skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that LAN transfers only have to do switching, not routing. Packet switching is easy; routing is a bit harder. I did some research. It appears the 7800DXL uses a Broadcom 6361 (http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/hardware/?action=h_view&model_...). According to the OpenWRT wiki, this is a 400MHz dual-core chip (http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/soc/soc.broadcom.bcm63x...). I would not expect you to get full gigabit WAN-to-LAN. The highest end routers these days are running dual-cores at 800MHz-1GHz and they are barely up to 1Gbps. For example, the Netgear R7000 runs a dual-core CPU at 1GHz and only makes it up to 930Mbps (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/322...).

Also, maybe an easy way to test this would be to disconnect your router and put another PC on the WAN port. You can then run iperf between the WAN port and another computer on a LAN port. That should show you the theoretical peak performance doing WAN-to-LAN. Doesn't help you prove your actual connection speeds, but it will give you an idea of what the router is actually capable of.
Yeah the pumps always seem like overkill, why not let gravity do most of the work for you.
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> The "snitch" concept is [...] harmful.

That's the point. The idea is that one should 'fall on the grenade' to protect his criminal comrades. When he instead throws them to the wolves to save himself, people get up-in-arms about it.

Though it's not all that surprising. It's sort of like whole 'honor among thieves' ideal. When you throw in with a bunch of people that are willing to 'colour outside the lines,' sometimes the lines that they cross will not just be the lines drawn in the sand by the law, but the lines that you yourself draw in the sand.
Shame it doesn't have regex syntax built in...
Good one. More context on the ideas and proposal Poul-Henning has put on the table: http://phk.freebsd.dk/words/httpbis.html
We actually expect to be able to improve situation. A few tweak have been made to the hardware/firmware to allow us to better test power consumption. This will make software change happen to improve the overall battery life on this and probably other phones.
Based on this random list from 2011:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/25-college-majors-with-lowest-un...

You appear to be correct.

However, moving forward in time to 2013:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/01/18/careers-lowest-unemp...
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/04/news/economy/jobs-lowest-une...

That appears to be incorrect.
I'm old enough to remember the threat of the Japanese economy during the 1980s. Joe six-packs smashing Japanese electronics in front of the Whitehouse. Calls of "Americas glory days are over" were heard over and over. And yet here we are today.

The current way I interpret news articles that proclaim huge shifts in the world is this: if the article takes any short-term trend and applies it over a future time period I immediately discount it.

I'm waiting for the next new article "American teenagers grew an average of 10 inches in 3 years, if this trend continues, American will be an average of 13 ft tall in 2050!!!"
Try this list of resources for beginners: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
I get utility in return, ie Google's ability to provide better results based on previous context.
It's 2014. China could produce a lot of young talent between now and then if it changed policies to pursue that goal.
just curious, are saying you let them scroll out of view, or get rid of them altogether? if the latter, what type of site navigation is better?
I put together Font Pestle for this purpose: http://miln.eu/fontpestle/
Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io
I am facing a lot of troubles with govt polices to run this startup. And also its getting tougher to take it forward alone. I got an exciting response when I launched it last September http://goo.gl/JHoMQK (~10k visits in a 3 hours span).

I built many missing parts, and also worked on the UI, payment gateways (2checkout), invoicing system, support ticketing system, etc. Everything works fine now and good to go for production.

Many of you (from the HN community) have registered and tested it, and gave valuable feedback (and few are already using it on production) - Thank you all for your support! And sorry, many accounts are still not activated.

Many of you tweeted about it https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=transcode.io&src=typd - Thanks you guys as well for spreading the word :)

I tried to team up, but failed miserably. There are so many things to do - coding, testing, marketing, support, financing, fraud detection, refunds, taking care of customers, expansion, new features, legal, etc.

English is not my first language, hence I face a lot of difficulties while writing official emails and stuff.

I need suggestions/directions for selling it or getting funded or getting co-founders.

Cheers!

(http://amritbera.com/journal/why-i-built-transcode-io)
"In fact, sensors and delivery systems are close enough to being cheap and ubiquitous enough to enable non-governmental "competing" intelligence organizations becoming a problem."

Isn't it called Google?
Are there any Vesper users that also used Simplenote?

I'd be curious to know if there is anything significantly better about Vesper, compared to Simplenote. I realize Vesper lets you add photos (cool) — are there other differences?
FYI, this UI pattern is called "Quick Return": http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/08/an-emerging-ui-patt...

I had been looking for this pattern's name after having seen Chrome on Android implementing it for their navbar. I find it useful on mobile where scrolling a long distance can be laborious.
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I have no idea what Vesper is and after looking at the website, I still have no idea.
Quite a few people go to art school to make money, and these people are generally happy to have investors talk to them. Investors will continue to target these sort of events for as along as this continues to be the case.
Yes, it turns out you can make a lot of money if you pay no taxes and no money towards insurance. Your money is earned as a negative externality imposed on everyone else.
Is it?

