skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, there has been no claim that Level3 pays Verizon for their peering. The Verizon-Level3 peering is settlement free as both are large Tier 1 networks. What verizon is refusing to do is upgrade the size of the interconnections until Level3 either pays them for paid peering or gets their traffic ratios back to an equal ratio.

Level3 as a Tier 1 who pays no one for peering or transit, and is of course not going to do that. That leaves their transit client Netflix with the choice to either use other providers, who will likely run into the same traffic ratio issue, or pay for peering directly with Verizon.

When Netflix is pushing out 1/3rds of the internets whole traffic, and it's all going in one direction, there's practically no tier 1 network out there that can provide transit for that without breaking their peering agreements, except perhaps the same content providers (Verizon, ATT) offering paid peering to netflix. It's not unreasonable with their traffic levels to expect netflix to peer directly with the largest consumer networks.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you should stop going out on a limb, as you're clearly very poorly informed when it comes to these matters. But here's a citation for you: http://economixcomix.com/2014/04/20/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-g...
The education situation is not symmetric and should not be treated as such.
They probably don't have to actually test it very much, the actual sms should be handled by the api which wouldn't be tested by them. Other than that they could just alert the 911 service that they are doing some testing during a certain period of time.
I'm liberal as all get out (and voted for Obama), but this isn't limited to the right-wing. Greenwald's getting attacked by Democratic partisans a lot over the NSA revelations. Those same folks would've been outraged during the Bush years.
Have you thought of accidental calls?

Cellphones used to have similar emergency buttons. People sitting on their phones caused too many calls and these buttons have now disappeared. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_dialing
Some commentators like Thomas Sowell, who is himself black, believe that "affirmative action" is in fact bigoted because it basically says that a certain group of people are not capable of getting a job or an education unless they are given special help.
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This is funny, but I'll throw in my anecdotal evidence also. Never used Uber, none of my friends/family have, never met anyone who has claimed to use it.
There isn't always a plan.
2014-1997 = 17 [to 21 @ 1993].

To me it looks like a Y2K bug.
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You're right. And considering they have just added Cognito support to their Node.js SDK, we can suppose this is the master plan.
http://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/JavaScript/99205414836272...
I'd vote in favor of removing gendered language altogether. The descriptions listed are vague and kind of meaningless.

For example, in the "masculine" company description, the words "dominant" and "boasts" are just fluff. Plus, who cares if you "are determined to stand apart from the competition"? Isn't everyone? And the "feminine" description is so passive and unclear that it makes me think the company could be an engineering support group and not an actual engineering firm.

I would suggestion something like, "We are a leading engineering firm with clients including X, Y, and Z." It's short and to-the-point. This way, it is clear that the company is an engineering firm, and hopefully clients X, Y, and Z are illustrious enough that they speak to the firm's capability/status.
Is anyone else having the problem where you resize the window on an rMBP and the whole screen goes blank?
If Text to 911 is not available in your area you get a bounce back message from your carrier.

The FCC website has more information about TT911 here: http://www.fcc.gov/text-to-911
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[x] duct tape

McGyver didn't lie.
This is true but there are generational differences with that connotation. To a subset of younger people "hyped" means something is good and popular.

EDIT: For reference https://twitter.com/search?q=hyped the self-referenced use of "hyped" to mean excited about something is pretty popular
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At Ziteboard (zoomable whiteboard in your browser) we chat a lot - when we work alone as well… Having a trusted companion with us enables creativity and productivity to exist on a higher level and makes us a bit less neurotic. To see Poppy (short haired daschund) visit the live broadcast of the launch here: www.ustream.tv/channel/ziteboard

We also invited all our friends who of course will not show up for there is a hell of a storm out there, and made the launch public to whoever comes to share their insights and experiences.

We are looking forward to have your feedback on our service which let’s you draw (whatever) in a browser, and zoom in and out. It’s a plain zoomable whiteboard - nothing more, nothing less. May be good for ad-hoc presentation, meetings, doodling, you tell us.

Please do visit: http://ziteboard.com

Cheers.
We certainly have though about accidental calls. That's why we implemented a double tap (with a timeout) as well as a countdown where the user is able to cancel. False alarms are definitely something we're keeping our eyes on.
> I'm not sure why you cited...

Because such leaks will be used selectively, against anyone the data collecting agencies see as a worthwhile target.

