skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dvorak is pretty awful and this article is no exception.

This always seems to be the question: Why hasn't Comcast screwed over it's customers yet? The answer: They are. They're choking their bandwidth, they're forcing their customers to pay twice to have their content delivered. They are more interested in squeezing every single cent out of every single person that wants to transfer a packet across their municipality sanctioned monopolies. Dvorak has some gall asking a question like "Where has the harm been done?"

Look at customer satisfaction ratings. Look at how they cripple their networks. Look at your cable bill!

Is the FCC the best option? No. But we've gone past the critical point. No longer can you purchase a connection and expect to get full bandwidth at peak times. No longer can you start a business and expect that your traffic will reach the it's destination without interference. If someone has a better idea, bring it forward. But tell me how they are going to get Comcast to accept it.
Glad I to be of help, I would be interested to read your paper when it is publicly available!
Coinbase now supports the Bitcoin Payment Protocol
You wouldn't have a lawn, perchance? ;)
Ugh, I love the concept of electric but we saw what happened with cars. You have to make these look as good if not better than the existing motorcycles for this to take off. These look awful aesthetically. I own a gsxr 600 and I would definitely upgrade to electric and pay more but the bike has to look awesome.
> Recent medical and biological studies are showing that we are, in fact, evolved to live with an entire symbiotic ecosystem of fungus and bacteria. And the total war we have waged on all things microbial in the last century may have been to our detriment.

Aren't we living much longer then before though?
What's the point of redaction if you keep enough of the data intact to trivially reconstruct it?
I mentioned it one time. I guess that's some sort of definition of "constantly". ;-)

I'm not confusing anything though. I just have an expectation that I won't be dialing into some arcane menu system to retrieve just the messages I want. I haven't done so for almost 7 years. I don't pay too much attention to other's habits, but I haven't noticed anyone else do that for almost as long.

Visual Voicemail is the only voicemail I'd bother with. I'd guess that's pretty typical these days. I've even gone months after switching carriers having not even called the carrier to get voicemail set up because who leaves voicemails anyways but telemarketers?

Maybe it's different outside the US or in developing markets with a lot of feature-phones. I wouldn't know. This is just my own experience in DFW.
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Your home price maxes out at $3M. That's just a small apartment in Manhattan.
I live in a US city and have six choices for high speed internet access. This is a thriving free market. People are very quick to employ the coercive machinery of government to fix ills that do not exist.
Does anyone know why these cases are so expensive to defend? They can't be that complex given the troll basically has nothing. Could you not just hire a junior lawyer out college for next to nothing and put them in charge of running all the defences?
I'm currently working on releasing a fast Go framework. Expect a new player to join the framework game.
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Hi Tom

I'm the author of the StartupAUS Crossroads report. It sets out 23 actions to grow the Australian tech startup sector by addressing market failures relating to entrepreneurial culture, talent, tech skills, access to capital and regulatory barriers. http://startupaus.org/crossroads/

The report includes a detailed review of government initiatives that have been implemented in other countries. I don't think there's much call for us to come up with radical new ideas in Australia - there are many examples of government initiatives that have been effective in growing the startup ecosystems in other countries over the last 10-20 years, and that could be readily translated to the Australian context.

Colin
I'm glad I experienced the old internet back in its heyday, when high quality sites linked to other high quality sites, and Google exposed this natural topology for all to explore. Google's success eventually led to the end of the old internet: AdSense captured its value and then SEO perverted it with noise.

I expect within 5 years some crotchety old programmer will have build a search engine that penalizes sites for anything more than basic markup. No JS, no CSS, no hints of a CMS. Maybe it's already been done. "Old Skool Search"

And it will still be a poor imitation, because if there is one thing you can't recreate and experience for yourself, it is an internet gone by.
>>In two decades of e-commerce in the US, we have produced only two standalone e-commerce companies of meaningful enterprise value: Amazon and eBay. One went public in 1997, the other in 1998. We haven’t had an IPO of an e-commerce company that has gotten to a two billion of market cap in fifteen years, let alone double digit billions.

That's the bad news. The good news: if you wanted to become a millionaire on the web with reasonable but not outsized risk, ecommerce has pretty much been your best bet for the last 15 years or so. Getting an ecommerce businesses to the $1m-$50m revenue range has been done by many folks during that time. They may not be IPOing, but I think they're happy.
Ugh, what an ugly comment. Please don't do this on HN.
Well,

I think most are agreeing that you are someone who is used to following the procedures of a state which habitually engages in surveillance.

I can believe you when you say "this is what had to be done".

The problem is all this seems orthogonal to the actual question asked by the article - "why these chips?"

