skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left Pittsburgh, like all my friends except for one. It's been discussed as an up-and-coming city for years now, but I'm still not sure it's somewhere I would want to live. I remember when people pointed to the Google office that was built there, as an indicator that things were changing. At the time, that office had 25 employees, not sure about now. I guess I'm saying that I'm not sure how much of that narrative is actually happening for people in Pittsburgh.

As far as raising kids, I could definitely see that. Your real-estate dollar goes pretty far. The weather sucks ass, though -- even Paul Graham says so! I really wouldn't want to have to deal with that again.

(Also, the bit about "why should I pay a bunch in rent to live near some nice parks" is such a dumb way of thinking about NYC. But if you really do think that way you definitely should not go to New York.)
This is the main reason my wife and I moved from NYC to Pittsburgh.

The people I know who still live in NYC end up spending much of their salary hiring people to watch their kids, and then there's the competitive nature of getting kids into preschools, kindergarden, etc. and all the costs associated with those.
> If we're talking about cable rather than copper, the last mile was built by private companies with private money.

A significant amount of this infrastructure was built with government subsidies and stimulus money by local monopolies with no competition.

> Yet U.K. internet really isn't faster than U.S. internet in areas with comparable density.

It's not so much about denser urban areas so much as the typical case. I still know people in the US who can barely get 3 megabits on their connections no matter what speed they pay for, and they live in proper cities and not tiny communities.

I tried to get a proper example, but Verizon's website[1] is somewhat inscrutable, and tells me that my friend in Seattle can't get DSL service. Still, their DSL plans they list go 'up to' 15 megabits down and 1 megabit up; in Vancouver, they go up to 50/10, but my plan is 25/5 for $65/mo on its own (no contract). I would be surprised to see that in the US.

[1] http://www.verizon.com/home/highspeedinternet/
Did you see that it is only stabilizing rotation? If it looks so stable that's because the lens of the iPhone is at the exact center of the wheel. If you were to move your phone along a X or Y axis, I don't think those movements would be stabilized like you could get with a software stabilizer. I guess the main target of this app is people turning their device when shooting a video.
there is a PDF version too.
It doesn't have to literally take the form of "hey, we can scare people off by making the forms longer! And my mustache is twirlier today!"

Rather, it's more like: with a reasonable flow of applicants, they can be lax in checking them, and maybe call the applicant if they need to get more information or something doesn't look right.

But as the influx gets too large, they have to adopt an attitude of "give us everything we might possibly need to validate you, the first time around, or we can't afford to process it". They may not be deliberately trying to scare people off, but the massive influx does lead, somehow, to ever longer forms.
Bananas are tasty and currently part of the culture. Is it easier to add vitamin A to bananas or to convince people to eat a different food that's rich in vitamin A? It's easy to convince a starving person to eat anything, but AFAICT most of these people aren't starving, just malnourished.
Maybe. Does your wife have one? Your boss?
Heck, I see "that's the way we've always done it" and awful mountains of paperwork inside the enterprise. You'd think Fortune 100 businesses would be interested in internal efficiency, but they're not.
> SolarCity was founded to accelerate mass adoption of sustainable energy. The sun, that highly convenient and free fusion reactor in the sky, radiates more energy to the Earth in a few hours than the entire human population consumes from all sources in a year. This means that solar panels, paired with batteries to enable power at night, can produce several orders of magnitude more electricity than is consumed by the entirety of human civilization.

Elon shining through here.

There is little doubt that SolarCity will be a huge deal.
Wrong. Even in an xss-free web, JavaScript based cryptography in the browser is unsafe against an attacker that can MITM - the attacker can just replace the crypto code being used.
> Because these 'fast lanes' won't be faster lanes; they'll be the performance we have normally, and other traffic will be degraded.

That's not necessarily true. Consider the possibility of building out new infrastructure and capacity, and specifically using it for that purpose. No degradation of the existing service.
ISP QoS is fine as long as it's by type and not by source/destination. It's perfectly reasonable to expect all those people torrenting the latest Game of Thrones shouldn't impact other people's Skype calls.

