skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because in this way they will be able to price discriminate more. Running a high bandwidth low profit margin site? Ok, carry on.
Running a low bandwidth high profit margin site? Shame if anything were to happen to your latency... All I want is 20% of your profit.

Could also be used to make backroom deals where you "slowban" political undesirables.
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Does anyone have experience with ClearDB?

Good, bad, why would you use it?
I don't know how much of it comes out of the box, but the article was impressive in in more than just its writing. The only slight annoyances I encountered were the way some pictures appeared too late and the videos lacked length and subject information. Everything else was well paced, relevant and unintrusive.

I hope Shorthand gets picked by more long-form producers.
There were plenty more secret armies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Why do business services always cost more!

Cable Internet for Residential / Cable Internet for Business...
Wow, careful you don't cut yourself on that edge.

He doesn't explain the details because it really doesn't matter a huge amount from a technical standpoint; either you're in the know (a fellow admin/hacker/dev) or you aren't, and in neither case does Tom Clancy or Neal Stephenson-like drooling over the tech matter.

As for the complaint about emotional detachment, everyone handles these things differently. Especially in the case where something so close to you is gone, it can take a long time to process it. Grief and assimilation is handled differently.

I'm sorry it wasn't a masturbatory journey into the grim future and anarchy of post-apocalypse--perhaps you'd enjoy the Dies the Fire series more.
I'm not sure that the real problem is advertisement consistency. If your only choice is Comcast, and they deliver poor speeds (due to a combination of favoritism and not upgrading) then it's little consolation that you get the advertised low speed.
'They're not breaking any laws' is an empty argument when the current debate is about 'what laws should we write to curb behavior that is bad for society'.
I totally agree, there should be no bias when it comes to internet speed. Everyone should be able to get the same fast speed, regardless.
For some company (a two person cpy), I'm using Mailchimp to send emails to their 3500 clients. The thing is, I don't really want a mailing list stuff.

Today, what are my options if I just want to send HTML emails through outlook to my 3500 subscribers, without being flagged as SPAM ?
Presumably using a tiling window manager would solve that problem entirely. The window management in Windows/OS X is positively archaic compared to what you can get in Linux these days.
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PNGify Me lists icons within different categories and let's you customize the size, display, and colors of any icon before downloading the PNG file. It allows developers to quickly create a matching set of user interface icons that meet the needs of the style guide they are using.

I'd love any feedback and/or suggestions for improvement.
I was really hoping this would just be a collection of sad comments from disgruntled programmers
The FCC wants to override state laws banning municipal competition. This is one thing they have right.
Passports for Bitcoin
Meh. A lot of the problem with modern search is just that a lot of topics just don't have that many people who are both web-savvy and topic-savvy. Content farmers can be slain in the rankings easily by a superior resource, but that resource has to be attached to some sort of business engine to make it worthwhile enough to create. The hobbyist auto mechanic has less of an incentive to write great articles about auto maintenance than the auto parts corporation does.

Adwords is also excellent, but the skill to use it is not well distributed. Advertisers have more obvious incentives and measurement metrics (return on total ad spent / return on investment) than hobbyists do.
Since we're not a professional Internet media (it's not even a commercial project), when we don't hit HN top, the traffic is very low. Currently we're serving this post from a traditional hosting worth about $7/mo, and it handles the HN burst amazingly well.
Looks like it: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/master/openerp/osv/orm.py
What difference does it make what they advertise? The existing advertising doesn't guarantee streaming 20Mbit from any host on the internet 24/7. If their advertising were scrupulously accurate, but they delivered the same service, why should you be happier?
The important thing is not to use them together. I did, and it was a nightmare.
Been there, done that. In the previous company I worked at, some new projects were done in Play. The result: frequent API changes in Play, bad Maven integration, illogical APIs from the Java perspective (an artefact of Play being written in Scala), little documentation, and I don't know how it is now, but back then it was very had to make a minimal REST application without pulling a lot of baggage in.

We rewrote these applications using JAX-RS (RESTEasy) and they were much simpler, easier to maintain, without API breakage in new framework versions. It just a bunch of methods with annotations. XML and JSON serialization is automatic (via JAXB and Jackson). And you can use the same lightweight ORM as Play (Ebean), since it's an external project.

Well-thought out, mature technology is often better for getting work done than the hype of the day.
"Makers" is fantastic, and has a lot of fun ideas in it. Doctorow nails the tech personalities in his works very well, arguably better than Stephenson.
You're welcome. It's a great reminder that it's easy to criticise "the machine" from the sidelines, but when you're part of it there are protocols and processes and systems etc that mean there really is no latitude. Also, your point about making judgements while not knowing the whole picture is important and easily overlooked.
Good tutorial and good service. Interested in seeing Part 2: Manage Addresses/Keys
I'd rather put my money on Spring learning lessons from Play / Scala / Akka. If they don't, the writing may indeed be on the wall.
You are reading it correctly. And the NYT seems to be reporting it correctly. While the text is not published yet anywhere I can see, the FCC fact sheet states that the proposal (direct quotes with only formatting/presentation changes) [1]:

- Proposes to retain the definitions and scope of the 2010 rules, which governed broadband Internet
access service providers, but not services like enterprise services, Internet traffic exchange and
specialized services.

