skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was 30 miles, not 5 (HN's reply windows makes back-references while composing difficult, I'll grant you that).

And yes, as an old / dated statistic, a 30 - 100 mile radius might have worked further back.

Truth is that population centers are highly concentrated within the US (and the world).

A set of visualizations I've collected showing density as cartograms or height relief: http://imgur.com/a/JgtVp#0

The height map in particular shows the concentration by MSA, and the population density of the eastern US: http://i.imgur.com/NjeWb3a.png

Incidentally, I'd always thought it was 2/3 of the US population east of the Mississippi. Yep.

Adding up: ca: 37.2, or: 3.8, wa: 7.0, id: 1.6, mn: 1.0, nv: 2.8, az: 6.6, ut: 2.9, wy: 0.6, co: 5.3, nm: 2.0, tx: 26.4, nd: 0.7, sd: 0.8, nb: 1.9, ks: 2.9, ok: 3.8, mn: 5.4, ia: 3.1, mo: 6.0, ar: 3.0, la: 4.6, ak: 0.7, hi: 1.4

We get 131.5 million. US pop: 313m

Via bc:

100 * (131.5/313)
42.000

Leaving 58% on the east. Not quite 2/3, but close.

Knock off Texas and you're there: 105m, or 33.546% of the US population.

Last I checked, most of Texas was more than 30 miles from US I-5. Or even more than five miles.

Using 2010 census numbers from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_state_population, rounded to nearest 100k.
Yes, if you install the apps.

edit: maybe not what most people are looking for, so I'll elaborate. To install google apps, you'll need to unlock the device and flash the gapps package. Some people don't want to go that route, so in that case there are two possibilities:

a) You can't have google apps.

b) If OnePlus gets Google CTS certified, then they can bundle the play store and other apps, signed, and bootloader locked. Oppo did so for the N1, so the N1 is a cyanogenmod phone with official google apps support.
The DVR model is really the way to do it. People know what they want to watch, so you present a catalog of all existing and future content and let people check the box next to the ones they want to watch. Everything downloads during off-peak hours as soon as the content is available and then you always have a list of things you can watch instantly, even if the internet is slow or unavailable.
Fuck you, Tom Wheeler.

That is all.
Upvoted for mentioning http://www.petesqbsite.com
There should be laws against this sort of stuff. Like you can't work for a company in a related domain for 5 years before and after taking the government job. As it is, it just leads to too much corruption.
I actually manage to work out the TX panhandle and west Texas, particularly the border with New Mexico. A few others show up if you look closely.
I have a 100mbps connection.. I live in NJ.
It costs me $80 a month (Which is robbery IMO).

But still, I have it.
I showed this to a coworker and he said "I think he needs to implement some playback controls that can be twiddled with by echoing codes to a virtual file in /proc or /sys"
I know. And it was. But the app knew it was my "active hand" which should've had some implication, no? Or am I supposed to take it off when I do everyday things now too? Cooking = 100 steps. Washing my hair = 30 steps. Wasn't the point to put it on and forget about it? It's just so flawed.
The answer to this is to have a DVR attached to the network which takes care of the storage and then stream to all the other devices anywhere in the building.
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You have a choice.

You can always NOT pay the HBO "tax" and pirate it like the rest of us.
You can also donate here: https://www.gittip.com/munificent/
I agree that the technology is not perfect and everything you want it to be but for 99% of the population who get no walking at all, it is a wake up call and helps a ton. I lost 20lbs in 6 months because of wearing fitbit and jawbone.
Autoscaling isn't really intended for bursting, it works better when you have predictable traffic patterns. But if I understand it correctly you can use EB with custom Cloudwatch metrics and that lets you do some pretty cool, predictive things that autoscale based on external factors such as: volume of Twitter mentions, Google Analytics data, number of active user sessions, etc. In theory you could write some app code that uses custom cloudwatch metrics to initiate scale-up during certain timeframes. right ?
Thanks. The class action lawsuit was launched nearly 2 years ago and there hasn't been much public progress since then.
Perhaps. My interests and focuses are in Internet and application security and privacy; that's been my career for the past 15 years. I'm not sure what the incompatible other interest might be.
You'll also often find that a regional port authority is responsible for both seaports and airports in a given region.