This isn't a value judgement on anything, mind, it's all about what the application needs in order to work. A torrent can still download on a congested network. A VoIP call will have great difficulty on same.
GitHub opens its own ‘Octicons’ icon font for anyone to use
Why mysqldump instead of using the binary log? Just dump the result of SHOW MASTER STATUS to a text file in your git directory, back up your binary log files on a regular basis, and then you just use the stop position feature of the binlog utility[1] to restore to that point in time from the binary logs. A lot faster than doing mysqldump and a lot less likely to lock tables or slow down your database.

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/point-in-time-recover...
British person here. Very astute observation.

However I'm the opposite. I kick off regularly at people for being that pliable and conformant. What do I get in return? I am shunned for possibly being contrarian, despite the logic being flawless and have put up with a lot of shit over the years despite being right 100% of the time. This country is slowly descending into hell.

Britain needs to look at war-torn Europe up to the late 1990's. It was a fucking mess. I mean a real mess. People sleep with an eye open still and everyone understands what nationalism and prejudice brings: death and suffering.

Britain sleeps with its eyes shut, its fingers in its ears and it's identity in everyone else's business.
good move. Tesla gigafactory would produce 50 GWh battery storage, they themselves need huge volumes of solar panels for their ever expanding charging stations network
That's still their problem, not the servers.
Interesting! Did working for Isohunt help or hurt you in the post Isohunt job search? I would think that the technical skills learned from working at such a massively popular site would go a long way. But I wonder if employers would worry about affiliating themselves with an entity that's been deemed illegal. Thoughts?
If you live near enough to an exchange for ADSL over BTWholesale's elderly copper wires to be fast or in a big enough town for Virgin/BT to have laid cable/fibre, your net service is pretty good in the UK - from what I hear better than in the US.

If you live further away so Wholesale has no competition from Virgin they don't lay fibre or maintain the last mile and non-town service is (again, purely anecdotally here) worse. Non-town is not rural, it's maybe 3 miles away from an exchange.

London ain't the UK, basically.
The NSA is routinely intruding on desktop installs. How will client side crypto help if they get to patch binaries on target computers?
Javascript crypto added to SSL is a great way to let your errors insert vunerabilities on an otherwise secure page.
Well there you go. Dieting and personal health is the new enlightenment. Who needs scientific statistical studies of samples when what matters is our own reaction to treatment. Only we can do an experiment that is verifiable, repeatable, and trustworthy. :-)
FCC examining reasons for Internet traffic jams
I've had a lot of success with embedding initial content for a page as JSON in a script tag with a specific ID and a type of "application/json". This way you can rely on the content being there and sidestep the whole timing issue completely. You can potentially speed up your loading time as well, if you have a bunch of things you'd usually fire additional requests off for.

I believe I got this idea from Backbone's documentation [1] originally, but I've seen it mentioned in other places as well.

[1]: http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-bootstrap
My friend's business received a [Bitcoin] extortion letter the other day
Working Around Shadowed Functions
Backend and frontend scraping just don't attend the same needs. Running backend monsters to scrape small to medium amount of data only once is such a drag when frontend scraping can take less than half an hour to perform the same task. Plus you can see the results of your code live while browsing the DOM comfortably. Finally, nobody prevents you from using artoo backend when you execute javascript.
Be interesting to see if anything comes about.
No, he's saying most users of Wordpress are not devs. My clients sure don't use GIT, but they edit their own posts.
> There are free and fair secret elections.

Sorry, but I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one.

Lobbying and uncapped campaign donations are tantamount to legalised bribery. The system is utterly corrupt.

Free they may be, but calling them fair is a gross misrepresentation in my opinion.

> I worry about the thought processes that must occur for people to think this; or similar things, like conflating an instance of some law enforcement department abusing its power with a totalitarian police state.

We're not saying it's a police state. We're saying it is becoming one because of the very tools that these agencies possess and abuse without accountability.

As an example, you've basically had a man (a criminal) James Clapper lie directly to congress knowingly and unabashedly. He's somehow still walking around, free and lol'ing at the general public he so joyously likes to mislead and scaremonger.

