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Arguably, one of the companies trying this is Motorola. They are certainly gaining market share (if not immediate profits).
Sorry for my lead in being needlessly confrontational. I do agree that asymmetric connections aren't a good thing, but disagree on the "chicken" versus "egg" as you put it. I don't think there will be any demand for greater upload bandwidth until using that bandwidth isn't an event that totally swamps your connection and requires manual coordination with other users.

Upload traffic is theoretically able to be precisely prioritized, where a long-term file upload uses any extra bandwidth but adds no latency to other traffic (besides unavoidable pktsize/linerate). But easy/standard configs provide best effort shaping even if you go out of the way so that it is able to discern interactive ssh from uploading ssh. (And nevermind download shaping, which really requires application-level involvement to get predictability).

Static IPs could help as a nice crutch, in that they would enable us to start with current server-authoritative protocols and patch/configure them to deal with one-nine uptime. But conditions here are set, and static IPs are not a panacea - I have the option for $6/mo, but don't take it. And I deal with the same fundamental undistributed service problems between my own machines on tinc.

So I don't see much point trying to lobby ISPs for larger upload (esp when it goes against their technical constraints. I do have to wonder how the world would be different if digital computers had been invented before radio, causing p2p to be dominant over broadcast), without the software to make it useful. And I think that software has to be developed with the current conditions and the understanding that most people don't want to have caring for a home server a prominent part of their lives.

(Now, maybe my tune would change if instead of 12M/1M DSL, I were on GigE where my upload throttling would be done by "the cloud" ;))
Yup! We only recommend !function(){}(); for a module where you just need your function to run. If you rely on the return value use (function(){})(); or (function(){}()); (more on this: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/issues/21)
http://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction

I'm guessing y-axis is cents. Looks like it's about $0.25 - $0.30 these days.
Firefox OS 1.3 arrives with autofocus, flash, smart app collections, and more
A friend of mine does a lot of work that often boils down to neighborhood searches in high-dimensional spaces (20-200 dimensions). The "Curse of Dimensionality" means that trees and tree-based spacial data structures are ineffective at speeding up these searches because there are too many different paths to arrive at nearly the same place in 150 dimensional space.

Usually the solutions end up to use techniques like principle component analysis to bit-pack each item in the dataset as small as possible. Then to buy a bunch of Tesla GPUs with as much RAM as possible. The algorithm then becomes: load the entire dataset in the GPUs memory once, brute force linear search the entire dataset for every query. The GPUs have enormous memory bandwidth and parallelism. With a bunch of them running at once, brute forcing through 30 gigabytes of compressed data can be done in milliseconds.
That does not sound fun. 2 min to contemplate you've made wrong choice but with no way out. Then terror and passing out.

There's definitely more enjoyable ways to end your misery.
Is there a way to search pinboard.in and/or delicious for the news.ycombinator domain? If so I'll be able to tell you.
CityMapper in London offers a great experience on mobile. It works better than Google Maps for several reasons:

- one-click "Get me home"
- point-to-point directions include better hybrid instructions
- it displays bus waiting times in real-time
- displays your location *within* the bus route (between 2 stops for example)
- walking times are more accurate

For some reason, on the website, if I click on "Use my current location", it locates me at my home. But right now, I'm at work. Really weird... Would it mean that my previous location was somehow stored in Safari on my laptop?
I'm curious what these review posts say about the market. They only really recently started appearing. A bubble signal that ambition is outpacing quality?
Another one:

class A():
def __init__(self):
self._x = 0

@property
def x(self):
return self._x

@x.setter
def x(self, new_value):
self._x = new_value

Using it:

a = A()
print a._x # 0
print a.x # 0
a.x = 4
print a.x # 4
print a._x # 0 wait WTF?!

The bug was not having `A` inherit from `object`. With old-style classes, properties do not work correctly.
Sadly the takeaway is closer to "we didn't like you (enough)" and the "feedback" is a best guess as to why.

What does this say about the importance of culture fit?
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The problem with this is you have offered $50 and he has accepted. So if you then say $35, you have reversed yourself, which violates the fourth rule (you can never go backwards on your position). This is viewed as bad faith by the other side and can break the negotiation.
My takeaway from this article and my personal experience is that innovation is created by environmental conditions rather than collecting intelligence as an asset and expecting them to interact.
Go move to Pakistan or Egypt as an agnostic or atheist, or Jew. Or move to China as a dissenter to their government. Let us see how "no privacy" works for you.

Or hell, just live in the US. There is plenty of prosecution of ideologies people don't agree with - have a pedophile who doesn't practice it express their physical attraction to children and see how people like that. Or maybe you like polygamy. Or hell, in many towns it is as bad as the Middle Eastern countries - profess your agnosticism or atheism and you get denied service at establishments and mugged.

