skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most taxi drivers already know the right time/areas to go to get hailed, and to get the kind of hails they want(IE not to JFK or LGA, the bronx, most of queens/BK). Even though it is just tribal knowledge, I'd be really surprised if it wasn't largely accurate.
Why bother attacking the comcast techs? These guys are just trying to make a living. The real problems come from well above
We offer it for £4/year not month. SO significantly cheaper.

A Raspberry Pi would not provide better performance than the E3 we have.

Anyway an idea: it's fun. Trying to run a whole LAMP stack or a RoR stack on 64MB RAM is more fun than not using all your resources. Also we're cheap and people like that. We might not always beat them in performance but we don't break the bank either.
"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"?
New York 52

Texas 52

Illinois 32

Ohio 27

Virginia 23

New Jersey 21

Pennsylvania 21
Here's 7 states with 20+ fortune 500 companies that aren't in Silicon Valley. Very large companies are everywhere and there IT shops are everywhere. I work for a billion dollar company in Ohio that just bought a multi million dollar piece of software. No where in the multiple pages of evaluation criteria did location of the source company ever come up. I can't at all see how enterprise software needs to be in CA.
Yes, "flame tamer" and "heat diffuser" are two terms I've heard for such a thing.
The program used to generated the landscapes is copyrightable, the landscapes themself are not.

But this is problematic. Procedurally generated landscapes can still have a definite "feel" or "look." These attributes can be protected as "trade dress." But there is no way to preclude other attributes we haven't thought of yet.

A problem with copyrighting mechanically generated works is there is no end to them. What awareness and creativity is shown by letting a computer make 1 million slightly different images?

Yes, you're right, there are algorithms that actually don't show much creativity. But this is actually already covered in the "Threshold of creativity" laws -- if the declaration that the output of an algorithms cannot be protected is removed. If you apply most of the same "Threshold of creativity" laws to a notion of meta-creativity, you still arrive at a usable and coherent law.

All the creativity is in the programming, not in the result.

Clearly, the truth is that creativity can manifest in the result.

Also understand that modern technology makes the current formulation of the law problematic. What if I simply used cheap data storage to slurp the output of a program so that I could use the output of someone's copyrighted code without permission? I could imagine doing this to a procedurally generated MMO world. This would seem to make the practical effect of the law quite divergent from its intended effect. Introduce a notion of algorithmic meta-creativity, and the law would protect against that kind of infringement nicely.

That said, in many cases, it would be advisable for the copyright holder to not reserve copyrights for such media. But in that case, I think the providing the option is the wiser choice.
> Do you know why I pay so little? That's because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market

This is a little imprecise; "free" and "free of governmental interference" are not the same thing. More likely it is because you have a _competitive_ ISP market. That might in turn be because of how free your market is, but in order to really know we'd have to know how your area solved the problems that led city governments to grant monopolies in the first place.
Totally agree. Articles like this are awesome and ideally HN would be filled with them. It's about a set of interesting hacks, that are ultimately still just hacks, but stimulate the hacker mind and add to an archive that can be drawn upon when/if the reader ever encounters the need to solve a similar problem (hopefully with better practical applicability). Articles like this are amusing, interesting, and inspiring, and embody the spirit of Hacker News.
We're a UK company but we house our servers in NL.
Nice! Interesting that older titles (like Information Architect) have gone by the wayside, even though those tasks (determining a user-centric categorization schema for content and functionality) still needs to be done.
"all your devices"... that are IOS/Mac.
Good question. The solution is not go full retard, it seems, but to stop doing wrong things. Whatever you do, you don't ever introduce new regulation. Don't introduce more opportunities for government bureaucrats to feed from. Because if you do, it's gonna lead to worse and more expensive things for the consumer.
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I live in the suburbs. Suburbs and especially new buildings in suburbs are best connected.
They don't have to. If anyone wants to, they could verify it. I helped support an effort to find evidence of astroturfing an FCC request for comment. Having this data enabled us to do that work.

Knowing that the data could be verified is supposed to be a deterrent to acting in bad faith. Later, one could do the verification if they doubted the comments were genuine. Given the amount of tech power behind keeping net-neutrality, we should want the process to be as open as possible, so we could verify it ourselves.
> That depends on how many calories you are taking in.

