skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these issues feel like a grey area to me, such as peering agreements. However, this move from Verizon felt very black and white. Thanks for trying to be Devil's advocate!

However, I feel that this issue is one of misrepresentation. Netflix wants Verizon to be a common carrier, and have its revenue increase linearly with the amount of data it transfers.
In that case, Verizon would happily increase their revenue by providing actually faster Internet, because customers would pay more per day if they downloaded more per day, since they'd then pay a fixed amount per GigaBit.

On the other hand, I don't understand what Verizon wants to be. I feel like the type of company it wants to be is only sustainable in the very short run, highly dependent on other companies such as Netflix, and incapable of good PR because what clients want, and what they subscribe for, is impossible to deliver (the amount of data clients want to transfer is always above whatever they can promise to offer). That market positioning is tolerable for instant Wall Street growth, but it is detrimental to customers, to website owners, to peering partners, and to the long-term future of the company, were a reasonable competitor to enter the market.

I also feel there could be a middle ground, such as Verizon asking customers from every city to tip in for a massive city-wide network upgrade. That would be good for PR and customers would happily donate. It seems fitting, because from what I understand, the real money eater is a one-off upgrade; it doesn't increase maintenance costs much, if at all.
LaFraise will be closed
It's not the fit that's the problem for me ;-) I think there may be good fit.

The problem I have is, reading the landing page, I have no idea what the product does.

I've just shown it to three other UXish people. Neither do they ;-)

That suggests there may be a problem with the articulation here somewhere...
That strongly resembles life of an oil-rigger. 6 months hard labour, 6 months vacation, rinse, repeat.
Pretty cool!, landing page is so amazing <3
Gravitational Ripples from the Big Bang
" I've certainly been paid more than my manager before, and when I've been in a tech management position I've paid more than my own salary for good candidates" - That's company specific though. The majority of companies don't.

Programmers just aren't considered proper professionals in the UK. Graduates in other professions can get senior level programmer salaries for their first job.
Glad someone pointed that out. It is cheating. It is doing a lot of state transformations like in-place sorting / filtering. I'd like to see some real C++ functional code here, using immutable data structures, not an imperative program using lambdas. I guess it would be both much harder to write (C++ is not really a functional language) and much slower, because dynamic memory allocation in C++ is more costly than in Java.
> Is there just a huge over supply of game devs?

Bingo. Too many people think being good at playing games means they are good at making games.
FlappySwift: it’s just a matter of communication
Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
This is nice. Do you think you could add support for the keyboard media keys (back, forward, pause, etc.) and volume controls present on the standard mac keyboard?
The difference is that now there is a single commercial player, with the ability of filling up whatever bandwidth the ISPs allocate for their customer base, with a single switch, and a commercial interest in increasing bandwidth (to improve quality to its subscribers).

If Verizon tripled its total bandwidth today, how long before Netflix begins raising the bitrate because "the Internet has evolved and we can now deliver bluray-quality streaming at the same $9/mo?". And then they fill up pipes again.

The whole issue here is cause by the impedance between the cost structure (pay by the gig transferred) and the price structure (pay by the peak speed, and I approximate the average gig transferred).

In a perfect utopic world where everybody was willing to pay by the gig transferred as that is the real cost factor, we wouldn't be here having this discussion.

> moving bits is really cheap.

Moving bits is cheap WITHIN the ISP network, but once you go outside they have a cost (depending on the peering agreements).
5 Global Catastrophic the Earth will Experience in the Future
Did you see this rap video?
upping my game.
it is

https://github.com/hiphopapp/hiphop
I remember a TV program, in Spain in the 70's. They explained how to do one AM radio with one transistor, an AA battery, half a metre of copper wire and an earphone. Worked fine.

20 m? It used the mattress base as antenna.
"Number of users per day" is a vanity metric. It doesn't matter to a business like Yahoo. The thing that actually matters is whether or not those particular users make money for Yahoo. If they're run the numbers and discovered that Facebook users don't turn in to paying subscribers or click on adverts (and they can't find a way to do that) yet cost them $0.25 per day in bandwidth then turning off Facebook login will increase their profits by £200k/month due to the saving.
> young, self-absorbed, ignorant, but believing I was clever and knowledgeable.

Well, don't beat yourself up too much. It is existentially wrenching to think about the missed opportunity but such is the folly of youth. Equally Preston could have shared more. Like tears in rain and all that.

Though I look at that statue of Turing and I really want to shake his hand and thank him. Sometimes life is terribly unfair.
hey thanks, i just googled it.

I knew something about it (like reading expression or something, from watching 'the mentalist'), but i did not know what it was called.

but CMIIW the technique used in the linked app is categorized as 'hot reading' right? because it somewhat gather information from our "browsing history". Somewhat same technique used by google for user 'profiling' maybe?

just a little bit of assumption.
This is really annoying and not the direction I hope internet companies will move toward.

