skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're asking why Comcast should be responsible for meeting the expectations they're creating? When your advertising solely conveys "always fast Internet" and "up to 100Mb/s speeds", what exactly do you think people will take away from it.

If Comcast doesn't want to or can't provide these speeds for general use, they shouldn't advertise these speeds for general use. Can you explain the problem with that logic?
There's an infinite number of things you could be learning, wouldn't it be better to concentrate your efforts on the things that are valuable to you individually? I'm not of the belief that you need to learn things at specific ages and I also believe that you learn much faster when you have an application in mind for a particular skill. That in mind I think students should be encouraged to explore the things that are of interest to them. (hey I took double maths for A-level and enjoyed every minute of it)

(hey I took double maths for A-level and enjoyed every minute of it)
Spotify's Ad Targeting Infrastructure [video]
We changed the url from http://www.mi.com/en/mitv, which as countless users have pointed out in this thread, did not show the TV in question.
That was kind of a canary citation to indicate that there's growing sentiment towards banning the 80% lowers, though if I understand your objection correctly, you are right in asserting that suggestions to ban CNC / milling equipment is not predominant. That said, I would swear that I saw some state making mention of regulating the purchase of drill presses and/or milling equipment to restrict their purchase to those who could show a justifiable industrial need, but I can't remember whether it was federal, state, or if state, which, nor can I find such a citation in my naive Googling efforts.

Regardless, the sentiment definitely exists for banning 80% lowers, and that is in fact the core of Kevin de Leon's "ghost gun" legislation, though that does not necessarily extend to banning the equipment required for milling them to functionality.

Note that these sources are biased, so take with salt:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/14/federal-gun-bill-would-ban...

http://bearingarms.com/california-legislator-targets-80-lowe...
> if they offer a "fast lane" at a higher price to everyone it isn't an "exclusive" offer and therefore would be allowed?

No, if it isn't an exclusive offer, then it would be tested under the test for which they seek input from the public under the next bullet point (which directly addresses the limits on the FCC's authority established in the D.C. Circuit opinion striking down the last Open Internet order.) The clear intent is to find a way to limit paid prioritization to the extent that is consistent with the limits on the FCC's authority established by the courts (because, if they exceed that authority, then the whole thing gets thrown out, which is why we are back at rulemaking on this issue again right now.)
Thank you, this is fantastic. I'm now thinking of ways I can transform this into a short presentation.
And where does most of Mozilla's funding come from? Google. As long as that's the case it can never be truly independent.

I wish they found an alternate source of cash that allowed them to get rid of those Google hypocrites.

Disclaimer: I work for the arrogant Google hypocrites.
Ask HN: What should I be doing next?
I have a hobby project with no revenue, low costs, and a handful of real users. I think it could make money if I took it seriously. But I only have enough time to work on one thing at a time. Is it better to (in order of perceived difficulty, from easiest to hardest):

Work on the platform-specific difficulties that give a less-than-ideal experience to 12% of visitors?

Work on the platform-specific, show-stopper bugs that make the site almost useless to 24% of visitors?

Work on more big, competition-differentiating features for the 64% of visitors who already get the best experience?

Work on design and new-user-onboarding (some of the more important features are not placed obviously)?

Advertise more to get more users? I spent $5/day on AdWords for the last month and that probably got me about 75% of about 1000 unique visitors last month. The other 25% is from two or three times I was able to get a modicum of attention to the link on HN and LifeHacker (but no comments). There have been 5 or 6 other attempts at social media marketing that led to essentially nothing. I've bumped AdWords up to $20/day now, which if it scales linearly should match the biggest social media bump I've had so far.

Figure out a way to make money off of the project that sits well with my ethics? Part of the ethos of the project is minimalism and having ads on the page will ruin that. I hate the idea of charging a monthly fee.

Find some other source of funding?

Or some other option I haven't considered?

The technical stuff is easiest for me. "Release early, release often". It's out there, I make changes and fix bugs regularly. Clearly, the mantra requires more to be done with advertising. I also have a personal problem that I'm trying to overcome in using activity in technical work to procrastinate administrative work.

If I put significant resources into advertising, I fear the defects losing me a significant chunk of the "15 minutes of fame" and missing "critical mass", so to speak.