I was looking at making a restore from backup script today (tomorrow I will likely implement it). I have been using Python and Django for the last three years almost exclusively. Perl just felt like would more natural fit for the job (with the exception of messing about with dates part).
How well has Slack been for you as opposed to Hipchat or something similar?
Knod – A Tiny HTTP server for your current directory with writes
Obviously we aren't going to intentionally reject good companies in order to perform some kind of study, but we do our best to keep track the ones we reject that later become successful. There are a couple of them, but so far they are an order of magnitude smaller in both size and number than the successful companies that we did accept.
With Firefox's new support for DRM this will be a killer piece of hardware!

Said no-one ever.
Steps require "human transcription"? I think you've got a wrong term, and if you mistype the data you have on the paper when making a spreadsheet I don't see why you wouldn't when doing the same typing using your text editor.
Strong encryption works and data in transit and at rest can be secured.

Hey, if we can capture the packets today, it's only a matter of time until quantum computers are brought online and AES256 is rendered as strong as wet paper.

(Or so the gamble might go)
Here's google's snapshot: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
> I don't know of any jurisdictions in the US where you don't need insurance to drive

Only semi on topic, but via [0]:

New Hampshire and Virginia do not require motor vehicle insurance. In New Hampshire vehicle owners must satisfy a personal responsibility requirement; instead of paying monthly premiums, and prove that they are capable of paying in case of an accident. In Virginia vehicle owners may pay an uninsured motorist fee. In Mississippi vehicle owners may post bonds or cash.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance_in_the_United...
Exactly. It would be interesting to know the breakdown based on 20 percentile increment.
How can I tell if it will work with my network?

Does it support 4G / LTE?
presumably the driver meant 'cash tips' because the app very much allows tipping, although it's also possible the driver was not entirely knowledgeable of the process.

It's more important among lyft drivers to not accept cash tips because it's a safety issue; as a community, accepting cash tips can lead to danger if pink mustaches become a target for crime. Usually I refuse cash tips and relent only if they insist (this mostly happens with service industry clients).

In San Diego, there is a driver that donates 50% of tips to charities; she has a blog where she posts her tallied earnings for transparency on the process.
> By 2050, China will have lost one-third of its working-age population. Meanwhile, the U.S. will bestride the earth as the youngest industrialized nation after India.

How are we divining the mating habits of people born in 2020 to 2030's US?
Edsger Dijkstra's ideas applied to unit testing
This article is poorly written and researched, full of grandiose language & hyperbole with little to no justification. For example:

"China’s demography is a disaster ... by 2050, China will have lost one-third of its working-age population"

Grandiose hyperbole substantiated by the fact that in 35 years, people will be older!

"China’s politics are wrong"

"jobs will come home to the U.S...(due to) plentiful cheap energy from fracking"

No need to pander.
Maybe the moral of that story is to pick a field where there isn't an oversupply of labor, not to make yourself look good in a field where there is.

It always struck me as slightly ironic that the skills most useful in today's world - programming, statistics, linear algebra, economics, persuasiveness, and self-advocacy - are rarely taught in standard educational institutions, and often actively discouraged. Teaching 14-year-olds about supply & demand will help far more lives than teaching them to go to college.
Avidbots Look To Take Over the Mundane Job of Cleaning the Mall At Night
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No, I'm suggesting that it is very reasonable that this is the true average. May not be the true median, though, given the 80-20 principle and uneven distribution of skill.
I'm confused about these lines:

"As self-employed, independent contractors, though, UberX drivers receive a Form 1099-MISC...Subsequently, UberX drivers are hit with a 5.6 percent tax deduction for each mile they drive...if he or she drove 100 miles, he or she will be taxed $56 (5.6 percent tax x 100 miles driven)."

Why is this the case? In my experience with 1099s, they have nothing to do with miles driven. In any case, I don't understand how 5.6% of 100 = $56. Could somebody please elaborate on this?
I agree with you; developers definitely have to think about the URLs they're exposing to Googlebot. But this is essentially no different from how things were before. Your example with sorting a list by date instead of name would be done with a query string (which Google does index to a point), e.g. /users?sortBy=date=&from=392. This can obviously create quite a lot of links to the same content, and developers should know how to handle this situation. Again, not different from before - single page apps don't change anything in this regard.
Amoco: yet another python tool for analysing binaries
This defensive it's-just-a-developer-phone angle seems to take it for granted that there are other FirefoxOS phones more suitable for "high-end" users who aren't looking for a developer device. Are there?

