skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Net Neutrality is a ruse: providers "promise" to maintain an SLA against their competitors when they still own the last mile, and the service, and the core network. In practice, SLAs are weak sauce.

The more viable competitive model to me would be to a mandatory Open Access Network.

http://www.opennetworkforum.org/what-is-an-open-network

1. Spinoff of existing Big telcos own the core physical fibre or RF infrastructure

2. Various network providers own and operate active equipment & billing on the network - no one owns the last mile

3. Various service providers provide content & applications on the network.

4. No company performing one role can compete in another role, so as to avoid monopoly

This of course will never happen in the USA because the inmates are running the asylum.

So we'll have to rely on countries like Sweden to prove it out:

https://www.acreo.se/sites/default/files/pub/acreo.se/EXPERT...
curious is Twitch is seeing the writing on the way wrt net neutrality? They see big fees incoming from the ISP's to stream their content and decide to get under Googles wing now...
Why is this so slow on Firefox? Why is every single cool thing that show up on HN so slow in Firefox?
Slightly off-topic but, in your opinion, how does StartSSL compare to CAcert? I'm about to jump and would like to know where I'm landing.
Yes! Azavea built the City of Philadelphia's official open data catalog (http://www.opendataphilly.org/), we represent Philadelphia as a "node" in the Open Data Institute (theodi.org), and we are huge proponents of machine-readable, bulk, open data (http://www.azavea.com/blogs/atlas/2014/05/which-candidates-f...)

Right now, most of our client tree maps have elected to make their raw data downloadable to the public. On most/all of the OpenTreeMap version 1 sites, on the bottom of the map, there's a few links: "Export this search: KML | CSV | Shapefile". KML is the format native to Google Earth but is really an XML-based, officially adopted open geographic data standard many tools support (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml). Shapefile is a semi-open geodata format invented by Esri - even though it's only a de facto standard per se, the vast majority of GIS analysis tools use and support it (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles). CSVs are, well, CSVs. On our OpenTreeMap version 2 sites, running on our SaaS infrastructure (the only major public ones at the moment are Edmonton http://www.opentreemap.org/edmonton/ and Los Angeles http://treemapla.org/), there is an "Export Search Results" button that allows you to download a CSV of bulk data. (I believe in the future we would like to support other formats than CSV again, but don't quote me yet and that's "down the roadmap" anyway...)

Sites with bulk downloads:
Version 2 (SaaS):
https://www.opentreemap.org/latreemap/ - LA
https://www.opentreemap.org/edmonton/ - Edmonton
Version 1 (self-hosted, sometimes Azavea built, sometimes built from open source code):
http://phillytreemap.org/map/ - Philly
http://treemap.urbanforestproject.com/map/ - Grand Rapids, MI
http://urbanforestmap.org/map/ - San Francisco
http://greenprintmaps.org/map/ - Sacramento area
http://sandiegotreemap.org/map/ - San Diego
http://treezilla.org/ - Great Britain (yes, they are aiming to cover the entire country)
http://seattletreemap.org/map/ - Seattle (open source and they re-wrote a lot of the client side in Dart!)
http://www.tampatreemap.usf.edu/map/ - Tampa, FL (open source but with some consulting by Azavea)
http://ashevilletreemap.org/map/ - Asheville, NC (open source)
If they are good or not, the laws exist. Once Twich is under Google's umbrella, they will be pressure by the content owners to enforce those copyrights. Maybe that's not happening today because Twich's community is smallish (compared to Youtube) but once they are "integrated" into the copyright notification/enforcement framework, end of story.
Accordions Are not Always the Answer for Complex Content on Desktops
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I don’t wanna do your dirty work. No more.
Steve Coast the founder of OpenStreetMap who now works at Telnav also wrote about this on this on his homepage:

http://stevecoast.com/2014/05/19/why-openstreetmap-is-now-na...
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Ah I see, dumb assumption on my side. Apologies.
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Hi - Paul Fisher, ops manager for Elastichosts here. Thought I should correct some errors!

