skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes back farther than that: For ham operators, there was a single-tube radio published in 1932 that pretty well laid out the principles.
http://www.w7ekb.com/glowbugs/tx/hartleyonetube.htm has a nice summary.
This is a beautiful comment. Thanks Thomas.

(It is because of comments like these that I have your comments page bookmarked the same way I would a blog.)
Pretty much everything in college is geared to those students who aren't failing. What you're really asking is why do we help them at all and instead give even the last 1% of help to those for whom everything is already given?
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I'd have to hear the conditions of the license before I actually accused him of actually being a troll (p=30% in my book). I suspect the license actually was $1, 10% of revenue on a program understood to be freeware, 1 license to run the program should it become payed, 1 free beer should they meet, etc (fine in my book -- it's a defensive patent). But it could have been something that I would consider abusive. I just don't know.

I hesitantly accept the story as presented by these two business partners. But do I think it's "Un-fucking-believable" that someone would come to the opposite conclusion? Absolutely not. I do think it's puzzling that he doesn't realize that the ONLY thing we have to go on is his word and the word of somebody heavily incentivized to not badmouth him, and that this puts everyone else in a position of extreme uncertainty. That attitude smacks of "it's not trolling when I do it" and does slightly reduce the credibility of the claim. But only slightly -- I stand by my p=70% estimate that they're genuine and I can understand the frustration of having people assume the opposite.
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The funny thing is before twitter was twitter it was birthed within Odeo, which could be compared as the soundcloud of the time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeo
The past month I've been working as CTO in a Startup Accelerator, my team had promised me 2k per month to live on during this time, this week they backed out of that agreement and instead are wanting 2k for the entire 3 months. I've been coding 70 hours per week on this project.

Before we were sure we were even going to be accepted to BoomStartup, I had been going to about 10 interviews per week, I'm on the jr side my strong point is Laravel, but I was willing to interview/learn more Rails. I spent over 1000 just in gas travelling between Salt Lake, Sandy, and PRovo Utah for job interviews in the month of April alone. I've also been connecting with individuals at local Meetups, and online via User Groups I belong to in the area. Thanks for the advice, I'll work on my resume, and soft skills.
I think given the various side channel attacks, the actually encryption being very good might be overstating it.
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Just imagine that you had more than one choice of high speed Internet provider (unlike 95% of Americans who are stuck with the one cable company that happened to successfully bribe their local municipality) and think about what would happen to this issue. Competition would force the ISPs to knock this shit off. It's a product of their entrenched geographic monopolies. Period.
It's UK only for now.
It's good news that researchers are finding them instead of black hats. The only bad part is that OpenSSL has many more implementation flaws than a serious crypto project should.
I guess there are only so many ways to arrange a piece of cloth with some holes in it.
We just picked these up for most of our team. Everyone seems very happy with them. Very adjustable and I've found it to be quite comfortable and sturdy. http://www.amazon.com/Lorell-Executive-High-Back-Chair-Fabri...
It's not bullshit, because you don't need to own a for-profit prison to profit from the prison-industrial complex. Even non-profit prisons (my, is that a weird phrase) result in the transfer of tax dollars to prison staff, construction workers, suppliers of food, surveillance equipment, and other necessary materials, and so on. Oh, and don't forget cheap prison labor. So clearly, many groups have a vested interest in maintaining and even growing a high prison population.
This is bull shit, isn't it? These companies business models are based on surveillance, but people don't understand that. What people do understand is when gov's do surveil them.

But it's the same. I say encrypt your communications, and pull the rug under both Zuck and the NSA.
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>In the overwhelming majority of instance a financial reward is an incentive.

I don't believe this is true. I know numerous studies have shown that, for example, software developers enjoy their work less and feel less in control of it the more they are paid to work on it.

This case does not necessarily apply to Tor nodes, since one does not really do any persistent "work" when running one. But the concept of monetary incentive is definitely not nearly as shallow as you make it out to be.
Consider the fact that the Library of Congress doesn't even allow modern color negative and transparency films into its archives, let alone digital files! Only silver based negatives and prints that have gone through a very specific washing method are allowed in, as they pass the "500 year" test.

