skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far this year I've made ~33k on my iPhone apps. I'm actively working on new apps and doing freelance work, and every once in awhile things need updated, but for the most part it's passive. I have > 20 apps at this point, the best one doing ~7500 so far this year.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/30-south-llc/id331245760
So, with the US Govt. move to use commercial cloud providers (including Microsoft Office365!), does that then make all of the USG communications stored on that system 'business records' of the provider? That would completely destroy the whole cloud market for anything other than public data...
Fucken doctor niggers.

They have no idea that I am such a great programmer, noone believes I wrote a compiler.

God chose me to make his temple.

Unfortuntately, your such a clown you don't know what a NIST random number is.

What a nightmare. Planet of the fucken apes where the guy lost his voice and the monkey-nigger thinks apes are superior.
You might have read too much into this :)

CTF is a common kind of 'hacking competition'. The acronym does, indeed, stand for 'Capture The Flag', but instead of the physical game, you get people competing to hack ('pwn') a piece of software.

Basically this is just a little library of utilities that come handy when playing CTF: hexing, assembly, shell code, etc. Think of it as a bunch of pre-made snippets that you'd normally reuse when trying to hack something.
I have a similar issue. Want to start an LLC, don't have any connections, not entirely comfortable picking a lawyer out of a hat. Interested in seeing the answers.

(By the way, I heard that incorporating in Deleware/Nevada may not be such a great idea if you live in California at least, since they still want taxes from you if you "do business" from there. But I don't really know what "doing business" entails, which is another great reason to find a competent lawyer...)
Really? Life in the United States has gotten catastrophically worse since 1913 because citizens vote for senators as opposed to the stirling types of people who are politicians at the state level?
A friend of mine does event photography for swing dancing. He's looking at getting one because it's really hard to catch focus when things are moving so quickly (in dimly-lit halls). There are photography niches out there where features like this can be a necessity.

Another use-case I've heard about was wedding photographers using depth of field as a Ken Burns-like effect for videography or on their webpage.

Both are narrow use-cases, but I too find the technology fascinating and hope it finds a sustainable use-case.
If you rent your house to me, you no longer have unregulated and unrestricted access to it. You can only access it in certain circumstances defined by landlord-tenant law. That's what creates the expectation of privacy: you know your landlord will only enter your unit for emergencies or with adequate notice to you. You can sue them if they violate these requirements.

The difference with cloud hosting is that, unlike your landlord, your cloud host does have unregulated and unrestricted access to your cloud storage.
>"If you like it because it's like rails, why not just use rails?"

PHP is ubiquitous on shared hosting platforms, there aren't that many "shared" Rails hosters out there. Morts still use shared hosters.
I think you're right. If Wheeler's motive is called into question for a future decision that happens to favor telecom companies, he can try to point to this grandstanding.

He used to be a lobbyist, after all - he knows how this game is played.
I agree completely. Despite submitting the article, I don't agree with its conclusions at all. Give me the ability to fix my focus fuckup on a 20MP image at a wide aperture like f/1.4, and then I might be interested. But for now this still seems like a novelty item.
No, this is not true, even in digital transmissions.

Consider this digital signal:

0000000000

Let's say there's a 1% chance of a bit flipping. But any one of these 10 bits could flip. So for, say, the third bit to flip there's a 0.1% chance to become 0010000000.

Now, to go back there's still a 0.1% chance - but there's a 0.9% chance that _another_ bit will flip. At which point you need two bit flips to go back to your original value.

As you can see, since errors accumulate, the probability of wandering back to a working version is much lower than that of producing increasingly broken versions instead.
The Journey
My cats are my micro-heaters. Zero extra power use in winter :-)
Why not set up a strobe or two at relatively low power in the corners and use those instead?
I'm not the site's creator, but having played around with it for an hour or so, it seems to be a similar idea to the original Twitter (with additional things like threaded replies, and without a character limit).
Enjoyed this article. Another good read on ADTs: http://tel.github.io/2014/07/23/types_of_data/, and for a Swift-specific take: http://tel.github.io/2014/07/26/types_of_data_in_swift/
Great idea, I've been thinking about this one for years. Maybe the goal would be to make life happier and more interesting on the street-level.