And while the structure of an airport terminal isn't quite the same as a set of finger quays for a port, there's a certain similarity between the two structures. Both are interfaces, designed for craft to approach closely and transfer cargos to/from the port. They're characterized by a highly crenelated boundary to allow for maximal surface area and transfer region.
> Googling "how to do X" results in the old way which no longer works. This is my secondary frustration.

For 3rd-party posts there's not much Google can do about this (besides avoiding major UI changes), but I'm often frustrated by finding the wild-goose-chase obsolete information actually located on google.com, in un-updated help pages. One thing they could do to at least make it easier for people to recognize that is to date help pages with the last-updated date, so I can tell at a glance whether a given page is from 2014 or 2010.
You could run, but how to get the funding to be an actual contender?
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Elastic beanstalk uses auto scaling groups which support as-put-scheduled-update-group-action in the cli or http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/APIReference/A... to set time-based scaling.
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Yep. There will never be another video or audio streaming startup after today. Doors closed, ladder pulled up behind them, that's it, finished. The ones that exist today are all there will ever be. Sound crazy? Exaggerated? Check back in 10 years and see.
I run either three or four businesses depending on how you count them, comprising 7ish things which are separate products. I have friends who have 7 distinct businesses. At a high level of detail, the big takeaways are a) automate the #%(# out of everything, b) have procedures in place such that a large portion of the day-to-day work can be done by people other than you, and c) to the maximum extent possible, only work on one thing at a time rather than slicing your attention on a minute-to-minute basis throughout the day.

For example, my illustrious virtual assistant firewalls me from about 90% of the support load for Bingo Card Creator, which is good, because after doing it for 7 years I was starting to lose sanity points with every passing email. This frees me up to be 90%+ devoted on any given week to whatever my current priority is.

I would emphasize that when my friends and I do this sort of thing its for businesses not fun little hacky projects. Businesses pay taxes, have payrolls, etc, and don't tolerate options like "I have a simple solution for decreasing our support load. It is /dev/null all support email." all that well.
The main force holding me back from learning Haskell is the cryptic syntax. I totally understand that the type system is (supposed to be) superior to other languages but it simply make it really hard to find the time. I am also unsure how useful this language can be in every day use. There are so many great languages out there nowadays, Clojure, Go, Erlang. It is easy to cover the spectrum with these and I don't see where Haskell would be a better fit. maybe somebody could shed some light on the strengths of this ecosystem.
There's definitely flaws, but keep in mind, it's merely an accelerometer, not a 9-degree IMU. I just left it on my non-dominant wrist and the FitBit and JawBone have both been pretty close, though my BodyMedia (which goes just below the delt/tricep connection) seems to be a bit closer to "experimental results" in terms of calories / activities / sleep / etc.
I've started having this problem lately, and I have <5 years experience in the industry. I work at a web development shop right now, and while I don't plan on leaving soon (still some room to grow as an employee), the problems I find myself solving are largely similar.

A few things that I've found helpful are:

1. Expand horizontally. I've been designing for a while, and it's always a breath of fresh air when I can go design something (in the browser of course, but front-end dev requires so little thought that I barely notice) without restraint. I also enjoy writing, when I can find the time.

2. Experiment with radically different paradigms. I've been diving into Elixir lately, which has been a lot of fun. Still looking for a nail to hit with the Erlang/Elixir hammer, but I've enjoyed building the few toy programs I've worked on to get familiar with the language.

