skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you didn't make much money because your side (mostly) lost the lawsuit. If the lawyers had taken nothing from the pot you would have made $45 instead which also wouldn't have been very exciting.

Honestly I bet the lawyers weren't happy with the result either and their part of the settlement mostly just covered their costs.
We are up to 27 people now, so for us it's super important to have everything scheduled and organized. We have shifts and a shift switch board, that let's us switch shifts when people are going on vacation, or have other items in their schedule.

I know Wufoo started off pretty informal, and their formalized support rotation was largely in reaction to not everyone pulling their weight. In my experience it's really important to formalize things so that everyone is pitching in, and it's not just up to a few people to volunteer.
In my mind, Netflix charges money for their service and is not entitled to a free ride. The fact remains that running an ISP is not free, and you can't scale out a network faster than the cash flows (of which, yes, profits are a part) allow. But think about this: Netflix has a 36% gross profit margin, and Comcast's cable/Internet business has an 11% gross profit margin. Netflix's cost structure is lower in large part because Comcast does a lot of the expensive work for them (i.e. last-mile network maintenance and distribution.)

When you start looking at the question like this, you're abandoning any technical argument and instead move the conversation into "well, look at all this money moving near my proximity, I should be getting my beak wet." This is a pretty good warning sign someone is/has started framing the conversation on something other than the issues at hand.

Fairness in profit margins is a red herring at best. I like the idea of network neutrality, but I have a much much much stronger fundamental belief: nobody is entitled to a business model. That kind of thing shouldn't even be given the slightest bit of consideration when setting policy.

Unless the explicit purpose of a policy is to create a business model, as is the case in Intellectual Property. Creation, improvement, destroying, or diminishing of business models is a lever that is rushed to way too quickly in some nonsense idea of "fairness" for people that are too used to cooperate welfare and don't believe in anything but entrenchment of middle of the road "compromises" that just serve as regulatory entrenchment of the status quo.
My understanding was that Google+ was primarily an identification platform. Up until that point your Gmail was considered your Google identity.

Nobody it seems ever picked up on that and were focussed intently on spending all of their energy not leaving Facebook for some reason. The hate-on for Google+ was above tepid. People would take seemingly any opportunity to call it down even though the service worked incredibly well on mobile and the company wasn't swamped with privacy allegations.

It was just a small thing Google+, a free social platform attached to ones' Google identity. That so much controversy ended up surrounding something that I feel was really rather clever and innocuous will continue to surprise me for some time.
> Or.. you can use the myriad of grocery delivery services available to get a delivery within hours. Not everything needs to be bought on Amazon.

You make it sounds like they're commonplace.
This is not most peoples' grocery shopping experience or expectation.
Hey, mods, where did my Edit link go? The heck is this?
High Performance Systems in Go (Golang)
A single person doesn't have to manage the additional stress of children wanting to play with our touch all the things in the store.

Children don't want to have to be drug around to a store just so they don't get in trouble / hurt at home.

So, there is a bit of difference between a consumer and a consumer that has children. The difference being that the monotonous tasks like shopping are more difficult with rogue agents.

I don't have kids, this is just my assessment of the situation.
"Why is this outcome attributed to an unregulated market and not a group of horrible, horrible people?"

How can you separate the two things? The reason we need to regulate things in general (not just economically, but in terms of all laws, etc) is because there are a significant amount of bad apples who will act horribly (though admittedly rarely to the point of murder/massacre) for personal gain if unchecked.

If we lived in a truly utopian society where people always acted in the best interest of the entire community then unregulated capitalism would work fine, but so would pure socialism. We obviously don't live in such a utopian society so both extremes fail miserably.
I don't think "truly fair" necessarily implies "perfect".
the mistake is to think about data as water and wires as pipes, this is a classic but understandable fallacy for those that do not grasp the basic tenets of this topic

remember the 'series of tubes' comment by Senator Stevens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
This isn't mine, but it does a similar sort of thing in browser. It's actually a port of libcaca to JavaScript using emscripten:

http://experiments.coscolla.net/libcaca/

The author is this guy: https://github.com/kozko2001/libcaca.js
It's not a question of hardware but routing. The deal cut out the middle-man between Netflix's and Comcast's networks, Cogent. Because Comcast and Cogent were in a constant feud over their peering agreements (Comcast wanting Cogent to pay more to transit all that Netflix data), service through that link was pretty much at capacity and slowly degrading the Netflix experience for Comcast customers.

The two networks are directly connected now, which eliminates that bottleneck. That's why performance spiked. There wasn't a capacity issue on either side of that Cogent link; Netflix is willing to pay for its bits, and Comcast's network has adequate capacity to deliver them. This routing change actually occurred two days before the deal was announced; you could see through a traceroute already that the route between Netflix and Comcast had shortened and no longer went through Cogent.