Another important part of the Snowden revelations is that "no reason to be paranoid" is no longer a good argument. Every revelation has pointed to "everything the agencies might do to spy on, they in fact did do".

So if certain chips attracts the agencies attention, one might legitimately ask "why?"
If 500 people pull on a rope with 25 pounds of force each, the tension is 6,250 pounds, not 13,000. Your math would be correct if one end of the rope were anchored.

(Or put another way: if two people pull on a rope with 50 pounds of force, the tension is 50 pounds, not 100.)
(This is exactly the question I've been trying to ask throughout this thread. Thank you for asking it directly. Hopefully someone here knows the answer, but it's looking more and more to be a mystery that will require some new effort to solve.)
Instead of posting a comment like this, it's generally better just to upvote the comment you're agreeing with. The mods are trying to optimize the signal:noise, and there's not much signal in a two-character comment.
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Considering flash sale sites are emphasized in the article, I don't see how Groupon doesn't break the claim that there are no public ecommerce companies worth over 2B (Groupon market cap is around $4B)
That is an excellent book, and the best accessible summary of the disease and efforts to treat it. Highly recommended.
I wonder if these would actually be a feasible mode of transport if people started using skii poles with them to maintain balance. I'd personally like to test that idea out but I don't have an AirWheel.
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Is that really an apt comparison? I assume the infrastructure for telephone companies in entirely different than the infrastructure for ISPs. Namely: that the variation in data that goes through phone companies is entirely different than the type that goes through ISPs.
how language evolves
Thanks for the reply. I wasn't familiar with docker, and thought that it was similar to zones in solaris/smartos. and this offer from GCP was similar to the SmartMachine offer from Joyent.
I doubt the components are backdoored by default in stock hardware.

Evidence? Links? Data?

All you have is speculation. Once, you could argue "no reason to worry, what evidence do we have that spy agencies are using every possible avenue to spy on everyone they conceivably could spy on" - but now we've had considerable evidence to that very effect.
I also use one of those and never smell at all, but I also wash with soap. Perhaps it's the crystal, not the lack of soap that does the trick?
To Mythic Beasts and other smaller discount VPS providers: please, please provide an API.

I am building a service that uses the Digital Ocean API. Their prices are lower than large services like AWS, Google and even Linode so I can provide a good value by adding on to their virtual servers (I am building a service for deploying Docker containers).

If there was another somewhat smaller but still relatively discounted and reliable VPS provider with a good API then I could provide that as another option for my customers to deploy their Docker containers to.
Out of curiosity I went searching for an Australian Law and found this manual:

http://www.asd.gov.au/publications/Information_Security_Manu...

I gather the UK equivalent is "HMG Infosec Standard 5"? The above link is not particularly informative, but it did have this gem on page 166:

Disposal of media

Disposing of media in a manner that does not draw undue
attention ensures that previously sensitive or classified
media is not subjected to additional scrutiny over that
of regular waste.

Control: 0378; Revision: 2; Updated: Sep-11;
Applicability: G, P, C, S, TS; Compliance: must;
Authority: AA

Agencies must dispose of media in a manner that does not
draw undue attention to its previous sensitivity or
classification.

Assuming the British system operates on similar principles, I'm not sure how this clause squares with having your media disposal effort splashed across the Internet and subject to scrutiny by Privacy International. :-)
It's worth pointing out that corporate personhood in the commercial sense is not the same as corporate personhood in the Citizens United sense. Governments are free to regulate how a 'corporate person' can come into existence and do business. They are just bad at it.
Thanks, I understand it is buried somewhere, I found the price by Googing it. Sounds like a great deal.

However, I vote with my dollars, and I am less inclined to give them mine when they treat their customers like marks in a confidence game. If a product is worth it's salt(as this is), why not be forthcoming? Perhaps because customers may be more apt to notice when 99 becomes 109 then 119 then 129....? behavioral economics isn't my forte, I just hate mealy mouth BS and won't abide it nor fund it. YMMV.
And column width set to 10.
Zulily's market cap is around $4.5B right now as well. I believe the criteria for that claim was that there are no other full-priced ecommerce companies breaking the $2B mark.
Yes and No.

Repo was born to resolve this kind of problem, but it might not be a "good" one. We (git/gerrit team at Google) are working on bring cross-repository atomic submit and other stuff to git/gerrit and our goal is to replace repo with git submodule.

Here're a very brief slides[1] and notes[2] about this topic at this year's Gerrit User Summit.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qG1eAiDmyozZBiVE6R4A...

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a2eFhVr1HUiKOjhaRHn_89mf...
My dad takes a drug for IPF a scarring of his lungs and it's about $50,000 per year

We also don't live in the US but he is lucky the drug company and his insurance pay 90% otherwise he'd be dead by now.
"Gleevec became a breakthrough, helping almost every patient with a particular rare blood cancer, chronic myelogenous leukemia. Patients stay on it for years, and it is so valuable that Novartis has quadrupled its annual price from $24,000 per year in 2001 to more than $90,000 today. Even the stingiest insurers pay, though some patients get it free."