Privacy is an essential guard when people with power don't like what you think. The ability to hide information you don't want them to know can keep you alive.
Hey there. Shoot me an email at david (at) thomasstreet (dot) com.
I'm currently using Firefox Sync between work and home. There are some issues, but mostly because I'm a compulsive bookmark hoarder. Except for cross-browser support, is there any reason to switch from my current set-up?
Any conversation about individuals having the right to control their lives (including the means to end them) seems to me to be a good thing. Similarly, on a larger scale, I also find talking about the (often shady) efforts by various governments to control population to be a welcome thing. Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House" touches on both topics; it's worth a read.
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure if I fully understand
I think both you and the OP are missing the context of the $1500. I suppose it's "non-negligible" as he said, but it's barely enough to cover 2 founders flying from New York, plus a hotel and rental car. In Thailand $1500 may cover the cost of 10 months rent, but in SF or New York, it's closer to the cost of one month's rent. It's not an insignificant amount of money over the 300 teams they invite for interviews per batch, but it's certainly the cost of doing business.
This is excellent advice... the problem occurs when someone louder claims success for your work. It can be a bigger company, or it can simply be someone who, due to not spending any time inventing, has more time for self-promotion.

I haven't found a non-violent solution for this yet; timestamped video doesn't seem to work, nor do patents.
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Oh dear. I've really offended the Silicon Valley Suicide Gods. Be it known that merely having certain unpopular opinions about life issues is an instant 30+ karma hit.
Some of the links in the article are to course videos from Ars Digita.
> It's a reason not to make free services. Two million is a huge user base if they're all giving you $10/month.

> Consumers are willing to pay for value received.

Well, app.net is a cautionary tale in the other direction. It really depends on the business.
This is good, but what if your advisor relationship has already fizzled out - what then?
I rarely ever agree a price when booking a minicab in advance, but I use the same minicab firms I've used for a long time so I know they're unlikely to rip me off.
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I think the "Nope" refers to headline, which is not supported by facts.

If there's no evidence that it was intentional then you can't call it a backdoor. Otherwise every security flaw (or potential security flaw) is a backdoor.
They provided pretty detailed feedback to us one year and quite frankly they were right.
There was a Healthcare Triage video [0] that talked about this sort of analysis.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1T7KzRnrs&list=UUabaQPYxxK...
I think there are a lot of usability problems with the start and end fields. I entered "57th and Broadway" into the start and saw the following results:

* Broadway & 57th Street, Woodside, NY
Broadway & 57th Street, Woodside, NY
* Broadway & 57th Street, West New...
Broadway & 57th Street, West New York,...
* West 57th Street & Broadway, New...
West 57th Street & Broadway, New York,...

I quickly clicked the first link, assuming it would be Manhattan (since the map was centered over Manhattan). I got directions from Queens.

I went back and tried again clicking the second result. This time I got directions from Union City, NJ.

I didn't get the right start point until the 3rd try, and that was only after trial and error. You incur a huge cognitive load to examine each of those three options and select the correct one, when other services I use all the time (Google Maps, Hopstop, etc.) seem to get it right on the first try.

You might say this is an unfair critique, because New York has a lot of streets with similar names... but it IS the biggest city in the US, and the application IS called CityMapper.
Is that… Jesus, on a pogo stick?

http://i.imgur.com/f8EMwTP.png
> Your mainboards almost always have proprietary firmware. Coreboot is woefully underutilized and underfunded in this regard.

If you care about this, buy a Chromebook. The new ones have Coreboot. Of course, Google blah blah evil, but you can put your own OS in so the stack goes Coreboot->Uboot->(preferred Linux distro)
Scraping is not an ethics discussion. It's what you do with the data that falls into the topic. Selling email lists scraped from websites to spammers would be one. Using email lists to prevent spam would not be one.

The article is basically saying "I want to charge people for information I have made public online, they won't pay, so they are obviously thieves by refusing to do it manually by hand like they are supposed to."

Gimme a fucking break here. If you don't want the information to disseminate, DO NOT PUBLISH IT ONLINE.
Fair enough, but there's enough stupid/aggresive behaviour on the London CM for me (and a whole bunch of other cyclists I know) to stop attending it.
> The body is always corrupted.

But what of the mind? It's the aspect of choice that lends anything its dignity. Being at peace with your decision. Some people find a measure of dignity in dying naturally, it's in accord with their wishes in that respect. Others don't.

To deny those who are not at peace with it that choice robs them of some of their dignity.

I remember my grandfather dying when I was a teenager, in the hospital he was pleading with everyone around him to kill him. I feel guilty for not doing it whenever I think about him. The one thing the poor bastard wanted, the only thing left anyone could give him.

