skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the sum would be of more interest than a weighted average. The specific comparison between Vancouver and Seattle is almost meaningless for various reasons:

- Nobody rents furnished accommodation in Vancouver, BC. It's almost unheard of.

- You can buy your TV across the border and bring it over (same for microwave).

- Food will generally be more expensive in Vancouver.

- Gas will be more expensive in Vancouver.

- If you buy a house here expect to pay a lot more in Vancouver for a comparable property.

- Taxes are higher (though you do get services in return).

EDIT: As someone who is pretty familiar with both areas I would expect it to be cheaper to live in the Greater Seattle area vs. the Greater Vancouver area. There's a lot of YMMV though.
re: how mod-friendly Doom was, Portal 2's simplified level editor (released 2012, after this was written) was pretty well-done--only exposed a tiny fraction of the things one could do, of course, but enough to build real puzzles, and with just enough default visual interest that the product didn't necessarily look awful.

http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Puzzle_Creator

Of the user-made levels, it's surprising how many used the full level editor anyway--even though, as the post notes, building levels ain't quite as simple as it was in the Doom days. User-made level gallery:

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse?appid=620&browseso...
To opt out uninstall Microsoft's malicious software removal tool.
You are proposing that this is easily solved by charging enough to enforce widespread, MASSIVE social change (that is, changing from a 9-5 commute schedule), which will be most punitive for those who also have least control over the behaviour being punished (as your job pays more, the likelihood of flexible hours increases). Unless your proposal comes along with "and use those fees to provide housing for people to live next to the Walmart/pharmacy/bank that they work in so they don't have to pay to commute" then it seems pretty damn inequitable.
You mean computer garbage collection, or some kind of mental equivalent?
kudos, i totally agree with your arguments.
Argentinean  ISPs blocked The Pirate Bay
2 & 20 is exclusively the preserve of hedge funds, an entirely different animal to large-scale institutional asset managers who make up the bulk of the buy side.

There's no arguing with the sophistication of the portfolio management side of institutional AM's - these are smart, well-compensated people with excellent tools and first-class support from their own companies and the street's research. Once you get to the buy side trading desk - the people responsible for implementing the decisions of the PMs, and the people who are dealing with this rapidly-changing, fragmented market - things become different.
>Startups can win because the company cares more about their customers.

But you have to keep in mind the fact that it is rather easy to have that sort of attitude when you're small and have a proportional number of customers - it's much harder to be nice to a thousand people than to five. Scaling your service with the size of your consumer base is the real key.
it's more than that. i cannot get to my (presumably clean, running linux, carefully maintained) home machine situated in chile, connecting from the uk.
If you want to hide admin pages, add the robots meta tag to each one and set noindex, nofollow. Then you don't need to list them all in one place in robots.txt.

That said, obscurity is not really security. Your admin pages should be behind a password, which, if coded properly, will exclude spiders, bots, and bad guys.
> computational geometry

Playtime! Awesome.

I'm just a Home Edition user, but as long as the upgrade price starts with a 1 then I'll be paying up.

That is, if you can tell me you've fixed undo in Notebooks :)
Here is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b):

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_65

(1) Issuing Without Notice. The court may issue a temporary restraining order without written or oral notice to the adverse party or its attorney only if:

(A) specific facts in an affidavit or a verified complaint clearly show that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the movant before the adverse party can be heard in opposition; and

(B) the movant's attorney certifies in writing any efforts made to give notice and the reasons why it should not be required.

So, if all of this is considered a "temporary restraining order", then it must be based on these rules, which also seem to provide certain protections to the affected party, including requiring the plaintiff to put up security to reimburse the affected party for any damages they may suffer as a result of the order.

I hope that a lawyer can chime in here and give a decent opinion as to whether this is kosher, and also to answer whether it seems correct to effectively transfer control over property such as domain names through this mechanism.
The press release smells to me like they're playing the innocent, and are savvy to the kind of language their audience likes. "We were very surprised this morning"... "Had Microsoft contacted us, we could and would have taken immediate action."? Surely at some point legal proceedings would have initiated some contact?
Your original statement was:

>Practically every instance of malware runs on Microsoft Windows.

Even according to Google, about 5 million Android devices are infected with malware.
http://bgr.com/2014/06/26/google-on-android-malware-and-secu...

I would suppose that your statements aren't support by fact, but the HN downvotes have got me thinking.
First off, thankyou for a detailed and well laid out post.

I do however think that there is a material difference between hosting unpleasant speech (to which the counter is speech pointing out that the speaker is wrong/idiotic/etc) and hosting malware/botnet sites (to which the counter is... what? what IS the counter to a sufficiently large botnet? ultimately we all have a limit at which point we can receive no more traffic. You might not have hit it - yet - but you will).