What we need is to be able to login to facebook/yahoo/whatever with google account and vice versa of course; we need to see the idea of OpenID come alive.
First time I've seen that too. I said no.
I don't have any more direct experience, but according to both greatfire.org and websitepulse, the article is available behind the Great Firewall.
The idea of a wiki using a Git back-end is certainly not novel:

Gollum: https://github.com/gollum/gollum

Gitit: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.1.1

Git-wiki: https://github.com/sr/git-wiki

WiGit: http://el-tramo.be/wigit/

etc.
Is the readme supposed to look like that? The first few paragraphs are all 'h2' level text. Very difficult to read through.
Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas are incredibly smart and their keen understanding of the software business is surprising but pretty clear from this article. I actually knew that already because the company I used to work for helped build software for them and Grant and Nick spoke at our company event. They blew us all away.

I think this was just before or right after they had launched Next. Their description of the reservation ticketing system and the variable pricing model seemed awesome then. Glad to see it worked out so well.

But what really made an impression on me was Grant's discussion of the similarity of software user experience design and his own dining experience design. He talked about how he's not just making food but controlling an entire experience for the diner. That includes the interesting centerpieces on the table that are used in the meal, the narrow entrance hall to the restaurant, the use of smoke and smell to evoke memories. I'm completely sure the user experience of the reservation system is a piece he considers a part of the overall dining experience. Whether or not actual conversion numbers are there to justify investing in it, I bet these guys consider it one of the intangibles that make their restaurants the best fine dining experiences in the country.

One of the stories that sticks out for me was Grant's explanation of the trickiness involved in not having tablecloths. At the time, he said, fine dining meant white tablecloths. But he didn't want there to be tablecloths at Alinea. So he got rid of them. But the problem was water rings. When cold water was placed on the stone tables, rings of condensation formed. He said they solved the problem by finding the precise temperature at which the water was chilled but not cold enough to form condensation rings on the table and they keep it at exactly that temperature in the kitchen.

Something about that story says to me that he understands that the quality of the experience lies in the substance and not the decoration. I haven't actually used the reservation system. I went to Alinea before it was used there and I haven't been to Next. So I don't know if it's ugly but I doubt it sucks. Because these guys understand and care about user experience of all forms to a surprising degree.
Country: Belgium - ISP: Telenet:

100 gb. / month (included) for 47,5 € monthly (65 $). Extra bandwidth @ 0,5 € (0,7 $) / GB, so it's an additional 1,5 € extra for your ISP, if you want to watch a netflix HD movie (2,3 GB).

Don't worry, i know i'm getting bend over :)
Ah yeah, it's the same principle

Also, the receiver and transmitter are awfully similar (in practice, if you build a receiver it will interfere with "everything" around it)
I remembered using Norton Commander (albeit on DOS), but I can't seem to recall what the change to the numpad is, and how is it related with NC ??
If you're starting from the assumption that everyone else who is "technologically savvy" is obviously in agreement with you, then you're making a large mistake in your reasoning somewhere.

Smart people often disagree about things in this world, including in particular whether the actions of the NSA show "complete disregard for our privacy and civil liberties" and whether they're justified or not.

Also, half the idea of democracy is to compromise with other people. Thinking that people shouldn't do any work for the government because they don't agree with some of the actions of that government is ridiculous.
I'm interested in this because I'm cleaning up and restructuring LibreOffice's VCL (Visual Component Library) code. In terms of OO, it's a mess of tangled code. This might give me some ideas.
It is different, it can only interact with obj-c runtime. But we should be sure, I mean, we should do some experiments. Every type in swift is struct with generic, also swift cannot interact with C++ code directly. You can add additional method s to every type, even Int. So many differences, I think swift runtime must be different. Also you cannot use runtime functions like objc_msg_send with pure swifts objects, only with obj-c objects.
Cool.

I tried to download a dataset. Registration, on this http://www.bjdata.gov.cn/tabid/99/Default.aspx registration page, requires:

Username; Password; Password repeated; Real name; Sex; Mobile telephone number; Fixed number / Landline; Email address; Checkbox whether commercial use is required (if so: Company / Organisation name; Company registration code; Company website; Area of business); Captcha; Submit button.

But it seems no confirmation of registration via email or telephone is necessary, it it just takes you to the page you were earlier looking for.

I love China's Internet, especially government sites. They even added a 2D bouncing Pong-style picture of an airplance on the front page, which probably got someone a promotion as that's particularly special.
Anyone had chance to try this yet? Is it any good?

I notice the Linux APIs call GTK which, while I can understand the logic of, I rather liked the Qt Go Bindings I played around with last year.
Online only selling mode is proving to be a good one. In India Motorola tried that with an exclusive deal with online retailer Flipkart for Moto G and it was an instant hit. More on quality less on Stores and Ad.

