skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Au contraire. Europe has enormous problems. In places like France, cellular service has been getting faster and cheaper because of competition. For example, Free joined the "big three" in France for cell service and suddenly prices have fallen and quality has greatly improved compared the the days when France Telecom controlled everything. That's the opposite of your theory that nationalization "improves" things.

Mexico is another outstanding example of what happens when you deregulate telecoms. When Carlos Slim had his nationally-endorsed monopoly with TelCel/TelMex, prices were exceptionally high however, once his guaranteed monopoly period expired and other companies could begin to compete, the prices dropped dramatically. Although Slim's company has a huge 10 year head start over other companies in terms of infrastructure -- so the monopoly effects are still prevalent. For example, a cell plan that costs me $100 in the US, costs me over $125 in Mexico. In terms of purchasing power, that's a massively expensive difference, considering many other things in Mexico are substantially less expensive than the US -- except electricity and telcoms, which are far more expensive because of de facto and de jure nationalization.

There's a perception that "Europe is better" that seems to be almost a stereotype. I happen to live in Avignon and have a close-up view of things that are better in Europe versus the US and some things ARE better, but there is a tradeoff. Avignon has 20% unemployment for example. It has traditionally been very expensive to start a business in France as well. The labor rules and bureaucracy makes it exceptionally difficult to hire and fire employees. Public transport in Europe isn't universally better than the US. Most people only visit places like Paris, Berlin, London, etc. However, when compared to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, europe's transport isn't that much better. Spend a few minutes in the Paris CDG airport and compare that to JFK.. not much difference. In the less famous cities and regions of Europe, public transport consists of possibly a train station and some buses. When I was in Wilstedt, German (near Hamburg) there was a bus, but it was so infrequent that it was useless. In Provence, the big cities have public transport, but if you're in Salon de Provence, there isn't much. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but the rose-colored view of Europe is often not based in reality, but on an idealized view. La vie en rose to be sure.

The "Better in Europe" meme isn't always true. Ask some of the people actually running businesses in France. Here's an interview with a French CEO that's interesting. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101608867

And then you have this nonsense:

http://www.france24.com/en/20130501-france-minister-montebou...

(A French Minister blocked the sale of Dailymotion to Yahoo.)

I am not an expert on Europe (or anything really,) however I did have to say something about the "Europe is better" implication.
the question was "why do people write static site generators" (see the linked tweet) - sorry for not making it clear enough
Yes, particularly in a hunter-gatherer society (which all of us were until quite recently in evolutionary terms). In addition to caring for grandchildren, there's also the wisdom of age. It's only in recent generations that things have started changing so fast that this is devalued. For a long, long time having grandpa or grandma around to tell you where you could still find water in a once-in-a-generation severe drought, or what other things you could eat when the herds of food animals didn't show up that year, was very useful.

Looking at it another way, if old people weren't useful evolution would not have produced humans with such long lifespans after reproductive age (since the old people are consuming resources, populations where individuals died off shortly after the kids were autonomous would have had an advantage).
Yea, to "deprivation" thesis. There's always IRC.
He would have been able to print the posters, but had he only raised 10,000, he would still be in the hole for:

Less shipping supplies ($5,811)

Less storage lease for 5 months ($690)

Less postage ($4,701)

Less temporary help ($741)

Less charity: water contribution ($2,000)

$13,943 in addition to his $15,000 loan, as well as Kickstarter taking 5% and the 5% merchant fee, which would have come out to ~$1000. I don't think people would have received the poster.
great website, will follow
Are there plans to raise the $2500 limit at some point or is this some type of system restriction with Debit Card transactions? Also, is there a total daily limit?
TL;DR:

1. They map the streets to inches, right down to the height of the curb.

2. They record prior trips in such detail, data-mine it appropriately, and then hand-massage the results.

So far they've done this in little more than the Mountain View area. Having done the hard work in that limited region to that much detail, they now can derive how to automate the process. I imagine their recent high-detail-mapping "phone" will be a key part of this, tracking minute aspects of how someone travels from A to B, and merging that info with many other identical & overlapping trips so the cars can make the trip darn near blind, with a little help from monitoring immediacies (like actual position, pedestrian detection, weather, etc).
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We are actively working on that, too: https://www.balancedpayments.com/international-payments
The announcement explains that Firefox continues free of any DRM code, and users who want access to it will have to explicitly opt-in to download it.
I've always wondered what would happen if they had two chimps they thought could recognize themselves in the mirror, and marked one. Would the unmarked one look at the chimp in the mirror? or recognizing the other chimp turn around and look at it directly?
It is absolutely legal to make a backup copy of a copyrighted work. [0] It is also legal to lend your purchased work to anyone you choose (making a copy). DRM prevents you from exercising your rights under the law.

