skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Something's wrong with your head if you can say these things and not give them a second thought."

Again, there's no reason to be abusive. I'm not going to respond to any further comments in this thread that don't take a more respectful tone.

As it happens, I seem to have given it deeper thought than you have:

"So your argument is that Netflix could cheat and make the world a worse place, and that Comcast should just give in to the implied extortion?"

No, my argument was that "same amount of traffic" is obviously a meaningless metric. In my example with Netflix passing back garbage data, you can call it cheating... but what if that data was useful?

Let's imagine the following:

Netflix cuts a deal with some content providers, such that they will provide (anonymized) information on facial expressions and eye tracking of (opted-in) viewers while content plays. Studios are pay for this. Netflix passes some of that money along to customers who opt in. Netflix decides to do the processing server side, because of the resources required for whatever analysis they're doing.

Now the ratios are significantly more balanced, to the benefit of Netflix (who is making more money), the Netflix customers (who are paying less money), and the determent of Comcast (who is passing more traffic). How is it right that Comcast is owed less money in that case? They probably need to build out more infrastructure than in the present case.

Settlement-free peering fits when there is roughly equal levels of value derived from the traffic. That only sometimes corresponds to roughly equal levels of traffic.
The videos for BayHac 2014 have not been (officially) released.
Submitted a PR, but wouldn't it be simple to choose "Any" or similar?
AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin for Each Hour He Spent in Jail
He probably meant losing money on the stock market, not necessarily a crash

The key word is "naked"
I think its because most people have a browser in their pocket at all times. Why would I write it down for you when I can just text you a clickable URL?

I have a smartphone within a few feet of me much more often than pen & paper.
Not quite what you're looking for, but there is a "Stealth Infrastructure Catalogue" linked after the article, which might serve you as a place to start.
> number of users is not a factor for Go Read

You could charge users a fee per feed proportional to server cost (e.g., frequency of posts) and inversely proportional to the number of subscribers.

* Unpopular/infrequent feeds (like my friends' blogs) would be free

* Popular/infrequent and unpopular/frequent feeds would be cheap, maybe $1/year/user/feed

* Popular/frequent feeds would cost more, maybe $10/year/user/feed

This way you can peg your income to an exact multiple of your costs.
I'd guess it's the opposite: average understanding of english is lower _because_ the content is all translated.

Also, I do not know about germany/france/spain, but italian movies have basically always been dubbed, in the sense that italian actors were dubbed by other italian actors.
Surprise: Segway rolls out three-wheeled vehicle
Sometime we spend time on a project for the good of the community, and it's ok, because sometimes I give back time, sometimes someone else does and so on.

It's also ok to try to get some money out of your time, if it's desired.

Not ok: use someone else's time to gain personal profit, expect someone else to pay for your actions, etc
This has been posted before, but there was no discussion. More interesting is the search for "Category Theory" in the title - lots of interesting stuff:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+category+theory+matters#!/stor...
s/inevitably/finally/

Unfortunately there's nothing inevitable about this! b^)
Apparently physics comes from the Greek φυσικός (phusikos) [1] so it's not an abbreviation at all. Compare to math and maths which are abbreviations of mathematics which comes from the Greek μαθηματικός (mathematikos) [2]. We do still say mathematics in the US, the difference is just in the abbreviation.

(I copy/pasted the Greek versions, so hopefully they're correct. They look correct to my inexperienced eye.)

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/physics

[2] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mathematics
While it may be that easy for Netflix on a technical side all of the content must be relicensed for each new region. Often times the content distribution rights for the same TV show may be owned by different companies depending on the country or region thus Netflix must renegotiate a mess of contracts every time it wants to become available in a new place.

This is why content available on Netflix in the United States may be different than content available in Norway.
Code name: Juniper Cobra – Eager Lion
I think just the top one is the biggest one.

If someone in Germany wants to pay for non-localised movies or tv shows in English (or any other language) and can use the English website... why stop them?
It's fairly clear from reading the linked article that Business Insider has no idea what net neutrality even means, though they are happy to write about it, and somehow use it to disparage Apple's reasonable plans to construct a CDN.
It is "house-edged" in the sense the game is slightly negative summed due to the rake.
This standard isn't one size, its a system of measuring sizes. The size or sizes chosen to fit the particular purpose is an implementation detail. Your argument is like calling all shoe sizes "one size" because there is a standardized, limited range of choices.
If you can drop the stress at the office after 5PM, I think you should be feel blessed and I'm very happy for you.

I generally try to not miss dinner, but I have a rule that I go by, which is I never ask my colleagues to do what I was not willing to do myself.

