skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I believe in a mature paid-streaming market, consumers will likely subscribe to multiple services, all for way cheaper than satellite or cable currently costs."

Agreed and that's kind of my point - HBO and Netflix can both win big here, it's not really about who can do both content and provision first. If you follow the exclusive content model there can be only one place to watch Game of Thrones or House of Cards but people can (and I think will) subscribe to many services.

There may also be models where exclusivity isn't a given (as it isn't with music services) or that it will just be about content and that streaming will become a commodity, though they're harder to predict (and go against what has historically happened in TV).
"The Climb"[0] is a must if you read this, since "Into Thin Air" has some thin air in places, especially putting blame on the guide from the other team.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climb_%28book%29
Citation from a Facebook post by Pavel Durov (founder of vk.com and Telegram), for those who don't want to open Facebook:

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As you probably know, I am out of Russia. Me and my team of 12 engineers have a temporary HQ in Central Europe, and we are now looking for a permanent base to work from. We are choosing a new home, a country that will allow us to develop our projects with privacy and freedom of speech in mind.

Our team includes 6 ACM champions and 6 winners of other programming contests. These guys made it possible for Telegram Messenger to gather 40 million registered users worldwide just within 8 months after its launch. Several members of this team, including my brother, were crucial in making VKontakte what it is today — the only social network that defeated Facebook in an open local market. We are now going to build our next project, a mobile social network.

What country or city do you think would suit us best? Please feel free to comment below. To give you an idea of our preferences, we dislike bureaucracy, police states, big governments, wars, socialism and excessive regulation. We like freedoms, strong judicial systems, small governments, free markets, neutrality and civil rights.

P.S. If you happen to represent a government that meets our criteria, you are welcome to share ideas with me at durov2016@gmail.com.
In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg Gave a Talk and Barely Anyone Showed Up
It is included in the js file [1] and seems to be under MIT and Apache.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sutoiku/formula.js/master/...
How to synchronize applications between two terminal-service servers?
To go up the stack a bit, it reminds me of TTYQuake. (original website gone :( )

http://ingles.homeunix.net/presos/quake/4/ttyscreen.html
Google: Small Sites Can Outrank Big Sites
No need to think, just look at china.
Great post; I agree with everything here.
It is - as someone else in the thread mentioned it makes a profit from each patent granted.
Worse, i write "patent" as "pattern". Such a "designer" i am.
I prefer metal dish: http://karlherrick.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2007/09/...
I don't think these two events are similar. Most of the fatalities on K2 in 2008 where due to poor planning or preparation of the climbers themselves. While recent tragedy on Everest was simply an ice-fall and avalanche.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA is a very good video of Chris Warner talking to Google employees about leadership. He has climbed K2 in 2007 and gives his opinion on the events in 2008.

Also The Summit [0] is a nice film about this tragedy.

[0]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363471/
Using MyGet as a OneGet package source
The story of a 6 months old bootstrapped startup
Other EU countries with their independent currencies/central banks have gone the same way as the Eurozone: Sweden just went into deflation and UK seen inflation go below their 2% target (designed for normal times, arguably should now be higher) as well.
Let's all contact the F.C.C. and let them know how we us consumers are against this! I can't believe not a single HN user suggested this on this thread yet!

Federal Communications Commission

445 12th Street, SW

Washington, DC 20554

To Contact the Commissioners via E-mail

Chairman Tom Wheeler: Tom.Wheeler@fcc.gov <<<<<<<<<

Commissioner Mignon Clyburn: Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov

Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel:

Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov

Commissioner Ajit Pai: Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov

Commissioner Michael O’Rielly: Mike.O'Rielly@fcc.gov

Complaints: File a Complaint

Freedom of Information Act requests: FOIA@fcc.gov

Elections & political candidate matters: campaignlaw@fcc.gov

1-866-418-0232 FAX: toll-free

1-202-418-1440 Elections & political candidate matters
The Monad Reader Issue 23
Thanks for the advice. Yes, I am using the DHCP of my router. I'll have a go at this. Thanks for the advice.
Well, this chart focuses on tech but Robert Schiller also thinks the overall market is bubbly. I'm amazed that interest rates could have been held down so long and this is the real danger: how the heck can they ever normalize? If they do it will wreck havoc so the fed is trapped between the proverbial rock & hard thingy.
Lo interest also hurts older people who rely on savings (But theyre not going to be here long anyhow...but Peter Schiff argues savings is the only real form of investment )