3. Accept the Sex & Cash theory. Hugh MacLeod writes about it in this blog post: http://gapingvoid.com/2004/03/25/the-sex-cash-theory/ Basically, the idea is that you have to internalize that there are things you do for fun, outside of work (sex) and things you do support those things (cash). The cash doesn't have to be enjoyable. By all means, seek opportunities to have fun with the cash side of the equation, but don't get hung up on it: spend your brain cycles enjoying the sex.
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> from .ogg files [...] that were created from .mp3 files

Oh no. Mixing lossy compression algorithms is a very bad idea. Even at high bitrates, it tends to destroy certain kinds of sounds (eg, cymbals).
This makes my blood boil. The FCC is perhaps the one agency that could do something to step the dominance of the internet in the US by Comcast/Verizon, as nothing seems like it will happen legislatively. I have a feeling things will get a lot worse before they begin to get better.
Note that these are intermediate level Haskell topics, as intro describes.
Walk away. You'll have other ideas at least as good as the one you're looking at now, and a dispute over ownership is no way to start a successful company.

People will rush to tell you that ideas aren't worth anything and simply having an idea gives your erstwhile prospective cofounders little claim on it. That's true, but not dispositive. If you start your own venture based on an idea they believe they entrusted to you, there will be drama. You have no guarantee that the drama won't take a form that requires lawyers. Either way: it'll be ugly.

Life is too short. Do something else.
Thank you, all clear now!
Meow meow on-and-on in the name of the war on terror?
By "prior", they mean 30 years ago, at a time when the cable industry was the underdog fighting against the powerful broadcasters, and cable lobbyist [1] was a pro-consumer job.

Looking at what he's been involved in since then [2], it's all over the place. There's stuff in cable, stuff in wireless, stuff in phone, co-founder of a company that repairs aerospace components, PBS director, and a bunch of other things. I'm kind of at a loss to comprehend how someone can have held so many positions.

[1] It's not all clear that lobbyist is even accurate. He was the head of the largest cable industry trade association. Lobbying was one of the things they did. Calling their executives "lobbyists" would be kind of like calling the head of the American Medical Association a lobbyist.

[2] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...
> The real reason for streaming is that most people don't know in advance what they want to watch, and with TV/movies, generally only watch something once.

I don't know if this is really true. How do you find out about something you want to watch? You see a commercial for it, or somebody tells you about it, etc. If all you had to do was pull your phone out of your pocket and click a button that says "download this when it becomes available" and then be presented with a list of such stuff the next time you want to watch something, you would pretty easily end up with more stuff to watch than time to watch it.
The problem with that is that the only folks qualified for these jobs are folks with some sort of recent related experience, and the only future job that this is revenue-boosting for is in related domains.
A) Of course, how do you know they'll do so until you elect them?
B) Many politicians who get into office are quite busy, so they tend to trust the people they actually talk to, which are often the people at campaign fundraisers. Cronies may just be people who, conveniently, are always at fundraisers, hence are familiar to politicians.

I don't think that's proper, obviously, but easy explanations rarely capture the complexity from which corruption arises.
I have an email server with Rackspace and haven't had any issues with delivery.
If you make the random walk assumption then DCA doesn't improve expected returns. Those who expect higher returns are (perhaps unknowingly) relying on unjustified cyclic patterns in prices and trying to exploit that inefficiency.

DCA can reduce risk in theory, but only if you consider USD a risk-free asset. If you really want to minimize risk you should buy real estate funds, commodity funds, etc. based on your expected future consumption.
- Encourage employees to work on their own games during work hours. Zynga takes a small percentage ownership of the games and will distribute/market the games using every available resource at it's disposal.
The flip side is that you won't want someone in said position that doesn't know anything about the industry. Do you want a luddite making technology policy, for example.

Not that I'm all for regulatory capture or anything.
> There are two major downsides to operating a business as a coop, though. One is that you have to raise all of your capital from your members, rather than relying on outside investment.