If I seek funding, either through investments or crowdsourcing, I fear nobody taking it seriously without being able to demonstrate a plan for revenue or more than a dozen users.
I posted Postman (https://github.com/zachlatta/postman) on HN, /r/programming, and /r/golang. I also sent it to a few friends I knew who were interested in email. I got about 15 thousand hits and coverage on a few small sites in addition to a couple pull requests.
If you're really good, only hover in place and have zero payload, you can get 90 minute flight times. (Which, I believe, is the record for enthusiast electric multicopters.) My guess for payload of an electric multicopter would be up to 5 kg, but the tradeoff is flight times in the single digits of minutes.
This portion of the piece is interesting to me: "He wouldn't accept, for instance, practices that leave a consumer with slower downloads of some Web sites than what the consumer paid for from their Internet service provider." Definitions are tricky, but since we all pay for more bandwidth from our ISPs than we utilize from any one site (or almost all of us, I think), sticking to this rule would mean ISPs would not have the power to throttle individual data sources. Is that not a correct interpretation?
Well, once you're bolting on plugins for features that come with iTerm2, why not use iTerm2?
Yeah, OK...but they increasingly fail on the stuff I actually search for more than once every few months. Even relatively mundane stuff -- like plant care, for example -- has been completely destroyed by SEO gamers.

That one just comes to mind because it seems like once a month I search for something related to houseplants, and I almost never get good information without having to extensively refine the search, even though the internet is loaded with high-quality sites about plant care, botany, etc.
Make sure to have your backup routine archive the custom config file.
offer a DRM-disabled version of Firefox, one that is plugin-compatible

These two things are 100% contradictory, and the fact that they are so is the entire point of the discussion of adding EME/CDM support. You might want to try to understand the situation before you make comments as "Mozilla has lost my support over this decision."
Attempted vote gaming on /r/netsec
I wonder if it would make sense to sell reusable chunks of text, like libraries of code.
The Web Setup: Sticker Mule
I don't find mark242's comment off putting or condescending at all. He's just telling is like it is.

Of course there are Java developers who can kick ass with Spring, Hibernate, Servlet containers, and war deployments, but all of these tools are huge, bloated, and starting to show their age. Modern frameworks like Play make things simpler for those of us who don't have +7 year JEE experience with Spring and Hibernate.
It was bad, but it's drastically better now. The main developer changed from what was probably your last look.

https://bitbucket.org/JeanLucPicard/nxt/src/
You probably already know this, but your site is down.
Please don't post off-topic diversions into political battles. The Mozilla/DRM issue has had extensive discussion in posts devoted to it.
Not from lack of EME. EME isn't nearly widespread enough to have any impact. Netflix still runs just fine in Silverlight.

In the absence of evidence, I don't see how claiming those fears are misguided is any less valid than claiming that they are well founded. I'm not really sure what argument you're making here.
Too bad Iceweasel contains NPAPI which is almost exclusively used to insert much more severe DRM into it (of course that is only offered from the non-free repo).
I use homebrew in /homebrew for exactly this reason. The homebrew folks make noise about this, but I don't install language specific packages via brew, so I've never had a problem.
Check out Alfred[1] it supports tab completion.

[1]http://www.alfredapp.com/
> Tom Wheeler, the FCC Chairman, was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the majority Democratic U.S. Senate in 2013 (lead by Harry Reid who also claims to be pro net neutrality) is going to kill Net Neutrality.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit already killed net neutrality. Wheeler is trying to resurrect it within the limits set by the Court (if you want more than that Court will allow under current statutory authority, you need to get more net neutrality friendly people in Congress so that they can change the statute to give the FCC more authority with regard to net neutrality.)
Looks like the site is getting trampled; here's a Google Cached version for those who want it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xXcsxR3...
The Demise of the Set-Top Box Makers
.htaccess is supported not only by Apache. And I wouldn't be surprised if WAWS supported "at least a subset" of .htaccess configuration keys on Azure, since Microsoft has been trying to make a move into the LAMP world during the latest few years. I would consider it a marketable feature.

If we're discussing terms, then we must have a different understanding of what a managed hosting is. A service that allows you to select an application template, deploys the resources for you, sets up source control software, handles OS patches and host software installation for you, is _clearly not_ a managed hosting? What is then?

EDIT: I do admit that editing .htaccess was my own mistake. Not even sure where it came from actually, since the default WAWS WP template doesn't even contain it.
Well, Gladio was an "official" secret army started by the NATO, but in this case, a bunch of veterans got together to form a secret army with no supervision at all. Only in 1951, the German BND resp. its predecessor organization, Organisation Gehlen, is instructed to observe and control them. Organisation Gehlen started as a German CIA unit with former Wehrmacht and SS officers. It is a prime example how the old Nazi elites were essentially still in control after World War 2, and how they could essentially do as they place.
The Naturalist Intelligence
> discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status.

