skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dwindling demand for what? Broadband? There was a natural upgrade path for DSL: push the fiber network closer and closer to the premises, eventually building FTTN with VDSL2 to the premises. That'd support 100 megabit service. Nobody did it, because who wants to spend billions building infrastructure for your competitors?
> While some people DO get up in arms about the U.S. government's activities, it is always phrased in such a way as, "You can't do this to American citizens!" What about non-citizens?

Non-citizens, presumably, can set up their own governments to secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity -- but they aren't the people for whom the people of the United States ordained and established the Constitution of the United States to secure the blessings of liberty.

> What happened to "All [people] are created equal?"

All may be created equal, but the United States government wasn't created to serve all.

That's not to say there aren't limitations on the powers that the US government should apply against non-citizens, but from the very beginning citizens and non-citizens have been by design situated differently with respect to the US government.
Well, Steam is inferior for that exact reason.

It does have an "offline mode" where it will pre-decrypt the games or whatever it does behind the scenes.

Why would on-demand streaming be a good thing? Now you have to worry about ISPs and bandwidth, it doesn't solve the problem.
In the original 7-day prototype, time moved at a crawl if you stood still, and accelerated to normal speed when you moved. Changing the view with your mouse did not count as "moving" so you have a lot more time to line up a shot. Of course you also have to contend with travel time of characters and bullets, which is not a wholly trivial task.
It feels so good to see some of the comments here and elsewhere on our approach at Balanced. I've been trying to put this process/system in place for close to two years now. Steve was finally able to make it possible where I couldn't.

There's a lot of other companies facing the same challenge and have also come to the conclusion that there isn't a sufficient solution pre-built. Hopefully, we'll get to the point where there's a standard solution that everyone can use instead of tons of homegrown solutions.
Agreed. I fell in love with Tmux from the moment I realized it used <C-b> as the prefix. Still accessible with just my left hand (especially since I map Caps Lock to Ctrl), but doesn't block a commonly-used chord.
Synthetic DNA replicated by living organism for first time in U.S. study
Applications tend to disagree about how loud volumes 1 to 10 should really be. So I tend to adjust youtube videos, music players etc to certain volumes using their "internal" volume control, so that I don't have to risk bleeding from my ears when I turn off the music to watch a video with a video player that sets the volume to 15 by default.
Same here, but I use Ctrl-j. I never understood why I see everyone using Ctrl-a and Ctrl-b. Those are two very important navigations in my opinion.
Do you have a primary source for the $300 billion tax subsidy claim (which would be an indictment of the telcos if true). Something besides a link to a link to a link to something Bruce Kushnick has claimed?

I've read his reports, and while there seems to be a kernel of truth, the numbers are not, IMO, substantiated. He gets big numbers by claiming the telcos are making undeserved profits, which even if true, is not a subsidy.
Like this a lot too.

> Earnest shows you the number of words in your text, useful for people who need to hit a particular word-count, but it only re-calculates the number every minute to deter you from constantly keeping an eye on your progress. The word-count should not be a distraction from your writing.

I would maybe have the counter be real-time, but require the user to leave the keyboard (or some other significant action) to show it? (ex: on mouseover). I was trying this out and still was looking at the "0 words" and thinking "damn, I wonder how many words there are."
Your arguments make sense in many ways, but I do think ensuring that everyone has access to broadband internet is something that is worth worrying about. If we just allow market forces to determine who gets access to the new broadband, a lot of (poorer) people will not get access. I think just saying "well it sucks to be them" is not a satisfactory answer.
I think we have a winner for the $1000000 'Drones for Good' prize!

The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733697
> require just enough skill and just enough technical learning to filter out most of the non-college educated

Ok, fair enough, although I submit that is pretty much the lowest working definition of a tradable skill.

I was, am, in the Navy. Have had to go to the jailhouse with sailors, and have had contract work finished late because the pipe fitters, welders, etc, put valves in backwards, forget to weld before charging the system, etc.
> but since early 2000s it seems they are doing a bad job in many areas.

