skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can offer clients the ability to reverse proxy their domain to their VPS so they wouldn't need to append a port.
looking at heat maps :

jul 2 : 2013

people are in hurry at around 8:30 AM :
http://akuchlous.github.io/NYC_CAB_ANALYTICS/July/1/51.html

that at : 10:40 AM
http://akuchlous.github.io/NYC_CAB_ANALYTICS/July/1/64.html
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I don't see how a normally libertarian-leaning group of people have embraced regulation rather than deregulation as to this issue. Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies? Two words: universal access.

It's the same principle that led municipalities to grant taxicab monopolies, of the kind that stifle companies like Uber today. The idea is that in a free market, providers would only focus on the profitable parts of the city, leaving the lower-income areas without service.

Universal access is why it's impossible to "disrupt" the market for local internet. A new entrant can't just come into the market and pick off the most desirable customers or the ones that are cheapest to service. They have to be prepared to service everyone, even many customers who can only be served at a loss, in order to be allowed to operate at all. Additional regulation in this space isn't going to eliminate the underlying problem, it will just make infrastructure construction a more unattractive business and decrease investment.

There is no free lunch. You can have: neutrality, universal access, or a mostly privately-funded telecom infrastructure, but you only get to pick two. If you think universal access is important, and net neutrality is important, you have to be willing to publicly subsidize the construction of telecom infrastructure.

PS. Some folks have mentioned BT OpenReach, but it's important to understand what did and did not happen there. First, BT was originally a government-owned corporation before it was privatized, so the government was in a position to set the terms of the privatization. Second, the government used a fairly generous "RPI - X" price cap to certain of BT's services. Between monopoly pricing power and a relatively generous price cap, BT made very healthy returns on investment. See: http://www.academia.edu/3399930/LESSONS_OF_PRIVATISATION_IN_... (p. 28-9).

In the U.S., unbundled DSL was a failure. First, it got caught up in litigation because the infrastructure was never public at any point. Second, it was an almost pure losing proposition for the telecom companies. The FCC mandated a not-very-generous cost-based price control (TELRIC), which made further investments in DSL infrastructure unattractive.
No, they tried 6 hour days in Kiruna with dismal results.
...and restricting what is taught to what can be measured is a bad idea. As is putting so much emphasis on your measurements (and little enough work into creating them) that teachers have an incentive to teach the content on the test rather than the full breadth of the subject.

Most of my math classes growing up ended with a week or two of "here's how what you just learned applies in the real world / future classes". It was one of the few redeeming aspects of my early math education, and is probably one of the first things to get cut when schools want to beef up test scores.
I got more solutions:

1) Ship your own lock-down hardware (tablet) to customers, so they can visit your website

2) Install booths around country which will show your website. No cameras or phones allowed inside!
I was seeing the same a few minutes ago (also in Chrome) but it's working for me now so it's worth giving it another try.
I'm not sure what your comment is getting at. I think HTTP is fine for the Web, and any service exposed and designed for use by the Web is going to have to use HTTP. But if you're going to use a framework like Polyglot, you're going to have several services and any of those services not directly communicating with the Web doesn't need to speak HTTP.
I'm getting a 503 after it finishes loading the initial assets.
I did something similar you can demo: http://jastanton.com/experiments/imagescrambler/

Shuffle an image, re-assemble with a bunch of divs with background offset and just the right amount to bring the picture back. If you download the image you get a scrambled imaged.

Doesn't protect against screenshot.

Very fun :)
Well, this post has perfect timing for my ends. :-)
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sys/4567451353.html

I backed the original Kickstarter, have a bunch of Parallellas, and due to a cash crunch have to liquidate a bunch of them. Above is the link to my Craigslist ad.

These have equivalent specs to what Adapteva is calling the "embedded" version, but they come with the older, smaller heat sink and thus will still need an external fan.

Note that I'm both selling below Adapteva's list price and that the version I'm selling is marked "out of stock" on Adapteva's site. :-)
I don't. That'd be a hell of a competitive strategy, though.
Why do you care what other people are hiding?
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True, durability wouldn't help here, however, individual Rabbit queues can fail over to alternate nodes if the master node for that queue stops responding.
I think you are always going to have people/groups your going to compete with and ones you cooporate with. You chose to compete with iOS by creating an alternative(jailbreaking). I agree trying to compete on minor changes seems like a pretty big waste of time, but your probably not going to get much value out of them as part of your community anyways. I guess it comes down to movitivation. If people are competing mostly because of ego or is there a deeper reason that will resonate with others.
Education is primarily state funded, not federal. I believe federal funding is only 10% of the local school budget, and includes meal assistance and other things which aren't directly tied to a teaching position.