I've actually been shooting a lot more black and white film these days, on the off-off chance that someone will want to look at my pictures some day.
Very nice; any plans for a public data api?
Thank you very much, that is very nice of you! ^^
I think actually the reason is programming is popular in China. So based on the population (that knows how to write code), eventually all programming languages will appear to be popular in China on Google Trends.
I think you should be looking for courses targeting particular 3d game engines like Unreal, Unity etc. I found one for Unity which seems to be pretty popular. http://walkerboystudio.com/html/unity_training___free__.html
It's called Socrata and I think they are posting these city data projects.
If you honestly think like this what do you think people should do that live under more invasive governments ? Even most of Europe has more invasive data collection laws (in all European countries, the secret service and the IRS equivalent can tap/copy/... anything they want to without warrants, and any cooperation they request must be freely given on pain of imprisonment. Anybody who's worked at a Euro ISP knows this. Nobody ever mentions it for some reason)

All European ISPs must give a certain organisation a command shell (sort-of) that allows them to copy any and all traffic to a specific customer without the ISP even knowing they're doing it. They have to do this for free and provide free tech support. This is why cisco, alcatell, juniper, HP, ... both produce "lawful intercept" versions of all their network software [1]. Installation of these images in most of the world (not just Europe) is not optional.

Unlike in the US, the ISPs never get to see any warrants. Asking for that is a crime, that can land you in prison. "Obstructing" justice can also land both directors and techies in jail (ie. not promptly providing prompt tech support to idiot police officers who wonder why tapping an ADSL line does not tell them when the tapped person checks gmail on their phone). There are not allowed to be limitations. For example if you are an American customer of an ISP that operates in Europe, they can tap you (e.g. Liberty Global). And obviously, the government refuses to pay anything for the quite substantial effort required to implement all this.

ISPs only deal with a certain central organisation (it's more-or-less interpol) that basically gives open tapping to a list of European organisations that doesn't fit on a single page, and several organisations that aren't even European.

So given this, what do you think the entire European telco, government, and ... industry should do ? Keep in mind that people working for this infrastructure is probably around 50 million people.

[1] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst65...
Unfortunately Twitter haven't seemed to realise the "Facebook" way of making acquisitions — if it's a good product in it's own silo, let it stay the course and then have two silos. Twitter seems to acquire and suck products into it, often destroying it in the process (see: The Echo Nest). Vine was unique because it was dead-simple and was already integrated into the Twitter ecosystem, and required barely any modification.

I love SoundCloud, although it has deteriorated slightly in the past year (even little things, like the site going from truly fluid to having several fixed breakpoints, seem to indicators of them become more risk-adverse or "normal" — IMO). I think a change internally would cause some excitement and innovation within the company, and Twitter coming into it would not bring the right kind of change.
top marks where? I don't see it... here is one source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/02/12/used-car...
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I notice they got Drew Houston rather than Condoleezza Rice to sign on behalf of Dropbox.
I'd really like to see a cite for this claim. I looked and could find zero reference to a patent holder's responsibility to enforce in order to maintain a patent's validity. AFAIK a patent holder is free to enforce their patent as they see fit, just as a copyright holder can. Otherwise there could be no such thing as a purely defensive patent, no?

Edit: Here we go[1]. So a patent holder can lose their ability to collect damages if they notify an infringer of their infringement but then fail to take action against that particular infringer within a certain period. There's no damage to the patent merely because of selective (or absence of) enforcement.

[1] http://www.lawabel.com/patent-damages-laches-and-equitable-e...
No images but https://www.readability.com/articles/rs8nq3xr is readable. I use rdd.me all the time just for this purpose.
I was also thinking of using it as a bookmarks site. :)
> My solution is way too complex for practical use, though.
In fact, the whole patent troll problem is partly because patents are not like this. They can buy up all kinds of junk and wait until there's broad industry adoption of some concept and submarine everyone. Although it would open a whole different can of worms, we might actually be better off if patents were like that because it would at least bring things to a head very fast.
Can good developers be good CEOs?
CDNs are supposed to decrease load times but in my experience it is the opposite... sometimes I wonder if CDNs exist only for data collection purposes.
I completely agree with this. I worked 3 years remotely out of India for a company based out of London, with mostly remote employees. I have yet to meet a single colleague in person. While there were times when I had literally not stepped out of the front door of my house for upto a week, it suited me just fine since I am an introvert and loner. However, the days when I did step out, I ensured that I met my friends, a lot of whom were non-technical and also that I 'did' stuff.

