skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think support has to move up the stack to be remotely relevant to 2014 markets and beyond. This is my goal and why I'm running point on the dev to dev support. But to your point, on the 15th we precisely outlined what is covered on each support level:

http://www.rackspace.com/managed-cloud/

Fundamentally; support has to become systems level, and not single instance level, and that means gaining knowledge and expertise (which we have in house) about the nuances of a given application stack.
Thanks to those that made suggestions - it's appreciated to hear other people's opinions. I was hoping to get more, but without front page on HN that doesn't happen.
MOOC's promise is not about disrupting the privileged collegiate experience for the few entitled attendees. MOOC's promise is for the rest of the world.

"And none of this is to suggest that institutions with very high prices ... aren't going to collapse. THEY WILL. And there may well be more people who get smart <who> go to a lower priced school rather than to the unaffordable "best" school they get into."

(Emphasis mine & I removed the aid discount, since that's all that it really is - a discount.)

Notice that "best" is not really the "best" it's only conditionally the "best".

And when this is applied world wide, MOOCs will transform education, and vast numbers of educational institutions will pivot towards research, private industry partnerships or disappear altogether.

In the end I believe that with MOOCs the world will be smarter, and the elite institutions more exclusive and elite. They will return to being class dating organizations that they once were before the idea of them being meritocratic academic institutions overtook them.

Harvard, Stanford will survive. MIT, CalTech will excel. Cornell, Brown, UPenn, Yale, Princeton, the UCs, etc will struggle. None of them will be able to support their capital loads when the educational opportunities are presented significantly cheaper elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Student Loan bubble will have burst, and student credit will be severely curtailed, and we see a significantly changed educational future.

Kodak indeed.
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I think that's an unnecessarily negative viewpoint. There's still skill required to turn raw ingredients into a finished result - in this case, food. If it encourages more people to cook healthier food at home, then this is something that should be supported.

@Submitter: This looks fantastic, thanks for sharing!
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"Mitro has committed to funding continued operations of its servers until at least the end of 2014. If their code proves to be secure and popular with the community, we will be advising them on how to create a sustainable home for that infrastructure.". Erh. Yes, so I'll be staying on KeePass, strategically "cloud" backupped in encrypted form to my email address (also, yes, this does not solve Android integration..etc. so suggestions are welcome!)
The risks that cartels and collusion pose to auctions
Exactly, just like the WMD in Irak.
eBay was down earlier, but I have no idea if this was the reason.
Three critically injured after car crashes into Palo Alto coffee shop
What with the Adobe CC subscription fiasco, my company is already looking for alternatives that we can use wherever it makes sense. Adobe, as part of their new subscription model, is trying to force us unto paying 40% more per seat than an individual license would cost. At that price we would be paying significantly more than we did when we just purchased upgrades. (We have upwards of 80+ seats.)

So far I have managed to push back and make Adobe give me the same pricing for new Teams seats as individuals pay. Not sure how long I'm going to manage that, however, as we are already in "special deal" territory.

We are at the point of using CC for nothing but interop with our customers and vendors wherever we can, and pushing our designers into using alternative tools wherever possible. If Adobe doesn't get their head out of their rear end, we will be buying less software from them, not more.
Buddhism doesn't praise suffering. Asceticism is practiced as a way to reach nirvana, the ultimate state of mind that is devoid of suffering.

Some cool reads:
http://viewonbuddhism.org/4_noble_truths.html#2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism#Buddhism
I sure hope so. You've got to figure that they'd undercut the ever living crap out of the other CAs, too.
TmoNews claims this has already been shot down.

http://www.tmonews.com/2014/07/french-telecoms-company-iliad...
No, I'm making the claim that if you get in trouble with SEO - even if it's an honest mistake - being on the good side of the Google team can mean the difference between your company surviving or dying.

I can point to rap genius as a public example (and that wasn't even an honest mistake), but I've seen this happen myself and I've talked to a number of people who have admitted that Matt Cutts or someone on the search team personally intervened in their issue.

To clarify: I'm not saying anyone is taking action against people they don't like, I'm saying that it's very easy to not take action to help people you don't like.
hey, republicans need someone to look up to

just to pick a recent example off the top of my head, Duke Energy pumped coal ash into a river and may have to pay up to $8k/day (oh noes!) (is $3m even visible in their financials?) [1]

Freedom Industries dumped a barely studied industrial chemical into the river supplying drinking water to Charleston due to gross negligence [2]; the state environmental agency fined them $11k [3]

eh, I'd go on but this is too depressing...

