skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alexander's stuff has changed the world already and I hope it will change the world much more in the future. Hope it is sooner than later.

If you're a fan of Taleb's Antifragile, this stuff is the Antifragile.
Is there no middle ground?

Is there no value to a phone that reduces your NSA dragnet footprint substantially, while at the same time building the capital necessary to develop an open baseband (as I'm sure you're aware, that is not a cheap proposition)?
This one is particularly nice, from a mother of two children:

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521380101
True. But note that "can be" does not mean "will be". For example, AIDS is a syndrome (thus the "S") whose causes have been pretty well understood for some time. However, it is still defined as a syndrome.
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Infinite sides of the infinite culture wars.
Not a problem. :-)
This is basically 'systems theory', which was all the rage in the 60s and 70s, and Christopher Alexander's work was linked to. There's a reason it didn't take off as much as expected - not because the overarching premise is wrong (that its possible to describe all things, even design, in a systematic way), but just that its incredibly difficult to the point of impossible for people to do so.
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It's great to see more and more organizations taking a public stand - however it would be even better to see even a hint that a policy-based solution is coming.
How would you go about downloading/buying this?
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This is shared infrastructure. If it costs you $16,000 to build out to a neighborhood of 10 people, then you have to set the price at a point where you can amortize that cost over the maximum number of subscribers. The Netflix junkie may be willing to pay $130/month, but if he's the only one that signs up, your cost per subscriber explodes. Thus, if you're a provider, the amount of money you are willing to spend on telecom infrastructure is going to be dictated by how much that, say, 60th percentile customer is willing to pay, not how much the 90th percentile customer is willing to pay.

Now, you can ameliorate this somewhat based on per-GB charges, but people have an irrational hatred of that. The business deals on the backend are obscure, but at the end of the day, how much a customer spends on services on top of their internet connection is a decent proxy for how much utility they derive from that connection.
May I ask where you are located? Just curious. Edit: looking to move from my current city.
In this debate, a lot of people - especially those discussing "paying per GB" - that seem to be missing a key issue. Sometimes this is intentional, but I suspect that is a fairly small minority.

The central problem: trying to apply the concept of money and economics to packets doesn't work, because money and economics are tools for handling scarce resources, while the major benefit of the modern "digital age" is that you can copy those bits without a per-copy cost[1]. As bits are not scarce, "pay per GB" becomes a case of applying to wrong tool or trying to solve the wrong problem.

Observing that the infinite scalability of bits isn't leading to free high-speed internet for everybody, a better question is: which resources really are scarce? These are the costs that billing should be based upon.

With networking, those costs are things like creating the network hardware, installing it, and maintaining that hardware. The first two are a one-time cost. We usually distribute that kind of high-variance, unpredictable cost into "monthly payments" in a variety of industries, and tthe maintenance costs are inherently a "per-unit-time" cost as well. This includes the expensive routers that you need to have anyway to be able to tolerate variations in usage[2]. At no point does the contents ("number of packets") enter into this as a cost.

A common rebuttal to the idea of usage not being a cost is to point out the problem of saturation and how an oversubscribed line would the ISP to make expensive upgrades. This problem does exist, and should be part of the billing... because it is a problem about bandwidth, not bits. You don't get to keep billing someone indefinitely for a one-time cost. Attempting to do make up costs like that would be rent-seeking[3].

Various ISPs have shown that billing for a given amount of bandwidth (at some defined defined guarantee of service) can easily be profitable.

[1] Electricity costs are not relevant, and are often not relevant anyway in physical layers where you have to send an empty carrier if there is no data. Most of the rest of the "costs" are associated with using those bits (see: CMOS), which is addressed above.

[2] The specific amount of tolerance required being defined by the guarantees (sometimes with SLA) offered by the ISP.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
This makes the product sound terrible. I really doubt they need to make screws or switches.

I thought the same thing. It reminded me of the genie garage door openers at my rental property. The end limit switches are were obviously designed in house and are basically two strips of some copper alloy spring material that come into contact as the door passes.

The problem is that a garage is a dirty/corrosive environment. On a yearly basis I have to sand the contacts. All this to save a few pennies vs just buying a standard micro switch!

I can't determine if its was incompetence, cost cutting, or just planned obsolescence.

Of course, I just posted a few things on another board about how I think the lack of software licensing leads to the lack of "software standards" where everyone and their brother is basically doing the equivalent of building their own screws, with their own thread pitches and head patterns or using whatever happens to be "cool" this month.
> I've never understood why people are so hung up about renting vehicles (not hourly rental; traditional, daily rental). Considering the cost of buying, maintaining, depreciating, and parking a car it is SO much cheaper (and easier) to simply rent from a traditional rental company for these long road trips.

