skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is using median numbers. There are of course regional differences in real estate investment and I was thinking about doing a follow up article on that specifically. I tried to somewhat address this by saying

"There are many mistakes that people could make that would cause their real estate investment to be a less than favorable one. Rushing into home ownership, buying in a region that is failing economically, getting sucked into a loan that is less than optimal, or even being uneducated or less informed about your options could result in a negative outcome."

Saving $200 on your mortgage!? Where do you live?
In order to know that you need to execute it - therein is the problem. One idea we've been kicking around (on Chrome team) is to do "speculative execution" where we create a snapshot and start executing the script, and rollback if you start doing anything crazy with the CSSOM/DOM... As you can imagine, this requires some careful engineering and has its own (long) list of gotchas. No ETA, but definitely something that's on the table.
Really? It's an off-the-cuff remark to describe a fight that's slowly playing out. It's a pretty common phrase.
I am literally unable to "look past the ScrollView problems" .
I'm willing to pay for usage, sure. And I'll pay for the physical plant to my house too. BUT (and this is a big but) I'm only willing to do so at reasonable prices.

You want me to pay for the physical plant? OK I can deal. The phone company can provide me with a pair of wires from my house to their POP for about $15. I might pay $20 since coax is different than UTP, but that's about it.

You want me to pay per bit? Great! Bill me at wholesale network rates. You don't want to do that? Sorry, fuck off. I'm already paying for the last-mile transport with the physical plant charges.

https://josephscott.org/archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-t...

Here I can buy RETAIL 2TB of bandwidth for $120 WITH A SERVER INCLUDED. I imagine that the wholesale is slightly (or much, much) cheaper than that. But let's just go with it. At that kind of pricing I can get 1TB for $60, 500GB for $30 and 250GB (the caps Comcast is talking about) for $15. If I need another 50GB (their incremental unit of charge for "overage") I should be able to get that for $3, not the $10 that they're charging.

http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/data-u...

Now I think that a lot of the cost of that server is the actual machine, the building, the air conditioning, etc. So maybe you should cut all those numbers in half again meaning that 50GB should cost me about $1.50 and 1TB costs more like $30. This is of course assuming you're not involved in a PEERING AGREEMENT which as Comcast you are.

What about Comcast's costs for termination equipment I hear you say. Okay let's talk about that. I bought my own cable modem so they're not paying for that. They have to have another one on their side, sure. Assuming that it's the same price as mine (it's almost certainly cheaper) that's $100 or less. Considering that DOCSIS standards are usually a few years apart $100 / 4 years = $2 per month. That's not too bad.

And what about the back-haul from their POP to the peering point? There's a cost associated with that right? Yup, that's what I'm paying for when I buy Internet access from an ISP since they're not paying for the peering agreement.

Adding all this up: $20 (for the plant) + $15 (for the wholesale bandwidth 500GB ) + $2 (for the termination equipment ) = $37 per month with each additional 50GB costing an extra $3

This seems reasonable to me and I would happily pay it, so long as the wholesale price continues track the market. But with Comcast right now I'm paying more like $65 rather than $37.

For reference 500GB/mo (if it's 100% evenly distributed) is about 5Mbps. If you figure it's a bit bursty, say 50% on and 50% off that's 10Mbps. If it's 75/25 then it's 20Mbps. 88/12 brings it up to 40Mbps. So these are reasonable numbers to expect given the service I've signed up for is advertised the way it is.
why doesn't the person just use 'time' to show how long it took instead of saying off the cuff 'saved X seconds'
I would assume "nonlinear" output means that their productivity increases the more hours they spend. Any job requires ramp-up time, some more than others, but it does not mean the output in non-linear. All your example illustrates is some jobs (like software development) can't be brute-forced by hiring more people irrespective of skill - two mediocre programmers are not a replacement for one good one.
What's wrong with just putting the script tag before the closing body tag?
You can use it for that, but you can also use it to check for rough interfaces. (The classes are rigged to fool isinstance() via dark magic.) It's fairly common that you want more than one magic method, but don't care too much what the type is as long as it's sorta like a `list` — thus, MutableMapping.
Though 'crush foes' is just rpg/fantasy-speak for 'beat your opponents'. So they would have to take the competition-part out of it if they wanted to change it.
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When I was a little kid in Venezuela, my dad got us our first computer for home, it ran DOS 6.1 and my mom couldn't get the commands in english. So I spent a few days writing a translation of it using batch files that would change "COPY" and "DEL" to "COPIA" and "BORRA". That got me hooked.
Also, there are often cases where memory on your computer is either non-expandable or already maxed out. I maxed out my laptop with 8 GB and I don't feel like I have memory to waste with the usual office tasks, on Ubuntu. Being conservative and remembering that Ubuntu switched to "recommending" its 64-bit variant as default on its start page less than a year ago, naturally I chose 32-bit the last time I reinstalled the system. But, I'll choose 64-bit next time, because I see mainstream software support shifting to 64-bit for some applications, and because I read up Phoronix tests where 64-bit shows noticeable performance advantage.
15% better fuel economy is certainly noticeable even if it's not huge. Lots of car buyers prioritize fuel economy these days. Not every improvement has to be an order of magnitude.
Whoa, I'm surprised to hear that I "didn't know anything about FRP when I made Elm". A huge part of developing Elm was doing literature review and making new contributions to FRP ( http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chong/abstracts/CzaplickiC13... ) and "making things up as I went along" was certainly not how we ended up with a nice system. I don't know why you didn't talk to me at BayHac before making statements like this.