[1] http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/23/3441138/epa-duke...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill

[3] http://rt.com/usa/171612-wvirginia-water-spill-fine/
KeePassDroid? http://www.keepassdroid.com/
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~1985 on a 12-user TRS-80 Model 16 running XENIX:

cat > /dev/ttyNN

and drive other students nuts with seemingly random stuff appearing on their screen.

I don't remember even knowing there was a root account or /etc/passwd then and I was too busy trying to learn enough vi to get my COBOL programs done. The things we endured to get to take "the computer class" at school.
Looks like it's off to a good start! Some colors & lines would go a ways towards making it a bit more usable. I'm looking forward to diving into the code later this evening.
Side-thought: different tiered subscriptions. Restaurants as the base, best-value option with tiny businesses (dog walkers, etc.) and agency (design, architecture, etc. firms) as the higher tier.

You can adjust features, pricing, and marketing accordingly while not violating each other subset.
Jason Lemkin: How to build an enterprise startup
...then expect Netflix-like problems with big ISPs?
I'd give a lot for a Freehand alternative - I never really cottoned on to the Illustrator way of drawing.
> So this is essentially a free 12 month trial? The problem with that is I don't want to sign up today because the trial will start from the day I sign up. So if I had something ready to go today that would be fine but I don't - and by the time I do have something to go I may well have forgotten about this.

Agreed, and feedback like this will help me hone the time limit and other things. The program isn't ending any time soon, but I hear you loud and clear on the 12 month limit.

> If this is an attempt to get to the section of the market currently filled by the likes of Digital Ocean (to name but one) then this might be the wrong way to go about it. Personally, I want to be able to start small (VERY small, like FREE), and scale it up as I get customers. Digital Ocean and the like are great for small but I worry that they won't fit if I need to scale.

Bluntly: It's not. I've put comments in other threads, but this is not an attempt to go after VPS providers. It is not an attempt to dissuade people from adopting VPS providers. A cloud server and the associated technologies is different than what a VPS typically offers, and is designed for different architectures. The costs and the way you build your application (should be/are) different.

> So maybe you could offer something cheap and small as opposed to the "big or nothing" attitude that Rackspace seems to have. If I knew I could start miniscule but go all the way up to massive with the same provider then that's a big selling point for me.

For me, ideally we remove the time limit. That's my goal.
Do cars typically run on plastic and fertilizer where you're from? If it's true that a Volt can drive 25ish miles on the electricity used to refine a gallon of gas, then substituting electric miles for gas ones is a wash in terms of net electricity usage. Or are you trying to say something more subtle that I'm just missing?
Effective testing with mocks
It isn't that simple:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#Production

Of course a program could be spun up to actually do the separation, but I think it might be sort of expensive.
From a recent IEEE Spectrum article: "If you were to make a 2-hour motion picture with an extended color range in 4K and at 48 frames per second, the raw (uncompressed) movie file would occupy more than 15 terabytes. For comparison, the total amount of data in all of the e-mails sent in the United States in one year has been estimated to be 10.6 TB."
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/las...
I asked the author on twitter, maybe he'll answer. :)

https://twitter.com/mithaldu/status/494940364717842434
This reminds me of Mischief (for Mac and PC) [1], which is incredibly fast vector drawing application.

The way Mischief handles its details of graphics, speed and huge range of zoom is by using adaptively sampled distance fields (patented technology) [2].

It would be nice to know if Affinity Designer uses some advanced technology to achieve similar properties.

[1] http://www.madewithmischief.com
[2] http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~frisken/frisken.html
Back in my C-64 days we had software rental stores. We could go in and rent the latest C-64 games and tinker with floppy disk copiers until we could crank out working copies. Or we'd swing by a friend-of-a-friend that must have been an early warez distributor and see what he had that was new.
> for every David Koch there is a Tom Steyer. Why not let them waste all of their money fighting each other?

I'd rather have small donors have a bigger share of voice.
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Actually, I don't represent the ligatures themselves in modern character sets. I transcribe them into the set of characters they represent. In the end, everything ends up in standard Latin or Greek Unicode.

It is theoretically possible to design fonts that convert sequences of characters into ligatures that look like the scribal abbreviations, but I see no value in that. The point is to make the material accessible and searchable in electronic form, not to create a one-to-one facsimile.
I wonder what this will actually look like in practice. Will they be sending subscribers restaurant-branded ingredients to make named dishes from their menus, will they be marketed as approximations, or just generic recipes?
That would not work for several reasons. The energy produced from the solar cells would be negligible compared to the force of photons hitting the panels. If you instead of an engine just used a very large thin sail with a proportionately small cargo then you could theoretically reach c, but only close to stars. If you instead removed the sail and used antimater as an energy source, that would also work. The problem with all ideas is the interstellar medium, particles, photons. Drag from interstellar medium would damage and slow down the ship, even at lower percentages of c. Close to c everything would behave as shot from a particle accelerator and even photons from background radiation would be blueshifted to high energy gamma rays.
The irony is that the emails from Stellar have been marked as spam. PS: I use live.com
You can spoof anything.
But they do. When I was in the business, many a story was written about some old editor dying and they find the original and only negative in a closet in his house.
Out of the camera is more like 6 GB/min [1] and DCI is limited to ~2 GB/min [2]. Those are both lossy; lossless masters would be much larger but it's questionable whether they need to be preserved.