Bottom line is interest rates can only be held low because alternatives around the world don't exist. I'm also amazed how alot of people think the fed saved the economy & created more wealth : as Jim Rogers says they only know how to print).

Finally, I think the derivatives were around 600bill upto Lehman downfall. I was astonished to find that they're now a quadrillion! Buffet called derivatives financial weapons of mass destruction. I think this world might experience this interesting concept.

http://www.pinnacledigest.com/blog/dscaroknight/chart-below-...
Terrain rendering on path to Superverse
Cool! Pretty similar to what www.phpexcel.net does for PHP.
10 Surprising MVPs and Their Current Versions
Any idea on how to do this?
Nrrrdcore: GH paid me off to not sue them.
So much of human interaction is made difficult by our lack of understanding one another. I love these silly little fantasy worlds that we busy ourselves with, hell even television shows, because it gives people something else to share in common. You experienced the story, the music, the feel of the last episode of X, Y, Z, right? I was there, too, in a way. Let's share our thoughts.

Maybe if humans take it too far and forget to share, or neglect other things along the way, that the machine will stop.
(s/b 10M / 100M = 10%). He is interchanging the terms and he should have written things differently to avoid confusion. It s/b "yield = annual earnings/purchase price", not "interest rates = annual earnings/purchase price". (He does correct himself later in the paragraph.)
This has brewing for so long. One example is the incident with Ueli Steck last year [0]. Regardless of what you think of what happened, it really highlights how much tension there is between the Sherpas and the 'western' guides.

[0] http://www.climbing.com/news/ugly-incident-on-everest/
Great service those guys provide.
If you're doing .NET development you should give it a try.
IMHO, it all depends on how complex your task is and how experienced you are in solving that particular task class. Even the most ardent proponents of TDD suggest that you do spikes (write some throwaway code) in order to see what design is applicable to your problem.

On the other hand, if your task is relatively straightforward, you can anticipate the required API and start with tests first.
App-Controlled Hearing Aid Improves Even Normal Hearing
This is why I try not to buy computers with my own money :)
Any support for i18n?

(For English-only speakers: Excel's translation to other languages goes as far as translating function names, thus rendering non-English Excel users' knowledge useless when confronted with an English Excel. E.g., IF(ROUND(A1)=1,B1,C1) in English Excel is JEŻELI(ZAOKR.DO.CAŁK(A1)=1,B1,C1) in Polish Excel -- yes, with all those funky non-ASCII letters.)
Why Google Isn't Growing
Static site+CloudFlare
Nothing. DHH is famous for being opinionated. Things DHH dislikes include RSpec, factories, haml and service objects layers.
It's maintained by Rob Reynolds who works at Puppet Labs.
ProductHunter, a ProductHunt Chrome Extension
How does oneget relate to ripple?
Connected Conference (06/18-19, Paris)– Apple, Samsung, Jawbone, Parrot and more
I mean it is growing, right? And by a lot?
I mean HobNob is more like Tinder meets LinkedIN.. for professional purposes... so I can see why they might have done that
How the R-SIM 8 Unlock iPhone 5C for iOS 7 Version
> There is no incentive for them to stop granting bad patents.