(For my part I think this spec looks good, except that like most current smartphones it's physically rather big. I have a Keon, and I would have loved a device in the same enclosure but with better quality components. I found the OS itself very comfortable to use, it's "just" the hardware I've found problematic.)
> demonstrate that an alternative path is measurably superior for a significant percentage of the people

That's really kind of my point. There is no path that is measurably superior for a significant percentage of people. We're all different. Very different. Because of that, we should have unique paths, even for our education.
One potential problem here is that google will use this to widen the gap between it and the 'one page apps' web and other search engines (such as duckduckgo) that can't match it in resources.

There are free and open source tools available that would help search engines parse pages containing JS (PhantomJS comes to mind).
What if I told you: you don't have free will?
You say it is a much better language. I see very little difference between the two.. With the exception of exceptions, and print I think all the changes must be to language features I don't know about / use.
There are about 20000 black cabs in London which make abrupt pull overs, ridiculous u-turns and blocking lanes 2 mins at a time. Luckily London drivers are familiar with how they look and can prepare ahead for erratic behaviour.

Imagine there are 100000 of them, effectively under camouflage.
This trick only works for bosons
*Edit: I think.

At any rate, these depths of physics are quite complex and not very intuitive, and this kind of discovery shows it is very easy to overlook things. A giant discovery could be looming in the horizon...
Silver-bullet fads tend to have a grain of truth that gets carried on into the next fad. Loops are still with us (structured programming), we still write polymorphic code (OOP), we still like less verbose type systems (dynamic languages), etc.
30-40 hours per week over 12 weeks (I lyft full time while I'm waiting for the IRS to issue 501(c)(3) status for my nonprofit). There are weeks I've put in 45 hours. I'd say the first four weeks or so I didn't know what I was doing, so I averaged around $20/hour. More recently I've been doing $30/hour: I put in about 40 hours and make $1000 after gas and an average mechanical burden on my car.

One caveat: The lyft system has been thrashing a lot over this time period; since they have been expanding clientele, expanding drivers (not necessarily evenly), then they changed their compensation policy to have "happy hours" with discounted rates, at which time the algorithm to calculate "prime time" rates started to go really crazy, flipping between +200% to -20% over the course of 45 minutes, then they got rid of the happy hours and went straight 20% off (and tempered the prime time algorithm), then they removed their commission, then they added a $1/ride bonus...

It's been really crazy keeping up with all the changes, but what's interesting is that I've found by ignoring the part of my brain that wants to be consternated about this and pressing forward and honing my driving strategy has basically led to a reasonable income trend that is basically independent of the craziness.
Ask HN: Anybody using Disco MapReduce?
I'd interested in reading any experience with http://discoproject.org
How do you interpret articles which proclaim that other articles proclaiming huge shifts are overblown?

Because that's what this article is doing.
> Frequency: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
UMTS 850/900/1900/2100MHz

If your network supports one of these frequency bands, it will work. That should cover most, if not all GSM networks.
Yes, I felt the same. In many ways, I'm more interested in how the YC group is organized and how they make money.
Goodbye MAMP. Maverick built in PHP Server
Show HN: List all the licenses for your pip-installed Python packages.
speaks to people, reads forums, participates in conversations like this....

When I have seen people talking about sticking with Python 2, its either because A) why bother I don't need to B) a specific library is not Python 3 yet.
I've got the right level of understanding of Git to grok this article. I really liked how you talked about cherry picking before you talked about rebaseing. I'd like to request you include a section on why/when you need the rebase --onto argument.
US is #1 at caring about being #1. (we'll see if this shifts to whatever next country becomes #1)

> U.S. education is always said to be in crisis. But 17 of the world’s top 20 universities are in the U.S., and 34 of the top 50.

Yes, we all know that the smart and/or rich/connected have ample opportunity in the US. But that says nothing about the median.
Sure!

And now your poor little mobile user has to wait for the page to download, then to execute javascript, then to wait for the API response, then wait for the DOM to update.

Or you could put it in the HTML, and then they just have to wait for the page to download.
If this PR were made by a party which is NOT a confirmed troll, it might be a valid concern. Don't feed the trolls. And besides, you can name your local branch whatever you like.
Goodbye Google Code, I'm moving to GitHub
Did you read the whole article? The author acknowledges that point more than once.
There is a difference between the prosecution having to prove intent as an element of the crime and having the totality of the offense be intent on its own, or the offense being some collection of innocuous actions that cause no harm to anyone on their own but happen to be correlated with undesired activity.
While the statistic is incomplete, for the reasons you say, it's not entirely without value.

For example, if the average return were below the typical developer salary, I'd call it a sucker's bet and say that no one should participate unless it was for the yucks.
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JScript.net has never been a first-class citizen, and Microsoft never really made an effort to make it viable in all of the domains C# is. JScript feels like an attempt to embrace/extend JavaScript that never took hold.