Yeah, because the US was a paragon of virtue throughout, say, the Cold War.
Would shifting these responsibilities to the government necessarily solve the problem? After all, the police (and the fire department, in SoCal, anyways) don't do a job of equitably serving the poor relative to the rich, either.
That's a long fall, 3/4 of a minute if I'm not mistaken.
I was just watching the "What’s New with OS Deployment in Configuration Manager and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit" session from TechED and hit the section on "check readiness" option which MS have added to SCCM 2012 in R2. It sounds like having this in part of the task sequence at Emory would have (at the very least) stopped this OS push from at least hosing all the servers.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2014/PCI...
Absolutely. The common theme I found here (after many years of consulting) is disconnect between different divisions, namely journalism, technology and business. I have seen it in many other companies small and large. It seems like such an obvious solution to get people to work together and make sure that they will make an effort to understand other domains not only their own. I would certainly expect the leadership of such prominent institution as NYT to grasp that and make it part of the culture. Certainly if they hope to extend their existence into 21st century! The mention of an engineer quitting because the person was not allowed to attend editors meetings just broke my heart. This kind of attitude in the digital age is like sabotaging NYT by setting its building on fire...
You said the same thing that I posted just now, only better. Web pages and applications should never assume that they are being used in isolation and without any switching between them.
I wish that account was still updating.
I was really put-off when I saw video of him throwing a temper tantrum on the podium, smashing the microphone into the table and generally making a fool of himself.

I like what he's done for Free Software and GNU is an important part of computing (even if their kernel is awful). His personal choices about how he does his computing, i.e. wgetting each page and reading it with less or another pager are a little strange but I figure it's good to have someone on the fringe like that.

I'd never seen video or heard audio of RMS before and always assumed him to be a sort of Gandalf-type figure, wise and soft-spoken.

In reality he appears to be a fucking child. It was really disappointing.

That impression I got was reinforced when I read these guidelines; he seems really full of himself. I really got the primadonna vibe when I read some of the "guidelines". He requires they set aside an additional 45 minutes for photos after a 75 minute speech? Cringe.

Maybe it's just a cultural thing, but holy ego, Batman.
The write-only concept is interesting. I suspect I would find it irritating, but I'm not a writer. I wonder what other constraints could help.
The software industry is due for an industrial revolution, part 2
Cool! Can't scroll right though? :(
Interesting. I never realized how often I hit backspace. Everyone should test this out just for fun.
FYI, Part 2 just went up on http://www.scaletheplanet.com/post/the-industrial-revolution...
The court opinion stressed pretty strongly that Google's usage of the Java API was never actually intended to build an interoperable implementation (stating that Google was unable to point to any specific examples of code that would even be interoperable ;P) but instead to build a non-interoperable platform that was heavily inspired by the work that was put into Java. I think Google could have made a better case for attempting to be interoperable in certain ways (such as with libraries as opposed to "apps"), but apparently they didn't, and in fact came off quite strongly as trying to build their own unrelated-to-Java platform for various technical and business reasons. It still seems to be the case that if you are building a system whose goal is truly to be interoperable (such as libedit is to libreadline) you would not run into problems. For much more detailed commentary and argument (as well as quotes from the opinion), I encourage you to read my comment from that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723853
Ask HN: Feedback on enterprise group text messaging idea
I'm working on a group enterprise text messaging idea for churches, and was wondering if this product might be applicable for your domain (non-profits, organization, etc?). Basically it has the capability of

+ Doing one to many text messaging
+ The ability to schedule texts
+ The ability to schedule weekly tasks

Here is a quick youtube video demoing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREaVIyy20Y

If anyone wants to beta test an account let me know! Each provisioned phone number costs me money through nexmo.com so pm me through my profile.
Also getting this problem in Chrome on Linux.

Everything says "Linux kernel" but I get the Openstack talk. Which, well, I'm interested in what they do at CERN too but is definitely not the kernel.
Not sure if the cookie cutter form letter has less impact than other approaches, but I liked that it made me consider my personal reasons for supporting net neutrality:

The success of the internet and the incredible rate of its innovation result largely from its great equality -- that it is difficult for large corporations to entrench themselves to the detriment of disruptive innovators. Net neutrality is a central reason for that equality, the idea that there is no way for ISPs to become gatekeepers that can auction access, offering a legal means for converting money into a moat that needlessly raises the bar for entering the market. The internet is a powerful societal force, and giving ISPs pernicious influence in how content is propagated seems a dangerous step in conflict with the equality and freedom that has thus far characterized the internet.
Elon Musk tells USC business graduates: Just work 'super' hard
Where I live Comcast is barred from offering me Internet access due to the small city I live in offering another cable company a long term monopoly.

So I pay $75 for 15 mbps. I could be paying $25 less and getting twice the speed if I lived 10 minutes another direction.

Local governments are at least half the problem, but it's clearly a public + private collusion problem, in which both parties work together to establish monopolies. And the solution is simple (but will never happen): all telecom monopoly contracts should be voided nationally, immediately.
UPDATE: The correct talk is online now. Thank you very much for this content bug report.

Also big thanks to all reporters in this thread! Your constructive help is much appreciated!

Original Post:

My deepest apologies. The conference LinuxTag (where both talks had been held) had a couple of unannounced room changes. These two talks must have been switched in that fashion.

LinuxTag had six tracks[1], we are currently searching for the right talk to correct this mess!

