skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may very well be in their best interest to give NetFlix free co-location space but because of the PR battle this has become kind of a proxy war for bigger issues. ISPs have a legitimate concern now that if NetFlix 'wins' the PR battle they will have a long line of companies knocking on their door demanding peering arrangements and free co-location. It's also worth noting ISPs could rent out 4RU of space in their facilities to other companies for way more than $0 and often do.
And how many are spam?

(I get friended by 3 clearly fake facebook accounts a week at this point ...)
I think this is not the right understanding, since LOC here is being used as a proxy for complexity, but language that packs more complexity into single line would not necessarily reduce the complexity. It might, but it might not - e.g. it is true that you can implement Conway's life game as one-liner in APL [1], but does it become much simpler than multi-line implementation of the same in more mainstream language? I would not really say so.

[1] http://catpad.net/michael/apl/
If I am not mistaken, what jimmaswell is describing is the same mod that made my Gameboy Advance my most favorite of systems... Just google 'ds homebrew' and you will discover a wealth of information... For gbas and ds(es???), you could/can purchase a flash cart. There is a surprising amount of homebrew and software hacks available out there that this flashable cart brings to the table - not the least of which is the ability to load up emulators for everything 'equal to or less than' the gba/ds(in general regards to cpu/ram requirements) to play 'backups' of the games (which were also flashed onto the cart along side of the emulators). My former GBA (paired with 2 flash carts) was likely the third most used gaming system of my life to date(2600, NES, GBA). All the games you could want (or fit on 512MB (A LOT when the games are a few hundred k (nes) to a few mb (gba)) - 2600, NES, GBA, GEN and SNES - with few/no issues.

All of this said, the PSP (1001?) was/is an awesome emulator... Capable of playing everything up to PSP backups, you could play all of the above, with PS1, NeoGeo/Capcom, and PSP support... Definitely a very nice gaming system with a lot of power and capability... In the end, it was the GBAs battery life, wonderfully thought out screen and compact size that always made me come back to the gba. The PSP got a lot of play, but being able to stomp turtles and collect rubies while sitting on a beach without shade just made the gba the general purpose go-to for this casual gamer (as the PSP could serve as little more than a mirror and hand warmer in this setting).

While generally frowned on by gaming manufacturers for obvious and founded piracy concerns, there are some awesome hybrid systems that can be made out of existing on-market systems. While I am sure that there are many whose ultimate goal is piracy, there are a lot of people who enjoy modded systems for their flexibility and enhanced capabilities.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gitbook#!/story/forever/0/gitbook
Interesting, I've been working on a similar offering: $8000, from idea to fully-functioning prototype and landing page. I'd love to see how well-received your price point is - I think you could charge a lot more, frankly.
IMHO ownCloud will become as big and succesfull as WordPress in its own niche.
Brigading is quite explicitly against Twitch's ToS.
They can be when they are in abundance.
I'm already a big fan of both, actually.
The connection will fail if your destination moves out of sight?
>I am looking for 'pure concurrency' in a app like videos games exctracting last ounce of processing power from a multicore machine. This what the original comment stated was the core competence of Clojure.

That's not actually what the parent comment stated though. It says that Clojure is designed to solve real-world problems in production environments.

In many cases this doesn't mean squeezing out the last ounce of processing power, but being able to reason about concurrent code safely. You pay an overhead of using immutability in order to facilitate higher correctness.

When your system grows it becomes important to be able to reason about parts of it in isolation. This is particularly important when you're running in a multithreaded environment.

That's what people generally mean when they say that Clojure has focus on concurrency. Since the data is immutable you can make assumptions about what the code is doing that you wouldn't be able to make otherwise.
829 million DAU translates to roughly 10k users logging in a second, I can't even imagine how many requests that translates to. Can someone explain how their infrastructure works so they can manage this? I literally cannot fathom a system to handle this that isn't multiple millions of servers.
App idea, service that hits all of the links and submits your startup.
Product Management (Electronics): It's No Country for Old Men
Please take a look at the actual history and contemporary use of government watchlists. This is not about terrorism. Its about suppressing dissent and consolidating power.

People don't want to believe it, they want to think their government is only motivated to help them. But the reality is that we absolutely must compare this situation to the one in East Germany with the Stasi.
I don't find open source as a product has the benefits we assume it must.

Theoretically, yes, if I have the source every change and customization I want to make is just a recompile away.

Practically speaking that almost never happens because now I'm likely forking a huge code base and almost always abandoning the support contract I paid money for to do so.

Unfortunately, because theoretically speaking anyone can change anything, authors seem to neglect the whole documentation and API portion of open-source software, and that's what I typically want in practice.

Obviously there are exceptions, but most people pay money for support, warranties, integration with existing systems, documentation and available training. All of those things have very little to do with whether the source code is open or not.
Android will own the low end mobile space. iOS will own the high end.