In any case, your original question is also valid for private schools - how do the parents of private school students know if their children are being educated or if the schools need help? How does the bishop overseeing several Catholic schools do the same?

Therefore, why is "federal funding" relevant to the topic?

As I understand it, you don't have access to the questions and answers for the high stakes tests, so you can't evaluate them. I can be proven wrong. Can you show me the complete set of questions for a state test from last spring? I looked for Florida, and only found FCAT tests from 2005/2006 at http://fcat.fldoe.org/fcatrelease.asp . I could not find FCAT 2 questions from 2013 or 2014, though I did find the scores from http://fcat.fldoe.org/fcat2/ .

This is what I expected, because some of the questions are potential questions for future tests, and exist to calibrate the tests. If the questions and answers are published, then they can't be used that way.

Which suggests that you don't know what you're talking about, as regards high stakes testing, or that there are some states where all of the tests are published, so that people like you can review them. Which tests are you thinking of?

If I understand you correctly, you are satisfied if you can "see and evaluate the test." Wouldn't you be similarly satisfied if you could "see and evaluate" all of the tests from each teacher at every school? Since that seems a lot cheaper and easier to do than set up high-stakes testing across the country.
Are you running your own apt repositories?
I don't see how internet is any less a natural monopoly than electricity. Picture a residential street with 100 completely separate fiber optic networks vs 10 vs 1, now which seems more efficient. It's not like everyone connects to a different Hacker News.
> What, did he post it on reddit or something?

I guess we need to buy his book to find out

"And I did it by using the strategies in LAUNCH. "
Meh, as someone who is almost constantly fighting to keep on top of my things to do, having tried out various methodic approaches, and slowly, but surely getting better at it – this sentence _immediately_ disqualifies this approach/app: «(...) you want to work on Today and pushing others till Later.»

If there's one thing I learned so far, one of the keys to get shit done is not putting it off (duh), but _planning_ it.

But I just saw this seems more about collaboration – which comes only across after viewing the video (The bit at the bottom feels somewhat like an afterthought). Why not writing about it a bit more detailed than sound-bite-sized paragraphs? At least this keeps in tune with the feel-good video. Which I turned off after 1.5 minutes: too much chanting, too little information.

Sorry to be mainly negative here. Your typography seems nice.
Excellent resources.

School districts in MN have problems too, and have occasionally tried things that didn't work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile_of_Learning

But the state and local districts have been making worthy efforts to stay ahead of the educational challenges they face, for the 34 years I've lived in the state.

As a parent, I can confirm that open enrollment is hugely important.

And let's not forget MECC :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
to lease the lines and get revenue that way
To understand this in context, check out this recent LastPass blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022543. One of these vulnerabilities (an insecure version of a bookmarklet) has been known to security researchers for about a year. Though LP claims that this is not serious, this article points out that there are much larger problems going on here. Comment from LP would be helpful.
I've seen solutions where connection provider and Internet service provider aren't same entity. If connection provider connects customers to POP where there are several Internet provders, it makes it trivial to switch service provider.

I've also always avoided deals where Internet operator owns cabling. It's much better that those are separated. There was a free offer for fiber connectivity. I refused it, ordered own fibers and now it's possible to choose provider quite freely. Because switching provider doesn't prevent using the same fiber with them.
Not necessarily -- if a net-neutral infrastructure as a whole is profitable to operate, then it can be constructed and operated by profit-making businesses without subsidies. But in that case, you need regulation if you want to keep net neutrality -- which is what YC is asking the FCC for.
I like my Rasberry Pi and yes it cannot be compared with Intel Galileo. But I am also pretty excited with this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/galile...
Pi-Top. A DIY Raspberry Pi Laptop Kit
Hi!

Just for fun: man reprepro and search for 'corrupt' :)

You can use all your normal tools to upgrade, install, and remove packages as you normally would. So, for, Debian-based systems, apt-get upgrade, install, remove, etc all work as you expect.

We provide SSL, gpg, and fine-grained access control all out of the box. Fine-grained access control doesn't really exist with reprepro or createrepo or other tools and you'd have to build it yourself.

Also, you don't need to worry about backups, the numerous bugs in all the repo creation tools, and we have chef and puppet modules to help deploy this across your infrastructure.