> I worry about the thought processes that must occur for people to think this; or similar things.

I honestly think the same of people who think that there is no problem here, nothing to worry about or even that it's a good thing. I honestly can't wrap my head around the immense wilfull ignorance some people seem to be displaying.

It makes me sad, angry and disgusted all at once.
Divorce Recovery: Loving Yourself Better, So You Can Eventually Love Again
Structs are a welcome improvement. Using Protobuf, I was forced to move from a 3d vector type to an array of doubles to get packed=true performance. Small loss of expressiveness, no big deal, but I can imagine it getting a lot worse for heterogeneous and/or more complex structs. Was a shock to see a dynamic allocation for every vector in my 1000-element array. (I understand why this is necessary given the spec of Protobuf though.)
Elixir v0.14.0
Eclipse has been getting a lot of flak lately, but it's still my editor of choice. I've tried to make the switch to IntelliJ, but the Eclipse classloader and dynamic class re-loading is just too good for me to give up. I also find that Eclipse feels a lot more native on OSX than IntelliJ does, and it has a much saner project structure (IMHO, of course).

I think the project gets a bad rap because the extensive plugin ecosystem includes a lot of low-quality stuff that spins CPU cycles and absolutely kills your environment. This includes some of the crap like the old Android development plugins and Spring Suite that both felt like such a huge hack layered on top of Eclipse.

If you stick with the base Eclipse and just do straight Java/Maven (ie: avoid web tools, Tomcat, etc), it's a slick environment that's really productive for me.
That happens on the post-apocalyptic time line, I would assume
> If we're talking about cable rather than copper, the last mile was built by private companies with private money.

...built on public easements.
For example, favoriting a tweet on twitter is lossy: there's no after-the-fact scraping I can do to know where I was, what time it was when I favorited the thing.

If we want to Publish Everywhere Syndicate to Own Site (#IndieWeb dubs this PESOS), if we want to have our own experiences we can talk about, client side is the way to go.
Exactly. It's information that has to be provided in the IP header.

A great description is here: http://packetpushers.net/how-does-qos-work/

If that information isn't there, then the packets are treated as "best effort" (or at least, they should be in a sane world).
Coin Pocket – Easy to use Bitcoin wallet for your browser
Prompt – Mental Health Summit at PHPtek 2014
Golden rice treats a symptom and is not a cure. Instead of spending millions of dollars on treating symptoms I wonder if all that effort should instead be invested in finding a cure. There is an idea that biotechnology alone will solve all the world's problems without trying to understand what causes those problems. Or even understand the situation outside their own worldview.

Vitamin A deficiency is rarely an isolated phenomenon but usually coupled to a general lack of a balanced diet. It seems like a too first world centric solution to say "you eat mostly rice? Lets alter the rice" rather than looking into the reasons why you eat mostly rice. And vitamin A is a single nutrient.

I'm not sure if there was any other unforeseen consequences taken into account as nothing exists in a vacuum. Will encouraging golden rice consumption lead to discouraging a varied diet? Who knows. Did they take into account that vitamin A is a fat fat-soluble vitamin and there should be fat in the diet for proper absorption? I honestly don't know on the second question.

Would farmers even be willing to plant the rice?
i-Limb, a multi-articulating bionic hand for $80k [video]
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and yes, it's a great place to raise kids. but it's not a great place to be when you're starting out your life. I love Pgh and always will, but they city has a serious problem thinking ahead and finding ways to grow. It tried being a financial city in the 80s, then a tech city in the 90s, all the while it was growing as a medical city. It's still the best place to get sick for nearly anything, the medical facilities are second to none. But aside from education and hospitals, there's no nearly enough industry there, not nearly enough new-world accoutrements. I, and many people like me, moved away after high school and college because the city can feel small, constrained, and too old fashioned. I don't think it doesn't need to lose that to grow, but I don't know what else it does need. I hope it finds it.
Google and Facebook can be legally intercepted, says UK spy boss
How background electrical brain noise drives our decisions
Sounds like a terrible business to get into. Which begs the question: are you doing this for money, or are you doing this because you find it fun?