I do not know what country the parent comment is supposed to refer to, but in Finland it is simply too expensive to rent a car compared to owning one.

Furthermore relying solely on public transport outside of a few urban areas is impossible.

In other words, if you have no transportation needs then you don't need a car. If you do, then you need a car.
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A la The Simpsons when Tanzania was renamed "New Zanzibar" and then later renamed "Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar".
IBS does not typically present with inflammation. Those are typically hallmarks of inflammatory bowel disease like colitis or Crohns.

http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditi...

There are some sources that say inflammation does play a role in IBS but every study I've read says it does not.
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Well, then, I suppose your comments are something I need to consider.
Lobbying in its purest form is supposed to be a way for people to have a voice in their government. Anyone in this country can ring up, or write, or email, their representative and push for an issue they feel strongly about. Likewise they can also make campaign contributions to the representatives, or candidates, they like and want to see in office. And the two can very easily be tied together: "I'm donating to your campaign because ...". If you keep it that simple it's a pretty good idea and is one that I think most people can get behind.

However in our modern world it really is just blatant bribery. Because corporations and rich individuals are able to donate such vast amounts that they are the only ones people care about. Take a look at how much money is spent during election cycles and it's obscene how many millions are poured into running for office. All that money has to come from somewhere. Say, for arguments sake, you must raise at least $5m to have a chance of winning an election but you think you can only raise about $2m from small donations (individuals) and then a few companies come along offering you nice big money bags if you agree to support their causes. Who do you care most about?
Do such comments have any effect? It's hard to overlook that money seems to drive American politics moreso than public opinion (with the exception of the presidential elections).

I think that YC will become increasingly prominent in politics, because the tech sector has to in order to maintain control of its own fate. It'll be interesting to see what other moves YC will make.
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The stream link will go down at the same time that the movie gets pulled from vimeo.
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That's trademark, not copyright.

I never said it was copyright. Please readjust your mental model of who you're speaking to accordingly.

If you carefully tuned your program to create a single result you found best that might be copyrightable.

How is this different than carefully tuning your program to create a range of results with specific attributes? Example: All of the generated landscapes are aesthetically pleasing, but have enough open area next to obstacles to enable ambushes and also manage to look creepy at night... Such a result might indeed take

That doesn't make it copyrightable.

I'm saying that it should. IP laws date from a time where the kind of automation that makes the above possible was unthinkable. The assumption that an act of creation would result in a particular set of data is no longer warranted. Neither is the assumption that the automatic production of art is either not possible or would result in uninteresting and stereotypical output.

Not following. Does "cheap data storage" make a difference? How are you "slurping" the output? What sort of program is it?

Specifics aren't needed, but "cheap data storage" makes it possible to store the entire content of certain procedurally generated algorithms from earlier computer systems as files of ordinary size on today's typical machines. (Example: The entire Elite universe.)

And what's the problem? The procedurally generated MMO world is not copyrightable. That's the intended effect - to only copyright what a person actually does.

I'm saying that this very notion dates from a time when procedurally generated output was unimaginable to most people, and that to only copyright what a person actually does is trying to apply 19th century notions to 21st century technology. It's just like the early 20th century arguments for airlines having to pay farmers to overfly their land.
They are BOTH registed as oficers of Flikdate:

Officers

NAME sort	OFFICE sorted help	DATE sort

BICANIC,NIKOLA	P/D	Mar 6, 2014
KRYEZIU,ARBEN	S/D	Mar 6, 2014

Also, both Ozolio and Flikdate have their registered offices in the same building.

So these crooks were able to fund their crappy startups with 700K out of the fund, giving them selves 7% overall of the fund.

Lets see what they spend that money on.
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Guess what? I found a site that's giving Steam Wallet card pin codes away for free! ﻿http://linkbitty.com/steamwalletcodes
Stopped complaining when laypersons misuse it, sure. But can't we keep the real meaning within our own nomenclature? When I go to a hackathon I expect to be building something.
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Yes, me. This is my second company, seven years experience with the first, two years with the current. I have a GED, that's it. I'm now the lead for our IVD development project.

I started in SQA at company 1 and was hired as an engineer after about a year.
I like this, this is a really nice example of a useful but easy to make project.
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> "...so let’s reclassify broadband as the public utility we know it to be."