- Proposes to enhance the existing transparency rule, which was upheld by the D.C. Circuit. The
proposed enhancements would provide consumers, edge providers, and the Commission with
tailored disclosures, including information on the nature of congestion that impacts consumers’
use of online services and timely notice of new practices.

- As part of the revived "no-blocking" rule, proposes ensuring that all who use the Internet can
enjoy robust, fast and dynamic Internet access.

- Tentatively concludes that priority service offered exclusively by a broadband provider to an
affiliate should be considered illegal until proven otherwise.

- Asks how to devise a rigorous, multi-factor "screen" to analyze whether any conduct hurts
consumers, competition, free expression and civic engagement, and other criteria under a legal
standard termed "commercial reasonableness."

- Asks a series of detailed questions about what legal authority provides the most effective means
of keeping the Internet open: Section 706 or Title II.

- Proposes a multi-faceted process to promptly resolve and head off disputes, including an
ombudsperson to act as a watchdog on behalf of consumers and start-ups and small businesses.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014...
You're right, partly. Either way, NSA ha(d|s) direct access to Yahoo and Google's internal networks with MUSCULAR and various other WINDSTOP programs that have collected many more records than MUSCULAR, without requiring warrants whatsoever. Arguing over why The Guardian didn't retract is just splitting hairs at this point, because they did include the slide that claimed "direct collection from the servers." Then there's also UPSTREAM. PRISM is hardly the smoking gun in these long chain of events. And again you're right, I did mix up the 215 blurb.

Nice chat.
It will be pure speculation/imagination and no-one will able to confirm/deny the bias. Hence the question is fluff. It's like asking a highly imaginative question and trying to translate it to real world. It's nothing more than luring into something which will never happen. It's not bad that you think about these things, but don't waste your time with it.

"Most successful people would become successful irrespective of starting conditions." - again bias and imagination/speculation. Success is not something you are born with. You "get" it. Just because you got it once doesn't mean you are entitled to it for the rest of your life. Successful people getting more success have much more means to become more successful so it looks like they would have been successful anyway.
Thank you for sharing the amazing work. I do not know if there is a part 4 coming or not but do you have a good pattern for validating users' input?
For small-screen mobile devices, could you launch the slides in full-screen landscape?
I'm pretty excited about Julia and integrating it into existing infrastructure[0]. The build process though -- even the "release" seems to insist on running git to pulldown code/data from the network -- if Julia devs/release-managers are reading -- what are odds of getting standalone distributions ?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7173137
Love love love. I appreciate that in a world of competition people don't want to lay their cards out but this was so refreshing and super useful. I'm bemused by how big tech blogs will only take notice not on your innovations and contributions but on how popular you are within the tech community.

Also, I wouldn't say that's begging at all. I never normally comment as people seem to enjoy flaming each other and it's not really something I'm big on but I liked the blog post figured I'd share my opinion because I liked it and I think people will gain a lot from it.

What would be nice to see is people praising one and other and helping each other along the way instead of pi*sing on the their metaphorical parade.

Thanks for the post Liam. I learnt a lot from it. The main thing, don't discount the little people as they're on the same journey as you and you'll be good for each other going up!
Yes, throwing it out would be suicide, since it'd break every module out there. They're revamping it while keeping backward compatibility, though, and the new API is definitively nicer.

http://www.slideshare.net/openobject/presentation-of-the-new...
People don't care about this stuff until it bites them in the ass. Then they care a whole lot.
> Why aren't there any talks about banning those hobby machines too?

There are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/unfini...
Isn't Vert.X async a-la Node?
More likely isps in other countries will look to this and decide they can make more money there. I think some Australian ips still have low gigabyte caps per month
If that would pass - wouldn't be this a great opportunity for european hosting companies to seize the hosting market?
For me, an acceptable UI in an ERP means this ERP can be used to do basic tasks by someone not having any PhD ni ERP Usage :)
Also worth mentioning is dotfiles (not specific to OS X). Basically various well known "power users" share their bash, homebrew, etc settings on github so that they can easily set up a new machine with minimum of fuss.
There are a lot of neat trick in those boilerplate files.

http://dotfiles.github.io/
This is awesome. Not surprised by the results.
This is more like conditionally charging people more to drive on the roads that already exist, based on destination, rather than vehicle.