Even if I spend all the time with my daughter, I never think it's enough. This was written when I made a decision to do both: be the best father I could and be the best professional at my job; when I did that, the only solution was to cut down on my sleeping time.

It was taxing on my body and one night on the way back on the train, I wrote this piece thinking about my daughter. I shared it because I didn't think I was the only one riding that home-bound train. I've been receiving personal messages telling me how much they appreciated me putting their feelings into words. That's when I knew I was definitely not riding that train by myself.

By the way, I left work early yesterday to take my daughter to the park yesterday. She was quite happy :)
Why should I use this over Strava?
The name/URL caused me to assume it was a satiric site about throwing security overboard.

It looks pretty neat, though I'm wondering how you'll make sure the content stays up to date. Manually crawling or relying on the community to post them might let you down.
> This is why content available on Netflix in the United States may be different than content available in Norway.

This hardly feels like an "expansion", then.

I guess the people who care can still use VPNs, like they do right now.
Here's the link to the setup document:
http://docs.distiller.io/start/getting_started_ota_deploymen...

The "use Safari" warning is because the Apple Developer Center can randomly go all pear-shaped when using other browsers. Not sure why - it logically makes no sense - but it happens more often than you think.
kind of how I read it.

levison absolutely was being a dick, and I think the DOJ responded in kind by being a dick also.
Giftcards listed on the endangered species list
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For memory techniques, including memory palaces, I can recommend "Quantum Memory Power" by Dominic O'Brien. He was (is?) a world champion at memorization, and does pretty well at presenting in his audio book. Some of it feels a bit out of date (e.g. popular names he uses to help with memorization), but if you can get past it there's a lot to learn.

"Tricks of the Mind" by Derren Brown also has some basic information on memorization, along with a host of other interesting topics.
Star Wars and UNICEF launch a Force For Change
One of the main purposes of the wealth tax is not to raise funds. The tax described in the book would be quite low, below 1%. Remember, the rate of return on fortunes over a million Euros (below this, they wouldn't be subject to the tax) is around 5%. So this does little to slow the global concentration of wealth.

The main purpose of the tax is to track this wealth. When Piketty did research on the fortunes of the very wealthiest individuals, he had to rely on estimates from Forbes magazine, whose methodology is far from scientific. The idea is that with a better public understanding of where and how wealth is concentrated, we can formulate better policy.
Remember a couple of months ago when Icahn described eBay as the worst-run company he'd ever seen? [1]

Seems rather prescient now. Their incompetence has just cost us all our personal information.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101467290
> third-party code tends to be of low quality and interact with other third-party code in interesting ways.

Absolutely. There are less than a half dozen libraries I'll use without hesitation. The others get evaluated carefully on author, size, criticality, and my domain knowledge, with the default choice being: "no, don't want to deal".

But that's a criticism of all package managers everywhere, and I think it's clear that popular ones promote higher quality libraries, over time.

CocoaPods is young yet. Package management for compiled and linked executables might turn out to be too hard or wrongly marketed. But a strong ecosystem of third party Objective-C code is a laudable goal.
My dad lives in Dwygyfylchi. I've been to Llanfair pg (for short) and I remember it being just a quaint little Welsh village. The train station cracked me up. I will ask some of my friends in the area if they would like to attend your workshops.
Hopefully we can also get real module interfaces[0] in the not-too-distant future so we can at least lessen some of the spurious diamond dependency problems that tend to crop up once in a while.

[0] http://plv.mpi-sws.org/backpack/
What? This is hacker news!
I want this, but: The product is not explained. It actually took a bit of clicking to finally find the setup process under documentation.

Minor nit, your blog header doesn't link back to the main site.
That was a great read!

So, was it a MITM BTS?
`cons`, is a raw memory allocation. It`s `malloc`for linked rather than sequential memory

Yeah, cons is like malloc, except that the object it creates is automatically memory managed / garbage collected. There is no corresponding "free" call. Actually, that means cons is not like malloc.

Clojure takes advantage of being fully managed code

Do you realize that Lisp uses automatic memory management (just like the JVM or CLR)?
Angular, Backbone, or Ember: Which is Best for your Build?
slashdot.org tag system ?
Also, the details.

The more engineers get involved in the business side, the more they see both problems and opportunities that remain hidden if you just give them specs, no matter how good those specs are.
Thanks for the followup. Item #2 is a point very well taken and I'll be exploring that route, appreciate the response.
It's really nice to see a write-up of the story behind this. The bare facts have been submitted many times[0][1][2][3][4], although never provoked discussion. It's a fascinating idea, and the math and physics are subtle and intriguing.

Great story.