Sometimes, the two are not the same. When they aren't the same, you should go out and try and find something that is both fun and rewarding for you.

Running into a saturated market, losing money, dealing with DDOS-happy griefers immature ungrateful *wipes seems like a terrible job to get yourself into. Sure, we all just want to play Minecraft, but your customers are toxic, and dealing with the politics is crap, and now I learn that its unprofitable to boot.

So if you aren't having fun and you aren't making money... there's something that needs to change. I can't think of any other community where griefers, trolls, and DDOS attacks are as big of a problem. It really seems like a Minecraft-specific phenomenon.

(outside of MMORPGs, where the competitive play between clans sometimes leads to Out-of-character real life DDOS attacks)
"Leahy and Matsui's proposed ban on fast lanes would apply only to the connections between consumers and their ISPs"

I don't see how this will address the issue in a practical sense. When I'm having trouble streaming netflix on Verizon, my speed tests still return a solid 25mbps. The connection between Verizon and Netflix is the issue, not the connection between my house and Verizon.
I would never grant such lever of trust to anyone.

Hell i don't trust myself so there's no way in hell I'll grant someone else that level of trust.
I'll probably read that one too
The changelog for this particular release: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v0.14.0

Enhancements

[ExUnit] Add on_exit/1 callbacks that are guaranteed to run once the test process exits and always in another process

[Kernel] Store documentation in the abstract code to avoid loading them when the module is loaded

[Kernel] Add get_in/2, put_in/3, update_in/3 and get_and_update_in/3 to handle nested data structure operations

[Kernel] Add get_in/1, put_in/2, update_in/2 and get_and_update_in/2 to handle nested data structure operations via paths

[Mix] Add Mix.Config to ease definition of configuration files

[Mix] Add mix loadconfig task that can be called multiple times to load external configs

[Mix] Support --config option on mix run

[Mix] Support HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY on Mix url commands

[Mix] Support --names options in mix help which emit only names (useful for autocompletion)

[Protocol] Add Protocol.consolidate/2, Protocol.consolidated?/1 and a mix compile.protocols task for protocol consolidation

[Protocol] Add Protocol.derive/3 for runtime deriving of a struct

[String] Add String.chunk/2

[Struct] Add support for @derive before defstruct/2 definitions

Bug fixes

[File] File.rm now consistently deletes read-only across operating systems

[Kernel] Ensure Mix _build structure works on Windows when copying projects

[Kernel] Ensure 1.0E10 (with uppercase E) is also valid syntax

[Mix] Fix mix do task for Windows' powershell users

[Path] Fix Path.absname("/") and Path.expand("/") to return the absolute path "/".

Soft deprecations (no warnings emitted)

[Kernel] size/1 is deprecated, please use byte_size/1 or tuple_size/1 instead

[ExUnit] teardown/2 and teardown_all/2 are deprecated in favor of on_exit/1 callbacks

Deprecations

[Access] Access.access/2 is deprecated in favor of Access.get/2

[Dict] Dict.Behaviour is deprecated in favor of Dict

[Kernel] Application.Behaviour, GenEvent.Behaviour, GenServer.Behaviour and Supervisor.Behaviour are deprecated in favor of Application, GenEvent, GenServer and Supervisor

[Kernel] defexception/3 is deprecated in favor of defexception/1

[Kernel] raise/3 is deprecated in favor of reraise/2

[Kernel] set_elem/3 is deprecated in favor of put_elem/3

[Kernel] Passing an atom var!/1 is deprecated, variables can be built dynamically with Macro.var/2

[Mix] Exceptions that define a :mix_error field to be compatible with Mix are no longer supported. Instead please provide a :mix field and use Mix.raise/1 and Mix.raise/2

Backwards incompatible changes

[Access] Kernel.access/2 no longer exists and the Access protocol now requires get/2 (instead of access/2) and get_and_update/3 to be implemented

[Kernel] Retrieving docs as module.__info__(:docs) is no longer supported, please use Code.get_docs/2 instead

[Kernel] Code.compiler_options/1 no longer accepts custom options, only the ones specified by Elixir (use mix config instead)