We have support for multiple linux distributions in a single repo (quite a pain to deal with yourself) and best of all we also support pushing multiple versions of a single package to a repo -- something that reprepro does not support, but has been in progress for ~4 years [1].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570623
Interesting. Why did you move over from Browserify? From a first glance, the featureset seems comparable, and Browserify sure has more hype behind it.
I'm aware of how prngs work, and of how often they are misused. What I was mostly wondering was how big an effect that would give in the final product. Do typical maze generation algorithms use it extensively, or sparingly so the differences are minor? How different would the maze look if the seed was different, and is it likely that you could get very similar mazes from completely different seeds?
I've always preferred to look upon the death of a virtual world with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWiRetxeviw
In the US, copyright automatically applies to "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression". (There are some exceptions, like for US government works.)

"original" boils down to "more creative than alphabetical ordering", and "tangible media" includes pictorial/graphic displays.

So yes, the maze is likely subject to copyright.

However, there's very little "creative expression" in the individual maze, as an algorithmic result, the creative expression is in the inputs, resulting in a "thin" copyright - only applying to virtually identical copies.

In the specific case, Kraft's maze is a significantly better maze - also evidence of the lack of individual creative analysis in the original.

There's definite copying - the styling and layout are too close for there to be otherwise, but the creative expression in the original is so minimal that it likely balances the fair use criteria (nature of the work, effect on the negligible original market suggest it is fair use, commercial use counts against fair use.)

Not sure which way a judge would rule. Kraft is probably very unhappy with their illustrator for not just creating an original maze...
This makes the above technique useless. It would be useful if you were changing where you type in the same application/form.
There was a show on PBS [1] that looked at internet access in several countries, and one of the segments covered the UK. There were two amusing facts they mentioned about line sharing in the UK.

1. BT was very much against it, claiming they would lose a lot of money. They now admit it was great for them.

2. AT&T and Verizon were strongly in favor of this. Ask them about doing it in the US, and they say it would be terrible for consumers.

The reporter for that PBS show did an updated print version of this story for Engadget [2].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/video-high-fibe...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/why-is-european-broadband...
Richard Branson on the Right Way to Multitask
I watched a few different cabs and they all seemed to generate around $600 in a 24 hour period. Am I the only person who thinks this is astonishingly low?
JTRIG tools and tech
tl;dr - Let's please think about the economics! Let's not just believe emotionally charged Internet aphorisms, but examine things thoughtfully.

Authentication and information security has nothing to do with DRM, even though both can have features like encryption. Let's not mix unrelated subjects.

What is the limiting of who can have my personal data and when, but Digital Rights Management, or DRM? One cannot stop at authentication, because to be complete, one has to prevent copying data. Without this, it becomes problematic to trace who has released information, and without some legal support, nothing at all is practical.

DRM can not be trustworthy by its mere definition

Sorry, but this is fluff. You could apply this "logic" to authentication as well. DRM has to involve some mutual trust and cooperation to the same extent that any protocol involves mutual trust and cooperation.

The key is to realize that DRM as practiced by corporations is evil and unworkable because the economics were utterly unrealistic. Really, where DRM could help individuals would be the elimination of trivial deniability on the part of corporations. Right now, when your data privacy is breached, there is no cost to "break" anything and it's very hard to pin this on a particular corporation. Add a DRM mechanism, and then there is something tangible to apply protection laws to and a labor cost with definite intent to breach an individual's privacy. In aggregate, the cost and potential legal liability becomes too high to for virtually any corporation to contemplate. We would arrive at a situation where corporations could afford to violate the privacy of a few select individuals, but could no longer do so to the public wholesale. Ordinary citizens would enjoy a measure of protection, though rich individuals and corporations would not.

Sounds pretty good to me.

Underlying everything, I'm not so much advocating DRM, as I'm calling to question emotionally charged "magical thinking" combined with naive induction. Let's not just leave things at "DRM is bad" devoid of real examination of what's happening.

EDIT: It also occurs to me that the historical factual differences between individuals and corporations should be used to modify the current formulation of "legal persons." "Legal Persons" should be considered as "persons" only in terms of a few specific factors, like the owning of property. The historical difference between actual and legal persons with regards to data privacy abuses would be an important corpus of information in support of this.
It is unbelievable that the entire comment thread is filled with people saying it's a bad article, it can be worked around, etc, when:

1. The article is an experiment on techniques and what can be achieved.

2. At the VERY BEGINNING of the article, the author links to his own comment in a previous HN post which said "I do not advocate using any of the techniques, please don't use it, it's terrible and will give your users headaches! I'm against ressource "protection" on the web, what's on the internet should be fully consumed by users of it! The article describes just a few experiments I set up to see how far someone could go if it WAS important."