One previous comment[5]:

It's not news, but the potential for using it is growing.
By using fuzzy orbits and the edge of chaotic regions, it's
becoming possible to do large scale movements in the Solar
system with very little expenditure of fuel. As with the
time/space computing trade-off, this is a time/fuel trade-
off -- the movements take a lot longer to achieve.

-- RiderOfGiraffes[6]

Finally, there's an excellent write-up in Discovery[7].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482985

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3414311

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3889406

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213525

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6755954

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482987

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes

[7] http://discovermagazine.com/1994/sep/gravitysrim419
Yes, but only a show of hands of those still in, not of the player who folded. So how would they be able to analyze that he had the better hand?
Wow. While it's not the latest and greatest shows that are on Prime, that's an impressive collection they've put up.

I'm both a subscriber of HBO and of Prime, and I'll actually be using this. You see, I have a Roku, and Comcast won't allow HBOGO over Roku, but they do allow Prime Instant Video. So, woohoo for that!

I'm wondering if Amazon ran into these limitations with their new Roku-killer and decided to end-around them by brining HBO series into the fold.
Okay passfree! thanks for your response! Sandboxing seems to give ypu guys a hard time. I think the noise issue can be very problematic if you are using it on a real machine with plenty of web requests and not a virtual one.

Do you know if there is a way to setup the proxy manually? This way we can setup an instance of firefox doing the requests that matters but also monitor our ruby scripts that replicating these requests. It will make comparison so easy for our use case.
I took a look there(after winding my way through Bumping Borders), it appears to be a PDF containing a nicely formatted list of sightings from various countries. I was hoping for the "busy forums" mentioned in the article, but this is still very interesting. Thanks.
Having not read the code, I'd wager it is a 40 element vector of term similarities.
Generating Music from Literature
Because it's fun and smart people like to spell things.

An old schoolmate of mine used to make regular visits to Webster Lake in Massachusetts. Of course it was also known by its much more famous name, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. Guess who committed that to memory upon first seeing it.
not hard at all obviously.

Anyway, given the current legal situation in Switzerland, uploading data with bittorrent while downloading some music/film is basically a no risk activity.
Yeah, me too. The official statistics of sports leagues are rarely ever in the public domain. Official being the key word here.
Most of us have only read the one book, not his entire work.

In the book, I recall him only saying that he has no 200 year long timeseries. If someone can hadoop a wordcount, I'll bet that the word "Balzac" appears more frequently than "China". Any book which purports to discuss inequality, yet somehow ignores the inequality between France and India, is almost comically myopic.
Interesting concept. I was slightly disturbed, however, watching the video when it showed someone's hand way to close to moving bandsaw [1:49] and miter saw [2:10] blades (what appears to be 1-2 inches away from the blade).

If you do use maker spaces, please learn how to use the equipment safely. StorkStand, please edit these clips out of the video and try to keep your fingers while helping others save their back!
Show HN: Bootstrapping Search for APIs on the Web – APIs.io
Hah, I definitely see how you can get that from the name. I was aiming for a mashup between Information Security and JobBoard without making the domain name too long or too bland. I think the site will have to rely on a little of both for it to really take hold. Thanks for checking out the site.
New Facebook feature will recognize, share users' music, TV shows
You are projecting: I don't think we need perfectly free markets.

I do think, however, that the Fed is the primary engine of economic inequality and malinvestment, via a fairly straight forward mechanism: early receivership of newly created money and allowing "too big to fail" banks to keep upside while the public pays for the downside.
If your question is primarily definitional: A wealth tax operates on the value. A "progressive tax" typically still operates on the derivative.
I tried to find a normal channel to report this and came up empty. In the future, how does on alert google to issues like this?
Oculus VR and its founder sued by ZeniMax and id Software
> I would rather they remove the government-granted monopoly to open competition and perform an audit to make sure the company fulfilled their part of the bargain in receiving public funds. If they fail the audit, request the money back.

We are in agreement then.
I think the NSA farts magical bunnies, but they don't want people to know, so they breed stage magicians.
I'll look into this. In the meantime, we did co-publish this essay with Rhizome.org. You can find their version here (same text).

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/may/20/stealth-infrastruct...
I would claim it's actually less risky because it's more diversified if we are talking about volatility but owning 100k in stocks would also get you dividends that futures won't.

(Also you can get higher margins much more easier with futures than with stocks and high margin of course means more volatility (=risk) )
You are conflating "extreme inequality" and "putting more and more wealth and power into the hands of fewer and fewer monopolists and oligopolists". They are not necessarily the same thing.

Since inequality does not intrinsically harm anyone (unlike crime and disease), we can only evaluate the nobility of reducing inequality by it's consequences. So what, pray tell, are the intrinsically harmful consequences of inequality?
Secret – Facebook to acquire candlestick park?
"The freshest developers have the best configured computers"

Eh, not sure why but this line made me question your credibility.
> Test Driven Development

Is this common on iOS?