Courtesy Ars Technica on February 21, two days before WSJ reported the deal: http://i.imgur.com/pZPVTeR.png
Drudge Vote: If You Combined Hacker News with Drudge, This is What You Would Get
Ask HN: Good tools for text extraction from PDF
Hi guys,

I'm needing a tool that allows me to convert PDF to html files. Since I work with public documents, sometimes the layout from the pdf can be pretty nasty (i've attached some links at the end of this post).

We have a in house soluction forked several years ago from Apache pdfBox. After a while we realized that forking a open source solution isnt the best answer, but kept on going because it worked.

Does anyone have sugestions? We are willing to contribute to the open source project we choose :)

Many thanks!

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s226/sh/17b87c1f-8f18-4b23-96ac-a9fbc2ac8502/ea5618043f3a9c818071bd93df9f74c3

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s226/sh/17b87c1f-8f18-4b23-96ac-a9fbc2ac8502/ea5618043f3a9c818071bd93df9f74c3
Mozilla Offers Special $10,000 Security Bug Bounty for Firefox 31
This really makes me lose a lot of respect for Mr. Jobs.

How hard would it have been to say "anything Google offers you, we'll double it, so don't fucking leave? We're busy changing the world here, and that would be a pointless setback."

It's not like Apple is exactly cash-strapped, and it's not like he didn't know the value of his teams ("means war" clearly speaks to that).
Sorry, I already have a Go Pro ($250). That is basically the end-user for Glass ($1500). But keep at it Google. Glass will make for a platform for interesting further UI and wearable experiments.
At least UPS is better than USPS, which will pretend to deliver the package. When you look at the tracking info, it will say "tenant not home, notice left". However, what really happened was that no notice was left. Instead, the package went directly to the post office, a grimy dimly-lit place from the 1970s which closes early and where you have to go and stand in line for 25 minutes among weird grubby people with Tourette's. Then you get snapped at by a grumpy employee who sits behind bullet-proof glass, who shuffles off (slowly) to find the package and then hands it to you through this special "airlock" where one side has to be closed in order to open the other side. And then you have to carry it home.
While this is tangential to the topic, I would argue that there are better uses of time than figuring out how to get past a paywall for some article I likely won't remember in a week anyways.

If it's really that important, I would further argue that there will be other people writing about the same topic, so why not link to those other people?
Netflix to Launch on Three U.S. Cable Operators via TiVo
>Don't be Facebook. Allow for privacy, allow for handles

This is how it works actually.

Even I can have one or more extra handles, not traceable back to my main account.
I think we get flagged for ring voting a lot too, since a lot of us share a similar location... (so I dare not up vote this submission)
He still own brendan@mozilla.org (https://github.com/tc39/agendas/commit/6d5fa287a755429707e6e...)

Though this is not a sign of him actually remaining in power I guess, but more of an advisor and active contributor.
Andreas is the perfect choice for this role. Top notch technical abilities, and very nice human being if you like the "no bullshit" way of doing things.

Edit: his own post is at http://andreasgal.com/2014/04/24/technical-leadership-at-moz...
I'm somewhere between the sentiments expressed here. I'm thankful there's a strong incentive for top-notch law firms to pursue cases like this. I doubt this would have happened otherwise. My concern is that a ~35% cut may motivate the firms to settle for much less than would be meaningful for the victims.

The firm would gross a billion dollars on a $3B settlement, while the victims would get an average of $30K. And considering how expensive a trial is, I can see them settling for much less.

I don't know much about this field, but I wonder if it would make more sense for the court to take vote among the class members rather than letting the firm decide themselves. Or is it just up to the judge to decide if it's fair and in the best interests of the class?
What LinkedIn employee side projects do you follow?
Average is over? If anything this shows a below average understanding of statistics.
You mean besides for the tidal wave of downvotes?
I'm not sure official sources are more trustworthy than unnamed sources on such matters. If G+ has an uncertain future the official source would never say that publicly, I.e. Would never tell the truth.
My Open Source Android App For Viewing MP4 Metadata and File Structure
> Which, as far as I can tell, results in longer wait times for various procedures and fewer people receiving them.

Even in EU or in places with socialized medicine, you can decide to go to a private clinic. It's costly, but it's not like all doctors become state doctors or something. And from what I've read, whatever medicine they prescribe (assuming its regulated) will be lower costing, because the state bartered down the prices (procedures still cost a bundle).

> Why not? Because there was nothing in the system forcing them to actually take into account what it would cost to get a heart in seven days if it came to that.

Well, for once I'm not sure if there are definitive proof that sugar/salt/fat causes special problems and what interplay of them causes you to have heart/liver etc. problems.

However, we have all seen how states deal with something that causes great health cost like smoking -tax them and tax them good. I'm pretty sure that in Australia they managed to obliterate smoking, by replacing all brands with brownish packs with pictures of diseased lungs.