I am also in a country where you don't have to choose between pay or die, and I'm thankful for that. Seeing this kind of thing in print certainly makes you look twice and appreciate what you have.
Based on the article, the fact that their customers love them. Of course, it's not hard to have customers that love you at the early money-hemorrhaging stage - the tough bit is continuing to be loved once you're turning a profit.
The sad part about IPv6 is that there's only one loopback address; ::1.

In IPv4, you have an entire /8 at your disposal, just for talking to yourself!
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I'm not sure why they're shifting the blame to Facebook; it didn't invent the crappy stories that get the most clicks, the news outlets did. They engineer titles in order to get the most shares/clicks out of humans, I don't this is anything to with Facebook in this case. The algorithms may choose to promote these more heavily but that's only because people tend to share those types of headlines more.

It's a pity that even "real" journalism outlets like Vox and The Verge are going after the short-term quick fix that is clickbait, but it's not really their fault either. If that's all that gets readers clicking, and they ultimately want to survive, it seems that their upper management will choose to adopt it in order to make it look like they perform better.

You can choose to do better, real journalism, but it's a long slow road to profitability. Especially if you have investors.
You might not know it, but in asking me this question, you are asking me if I think that ISPs are telecommunications services.

Yes, I think that ISPs are telecommunications services. Ask AT&T what kind of spiky demand for phone bandwidth they see during and immediately after a hurricane, or on Mother's Day.
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I loved the HipTop. It really was one of the first "smart" phones on the US market. The article's claim "we all started microblogging/lifestreaming" needs a little context as it claims credit that I feel belongs to someone else...

While Danger had a very basic implementation running internally (pretty cool, see [1]), they surely didn't have a clue of the potential/value of lifestreaming/public status updates.

Neither did I. As an initial beta-tester in May/June of 2002 I too had developed a HipTop mobile blogging site for private use (CF/SQL/Email, mostly cat and food shots!) -- demoed it to Om Malik who introduced me to T-Mobile -- but it was really Mike Popovic's HipTopNation [2], the first communal moblog launched on Oct. 4th 2002 and his Oct. 31 Halloween Photo Scavenger Hunt that sparked the popularity and showed the potential.

After HipTopNation quickly gained traction [3] with 1000+ mobloggers, Danger decided to launch a "hiplog" service/site to consumers on Jan 13, 2003 [4]. Joi Ito has a nice timeline [5]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041205233554/http://www.spies....

[2] http://hiptop.bedope.com/index.php?FILTER=zvxr@gevny.qnatre....

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20050915215559/http://www.guardi...

[4] http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2003/01/13/danger-announce.html

[5] http://archive.today/e4Ie#selection-685.35-685.47
Tim Pope, crafter of vim plugins - AMA
For the past decade, I've only lived in cities with one choice for high speed internet access. There is no free market where I live.
Perhaps it suffices to say that persons who know the item content of the IMO contests intimately are very happy to hire (or recruit as students) young people who have demonstrated ability to solve the contest problems. They don't think they are gaining access to people who can be replaced by a computer program.
I know a guy who has an electric motorcycle (a zero) and while I'm sure it's fine for going around town, it's crap for pleasure. He's always proposing weekend rides that, of course, happen to pass by charging stations where we will be required to spend a multi-hour lunch. Definitely does not fit in with my idea of what a motorcycle is for. If I want to take short urban trips I'd just as soon use a bicycle.
Hmm. I would argue that we're still in step -1, though the clean shaven folks have finally started listening to the neckbeards in a few circumstances and are slowly moving around towards step 0.

Most people still can't actually route IPv6 over their tubes without going through a tunnel broker. At least for home, small office, and companies that aren't tech heavy, it's still firmly in the neckbeard camp.
serious question how do you handle cleaning your nether region without soap? i can see not using soap everywhere else except down there. And does it follow that we should stop using laundry detergent to? Tooth paste? Toilet paper?
Do you take Econ 101 in England or Econs 101?
https://code.google.com/p/gorest/ is another one worth considering if the overhead of routing with net/http feels too much.
(In case it gets changed the current title is: Burning sand as renewable power supply)

Where to even start, sigh.

You are not burning sand. And it's not in the slightest renewable. Or CO2 neutral or any of the other nonsense in the article.

At best silicon can be used as a battery of sorts if you burn the silicon.

It's not an energy source, and it has no impact whatsoever on CO2.