I talked with someone, and he said his experience were that specs was rarely done by iOS developers. He said it wasn't a tooling issue, but more a community issue.
It's not a new problem. If anything I'd say things are better today because good information is so much easier to access.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg[1] is the equivalent in the States.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chargoggagoggmanchauggagog...
Ask: HN New front end ideas for organizing a content library
Trying to explore new styles to display a medium sized library (web/tablet) of content. Specifically, it's about 150-200 lesson plans designed for ESL teachers. Can anyone suggest a great library design that they've seen lately for inspiration? I've got my hierarchy/taxonomy set, I'm looking for display/user selection inspirations. Cheers.
To varying degrees this has always been the case. Publishing and distribution is just easier.
How we built besnappy for $317000
Then they're hit with accusations of violating network neutrality (if they only charge Netflix users)

I'm not sure why you think this is a 'bad thing'.

Comcast sells users bandwidth (X download, Y upload). It doesn't sell "Access to static and dynamic web sites, but not video streaming services." If the customer is using less than X and less than Y, why does the type of traffic matter? If Comcast doesn't want users using the amount bandwidth they paid for, then they need to be more upfront about that in the plan pricing (lower the bandwidth, or increase the price).

That's what people are asking for. Just like I shouldn't expect my cell phone bill to increase because I called across state lines instead of local, I shouldn't expect my internet bill to increase just because I used the bandwidth for watching Netflix as opposed to something like seeding Linux distributions.
I tried the demo and found it wasn't very intuitive.

My eyes were repeatedly drawn to the massive wall of text and input boxes in the lower frame while the top frame referred to me in the 3rd person ("User should be able to enter the number", "User will put the lotion in the basket", etc).

If I didn't already know what the site was attempting to do, I wouldn't have done anything with the top frame since it seemed to make impersonal statements than actually telling me what to do.

If the goal is for non-technical people to use that testing interface it needs to be much more clear as to what they should do and give better feedback when they do what they're supposed to.
Also, if you are comfortable taking that amount of risk, you'd be better off to participate in the future market than buying large chunks of stocks on margin, at least you have extra liquidity.
Yep, sure:
http://d1ggong7924xq2.cloudfront.net/
Yeah, I totally get that, but I guess I don't know what part of the Google AppEngine data store that works better or is a better fit than Amazon's DynamoDB, or running your own MongoDB or CouchDB or Hbase or Cassandra or whatever.

What does Google's datastore do that makes it worth sticking to and paying more for.
It’s victory day for patent trolls as key senator gives up on reform
This was announced almost a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7634133
For me, understanding and accepting the answer to this question was an important step to understanding the difference between pure technology and business.

And even in a technologist's utopia where there were no local legal/cultural/language differences between countries, on a pure technology level you'd need to provision server capacity for new locales.
Hm, there seems to be written like so there:

> Moreover, GNU grep AVOIDS BREAKING THE INPUT INTO LINES. Looking
for newlines would slow grep down by a factor of several times,
because to find the newlines it would have to look at every byte!

(italics added, but uppercase original!) On my reading this sounds quite huge; I seem to understand the gist is that it's still a significant gain after Boyer-Moore. But, whatever.
In mid february I created a gmail account and only used it to subscribe to Paypal (didn't touch Ebay). The Paypal account is associated to a NY home address.

On March 15th I received at that email address a "New York Lotto" phishing email. That is the only spam I got so far on that email account.

So I would assume that they have at least some Paypal subscribers data, including email and home city (and maybe address).
Just asked the author, will post if I find out.
Unclear to me that the instructor is at all qualified to write an iOS app, let alone teach others how to do it.
I would consider Dartlang - "Dart is a new platform
for scalable web app engineering." is the title string on Dart's home page.
Dart is designed for web apps. One downside is it's still not as mature as alternatives.
I can't comment much on the subject for my lack on knowledge, but that was a very well written, entertaining article that I enjoyed reading.
I'm sure you're right, which is why I'm moving away from ads. The examples that give me some sliver of hope are reddit and tumblr, both of which have some form of ads.
The obvious counter-argument is that simply talking to them isn't enough. Sure, it's a "period of silence", but that could very well mean figurative silence rather than literal silence.

He could have spent every single conversation putting them off rather than working with them, which is what's implied by the 'literal silence' anyway.

We don't exactly know what was said in those conversations, so it's hard to know whether he was silent or not. What we do know is that they weren't very fruitful for the DOJ, so it's not outlandish to assume he was simply putting them off.