I can still see Sim City moving around on the backs of my eyelids.
Alright, I'll say it then. I've had an account for 1300~ days, 3 times as long as you and I've been reading for longer then that.

HN hipsters dislike PHP.
A gene isn't one bit.

For starters, there are four nucleotides in DNA (A, C, G, and T). Simplifying our model of mutation to "a flipped bit" where mutation takes takes a nucleotide to another one with equal likelihood, and only one nucleotide in that position makes it functional, there is a 3/3 chance that a mutation breaks it but only a 1/3 chance that a subsequent mutation fixes it.

Next, there's the fact that every gene is a sequence of many nucleotides. The odds that the next mutation of the same gene would happen in the same place is low.

Finally, many mutations don't take the "flipped bit" form we assumed above. Repetitions, insertions and deletions also happen, and may be even less reversible (deletion of a meaningful portion would be exceedingly unlikely to be recreated by chance - what provides the information about what should have been there?).
Optimizing the hell out of your site for PageSpeed
Why can't we just admit that some people are born with certain genetic traits that allow them to excel in certain fields? Practice would accentuate those gifts and is vitally important, but let's not pretend everyone is capable of everything if they just practiced more.

Hell, even the ability to commit to extended periods of practice requires certain genetic ability. Most people are not born with the ability to hyperfocus like Bill Gates and work for 24 hours straight like he was able to do during the early days of Microsoft.

We accept ADHD has genetic components, and so the ability to focus for extended periods of time (which is what practice entails) is inherently easier for certain people.
Would it be possible to create a facebook app that acts as a proxy / vpn?

(As in, Facebook doesn't have a policy against it)

It would essentially channel all traffic through facebook servers and back out to the internet.
I love the idea of building a city as a startup, and competing with other cities by being a superior product.

However, my vision for the perfect city is quite different than OP's.

My ideal city:

* Density is between 5k-8k per square mile (twice as dense as Palo Alto, half as dense as Cambridge, MA)

* The density and layout should support a high walkability index. There should be a grocery store, barber, coffeeshop, pharmacy, etc, within a half-mile to a mile of most housing.

* Housing arranged in blocks, with a shared yard for all people on the block. So each house would have a small patio owned by the home owner. Behind that would be a collective yard/green area shared by all the neighbors on the block. This shared area might have a basketball hoop, swimming pool, jungle-gym, soccer nets, BBQ pit or whatever the residents wanted. It would be behind all the housing, and thus insulated from the city. The block should be small enough that pretty much any parent can look out their window and see their kids playing. Basically, any parent should feel perfectly safe just letting their five-year old kid play outside in the common backyard with other kids.

* The road system should be optimized around bicycles, scooters, and microcars (like the Carver or Automoto, because bicycles are not so good for older people in the winter). Roads would have two narrow lanes in each direction, a left-hand lane for 25MPH scooters and roadbikes, and a right-hand lane for slower bicycles and roller bladers. Cars would only be allowed on main arterials, driving a car on the bike roads would require a $10 per day special pass. Optimizing around bikes and mini-vehicles allows for getting between point A & B very quickly, but limits congestion, pollution, and the expense of a full-sized car.

Things I don't like about OP's dream:

* it feels to claustrophobic. I like green space.

* walking is just much slower than biking, so I prefer biking.

* it is really not pleasant to have both bikes and mopeds using the same narrow streets. One of the least pleasant aspects of traveling in a a classical city core is having the mopeds buzz by you at 20MPH.

* row housing looks nice from the outside, but severely limits the amount of sunlight coming inside. I greatly prefer standalone units that have windows on all four-sides.