The internet - as you are aware - is based on protocols not designed with any significant security in mind. No-one in their right mind would today sit down and design something like BGP, for example. With that in mind, any large provider (or large consumer with capability to cause harm) has the responsibility to be a good citizen of the internet, and not to (by action or inaction) advance the agendas of those who would see its demise. As much as it might be convenient from an operational POV, and justifiable from a moral POV, washing your hands of responsibility and saying "It's not up to us, it's up to the courts" just doesn't work when the infrastrucure we're all building on is so very fragile.
I'd also like to note that there's a semi-hidden US bias here - what if the target of a botnet, who's admin interface is hosted by CF - is based in a country where there is no reasonable ability to recourse to the US courts? Iran, for example?

It's admirable that you do not censor content in response to political pressure, but there IS a difference between protecting freedom of speech and protecting malware, and saying that censoring the malware is a slippery slope is at least partly disingenuous - any vaguely controversial decision can be described as a slippery slope to something else.
Please at least consider making it easier for those of us who are trying to fight malware, botnets, etc, etc to get the original source of the content. I know this will involve some human judgement, and invetiably some mistakes and poor descions - but that would still in my view be far prefferable to what we have now. Thanks.
Ask HN:  Suggestions for how to Learn Android?
Greetings,

After attending Google I/O, I am fairly interested in branching out from Web Dev, into Android development.

I took some Java in college a few years back, but was wondering if anyone had recommended courses, books, videos, etc that they found helpful in learning Android App Development.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Unfortunately malware tends to be the one kind of No-Ip client that actually has (lots of) redundancy built into its peer discovery mechanism.

Malware authors anticipate their communication channels to fail and usually account for it with a whole series of fallbacks.

Quite unlike your NetGear or LinkSys home router, which many people suddenly can't reach anymore from e.g. their vacation home...
I still miss iGoogle. Gave me a bird's eye view of my interests like a business modal canvas.

Monetization of such a platform is pain though and only wroks as a paid service IMO.
> ever since we’ve had success on the Android platform [Our Apple developer rep has] made it very clear that his services are no longer available to us.

Wow. That is shocking to me - is that typical of Apple? I know they're very much about having people their ecosystem, but I didn't realize that there was this kind of animosity towards people who stepped out of bounds.
Just one (small) design thought, the sidebar has the appearance that it could be hidden. Or maybe i've just been on mobile for far too long. Looks great, nonetheless!
Ex parte means that only one party is before the court. That means No-IP had only no opportunity to respond to Microsoft's request to seize the names.

Due process, maybe. But not very good due process.
Entirely off-topic, but that thread title sounds like the best metal album ever.
Rarely will you find the CPU in any of the new Macbook's to be a bottleneck. I have a 2012 Macbook Air that's done it all like a total champ: python web dev, rails web dev, iOS development, scala/akka projects, etc... For a while I was running a full rails stack and Xcode + the simulator to tag-team dev on the client/server. I'm still impressed that this tiny little featherweight computer has been able to keep up with me.

Definitely max out the RAM first. AFAIK it's not possible to do that anymore since it's soldered onto the mainboard. I have a (work machine) 15" retina that is a year old with 16GB of RAM that I can't really exhaust. My personal 2012 Air has 8GB and even that is pretty sufficient for most tasks, but these days I'd go 16 in a heartbeat.

Processor wise, go with whatever you can in your budget. The chip is pretty much the same whether you go for a lower or higher clockspeed, so there aren't any hidden benefits to the top-of-the-line one. It'll just crunch numbers faster.

i5 vs i7 is really dual-core vs quad-core. I wanna say that is physical cores, so in reality you're looking at 4 and 8 logical cores thanks to hyper threading. It really depends on your workload. An i5 will be a little better on your battery, but an i7 will help if you're doing a lot of multithreaded programming.
Funny that you say that since the particles are pretty much all we do observe. You never "see" the wave function, but you do see where stuff is.

To be charitable to Copenhagen, we would say that we do see the results of collapse. The main problem with the collapse is that is simply not well-specified by the theory.
Number of "backdoor searches" by NSA, CIA, FBI
I would always spring for the 15". The larger screen is hugely important to productivity. For example, split screen Sublime Text editing or having a browser and editor side by side. That, for me, is one of the most important aspects.

Other hardware consideration: faster is always better as is more RAM and a larger SSD. But, obviously, stay within your means. I personally use an i7 2.3 with 16GB of RAM.

Edit: If you intend on multi-monitor usage via the thunderbolt/display ports: the nVidia GPU is pretty necessary to push multiple big screens.

