skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that you can't model the ISP portion as something with fixed costs to build and then small marginal costs of moving bits around. Building it out is the primary cost to the ISP portion and we, the customers, rightly demand they keep on doing it. They have to always keep on building more capacity. You can't say "okay, now they have stopped building capacity, it's all rent-seeking from here."

The actual electrical cost to move the bits back and forth is nil. It's making sure that half the people in the neighborhood can use Netflix at 7pm two years from tomorrow that requires them to spend money today.
Wait the 2nd ave subway will really only be two tracks? Why? How much could it have possibly added to the cost to make it four? Once you're digging the tunnel why no do it right?

Blargh.
The links you gave leave the issue ambiguous.

It still seems that you can't for instance launch an executable that runs cigwin in the background.
It's not even all that perverse, it just so happens that this quine has a human reading and executing a few more steps in it's code than usual.
Tintin had just been to the Moon in 1953:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Moon_(comics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_on_the_Moon
Assuredly so. Why not? Journalism and Science are all about extrapolation, in part or whole. That's how you get good books, good inventions and good science.
What do you mean by this?

I know this could quickly turn into, "well, at least we aren't x", but Dallas has decent rail service compared to a lot of areas.

15 years ago the DART rail was just getting started. Now you can take the red line up to Plano, the blue to Rowlett, the green to Carrolton, and the orange to DFW. Since 2010 the green has been expanded to hit areas like Fair Park and Deep Ellum. You can even take the slower TRE to Fort Worth.

Is it perfect? No. But there's been pretty rapid expansion and considering how spread out Dallas is and the fiscal conservatism here, it is not too bad. Austin (albeit much smaller) does not even have a rail system and Houston's is nascent.

I'm not too knowledgeable about the situation outside the state, but I'm guessing Dallas has one of the better rail systems in the South.
Same thing happened to Athens. In 1920 there was metro but it god abandoned. They finally build decent metro and trams for olympic games in 2006
OK, do you mean, I can be compelled to give up all my equipment via search warrant, but they have no legal means of making me tell them what my passphrase is? that would be an important distinction. Though at the same time, the government can just as well have covertly installed a keylogger on my system. Which may be illegal but it seems to be happening regardless.
Ok, fair enough. I never tried calling my work FRP before since...well, I threw out the functions and embraced glitches. You should have a look at Conal's vertigo work if you haven't already. It will give you cool things to do functionally with your GPU support.

http://conal.net/Vertigo/
I just want to point out that, with respect to Fifth Am. protection for passwords and keys, there are at least two District Court decisions suggesting that giving up keys is non-testimonial, and one Circuit decision suggesting it is, so there may be a split on this issue sometime in the future that will end up at the Supreme Court.
Gives me an idea for a new kind of Turing test ...
> from a technical perspective, or from a legal perspective

Is there a difference? A system like Lavabit is meant to provide technical defences to legal threats. It has to be; that's the entire point. It's not like Levison was providing (or claiming to provide) any defences from any non-legal threats. What Levison needed to do was design a system which did not technically allow him to comply with the subpoenas he received.

And at least for American's, your counter about "can't the government just grab your laptop" is incorrect; you have a privacy interest in your laptop that you do not have in a 3rd party servers. You have stronger 4th Amendment protections, plus a 5th Amendment right not to incriminate yourself. (This last point gets confused; the government does have a right to compel you to give up your keys only if they already know what's being protected. If they know that you have a child porn on your laptop from other means, you must let them access the child porn on your laptop. If they have no idea what's on it, they cannot compel you to let them access it.)
Why does AT&T, Google, Microsoft, et all get a pass on billing for their work, probably with similar expedition fees on a very similar schedule (probably suggested by his lawyer after all), but Levinson doesn't?

If the government wants to make me work, to be their mole, should I not be compensated for it? And shouldn't the expectations of that work be clearly defined?

This seems like business/compliance 101 stuff, the easiest detail to rationalize away, and gets a lot more ink than it deserves.
> Should clarify: "The pitfalls of hosting user-uploaded files on your website"

Indeed. Nothing about this applies to sites that accept uploads for internal use (e.g. parsed as input data).
I was thinking it would be more like readability, but instead of reformatting the html, inserting curse words. How much more fun would cnn.com be?! But a good start!
I can't speak for you, of course, but 10 years ago my parents paid more for a 256kbit/256kbit DSL connection than I pay now for a 35mbit/5mbit connection now.