* In general, I think that very dense, old school cities can be more pleasant to visit for a little while, than to actually live in long term. There is a reason why most people in those countries do not wish to live in such housing or build more housing like it.

The biggest problem in general with doing a city-as-a-startup is jobs. Due to the winner-takes-all nature of the economy, the highest paying jobs are concentrated in a few metro areas where the big winning companies reside. I'm not sure how you bootstrap the economy of the new city.
What if the bots weren't bots and were actually people. Just every single person would see every user with a randomized user name and no special 'user layout', and no identifying profile information.

Everyone would think, and see that every other account on the site was bots. The site would claim that every account you interact with is a bot, but in the background they aren't, their all people.
The article's unreadable without the photos and we seem to have DOSed whatever's serving the photos. Is there a mirror?
No, I previously lived in a climate that goes up to 100F in summer and down to 5F in winter. But I've always lived in a proper house with heating and insulation and whatnot.
I don't think it was an attempt to be rude.

"Hipster" is a term commonly used to describe those who advocate so-called "Web 2.0" technologies like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML5, NoSQL, and so on. These people openly admit that they dislike the previous generation of web development technologies built around languages/platforms like Perl, PHP, and Java.

There are many of those people here, so it makes sense to refer to them collectively, especially given their typical stance toward PHP. Asking them to revisit their current state of PHP is a reasonable enough request.

Now, "hipster" is also often used as a derogatory term, too. It's quite understandable, after dealing with some of those kind of people. But I don't think it was used in that sense in the earlier comment.
> If you can find some specific scientific argument why e-ink is "an essential requirement" (besides personal choice) then it's just cargo cult.

That's not how science works, and your comments are abrasive and offensive for no good reason. Things exist before scientists can prove them, and that's why research is done.

Although a quick Google search led me to find a paper backing your argument, I find you way too quick to dismiss other readers as doing "cargo cult". Why not believe them when they say they feel less strain?
I've thought about the same idea. But I do not know how to actually make the simulation a sandbox for interesting experiments, rather than just having the results depend on whatever assumptions the game designer made.
His ideas are great!

There must be a way to finance the planning and construction of a neighborhood along these lines, or finance the political effort it would take to designate a zone "traditional".

In an immediate sense, we can encourage trad neighborhoods by asking city councils to slightly change laws that allow smallness and interestingness to take hold. Let vendors set up stands. Open up alleyways. Close off a few streets to traffic.

Another way is to go big and get mega developers to build post-shopping shopping malls that are actually traditional cities. But the big approach has not worked so well in the past!
Incandescents heat the room at the ceiling, which I would imagine significantly reduces their effective efficiency relative to a well placed electric heater. Also, of course, incandescents have the same poor system efficiency as other electric heaters, compared to burning the fuel for heat in your house.
Bill Nye: We May Discover Life on Europa
I suspect it's just as unreadable having to scroll 3-600 pixels between sentence fragments.
The Savant Syndrome
I reached the same conclusion. Privacy is unsustainable, and it's unreasonable to expect it going forward.

It's only when you realize and accept this that you start seeing all the actual benefits of transparency.

The effect of any "right to privacy" is coercive ignorance. It only really benefits dishonesty and secrecy. Like any habit, it won't be easy to lose. But privacy is such a bad habit that we should seriously consider to tackle it.

As always, the first step is acceptance and recognition.
"For only $0.99 you can view the rest of the internet for 12 hours. Click yes to approve."
> What if the bots weren't bots and were actually people. Just every single person would see every user with a randomized user name and no special 'user layout', and no identifying profile information.