3. The article acknowledges these techniques are ultimately stupid.

What is this attitude? Would you have the same attitude with someone experimenting with XSS flaws, hacks and so on to figure out what is possible? Did you all forget than, in order to do good, you have to know what is bad first?
Are you talking about a "distributed commit" ? In general, the best way to architect such a system is to model a single "Approve" operation as an FSM of multiple steps. The queue acts as the state-transition table... however all the databases in question (the accounting DB, payment status, etc.) all have the current status of the operation ...

Additionally, you have a garbage-collector "sweeper" that periodically checks the database to make sure that the FSM is not violating any time guarantees. For example, if the entire FSM for the "Approve" action should not take any more than an hour (in the most pathological case), the sweeper reverts back all operations that violate this. this takes care of the case that your queue fails.
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I wonder. I wonder. I live in Russia and I have 2-3 very good providers on the block constantly competing with each other and offering better connection and prices. They would show up on time and connect you very fast. They fix things quickly (in my government maintained house, the basement once became filled with water after the rain, and the wires were damaged. Even though it wasn't their fault, the ISP came and fixed it the same day). I pay about $120 a year for my internet. It's faster than anything I saw when in the US. And that's in Russia, that authoritarian backward country. Do you know why I pay so little? That's because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market, government hasn't been interfering with it (it's starting to, though). Everything I see government touches is of low quality, whereas everything that's good in my country is private enterprise.

And yet, you claim free market fails. Dear american internet users. The only reason you have what you have - shitty speeds and near monopolies - is 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. And still you want to fix the problem by introducing more of the same, that is more regulation and more government, whereas the only way to fix things is to not allow governmental interference in the first place. You can't blame evil Comcast. Why? Because if not them, someone else would lobby and win. If you can lobby, you have to or you're gone.
This is aimed at the people who think AWS is well priced and outsourcing every part of your infrastructure makes you more hip/agile/"safe"
mike (at) nordkril.se. I've been listening to some of your podcasts - great work!
I know, I'll create another programming language. Now you have N+1 problems, none of which address the systemic problems with the Apple ecosystem. The problem was never JUST Objective-C (although it sucks pretty hard). Apple is REALLY struggling for a win here.
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Thanks for your response.

I was writing a simple web service which also makes REST calls to other REST services which may or may not respond in JSON. Seems like a sweet spot use case for Grails.
It's interesting how society unanimously view 'work' as a concept that is undesirable and as something to be reduced.

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?
Do you love me cyber artist i love my cyber brain hacking machine sir give me a greenes life
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Internet bandwidth is not a commodity like electricity or water

I agree
Like _craft asked, is there data that most successful companies pivot? Mentioning 2-3 successful pivots does give great insight into whether pivoting successfully is common. :)

(But as long as we're listing successful pivots, Intel is one of the most famous pivots out there.)
Currently private beta is with the web app. We should have the iOS app in the app store soon.
Because with electricity, everyone gets the same power. You're tied to the same grid; your provider just meters your usage, bills you, then pays wholesale prices for the power you used. But the system as a whole only measures inputs (from power generators) and outputs (consumers). It works for something like electric power where a volt is a volt and a kilowatt is a kilowatt.

With Internet access, you're looking for SPECIFIC packets. Those packets have to be routed in a certain way and delivered over a shared, multicast last mile infrastructure. If you want the ability to choose your ISP, then while it may be the same Hacker News, the route the packets take to get there might be very different.
Peer-to-Peer Technology Trumps Traditional Cloud Storage
They're profitable because it's an expensive magazine read almost exclusively by high net worth individuals. Their subscription numbers are sub 2 million worldwide.
Note, %hu and %hhx are not portable ways to print uint16_t and uint8_t.

Instead, you're supposed to #include <inttypes.h> and use:

"No type promotion here: %f %"PRIu16" %"PRIx8"\n"
What would the advantages over a tool like FreeFileSync be if I don't care about real-time backups?

(Note that I understand that it's designed to be very simple and usable, and there's real value in that, but I'm specifically asking about the features.)
The petroleum industry seems to know how to balance fairness with profit making. ISPs need to learn some lessons from them instead of making decisions which hurt the platform itself in the long run. If all ISPs become like this, people will be very willing to move to an alternative that becomes available. This will just make them more vulnerable to 'disruption'.
Check out my above comment and feel free to ping me via email or twitter. Would love to get more detailed feedback from you and maybe try to change your mind!
Apple has never cared about backward compatibility. They kill off libraries and APIs like unwanted kittens. Yes, it makes everyone sad when they do it, but the API still goes into the burlap bag and then into the pond. They continue to break software with each now OSX release.