This is the line I repeat when discussing the issue with folks who are just learning about the issue.

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Oscar resells MagnaCare insurance, and they're not even the only ones on the NY exchange to do it. I wish they'd actually do something different in the insurance market, but Oscar is more of the same.
I read the post, thanks. Setting aside that .htaccess is Apache-only, needing to allocate 128M per request in WordPress doesn't ring any alarm bells for you? Every trivial WP site I've ever run worked comfortably with under 64M/request (and then you use use supercache, static caching, etc. to reduce the average individual request to something in the single digits).

Azure doesn't configure it for you because it assumes you're knowledgeable. It reacts more harshly than I'd like for sure if you go over, but expecting you to do your work (for cheap) doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Wocket Wallet
The world of wallets is about to change. New exciting technologies are making payments easier than ever. However, many credit card holders either do not possess a smartphone or will be reluctant to use their smartphone for mobile payments due to a variety of reasons.
twoodin:
>The problem is that a network that can stream 20Mbit continuously to every customer (so they always can get the "advertised" bandwidth) would be absurdly expensive, and rates would have to go up accordingly.

dec0dedab0de:
>Then maybe they should advertise a different bandwidth?

twoodin:
>What difference does it make what they advertise?

If Comcast is having a hard time delivering on what they advertise, as dec0dedab0de said, they should perhaps advertise differently. Offering different plans other then trying to sell a bandwidth that they can not deliver on with it being, as you say, "absurdly expensive."
Is anyone here opposed to net neutrality? Haven't heard a good argument for this action yet.
ERP software is huge, simply because there so many different ways businesses works, all the regulations you have to comply with etc etc

It would be very hard for a startup to build it from scratch.
Theory of multiple intelligences
>The difference is that a 3d printer is almost at the domestic use stage and takes up far less space than a CNC Mill and lathe.

Not 3D printers capable of printing with high tensile strength materials needed to produce a working firearm. That's not that far removed from CNCs and lathes suitable for woodworking being far more attainable than those intended for machine work.
Probably not. Installing last-mile infrastructure is expensive. I understand that it's also often political; early cable TV installations were often local monopolies granted by local governments.

Even if they tried, the incumbent ISPs can afford to underprice their services to make it uneconomical for competitors. E.g., they might lower prices drastically in competitive areas, and raise them in uncompetitive ones.
I actually have no idea, I just know that on my SendGrid dashboard there is a graph for what percentage are being marked as spam. I agree that it's a bit fishy as I have never seen it as anything other than 0% - my research group has many projects that are sending a lot of emails, so I'd expect at least one or two of those emails to hit a spam folder somewhere.
Yahoo, GMail, AOL (and perhaps a few other providers) have "feedback loops" with the big email service providers that allows them to see who is marking what messages as spam.

Mailchimp in particular is pretty aggressive about terminating your account if too many people mark you as spam.
Show HN: DoThisNow – An iOS Task Manager with Embedded Screen Sharing
LEMP.
That's a really great blog post, as well as the most informative blog I've seen on postgresql in general! Thanks for the link!
a version of Firefox that comes with no non-free software by default

So is the Mozilla version, and that will even still be true after EME gets added.
I don't understand the ISP's point of view on this issue. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But it seems that ISPs are saying "Hey, we offer this great service. But bandwidth hungry applications like Netflix are just using too much data. And we need to throttle their data usage, or they need to pay us more money."

The ISPs, then, are claiming to be victims. When in reality they simply promise services that they can't cost-effectively deliver.

If I make contracts to give all of you a new pair of shoes every month. And you pay in advance. And then I run out of shoes before I can deliver on my promise...doesn't that mean that I don't know how to effectively run my business? Isn't that my fault for promising a service that I can't provide? Why would anyone feel sorry for me?
The last way to ease the affordability crunch is to flip the equation, looking at incomes and not just at housing costs. ... But earnings for low- and middle-income families have been essentially stagnant for years. Declining real wages, for example, were a key reason that earlier this year, not a single home on the market in San Francisco was affordable on a teacher’s salary. This problem has led some cities to consider raising their minimum wage, but that, too, can be a long and often nasty political battle.