So, the early Internet.
You are welcome to generate as much Godtalk as you like. You will find garbage if you do not keep-up your end of the conversation. Best thing is probably to praise God for snowmen, bubbles, popcorn and coconuts and pineapple and sand castles.
On a similar topic, does anyone watch 3D television?
True. But the screen on the Paperwhite is really, really nice.
see also savantsyndrome.com AKA

https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/professional/savant-...
Matz At Lumosity
Yep. I'm sitting in a beige box right now. I own it. I'm not house-poor. I just haven't put the time into re-painting or decorating much, and I just don't have the desire to put my money into things that just sit there.
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." — Vince Lombardi
Funny how these things have been well solved in places with real winters (or summers) for hundreds of years isn't it?

Central European buildings used to have walls so thick as to achieve a cave effect, which gave them nearly constant temperature through most of the year. With some minimal-ish heating during winter as a side-effect of cooking with wood to combat the effect of bad windows.
Manservants – A real service from SF
Need a motivation to go out and walk around? Play Ingress!

It's a gps based mix of capture-the-flag and geocaching with a few million players worldwide.
I agree with all your theory. I thought the same thing. Then I went out and bought a programable thermostat, set it quite low overnight and during the day, and warmer from 5-8 AM and 5-8 PM. My heating bill was higher than just maintaining 68-70 all the time. And that's not even counting the $100 I spent on the thermostat (now on a shelf in the garage, I put the old manual one back in its place).
I do believe this.

What I don't believe is that the average American will ever have time to walk 10x more than they currently do, or that the average obese American is eating only in excess of 500 calories a day.

My original comment was harsher than it needed to be.

I believe our exercise and obesity problem requires a lot more than just ditching cars to fix. Especially when walking is not a convenient mode of travel for people living outside the largest cities.

All things being equal, yes, more walking is better.
Not to mention:

In a well-insulated, well-designed house, you won't have any worries about frozen pipes, even with a low thermostat temperature, since all pipes will be inside the insulated enclosure.

There's a whole community of people trying to build better buildings out there. The Passivhaus people, the PERSIST (Saskatchewan) and REMOTE (Alaska) approaches (http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/getti...), Building Science Corporation, the NRC in Canada (http://archive.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/irc/cbd/digest-index.h...).

Some of these people are ex-hippies or hippie-ish, and there is a bit of bullshit out there, but there's certainly plenty of better ways to build and renovate homes for energy efficiency.
How much of this is thrown out the window when you have "peak pricing" for energy?

Also, the "straightdope" link doesn't exactly dispute that setting the thermostat down is ultimately a much more modest ~6% energy savings on average. Nothing to scoff at, but ultimately you come out better by taking a holistic approach. If you can afford it, of course.
Thank you for putting in the time to cut the noise.
A Github URL may have never been submitted before, but the home page had been.
Clojure is the language I hate the least!
Portable AC units are highly inefficient when compared to large fixed units. If you only want to cool a single room the best solution is probably a mini split. They're expensive but very efficient.
Still gotta stay alive in your base reality. Most of the world's problems aren't going to be solved by the tech sector - the tech sector depends on a stable and reasonably managed, non-corrupt government.

The exact thing missing in pretty much all the worst parts of the world.
European regulators training sights on Google's mobile software
Please post your entire browsing history in full.
I contribute to React. I'm definitely a big fan of ClojureScript and I borrow ideas from it when I can. I currently have a few crazy ideas that are direct results of looking into the Clojure (or Haskell) ecosystem and finding that they've solved my problems, but better. In general, some of the problems we face, at language/library/ecosystem level, might simply not exist in these languages. It's a shame they're not more popular.

Regarding popularity, I feel that sometimes the web development community can be ironically dogmatic, considering that it's a free and open platform (see: HN/Reddit's initial reaction to React). Looking back, I still find it incredible that React actually gained so much traction when it defies so many of the pre-established "best practices". I think lots of people, including me, are learning more and more to take a step back before dismissing an idea.