And no, blanket recording of all phone calls is not the "valid and good purpose" of the security apparatus, even if it occasionally exposes political corruption.
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Indeed, but i think it would be really hard to actually eliminate it entirely. Infected people can still live for decades with it and slip-ups happen, especially if the disease becomes much more rare and people stop thinking about it. In contrast, most of us will never be able to contract polio no matter what we do, because we're immunized.
I like it, but i'd be too afraid of accidental button clicks to install it. (May not be safe, but it is what it is)
I do, but, granted, I am a typical HN reader, not a typical user. I want my data either to be encrypted by the key that only I have, before being sent to the online storage service, and/or being sent to the computer that I physically control (NAS at my home).

The reasoning that users do not want to maintain that infrastructure is a very valid one. However, it is like having a car vs. using public transportation. Most car owners do not maintain their car themselves, but at least you can remove your personal items from the trunk before you drive it to the mechanic.

Now the question is does this analogy extends to the advantages of using your own car vs public transportation. My guess is that need for privacy could be one big driver, but the company that can make home computing infrastructure an item of conspicuous consumption will be a big winner. Think Apple or Sonos, but in terms of what comes next (Augmented Reality, Voice HCI etc).
warning: tinypic often shows NSFW images on the same page as the image linked to.

In my case this was a big ol' row of titties, right in the middle of my office..
It seems this worked out quite well though: http://www.wine-searcher.com/merchant/50429 :D
They only tested Android phones.

http://blog.avast.com/2014/07/08/tens-of-thousands-of-americ...
Seems to have worked out for Ebay....
“All cats are libertarians. Completely dependent on others but fully convinced of their own independence.”
Because the best way to get a user to "move in" is to make it easy for them to "move out". It's actually in Amazon's financial interest to make it easy for people to move off of their offerings.
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It sure does:

".. the agency uses a two-digit code for the birth year, which is why the years 1893 to 1897 were mixed up with the years from 1993 to 1997."
You are implying that because I don't wanna be hired just because the company needed more Indians, that means I am completely against building a better company.

Sorry to break it to you, but you don't build a better company by hiring a minority just for the sake of hiring a minority.

From the article:
> Fortune 500 companies with at least three female directors have seen their return on invested capital increase by at least 66%, return on sales increase by 42%, and return on equity increase by at least 53%.

You may not realize this, but this actually shits over the accomplishment of those women.

Imagine if my employer who hugely benefitted from my work for them goes out and says "Hire more Indians, we hired an Indian and our sales went up by 43%", I would walk out of it so fast. Mostly because they need me as an individual(and wouldn't just replace me with another Indian guy) but they don't treat me as an individual.
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In fact, they have fixed it. Well, RDP has; I don't know what the state of the art is for VNC implementations. Microsoft's "RemoteApp" does exactly what you describe.
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Wouldn't Dropbox Apps, even though it isn't open source, be a good start for your requirements ?
I glad to hear that, for a long time I've always considered Windows HAL (certainly XP/2000 and beyond) to be something the Linux kernel needed to really tackle the desktop.
Isn't this the same book:
http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...
I can't speak for women, but I would have to think hard if companies put out calls for gay applicants. Do I want to be "the diversity hire?" I don't know if anyone inside or outside the company would take me seriously. Women might have a similar thought process when these kinds of initiatives happen.
And more importantly, the humans who programmed it probably don't work for the selective service. Obviously all "computer errors" are technically the fault of a human somewhere down the line, but in common usage it means that "I didn't make a mistake, the computer didn't do what I told it to do".
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I think that if the computer decided to exercise its own free will, the resulting error would pale into insignificance.

"Screw that batch processing job. I wanna get to 2048!"
Even better: a transpiler.
Do you have a hard time reading?

"Sorry, but that is ridiculous goop." <- this is about as explicit and concrete an assertion of his opinion stated as fact as you can get.

Also, you should really stop with the multiple cases of whining about "political correctness". It doesn't make you look like a decent person at all, because what you're really saying is that you think not being a fucking self-entitled shmuck who ignores evidence but makes massively sexist sweeping statements equates to "political correctness".

(PRO TIP: http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/43087620460/i-was-reading... )

The status quo is clearly failing our industry and our community. Any argument made against changes or even just _suggested_ changes, especially those backed up with mountains of scientific research and evidence, is a toxic argument in favor of more status quo, and cultivates the upholding of deeply misogynistic and racist systems of oppression.
I know the prevailing philosophy in the start-up world is that its better to ask forgiveness than ask permission...but legally I would take the conservative approach and suspend services to pilots with only a private license, and pending the FAA response only permit those with a commercial license?

Hell flytenow could even sponsor the cost of pilots getting their commercial, in exchange for exclusivity until the amount is reimbursed.
That would be a pure hardware error. For example a cosmic ray hitting a cell the DRAM and flipping a bit. Or maybe the Intel FP-Bug, could also be a computer error.