My (parents') connection back in 2003 (256/256 Kbit/s
for 395 DKK per month): http://web.archive.org/web/20040604100538/http://www.cyberci...

My connection now (35/5 Mbit for 279 DKK per month): http://www.fullrate.dk/privat/bredbaand/priser

That's 7.97 DKK per downstream megabit in 2014 versus 1580 DKK per downstream megabit in 2004.

I very much doubt it has become 200 times cheaper per megabit/s in Denmark and actually more expensive in the US (or wherever you live).
I actually like the fact it has so many themes and plugins. Calling it 'wasteful' is over-board though. We're talking mbs at most here, if that.
I moved from Chicago to San Francisco, and find that San Francisco is significantly easier to get around in.

The public transit is worse, but the city itself is smaller, and Uber/Lyft/etc rates are low due to competition, which effectively means personalized pickup/drop-off throughout most of the city is <$10. For an individual, that's often worth it. For a group of 2-3, when compared against the sum of their total public transit costs, it's almost always worth it.
I'm pretty sure you can use Apache Tika to check the actual content type of a file too. Either way, I hate flash.
ITT’s ghost hangs over Silicon Valley
It's hard to safely consume food (red meat, sugar, etc) these days also. You want to know why I eat burgers? Because they taste damn good. Why do I consume marijuana? Because it makes me feel damn good. This doesn't mean I eat red meat and get high every single day. It's more like a couple times a month. This "destructive behavior" will not destroy my life.
That word has, for better or worse, accrued additional, slightly less repugnant meanings--meanings which are commonly-used.

Additionally, it does very much make sense to use that word (repugnant meanings and all!) to underscore the powerlessness of those going up against the State in our modern legal system. Hell, if you end up in the pen because of the aforementioned proceedings, you may end up using the original word anyways.
Watch those videos.

Now design me an automated deployment system which can handle the operating conditions and environment, and respond, effectively, as good or better than a human can.

Consider that your ladder can get snagged, caught, swing in the wind or seas, collect flotsam or jetsam, etc. Things can get very squirrely at sea.

Sometimes humans aren't the best at a specific function, but through processing and manipulation capabilities, including the ability to use and apply multiple other tools, they're the best means for responding to a general case of circumstances which cover a lot of ground.
People who know weev know he is a troll. A lot of what he says isn't meant to be taken seriously. A lot of what he says and does is meant more to make people stop and think than to be taken at face value.

Edit: Read this link if you want to get an idea what I mean: https://weev.livejournal.com/405683.html?nojs=1
most people who aren't regular users have only ever tried one or two strains, while others of us have tried _hundreds_. some strains are more likely to cause anxiety or paranoia in people susceptible to that.
> It is more than possible to build services that thwart the kinds of orders Levison received.

Perhaps, but unless there is appropriate and firm pushback against further legislative creep, mass surveillance, and abuses of process, etc then those other services are at risk of getting stamped out as well.

Levison is not a saint, but he doesn't have to be.
"The proper way to ask for time to mount a defense is a motion to the court."

Doesn't that require proper representation, which he had trouble getting? Moreover, doesn't that only apply in specific cases, which as a third-party to this whole mess didn't necessarily apply to him?
I think you just have to find a balance (depending on the audience you're writing for). There are times I write something that's clearly too flowery, and then I modify or remove a few of the words to make it sound a bit plainer, but while still retaining some of the original flair. And there are occasional times where I make something sound slightly more flowery.
http://surface.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/html/pbP...
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My point is, who are you to decide what is "lousy and destructive behavior" for everyone? Marijuana is clearly not for you.

For some however, it is a very real solution to problems like anxiety, insomnia, depression, low appetite, etc. Marijuana often has fewer side-effects than medications prescribed for those same ailments, making it a better option for many. That is how some people justify consuming the drug, and I think it's pretty narrow-minded to assume anyone who makes such a justification is an addict.
IIRC, one of the first public Wikipedia "scandals" involved a guy who was irate because his Wikipedia entry was wrong and he was told he wasn't allowed to edit it. Cue much hemming and hawing.

Only the "wrong" was that it included "director" among a long list of accomplishments, on account of he had directed a film. The guy's beef was that he didn't like the film and didn't want to be noted for it, and he demanded sole authority over his own historical record.