Either the mobile OS wars are over and Android and iOS won (I think the most likely scenario for the next 10 years), or there are major developments coming up that we (I) can't foresee that will change this dynamic. But for now, that's it.
this thread (not the article itself) is one fine example of the decline "hacker"-news is going through

if you look at "linux" as a community of users and developers there is lots of get stuff for free attitude and not enough people capable of and willing to work on the tasks waiting (open source drivers for mobile GPUs anyone?)

but hey, aren't we all busy on making lots of $$$ with our übercool startups these days? call it the sad state of hacker ethics or continue to improve the free software world day by day .. choice is yours
Your smart patent laywer might say: delete this post asap.

If you KNOW you're infringing a patent, it's MUCH worse than if you're infringing without knowing. That's why it can be better to not do patent searches.
It's opaque on Linux, but that's not the big problem. It's opaque on OS X and Windows as well, but nobody cares because it works.

I wonder if we'll eventually get the kind of stability that we currently have with ethernet drivers... once the speeds are high enough that we stop upgrading, once the chips go into long-term production instead of changing every few years, once things settle down...
Nevermind, apparently the Dogecoin QT app makes new addresses every time coins are sent out so I had to track all my coins to the last one that still had all my coins
Wiki: 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak
Do these DAU/MAU numbers include WhatsApp users?
But to be fair, most attempts to analogize Nazism and Hitler are intended to stop you from thinking and stifle debate. Once someone claims that, for example, the US government is the modern analogue to the Nazis and they'll come for you soon, dear hacker, the way they came for the Jews then they're saying that, as far as they're concerned, anyone who would suffer further debate about the issue is defending an absolute and irredeemable evil.

Or they're just engaging in paranoid, thoughtless hyperbole. Either way, it isn't helpful.
Courts have found that the Watchlist is not consistent with Constitutional design:

"The No Fly List, once distributed, clearly infringes upon a citizen's right to travel; and the Court cannot conclude based on the present record that there are no means less restrictive than an unqualified flight ban to adequately assure flight security, such as comprehensive preflight screening and searches. Second, the current record is inadequate to explain why judicial involvement before a person is placed on the No Fly List is either unnecessary or impractical, other than perhaps within the context of an emergency based on a specific, imminent threat that
requires immediate action. Nor does the record conclusively establish that there cannot be any opportunity, either before or after an American citizen is placed on the No Fly List, to know of or challenge any of the information used to list him, even where such information could be summarized in a way that does not compromise sources or methods." [1]

[1] http://www.cair.com/images/pdf/Gulet-Order.pdf
Also good to know. Do you have any recommendations of text editors (online or native) that are markdown oriented and support those formats?
That's alot of zeroes.
I work on open source software with two other developers and our business makes enough to pay for three full-time salaries (they're low-end software developer salaries, but we all live comfortably in the USA and Mexico).

We sell two WordPress plugins, both of which have free counterparts (think Lite/Pro). The source code is GPL for both versions.

Why do people buy the Pro version of our software? That's we've asked many times over the past few years. I feel they buy the Pro version for both the features and, more importantly, for the fact that it will be _updated_ and _maintained_, and they will have _access to support_. Site owners that want to use one of our plugins recognize that by paying for the plugin they get access to support and features not available in the Lite version, whereas the free version has limited features and only community support.

Could someone copy the source code for the Pro version and sell it? Sure. (And people have.) But can they copy our Pro support and sell that? Not so much. Can they copy our reputation? Nope.

I've learned over the past few years just how valuable "access to support" is for many people. Even if they never contact us, just knowing that we're there _in case something goes wrong_ is comforting enough for them to pay for that comfort.

If more open source projects started offering support, I bet you'd have a lot more open source developers making money.

For example, if I decided to set up `mutt` for the first time to switch over from web-based email, would I buy a "mutt support service" from someone that allowed me to submit `mutt` questions through a ticketing system while I was setting up and getting familiar with `mutt`? Yes! I would, especially if that person had a reputation in the community as someone who knows `mutt` inside out.

It's also worth noting how offering support helps drive documentation. If the documentation is great then a developer can easily point people to the relevant information and save him/herself time (so that support doesn't take up all available time). I basically used this type of "ask me a question, I'll create documentation for it and then reply with a link" method with my Independent Publisher WordPress theme project [1].

[1]: http://github.com/raamdev/independent-publisher
The sentence immediately before the one you quoted is: "Remember how the open source software movement was supposed to be like Woodstock, with everybody sharing and everything free?"