Thank you very much for writing that! (and the letter in general!)
Let me repeat it again. Authentication is OK. DRM is not. If you don't get the difference, let's explain.

Let me explain AGAIN -- I'm not talking about such a system running on your machine. I'm talking about such mechanisms running in Facebook's, Apple's, Google's, and the NSA's server farms. It's about 4 messages into this thread. Please get a clue.
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I don't find many all-electric injection molding machines used, yet.

Otherwise, yes, lots of used stuff is available.
I didn't mean "all people." Of course health problems are going to stop someone. But it seems like most people just give up and transition into other work even though there's nothing stopping them from pursuing something they feel is important.
> Y Combinator is Silicon Valley’s premiere early stage investor.

Shouldn't it be 'premier'? I know, not a big deal, but a mistake on the first line doesn't scream 'Best in the Business' if you ask me.
Constipation has sometimes produced the bloodiest scenes. My grandfather, who died a centenarian, was Cromwell's apothecary; he has often told me that Cromwell had not been to the toilet for a week when he had his king's head cut off. - Voltaire
About 30 tabs total, 3 profiles, 2 separate gmails, a few google documents, a couple of privacy extensions, lastpass, a few youtube videos paused. On a busy day I'll have twice that many tabs open, maybe more.

Chrome does a lot of caching when memory is available. I've got plenty of excess memory, especially when there are no virtual machines running, I'd rather chrome use it and be very fast than leave it unused.

Why is your CPU so high? The video? My CPU usage from chrome without a video play is 1%, and my processor is nothing special.

In Chrome, each tab is a separate process by the way, that accounts for some of the extra large usage. Top 5 Chrome tabs using between 200 MB and 350 MB of memory each, that does seem kind of excessive...
Off by a factor of 2, if you are referring to the Presidential elections in Russia, where the communist party candidate received less than 20% of the vote. 35% roughly includes all parties except Putin's. Although I am not sure that voting against Putin (or voting for the communist party, even) is equivalent to voting to return to communism. Were you referring to a poll, or perhaps another election?
Thank you so much for the comment, I'm glad to hear you've had good luck with SQLite in production. I switched all my personal stuff over to it a month or two ago, haven't looked back.
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I think your experience hits on a problem with vim distributions - you're jumping into a solution to someone else's pain points.

spf13, which has a lot of great plugins, probably started as someone's personal collection of plugins at some point. As such, the author had a lot of time to muse on what her/his current vim set up was missing. Sharing someone else's vim distribution, you miss out on the motivation behind including things (and also on the opportunity to pick alternatives more suited to your needs).

I would start with stock vim and spend a few minutes outlining the features you need. I recommend, as a minimal set, a couple of plugins I think most people are happy about:

Vundle [or Pathogen]
(two managers for vim plugins hosted on GitHub)

https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim [https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen]

Sensible vim
(useful defaults for vim)

https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible

Fugitive
(make vim aware of your local git repository)

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
It's unclear how this plays out in the era of state-wide franchising agreements.
"Digital Rights Management" -- you know, words mean something. If it's digital, and it's used to manage rights to that digital information, then it applies. Also, if you had a clue to the academic and research origins of DRM, you'd know it's also "trusted execution." DRM as you are aware of it in the hands of Sony et al is just one single application of DRM/trusted execution. Just like HTML is just one application of the more general SGML or the abstract notion of markup languages in general.

I think you simply use the term DRM incorrectly. You think DRM means information security. It doesn't. "Turning it around" makes it not DRM anymore.

I think I've made the mistake of discussing while assuming the wrong level of information background amongst the participants.
Very interesting. I indeed have Crohn's, not IBS. I thought they would be more closely related, but this article [1] from the CCFA has made me change my mind a little bit...

[1] http://www.ccfa.org/resources/ibs-and-ibd-two-very.html
I know but it doesn't invalidate my point.

No matter how long, more "leechers" are going to abuse the system instead of a few "geeks" with the knowledge.

Sure, if the timespan is short, almost no damages will be taken. Unless it gets distributed through other networks. If they didn't expected this, they may be upset.

Hey, even maybe this was the main purpose, to go viral. Who knows. I just wanted to share how I felt to see the stream link published.
He's officially been on the payroll since 2010;

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/reddit-cofounder-alexis-oha...

But yeah, I don't see his name on the partner list;

http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/
How is timing not selection? And it's still being captured mechanically.