I can't hold it against him, it's not his fault. When people are suffering that much, they're not really thinking about whether they're asking a child to kill them. But he could have gone weeks earlier, could have been in a position to make the decision for himself rather than being reduced to begging.

He could have been spared that, there'd have been more dignity in it.
I'm going to go meta here and say the hn discussion here is just fantastic. This is the reason I frequent hn and I wish more submissions would spur discussions of this quality.
I am a potential user of your site. I live (a bit reluctantly) in Columbia, SC, and my yoga studio cut back its advanced 90-minute classes and replaced most of them with hour-long, easier classes. Moreover, the head teacher mostly blew me off when I complained about this -- apparently there is increased competition, and times are rough.

Increased competition, indeed. It is presumably a good time to find out if any yoga studio has taken up the niche that my old studio has mostly abandoned -- and your site claims to offer this information.

So I checked out your site. I'm afraid I didn't find what I was looking for. You got the names and addresses of some local studios, and I'll trust that you found out accurately whether or not they offer free mats or sell bottled water.

But what I really want to know:

(1) Which studios offer the most advanced classes? You list "beginner", "intermediate", and "advanced" on your website, but these seemed a bit arbitrary. I didn't really trust them.

(2) More to the point, I like training that is a little bit more "sink or swim" than is the norm in this town -- not in any bad way, but where the teacher wants to get you to Reverse Bird of Paradise Pose, and if you're not getting there today, that's okay! -- but the teacher is focusing on those who will.

I want to know that from browsing your site. That is more ambiguous, and I think a lot harder to get right... but that kind of information (presented reliably) is what would drive me to return to your site.

Best of luck to you.
It takes time for a stable build to be released. Be patient or help out.
Thanks for your help. My feed xml has <link>{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}</link> so I'm not sure what the issue is.

---
layout: none
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>{{ site.name | xml_escape }}</title>
<description>{% if site.description %}{{ site.description | xml_escape }}{% endif %}</description>
<link>{{ site.url }}</link>
<atom:link href="{{ site.url }}/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
{% for post in site.posts %}
<item>
<title>{{ post.title | xml_escape }}</title>
<description>{{ post.content | xml_escape }}</description>
<pubDate>{{ post.date | date: "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z" }}</pubDate>
<link>{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}</guid>
</item>
{% endfor %}
</channel>
</rss>
I'm not sure why that triggered anything for you. Any humane execution process needs to have safeguards in place to ensure no one survives.
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Just curious, i need to survey your opinions about my startup.

Please reply or email me at <my nick> AT yahoo . com if you can help me. :)

Thanks.
The example that I found most amusing was that SD Cards have proprietary firmware -- turns out buying old SD Cards may be the cheapest way to get a single-board programmable microcontroller. [1]

[1] http://gizmodo.com/sd-cards-are-tiny-hackable-computers-for-...
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I am confused by the suggestion that I "Babyrock to station", with this GIF:
https://citymapper.com/static/img/journey_planner/jokes/baby...
Sankara (8th century CE) talks about two types of truth - 1) Kevala Satya (Absolute Truth) and 2) Vyavaharika Satya (Relative Truth) - He also says that people who are not one with the Absolute truth (One with God - liberated) can only discern the Relative Truth. He called this state - Maya (illusion). Looks like he was talking similar to Gorampa. To be noted is Sankara was extremely knowledgeable about Budhist thought - and is often called Abhinava Budha (Neo Budha) and was instrumental in propagating Neo Hinduism based on Adwaita (Non Duality) defeating the Budhist schools of the day using their own arguments.
The raw feed is at

http://www.taigeair.com/feed.xml
Entrepreneurship is...
http://vitalik.ca/files/problems.pdf
And a zombie: http://cl.ly/image/3q2y1G1M312K
I think you hit the nail on the head about the space industry being risk averse. I think that guides a lot of their decision making.

I took a compiler class that was taught by the inventor (Dr. Daniel Cooke) of another functional language, SequenceL (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SequenceL). Cooke had funding from NASA to develop SequenceL because evidently NASA was/is very interested in program correctness (it's hard to guarantee correctness of a C++ program) and a simplified programming model.

The way Cooke explained it in class, SequenceL was born out of a desire for a simpler programming language (he believed that modern programming languages are too complex - so many require extra tooling to be productive) and a desire to make the implementation of a program as close as possible to the definition of the problem. He reasoned that if you could make an executable specification (i.e. the definition of the problem was executable), then all the mistakes that implementers make while implementing a program based on the problem specification/requirements would go away. In other words, since the definition of the problem would be the implementation, zero implementation mistakes would be made.