Can any of the left-of-center economic folk around explain the logic here? I have heard several plausible arguments for an increased minimum wage, but I haven't heard the one making the case that it will lead to increased wages at the income levels typically required to consider buying a home. If "earnings ... have been essentially stagnant for years", why didn't the last minimum wage bump have such an effect?
I've heard of Quasar before and had a general idea of what it is, but didn't look at the documentation carefully until now. My understanding is that I can run arbitrary synchronous code in Fibers? For example, consider the MongoDB client library:

DBObject r = collection.find(query);

It blocks while getting the results of the query. If I do something like this:

for (int x=0; x < 100000; x++) {
new Thread(() -> DBObject r = collection.find(query))).start();
}

it's going to start 100,000 threads and freeze my computer. However, with Fibers I can do:

for (int x=0; x < 100000; x++) {
new Fiber(() -> DBObject r = collection.find(query))).start();
}

and it will work fine since these are lightweight threads (like Go goroutines). I guess my main question is, can I use arbitrary unmodified synchronous code like this to run in Fibers or would the library have to be modified to support it? In this case, would someone have to update MongoDB library to add support for Fibers?
This is exactly how toll roads work. You get on, and then pay when you get off based on how many miles travelled.

So, if you were starting in New York City, it would cost a lot more to travel to Buffalo than it would to White Plains.
>"having ads on the page will ruin that. I hate the idea of charging a monthly fee...Find some other source of funding?"

Receiving funding or investment isn't a business model.

I'm not sure why people are so averse to charging monthly fees. Why not ask your users?
"at Scale"? oh the irony
But you still want Google to deliver useful results.

Let's say I'm in a strange town on a business trip. I've got to eat dinner. I ask Google for a good restaurant in my area. It can just give me a list of all the restaurants nearby, and that's quite useful. But it's tedious sorting through all the ones that I would never consider eating at.

Or, Google could know something about my eating habits, and start off with the restaurants that might actually interest me. That's a more useful result. But to get there, Google had to know some things about me.

Now, may want to be able to choose that tradeoff; certainly Google could do better at giving you controls for this. But the point remains: If you want results that are more useful to you, Google needs to know some things about you.
Odd; doesn't seem to be for me or http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ what error are you getting?
The pre WWII, much of what was to become the German military of WWII was secret and unofficial, so there is a precedent here that makes it understandable how something so extraordinary could come about. It's also an alarming precedent, given that precedent's association with the Nazi regime. However, it's also quite understandable in the context of the atrocities experienced by the Germans as the Soviet military rolled in from the east. Those in turn are also understandable, given what the Germans did on their way in to the USSR.

War only produces more war.
is OpenERP contractor fees that large?

I know SAP and Oracle Fees are high, simply because its quite hard to get opportunity to work on it, and all the certifications. So there aren't that many people around.
I guess we just have a different outlook on the world. If your working under the assumption that people currently can't do basic math nothing I can say will change that opinion.
I'll take the opportunity to plug my attempt, Stockor @ http://stockor.org/

It's built in Ruby and currently uses ExtJS for the UI. I'm currently rebuilding the front-end in Backbonejs.
Ok. That's 120 days to make Title II a household word.

Broadband's current classification as an information service, as if it's some sort of MovieFone for the 21st century, is so far removed from reality that the public should be in an uproar about it. Verizon itself has sought to classify its fiber buildouts under Title II so it can get fixed-rate access to existing right-of-way infrastructure, [1] on the technicality that its VOIP service running across those lines is regulated under Title II. Yet the main reason for building it is, of course, broadband, which dodged Title II on the even flimsier grounds of those ISP email and start pages you never use.

People should be holding signs outside the FCC building with "Title II" on them. The chair of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, Michael Powell, has ominously said attempts to reclassify broadband as Title II would be "World War III"[2] – but if he wants a fight, the FCC really should oblige him, and consumers should be beating the drums.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716802/game-of-phones-how...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/15/5311948/net-neutrality-and...
As far as I can tell, some of us have ancestors who spent thousands of years above the Arctic circle, where the sun doesn't even go down every day anyway.

And there never were any other primates, or trees either.

In a lab based on extreme experimentation, there is no substitute for perseverance until a breakthrough is
achieved.
Even if you don't start out trying to emulate Edison, you end up that way.

In chemical research you don't just turn off the terminal when it gets dark outside and call it a day.

I never thought it was the least bit unusual that every grad student's lab had a cot near the desk. You really aren't going to get anything monumental done if you go home from work every single day.

What happens if you have a 36-hour experiment that must be carried to completion, or a client's chemical tanker at the dock for a brief 36-hour stay where they are loading or discharging products that no one else can handle either?

You wait a whole month for your ship to come in, what are you going to do, be too tired to finish the job?

What hurts your productivity more is the chemical toxicity much more than sleep irregularity.
In the industrial chemical world, there is more effort to avoid exposure the more toxic a material is, so it ends up being those things which are intentionally ingested that compromise performance.

Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs are going to make you much more tired than you would be without them.

dano