I think the author wants to express that open source has changed a lot from the early days. As far as I remember it, open source originally was driven mainly by students, academics and hobbyists, and by service companies like Red Hat or maybe IBM. Nowadays, many of the larger, successful and enduring open source projects are mainly developed by professional developers working for companies that use the open source software for their commercial products or infrastructure.
Tor Project makes efforts to debug dark web
From section 3.9:

"...some activities conducted by U.S Persons or activities taking place inside the United States, maybe an exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment"

So you will be put on a punitive list even after the govt. itself clearly recognizes that you are only exercising your first amendment rights.

There is clearly something very wrong here...
Correct link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/technology/facebooks-profi...
> journalctl -fu NetworkManager

Perfectly sums up my feelings about NetworkManager.
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/guinea_ebola_epidemic

> An outbreak of Ebola struck Guinea causing at least 187 infections and 117 deaths. Aid organisations are taking emergency measures to contain the spread of this highly infectious and deadly virus. Crucial to this work, is an understanding of where the populations are centred. Detailed and accurate maps of the region are vital, which is why organisations such as MSF are working closely with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team to coordinate our mapping community and deliver maps to field workers.

As far as I can tell, it's a crowdsourced effort to turn satellite photos of the area into high-quality maps, which sadly do not exist in these areas.
Have We Taken Ramen Too Far?
Years ago, I had issues with several hotel wifis on the east coast. I found that completely disabling NetworkManager and manually connecting was the only work-around. But NetworkManager had to be disabled from startup. If it was started at any point, even if the service was stopped (and a manual connection was attempted) I couldn't connect to the network.

It's hit-or-miss.
Deranged Cat teaches how to be CTO before your deranged
Hmm, we will definitely look into this, thanks!
The red zone: campus rape
Supermarket comes off national grid to be powered by food waste
Building a viable business on top of an open source project is totally possible. But, like building lots of other types of businesses, it can be difficult.

These challenges cut close to some things we are aiming to solve at Assembly [http://assembly.com]. One such question we hope to answer is this: "how can people build a real, profitable company in a collaborative, open manner like they build in an open source environment?"

An example is Coderwall, which makes more than $25,000/month [1] and is built and maintained by the community. Each month, revenue goes to the people who are building the product. All the code is publicly available [2], and licensed to be used non-commercially. A core team of contributors guide vision and quality control, but anyone can participate.

It's not exactly open source, but products on Assembly are built in the open and anyone can dive in and help out. Some products have lofty ambitions to make big revenue, and others are are more aimed at being a public offering like a traditional open source project.

[1] https://assembly.com/coderwall/posts/coderwall-coinholder-up...
[2] https://github.com/assemblymade/coderwall
They said the WhatsApp deal would close later this year, implying it hasn't yet finalized, so I would imagine this does not include those numbers.
In my view, the elephant in the room is central banking. It's hard to know the true value of a company anymore, as the stock market it flooded with trillions of $$$$ (the dow jones is at an all time high). Surely that capital is going to be misallocated based on your criterion; power _starts_ in the hands of those sociopath VC's as the money gets created in startup valuation.

Twitter is valued at more than 30 billion dollars, yet it has never sold a single thing in its life.

Likewise, the OpenSSL folks scrape by trying to find enough capital to not make the entire economy collapse from a buffer overflow.

Haskell folks have trouble finding jobs despite being the most brilliant coders out there (some criterion: # of bugs, quality of tools).

-- sinetek, who wishes someone would listen
Years ago it didn't take me that long to get PulseAudio setup to play from my HTPC through my laptop (so that I could use the headphone jack on the laptop). That said, it wasn't plug-and-play. I didn't use it too often because there were too many moving parts every time I wanted to get it setup (i.e. setup the laptop to receive audio, then get the HTPC to connect to the laptop and send audio... then disable it all to get things back to normal afterwards).

What would have been preferable would be for the HTPC to advertise itself as a audio source, and the laptop to be able to list sources, and let the use select one.
I'm sorry but I find this statement totally retarded.

Firstly as if anyone is going to be able to know all the doctors names even in this particular case and I'm sure there's plenty of other epidemics out there right now that are also dangerous.

Secondly there are more than doctors working on this case. Three other nurses also died as per the article.

Thirdly this story is hitting all the major news channels. It's currently top of HN. People are knowing this story.

Fourthly we don't live in a fantasy novel where knowing someone's name means something. Could we on HN at least talk about constructive things not emotive clap trap, we see this ever single day anyway from sites like upworthy.
suck it HN haters
If you're systematic about the syntax of your TODO comments, you can also 1) jump to them, 2) traverse them in order of priority, 3) automatically surface changes to the list of TODOs as comments in commit messages, and 4) use commit hooks to refuse to commit code with overly severe TODOs to certain branches.
Cool, but I wouldn't call it a single diode LASER since it is forming an incoherent beam from several diodes. Now if you could get a single, coherent beam at several kW, that would be really cool.
These type of stories are up voted without being read because, despite intimations that iOS users are hipsters, the real hipsters are people who use Android because of some imaginary freedom. Most Android users don't care about fake hipster stances and just want a cheap phone. They are not willing to pay for security and they have none as any moderately talented hacker can own an Android easily even if the user only uses apps from Google's walled garden due to carrier foolishness. Pretty sad to see HN so taken in by this nonsense.
> "universal constants" are really just statistically measured values.