Conal and I definitely disagree about what is important to emphasize. FRP is a term that is used in many different ways, in the same way that FP is a term that is used in many ways. I see this as a testament to the power of the idea, and it seems like claiming that this and that are not really FRP is limiting the impact of the original work. We definitely need more precise terms though!
So, like Singapore?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axia_NetMedia#Singapore_-_SingT...
> The problem is that we're not starting from scratch

But actually we did have an opportunity to reboot last-mile networks from scratch, because FTTx is essentially all-new network.
The proposed solution is at the bottom of the article (which is why everyone seems to have ignored it):

> The solution to this problem is simple: peering at the original NSFnet exchange points should be forever free and if one participant starts to consistently clip data and doesn’t do anything about it, they should be thrown out of the exchange point.

I do have a couple questions though - who is in charge of the original NSFnet exchange points, and do they have this authority?
I would love to see Microsoft come out with Windows/Developer which targeted people who were creating applications rather take existing Windows, which focusses on the big market of App users, and bolting on some developerness.

I could imagine something like CTRL-Alt-F4 on Linux where you press the key combo and the Windows/Apps view is replaced with the Windows/Develop view. Easy access to terminal screens, build tools, layout creators, etc.
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L3 isn't the only content provider, and the 5 UNNAMED ISPs (Comcast isn't necessarily the culprit here) can still provide content to their customers. Netflix is free to hire one of the many CDNs which do play ball with these ISPs.
I have been following the development of lead-carbon batteries, and invested in Axion Power (AXPW). The primary advantage of lead-carbon batteries is that they can have orders of magnitude greater charge/discharge cycles than normal lead acid batteries. A normal lead acid battery eventually sulfates and will no longer accept charge - causing you to have to switch your car battery.

What the PbC does is have a carbon electrode on the negative plate, which prevents most of the sulfation problems. The positive plate experiences much less.

This is exciting because hybrid vehicles and other power applications demand many more cycles than traditional ICE auto. Previously this niche was only available to expensive and explosive Li-ion batteries. Now cheaper and safer lead-carbon batteries could be used (though they contain less energy).

Axion Power is a development stage company that holds the patent for a pure negative electrode PbC. Other competitor batteries pale by an order of magnitude to the number of cycles it can take.

It currently has the train company Norfolk Southern developing an all-electric train using Axion's batteries.

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/26/new-life-green-weenie-el...

Axion also has auto companies, energy storage companies, and trucking companies developing apps using the PbC.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/axion-power-announces-order...
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/129019/Locomotive_Tech...

The reason the stock price is at 16 cents right now is because Axion has spent a decade developing the technology and is only beginning to see revenue. It has to raise money to continue operations. But the time is close.

A risky but potential very rewarding investment. Each potential market for their battery number in the billions.
Looks like the idea I had a year ago had some value: https://twitter.com/garietyxxx/status/357238902349758465
Agreed, I don't believe they are taking advantage of you.
This isn't the forum. Email me (provided in my profile) if you'd like to continue this discussion.
Rubbish in point b. I've scratched plenty of itches working on proprietary software that did not come from product management.
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The UK experience is, broadly speaking, that any ISP who is sufficiently tall to have the appropriate interconnects can offer a service to a customer via the incumbent's last-mile infrastructure. (This is for telephone-based ADSL broadband - the UK's only cable operator is not bound by this.) But, furthermore, competitor ISPs are enabled to install their own equipment and backhaul directly into local exchanges, known as LLU - local loop unbundling. LLU allows competitor companies to provide just your broadband, or your voice telephone service, or both.

There is one further step, whereby the prices of the incumbent monopoly are regulated in areas where no competition exists. Ironically this works in the opposite way to how you'd think, as it forces the incumbent NOT to offer their lowest prices in that market - the intention being to make monopoly areas prime targets for competition and to ensure that potential competitors aren't scared out of the area by predatory pricing.