Orik: All our storage is persistent. We don't have any that isn't. I've no idea where you got that from. Actually you can use the folders in an s3 like manner as storage separate from a container; e.g. use webdav to connect it as a remote drive to your desktop.

Joyfield: I think we'd disagree. Why not email us with some examples? For a 4GB server DO will charge you $40/mo, with us, as long as you're not too heavy on bandwidth, you can get that for around $20

Kordless: We're careful to be very transparent about where the servers and data are kept. Nothing is moved to another zone without you being involved, so data stays where you put it.

Bananas: The whole idea is you're charged for server load, so no API is involved at all. You start a server, and if it gets busy, it uses more ram and CPU. For most cases, that's all the config you need.

Please do call or email us at any time if you have questions. We'd love to answer them directly, and unlike some competitors, we'll talk to you and answer the phone! www.elastichosts.com
The title is a double entendre.
How To Protect PC Data, Remove And Shred Locked Files
Sounds like something you might want to ask the Firefox team about.
This solar aerator is interesting but still a bit expensive and limited. I wonder what happens when buggies and fishies nibble at it and water inevitably leaks in.

There are some cheaper solutions. The mosquito dunk costs less than $1 per application and is pretty easy to use--just toss a little puck into a pond, and the bacteria specific to mosquito larvae destroys the pest without causing any known side effects.

There are also dragonflies. They, like mosquitoes, start life in the water and the nymphs are voracious eaters of mosquito larvae. Then, when they crawl out of the water and grow wings, they eat flying mosquitoes and other small insects in large quantities.

If you seed your area with dragonflies, of course they will end up becoming food for bats and other predators which also eat mosquitoes but will preferentially go after larger, meatier insects. But on balance, a larger number of these creatures will keep the mosquito population down naturally and efficiently.

It seems unlikely that introducing dragonflies to a specific area will unbalance the ecosystem. Dragonflies are ubiquitous in the world except for Antarctica. They are an ancient species and fossil records of giant dragonflies date back as far as 300 million years. The mystery to me is why we even still have mosquitoes, when we have such efficient and highly adapted killers of mosquitoes out there.

Spraying is perhaps the worst possible approach of all of these. I've seen spraying done in urban areas that actually resulted in more mosquitoes in some neighborhoods. It either pushes the mosquitoes into new areas, or it inadvertently kills predators of mosquitoes. The best thing is to use as natural means as possible.

That said... please, please find a way to wipe these critters out of existence. As discussed a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7657251) there are plenty of non-biting mosquitoes out there; only 200 out of 3,000 species feed on human blood. Life would go on just fine if we could genetically target those blood-sucking varieties and zero them out.
That Marc Twight article appears in the recently published book "Training for the new alpinism" by Steve House. Seriously recommended.
I had one of those back in the day. It wasn't just a camera, it also had some amazingly rudimentary photo editing capabilities, which were fun, as well as lots of amazingly weird games.

If you'll excuse the Cracked link, there are also some weird easter eggs: http://www.cracked.com/article_19332_7-creepy-video-game-eas...
Well, looks like this kills off my personal XMPP server - I don't think the software I'm using (djabberd) supports encryption for s2s connections and it's not really developed anymore. That's annoying.
Use the keyboard! Once you got the focus out of the instant search box, all of the following work almost as you expect: UuRrLlFfDdBb for face rotation, MmEeSs for slice rotations and XxYyZz for cube rotations. (upper-case for clockwise, lower-case for counterclockwise)

I got it down to 19 seconds using the optimal solution from http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?47666-Googl...

I'm not doing it again, the interface is too frustrating.
Gosh, HN, I apologize for the mess of links and my earlier entirely-italicized post. It seems the formatting options are quite limited and I can't seem to save edits after posting :(
In case you want a better user experience...

Playlists on youtube vs. the mass of embedded videos on one page.

Naive Bayes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqiIjaqydU&list=SPBv09BD7ez...