"Turbocharge weight loss" means that there is existing weight loss to turbocharge. If you are losing weight, reduce weekly calorie intake by 14% and change nothing else, I think the description is accurate independent of the pre-existing intake level.
It would have to be SNI for SSL unless they had an absolute shed load of IPv4 addresses space available, though if they are charging for the service that would increase the chance of getting a dedicated IPv4 upon which you have sole use of port 443.
Sorry but you're barking up the wrong tree. I use reprepro to host gpg signed packages (accessed over ssh so no ssl required) deployed from a vcs repo. The setup of the repo server itself is even handled through an apt package (hows that for self bootstrapping)

Even if I were interested, the obsession with ridiculous pricing structures means I could never use your service. Seriously how does 1 5mb package cost you more than 5 1 mb packages.

$100 a month gets me a hell of a lot of resources to host packages, and funnily enough it doesn't stop working or demand more money because the package count hit some arbitrary number.
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They may not be exactly the same, but a prediction market provides a quantitative way to measure confidence at both an individual and group level without requiring people to revise their estimates at a later time. This is arguably superior to a weighting based on differences in opinion prior to exposure to the consensus of a different group, and after exposure to that consensus.
But the prices you list aren't connected with reality. They're your wishful thinking of what Internet access should cost. Reality says that most telecom companies make about 10-15% net margins, so there really isn't room to drop prices more than 10% or so from where they are currently, even if the ISPs are willing to abandon all hope of profits.

It's also a well-known psychological phenomenon that people will curtail usage if they know their usage will cost them more -- even if the amount is trivial. The last thing Internet-based companies like Netflix or Amazon want is for people to use the Internet less. Current metering systems really only "catch" the most egregious offenders (less than 1% of total customers). Most ISPs have a "business class" plan you can purchase for more that truly is unlimited, if you find yourself exceeding the caps on a residential account on a regular basis.
I'm not aware of any spec requirements for overcurrent protection on the host ports (devices have strict power behavior per spec), though they may be there.

I am aware, however, of countless USB host designs that simply put a 5v regulator rail on the power line and could probably be induced to overheat by a misbehaving device.
Photography is a creative work, mechanically produced by manual selection of particular views of something you did not necessarily create. This doesn't seem a tremendously far cry - in a sense, he is taking photographs of maze-space.
how many papers can survive with that strategy though? Our family has subscriptions to the WSJ and Economist, but we have no plans to subscribe to either the NYT, SFC, or the Post. If this is the only demographic that can be profitably targeted with this strategy, then only a few can survive.
So in other words, you did something totally different.
yes - I know what you mean.

Part of the reason is that there has been an entire body of effort into making queues scale and be available. Interestingly, just today I discovered a new queue that I did not know of before, written in Go [1] that keeps everything in memory and tries to fail over.

I think by the time you need a distributed commit, you have the staffing required to build a queue that scales and does not go down. So there is less focus on semantics of distributed commit (which needs a lot of complexity on the application side and is hard to reason about), than to build a scalable queue.

[1] https://github.com/bitly/nsq
Texas does this for electricity, where the grid maintainer (regulated) is split from the power provider (deregulated). It took a decade to get it to work, but now it works really well and the competition in the power provider market is fierce.
Get a good C&D template. In this day and age, it's the only protection IP holders have. If someone isn't worth pursuing legally, it's not worth worrying about whether they're providing proper attribution or cutting out your watermarks, just let those people go. If you get ripped off by a commercial publisher, send some letters and get the remuneration you deserve.
The "last mile" argument is true, your numbers don't disprove it because they don't represent a percentage of consumers with said broadband options.

The report's title is: Percentages of Households Located in Census Tracts Where Providers Report Residential Fixed-Location Connections of Various Speeds as of December 31, 2012

If the census tract where a household is located has access to 2+ broadband providers it satisfies this test, even if the household itself has access to less than 2. An entire tract that includes 2 cable companies that offer 10+ mbps but only offer exclusive service to locations would still satisfy this test even though 0 of the residences have access to 2+ services.
When cooking with a wok, you want MOST of the heat on the sides, to maximize the surface area you can cook with.

I'm not sure about other pots, but even heating around the contents of the pan is probably always better than the alternative.
Or things that some staffer was looking up anyway and changed it. Then again, there's something sinister about the minor style change to Step Up 3D's article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616433636&oldid=61...