[1] http://www.red.com/tools/recording-time

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Initiatives
thanks - swear I didn't notice that my first time through
Because not everyone requires jQuery with a script tag. Especially with require/common.js.
Adaptive Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar in Half
It's a bit irrelevant to go down this road since patio11 has quit direct consulting, but from what I've read, patio11's path to (consulting) success goes like this: patio11 likes teachers, makes bingo card app, charges for it like a reasonable person; patio11 notices all these mistakes he's making while selling to teachers, blogs about it, blog gains popularity among like-minded individuals; patio11 falls into consulting, delivers a good service, and finds out how much he can charge for it.

There's nothing in this story that's dependent on being very lucky or being exceptionally smart; the only outstanding traits here are overcoming the fear of the unknown that plagues everyone and being a good teacher, but both of these can be learned. It mostly just comes down to spending your time doing the right things.

And now with AR, just by focusing on the major mistake from BCC (selling to teachers), patio11 has sort of proven my point for me: it doesn't take that long to bootstrap a successful business with all the resources available to you now. There are more than enough blog posts telling you what to do, what not to do, and there are more than enough open niches that are perfect for microbusinesses to supplant the dayjobs of everyone on HN who has the same restless ambition that makes staying in those dayjobs an impossibly depressing prospect. And from there, consulting for larger businesses with what you learn in your micro is just icing on the cake.
Digital movies MUST be transferred or you might lose it to "bit rot". The only thing you need to view an analog, film movie is light.
Being able to say you got a YC offer is somewhat useful. It's some validation at least, even if you never use it to get a better offer.
Can you compare cooking from fresh ingredients with implementing something like GCC in machine code with a straight face?
Consider that if you collect device fingerprints, you can detect users who live together, because they are likely to share devices. If somebody bad then gets access to that data, they could do creepy things to your users.
Git-branched databases in Rails
The relevant Supreme Court decision in this issue is NAACP vs. Alabama, in which the state of Alabama attempted to expose the donors and members of NAACP so that they could be targeted with social pressure to stop working in Alabama. The U.S. Supreme Court found that Alabama's state law was superceded by the right of free association.

A lot of people are going to balk at comparing American Crossroads to the NAACP. And I think they'd be right on the politics and policy. But since the law must treat everyone equally, there does not seem to be any way to force some organizations to reveal their donors and members without opening to door to forcing any or all organizations to do the same.
Awesome stuff! I did look and found some of your roadmap, but missed this. Can't wait to give it a go.
This exists already in Zurich. Sort of.

There is a river (a very clean river, of course) that flows through Zurich, and there is a 200 foot or so length of the river that is buoyed/strung off to form a decent sized "pool".

You go downstream, jump in, and swim upstream. You're swimming in the actual river, just inside a marked off area with a nice deck on one side. It's really quite well done.

Here it is:

http://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/sport/lower-letten-river-poo...
One thing that keeps me from cooking a lot of recipes is just not having all the pieces. After that there's the problem that pretty much everything comes in amounts too large so a lot of these pricey or rarely used ingredients just end up in one meal then spoil before they're used again. I'd like it even more if this service had the choice of just getting the ingredients delivered, or some level between ingredients and ready to fry/grill/saute/bake which is what it looks like they're providing.
A CDN like this would be really helpful for that streaming service they're probably working on.
I think the niche is pretty clear. There are obvious benefits to creating meals from scratch, but not everyone has the time, expertise, or even all the equipment. This service cuts down the time significantly, and sells the ingredients for you to assemble/cook yourself at what I would assume to be prices much less than actual restaurants.

It's not about trying to impress someone with your cooking skills or even learning how to cook, it's about getting restaurant quality freshly-made meals at home.
It's not 100% digital. I don't recall what the exact number is but it also depends on what you mean by "movie". Many Hollywood movies and TV shows are still done on film but an indie guy with little to no money certainly won't do that nowadays.
The Stellar Foundation will actually control relatively little. The creation of new stellars, for example, will be done in a fully distributed fashion: https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Stellar_creation.