Decision Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKD5gxPPeY0&list=PLBv09BD7ez...

Generalization and Overfitting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_yzC-x-js&list=PLBv09BD7ez...

Nearest Neighbor Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7gMp5wh5A&list=PLBv09BD7ez...

K-means Clustering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHl5P-qlnCQ&list=PLBv09BD7ez...

Mixture Models and the E-M Algorithm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REypj2sy_5U&list=PLBv09BD7ez...

Principle Component Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbE0tbjy6JQ&list=PLBv09BD7ez...

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVz6Y8r5AkY&list=PLBv09BD7ez_...
Then those clients are broken and should get fixed.
hey I didn't mean delete the submission, just delete the awkward tagline :)
Rubik’s Cube Explorer
For everyone slating this article, please try thinking of it from a different perspective (and look beyond the buzzwords). Here's my take.

(paraphrasing) 'In the rush to 'the cloud' people are disovering that there are bottlenecks related to bandwidth to edge devices (phones etc) and this problem will only increase as more and more devices become conencted (cf Interent of everything). However, not all services/products need to constantly push data back and forth to a centralised place. There is enough processing power in many devices such that more processing can happen at the edge so why not build more applications this way? Cisco and IBM see merit in this approach and hope to capture part of a (presumabley nacscent) market by providing some kind of processing ability that is a little nearer the edge of the network, rather than huge datacentres.'

Is that any better?

My view on the article is that until developers can more easily build distributed applications, then we're stuck with the prevailing paradigm of large centralised services. I don't see how anything from Cisco or IBM changes anything other than having a slew of mini-datacentres that essentially do the same thing.

What we really need are the means to create, deploy and maintain software in a more distributed manner. Having all the fancy smart sensors in my home talking to my hub is preferable to having them all talking to their individual silos. At least then, I can excersice some control of what's going on within my network and benefit from e.g. my high-speed wireless vs my much slower upstream bandwidth.

FWIW I'm working on an open source toolstack to make building distributed systems a lot more stratightforward. Essentially, we want to get to a place where everyone can own their own piece of the cloud. Whether that ends up being called the 'fog' or 'dust cloud' or 'motes' is beside the point. You can read an overview at http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
5 Keys to Understanding RSUs Like Your Boss
Pop open the JavaScript console and have a look. I had a lot of fun.
Music is a good differentiation between streams. When I used to watch a lot of LoL streams that was one of my deciding factors on who to watch. Why watch someone playing all top 40 stuff when there's someone else playing music I enjoy?
Wait, what? Photons have no mass, but they have energy. Ergo, that "both of which have mass" is flat-out wrong. Methinks wikipedia has problems.
Animated Fibonacci Spiral in SVG (D3.js, CoffeeScript)
Ah yeah thanks for that explanation. It makes sense. I guess I wasn't thinking about the effect of the commented out code on the mind of the programmer trying to make the current version of the code "backward compatible" with the old feature.
Considered migrating to some other XMPP server software?
> Jlouis had great arguments on the syntax with regards to his post: you have to differentiate semantics from syntax itself. Erlang's semantics are what should be seen as important, but it's rarely done.

Erlang syntax is small and self-consistent. Yes, it is not familiar. But those are orthogonal. There are languages with curly braces and ; that are terribly complicated, with ambiguous complicated syntax (C++), or ambiguous weak types (JS).

My way to look at it, if syntax is the biggest stumbling block, that is a warning sign that it will probably be hard to handle more difficult things -- thinking in terms of actors, reasoning about distributed systems, figuring out supervision hierarchies and so on.

BUT, as some mentioned here, there is Elixir. You get something like Ruby syntax. And you get variable-reassignment (x=1 then x=2 works). So maybe that helps there too. One still need to learn the semantics of it. You still have applications, supervisors and actors.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/microsoft-surface-sales-doubl...

They estimate a million units. While a very small piece of the market, a million units says they found traction to me.
That's why I'm switching to Owin + Nancy, It is really sad to see the lack of love Ruby on Windows gets.
> While routing works well on OSM, the POI layer and the address layer (important for geocoding) still needs a fair bit of work, at least in the US.