Anything else in software is a programming error, but not necessarily a programmer error, since it might start with wrong HW specs, compiler bugs, etc.
The hack is awesome, but to me the real lesson is the importance of modularity. If North American Aviation and Grumman had standardized on the same part the hack would have been moot. Just take the part from the LEM and stick it in the CSM. End of story.

I fully comprehend the tradeoff here though, particularly when it comes to tight deadlines and weight tolerances. The CO2 scrubber in the CSM didn't need to be as beefy as the one in the LEM, and the two air filtration systems were designed by different companies where coordination would have been a bitch.

It's the classic software engineering trade off, isn't it? Add more dependencies or DIY. I wonder how the ISS deals with this in the US vs Russian parts of the station?
One would hope that the US population wouldn't vote in a party of fascists. And if they did, then they get what they deserve. American voters aren't known for being particularly bright (they voted in a drunk who couldn't put together a complete sentence, twice!) but voting in fascists is a little far fetched.
Hi, you might be able to take some pieces from mine at https://github.com/bamos/cv.
I use Python and Jinja templates to convert a YAML document
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Lately I've been using http://devdocs.io/ as my one-stop reference. It seems to pull its information from MDN, among other places.
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> If Senators were commenting on it then it was real.

Senators comment on things that aren't real (either because of erroneous beliefs about what is real or because they see political advantage in commenting even though they correctly believe it to be unreal) all the time.

Senators are, as a class, neither omniscient nor omnibenevolent.
Apparently already discussed a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5421260
>United States Senator David Vitter was reelected in 2010 even after a scandal involving behavior that I would consider shameful,[1] and the antics of former DC mayor Marion Barry[2] are probably still notorious enough that they don't need further discussion here.

This is sex dirt and drug dirt. Money dirt is crucial to the functioning of politics, and I'd like to see a similar list of politicians who have survived evidence of kickbacks, bribery, money laundering, and misuse of campaign funds. Sleeping with someone other than your wife while being videotaped smoking crack will not put you in prison.

>I by no means assume that everyone in politics lacks personal integrity.

This is a straw man.
It's interesting that this uses points + comment count as the test of importance; doesn't HN use comment count as one indicator of a flamewar IIRC?
It's got to be two orders of magnitude easier for them to tap phones in the USA though. They don't have to ingratiate themselves with anyone or hide what they're doing, just show up at AT&T with a FISA-signed warrant and install equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A They've had a lot longer to do the work, and they have a lot less distance to transport equipment.
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> the police do not gain the right to search your vehicle.

Depends. Just need probable cause. Motor vehicle exception.

>But they do have that right if they arrest you.

Depends. Search incident to arrest exception with automobile caveats. After Gant, if the arrestee no longer has access, or no reason to believe that evidence of the arrest offense will be found, not ok. (But still maybe ok to impound and inventory.)
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Yes, it was re-released in 2014 as mentioned in the video.
I second the recommendation. It's a good book.
The metric should be composed of several factors.
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You operate your business like a sexist byproduct of a sexist society.

If it's a toxic misogynist culture that makes women feel unwelcome, so be it, it's the best measure you've (currently) got.

(Except for, y'know, all these suggestions, methods and proven approaches that are fantastic alternatives to being a dick.)
> Presumably a person or company who has chosen to use this service understands the technical limitations and features it entails.

That's a pretty big assumption to make. People, even technical people, make assumptions all the time that they'll be able to get their data out of a system and then aren't able to at a future date.
The issuer of a fiat currency collects taxes in that same currency.

The issuer^H^H^H^H^H^H ledger algorithm of bitcoin collects taxes^H^H^H^H^H transaction fees in that same currency.
Anything like this but for relational data? I need to sync a sqlite database and my attemps of using this kind of service show me are not really a good fit.
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Are there public records of who came up with the hack?
But why would you want to?
Well that was fast.

The recent early-stage-company acquisitions are an interesting change in the business world. The other, in my opinion, is the move to hold off on IPO until later stages. It seems the opportunity to invest in growth is getting squeezed from both ends.
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As they say in DC, though, "perception is reality."
Intrinsic or not isn't really the question - it's not really a binary.

I'd rather have bitcoin than Zimbabwe's fiat currency.

Taxation definitely gives legitimacy, but so does the ability to pay for things anonymously. If enough people are willing to take a currency, than it gain value - period. The gov't wanting it in taxes is just a really big provider of liquidity providing those network effects.
You should also look into this gem which converts to html, Markdown : http://prat0318.github.io/json_resume
Using fake outrage at a hypothetical situation as an excuse to maintain the status quo is not a valid response.