In international market it would be tough to compete with phone with Android OS.
Not an automotive engineer, however, it's the same culture that produces the plethora of bugs in software. It's a human factors issue.

It's no different than an engineer selection of a single line of code, if it's in the wrong place, crashy crashy.

Here's a much better article: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Engineer-s-switch-f...

Perhaps the engineer was distracted by an underground boxing ring.
The problem is that most of photographs are on Flickr and that Flickr offer 1To per person.

Some go to Tumblr but it is more messy that Flickr as it is not dedicated to pictures. And it is still Yahoo.

Facebook is a NOGO because the compression is awful.
definitely a fair point, though personally, based on absolutely nothing, I don't think it is likely that 'those that login via facebook/google' have a drastically different behavior pattern (when it comes to stuff like paying or clicking). Would love to see anyone that has any such data.
Well, Google doesn't even support OpenID anymore (at least not the traditional version).

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID
In practice, a transmitter like that doesn't go much further than 50meters, there isn't enough power
Why? Have you never fixed a bug in your own code, or not followed every single one of your companies' procedures?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly... I wonder if the project managers who pressured him to cut corners to save time are also getting fired...
Why? You don't want to create a yahoo account?
I assume that they are also handing over data to Facebook with every auth that helps the competition with targeted advertising revenue?
Govt of India Open Data Portal
I configured my parents' email program (Thunderbird/Enigmail) to automatically encrypt emails they send to me. Also, I encrypt all emails to them.

They still don't really care, but at least my communication with them is encrypted.

Also, they see that using encryption is not hard (once set up), except that they have to type in a password from time to time.
I predict this will be a trend soon, also people are going to ditch services like disqus. Big websites want to have total control over their client account and comments. This is not really clever to always trust third parties, especially with comments which are a huge part of the SEO.
> Your interests are: (some subset of) Programming Science Technology Games <random other thing: Sports, TV, childcare, etc>

Me being me, I clicked on random grey squares. I got exactly that.

There is a selection bias from the choice of URLs it provides.
It has nothing to do with trend, its about the corporation (Yahoo) supporting its own products...
The selected sites are very biased towards things you can do in front of a computers.

So this nice "Who am I?" trick only shows an intersection of my interest with those of the author. e.g. its completely missing my 3 main hobbies, as sailing, sewing and vaping had not been on his list of selected sites.
Looks like a decent effort at creating the basics - certainly usable for basic things like buttons and forms and such .. well, I appreciate the simplicity of this ui kit so far, as I'm currently learning Go. I'm enjoying learning what area_darwin.go/.m are doing .. toll-free bridge, k?

(wakeup doesn't run with the current version though, missing window w in args, but that's an easy fix..)

So from 10 minutes of looking at it and getting wakeup built, I've learned some new Go stuff. Thanks for that! :)
Surprised not to see the Norton Guides being mentioned yet :-)
the trick with a:visited is really awesome :D

see on github:
https://github.com/Conlectus/WhoAmI/blob/master/css/main.css
C++ version is not "less functional". It is not functional at all. To make it functional you'd have to use immutable state.
So is, "Open-source is becoming the only way to develop (and, especially, maintain) complex software". This is hyperbole. Complex software has been developed and maintained for over half a century, in myriad ways.
It is very rudimentary; all the basics are there, but there are some glaring things I couldn't figure out yet - like how to move the Window to a new screen position, things like that. Might be my ignorance though, I've only had 15 minutes of glance at it, and as I'm mostly interested in learning Go casually, maybe there's some things I've missed ..
Interesting.

At first I thought it would deduct information about me by analysing which squares I'd choose in what order and through other metrics like pacing.
The key here is that it's vacation, not being laid off.
Nice article! I've got a question though, why do you guys branch from "Staging" ? Personally, I branch from "Master" or "Production" and the reason is that "Staging" may have "features" that need proper testing and the "development to production cycle" be longer and I don't want that to be included. Does this make sense ?

Can you explain me how you prevent that from happening ?
In July 2011, AntiSec claimed to have hacked NATO. We now know that was six weeks after Monsegur was arrested: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-hackers-sabu-nato-hack-ne...
Although I'm skeptical about this project (as I usually am with widget platform-native toolkits like this), I'm very interested about how it turns out. It looks like it's in early development, but the author seems to know his stuff. It would have been really cool to see back when I was first trying Go out, but I've since lost interest in Go since they're taking so long to implement generics, and I'm not interested in copy/pasting so much code. When I'm writing OS X apps (I don't use any other platform these days), writing in Swift seems like a much more fun option (too bad it's not open source, yet).
Yeah, I'm divorcing personal stuff from company before public game release announcements. :)

Thanks for your interest and notification though.