Basically, unplug and live in reality for a while. Don't think about tech. It's easy to do and quite gratifying to be honest.

I think a lot of people in the tech industry live in the mistaken belief that technology and technological pursuits are is some way more 'creative' and 'intellectually stimulating' than anything else out there and feel compelled to surround themselves and live in this bubble consisting of other geeks as themselves. This obviously is not true.
What's even weirder is that with the Apple Store app you can scan your own items and just walk out of the store. Haven't tried it with anything really expensive, but I bought an iPad case for around $80 and just scanned it with my iPhone and left. I was half expecting someone to run down the street to catch me as I walked away.
That site looks like some really dubious ~~white supremacist~~ "race realist" propaganda page.

Some headlines from the homepage:

> Crime and the Hispanic Effect

> Diversity and Excellence: Are They Compatible?

> The Color of Death Row

> Affirmative Action: The Robin Hood Effect.

Edit, also: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.music.classi...

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you may be correct, however I have a reasonably popular golang library on github and a significant amount of folks that star it appear to be from China, a much higher percentage than my projects in other languages.
what did you use for Javascript??...nodejs??
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From the guy who licensed the patent: https://twitter.com/pixelwinch/status/474716066896424960
Brb…Deleting SoundCloud
This article http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what... says that by the time you're done satisfying every requirement of a distributed logging system with multiple writers and readers and various reliability requirements, you've essentially rebuilt Apache Kafka.
they can't...
Is it free just for the next two days... so I have to complete it by then? Or if I enroll within the next two days it's free forever? I've never used Udemy before.
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Can you simplify the form and save user's time by figuring out the type credit card from the number? (IIRC, all Visa cards start with 4)
Yeah, I think that's on the road map.

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For a while people tried to do that. By law the tickets have to be transferable. However, scalping is illegal in IL unless they are licensed. As well, we do our best to limit the number of tables sold to any one CC, URL or email address. Impossible to fully police, but we try.

We also put in URL blockers, bot protection, and a captcha to avoid people locking up tables quickly.
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The only reason Big Tech is against the NSA now is because their most valuable customers are eyeing foreign competitors based in countries with actual privacy laws. I talk to clients all the time who want their data stored in Luxembourg or Switzerland or Iceland. MSFT, Google, FB, et al. were totally content to sell out the American public and aide the creation of a surveillance state as long as they profited from it.
It might not be as much "rich vs poor" as "two income vs one income" households. The same New York Times published a pretty long article on this phenomenon in 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/two-classes-in-america-...

In a nutshell, a two-parent family can better shuffle duties of picking up kids from school and practice, assisting with homework, and just be around to have conversations.
You could access the webcam and zoom/enhance the reflection in the eyes to get the screenshot.
I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I know off the top of my head:

* Summize -> search.twitter.com

* Tweetie -> Twitter for iPhone

* TweetDeck

* Vine

* Crashlytics

* MoPub

* Gnip
This is indeed an interesting problem. I don't know what the runtime breakdown is, most likely in the sorting routine, but if that's the case the problem can be solved much faster but not resorting to generic stable_sort().

I summarize the author's algorithm as follows: take an array of R^3 vectors, and for each element in the vector, perform the [+,-,-], [-,+,-], and [-,-,+] transform. So N numbers become 3N numbers, which is followed by a duplicate removal process faciliated by the sorting.

The improvement is that the duplicate removal can be accomplished without sorting.

Let's say you have an array of R^3 already sorted. Then say you create 3 arrays each of which is created by "shifting" the array in each of the 3 directions. Call the original A, and the derived B0, B1, B2. Note that B0, B1, and B2 are each sorted since element within each array is adjusted in the same direction. Then all you need to do is to do a 3-way merge, which takes linear time.