Flagged. I think it should be killed, but if it stays at least change the title to "Using silicon as an energy carrier by burning it and then reducing it".
I jump between Creole and Markdown and this seems like an interesting mashup. Though I don't like all the choices made. I have been thinking lately about just combining Creole and Markdown into one master markup lang.

The one thing I really like in Skriv is the ability to assign CSS classes to paragraphs or divs. That is something I have wanted in an abbreviated form for a while. I wrote an extension to do this in my own Creole parser but most of the time I am using someone else's or writing in Markdown so I can't use the syntax.
This is about energy transportation, nothing about energy supply. The silicon is produced using solar power in this article. You could just as easily put it in a flywheel, put it in lithium ions, or use it to reduce sodium and burn the sodium instead.

edit: also, understatement of the century:

"restricting factor here is that the SiO2 oxidation product remains with the silicon and partially restricts its subsequent oxidation"
I think they meant for mobile.
> Even though the bounds that identify a repository as massive are pretty high – for example the latest Linux kernel clocks at 15+ million lines of code

Yeah 15 million lines of code isn't a massive repository, it is medium-large at best. Any one of the big enterprise software companies has repos an order of magnitude bigger for each major product they sell.
Carolla's opines are based in logic I have always found. I can not donate to his cause because I find it impossible to justify another countries broken legal system has to accept bribes to stop from destroying innovation.
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Understood, and totally redacted now.

Look, I was just trying to present some truth, at least my truth.

I tried to anonymize, but I understand the audience here is pretty sophisticated..

If anyone wants to advise on how to share this better please advise. I'm not trying to hate, just share some facts. I was surprised the seemingly fanboy level reaction to Newegg here. I did a fair amount of business with them previously and their behavior in this case was truly objectionable. This isn't exactly a Snowden level revelation... I was just saying this company isn't exactly a bunch of angels...

I now use Amazon for what I used to buy from Newegg. They cost a bit more for some things but are a stand up company and have always stood behind their sales. If something doesn't work they accept a return (which is commendable), and if something is delivered broken (which is what happened in this case) they don't give you a rash of sh*t.
Lee is a hero. Most patent lawyers talk in very measured tones when it comes to patent trolls, because they don't want to foreclose the possibility of feeding at the money faucet themselves.

Lee doesn't give a fuck. He straight up calls them thieves and asshats. Baller status.
Will this move photoshops stupid non cocoa based window? Nothing else I've seen does, and switching from a tbolt monitor back to my laptop always leaves photoshop looking like shit and unable to be resized.
The IQ findings are mostly an effect rather than a cause of the educational achievement differences, based on the historical trends observed in the last century.
I didn't even catch that bit about burning "sand" in the title. It's the precise _opposite_ of burning sand. Oxidation, reduction... details.
I think you've discovered the origin of NewEgg's stance: why order from Amazon when you can buy from Newegg _and_ fight patent trolls?
Surely these are all casualties, as not all resulted in fatalities.

In fact, the only fatalities listed in this article were 2 boys in Frankfurt Germany.
Didn't Linus mention this in his talk at Google, Mercurial offers similar speeds, but Perforce would be the option for large binary files.

I personally haven't come across any need to use anything except shallow clones in large repos. Most of the time, you want to keep those other topic branches regardless.

They've linked to their previous most regarding submodule in the post[1], but it's worth re-mentioning that if you need to use submodule, you should almost always use subtree.

[1]: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submo...
I see it, clicked Amazom Prime link and it is indeed in the right margin...I missed it first time. I found it on Goog too. My point is, it is arguably the most weighted deciding factor of the transaction, why isn't it stated plainly right on the content page rather than buried in small print behind a link?...granted, it could be smaller and buried further. They managed to get the 'Free Trial' bait plainly centered on the page, why not the terms? Obfuscation.
Dude good job this is the best way I have seen correcting a persons grammar with out derailing the argument.
Before I even got to the end of your post, my mind was already thinking about crowdsourcing the system. THIS. NEEDS. TO. HAPPEN.
As far as I understand it, the main problem is that the error rate of DNA replication is somewhat high ~ 1 error per 5 megabytes of data. As you've mentioned quite a lot of data needs to be copied during cell replication. So that's the problem to be solved - diminishing this error rate. And improving replication / correction mechanisms.

And considering that there are no laws of nature that prohibit redundant replication of data with virtually no errors there should be no limit to improvement in that area.
This is a solution to the energy storage (transportation) problem that I've never heard. But if we're going to talk about this, could we start with a more honest title and a discussion of it in comparison to other storage technologies?
Aren't decreasing infant and child mortality rates making it falsely appear so to some extent?
Fixed. Thanks. :-)
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How can you not love this guy? Not only extremely smart, but his/her writing style makes it sound incredibly easy.