That's only true of equity, which isn't the only form of capital financing. But, yes, its an important limitation.
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I agree that Google's efforts, as you have described, have been exemplary.

Have they not also gone along with the NSA in what appear to be violations of the 4th amendment?

I'm mostly ignorant of this stuff, but reading the quote below from the Guardian makes them look complicit. I think it's fine to be complicit when you're powerless, but Google is not powerless. What bad thing would have happened to Larry Page if he had said "Uh, we're not handing over the data." Would he actually have been arrested?

(Just to be clear, you've probably thought about this for 400 hours more than I have, so if I'm totally wrong, sorry.)

From the Guardian [1]:

"The senior lawyer for the National Security Agency stated on Wednesday that US technology companies were fully aware of the surveillance agency’s widespread collection of data.

Rajesh De, the NSA general counsel, said all communications content and associated metadata harvested by the NSA under a 2008 surveillance law occurred with the knowledge of the companies – both for the internet collection program known as Prism and for the so-called “upstream” collection of communications moving across the internet.

Asked during a Wednesday hearing of the US government’s institutional privacy watchdog if collection under the law, known as Section 702 or the Fisa Amendments Act, occurred with the “full knowledge and assistance of any company from which information is obtained,” De replied: “Yes.”"

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/us-tech-giants-...
The UK has a structural separation between retail and wholesale, and the major ISPs are still desperate to be allowed to do deals with content providers. Consumer interests are not set up to directly disincentivize ISPs from trying to charge content providers for access to them. Consumers will not police that principle.
Tivo's annual revenue is 406m, and the company is worth 1.45bn. (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATIVO) Respectable? Sure. But not even close to Netflix.

Netflix's annual revenue is 4.3 BN (i.e. over 10x higher), and the company is worth 21bn. (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ANFLX)

Why? Sure, a relatively few people will use Tivo, but many more won't. Empirically, the convenience / lack of planning necessary to watch streaming video is worth approximately 10x more.

This illustrates the importance of using data rather than anecdotes to draw conclusions. As a HN poster, our personal experience tends to be heavily biased towards our self-selected associations with more technically oriented people rather than "normal," average people.
The system should work like jury duty - much like in ancient greece where they had a system of lots (based on black + white balls) - you get chosen then have to do your best for your alloted time.
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I wasn't making an argument so much as stating that making only truthful statements does not indemnify one from being the target of legal action by someone that publicly states they will only go after 'false accusers.'
A user went haywire and downvoted a whole bunch of comments. We'll correct the damage.

All: when you notice substantive and civil comments that are unfairly faded out, please give them a corrective upvote. This is a longstanding community practice. It usually only takes one or two corrective votes to get back to par, so every user can make a significant difference.
> Even if the hardware design is better and the baseband is behind some form of MMU it is still capable of sending your location and all your traffic to an attacker.

We could just consider baseband to be on the untrusted side of the network. Without access to anything but the restricted communication channels the worst things it could do is perform some calculations to eat your battery.

Network operator already knows (or may discover) your rough location and has access to your traffic anyway. So, just make sure private traffic's well encrypted and authenticated, and develop the hardware to be capable of provably powering down the whole baseband module when you want it to be off (location privacy). Problem solved.
Very plan9'ish. Nice.
You are overlooking that in many places in the world, you have to buy the phone outright.
I rather sell one watch at $10000 than a thousand watches at $10. Simply put, less customer care and the only customer I care for is probably a king or a president.