Interestingly enough, the first SequenceL interpreter and compiler was written in Haskell.
Even the first argument doesn't make sense to me. The optional argument is within the scope of the function; why is the temporary optional argument getting carried over?
If you're sufficiently big and have many, many servers, a full reboot cycle on all systems may take enough time that the ability to patch without having to reboot is even more valuable than for small companies.
Thanks for your supporting comment and good luck with your business! Besides the money more of an issue was possible distraction for us. We are 3 co-founders. For us all going there would mean several hundred hours of flight and travelling. So we made the decision to only send one person (after consulting with Y Combinator).

However we should point out that Sven & Alex were on stand by via Skype during the interview to answer any possible questions that might have come up.
Ask HN: How do you aggregate thought and content snippets?
During the day I find various interesting things (urls, thoughts, quotes) with various level of interest (read now, read later, follow-up if similar topic comes up).

I'd like to organize them, but keeping tabs open and putting the URLs and text selection into docs is not really scalable. It kind of works, but now I have 40+ topics, and I'd like to automate parts of it.

I'm looking for a solution that would allow me to post these in a non-public way (e.g. e-mail, social network post, custom hosted app) with a limited metadata (url, title, tags, description) and query it periodically (few times a day max) to get all the metadata in a format that I can later reuse (JSON, XML).

Of course the easiest would be to create an e-mail account, fetchmail and text processing tool for this, but before doing it, I'd be interested in how others may be doing the same thing. Any thoughts?
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Obviously at least several people didn't know what BPG was, and I have been spamvoted down for it.
Wow where do I start with this? I LOLed at least 3 times reading this, but the idea that this is at a theme park with other rides is probably the best part.
"Not with a bang but a whimper."

http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Poem.htm
It seems like there are a lot of people in these circles who view themselves as far more rational and less prone to prejudice in matters of business.

The truth seems to be more like slightly more rational, but not _that_ much more rational. From my experience, the more a company proclaims strict meritocracy, the less true it is.
The move to XCB has no impact on font rendering.

QWidget continues to use the same font rendering stack it has for many years, i.e. fontconfig to interact with system fonts, harfbuzz for layout and Xft/FreeType for rasterization.

Qt Quick 2 supports two different ways of rasterization. The default one is a GL-based rasterizer using the distance field method. The other is FreeType. You can switch between them on a per-item basis: http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qml-qtquick-te...

Most likely your problem is that you're seeing the distance field render. The advantage of the distance field renderer is that it produces more even results in animated transformations (e.g. scaling text up or down over a number of frames), but the disadvantage is rendering fidelity (particular preserving the full detail of glyph shapes) and that it's just not consistent with other things using FreeType alongside it.

In KDE Plasma Next, which extensively uses Qt Quick 2 for nearly all UI, we're mostly using FreeType rasterization for that reason.
PyQt for - you guessed it - python is a superb wrapper for Qt.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post, but the power analogy doesn't quite work:

> Our current situation is like your power company getting to decide what devices you can plug into your outlets (and trying to shake down device manufacturers for permisson to use the outlets).

Power (at least in my part of the US) uses metered billing (plus a flat cost). If some company starts selling a device which draws a large amount of power, anyone who uses it will pay larger power bills as a result, so the power company isn't left carrying the financial burden.

I suspect that if your ISP could convince you to pay $40/month plus $0.01/GB of up/down bandwidth then all these arguments would probably disappear, because people streaming lots of Netflix more would naturally pay more. And with the bandwidth caps of some providers, it is already heading in that direction.

(Of course subscribers have all sorts of reasons not to prefer such a system. Just because it would resolve the current political situation doesn't mean people would like it.)
Evernote does much of what you're looking for other than JSON/XML format.
I see what you're getting at now. Let's check the conditions for integrability. Your function is bounded (everywhere, but let's restrict to [0,1]). But I'm not sure it is continuous due to the limit process.

If you can't show it's continuous almost everywhere (as noted by @clintonc) then it is not Riemann-integrable, therefore its integral will not exist. That would be the answer to (1).

If you go through some manipulations (i.e., (2)) and get an expression that seems correct, but the underlying function is not actually Riemann-integrable (as in (1)), then I'd suggest your manipulations have fooled you.

So, do you know the answers to these questions?
I was thinking of the cleanup crews. People are always very inconsiderate of those when killing themselves :-/ Ever saw the mess it makes when somebody jumps in front of a train?
p.s. Along the lines of (2), I would recommend trying to get yoga teachers to answer a short multiple choice quiz. For example:

> Although both of these are important, which is the following is the biggest priority in your yoga teaching?

> (a) Making sure everyone achieves their full potential

> (b) Ensuring that everyone in the class feels comfortable, and no one feels left out

Etc. Find out from your users which questions best differentiate between studios. But make it multiple choice, so that teachers can't hedge their bets.
Which is the source of the original problem, which I've also encountered myself.
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