Last note: the refurbished MBPs are a great deal. You get the full 1-year warranty and a fully tested and clean laptop for a few $100 off the original sticker.
If "5 million" sounds like a large number to you then this may help to put it into perspective; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet#Historical_list_of_botne...
As an example, it is very easy to place pilot wave theory on manifolds as these are just differential equations. For the standard theory, it is not at all clear what the main operators ought to be such as momentum. Position, yes, but not other things.

Of course, once one has pilot wave theory on it, then whatever needs to be deduced can be and then given to the standard theory.
The way this works in municipalities or low-population regions of states (which is what most people experience traveling through 95% of the United States' road miles) is that roads are left to deteriorate until such time as they can't avoid fixing, and preferentially might be completely rebuilt which takes a different flavor of money that can be subsidized by the federal govt.

Regions with affluent populations and dense metros essentially have their own road budgets and taxes to keep conditions acceptable.

The other problem in the states is that the weather varies very strongly; this coupled with snowplows and road freight does a number on roads in short order. Some stretches have to be resurfaced yearly. Doing this is expensive and disruptive, so sometimes it is only done in the worst spots if the other parts can wait.
Can't wait until these guys are nationwide.
FBI, CIA Use Backdoor Searches To Warrentlessly Spy On Americans' Communications
Am I the only person here that has seen the ad for the Wolfgang Puck pressure Oven? I am curious how it really performs because everything looks good on an infomercial.

http://puckoven.com
"The" oven?
...in some San Francisco areas, for a limited time.
SV meaning "sous vide"? Worth it? Very yes.
In any case have you read the Microsoft blog statement at all?

IT IS smug, self preening, self congratulatory tripe.

I suggest you read it if you haven't.
secondwindcpap.com is where I've gotten my last couple of units from.
Well, they're not completely outside our reach. Interference between our worlds and nearby ones is very testable, and the reason the theory exists.
So on a different side topic, if the service was free and I assume the TOS from noip didn't guarantee an SLA, does this mean all the end users are basically out of Luke suing Microsoft for failure to properly resolve their domains?

If the cliche isn't true, then I guess the next/new one is, if its free you're SOL.
The Shaggy defense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5fqunQ_4I
Yeah but what fraction of home users are going to consider that prompt as opposed to just clicking on the OK button? I've noticed a lot of software will include that in its install steps.
The oven improvements being discussed here will have the effect of making more things best done in the oven.
A path to OpenStack contributions, bug reporting, and more
I feel like this race to the bottom is going to be a real issue for drivers at one point. What signals are the market going to send that drivers aren't earning enough? Or is cab driving going to become a "part-time job " for everyone?
From incubation to integration in OpenStack
they are great if you end up using your knife all the time for everyday stuff.

For example : they are great for opening packages. If you chip the blade edge, throw it away. (tip: be aware, it's a bad idea to cut towards you ever, its a doubly bad idea to do it with an EAB)

Knives made from a defensive point of view quite often have coated blades of some sort. Coated blades are great for longevity and appearance, but quickly degrade when they are actually used for practical reasons, leaving a finish on the blade that looks worse than it did from the factory.

If you use your knife, get an EAB or a (reliably) locking pocket folder with a knurled/serrated stainless blade (rather than a stainless painted/coated/damascus straight blade)

If you want a knife for purely defensive measures (which may or may not be a bad idea), stick with fixed edge or a folder that emulates the geometry of a fixed edge. "triangular-push" style knifes are made for purely defensive purposes, and usually excel in situations that call for the use of a knife defensively.
Answering the first question - the keyboard... pro's type, a lot. It'd be fantastic if they had decent keyboards... full spherical keycaps and travel. None of this flats and scissors mush... I gots to type brackets and braces for a livin', yo.

For the second... depending on your eyes, get the retina display. For most people, its worth it. If you wear coke bottle thick glasses in 2014... maybe not worth it. Fitting more characters onto the screen and having the text rendered ever so properly is lovely for writing code with.

If you run VMs, the i7 is handy. Otherwise, the i5's are pretty rocking as is. I always go with multiple power adapters... but you can stock up slowly on sales and ebay if you're not already living la vida macbook.
> Good courts do not comply.

Problem is, there is no good court. It's always vary case by case. Is the Supreme Court good court? It did rule in favor of gay married couples entitled to federal benefits but not so on some other issues. Laws are meant to be interpreted differently and handled differently by different judges at different time.

What you (and I and everyone is doing) is expressing our own opinion of how the complaint should be handle based on our interpretation of the law, responsibility, and society.
DynDNS dropped their free offering a couple of years ago. If you had created your account before then, you were grandfathered in, and still got 5(?) domains for free; as long as you logged in frequently enough.
"Inflation is a theft from everyone."