[0] http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
The actual paper is here and is an interesting read: http://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/papers/AccelPrint_NDSS14.pdf

Though really, regardless of how well the hardware sensor itself can be fingerprinted, one shouldn't share sensor data with channels you don't trust, as there's plenty of other opportunities to identify someone from the data and metadata involved when you share.
You have a gift. I see you edited your post, but honestly your autobiography piece was enchanting, I've rarely read prose I've connected with more. Thank you.

I do not know you, but I can recognise some of your struggles as similar to those I've encountered. I can't summarise both accurately and succinctly but perhaps if I say that purposelessness is both disheartening and liberating you will recognise what I mean.

Aside from the content, I also thought the low key plain text presentation added to it, though that's a minor thing.
Also known as anchoring[1] which is exactly what the article is about

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Would you call police state evil? I would. Same thing is about DRM in my view.

How would you call something like this for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit
If actually you've been locked away in the way the article describes and forced to program you should probably complain to HR
Of course I mean defending against the charge of overcomplexity rather than defending overcomplexity itself.

I am sure there are arrogant commenters around, but these commonly used design patterns applied in this case have made his code worse for next to no practical benefit. Besides test speed, there's no reason you'd want to divorce your Employee model from the database it lives in -- the fact that ActiveRecord reflects against the database to decide what attributes an Employee has should be a clue that coupling to the DB is the point of using it in the first place.
"The asynchronous, non-blocking approach, is always wrong."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...

If you have a method that relies upon a DNS query, and your DNS server starts to respond to requests very slowly, your blocking application will run out of threads very quickly, and you'll be spending time poring over thread dumps trying desperately to see why all of your threads are waiting when the load average on your app server is basically zero. Your monitors will be going off like crazy because it appears that your application is flapping, sometimes able to handle a request and sometimes not. You will be tearing your hair out (and Java devs have all done this, though maybe not because of DNS).

If you have a non-blocking application, you will get an alarm that one of your pages may be acting a little slower than normal (even though the rest of your app is running normally). You'll look into the controller source, see that it's performing a DNS query, and poof, your debugging is done and you're off to restart bind.
A solid point -- though the therapy is interesting on a novelty scale, the funding is decidedly vanilla. Grants fund the early research, patents are filed for novel findings, and if the therapy holds up eventually a large pharmaceutical firm will be necessary to perform the large scale trials.

Slightly tangential, but I wonder where the IP in this discovery is? If there is nothing to sell but injecting cancer patients with standard lab-grade measles, I think it is particularly open to being copied. Granted the measles used is genetically tweaked, but nothing I believe to enhance the therapeutic effectiveness.
I didn't mean to imply that everything in Java was over-engineered, just that certain historical common Java practices were examples of what happens when you over-abstract and over-engineer. Certainly over-abstracting and over-engineering happens in every language too though, it's a hazard of the trade.

What community is it that you think has "suddenly" come up with what solution that's more complex than what "the" solution in Javaland? I'm not even sure what you're talking about. There are of course many solutions in Javaland, naturally, and in every other code land.

I think engineering code, especially code shared between multiple developers/installations, is a constant tension between simplicity and abstraction/flexibility. It's sometimes possible to optimize both, but it requires a lot of skill and a lot of domain experience, and domain experience especially seems to be under-valued and under-present in the current environment. (Plus if the domain changes fast enough, nobody ever has enough domain experience!)

I think individual developers, as well as teams and communities (language-based or industry/domain-based) often swing from end to the other. This legacy thing is too complicated, let's start over with new principles to keep it simple! This simple thing isn't as flexible as I want, let's add in some abstraction to make it possible to do what everyone needs; then do it again; then do it again; then start over at 0.
Sure.

The biggest driver is that I want it to work equally well on mobile, including phone sized screens.

The other is the file size and load speed. Right now the build is pushing almost 3mb, and takes around 10-20 seconds to load. That's kind of ok, since the workspace is intended to be a very long running app that folks will use all day long, but it still really sucks. You can view a demo of the ExtJS workspace at: http://stockor.com/demo

Plus it's just kind of ugly in my opinion. It looks like a desktop app that's attempting to be delivered in a web browser, which fair enough it is. I'd like it to be something more stylish though.

