing this ASAP, what browser/OS are you using?
In my experience this strategy only works with small projects. Projects with any level of complexity will have you running from fire to fire and it will impede your forward progress. Developer retention and customer happiness will suffer. I'd be happy to compete against such a company. ;)
That the attacker was 15 doesn't preclude them from being technically adept.
buddy of mine in south philly (by the stadiums) has fios at their full speed.
are you a computer with no native facility for judgement?
Ah I see, so the database sits in a shared storage network and you spin-up a VM with MySQL when needed? If yes, is latency a concern? Also, if my database goes cold, will you spin down the VM?
We are now halfway from 1990 to 2038
bound parameters are the safety net against SQL injection. Prepared statements are not a prerequisite for that depending on database client API. (e.g. psycopg2, doesn't use prepared statements).
Agree that large vendors "can" but don't alway "do." Not sure Google is the typical large company though. Microsoft Research is a great example though. As is Walmart Labs and any other division built on the Skunkworks model.

Though, IBM is selling off what were core assets because they don't deliver the growth and margins that Wall St require. It's either a great move to move towards the future, or a sign that they aren't able to serve customer's needs. Kudos to their leadership for seeing it no matter which one it turns out to be. I'd love to hear Clayton Christensen's thoughts on IBM's recent moves.
He absolutely can do whatever he wants. Just as long as he doesn't call it "taking some responsibility"*

*correction: as explained elsewhere, this is potentially a misquote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7265916
Shannon's channel capacity theorem applies to channels generally, including MIMO channels. It is a theoretical maximum which cannot be exceeded for a given channel. But a MIMO channel is a different channel than SISO and has a different capacity.
I want Colorado on the list too.

All I can think of is: Google's doing this to put pressure on other cities. Is it working? (Not living in Denver anymore, or I'd just ask around :) )
Quoting @tenderlove: "I think we can make the next release of Rails (the release after 4.1) the fastest version ever."

I'm glad to see the gradual progression since 3.2 stable!
There's no money in advertising to uploaders, the only money in this is advertising to the recipients. That's a lesson it took me an embarrassingly long time to learn.
Why has it become so fashionable to project obligation onto others?

Why have people started talking about responsibility to your environment as if it's something new?
I've re-drafted this several times and it always seems to come out snarky. Please believe me that it's not intended as such - my field is mathematics, not English. So please accept this at face value.

I have some expertise in this field. My PhD is in combinatorics, which is closely related, and one of the main results used computer search. More, it's closely related to the Four Colour Theorem.

To me, what you say makes no sense at all. Perhaps this is what the field needs - people who know absolutely nothing making suggestions that are so far outside the box that those who have spent decades studying it would never consider them.

On the other hand, maybe there's nothing in it. Have you thought it through more? Do you have more ideas? Do you have any actual concept of what "sub-expressions" might mean in this context? Having written compilers for food I feel that I have some knowledge of the concept, but in this case it seems not to mean anything.
This demo throws an error for me on iOS - it's missing the OES_texture_float extension. Looks awesome on my laptop. If someone has a jailbroken current-gen iPhone or iPad and wants to try it out, Apple's docs say that extension is supported on the A7 GPU driver [1]

There's not a tweak currently in Cydia for WebGL, because the last guy to do that was naughty [2] and nobody's published a replacement.

Both rpetrich and I have open-source WebGL enabler tweaks if anyone's interested: [3] and [4]

(I'm not sure if his works on iOS7, as the last commit was three years ago.)

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Device...

[2] http://ryanhileman.info/posts/webgl

[3] https://github.com/lunixbochs/EnableWebGL

[4] https://github.com/rpetrich/WebGLEnabler
It's not unique or recognizable anyway. Minimal Analytics looks identical to hundreds of other sites.
They have started accepting Dogecoins:

https://experiment.com/dogecoin
If I have projects which were written without tests because I was an idiot and didn't know "running it and seeing that it works" counted as a test, should I go back and write tests for what I already have or start testing on new code only?
We use Waveapps.com for book keeping and payroll and it takes me less than 20 minutes a month to keep everything up to date.
"The broker would help them find the owners of domain names, negotiate the price, and handle the transaction in exchange for a 10-15% commission of the price of the domain."