Inflation is from those with assets denominated in dollars (if they are not inflation adjusted). It is to those with liabilities denominated in dollars (if they are not inflation adjusted) and to the people introducing the new dollars into circulation. In the case of the government printing money, that's the government (obviously) and it's fairly reasonable to consider it a tax like any other. A somewhat regressive tax, since the more wealthy usually have more flexibility about how they store their wealth, but I don't know how it compares to sales taxes.
I assumed the comparison was more directed to Asparagirl's "Yeah, I'm looking at you, Washington Post" example. Like this:

Perhaps individual private websites, such as pekk's, should have the right to say "No, you do NOT have the right to pound my site with requests and serve data that I decided to pull down."

However, in theory, the Washington Post's articles online are also (eventually) placed on microfiche. Saying there's no right to serve data that WP decided to pull down would in some sense require WP to "steal into libraries in the night and set fire to their microfiche collection".
Databricks Snags $33M In Series B
Maybe the Apple rank and file took Jobs's "thermonuclear war" vow to heart[1]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-20/jobs-regretted-not-...
They did this in Chicago 6-8 months ago - then they tacked on a $1 "safety" fee basically making the rides the same price again.

I'm all for making rides cheaper if you want to - but don't start tacking on random fees that cancel them right out.
When the fares do not support car upkeep + owners time value they will stop getting lower. Assuming all uber drivers are behaving rationally (not a dig at uber, just that people do irrational stuff all the time).
I've read some of this source, too. Thanks.
Supply and demand: http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....
Agree, which is why we do take malware and phishing sites, which we can judge as per se harmful, offline. Read more here:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/thoughts-on-abuse

Malware and sites advertising so-called "booter" services are different discussions.
Skipping ahead is not new; it is a well-known fact that any linearly recurrent generator, such as WELL, Xorshift, or Mersenne Twister can skip ahead via matrix exponentiation.

And it is not the only way to get good independent streams either; hooking a cipher with a counter is arguably a superior way to do it, cf [1].

[1] http://www.thesalmons.org/john/random123/papers/random123sc1...
True, but having up-to-date technology makes scaling service much, much easier. ADP's problem is their service scales linearly with the number of service reps on staff. That along with horrible communication across departments(this is a tech problem in this day and age), and they suffer because of it. Even if a tech-driven company like ZenPayroll gets the number of customers ADP has, they will have scaled better because (hopefully) their systems are prepared for the traffic from the beginning and they continuously improve them to handle the growth. There's a massive difference between tech-as-an-after-thought companies and the tech-driven startups like Zen.
Please email me your number at support@getphonecard.net and I'll manually fix it.
There Is No Now – The Nature of Reality
Serious Sam can't compete on level design and art direction, though.
Semi-Numerical Algorithms is Knuth's Silmarillion to his jaunty Hobbit of Volume I and the serious Lord of the Rings questing that is Volume III. OK, I know it's a stretch, but Semi-Numerical Algorithms is more of a back story...these days writing a floating point implementation is much less likely than a linked list or a binary search.

But picking up a like new used copy from Amazon for less than $10 with shipping made it to good to pass up, and like the rest of Knuth, every time I read a few pages I learn something new.
While you are correct economically, many of the U.S. government's decisions are made politically. And a high debt-to-GDP ratio definitely affects politics.

I remember when TARP was up for debate. It was obviously needed, and it was the right idea (as proven out by its success). It still failed in the first vote in the House, because it was politically unpopular with enough people.
That makes me wonder if they'd have gotten the same reaction for a successful Windows Phone app (though, for practical reasons, I don't expect many developers to end up testing that).
In theory low income would force drivers out of the market, thus stopping it getting lower. That is actually the "correct" price.
Check out Kaleidoscope[0] for OS X.

[0] http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
One of the nicer things about RFCs.
You now actually need to specifically open the application with a right click to even have the option to open it, simply double clicking just says it's unsafe and closes. I think that safeguard probably has saved significant numbers of people from unsavory malware.
"...is that it highlighted just how insular and superior a lot of Apple developers act and feel. If you don’t believe me, just join a group of them at WWDC and whip out your Android phone. Within moments, you’ll wish you had whipped out something less offensive, like your genitalia instead."

Can relate to this a little bit...A coworker who is completely in the Apple camp argued fiercely how consistent the iOS keyboard was when I mentioned to him that the Android one changes case to match the Caps lock setting.
Sorry I worded that incorrectly. Someone requests for a court order to essentially handicap your business. It's not that No-IP didn't respond, it's that they don't continuously respond. Arguably No-IP does cater for these types of users who pay using gift cards bought with cash and generally only last a few weeks before signing up under another alias..
>The due process is that Microsoft sued the malware distributors and the court granted them a restraining order. //

In what way is the court at liberty to grant a plaintiff permission to enforce a restraining order though, sounds ultra vires? Aren't the only ones enabled legally to do so law enforcement officers?
Unchained: A web framework based on Express