The problem is that rather than adding libraries to improve .Net for scripting-ish stuff like string interpolation, you have to deal with an entirely different platform that shares little with the command line, and little with .Net.
I had some bug in a Django library, that went away by using Python 3. Can’t remember what it was exactly, but it was related to Unicode support.
In the lab. The paper contemplates the possibilities for nucleons too - it's just harder for spin particles: http://www.uibk.ac.at/exphys/ultracold/projects/levt/efimov/...
Google starts blocking extensions not in the Chrome Web Store for Windows users
I think the idea was to make it possible to install Firefox OS on a popular and affordable Android handset. Both Firefox OS and apps for Fx OS could be developed on it.
Services
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Spotify
DigitalOcean
AWS Glacier
Dropbox
Evernote
Mykolab.com

Apps
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1Password
aText
Airmail
Alfred
Bartender (awesome!)
Boxcryptor classic
Boom
Fantastical
ForkLift
OmniFocus 2
Parallels
Sublime Text
Image attachments are the biggest difference. Another is that Vesper allows you to reorder notes by drag and drop -- move unimportant notes down, move important ones up. But the biggest difference, we hope, is that Vesper is just plain nicer.
Vesper is a simple, elegant notes app for the iPhone.
A few questions:

1. How much do you want for it?

2. How much revenue do you have?

3. Have you found a way to acquire customers?

4. How much will it cost the new owner to get it developed further?
I've used both. Simplenote has clients for major platforms and the web, unlike Vesper's iPhone only setup. This is the main reason I currently use Simplenote - I need a desktop client (web, OS X, or Windows). But when Vesper's Mac version launches I'd like to switch.

Simplenote offers more functionality than Vesper at the cost of complexity. Parts of Simplenote feel arbitrary or difficult to build a mental model for. Vesper is beautifully apparent in how it works & what you can do. I never feel lost or wrestling for control in Vesper.
Yes, it's about trade-offs. The point I was making though is how the simulation models the counter-intuitive concept of "closing roads improve traffic" because the simulation embodies a property of game theory that also applies in real life.
The pie chart is really misleading. It'd be nice to see number of companies as a function of operating income.
So far the delta in "estimated reserves" is tipping sharply negative because a lot of the glowy estimates by big producers such as Saudi Arabia are turning out to be nothing but wishful thinking and aren't based in reality.
This.

From an perfectionist perspective - a font is a font, those were made for text. They're used for icons just because it's widely supported option that allows arbitrary coloring and scaling - so when one need a red 0.6cm-sized icon, they get it with a simple directive.

SVG is a graphic format that also has such possibilities while being more semantically correct by not even slightly abusing text (even though icon fonts generally use that private Unicode area).
How's this different than simply sending a Coinbase email to someone, or perhaps just the credentials of a blockchain.info account?
There's not enough oil left to fight WW3.
This is a 3G phone. It does not support 4G/LTE.
By "atone" do you mean "save your own skin"?
There seems to be a fair amount of comments comparing the specs of this phone to other phones etc.

To clarify, this is a reference device. Meaning that having all of the functionality, like a front facing and rear facing camera, is the primary goal. They cannot make comprises by removing features of the phone, like many lower end phones do, because the point of the phone is to test how these things work in your application. A faster phone or higher screen resolution is much less important for this device than including all of the hardware functionality a developer would be targeting with their application.
My #1 request with Chrome would be if it could sort the history by "last seen/interacted with", not by last opened tab because it would be more accurate when I'm trying to retrace my steps e.g. "I know I was just reading X page 10 minutes ago, but that was a page I opened two hours ago, so it's way way down in the history".
While it doesn't support writing (POST/PUT etc), for serving files over HTTP from the current directory, Python's built in HTTP server is perfectly fine. It comes with Python 2.4+ as standard.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer
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Taking the concept in a different direction:

You currently have people you accept and people that you reject.

You recognize that many of the people that get rejected might actually get accepted if the pool of companies you could manage could be larger. (Similar to how many people are rejected by top schools but the schools recognize that there are people that qualify but miss because of some arbitrary decision process). (After all the class size is pretty much fixed even when the applicant pool rises).

So you create a third class which is, for lack of a better way to put it, "worthy runner up". Like having a silver or bronze medal. (Noting that merely even getting into the Olympics and not getting anything is worth something.)

And then those rejected applicants get some of the halo of YC (which further increases the applicant pool because now it's not solely pass or fail). Plus of course further YC name branding. "While they were rejected by YC they did get a Silver medal and with that..."

Anyway my intuition says that someone branded as "runner up" would do better than someone not given that status.
I think they missed an opportunity. They should have changed "master" to "mistress"...