I disagree.

a: If they are currently overrun with more work than they can handle, they can remedy this by refusing patents, thereby discouraging frivolous applications. Having done so, they can become a more efficient organisation.

b: Fees for continuations, amendments and extending response deadlines can be larger than the fee for simply issuing the patent.

c: As a Government entity, they have an interest in making as much money as possible change hands (and therefore attract tax). One way to do this is to occupy the applicants' lawyers with remedial work.
How does write-ahead-logging deal with unexpected record truncation in the log?
Job openings at Nervana (hardware for machine learning)
This also includes changing argument separators according to the locale. In France, for instance, where commas are used as decimal separators, function arguments must be separated by semicolons. Faithful i18n should take both into account.
British Invasion
Ripple is more aimed at dependency management of components. Much like NuGet (in fact it uses NuGet) combined with direct fetching from Git repos, better resolving of dependencies and such.

OneGet is more aimed at installing system components. It is like Chocolatey (and in fact uses Chocolatey under the hood).
Same. It punches through to an account with licensing on it. Specific VS licensing, too, as our MSDN account doesn't offer anything other than the installer unless we opt to buy seats.
Exactly. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-poli...
My wife had the opposite experience with her 4. iOS 7 was quite a bit faster, particularly with regard to the camera startup.
This seems like a slightly more technical version of https://ninite.com/ ... Most users just want to grab their usual suspects of 5-15 apps on a fresh machine and GO!

I want to use Boxstarter to build a VM template but I've never really used any of the items it mentions. I realize it isn't trying to complete with ninite, but I sure would like a "click x buttons then hit download" version of this Boxstarter/Chocolatey stuff.
If interested in the topic I can recommend Alan Arnette's blog http://www.alanarnette.com/ I've found it one of the best sources of what's happening on Everest.
Or maybe make the patent processing fee non-refundable (if it already isn't).
One interesting thing about the high valuations of tech startups now is where the money is coming from. It's not stock markets.

At or near the bottom (or is it top?) of this "bubble" funnel a lot of high valuation investments from "private" money acquisitions & other supposedly smart money, like the recent AirBnB investment. Were $10bn valuations possible without public markets before recently? Does that make us daffier if this is a bubble? IE, is this proper risk capital that is less fragile and sensitive to death spirals?

Facebook has been aggressively scaling up (in my opinion successfully) their ad business since the IPO. Facebook has/had 2 big make-or-break risks: (1) losing popularity/users (2) failing to turn users/visits into into ad revenue. There was also some risk that in trying to fix #2, #1 would break.

Risk, reward, uncertainty. Nothing unusual here. Risk #1 is constant ambient risk. Risk #2 is/was more of a "what's under that rock" risk. The rock is being turned as we speak and so far the news has been good. FB value has roughly doubled in the last 9 months and IMO, that's the product of "information" about the viability of facebook as an advertising platform.

Here is the subtle point.^ They could have turned that rock just as eerily before IPO. They could have worked on the ad platform sooner or they could have delayed the IPO. I think that move was deliberate. Facebook chose to make that unavoidable, but timeable risky step after the IPO.

As an analogy, imagine a widget company. They get investment design & manufacture a warehouse full of widgets. Then they pause, take some more investment, don't spend it and go public before finding out if their widgets sell.

What role does this pre-IPO money play? FB didn't seem to need it to operate.

^I'm not sure about this. It's a speculation and I don't know or understand enough to be confident at all about it.
I don't know if this was the original reason for the 'team' name, but I hold the image in my head of dolls doing most of the work ;).
Those are the official requirements. In real life, only #3 prior art is of any use in disqualifying any software patent.

1. Patentable subject matter. The Supreme Court declared that algorithms are not patentable in Benson (1972) and Flook (1978). The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the patent court) reversed the Supreme Court rulings completely by 1994's Alappat decision. Since then, very, very few especially egregious patents are rejected on subject matter grounds.

2. Utility is usually trivial to prove. If you're using it, it has utility.

4. (unmentioned) Invalidity on the basis of obviousness is a dead letter under CAFC precedent. The Supreme Court attempted to revive it in 2007's KSR v. teleflex, but the CAFC has overruled the Supreme Court on 35 USC §103 (the obviousness law). You pretty much need a single published public prior reference reciting or clearly suggesting every element in the claim to argue obviousness, which is exactly what you need to argue anticipation under 35 USC §102 (prior art).