So if you were one of those that dismissed Clojure/ClojureScript because "parentheses in front of my function call?", "snake case isn't for me", or "it's too different from idiomatic js" (I hope this one isn't too much of a strawman here), then I urge you to give it another try. Learning React doesn't have to be the only time you open your mind to new ideas and reconsider best practices.
Basically, even by playing favorites you're contributing to the problem. All information should be agnostic with regards to availability - right?
So its whisper app minus the sign up and images?
Sounds like your house could use some work. It doesn't cost us that much to cool our sizable house here in Austin, even when it's 100+F every day.
Natural language processing and chemistry
Javascript is the lingua-franca of the internet not PHP.
Heh, last Christmas the power was out for about two weeks at my parents' house, which uses electricity to push the hot air generated by our gas furnace through the house. It was -25 C.

Granted, I might not have had to go to the hospital if we had gone to a warming shelter earlier than the sixth day. (My father is rather stubborn, and it damn near killed me. When I got out of the hospital, I left the house and paid for a hotel room in a part of town where power had been restored.)
I've made a few thousand on an ebook about my app business. Not as much as I make on the apps, but it is 100% passive as opposed to mostly passive.

http://buildanappbusiness.com/
This reddit link from 9 months ago is probably still relevant:
http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1owop4/el...
Fun exploration. I'd love to see something similar but for a city design built around shared self driving cars. I don't put much fundamental value in walkability. I put value in being able to get to a variety of types of things quickly and easily. Keeping those things within walking range of each other is one way. Autonomous vehicles is another.
I thought a comment about Gmail didn't really make much sense. I don't know who was opposing Gmail in Google, but it was hardly an orthodoxy. It was essentially obvious from the get-go that Gmail would be huge.
I think you misunderstand the intent. It's not about making people forget, but rather protecting second chances. At some point, a red mark on your internet accessible past may become akin to ethnicity/gender/ect. It doesn't necessarily reflect the person you are, but it's still statistically prudent for someone else to discriminate based on that information.

This is part of why we have such strict regulations on credit reporting.
How would you feel if there was a law that forced you to "forget" anything on request? I mean, did you get explicit consent to see and hear everything you saw and heard? Maybe this wouldn't be a big deal if you get 1-2 requests a year (assuming that forgetting on demand is possible), but what happens when you get millions?

Collecting data is easier than ever before. A lot of small businesses and individuals will start doing it. Can we expect all of them to be able to fulfill these kinds of requests? I'm sure it costs Google millions. This is not reasonable to expect this from anyone or anything.

Knowledge is inherently good. This is not what we should fight against. When bad things happen, the solution is to reduce incentives.
I think "Right to be forgotten" should be forced upon the media, not search engines. If the media didn't have the information on their website, then major search engines wouldn't index it.
What's the energy cost of making a CFL bulb vs. an incandescent? Also since in practice they don't last a lot longer, and are annoyingly dim for the first few minutes, and are considered an hazardous waste when you need to dispose of them, why does it make sense to replace a $0.50 bulb that has none of those issues with a $5.00 bulb that does?
Black iPhone 4 LCD replacement touch screen digitizer for CDMA
Australia is doing well on the walking scales but is a fat country.

Australia is #6 on the obesity rank:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health/Obesit...

Pehaps it's all the Pie floaters. Or the quality craft beer. Or the fantastic cheese like King Island Brie.

BRB.
s/reserve proxy/reverse proxy/
The original study doesn't say that there aren't people who are better than others at a task. It says that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice made one an expert. I have no doubt Bezos would become an expert in physics with 10,000 hours of study.

But there are people with gifts and the 10k hours. Those are the Newtons and Feynmans.
The argument that Verizon is throttling Netflix is more solid. It will be telling if FCC report is damning or not, because there is an even-better 'grandstanding' opportunity.

[1] http://www.dslreports.com/news/129745
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/17/5913291/level-3-verizon-co...
29 Eye-Tracking Heatmaps Reveal Where People Really Look
I really, really thought that the article contained practical tips for excel, the MS Office Excel