It's an odd system with good and bad on both sides, but it seems a lot better than being stuck with a single source of Internet access.
The problem is to make them visible, specially to beginners.
The cost of the PbC once it scales up to auto production level would be about 250 dollars. That is in range of a high end lead acid battery.

Compare the cost of a NiMH battery (3k or so) or a Li-ion battery (10-20k). The savings for a simple change far outclasses what heavy hybrids or full electrics can do dollar for dollar.
xmonad works flawlessly with xfce. it's what keeps me from switching to any of the other tiling wms, though some of wmii's features do look pretty attractive.
Oh wow. Please tell me he's French (although in an english school). That might be one of my students, he ranked 7 on a multiplayer level!

I might have a go at a few bugs over the summer after I finish my high-school exams.
Hey pj, sorry you feel that way. I can assure that our intent here is not to get cheap labor, the code that people write won't be usable to use in any way by us or third parties, so as pdenya mentioned you should only enter the contest if you think it's fun!
I'm working on my second million... gave up on the first one a while ago.
Dang it, I just came here to post the same thing!
I'm sure most of would like for Windows to integrate a Bash shell, but the moment that happens, a ton of Windows sysadmins instantly wouldn't be able to do their jobs. I bet dollars to doughnuts most current Windows sysadmins (even the Powershell people) aren't proficient with Bash. God help the GUI sysadmins if this were to ever happen.
It turns out that human biology does not operate on a two-year upgrade cycle.
I have both the touch and type (mechanical backlit keyboard) covers. The difference in weight between the two is barely noticeable so trust me the way the scale is tipping over, it wouldn't make much of a difference with the substitution. Regardless, a fair comparison would be iPad with its keyboard cover too.
True! She was an OPW intern for the Linux kernel. See more on Kernel Newbies: http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWIntro

The latest round of kernel internships (through OPW :) just started.
Couple this with the fact that you should already be concatenating and minifying your assets, and this seems like a no-brainer.

I suppose you could argue that this approach helps with CDNs, but therein lies another issue of whether or not serving a library from a CDN really buys you anything over just including it with your site's script payload.
A company blog with no clickable link to the main page?!

In 2014?!

EDIT: it's there if you widen your browser super wide
MacOS is actually a certified Unix
Yeah, artwork is surprisingly expensive if it's customized. Obviously it's possible to get really cheap artwork, but we've found that quality and reliability are worth paying for. We also allow every winner to iterate the design a few times to get what they want.
This is a really amazing direction in terms of design. Like most people probably, I've pretty much ignored DDG because it didn't seem to be doing anything more than Google already did, but this design is really interesting for going in a new direction.

The only thing that stands out to me as less useful than the equivalent Google search at this point is the hiearchy of the results. Google uses a link-like blue color for the titles of each result, which seems like a leftover from a past age of the web, but is actually useful for scan-ability because the text of the headers stands out.

Compare the current DuckDuckGo... https://i.cloudup.com/vrwZgUkOty.png

...to Google... https://i.cloudup.com/eFCFEE5TYG.png

...to an adjusted version of DuckDuckGo... https://i.cloudup.com/jluIYZWtzz.png

Having an extra color for the headings lets you scan the page much more easily, which lets you get to the result you wanted faster. The downside is that since their brand color is red, it feels "best" to have the highlight color red. But then that has some negative emotional connotations. Tried green as well, but it didn't stand on it's own enough since there's so little green on the page.

Anyways, I've switched to DDG as my default and will try it out for a while again. I also love those favicons that show up next to the domain names.
- Accessories are notoriously out of stock. Why are they hard to get? Docking station, keyboards, mice. Fix that.

This is indeed painful. Every time I check the Canadian MS Store site, the Power Cover is out of stock.
Let me enlighten you then. Just create a shortcut to the cmd prompt, change the settings in the shortcut and keep a copy of that shortcut. The seetings for teh command prompt are saved in the shortcut. Now you just have to go around with it on your USB key and double-click on it to have a command-prompt with all your settings already done.

You can thank me later.
Interesting, never heard of it before. Small photo gallery below:

http://cargocollective.com/ORBIT-OFFSITE_DOWLATSHAHI/Prosper...

I love the design of the Black Arrow rocket. It looks like something out of a 1950's sci-fi movie.

Also, looks like someone beat you to the punch back in 2011:

http://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/satellite/sat-history/prospero/
Agreed, the open source ideology as explained by esr says a bunch of things that are demonstrably not true, suggesting that proprietary software is an inferior way to develop software or that proprietary software just will have more bugs because fewer people can read its source code (yo, heartbleed!)