And it's pretty easy to see where that could lead to discrimination.
Am I right in saying that JSONB is another way to say BSON?
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It works only if you are a native born resident. Immigrants are excluded because of what PayPal says are "legal restrictions" Sucks for me because all my clients insist on PayPal
Minnesota passes smartphone ‘kill switch’ law
Wow, I don't know if there's a way to teach the ad algorithm taste, but maybe it should detect whether the context is positive before it associates two things for advertisement purposes? Walk-in showers....
I felt the exact opposite, that this was the first time the content overshadowed the flashiness. I read it on a relatively low-end machine, so it's possible the flashy stuff was just disabled, which in itself would be great.
I tried to add php_value memory_limit 128M in .htaccess (it's mentioned in the post), but I wasn't aware that Azure pays no attention to .htaccess and I should've been modifying web.config instead.

But I'm a tech guy. As a customer, I would expect Azure to configure the server and PHP on its own and not bother me with the quotas at all :)
UN asks Australia to reconsider dumping on Great Barrier Reef
If you use other people's code, you might want to take a glance at the agreement that you're entering into with the person who wrote it for you, because you're going to be held to it. Within FOSS we've pretty much standardized on a few general forms, with small differences. When you mix them, though, those small differences can become very important.

If you work with Microsoft, though, you may want to hire someone to figure licensing out for you. Figuring out Microsoft licensing seems to be a lot harder than programming.
If you can operate a computer equipped with a plastic printer, I think you can operate a 18th century machine following a blueprint on paper. It is not like machinist design those lower receivers from scratch either.
> You can make the terminal start instantaneously instead of it taking several seconds.

You can fix that properly in two steps:

1. Create a symlink to your preferred shell. E.g. `sudo ln -s /bin/bash /usr/bin/bash`

2. In Terminal Preferences, use /usr/bin/bash as your shell, instead of the default login shell.

To confirm that you've fixed the problem:

- Open a new terminal window.

- "Last login" should NOT be displayed.

- Hit Command+I to show the inspector. The command should read: login -pfq username /usr/bin/bash.

The -q switch on /bin/login is what speeds things up. (.hushlogin does not solve the problem)

In order to get Terminal to pass the -q switch to /bin/login you have to use a non-standard shell, hence the symlink.
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I think people are using words sloppily. I think everyone agrees that the information should be available. I'm growing confident no one thinks that every contribution needs to be enumerated in situ, and beginning to suspect that no one thinks they actually need to be enumerated separately from the Wikipedia article (unless there are contributions not represented in the Wikipedia history). At which point, I don't think there's any real disagreement here.

I had interpreted your statement above as "Oh, of course go ahead and include a link to Wikipedia - they deserve credit too - but still redundantly list out every contributor to the Wikipedia page". This is because above, I think with the "...am I expected to cite every contributor? That doesn't seem reasonable." the author had in mind enumeration, not simple reference.
Well, there's no gold standard for how any of the contracts are setup, but if I had to guess, it's because you're talking about Level 3 <-> Comcast. The profile of Netflix is far different from Level 3. Generally the fee is based on the net (as in net total, not net internet) traffic.

If Level 3 sends 100Mbps to Comcast, and Comcast sends 100Mbps back to Level 3, or at least approximately even most of the time, they very well may have a settlement free agreement. This is believable because Level 3 is a transit provider, as in if you send them traffic bound to anywhere on the internet, they'll get it there, so the amount of traffic that Level 3 receives from everybody to get to Comcast could be roughly equal to the amount of traffic Comcast wants/needs to route through Level 3 to the rest of the internet.

In the Netflix<->Comcast case, it's not a transit peering. Netflix can only send traffic over that link that is destined for Comcast customers. These peering arrangements are generally drastically cheaper per Mbps than the transit peering. The difference here though is that the only think Comcast sends to Netflix is HTTP request for the most part, and then Netflix sends a video stream back, so there's a HUGE imbalance in the traffic going each direction.

All that said, what Netflix pays to Comcast may scale with Comcast's costs, but there's no direct relationship. To simplify it a bit, Netflix is paying to get traffic to the Comcast central brain. Customers are paying Comcast to get a pipe laid connecting them to the central brain. The two costs are not very directly related.
When is PostgreSQL going to get its own modern language which is functional/object-oriented/homoiconic/has-all-new-fangled-goodies built in, with a GUI language thrown in for good measure, so I can do everything in PostgreSQL without having to turn to another language?
> The problem with "Common Core" appears to be that complex procedures have been selected as the way to teach concepts.

This really doesn't have anything to do with common core. Different curriculums that the school districts choose to purchase and implement go about achieving the goals of common core quite differently. Everyday Math is mentioned in another comment and is mostly awful. It's pretty widely used though. We are actually moving to a house in my wife's school district this summer so that our son doesn't go to school where we currently live to avoid both Everyday Math and an equally awful reading curriculum.
>> You can have a keyboard and a touchscreen at the same time. I actually loved my keyboard/touchscreen android phone. I still want a real keyboard. I miss it.