Notice also that many cameras these days will take many shots in rapid succession (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_mode_%28photography%29)
It is. Methane leakage in the US is comparable to the GHG output of half the coal plants in the US.
Isn't that generally the idea, though? You give your money to an entity that is presumed to be better at investing it than you ie bank, portfolio manager, mutual fund etc. etc.

The roundaboutness doesn't seem odd to me - the issue in my mind is if this is a sound investment decision for Hawaii. I'm not sure. The answer may be different after this sketchiness, as it could have been legitimately expected that it would help their tech sector in some way. That may still be the case. It really depends on the risk profile Hawaii is going for and the financial status of the state.
They were worried about electrical problems, not radiation problems.
Secret Raises $25 million at over $100 million valuation
I would put that mistake on the same level as "typo" and hope that it would be missed or ignored, if it can't be corrected. It's a deeply unimportant error that in no way hinders the understanding of the message.
Fixed. Thanks. I can't tell you how many times I and others read over that and somehow missed it. So it goes with typos.
I appreciate what Alexis is trying to do here but I hope he isn't assuming that the FCC just doesn't understand the problem. That's how this reads to me. Maybe the idea is to be diplomatic. I don't think the FCC cares. The FCC understands what is going on and it wants to do whatever is best for the FCC.

The best thing for tech companies to do is to start destroying some political careers. That's the only thing the machine understands and the only thing it's really going to respond to.
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The headline is significantly linkbaity. Courier job applicant was told to arrive 5-10 mins early for interview, arrived 4 mins early and was unapologetically told to go to the next session in 30 mins.
And a follow-up. How did you get your foot in the door? (I'm trying to get my first job as a programmer after teaching myself and building things over the last year to year and a half.)
How did you get your foot in the door? (I'm trying to get my first job as a programmer after teaching myself and building things over the last year to year and a half.)
Well, you're not exactly correct. Airlines are indeed regulated, but not as much as they were before in the 1970s. After the deregulation of the Airline industry the prices dropped, and service levels increased.

Telecomm, again, is only heavily regulated in the US. In my country it isn't, yet we do enjoy rather low prices and quite a nice service overall. Telecom operators also cooperate without any government intervention: at some point they realized it'd be great to have incoming calls from ALL operators free (they weren't before) and outgoing calls to be of the same price for any phone (they weren't).
Public comments are routine in setting administrative law. (The concept is called notice-and-comment.) Congress gives the administering agency authority to make an administrative rule, and that rule can only happen after a public notice period about the proposed rule, during which any member of the public can comment on the proposed rule. Rules are often modified during the public comment period, which will be reflected when the rule is finally published.

Your point is well taken that well organized (not always well moneyed) narrow interest groups can often get their way in the legislative or administrative rule-making process simply by being organized and cohesive. That is why public-choice theory[1] suggests that representative democracy cannot always achieve disinterested action in favor of the abstract public good. But what we deal with is a system that is imperfect, but better than other systems of government that have been tried, in the comparison that Churchill popularized.[2]

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoice.html

[2] http://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
I don't know where you are from, but 4 minutes early iisn't a 'late arrival'.
It was good, but I was a little lost with the ending... Anybody else have that problem?
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If I were a delivery company then I might decide that I didn't want to hire the people that merely show up on time, or even the people that show up a few minutes early. I want the people who go out of their way to show up a lot, lot earlier than they're expected to.

Even if that wasn't true, though, I suspect that I would not be interested in hiring the guy who didn't show up early the second time.
are we talking only hard wired (cable/fiber) or wireless as well? I would not be surprised if costs rise as the provider, similar to who provides natural gas to my area, gets paid a wonderful fee regardless of how much gas i actually use. Then there are all these permitted charges for billing, special taxes, and the like, which raised my gas bill independent of my usage and gas prices.

We might not get what we want or expect. However do not think that I agree with services like Netflix paying more for priority when I am already paying for the bandwidth
I took insult to the way I was treated after the fact, rather than the fact that I was locked out.
This is unfortunate, but I have to wonder why 557.png (the image of the phone in this post) was last edited by Photoshop. :tinfoil:

$ extract downloads/557.png
Keywords for file downloads/557.png:
mimetype - image/png
image dimensions - 1170x869
produced by software - Adobe ImageReady
comment -
created by software - Adobe Photoshop CS6 Macintosh
mimetype - image/png
video dimensions - 1170x869
pixel aspect ratio - 1/1
A common problem with PHP jobs is Entry Level salary for devs with 4-5 years of web development experience. That could be keeping the qualified candidates away.