Another way could be subsidy for vegetables and other 'healthy' treats (salmon, tuna). But I don't see this being done by a non-state actor or a group. A state that has socialized medicine has most incentive to promote these programs, and a state only has enough means to put it into action.
It's not about differing opinions, it's about actions which exclude and/or oppress people.

It's one thing to campaign for the republican party, or donate money to them. That's not a problem. The problem is donating money to oppress a portion of the population based on their beliefs. That is an action, not a belief.
This case will probably be fine. However, there are tons of cases where the lawyers get 100% of the cash settlement.

The lawyers have to show a benefit for the class, and it can be as small as getting the company to promise to stop doing whatever was a problem and hiring one outside firm to verify compliance. Then then lawyers can get a settlement of $500/hour for all the time they spent on the case with an inflated number of hours.

I have seen cases where the lawyers on both sides are basically conspiring against the class, and the judge is okay with it because he wants to get back to the golf course. The plaintiff's laywers basically say, "hey you agree to the smallest thing the judge will accept as a benefit to the class, and you don't bitch about paying us $500/hr. Deal?"
I have used the following with some success:

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

Not sure how well maintained it is still, but it did a good job of converting basic PDF files to HTML.

There is also a Google Code product for going from HTML to PDF which works pretty well.
The perils of handing out C-level titles in your startup
Or you know, he says it but it's not true, and the OP knows otherwise.
As of today it is brilliant and shows no sign of changing for the worse.

You always knows who you share with, and they don't mess with permissions after the fact.

Also there are clear notifications if something will be shared because of actions you take. E.g: you tag someone in a picture and it makes sure you are aware that this will share the photo or album with the person in question.
nginx still has a critical bug with SPDY and proxy_cache which causes connections to be aborted on cache hit. SPDY with proxypass+cache is fairly unusable without this patch.

http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/428
I should have clarified: best-in-class for what my friends and I need, which is essentially simultaneous multi-user voice chat that doesn't require installing an external program (if they have Chrome, it doesn't require installing anything at all), works on all platforms, doesn't mandate a laborious microphone calibration on first use, and has pretty decent echo cancellation. We were just looking to replace Vent/Teamspeak/Mumble, rather than e.g. looking for a replacement for Skype. It's been invaluable as a permanent place for our geographically-distributed friend group to idly loiter and connect to whenever anyone has a free moment.
Does this include chrome's history?
Russia's surveillance state
self driving cars will probably be a "winner takes most" market. Google has a chance.
Yeah, and Google+ launched at around the same time this issue was already getting quite a lot of negative attention, including in the mainstream press and media as I recall.
But this still doesn't explain why Netflix is paying Comcast, not the other way around, or, even better, with noone paying anyone. This clearly shows that Comcast had an upper hand in the negotiations, probably because of its monopolistic position.
So I can't buy a Tesla in New Jersey, but now I can charge one there.
Why flawed?
Samsung Fail – How not to update firmware
This is what happens when you build a product for yourself without any regards for what people actually want. G+ was forced down our throats in a bunch of different ways and I'm glad the plan didn't work out.

Google probably won't do it, though it would be a great time to reconsider their global strategy and think about what can actually be brought to the people to make the information space better for everyone. I mean, actually.
Hmm, this looks like a bug. I'll try to fix it before the edit window expires. Alternatively, if you want to email an edit to hn@ycombinator.com, we'll put it in for you.

Edit: Just fixed it, I think. Please try again.
Bandit Formulations for A/B Tests: Some Intuition
There's some hopeful results from noninvasive variants as well, such as (mentioned once in the article):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...
Maybe some employees got counted more than once because of overlapping circles.
Were these cases in state or federal court?
Scarcity is no excuse for being a dick
as a sidenote, the article's mentioning of sex orgies in Pasadena house of the rocket science founder brought by association the history of Christian religion - how the group of 14 open-minded in absolutely all respects hippies who got no taboo unbroken got white-washed into 13 saints and 1 god of an extremely conservative/close-minded religion.

The process is pretty universal, and modern science is like a religion in many respects.
Looking at all the client side Android development, seems like the tide has changed
Or an email service...
We are a bunch of people using it. Me for example I'm following tech profiles in kde, Linux as well as photographers, chili growers, ham radio enthusiasts and a few friends and colleagues.
I think maxhou is referring to the segment of the network from Comcast's (or any other ISP's) local data center to its box (I think they're called ATM switches) and eventually your house
I'll take the non-false dichotomy, please. Having enough capacity to meet the streaming demand of your current customers during peak times is a solvable problem that doesn't require a full gigabit for everybody, all the time. The pricing model required to support this while still looking attractive to customers I'll leave to Comcast's well-funded marketing department.