Probably the anti-community center lobby trying to keep kids from learning to breakdance.
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So what is the relationship between the 1984 film described in this interview and the one that was released (with the same stars)? Is it the identical film?
Good article explaining some clever techniques. I don't understand all of the whiners here who expected something perfect and foolproof.
Subjects received monetary payments for each good estimate.
Possible rewards were 4, 2, or 1 points if their estimates fell into the
10%, 20%, or 40% intervals around the truth; otherwise, they
received no points. The rewards applied to all rounds to make sure
that individuals took all of their decisions seriously. The correct
answer and the rewards for all
five estimates were only disclosed to
the subjects after the
fifth estimate. This reward structure in-
troduced incentives only to
find the truth and avoided incentives to
conform with others. Furthermore, there were no incentives for
strategic considerations. For example, there was no benefit of being better than others or of misleading others, because this did not
affect individuals
’
payments. There was also no possibility to help
others by deviating from the strategy to
find the best estimate.
Therefore, our experimental design put subjects into a situation in
which they would try to get as close to the truth as possible by using
their own knowledge and the estimates of others.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/10/1008636108.full...
Sorry, I meant due to Comcast's stupidity, not the techs.

The two techs I worked with were very nice and clearly frustrated with their inability to help me at times due odd barriers in the way Comcast has things setup, stupid hoops to jump through.

I've edited my comment.
I see a taxi route on: Sunday, June 29th 1913...
I was under the impression that this was Jeff's own side-project and he had no intention of integration with Amazon
Trisequel because proprietary software is evil.
> The more likely scenario is that Verizon was working on getting these kinds of deals set up, then they halted FiOS expansion and stopped adding new buildings before they got to yours.

Actually, no, they are still adding new buildings in NYC, but only on the condition that they provide both television and Internet service to the building. (For a short period of time they did Internet-only out on Long Island, but they've stopped that).

I got very far up the Verizon chain and found out a lot of information about this, which is why I know the specifics here.

In my case, I requested that Verizon figure out whether they wanted to provide service to my building (they did) and that they then contact my building (they did), at which point it turned out that TV (not Internet) for the building could only be provided by TWC.

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure Verizon uses this as an easy excuse to avoid expanding their service (since 2010 or 2011, Verizon has been very half-hearted about FiOS and doesn't really seem to care about expanding FiOS as much as they care about appearing to care)[0].

> I don't think contractual exclusivity is legal,

No, but they've found creative ways to get around it, and it's certainly not something that's widely enforced.

[0] My evidence in favor of that comes more from my experience dealing with them in New England.
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That makes sense. There are also good reasons to just HTTP: one less technology to understand/troubleshoot, reuse existing tools and middleware.
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From the article:

> Municipalities, often for good reason, gave these edge providers a monopoly (the bad kind of monopoly where consumers can’t choose to leave) and often used tax dollars to fund the development.

Your guess about the author was mistaken.
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Thanks for the correction -- for some reason, this isn't mentioned in the story, which is a pretty big omission.
"there seems to be very limited innovation in the last mile - even in London it's hard to get more than 20mbps"

That's just not true - vast swathes of London now have access to the VDSL-based Infinity service which is up to 76Mb down; there are quite a few FTTP exchanges too.
Perhaps the link was edited since your comment, but the links "July 1" through "July 6" return taxi heatmaps, as promised.
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So you're saying that top-down management or even peer-to-peer management will exist within the grey goo scenario? I'm somewhat skeptical about top-down management, as there would be enough nano-bots within a 1cm deep layer in a city the size of NYC to far outstrip the attempts of a complex entity to control them coherently. As far as peer-to-peer communication goes, then bacteria are already doing this; http://www.hhmi.org/research/cell-cell-communication-bacteri... and they still haven't covered us in grey goo.
> BECAUSE you have government sticking its nose where it shouldn't (I'd say, it shouldn't stick its nose anywhere, but that's another story). Comcast is the second largest lobbyist in Washington.

Your argument, even though it reads like liberal laissez-faire stuff, actually is: the government is being controlled by corporations.

So, your solution of "stop regulation" is offtopic. Come up with something relevant to your own argument first. Like, hmm, "stop corporations from dictating governance". That'll work.
> Whatever is produced will however, need to be able to parse TeX, otherwise it will not be easily adopted by the community.

This is a huge barrier to raise, since parsing TeX is the same as typesetting TeX—the meaning of a macro later on can be affected by a macro now. You can't even just execute the macros in a vacuum, since the meaning of a macro can depend on things like the current page number.
I must agree with this. I've been suffering from IBS for a while now. Anytime I have a flare up, I most certainly have severe anxiety (and it's not just anxiety of having to deal with the flare up. Anxiety symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, weakness just show up). I've tried a few probiotics but didn't see any noticeable difference though.
That's naïve - it would be exceptionally difficult for a new ISP to emerge countrywide even in the a sense of regulation. It's very capital-intensive!
> Is a society where where people are actually passionate about what they do and want to spend more time working because it increases their overall happiness too unrealistic to strive for?