The incentives there seem misaligned to me. The person negotiating the price for them gets paid a higher commission if the price ends up being higher?
Because the output of the program is effectively a long list of cases of things that have been considered[0], and why they do or don't "work" in some sense. The output is independent of the program and, in principle, can be checked. In some ways it's like printing the search tree of chess to show that white has a forced win. It doesn't matter if the program is "correct" - you can check the output separately.

[0] EDIT: actually it's the certificate from a SAT solver
I don't understand your point. Just because Atlanta isn't as densely developed as New York City doesn't make it "rural".
WeHostels does an inverse HotelTonight and switches to hotels
Negative thinking seems to help me the most. If I'm afraid of something in the future I tend to obsess about it. The correct way for me to get free from this is to imagine the worst possible scenario that I can, as it already happened and think what's next. Then it appears to be not that bad. This helps me to calm down and actually take some reasonable actions that always prevented the worst case scenario and lot of not the worst but bad ones.
That certainly might be the case, but I don't immediately see why.
I found the content much more readable after chucking this in a console: document.getElementsByClassName('entry-content')[0].style.color='black'; and hitting <ctrl>+ a few times.
Funny, I was just pondering if this would work yesterday. Glad to hear that it's been mitigated to be less accurate.
Great idea for a post! http://saastr.com/ is a great source for startups in the SaaS space, but more so for growing in general than specifically addressing your point.

Though, I think you summarize it pretty well. Straightforward and honest answers to address objections.
So who would you prefer to work with:

a) The smartest guys you know?
b) The average guys you know?
c) The average guys you know, but tell everyone how great they are?
d) The below average guys you know?
e) Other?

People who are great, do so not by telling other people they're great (although sometimes you need to have a little PR), but by demonstrating their great:

1. You want to work with them
2. Work diligently to make the team, product, and company better
3. Are smart
4. Are productive

A perfect blend of: talent, hardwork, and ambition.

I've noticed a trend of acceptable mediocrity here on HN. Any mention of wanting to work with people that are exceptional, results in near universally negative feedback.

As a startup, your first hires are CRITICAL. They set the tone of your company, and will carry a lot of the burden alongside the founders. You can't just settle for "good enough to get the job done." You're not just hiring for today, but for the next 2-5 years.

Seed your company with great people, and keep raising the bar.

Myself personally, I'm not great, so I want to work with people who are better than I am, not worse.
I'm actually just about to go through the process of acquiring a somewhat recently dropped domain from BuyDomains.com for my new project. The current asking price for the domain is around $4,000 on their site.

Anyone worked with them before? I'm prepared to negotiate with them but also want to make sure I don't shoot myself in the foot and cause them to raise the price on me. I would ideally like to not spend more than $2k but the domain is really perfect for my project so if we have to bite the bullet then we will...

EDIT: To add more context here, I have purchased the getPROJECTNAME.com and PROJECTNAMEapp.com domains for normal registrar prices. PROJECTNAME.io is also available for the normal price of about $60/yr. So it's not a make or break situation, but since we're in stealth mode for at least another 5 months, I don't want to launch and then all of a sudden face a $40,000 domain acquisition situation rather than a $4,000 one.
Oh boy, I just thought of a really good one:

Some parents with young children find it difficult to get time to be alone in private while not exhausted. This can cause awful stress on a relationship. "Lunchtime" with a partner at home can make a big difference.

This might not sound like a big deal to the pre-kid people, or those with tons of energy after the kids are in bed, but for some people this is a relationship-saver.
This seems like a great idea. A few questions.

How well does this play with dynamic content?

Can you define specific content types (eg. Article) and capture events specific to that type (eg. Share, Print, Save)?

How about integration with SPAs built on frameworks such Angular, are you accurately able to capture events?
QED. Your first sentence shows no consideration at all of the effect of material advances on launch vehicle safety. Your use of the phrase "tremendous accelerations" shows no understanding of the accelerations actually produced even by current launch vehicles. Also, you don't mention why this is, or even ever has been, a limiting factor in designing a payload, nor the degree to which it impacts payload design. Noting that 50 or 90 is greater than 12 doesn't change the fact that we're in an entirely different design space from the 2%-mass-fraction vehicle.

Like I said, space elevators are a fun little toy gedanken for people who just want to think about The Amazing Future.