Sometimes there are good reasons to not let people edit their own articles. Sometimes there aren't. But you need some sort of coherent policy.
Credit Suisse operates in the US, and for those operations it is subject to US law. Which it broke, by violating tax law.
That's not how things work. US procurement is not going to leave the OS choice up to a third party so they may require win 7 but there not going to ban win 8. If for no other reason that offline computers are 'secure' enough for testing and the government has a
lot of proprietary apps.
But is it better than a MacBook Air?
i would say choosing which experiences to have based on relatively arbitrary and/or corrupt laws is irrational.

i find that people who go down this path of thought often misuse or abuse words like irrational, though.
If Levison was the only person doing this, my complaint might be less relevant. But he's not; he's at the vanguard of a trend, and is our best cautionary tale about what happens when people chase that trend.
Yep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7738394
Go and start my own company. This would make it considerably more practical, as self-employment becomes only a minimal net loss (or a net wash if I move somewhere cheaper).
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To Get a Home in San Francisco, First Get a $200,000-a-Year Job
I have a chronic pain condition (fibromyalgia) and a lot of sleep issues. I've tried it a few times, a couple times socially with friends and a few times as attempt at pain relief but it is decidedly NOT for me.

It actually makes my pain worse overall, as a lot of my daily pain management is very mental. Sure, immediately after use, my pain lessens, but I feel too foggy and 'not there' to take advantage of being temporarily pain-free, and as it wears off, my pain increases faster than my brain's ability to wall it off and I wind up worse off than I was before I took it.

Fibromyalgia already comes with 'brain fog', and while high I start to lose the ability to tell the difference between being awake and being asleep and dreaming. It's very disconcerting to feel like you're waking up every five seconds. I definitely do not feel more creative, and there is no way I could code in that state. I just feel lost.

It would probably help my insomnia if I just used it and went straight to bed, but it's too much of a pain/risk to acquire for it to be worth it. And I detest the smell.
This is my primary use of a thesaurus, too. Ideally, a good writer should be able to naturally remember synonyms without referencing anything, but unfortunately my memory isn't quite as good as I wish it to be.
0x53724e00 doesn't look too magical...

Call me again at

$ LANG=C date -u -d `printf "@%d\n" 0x60000000`
Thu Jan 14 08:25:36 UTC 2021
Couldn't go more than two pages, throws error
That is a completely different phenomena. In your case something sounds plausible so people repeat it. in the Wikipedia case the phenomena happened because people essentially quote wikipedia, thus giving wikipedia citations to back up the fact.
Now, if you are believing benchmark numbers...
First I'm the founder of Fotoblur.com, a creative photo community. I just went to check out the site. What I'm concerned with is when I search for fotoblur (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fotoblur), and go to images, it looks like you've slurped the image source and not the source page the image comes from. You're also providing a link to download the image. Don't you have any thoughts for user's copyrights or even content providers of which you've swiped content from? Boooo.
That post was from two years ago.

There were a lot of reasons the old start menu was removed. I listed some technical reasons why "just leave it in as an option" isn't as easy as it sounds.

It is not a straw man to say that investing in one area means you have to sacrifice in others. This is what we call software development.

Features are not added in service packs, and I don't even think service packs exist anymore (service packs are just collections of security and reliability updates, created and packaged together by a special "sustained engineering" team, not the product team).

The product team is building a new start menu option for a future version of Windows. It's a significant undertaking, not something they're throwing together willy nilly. They don't have a time machine, so they can't go back to 2012 and ship it then.
What exactly is the point of your post? So far everyone has agreed that both the company hosting the server and the consumer are paying for their connections.
This is my intuition too - we can go an awful lot further than might be supposed with reusable components if we are sensible about the interfaces and streams / lists.
I've seen a few of these placeholder api routes but they always start with just some default static data. This is much better.
Lets get real. The infrastructure problem in this country has to get solved at the federal level. Since we know here on HN that the federal government is an issuer of currency[1] and state and local government are users of the currency, like households and business, the only entity that can fund the massive infrastructure is said Federal Government. And, unlike China, all federal spending is underwritten by legislation. With the political climate being what it is, the only way this happens is another major recession (which may be on the horizon) or some kind of 3rd party grass roots movement. Depressing indeed.

[1] http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/need-taxes-mmt-pe...
The laws of physics prohibit wireless from serving current needs in an urban density. It's not a solution for the future.
If they had the incentive to, could the tech giants of Silicon Valley work together to lobby local governments to get their act together to improve public transportation? Seems like it would be a more long-term solution than private corporate shuttles.
I did not explain myself well, I was thinking in a more broader sense, including the related project management issues.
>Perhaps someone will make a counterweighted and braced keyboard like they have for iPad to solve this problem.