To clarify, of the total 5% reserved for operations, ownership is currently:

- 2% to Stripe (the majority of which we're going to auction off to other companies, with net profits being returned to the foundation)
- 2.5% to employees (https://www.stellar.org/about/governance/#Employee_Compensat...), vesting over four years

As needed, the organization will also hold open auctions to raise funds from its remaining pool of stellars (https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Continued_funding_of_...), which will conveniently distribute the stellars further.

Note also there's a five-year lockup for the founders: https://www.stellar.org/about/mandate/#Stellar_distribution.

Are there actions you're worried that the organization might be able to take given this?
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What is a whitelabel product?
Thanks for the feedback. That's definitely on our radar.
Ask HN: Have submissions shifted subject?
When I started reading hackernews 2 years ago there were many things that caught my interest. Math, programming and other technical subjects. There were quite some posts about startups and blogs, but nothing overwhelming. I could usually find ~10 out of the shown 30 links per page that caught my interest.

I feel this has changed. (For the worse, but this is my personal opinion.)

Nowadays I'm hard pressed to find more than ~2 out of the 30 links that catch my interest. The technology related posts have been reduced to a minimum, and have been replaced by content containing:

* startup success/failure stories
* NSA
* economic events as company buyouts
* lawsuits
* opinion/rant blog posts vaguely related to technology
* new releases of software (often downright shameless plugs/marketing)
* politics
* old software rewritten in new language without extra features
* the 1000th variation on game (flappy bird, 2048)

I don't know if anything concrete can or even should be done about this, but I'm wondering if someone else is experiencing the same.

EDIT: formatted the list proper.
great essay!
Hmmm,I wouldn't say it was malicious as long as there was no legal activity created by it.
> Pricing is a big part of domains for me and AWS pricing seems a bit high to me

I suspect this is because of their partnership with Gandi to make this happen.

But really, we're only talking a few bucks either way. If you are using AWS, is it likely to matter whether you could find a domain name $2 cheaper somewhere else? You are paying more because not only can you register domains, you can manage them with a slick HTTP API that knows about a bunch of other AWS services.
Wrong. If he was using computers that didn't belong to him, then it would be illegal your jumping the gun.
Can I also get some stellar? Same username here and there. Thanks in advance.
This may help

http://www.pbs.org/mosthonorableson/shame.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan#Cultural_attit...

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_charge
I dont see any reason why you wouldnt be safe. USA lifted the travel alert for Tunisia 2014. More than 6 million tourist entered Tunisia in 2013 (compared to 10M in morroco), the number is expected to be higher in 2014.
> If a distributed financial network is going to succeed, I believe that it has to be run by an impartial organization.
It's interesting that gmail is the least likely used for fraud, why is that? Can't anybody create multiple gmail accounts?

VPN traffic would also be an interesting metric.
Oh good.

You can always email us for a noprocrast indulgence. :)
Why you guys talking about minuses of jQuery? Donate some bucks to jQuery creators instead.
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This is a poor solution for having a page slowed down by dozens of 3rd party ads/trackers/etc.
It would be nice since I don't have to remember any passwords anymore, if Mitro would generate password strings for me.
Mid 1990s, my elementary school had an entire room of Apple 2 computers. I loved playing around on those things every Friday.
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IIRC you have to do text message validation. If not I believe the amount of messages you can send are under 50. However these things change over time, and I believe at one point (maybe now) you couldn't make a gmail account without text verification.

Feel free to correct me if my memory is wrong because it very well could be.
That's useful information that I didn't know. Thanks for sharing.
Let's not forget a similarly ellusive case which lasted quite long:

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

Although admitedly this thruster can undergo much more testing.
How would a reader know that this has to do with speeding radar, and not LIDAR use in ranging / mapping?

And I think it's relevant that the content of the presentation is scientific/analytic, rather than related to using legal strategies to invalidate a speeding ticket, for example.
Makes me wonder if it could somehow convert the energy to mass and throw that off, as it were. Though it's probably something more exotic, assuming it's not an error of some type.
These traits aren't unknown to anyone who is processing credit card transactions and keeping an eye out for fraud. It's pretty clear that they don't consider them trade secrets either, or they wouldn't be sharing.
People should be willing to stand up for causes they believe in.

I will not live in fear of judgement, and neither should you.
We're working directly with the restaurants to create the meals. Often the restaurants make a key ingredient in their own kitchen. Other times they'll share the recipe with our chef and we do it.

What restaurants have mastered is how to prepare delicious meals quickly. Anything you order in a restaurant can be served in 20 mins or less. What we're doing is taking their techniques for making things fast and making them available to home cooks.
Maybe tolerance for differing political views will increase with disclosure becoming more prominent.