Your profile information link is 502-ing. http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/wlievens.html

:D
RWBY is actually popular in Taiwan. There are fansubs and I think fandubs.
Except Google cannot block it so easily : API calls cannot be filtered out from legit ones using API keys or IP addresses
It's embarrassing that Fortran got beaten by a very unoptimized Java code. But this is probably not because of Fortran is slow and Java is fast, but because the whole benchmark results are pretty much a coincidence of bad coding and if someone else wrote it, the results could be as well completely reversed. E.g. the Java code uses some of the worst performance antipatterns that are possible to do in Java, e.g. like creating small objects everywhere (Optional), while C++ version uses primitives like ints and bools.
> They even added a 2D bouncing Pong-style picture of an airplance on the front page, which probably got someone a promotion as that's particularly special.

Which is especially fun on mobile.
piratebay is not movies
As an engineer that works on safety critical stuff I see it as GM finding a fall guy, and/or having laughable-if-it-wasn't-so-tragic controls in place.

Edit: The bbc report says 15 were fired, half were senior legal and engineering executives. To me the issue stops being DeGiorgio's fuckup, but how so many other folks were incentivized to roll with the fuckup. The fuckup is bad, but the the environment that permitted it and later didn't correct it is the real danger. But don't worry, GM assures us that the Valukas report doesn't find a conspiracy or cover-up.
Photoshop – Realistic Lantern Glow
you'll see how to create a soft, realistic glow coming out of a street lantern. The glow will light up surrounding walls and the street below. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to achieve this effect in minutes.
It's amazing how many wheels need to be reinvented every time somebody introduces yet another language.
For reference, I work in the space industry, where piles of paperwork are produced to justify any component selection decision. I can't imagine a situation where anything, even down to individual capacitors, would be selected without at least 2 people having some input to that selection. Our qualification processes are absolutely massive and take decades though - not particularly suitable for the automotive industry.

I don't think that this can be compared directly to the kind of adhoc software development that is routine in many places. Engineering processes have developed over decades to eliminate human error and very, very rarely allow single unjustified decisions made by a single person to propegate through to a finished product.

I'm surprised that in a world where individual car platforms cost billions of dollars to develop there was never a point at which the switch selection was challenged. I haven't read the full report though - perhaps it's not quite as the news article suggests. It would be interesting to hear the point of view of someone in the automotive industry (if any of them are HN readers?)
Poetry in 140 characters
> Equally Preston could have shared more.

Now that I am actively seeking out people and deliberately spending time with them, the one thing I consistently find is that they are very reluctant to initiate conversations about these things. I've now spent time with Charlie Duke, Alan Bean, and TK Mattingly, and without exception it takes time to get them to open up and talk about these things.

I used to wonder why, but I had an in-depth conversation with someone a while ago who was similarly reluctant. She said:

People ask, but usually they don't really care.
And if they do care, they usually won't make
the effort to understand.
And if they do make the effort to understand,
they usually don't have the background or
experience to understand.
And if they do understand, I don't need to have
explained.

Taking the time, making the effort, explicitly acknowledging that you'll never fully understand and yet being willing to make the effort to appreciate their experience, then you can get people to tell their stories.

Otherwise they won't, and you'll miss out.
Your interests are: Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo
G+ is not focused on pictures. Picasa only allows 1GB (used to be 200MB). I take multiple Gigabytes of pictures on all photo trips.

Flickr is the perfect match for amateur photographers without ambition ;).
The important word here is "functional" C++. This is not about "fastest" C++. What does your comparison tell us?
Your last statement is circular. "Network effect in value transfer" exists only when there is "network effect in seeing value in BTC units". You can't transfer value before something has value. Also, act of transferring or fees does not generate value either.

Bitcoin units are rare collectibles. Like gold coins or USD paper bills. They are scarce, hard to counterfeit and they are portable and fungible. They are easy to collect. Once you have a club of people who collect them and speculatively value them, this club can grow (or shrink). If such token is superior than others, then some people will likely sell their inferior tokens in order to acquire superior ones. This way the club grows.

Plus, there is value in liquidity. People generally want to store wealth in something "secure" which means not only secure in terms of storage (personal vault, swiss bank account etc.), but also in terms of purchasing power. The more and quicker I can buy myself something I suddenly need, the more secure my wealth is. E.g. if my computer breaks and I need a new one, my cash will help me buy a new one better than a collection of postal stamps. So people will generally prefer to keep savings in money that is more marketable, i.e. valued by more people. This means that once a superior collectible starts to grow, it will drive the value of inferior collectibles down to zero. (However, if there are currency controls and banking regulation in your country, then you might be stuck with a less marketable local currency.)

Nick Szabo explains how money evolved: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html

I explained why we all want one universal money:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/54121516413/the-universe-wants...