I bet by doing this, the runtime could be significantly reduced. My guess is that it runs in the range of 10-30 seconds (instead of 335 seconds).
yeah not too thrilled with it being sold so that it is easier to end up at the hands of copyright enforcement enthusiast. Imagine if a favorite mixtape on soundcloud contained copyright samples and it was forced to be taken down.

not sure if I would delete my account, I have some piano recordings I uploaded on there, hoping that one day it will make me famous
Yes, seeing volume numbers would be useful, but I don't need to calculate statistical significance to understand that their second form is much better. So I have no gripes with the "60% increased conversion" or "15% increase in conversion rate" statement.

Guessing game: I guess that the lock symbol and random GoDaddy SSL cert image were the most important factors.
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> they're going to have to upgrade just a few spots with really expensive equipment just to deal with Netflix traffic

You're missing a key element of the situation: Comcast made a deal with Netflix precisely to address this problem. Netflix now has direct connections to Comcast's network, so Netflix traffic does not have to go through a third party. In other words, Comcast now directly controls how they connect to Netflix, how many connection points there are, what the average network distance is between the closest Netflix connection point and their customers, etc. So they have a much cheaper way to even out Netflix traffic: open up more connection points.

(Which, btw, AFAIK they already did as part of the deal; they certainly did not come out of the deal having "just a few spots" where they are connected to Netflix. Netflix basically is their own CDN; they have servers with their content on them all over the Internet. So Comcast has all kinds of ways to shorten the average network distance between each of their customers and the closest Netflix endpoint.)
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> the business reality is that the ARPU per subscriber is decreasing every year at a rate lower than additional subscriber acquisition can sate...Carriers are not able to sell consumers additional services (no matter how hard they try)

In other words, the ISPs are doing a bad job of running their businesses, but rather than do a better job, they want others to pay them more without offering any additional value.
"yield from" isn't available on Python 2.7, maybe that's why they switched?
If you compensate schools for enrolling as many students as possible and don't penalize them for enrolling (and subsequently failing) unqualified candidates, schools will enroll as many students as possible and subsequently fail unqualified candidates after squeezing their LTV (lifetime customer value).

"According to USA Today, the University of Phoenix's Detroit campus has a graduation rate of only 10%, but a student loan default rate of 26.4%.[38] A 2010 report found that the University of Phoenix's online graduation rate was only 5 percent."

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Improvement: You can make the gray boxes light enough (same as bg) so only Red are visible.
This is a bummer:

Vanessa called home, looking for reassurance. Her mother had always been so supportive, but now she sounded doubtful about whether Vanessa was really qualified to succeed at an elite school like the University of Texas. “Maybe you just weren’t meant to be there,” she said. “Maybe we should have sent you to a junior college first.”

After reading the whole article, this is what really stuck with me. I just can't fathom a parent ever saying this to their child regardless of wealth or education. Why does her supportive mother suddenly undermine her at such a critical juncture?

Would the poor kids do better if only their parents consistently expected them to?
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Is anyone enrolling in this that has a friend spot they're not using? I'm interested, but not so much so that I'm able to justify spending $100 on it right now.
That looks really interesting. I may actually put this to use.
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> just a small handful of nodes

But Netflix is not "just a small number of nodes". They're basically their own CDN; they have servers all over the Internet, precisely in order to not have the problem you describe.

What's more, Comcast has a deal with Netflix to directly connect Netflix nodes to Comcast's network; in other words, Comcast directly controls how many paths there are for Netflix content to get into its network. If there aren't enough such paths, they can just open up more.
Yeah, he found that out after posting that blog. https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/474704755348881408
Do the Java benchmarks include the start-up time for the JVM? If so, I wouldn't say it's a completely fair comparison. (At least for the times that are small).
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The same question why should anyone just offer a class in Python, in Ruby, in X language? Because that's the whole point of the course. Because the instructor probably better at iOS development. Because they can.
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/tsmacdonald/4175ff511ae99f862b61 for the source, and https://www.dropbox.com/s/aslypeyw5fdku4u/emperory_germany%2... for the PDF. It's still a work in progress, so the end is a bit off.
This is what I thought, too -- its "ugliness" looks to me similar to seating/service apps one might see in bars and restaurants everywhere. Black screen, white text, red/yellow/green indicators...

I do admire the utility of the interface; it looks like it gets the job done.
Long texts on pastebin are the only outlet for some things. It's like the bathroom wall of the internet.
OpenSSL Foundation has found another hole in its security toolkit