1. https://voicerepublic.com/users/linux-tag-berlin#venues
Looks like just hypothesizing, even when admitting as much is downvote worthy.

Another hypothesis worth considering is that intrasexual selection tactics of women are tolerated in the workplace but those of men are not.

Across many species and many societies, male intrasexual selection takes places as overt direct competition (hand-to-hand combat, sports, male elephant seals). With females (again across species and across societies), intrasexual selection is more often indirect due to female choice.

Direct competition is observable and easily addressed. Indirect competition is not by virtue of being indirect. This means that the modern workplace does not afford the conditions for men to compete much if at all except via promotion for doing good work. There are not the same mechanisms and norms in place in many modern workplaces to direct energy spent on indirect competition to more productive outlets.

I expect another downvote here too because acknowledging the existence of differences between genders is only frowned upon when talking about humans, but whatever.
Perhaps this would be a wake up call for all the politicians driving the US down in terms of IT progress. Or, perhaps all they care about is money and it won't change a thing.
I was recently at a hostel on the other side of the world and received not one but two startup pitches from Bay-area "innovators". The exact type of behavior I had been trying to escape... absolutely ruined that evening in my mind.
Do they have a reason to continue existing? If they didn't hew to their extreme position, would all open source software disappear? It's hard to say one way or another.
I work for MongoDB. There we use go for all of our agents for our various services. Originally they were developed in java and python, but we spent far too much time supporting issues that arose from existing environments run times. A blog post was written that expands on this further. http://blog.mongodb.org/post/51643994762/go-agent-go

In my free time I develop a static site engine called Hugo which is hundreds of times faster than others written in python and ruby and is super easy to install as it is distributed as a single binary without any dependencies. You can learn more about it at http://hugo.spf13.com .
Note that maximum-awesome is for/by the vim crowd -- who could not care less about Ctrl-A being move-beginning-of-line but do want continuity with screen's prefix-key.
You know what? Fuck them. Fuck higher education completely. Undervalued and underpaid is the name of the game for any important IT roles in that shit hole of an industry.

Disclaimer: dev at a university.
There was a similar catastrophe at Jewel osco stores many years ago. Nightly, items added to the store pos were merged back with the main item file at each store location. The format of the merged data was exactly the same as loading a new file, except the first statement would be /EDIT instead of /LOAD.

One of the programmers decided to eliminate some code by combining the two functions, with a switch to control whether /LOAD or /EDIT was used for the first statement.

There was a bug in the program, and the edits were sent down as loads.

A guy I knew, Barry, was the main operator that night. He started getting calls from the stores after around 10 of them had been reloaded with 5 or 6 items.

Barry said it was the first time he got to meet the president of the company that day.
This is interesting. I was looking for a mention of the data visualization department. Their work has been on the bleeding edge of data journalism in recent years and a proof that not all is rotten inside of NYT...
I've been using tmux for a while now, and it's a great tool. I hardly open any new terminal windows now.

If anyone is interested in the settings I've accumulated over the months, here is my config file: https://github.com/ludwig/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf
IT QUITE CLEARLY SAYS IN GOD WE TRUST,? WHICH GOD
Narendra Modi's Election Win Heralds New Era in India
This is a constantly repeated urban legend. The telcos never received anywhere near $300 billion in tax subsidies. It comes up constantly in threads like this, and the people claiming it can never back it up with actual data or proof of any sort, just vague statements.
A Trip to the Sunshine Coast
Now I agree that everyone should have access to broadband but this raises many questions for me.

Why can't the rich get access to gigabit while the poor has access to a few megabit?

Just like ten years ago, when the rich had access to megabit and the poor used kilobit access.

Or ten years before that, when the richest could pay for high kilobit access while the poor were stuck to dialup low kilobit access.

I don't understand what's wrong with a long term rollout plan that finances the future scale with large costs to those willing to pay them.

Is it wrong because it's a utility? Why aren't we up in arms about the non-megabit (or barely megabit) non-low-latency access that so much of rural america is already stuck with?

I just don't get this. Fiber will get cheaper, but only if we train tens thousands about it in smaller rollouts while building up the supply side with increasingly larger rollouts.
It's important everyone has access, but just about every technology in the history of technology has gone through a cycle of early adopter => general use => commodity. If wealthy neighborhoods are never allowed to adopt fiber, fiber will never be cheap enough to deploy in Nowhere, USA.

There's always a fixed labor cost for laying the pipes, but the endpoint hardware for fiber is currently pretty pricey. Compare to cable, whose modems used to be hundreds of dollars, and can now be had for $30.
Maybe OUYA could take care of this automatically, just freeze the game after the time limit had been hit. The developer could just specify how long they want the trial to be.
There was a similar catastrophe at Jewel osco stores many years ago. Nightly, items added to the store pos were merged back with the main item file at each store location. The format of the merged data was exactly the same as loading a new file, except the first statement would be /EDIT instead of /LOAD.