OSM is built from the contributions of hundreds of thousands of individuals mapping their local area, and it would be great if you wanted to help them with that work!

If you're wondering how to get started, these guides might be helpful:

http://learnosm.org/en/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

Or, jump right in and sign up for OSM:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new

If you don't feel like signing up, you can simply add "notes" for OSM members to check out places where the map isn't accurate:

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/04/29/openstreetmap-open...

Once you've mapped your local area and are looking for something else to help out with, these tools are a great way to find other problems to fix:

http://maproulette.org/
http://keepright.at/
The Weird and Wonderful Characters of Clojure
Maybe, it would remove a convenient proxy by which to judge a posters' credibility before reading their comments? I'm not entirely sold on the utility of karma as a filter for quality, though, but I know some people use it for that.
Some cool wallpapers created by users: http://quotespapr.tumblr.com/
Are the StartSSL free certs limited to something.example.tld? I've been using the inexpensive company-validated ones ($120 for two years) with a wildcart cert personally and haven't had that issue, so I'm unfamiliar with their free offering.
That's great. Use whatever works for you, make you more productive and happy. It is good to have a choice. I feel JVM has been getting newcomers from Clojure and Scala communities. Erlang is doing that too.
I was wondering if that post was included in full in the link, as I failed to find it.
On the flip-side, almost anyone in the world can pick up a headset, push a button and talk to me. That is a crappy user experience.
Yep, that's what I was trying to convey.

Thanks for your work.
Yeesh. This is what happens when you let pure ideology drive your actions. Logic and sense goes out the window.
Whoa, that's cool. I had no idea people were still working on it at that level. The last thing I saw was a version of OPAM that didn't seem to work that well...I'll have to go look around.
In economics, wealth in a commonly applied accounting sense is the net worth of a person, household, or nation, that is, the value of all assets owned net of all liabilities owed at a point in time. For national wealth as measured in the national accounts, the net liabilities are those owed to the rest of the world. The term may also be used more broadly as referring to the productive capacity of a society or as a contrast to poverty.
Capturing a slave cannot be considered war in any sense.

War is an organized and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is generally characterised by extreme violence, social disruption and economic destruction. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence or intervention.

Why is war greed and chauvinistic? It did not feel chauvnistic when I was delivering medical aid to children who would have died without military forces being present to administer it.

Aspects of war may be greedy and characterised by chauvinistic values but not the entirety of war which you seem incapable of discussing rationally.

This thread has reached it's conclusion the minute you refused to engage with legitimate questions. Your response reads like a genuine tantrum by a child.

I certainly do not think that the evolution of democratic societies could have occurred without acts of war to take freedom from those that would deny it.

I have answered your question. Now answer mine or at least answer the original aim of the thread with compelling evidence.

Does war destroy more wealth than it creates?
I should have known better. Thanks. It's a shame the cube always scrambles to the same state.
This was partly in response to a conversation Thomas and I have been having lately with some people from the Internets, about the value of blogging in one's professional capacity. His take was "Have a blog, but don't call it a blog." I thought that was generalizable to a larger segment of the operations of product businesses than just blogging. They're generally called "content marketing" these days but I hate that word -- if someone has a better one, please suggest it.

By the way, if you're a regular-ol'-geek and wondering "I wonder if writing about technical topics could help me career-wise", the answer is "Absolutely yes." You can use blogging software but it probably isn't your benefit to adopt the blogging format of 500 ~ 1,000 word articles displayed in reverse chronological order about disconnected topics. Instead, you could make it a goal to write three pieces and polish them to a mirror shine.