Although the development model seems to more or less work for Linux because all of the corporate backing it has, despite being free, there are a lot of adages that esr started that sound like broken promises to me.
Yeah I guess I was disagreeing with the notion in the article that the researcher "invented" a way to get wireless power into the body. That's already done. It works. It's not great, but it works. So what was cooked up was a huge improvement, not the original invention.
It seems that nothing qualifies as FRP except for things invented in very special languages that Conal has written.
Most likely, the developer feels that the "standard" mode is more aesthetically pleasing for non-colorblind folks, and wants to accommodate the colorblind without compromising the overall vision.

I'm inclined to agree about the specific example of the L4D crosshairs, though.
The reason for the difference between Webster and Oxford is pretty simple if you do a little studying on the history of language documentation between the 18th and 20th Centuries.

Probably the most important, seminal dictionary was from Samuel Johnson. The two-volume Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755. It was an incomplete catalogue, full of opinion and jokes (see the definition of "oats" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Lan...). But it was a big deal at the time, and very much in the same vein of Diderot's Encyclopedia -- a great philosophical idea born of the Enlightenment, but certainly incomplete and not necessarily easy to distribute.

When Webster started in 1806, Samuel Johnson was the best precedent he had to work off of. So it served as a major influence for his format and approach. Webster's goal, of course, was to provide an adequate account of American English to provide additional national identity to a growing nation.

The Oxford English Dictionary, on the other hand, had an entirely separate goal. They wanted an objective academic reference to fully catalogue the functional meaning, language of origin, and first documented use of each word.

So what happened between 1805 and 1878, when James Murray met with the Oxford University Press to set the groundwork for what would become the OED? Well, over the 19th Century, comparative philology became a big deal academically. This coincided significantly with the increase of nationalist movements in Europe. As vulgar Bibles had established the linguistic boundaries of major mercantile polities between the 14th and 17th Centuries, a combination of historic and scientific research into those languages helped to formulate an intellectual sense of nationality for different states during this time. In other words, the political situation in Europe created a market for a more objective, historical tool for cataloguing language, and not a companion for generating flowery prose. And you can see that as this happened about 70 years after Webster started, the emphasis on science over editorial had amplified over time, as scientific academies and universities increased their influence in their respective nation states.

So to say that something like the OED, which has an amazing history (really, look up The Professor and the Madman), is devoid of soul just because it adequately fulfills its historical, scientific, and political purposes is nothing short of melodramatic. I actually think it's a good thing dictionaries don't editorialize too much.

Each speaker already injects bias into each definition they write simply based on their local dialect and how they individually evaluate word meaning. Why make this bias worse by letting them crack wise when you're just trying to look up a simple word?
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While the device is nice, I still see it as very niche-y item. It's too expensive once you add in a more reasonable amount of storage and the keyboard. For those who benefit from the stylus, I can totally see it being a really useful device. I don't think it will fare any better than the previous iterations.
Before I'm willing to concede a particular, very restrictive definition about what "FRP" is, it would be nice to first see a model of it that does not contain fundamental logical contradictions acknowledged by the author. Last I knew nobody had a continuous, perfectly sensible model of FRP in theory.

Further, given the lack of extant model, it's very silly to get pedantic over the term, and end up insisting on a meaning which has not been demonstrated to be practical and therefore one must consider the possibility will never turn out to be practical. It is not out of the question there exists some fundamental mathematical problem with the strict definition of FRP and therefore it must inevitably turn into a family of techniques.

This strikes me as sort of like insisting that you don't have OO unless you fully support access control via "private", six months before the first release of anything that actually supports "private", and all along it turns out that access control is fairly orthogonal to OO anyhow.

If I am out of date and somehow FRP has settled on a consistent model (without this fact being trumpeted on /r/haskell, where I would have heard about it), then it is, at the very least, still awfully young to be getting this pedantic about what is The One True Definition; it could only have been proved to be not immediately impractical, not yet proved practical.
Pedantic clarification: Argentina spells it "Iguazú" not "Iguaçu", since you're talking about the Argentine side of the falls. Spanish vs. Portuguese.
I would imagine Microsoft wouldn't much care at this point. They give away Windows 98 for free. If people demanded they support XP for free forever... I don't think they're going to do that.
This looks like a neat program :) I look forward to seeing more cool stuff come out of it!
"Like most people probably, I've pretty much ignored DDG because it didn't seem to be doing anything more than Google already did"

Generally the primary feature is that DDG does _less_ than Google, insofar as tracking you around the internet.
sigh we keep re-inventing the wheel instead of optimizing a solution that people are relying on.
That's easy. Go to any Linux or tech/developer conference. Most attendees will have Macs running OSX.
Good job, what's the next idea you have? :)