As for why I'm picking Backbone vs Ember or Angular, that's a bit more complicated. The main reason is that I'm very familiar with Backbone and have used it for years (I'm a contributor to DocumentCloud).

When I made the decision to rewrite for mobile, I did do a pretty in-depth framework comparison and Backbone still comes out ahead in my opinion. It's light enough that it's super easy to understand and figure out why things aren't working the way you like, while giving you just enough structure to keep the app on the correct path. I am going to use a view/model binding lib though, but haven't settled on which one as of yet. Probably backbone.stickit.

Email me at the address in my profile if you'd like to chat more about it, glad to answer any questions you might have.
I suggest you read some of these agreements, they're usually online. Here's the one for my town: http://www.wilmingtonde.gov/docs/1320/3716Rev1.pdf. These aren't sweetheart deals. Generally, they extract millions of dollars for tangentially-related municipal programs, and then have build-out requirements forcing you to serve areas above a certain density even if you can't sign up enough customers to make it profitable. Basically, the terms are unattractive enough such that only the big de-facto monopolies are willing to take the deal.
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Because that is the trend of adoption. More people are using Go who also use Perl/Python/Ruby than C/C++/Java. It was originally targeted at the latter, but the actual result was from the scripting language set.

I am one of them - have used (and still use) Python since v1.52, but found Go an excellent option when performance / concurrency was needed.
This comment is misleading. Actual Administrative Law practitioner here. The commissioners basically approved Tom Wheeler's plan, and there's no meaningful recourse for the path ahead. Saying that something is "on the table" ignores the realities of promulgating new regulations. Are they going to rewrite the regulations? No way. It's not how the process works. There's no incentive for changing the rules -- because they'd need to have ANOTHER rulemaking after this one for the specific language. That would take YEARS AND YEARS. The only illusorily democratic process left for THIS NPRM is for the FCC to read your comments and respond to them in a detailed, written method. If they fail to implement that process (i.e., to read stuff, write down that they read the stuff, and write sophistry in response), the courts can tell them to go back and read them again and address the comments. But the FCC has the authority to move forward on that, and you can't vote them out of office.
"men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. some men."

also happens between men, and between women, and women to men. Sometimes, it just happens.
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The dirty secret is drug use -- whether heavy caffeine or amphetamines. When we are young, pounding coffee or redbull is pretty much assumed necessary to get through a heavy credit load. Early 20s, stay up all night working and the body bounces back.

Start pushing 30 and in to middle age, these people are definitely using prescriptions drugs.
I did something similar for a couple years, I used to sleep 8-10 hours but only 6 times a week. People kept telling me that my rotating hours were bad for my body, but I was in perfect shape, ate well, exercised, etc. Eventually I came back to "normal" because of certain obligations and human interactions, but I think I'll return to my rotating hours once I'm done with that.
> It’s also functionally the same to say that any traffic not on the CDN is in a slow lane or being held ransom

You're confusing routes with endpoints. CDNs are endpoints--multiple endpoints containing the same data so that there is a much higher probability of having an endpoint close to any given user. The owner of the data has to do all the work of getting multiple copies of the data placed at all those endpoints, making sure they're all in sync, etc. But the data traveling from endpoint to endpoint--from the nearest CDN node to the user--is not privileged over any other data.

What the net neutrality debate is about is the ISPs wanting to control routes--i.e., to be able to say that some data traveling over a given route from one endpoint to another endpoint gets to travel faster than other data traveling over the same route. CDNs don't do that.

What Netflix bought from Comcast is sort of in between. It's like a CDN in that Netflix still has to do the work of placing multiple copies of their content at different endpoints in different locations; but it's also like the ISP route control scheme in that Netflix' data gets a privileged route from their endpoints to Comcast users, a route that non-Netflix data from endpoints that are similarly situated does not get, because non-Netflix data can't travel through the special connection points that Netflix now has with Comcast. Normal CDNs don't do that either.
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Vice has a show called Far Out, which documents people who have lived on their own for many decades.
http://www.vice.com/far-out
"How would content producers possibly deter copying without exerting control on the consumption hardware and software?"

Imagine this fictional scenario. Copyright owners sell audio and audio/video files for download. These are without ads, trailers, DRM or other restrictions; they're high quality, complete, available right away, and in popular codecs and formats. In other words, just like Pirate Bay, but legal, and prices are very low.