Did you watch the video I posted above? He does show the feature where the top of the keyboard can be folded and magnetically attached to the bezel to provide a stable structure.

I am just curious, what kind of job requires you to place your laptop on your lap for 4 hours a day? I learned it the hard way not to put laptops on lap after getting a burn (it was an old hp laptop), one of the reasons that prompted the name change from laptops to notebooks. Although now most have moved the vents to the side, I still feel unsafe to place it on my lap for a long period of time. Then there is also [1]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/05/us-laptop-testicle...
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Even New York?
> As someone who doesn't live in the SF bay area, the sheer number of transportation systems confuses and puzzles me. Caltrain, BART, Muni, SamTrans, Golden Gate Transit, etc. Why aren't these systems unified under a single system map and timetable? In the Boston area we have the MBTA, in New York there's the MTA. Why does San Francisco need 5+?

Likely, because New York and Boston are both larger (in population) and more concentrated metropolises, and are also both the principal metropolitan region of their respective states, which states are also the entities responsible for organizing each metropolises transit authority.

(NYC has, in 305 square miles, a population greater than the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area has in nearly 7,000 square miles, and NYC is close to half of New York State's population by itself, whereas even the whole 9-county Bay Area is around 1/5 of California's population.)
There are a lot of republicans in the Bay Area, they just seem to be the very wealthy kind (and are more moderate). Source: I used to hang out at the San Carlos Starbucks and a group of old guys would come in everyday to praise Bush (they were really cool, however, one was a B29 pilot in W2).
bully!
FYI, Windows doesn't interpret mouse movements as swipe gestures. Certain trackpad ODMs (i.e. Synaptics) did that, and did a terrible job of it.
What a weird essay. The author doesn't want a dictionary, but a thesaurus, which gives you alternate ways of communicating your concept.
Woah, this article is full of awesome bits.

Coding towards a single flow path and crashing whenever you go off that path has been the hardest and most enjoyable adjustment I've made as I've been learning the Erlang VM (through Elixir). It's definitely weird at first, but very refreshing when you get to leave out all those if/elses and exception handling. I'm still quite bad at Erlang/Elixir, but I'm enjoying it a lot more.
For others, you may find this http://projectnaptha.com/ useful to extract text from the image inside the browser.
wow, thanks! :)
Ange Albertini does some amazing work. If you haven't checked out his corkami repo I would highly recommend it.

https://code.google.com/p/corkami/
How do you turn a MacBook Air into a tablet?
I've been working remotely for 6 months now (for a team I used to work onsite with) and it's been fine so far, though "overcommunicating" is the direction I need to start moving in. However, I think being remote would have been immensely more difficult if I hadn't already worked with the people face to face.
The Loopd Indiegogo Campaign is starting to accept Bitcoins.
It might be a little longer until Indiegogo officially integrates Bitcoin but it looks like Indiegogo allowed this.
Let's show Indiegogo that we really want Bitcoin integration for crowdfunding as an alternative to simplify international backers!
CocoaPods Trunk
I just lost an HN Karma point for my comment pointing out the DDG webpage is seriously broken on the iphone (because it disables the browser's back and close buttons and so is effectively a roach motel). What HN Karma god loves DDG so much that it can't take criticism?
No, this comment was factual, and consists of all the questions clearly nobody is asking loudly enough at famous HQ.
> tracks have different widths

To be clear, the tunnels have different dimensions, but the actual track gauges are the same (standard gauge … unlike BART).
The Heartbleed Bug: Three Things You Need to Know
Well then all of the customers of said transit providers would leave and switch to one that can reach the millions of Comcast customers. As Level 3 said if there is a problem with peering amongst transit providers someone can switch to another provider. If there is a problem reaching Comcast customers there is nothing the customer can do or the transit provider as there is only one route to that customer. That is the leverage Comcast has now.

If the end users had multiple options they would switch providers if connections were unbearably slow to YouTube or Netflix. But we know they do not so regulation is needed.
Not space, CPU. OMZ theming abstraction consumes a lot (last time I checked it was full of redundancy) bringing latency.
What could possibly start aflame in an electric car, but the batteries?

(I'm aware that other parts would be flammable.)
Business Lessons From Immigrant Entrepreneurs
You make the claim that pure JS would be smaller than Emscripten compiled JS because of having to support C constructs in an awkward manner. This might be somewhat true in regard to pointers but not enough to make a difference. Please show some example codes