If this is the best the Devil's Advocate can do, the Saints are going to be just fine.
Hah "local politics certifiably insane": understatement of all time! Ahh Philadelphia politics.

Also, Verizon just rolled out some FIoS infrastructure in south philly, maybe 2-3 months ago. It was really cool walking around and seeing unfinished junction boxes with these cables running into them with huge "FIBER OPTIC CABLES" orange warnings on them.
6 Keys That Separate Good and Great Apps
All domains should really cost $1000/year from the registrar at a minimum to stop this idiotic "I'll buy thousands of them and sit on them forever until someone offers me enough for one of them to make the whole enterprise worth it".
Given that the company relies on word of mouth marketing, the move makes a lot of sense. 'Experiment' is a fantastic name.

My only concern is that such a generic term negatively affects findability. E.g., it makes brand monitoring or web-searching very hard. You won't rise above the noise.

You could address the findability problem by adding a unique token to the name (e.g., 'Experiment42').
Let's make HN a joke site. Jokes are fun.
I looked at the map and was curious - are these cities each in somewhat close proximity to existing google data centers? It would make sense if fiber, much like app engine is just productizing existing google infrastructure
Exactly. There are many reasons why an employer might want to give a stipend for (fill in desired behavior) as opposed to just increasing pay.

Some companies give stipends to employees who commute using public transportation. They could just give everyone a raise to cover those fees, but tying the stipend to the behavior actually encourages people to do it.
Not the way to go if you have real anxiety. You will start to imagine you can contract Aids when using a public toilet.
This 10x rhetoric sincerely needs to stop, now. Recently, I have seen it creep into instruction manuals for program managers who have never written a line of code in their lives. "How to incentivize people to become 10x Developers" and suchlike.

Promote this meme much further, and essentially you will all be expected to do 10 times the amount of work you do because some mythical construct apparently does.

[Note: this does not mean that there aren't some people who contribute substantially more than others -- they definitely do exist. Just a prediction that putting the number 10 on it is going to lead the beancounters into massive numerical fallacies about the productivity advantages of such people.]
Ask HN: What is your hackathon or weekend project software stack?
I had a discussion with a co-worker over whether we prefereed to use Ruby/Rails or Node.js for a typical "weekend project" that required a web front end with user authentication, some kind of data store, and maybe a REST API. This led to a discussion of what frameworks we used as a go-to recipe for starting a new project.

I'd really like to hear the exact language/framework/scaffolding combinations people are using for building quick web projects and testing out start-up ideas.

If met someone today with a brilliant idea that you wanted to launch in 48 hours, what exact tools would you pull out of your tool chest? Do you start from scratch? Or do have a go-to web app template you've built yourself or maybe you pull down someone else's scaffolding? What things have you tried in the past that you wouldn't use again?

I think we can all learn a lot by seeing what everyone else is using to build and launch quickly. It would be great if you could include links to any specific tools you use that are less familiar to people.
"It looks compulsive, and subtly fear-driven. In conversation, it's a non-stop, predictable and inescapable barrage of "Yeah, but", "Well, on the bright side", "Hey, at least" - and no matter what I say, they won't stop returning like it's tennis and they're scrambling all over the court to stop the ball going out of bounds by any means."

Yeah. Those people suck at it. You are absolutely correct that, use of "Yeah, but" and "Well on the bright side" "Hey, at least" generally indicates trying to gold-plate pig shit.

As I have mentioned in other comments, "positive thinking" is a misnomer. You're really working with emotions, not thought. Thoughts arise from emotions. "Positive thinking" is not so much as using your language to try to gold-plat pig shit so much as tuning into the underlying emotions, and perhaps, shifting the emotions to a different shape. When that happens, the thoughts will arise in a different pattern.

"I'm biased, but I don't see myself as overly negative." <-- A lot of negative people wading through their crap don't see themselves as negative. I speak from personal experience. I can say this kind of stuff now, only because 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).

Perhaps, be open to the possibility that there are people who don't suck at this stuff. Observe what they do, the play of emotions running through them, and how they affect people around them. There are folks like that out there.
> [...] but their budget was $12-15K [...]

> ....

> After weeks of gentle negotiating, they came to an agreement: $54K in cash for the domain.

Yikes. That's 3.6x the max budget they were hoping to spend. I really do hope that in the long run it pays off.