A woman, asking companies to look at how they hire and giving specific examples of how their hiring is biased is not shitting over the accomplishments of women.
1) It doesn't require a revelation to be career ending for the person involved to be believe it could be damaging (and therefore be susceptible to blackmail).

2) It doesn't require all politicians to be be lack personal integrity and give way to blackmail, even a few can tip a balance.

3) Selective/distorted leaking could also tip the balance in places as to who gets elected.

4) Calls could be monitored to take advantage in negotiations for example by knowing what the real bottom line is in a negotiation, knowing which parts of a coalition can be picked off and exactly what they have been offered.

The question is not could the NSA take absolute control of all politicians but how many they would need to cause real corruption of the process. And I'm not saying that they are doing it now but that they shouldn't be allowed to get to a position where they could.

Regarding this in your disclaimer: "I am absolutely certain that there are enough politicians ready to mobilize to roll back NSA surveillance programs if they really think the programs are excessive in their scope."

Firstly there is no sign that they knew anything of the scope until Snowden, secondly "why aren't they doing it?" or failing that "if what we now know isn't excessive what would be?"

Disclaimer: Not a US resident or citizen.
Miracle rogue too (coin defias ringleader anyone?). Certain rush/zoo decks to get extra minions out faster can be overwhelming.
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Also available as an ebook:
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/business-adventures/id89031...
Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/business-adventures-john-bro...
and Google, mentioned above.
Hey all,

Creator here. The entire app is free this weekend. This includes in-app purchase to remove limits.
But that doesn't answer my question. How did you even test this?

911 is not a trivial service that can be tested blindly.
I think there would need to be some genetic engineering involved.
I wish people would stop creating scala libraries and frameworks, it just fragments the java community. Scala was a short term hack to fill in the gaps until Java has lambdas. Java does now and there's no need to keep scala separate, the syntactical sugar to remove some of the boilerplate to java is just not worth the fragmenting effect. We've seen much the same thing with python 2 and python 3, which differ in ways similar to java. We need to delete scala and delete python 3 and all get back to solving real problems.
it's actually linked in the point below:http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028227/here-are-all-the-quantifi...
> Tbh, the only way I'd accept your argument as valid

You entire post seems premised on a strawman argument -- the only argument I made is that the logical contradiction you posited in the argument made in your previous post was not supported by the statistics cited to justify it.
Indeed. Anecdotally I've felt like Uber has gotten worse in NYC - probably because they originally started by recruiting experienced drivers, promising greater income (and delivering it). At this point it feels like that pool is tapped out, and they're starting to recruit a lot of drivers who just don't really know the city as well.

The last 3 Uber rides I've had from my office in Brooklyn the driver didn't know how to get on the Manhattan Bridge. With yellow cabs or early-Uber drivers you never see them futzing with a GPS unit, but this is now a regular experience.

Uber recently lowered UberX prices in NYC to be lower than yellow cabs. Funnily enough, given the lack of experience of their drivers and the amount of time I waste circling, or having them type things into a GPS unit, it seems more like a price correction to me than a real price drop.

Scalability. It's hard.
It says on the page they provide a web service API accessible to any application.
Yeah, it does appear to a hot topic. Still, the post was <10m old and #1 with 0 comments. Seems either extremely overhyped or artificial to me.
I don't think Apple does this, but if the iBeacon transmitter device sends an ID to identify itself, the iOS device could log and send the event to a web server by itself.
I so wanted to edit the title of this post to development of SkyNet begins.
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That is an incredibly weak argument.

First of all, whether they are shameless or not doesn't really matter. If sexually explicit pictures of a politician end up on the internet, his reputation takes damage. It's beyond his control. Plenty of politicians are willing to go to great lengths to avoid this. So what does it matter if he's shameless or not?

Second of all, politicians and other powerful people might have something to hide that isn't just embarrassing but is also illegal. It's certainly not beyond the capabilities of the NSA to target powerful people that oppose the NSA while ignoring those that support them.

For example, in the news you might read about a CEO that gets convicted of insider trading. Nothing to worry about, right? Well, what if the NSA purposefully targeted him because they don't like whatever it is he's doing? Using parallel construction, it wouldn't even have links to the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
Markdown resumes are neat just like the LaTex and others but I feel like they're a bit gimmicky (every developer does one it seems). Maybe that's the point. Some days I feel like I'm the only one who applies a set of styles and formats to my resume current sitting in Google Docs or Word.