(Related advice that I find myself saying frequently: If you publish OSS and expect to get anything via doing so, don't just drop the OSS on github. Spend the extra bit of time packing it into a site with a getting-started guide, a visual identity distinct from "Github rendering a Readme file", and the request that interested people $TAKE_THE_ACTION_YOU_WANT_THEM_TO_TAKE.
Every work has a time context. Even if it takes 100 years for it to become irrelevant, it is still useful for people to be able to find out when it was written. Books need a year, pdfs of scientific articles need a publication date. Doing your audience a disservice by not showing a date may have some shallow traffic driving advantages, but is still a dick move.
"US and on iOS only"
Bytecode for the Web
Why I Dropped Out of College
Not really related to the post but they are talking about making OSM cosumer-ready and every time I try to use OSM instead of Google Maps I realise it's just not on the same level yet.

It doesn't have to be on par in terms of error correcting input or location based search result because they just don't have the data on me like Google does (locations close to my work place, home,...) but even just the basic task of searching for my street on OSM [0] will give me a bunch of information the end-user doesn't really need to know like:

- tags

- created by

- version

- changeset #

- location ID

Is there a "cleaner" more consumer friendly web interface for the maps, maybe with a prettier mapstyle like the ones used in apps like Foursquare (afaik they are using OSM)?

[0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/
I concur. I've found Windows support in the Python community to be pretty good. The Ruby community seems to have more of a focus on posix platforms.
Now you can browse our unix swag store via terminal
Well, fair enough then, I take that back. Nonetheless, I know a few python web programmers, and zero of them use windows. I imagine that libraries would be a big issue too, not to mention the native lack of simple things like a proper command line, ssh, all the normal tools. Sure, you might be able to make it all kind-of work, but it's harder than it should be and decidedly outside of the mainstream.

Couldn't really comment on academic computing. I suppose, though, they are not really relying on the larger ecosystem as much as (say) web applications, so would not be affected so badly by the libraries issue.
> what with headline space being expensive (if you use shorter headlines you can use larger letters)

At least one of the national newspapers in Norway found a way around the "need" for larger letters: "War type". Can't get larger letters in? Use a suitably aggressive looking font, and you'll make foreigners think you're writing about war when you're writing about a tax increase or the latest minor political scandal.
Actually tested Magento and Magento 2, seems to run like a charm
I guess it's worth noting that Linode and Rackspace can provide server management for you if sysadmin work isn't your forte.
Ask HN: What's your favorite note-taking app?
I'm in the market for a good (hopefully free!) note-taking app. I'd prefer something that runs locally (as opposed to cloud-based), is fully searchable, and supports tagging as well as markdown.

Whether you're a .txt Luddite or an Evernote addict, what do you like and why? Do you have any recommendations that meet my specifications?
Phlogiston theory never "worked," as demonstrated by the Wikipedia article you linked.

> Eventually, quantitative experiments revealed problems, including the fact that some metals, such as magnesium, gained mass when they burned, even though they were supposed to have lost phlogiston.
Puppet on Solaris 11.2
Yeah, they say that every couple of years (eg IronRuby) - it never seems to amount to anything. As with anything MS says, I'll believe it when I see it.
I didn't specify phone calls because you don't need a smartphone for that (just a phone). I'm not sure you need a smartphone for GPS either, but I don't actually know.

I'm trying to argue that we're heading toward a system where services that we use daily don't function well without some form of data connection, even if that's only for the purpose of synchronisation (e.g. your notes being available when you get to your tablet/laptop). I agree that smartphones can work perfectly well without the internet but that's not quite the way we use them now.

We might think we'd be fine offline but try turning the wifi and data off on your smartphone and see how frustrating you find it.
Tracking down a bug in Clang: -fsanitize=undefined is not bug-free
>we’re pumping all the good stuff that we can back in to OSM. This takes time due to OSMs consensus on not importing the masses of fixes we generate.

This seems strange. Anyone know the story?
What's a good navigation app for Android that works outside the US? (Scout doesn't)

I have a couple of apps in my phone (Navigator and Waze), but the UI is really cumbersome compared to Google Maps. I use them because OSM maps are better in small tows in my area than Google Maps, plus you can keep offline maps.
Track different events via separate calendras and sync with Google Calendar/iCal