[Mix] mix new no longer generates a supevision tree by default, please pass --sup instead

[Task] Tasks are automatically linked to callers and a failure in the task will crash the caller directly
Haskell for the Advanced Layman
It is indeed a poor term. I suggest calling it "bandwidth racketeering" ("Nice streaming service you have here, it'd be shame if some traffic shaping happened to it...")
So you don't know what those benefits exactly are or how should I interpret this?
I, for one, embrace our new robot overlords
Lessons learned about the importance of sleep while working in Iceland
Though we don't promise this for v1, VersionPress on a common LAMP hosting is certainly something we will do in the future and have prototypes of how it could be done. Of course, the end user will be completely abstracted from things you mentioned, it is our mission to provide version control in a way that everyone can use (i.e., if you don't know Git, fine, you don't have to).
Marketing is psychology, for all intents and purposes. Nothing is purchased without a decision at some point filtering through a human brain. Marketing is simply the business/economic side of psychology.
We've started using Elixir in our Erlang application and it's been a pleasure to work with. Everyone in my office agrees they would've loved to have this when they started with Erlang.
Hmm. Let me ask you a question. What is really truly safe? The food that we eat are only determined to be safe through the test of time, food that we have eaten over hundreds of years with no mass death.

Even so, it can be dangerous if we eat too much of it. Eg, beer has been around for many years and have been seen to be healthy in some circles, but too much of it can be fatal.

So how do you really know for sure? Would it not be possible that the plant we eat has gone through nature's version of modification known as evolution and has become toxic for consumption?
Just a hint: "pdfjs.disabled" is hard switch off and it makes it harder to recover native PDF plugin viewing capability. Switching using Preferences/Options->Applications makes it easier. Try it and stop complaining that you don't have a choice :)
Finding the Balance
Interesting. I'm on my mac and I see prices different from these.

Simple Start: 9.95
Essentials: 14.95
Plus: 24.95

Now when I view it from a windows laptop, the prices match what you have listed when viewing from your mac.
Banana genome sequencing gives a boost to pest-plagued fruit (2012)
Exploring the methods of end user experience monitoring for APM
I spent the first 25 years of my life in Pittsburgh, the last two in California (18 months LA, 6 months SF), and _just_ moved to Brooklyn two weeks ago.

Pittsburgh is wonderful. There's a lot wrong with it, but a lot of right too. It is certainly very cheap to live, and there's a lot going on. We even have a Techstars-affiliated incubator, which used to offer a really, really good deal. My first startup, CloudFab, went through it years ago. That said, SF is still the best place in the world to do a startup: every city says "We may not be SF, but we have X!" X is _never_ enough to make up for not being SF. I said it when I lived there too, and now that I've lived in SF, I know that's just deeply, deeply wrong. That doesn't mean you _can't_ do it, but it's a handicap.

However, living in a place is very rarely about 'economic sense.' I have a _need_ to live in NYC. I've gotten more work done in the two weeks I've lived here than I did in the entire six months I lived in SF, and maybe about a third of what I did in LA. The hustle, bustle, and opportunities are endless.

Last night I woke up at ten am, did my laundry, then went to a juice bar, worked for a few hours, walked around, ended up literally coding on a bar while watching the US. vs. Ghana game, then took the train over to Herald Square and coded in the park. It was a beautiful evening. Around midnight, walked up to Times Square to squeak in some power before all the stores closed, then worked in another park until 3am, and took the train home. You can't really do that anywhere else, at least in the states.

Oh, and I'm saving about 25% on my rent by moving to Brooklyn from San Francisco, and I'd be saving 60% if I had still lived in the Mission when I left.
I'd be interested to know the best way to set that up. My next Windows PC will have an SSD for the system drive and a regular harddrive for other storage. I figure I can use junction points to map certain folders to the HD but I'm not sure what would be a good configuration.
Absolutely, but I would be great to see some more competition in this space.
I never realized how amazing the libraries and natural history museum was until I left the city and went other places. Such a spoiled child!

I just wish Carnegie didn't have to do all that evil stuff to make it happen. :/