What would happen if this were real? In the mad minds of the cartel, one person would buy each file, and copy for everyone else, and everyone would get the files from torrents, p2p etc..

In reality, if I'm paying Netflix rates for my files (divide say $15 over a month), and others can do the same, why would I copy it for them? They can just get their own. Moreover almost everyone would be willing to pay for their own, because they'd be getting a bargain, and on these terms they would be pleased to support the creators (who sometimes get some pennies from the middle-man companies).
Would they show surprise if their reflection in the mirror (or a big display...) suddenly began moving in its own way?
Any individual downvote, that's a possible explanation for sure. It doesn't very well explain a shift in downvotes vs. upvotes... but then, of course, 1) I don't have more than a vague impression that there has been a shift, and 2) upvotes are less visible than downvotes.
No daily limits.

Visa limits the transactions to $2,500 per transaction. Other networks don't have as well defined of a limit. We set the $2,500 limit in the API to set a reasonable expectation. We'll learn more about the limits over time and document it here: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/603
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DHH has repeatedly asserted that he thinks the Law of Demeter is bad, so that wouldn't work as a justification, at least in response to him.
Actually, it is basically Pivotal versus TypeSafe, not just Spring versus Akka or anything like that.

I put my money on TypeSafe.

Pivotal still (05/2014) doesn't have Java8 support for some of it's frameworks (grails https://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-11063 ). TypeSafe pre-released versions of Play that take full advantage of Java8 features.

Given that if you need to run a Java 1.4.2 app on top of JBoss (or Glassfish!) then the types of technologies that these two companies are pushing are solving problems in a different domain.

And arguably the PermGen change in Java8 would benefit Grails/Groovy the most.
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I live in Austin which is a very densely-populated regional tech hub. Here we have three 30-mbit FTTN ISPs which is more competition than pretty much anywhere else in the US.

Earlier this year Google announced they were bringing Google Fiber here. Immediately all the ISPs announced that they, too, would be offering FTTH speeds. One company announced 300mbit, another rolled out 300mbit as part of a roadmap to gigabit, and the third actually rolled out gigabit well ahead of Google Fiber, which is still applying for permits.

I agree with you in principle that there is some margin below which companies will not invest in expensive capital expenditures. However there is also a margin above which companies will not invest in capital expenditures, because they have a sure thing going. The question is where those lines are.

The data from Austin show that in a market considered "exceptionally competitive" by American standards, companies are willing to invest an order of magnitude more in capital expenditures than they currently do just by threatening to create a lower-margin market. Google's work here, which so far consists of exactly 0 fiber installs, a landing page, and a contract with the city, has been so effective at transforming the market here that it's being argued by locals that it would be more efficient to forget about actually installing any fiber and they should just make announcements in one city after another and wait for the ISPs to do it for them.
Nazareth College revoked a job offer when a candidate tried negotiating: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/03/nazaret...
You don't at least want your blobs surrounded by an audit-able sandbox so you get some privacy and security?
True today, but not 10 years ago :)

Plus Odoo ORM and SQLAlchemy have different purposes.
> but why in the world would you want to do that?

To get your tests to run in < 5ms

> but why in the world would you want to do that?

Build better software faster
I haven't been gaming lately nearly as much as I've used to, but it's still a big part of my computing needs and I just can't get good enough performance in Linux even though PlayOnLinux really has made installing games easier.

I'd love nothing more than run Linux as my main OS, but I hate having to reboot whenever I feel like playing a game.
I do not think there is any problem with DRM. It is pretty much right of the content providers to chose how they will distribute their content.

What really gets my gears grinding is when I see an open source browser like Firefox is forced against their wishes to implement it because DRM has somehow reached a standard.

The job of W3C standards is to protect the interests of ordinary web users and not content providers.
Version 2 was released some days ago :-)
That's not much different here to the hello world in the article. Lets see...

You import some stuff... check.
You create an instance... check.
You define a route... check.
You define a method to implement the route... check.
You return a String... well the example returns a map, and converts it to JSON.
You start the app in a main method... check.

Sure the java is a little more wordy and there are some extra params which are not used (the IDE would fill those in automatically when you implement the interface), but the complexity is the just same as far as I can see.
I found in intercultural situations that you miss a lot when you try to apply your point of view to others. So animals might not see the world at all in the binary shapes of self awareness and non self awareness. They might see something completely different. Instead of finding a way to apply our logic onto the animals thinking we should spend more time understanding how they think and might be surprised and educated by what we find.
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