5. Enablement is assumed to be automatically satisfied in software patent cases by 1997's Fonar precedent by the CAFC:
“As a general rule, where software constitutes part of a best mode of carrying out an invention, description of such a best mode is satisfied by a disclosure of the functions of the software. This is because, normally, writing code for such software is within the skill of the art, not requiring undue experimentation, once its functions have been disclosed.... Thus, flow charts or source code listings are not a requirement for adequately disclosing the functions of software."

Also consider University of Pittsburgh v. Varian (CAFC 2014) where the CAFC decided that 3D computer vision imaging of people and articulated human movement is trivial and obvious post-solution activity that need not even be described or considered part of the claims on a medical imaging patent. The function of human motion detection is entirely covered by mentioning the two steps that particular spots will be tracked and then motion inferred. It's literally that bad.

If it sounds to you like the CAFC is waging an undeclared war on software, you may be right.
That sounds very risky to me. I would prefer a second passcode that when entered quietly destroys the cryptographic key.
Sounds like a good site. You could call it Patently Obvious. A squatter (or at least absentee landlord) already has patent.ly, sadly.
You said using names instead of ip addresses was "part of the problem". ip addresses are normally non-portable, and difficult to remember and type.
Are you sure? The word cancer comes from Greek - Hippocrates named it Karkinos, which was translated into the latin cancer a few hundred years later. The name explicitly comes from the appearance of a cancerous tumour.
Thanks, looks like I totally misunderstood oneget. It is more intended to pave a clean machine with the correct products and libraries?
Ripple can be considered as another solution-level package manager, much like NuGet. That's as far as I can tell there's any relationship :)
You seem to have learned a lot in the process. Can you point to any good resources that helped you, specifically with security concerns and outgoing mail reliability? I've already got a mailserver running with a similar setup as you, but I haven't invested much effort into security or making sure mail providers accept my emails (Gmail sometimes marks them as spam and AOL rejects them all together).
Does anyone have a cheap VPS provider to recommend for this? I usually use digital ocean but from what i hear, most of their ip space is blocked everywhere due to spam issues.
Interesting reply. Thanks.
> What makes you say that this was the "original intent" of patents?

The original meaning of the word "patent" might be a bit of a clue here.

The problem that patents tried to solve was of people keeping their innovations secret (in order to maintain an edge on their competitors), and that when they died their secrets died with them. Encouraging people to make public work they were doing anyway way, in the first instance, the way the patent system promoted progress.
Brazil enacts Internet 'Bill of Rights'
Luckily this is a UI thing and the files themself normalize to English. So the project could still be useful for opening Excel files on the web (theoretically).
Or maybe I just don't bother maintaining friendships with people who aren't capable of getting real without hiding behind a veil of snark.
Master of Tides
Are there any plans to add support for other OPC sources to OneGet? I can imagine a Windows8StoreProvider would be very useful, especially if you can provide those through MyGet too.
The 3 keys to running successful sales competitions
The issue is gone (solved by the Codecademy team)!
i dont know what the fuss is all about simply put monads are like a burrito wrapped in a spacesuit. fact.
http://9ch.in/overscript/
If an entry in the log is corrupt, it doesn't get replayed. The filesystem is left in a consistent state, just without that data.
Flat vs Realism: a story
First of all, what's the point of climbing Everest when you're basically being carried to the top?

As someone who is into more 'extreme' endeavours, it's more about the experience than the result. Where's the fun in having someone else do the heavy lifting?

Second, why not climb new mountains? There's plenty of interesting places in the world to explore, climb, and have an adventure. Plenty of peaks to ascend (and descend on skis!), plenty of remote locations to reach, and many peaks where you can bag a first ascent, rather than be the X climber to have been carried up by a Sherpa...

Want to be extreme, and enrich your life experience? Learn how to actually be a mountaineer, learn the ropes (figuratively and literally), and do something on your own. But I guess that's too hard.