Shouldn't it be? Aren't there jobs that should be automated? And if we automate all the jobs shouldn't we no longer have to "work"? Why work if you can provide resources without said work?

People will still create. People will still pursue goals. What we call "work" will just become fuzzy. There is no point in work for work's sake.
Sounds like the plot to Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.
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It's always interesting to think of humans as giant integrated microbiomes. Our bacteria is part of who and what we are.
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Here's what I'm building my new queue with:

https://github.com/jondot/sneakers

It's a ruby library that implements a Resque-like interface on top of RabbitMQ. Crucially, it doesn't have any opinion on the message contents. It doesn't even deserialize them for you. Most of what it does is manage a unicorn-like process/thread pool plus the associated worker objects, and consumes messages in a thread-safe way. That and the usual configuration boilerplate.

Also check out this branch which implements a max-retries strategy using dead letter exchanges, and is kept up to date with the upstream:

https://github.com/Yesware/sneakers

I imagine it will be merged soon.

The thread/process management is done by the serverengine gem:

https://github.com/frsyuki/serverengine
Yup, I agree with that and in a team environment that may be very valuable. HTTP is definitely the "JavaScript of protocols." However, I don't think learning other protocols is a ton of overhead, and learning is always a good thing ;)
My thoughts exactly. If you come to my house and ring the bell, but it takes me 15mins to get off the couch to reach the door, I can't really claim to be "available" with a straight face. Sure, I "technically" am available, but that level of latency is not practical.
>So, disclaimer. Journalist turned web developer here. But I really don't think newspapers are going to go extinct, really ever.

Still, particular newspapers have already gone extinct by the hundrends, and the trend is not showing any signs of reversing.

>They are one of the only permanent records of history. Digital publications disappear like yesterday's rainclouds.

Sure, but it's not like people, the average consumer etc, appreciates that fact or gives a damn about "permanently recording history". Most of them don't even print their digital photos, maybe 5-10 of the best ones, whereas they used to have albums with 100s of family photos back in the day. (And most don't even backup their digital photos).

That newspapers served as "permanent records of history" was a byproduct of them being available, dominant and profitable. Not something people specifically bought them and subsidized them for.

>There will always -- always -- be demand for physical products, because as humans we are very tactile.

Well, tablets are quite tactile too. And people have quit CDs and vinyl for mp3s and digital downloads/piracy.

Sure, there's still vinyl pressed. But it's small quantities and is consumed without any wider cultural context in the society, just by a tiny niche of music fans. And pressing vinyl is a $1000 affair -- so you can afford to press 300 copies for stores etc, where running a newspaper is extremely costly, and a print edition even more so. So the difficulty of continuing one is not the same as continuing the other (vinyl) niche tradition.

>The bottom line is that there is always going to be a demand for newspapers and news in general. In fact, people have been predicting the demise of the newspaper since TV was invented.

That's a common logical error. The belief that if people have been making the same prediction that didn't pan out, it will never pan out.

Not to mention: who said it didn't pan out? When radio/TV was invented, newspapers might not have vanished, but they lost a lot of their cachet as THE source of news and information.

The loss in readers was ofset by an increase in education and thus an increase in a middle class wanting to read newspapers. But that was a historical accident. The spread of the internet didn't see any such simultaneous increase of middle class or literacy (probably because they had already hit a ceiling during the seventies).

And TV, back in the day, had limited chanels and was live only. So not much of competition for the newspaper. Nowadays we have 200+ channel options, 24-hour news channels, Tivo and its ilk, and video on demand from the internet. Plus, written news on demand from the internet.

Plus, the numbers (of declining readership) are very different (and much worse) in the internet age vs the tv age.
Isn't HDCP broken?
He'll never escape the Google arcology in time, the corporate extraction team will never be able to hack the security grid to disable the armed security drones!
Interesting article and data, it is basically a deep and narrow dive into one of the issues tacked by the 2008 book 'The Big Sort': http://www.thebigsort.com/
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From this excellent article: http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-04-04/news/taxes-food-beverages...

(I didn't link to the article directly in the submission because the flowchart was the most interesting part to me, but it's buried two clicks deep from the article itself)
All I'm getting is "An error occurred during validation. This video does not exist.

Sorry about that." :(
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Current != power. I recommend altering this to say "uses less power (600mA at X volts) than the old (750mA at Y volts)," filling in X and Y with the voltage that the systems run at.

Or: "uses less power(X mW) than the old one (Y mW)," filling in X and Y wit hthe power that the systems run at.
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