Except for the speed of light, interestingly.
Also, I'm a student of your work. Thank you for opening my post-classroom eyes, Mike.
Bigger database, more current, more updated, easier to deal with, among other things :)
> Google makes a lot of money from open source.

Google makes a lot of money from advertising.

FTFY
Anyone should feel uncomfortable making up unsubstantiated bullshit to push a toxic, hateful, misandric agenda.
The NVIDIA Shield just came out: http://shield.nvidia.com/ Ordered one yesterday, so it hasn't arrived yet, but I'm looking forward to playing everything on it.
Even if 200 million are spam, I'm still impressed
A classic, Lisp in TRS-80 Basic:

http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/Software/BasicLisp/BasicLisp1.p...

Lisp in Atari Basic:

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~anh/lisp_soft.html
Since they don't touch private keys at all I don't think they'll be that big of a target.
Stop Erasing Women From Tech History
Great. If you truly believe that human thought and behavior can be changed, go ahead and change your own.

Stop getting offended by trivial things.

You're the problem, so stop being a problem.
It's shameless, toxic, misandric bullshit pretending to be tech news. It's not. It's gender shaming/policing black propaganda.
An intellectual, emotional disaster.

I'd been programming since a child and I think in all honesty I was pushed into dentistry by the people that love me and wanted me to make money.

However dentistry in London is medicine in two years then three years specialising in the head and neck. Then two years dentistry training.

I found it a LOT of learning facts. I know that knowledge-based systems are better than humans for that application.

I had the pleasure of learning human anatomy for two years with Prof Harrold Ellis. Which is what I really took away with me. The guy was a genius. And the other was "If you are not certain then say I don't know, never guess, always seek truth" not that many people appreciate that knowledge in my experience. Robotic surgery yes, lying about the safety of amalgamate fillings no and telling mums of the effects of sugar and carbonic acid drinks was not enough scientific exploration for me.

I think I was too young, always the youngest in my year, to really know and show what I wanted to do. I should have studied Physics but was told at the time "I'd end up a Physics teacher" as if this was a bad thing...

Pre-uni I wanted to build quantum computers but my Physics teacher at St John Ruskin College school didn't know what direction I should head in (the school at the time was also being ripped off by the head mistress, look it up, bad).

After that I got a scholarship to a private school to do A levels which was absolutely brilliant. Dulwich College an excellent school where I was treated like an adult and learnt maths, physics and chemistry. Two of the best years of my life.

Nobody noticed really that I wasn't just lazy and so it was very tempting to my parents to be told I could go to the best medical school etc when I pissed the exams.

So I went to the best medical school in the UK, Europe not really sure why.

After two years depression forced me to take some action and I quit and got a job in a bank as a COBOL programmer. I learnt that COBOL doesn't cure depression but can even make it worse. However I learnt from two old ladies who were probably employed AS computers in their prime. And they were the awesome COBOL dinosaurs.

From there on its always been a bit of struggle not having a degree. Although what I've taught myself, and continue to do so, is worth several degrees at least. Probably a PhD or two.

I now know a lot of programming languages and have lots of experience in them. Clojure took me to the next level with regards to meta-programming and language design. I still have hopes for genetic programming.

My interests now are really into augmented reality and basically augmentation of human perception, memory and "brain power" both in the progression of our species and knowledge itself.

If you really want to know where my head is at read The Beginnings of Infinity by David Deutsch http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch.

He has interesting ideas on quantum computing, knowledge and reality which align most closely with my own.

I'm now mostly a "Senior Developer". How about you?
Would an old oil rig work?
I didn't see the data or any graphs. Does anyone have a source for that data?
We aren't currently opening up our API to the public. However, if there is enough demand for it (http://balances.uservoice.com/forums/244164-suggestions), we might open it up sooner rather than later.
I'm looking through the ToS and I don't see anything against it. If you know the section that mentions it could you please point me to it? Also I see streamers toss to other streamers at the end of their broadcasts all the time with similar effect.

Plus the whole reason I did this is because I think there needs to be a way to introduce viewers to these streamers that go unnoticed. I think the effect of this is wholly positive.
Yo, dude, it's not cool to use the fringe behavior of a few individuals as leverage to baselessly and hatefully defame and entire gender.

You need to cut that shit out, and you need to cut it out right fucking now.
Just curious, is that 23rd and Walnut in Boulder?