About the Sherpas on Everest - they need to decide as a society whether depending on tourist dollars is what they want, or whether they want to actually create something...
Heartbleed’s Aftermath: OpenBSD Developers Start Purifying OpenSSL
Update (April 23, 2014): The fork of OpenSSL has a name, LibreSSL. The team announced that they are targeting an initial production release for OpenBSD 5.6 (scheduled for November 2014). A portable version of OpenSSL is dependent on donations from the community at-large.
"Meh, Mac" isn't really an opinion though.
Traditional "ISA wars" were about the cost of instruction decode & context-specific functionality. This really is over now: instruction decode costs hardly anything and context specific functionality is rarely used.

As far as I can tell, Mill have realised that the real fight is for cache; the most expensive thing you can do on a modern CPU is a data stall. So the intent is to change the execution model enough to change data access patterns and make prefetch work properly, along with more efficient use of the cache.

The next most expensive thing is a branch mispredict, and Mill attacks that strongly as well.
Julie Ann Horvath: Naming names, Settlement, Preston-Werner Won't Sue Me, etc.
Switzerland, what else?

Words unfortunately spoken by someone from the Netherlands.
Multithreading in emscripten with HTML5 WebWorkers
But the expedition companies don't refund any of the money they collected from the climbers that would have gone to the Sherpas, instead pocketing it for themselves. They should either refund the money to the climbers, or pay the Sherpas what they were planning on paying them. Not just go "oh well, it's our money now!"
I was using ethernet over my power sockets previously, and that was no better.
> this is almost certainly non-workable for some reason

Why is it necessary to have the ability to search past emails? Could there be any value in not looking back?

(It's ok to laugh at this.)
Hacker for me is someone who knows what he is doing. Hacker is someone that from his solid knowledge at something (not necessarily "software engineering") can achieve his goal. His goal might be gaining an unauthorised access into a system or creating a piece of hardware that will make his life easier, or even having free drinks/snacks from a vending machine.

Having deep knowledge at something and being able to do what you want with it, makes you a hacker.

Note that sometimes there is a confusion with hackers and script kiddies. Script kiddies in short are those with little or no real knowledge use instructions and tools causing damage only.

Hope this helped.
Danish government builds Minecraft world of Denmark from geodata
"Fixing" it in a way that guarantees that the changes will not be pulled back into OpenSSL has the following problems:

* the fork will lag behind when new features are introduced into OpenSSL

* the fork will lag behind when new fixes for OpenSSL are implemented

This creates a permanent maintenance burden for the LibreSSL maintainers; sure they have attention now, but in 3 months nobody will give a shit any more.
How about "Developed" vs "Developing" nations?
Looks promising. Stumbled upon one issue: Gauge has Minimum/Minimum labels instead of Minimum/Maximum

I was also hoping to find WebSocket support. While polling works for a lot of cases I expect modern dashboards to update in realtime. Especially considering how easy it is with tools like Pusher, PubNub, Firebase, etc.
https://medium.com/p/825de76cc7e9
That's the reason I always use the English version of Office. But then it's so weird when I go help some colleague and they're using the local version, and I'm suddenly a beginner... A remainder of the old world in today's hyper-globalized world.
She certainly knows how to go out guns blazing. Has now added this one, along with claiming that while she had not initially intended to sue, she will be now:

Fun fact: the rumor I'm accused of spreading? I heard from @GitHub's hr lead > than once. She watched while @mojombo blamed and harassed me.
https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/459263440906092544
Horvath having some sort of live Twitter meltdown [real time]
I've done some work where I've implemented some stuff in code that was originally done via excel formulas (some traders do things that way). I wrote some python to do symbolic substitution on formulas operating over many columns of data to reduce functions to single line definitions over just the data input, making my job much easier. Any programming language implementing the excel formula functions would make it super easy to automate taking prototyped multi-column excel functions to code.
Mine needed a key, I guess because I bought it off the shelf.
See also https://github.com/zfogg/ascii-chat
There's a really nice XLSX reader and writer by Stephen Hardy, a Microsoft developer: https://github.com/stephen-hardy/xlsx.js/ blog post: http://blog.innovatejs.com/?p=24