In order to make that happen, of course, we'd have to live in a fanciful world where shifting last-mile delivery cost to content providers wasn't an option so the painful process of exposing this cost to customers couldn't be hidden in a rat's nest of perverse incentives that benefit the most entrenched corporations. (Ironically, and despite its protestations, Netflix's ability to pay this rent is a barrier to entry for its own future competitors.)
As always, Bruce Schneier has more links & commentary.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/info_on_russi...
All internet services pay for their bandwidth, they don't get paid to be online. Usually that means paying a hosting company, which pays a data center, which pays some transit provider like Cogent or Level 3 to get onto the internet. Netflix was paying Cogent to link it to the internet. Now Netflix's servers are directly linked to Comcast, so Comcast is connecting it to the internet [ed: to Comcast's customers], and that's who they're paying instead.

Why would they want to pay Comcast instead of Cogent? Because Comcast's fight with Cogent was resulting in poor performance for Netflix customers. They had the option of waiting for it to get bad enough that one side or the other gave in on the negotiations and increased capacity, meanwhile losing customers frustrated with buffering at peak hours, or choosing an alternate route to get their bits to those customers.

It also nicely sets up barriers for entry to new video streaming services, which is something maturing companies tend to do. Netflix has grown big enough to buy transit directly from ISPs instead of through middle-men like Cogent, while startups don't have the capital for that.
When they sell me the service, they don't sell it as possibly 1 Gbit/s. They sell me 1 Gbit/s. If they can't deliver, it is time to adjust that promise when I purchase the service.
rdl, we're working on this right now, starting at college campuses and corporate campuses. We've got a yc interview this weekend, so your feedback is hugely helpful.

https://angel.co/bluelight-1
Technical Leadership at Mozilla
> though Apple and others would prefer not to be required to do this.

Why?
It came out a little more than a year ago. Pretty quiet launch, but they blogged about it:

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-dig...

I think Wired and some other folks picked it up then too.
>It's not about differing opinions, it's about actions which exclude and/or oppress people.

Well, for me the Republican party excludes and oppresses people. If MANY MANY more ways than banning gay marriage ever did. From starting all those wars under false pretexes that resulted to tens of thousands of casualties to everyday issues like health coverage.

Should we fire every CEO/CTO that's donated to it?

Or is it only an "action which excludes and/or opresses people" if you specifically disagree with it?

(Oh, and I don't have than much better an opinion on the Democrats either, just think the Reps are like a few percentage points worse -- plus it would get more people to agree with my statement).
https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

I've seen nothing to suggest that Google is only doing this to force AT&T's hand - and even if that IS the case, they are the entity responsible for catalyzing FTTH on a national scale.Edit: Also - why would G aquire massive amounts of dark fiber backbone starting way back in 05 if they just wanted to astroturf AT&T into doing the dirty work? Unless its just all just long con to meter the other isps on backbone traffic. Doubtful.

Oh, so MSFT is "beating" GOOG in R&D - MSFT's research isnt prototyping autonomous cars or actually planning space elevators, or acquiring Boston Dynamics. It's hardly"peanuts" by any definition.

Yes, there are lots of companies now rushing for a driverless car, but G is recognized as by far the industry leader and will likely license its technology to Toyota starting in 2016.Protype Prius's and Lexus RX SUVs have been logging hundreds of thousands of miles the past couple of years. They will beat GM to market most likely. Others will follow with licensing.

Since I cant reply to you below - You said G was investing "peanuts" in R&D. This is demonstrably false. Anyhow, you can brandhate on them all you want, but they are pushing the envelope in ways that few other companies in industrial history ever have. I see no reason to continue this conversation.
And the FTC blog supports direct car sales as good for consumers : http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/competition-matters/201...
So every divorce case where one party tries to conceal something should end in a prison term?
Huh? Isn't that the very definition of thought police?

To get you inline with the beliefs of "many in the community"?
Has Madagascar closed its ports?
After reading the article, I see a typical abstract call to speak to the FCC. So what is the best way to do that? Send public comments to the FCC? I see this: http://www.fcc.gov/comments with a listing of proceedings, for example:

Proceeding #14-28	Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet

hmm
It's probably for the best Drudge doesn't allow comments on stories
Why must it be a throwaway account? Not everybody in tech has an HN handle.
It's a $2000 upgrade fee to use the superchargers (on the 60kWh battery). The $2000 fee is included in the 85kWh battery model.
Nadella: 'Well on Our Way' to Cloud/Mobile Shift
Indeed.

But not only that, countries like Norway give you more "bang for the buck", meaning free education, ...

Not only that, but Norway and Switzerland have one of the highest per capita income in the world, Switzerland even has a minimal income of 2800$ / month!

Per comparison, Belgium is on #17, Norway on #2 and Switzerland on #4.

Living in Belgium, i only notice an enormous inefficiency and a complex accounting system, both are hurting SMB's.