One of the programmers decided to eliminate some code by combining the two functions, with a switch to control whether /LOAD or /EDIT was used for the first statement.

There was a bug in the program, and the edits were sent down as loads.

A guy I knew, Barry, was the main operator that night. He started getting calls from the stores after around 10 of them had been reloaded with 5 or 6 items.

Barry said it was the first time he got to meet the president of the company that day.

This was back when phone lines were used to transmit data, and it took several hours just to transmit an item file. So, the store locations were out of business until the item file could be restored.
So, say that every town/city in the country streamlined the process for handling "right of way" and reduced the asking price for access.

Would this actually lead to an increase in competition or would it just lead to greater profits for the incumbents?
Very often. I don't have a regular gaming habit, that applies to both my gaming enviroment (strictly speaking, the Windows side of my mac) and my console.

For the console, btw.: all of them support nightly updates, so I rarely have the problem there.
But you can't swing a cat without hitting an executive assistant three years out of college and using it as a stepping stone. The value proposition of being the boss's calendar-keeper has been reversed.
Honestly if it is a good usability service based in Switzerland with no special sauce, but well run, I would like it. The only problem I have is that the security asserted doesn't match the reality of a decent threat model.

You can go pretty far with policy and law alone.
Doesn't work at all for me in either Chromium or Firefox (all extensions disabled) on Ubuntu 12.04. I just press play and it tries to load and goes back to a play button.
The question isn't whether you subsidize access for the poor, it's how. Build-out requirements and forcing ISP's to discount services for the poor is an attempt to shift the burden from taxpayers to ISP's, and has the unintended consequence of making it so that only the de-facto monopolies find it worthwhile to build in most cities.
If you use tmux a lot, I can't recommend tmuxp enough.
https://github.com/tony/tmuxp
I don't know. This could very well be a case of not much more than a bad drag and drop in SCCM. Its not quite that simple, but I'm not sure this is some custom process they setup.
They should all get free Netflix accounts too.
Looks like shift+arrow keys will still select the text and the selected text can be replaced by typing over it.
Thanks for links to the papers. A common tone in them is that there is a significant amount of people who are opposed to DRM. More than I expected at least. That's good. But I guess it's still not enough to eliminate DRM.

Some mention the same idea I brought above:

> DRM systems were widely resisted by many other
interviewees. They were quite openly considered rather as a cause to piracy than a tool to inhibit it.
Mozilla working to bring all Firefox laggards onto latest version silently
Forgive my beginner question:

Since a reformat was done to the affected machines, does this mean that researchers' datasets, drafts of papers, and other IP were lost? Or were researchers' machines not affected?
>Please do not ever mail me a file larger than 100k without asking me first.

Quote from an email that is 50k of pure text.
A ways upthread, you said:

> Well, no. Robbing a passed out drunk is a crime; you should feel bad for committing crimes, even if it's clear that if you didn't somebody else would. Shorting a stock (or a currency) is not a crime; it's an acceptable thing to do in a market.

If you didn't intend to imply that robbing the drunk is bad because it's a crime, and what Soros did is acceptable because it's not a crime, then you weren't communicating very clearly.
They don't vote and they don't pay rent, so they can gtfo!
Bohemia Interactive (Dayz, ARMA) source code stolen
I hope you're just Russian and incorrectly composed an aphorism. "Pay peanuts and you get monkeys" is I think what you were going for. Unfortunately, it came off as extremely classist.

That said, even your central thesis, pay higher wages, misses the fact that in a functioning market economy, higher wages isn't always possible, or even productive.
The Origin of Spacewar! (1981)
The first unGoogleable and Scroogled [social?] network
More succinct point:
I can't use GPL software libraries at work. I have no interest in developing under GPL because it would expose others to the same problem.

There are ways the GPL community could attempt to incorporate individuals like me, but to be honest, I much prefer a world where anyone can use any open source code however they wish.
I'm using Chrome on iOS on an iPhone 4s.
If someone takes out a concrete wall with a five-pound sledge, I'm gonna have harsh words for the guy who build the shoddy wall and the guy who deliberately vandalized it.
Right: the "one main problem with releasing the source code, and that is derivatives, of little extra work" is the one that comex first sets up and then immediately shoots down as if it were of no consequence ("making it easier for someone else to simply clone it, but I would not personally consider either of those a big deal"). (I respond as it isn't clear whether you are intending to agree with me or not, but your comment definitely agrees with my argument ;P.)