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Sure, the article itself can explain it: "But analysts say the embrace of Power has two crucial advantages for Google. First, the Internet giant builds its own data centers and tweaks the technology in its server computers, and the licensing regime in the Power foundation is hacker-friendly in a way Intel’s handling of its intellectual property is not. The second advantage for Google is negotiating power..."
No, I mean that Apple sold shiploads of iPhone 5s without lowering the price at all. It was even more expensive than the iPhone 5 in many countries
As far as I know, meth does very little harm to your teeth as such. Habits associated with being a person who regularly uses meth do much more. Add to that selection bias - if somebody uses meth every day but is otherwise a nicely groomed stock broker, how would you know he is a drug user? OTOH, seeing a "typical meth addict", esp. in the news and propaganda, rotten teeth and all, is readily recognizable.
The colloquial term for this is "revolving door."
Gotta love the fucking down vote brigade on anything remotely pro-Apple.
Hmm. JS was before Ruby and Python, so it couldn't have screwed up something to be found there. (BTW: HyperTalk was also "me".)

The very nature of "this" in JS is because of late binding, probably the most important feature of JS. Since references are evaluated late, the need arises to store the reference in a variable for use in a later call. Since these are first-class objects, no problem. The standard name for this used to be "that".

My point was on the total ignorance regarding the language. Why would you want to call the variable "self", overriding built-in semantics? Why not use "window" or "document" for a change? Obviously you would not want to do this, even, if their values could be restored by the use of another closure.

The praxis of naming this "self" is just an import from other languages, proving that the author in question didn't care for the semantics of the language she/he uses. Would you do the same by a compiler directive in C, overwriting built-in semantics? Could this become a pattern? Probably not. Would you redefine "/dev" in a Unix shell for other than a hoax? Probably not.

(BTW: I do not see a need to down vote a comment that points out a feature in language semantics. With server-side scripts and web-workers the global object isn't always the browser window. There is more and more need for this reference, while it becomes obfuscated by a pattern rather questionable. And I'm rather shocked to see this pattern having become quite popular. There isn't even a handful of global system variables in JS, "Math", "Date", "this", and "self" are the only ones common to all platforms. How hard is it to respect these? There are even use cases for overwriting these, e.g. test, but then you've just rendered them useless, if you chose to overwrite them in your code.)

Edit: And in case you wouldn't see a point a made here, think of code maintainability. Let's suppose you're reading some random lines of code. "Math.sqrt", you would assume to know what this is. Provided, you're in a browser, the same would apply to "self.location". But, hey, you can't be sure nowadays.
It was meant as a joke, no insult intended. I do not usually post jokes in forums such as HN, but the fuel consumption fraction is a pet peeve of mine. I couldn't resist it.

I teach GMAT classes, and recently, in the effort to be less US-centric, the GMAT started stating problems in metric units. They, however, still use the US fuel consumption fraction, not the European one, and it feels doubly odd.

I did not know India used this strange mix. Learning new stuff every day.
This singer/songwriter draws her life in cartoon! I wasn't expecting that...
I wonder if there's a lagging indicator of tech bellwether decline in innovation/disruption when they introduce a dividend.

For example, Apple had a dividend in 1995. Then in 1996, Jobs came back and nixed it. Microsoft issued its first dividend in 2003. Cisco in 2011. Oracle in 2009.

As a former ibanker, I should be all for financial engineering. But when companies can do "actual" engineering, I'd prefer to spend money on growth if possible. If not... then, I guess the dividend makes sense, hence my earlier assumption.
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One solution is to use an aggregator like NudgeYourself.com - they do a great job taking any trackers you use and aggregating the data. So you can have Fitbit and Runkeeper and they'll stay automatically in sync.
Anecdata: I've lost 60 pounds in 12 months, simply just using free apps to (A) record my weight each morning and show a moving average (B) identify what surprisingly-high-calorie foods and snacks I was consuming.

...And no, the bathroom scale is completely non-networked, my smartphone simply prompts me to tap in the reading every morning.

If your goal is to "lose weight", then forget activity-trackers, because your main tactic should be controlling the input side. It's far easier to not eat 200 calories than it is to burn those 200 calories off later at the gym. It's also cheaper than buying expensive techno-nostrums / shiny-toys.
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No one is "forcing" you to buy "sequence of bits" of the latest Game of Thrones episode.
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