I can't imagine that a BBRY Q10 running BB 10.2.1 would not have more appeal than the android keyboard/touchscreen that you had.
I wanted the exact same thing, and couldn't find it. Mail clients seem to be built with average users as the primary focus. However, you could quickly hack something together with SendGrid or any other mailing service, and get some analytics on how many messages are being marked as spam.
We used Six Ideas that Changed Physics in my introductory course (which the author of this article mentions as another non-traditional text, and dismisses without discussion. I thought that it was an excellent text, probably the best textbooks that I used during my physics undergrad (with the exception of the E&M section. That was poorly written). Our professor combined it with a nontraditional course format: You read the chapter and do problems before the lecture on that subject, and the lecture is dedicated to more in depth discussion, clarification, and some amount of group and individual work), which I thought was a really effective and engaging way to teach a large introductory course.
I don't know. The hideous mock-up of a 4.7 inch iPhone 6 that's been floating around certainly looks like a transparent response to the trend of larger Android phones.

Apple themselves admit that growth is coming from phones they can't compete with[0]. Their $600+ phones with 4 inch screens have been surpassed in both resolution and price.

[0]http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/06/why-apple-has-to-make-bigger-s...
> So what happened?

Media misrepresentation happened.

> It seems like just yesterday that the FCC was the one creating the rules around net neutrality.

It still is.

> A federal court over-turns this and all of a sudden the FCC decides to go the complete opposite direction?

No, this is an attempt to revive, within the constraints of the court decision, what was struck down. The reporting that this is about "allowing" or "considering" paid prioritization ignores the fact that, as a result of the court decision, paid prioritization is allowed now, without any restrictions. This proposal would declare some paid prioritization (where it is offered exclusively to an affiliate of the ISP) presumptively illegal, and seek to restrict paid prioritization even outside of that which is presumptively illegal. This is in the exact same direction (though not the exact same mechanism, since that was ruled outside of the FCC's authority) as prior net neutrality orders from the FCC, which is why the same 3-2 partisan alignment on the FCC exists on the issue that has existed on net neutrality as a broad concept for quite some time.
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Also the project's official site where you can get more background about the race and what relevance this has: https://sites.google.com/site/dictyworldrace2014/
https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn1734172
I don't really understand why it's divided by partisan membership.
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Going to be such a great release. Congrats PostgreSQL team! I love your product!
Are synchronized ‘wacky oxide’ chips the key to brain-like computers?
Great work Ron.These should be a small (or maybe a full) book some day.

Java is not my main language, but I liked the Advanced Topic: Blocking vs Non-blocking section and in general have been following Parallel Universe technology stack.

If anyone is interested more in the async vs actors, there is a nice new podcast with Ron Pressler, Fred Hebert (Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good author), Kevin Hamond and Zachary Kessin

http://mostlyerlang.com/2014/05/15/037-parellel-universe-wit...

There is a discussion about concurrency, how Quasar works underneath (hint: there is an interesting bytecode transform that takes place during loading), shared state, Erlang, Clojure and Datomic. Anyway, highly recommend.
Today, there are two main browser plugins required for watching DRM Video on the web. These plugins are not decoders, they are merely platforms on which the decoders themselves can run, alongside any other code that the site may supply. The problem with this approach, as I see it, is that these platforms create an inherent security risk for the user alongside the current issues regarding free software and ethics. The use of Flash/Silverlight also slows the adoption of other, more open, web standards.

By switching to EME, you're switching out the Flash & Silverlight platforms for a set of closed binary blobs which take an encrypted stream from the browser and produce unencrypted video/audio for the browser to display instead of executing arbitrary code. Now, I'll admit I'm not terribly well versed on the issue, but to me that seems to increase user security, promotes the use of other open web standards over Flash/Silverlight and keeps the media companies happy. The only people losing out in this situation are those that find DRM conceptually abhorrent.
Piracy isn't about Joe giving the video to his friends precisely because of DRM. If it was trivial to click 'save as' and copy the movie to a memory stick, I think people would be swapping movies routinely.

I already outlined precisely how they limit the influence of illegal download sites: ensure that the effort to find them and the perceived risk of prosecution and malware exceeds the cost of getting the movie legally. Once people start working and appreciate the value of their time, it's not actually very hard to tip that equation in their favour.
I've just started using play for the last two weeks, but so far i really don't understand the critics on java vs scala or the documentation. True, so far i've only dealt with json. / db / file upload & download , but even that covers quite a vast area, and it was pretty obvious that every time play had both a simple and documented way of doing those , even in java.