skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they? The less BW they got, the more expensive it is, ergo more gauging and more profit.

Building infrastructure knowing that every single user has a transfer cap inside YOUR OWN NETWORK is a dream come true for every ISP.
If it's been done nicely 100% would seem fair to me for a low volume project like this. That's only my opinion however.
On UNIX systems, I agree, after all they are symbiotic.

On other ones, it will eventually change. Microsoft already killed C on their tooling[0], although it lives on as C++ subset.

Then we have things like MirageOS happening.

On any case I wasn't talking about near future. After all, there are still PL/I systems out there.

[0] Current decision, might of course change, as all decisions.
Battery life is a special case of priority, throttling, and supervision, which with a proper security model is solvable with quotas and queues.

The PC's security problems are not what makes it empowering. They're an ugly side effect of the PC's relative openness. A good solution would preserve as much of this positive functionality and openness as possible but would fix the messy interaction problems.

This is a solvable problem. It's just harder than feudalizing everything. Instead of solving the problem, mobile OS developers chose to punt on it and neuter the platform instead.

I don't understand what you're getting at by comparing the PC to consoles or console-like ecosystems like Steam. Those are more like the mobile app store ecosystem. In fact, I've long seen mobile devices as effectively consoles.

It's just a console ecosystem with an app store interface and ranking system that creates a race to the bottom in price, which brings us back to the OP...
That ll be great ! cant wait !
Docker is Driving a New Breed of PaaS
Webcast( recorded ):

http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/140811_intel/event.html

http://www.intc.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=149021
I'm in the same bucket, Alpha games are worthless. Some have been in alpha so long that you see them in sales. I wish there was a filter on Steam to block them.

Edit: Case in point - I just opened my email and saw: "Project Update #89: Planetary Annihilation Now $29.99". It's drifted all the way down to $30 from $90 in several stages, and still isn't 'finished'.
It looks like it's smaller form factor and less entanglement hazard for parachuting sports. The Gopro has killed at least 3 people due to entanglement.

I know that's a super fringe use, but I like the idea of something smaller with smooth surfaces even though I own several Gopros.
Poor inter continental connections dont explain data caps INSIDE their uber fiber national network, do they?
How is my dismissal 'easy'? I haven't heard it from anyone else and it acknowledges an unpleasant truth. What I dismiss are sentimental media ideas about 'community' which are all too common.

What both arbitrary socialising and consumerism have in common is that they are focused on selves whereas truly important activity primarily relates to abstract ideas. It is ideas that create the solutions to local problems.

Btw, none of this is inconsistent with a smile and a nod to people you see about you in daily life! And mingling with new people if one feels lonely.
I think if you read TFA, the author would agree with you: the game was not quality because he made a game that he thought other people would want, and it didn't sell. He also spent way too much time going multi-platform and wasted a lot of resources. Much of his article wasn't about how the mobile platform is awful, but about the mistakes he made in his approach to it.

> quality games -- real quality, not monkey quality -- are getting written up in indiegamemag.com or the like. they're thirsty for real, quality games to write about because people keep submitting monkey-catching games or yet another boring, pixelated, hero's journey rpg to them. you can't expect spending 3 months of nights and weekends on a game and it'll beat out all of the awesome stuff indies are producing right now.

So you mean the entire job of a publisher? It's not so easy to just write a good game and release it: you need a marketing plan, and that's where publishers come in. The reviewer from indiegamemag.com should probably have heard of your game through word of mouth before he even plays it -- but word of mouth advertising is almost never accidental. Even then though, a good writeup on one site might have taken his total revenue from $7k to $70k. He still would have lost money. Marketing is the end-all, be-all of the app store, and he didn't have it. Though in all fairness, most of his strategy was a "me too" attempt to cash-in on mobile gaming, which doesn't work when your competition is paying developers $5-10k/yr in India or China.
People expect mobile games to be between 99 cents and free. The same game on PC might sell for $15. Why spend time making a quality game if no one is willing to pay?
Honest question - why is it considered so inherently important to spend time with your neighbors? I don't understand why I'm supposed to have a natural connection to certain individuals just because we chose to live in the same area. If my social circle consists of people who don't happen to live on my street, is that so bad? We don't really need to worry about having someone to come check up on us from next door because modern communication has extended our reach far beyond our own street.

I've never really been comfortable getting to know my neighbors. I feel like they see and hear too much about my private life as it is, it's actually awkward for me to see my neighbors.
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I.e. they don't care about this as a product, do they don't invest in it.
An open source EEG hardware project has existed for years in openEEG, Olimex sells a surface-mount version with enclosure for $100 (though it is only two-bipolar channels) https://www.olimex.com/Products/EEG/OpenEEG/
I don't know if it is. But I also don't believe most people interested in BCI or biofeedback are electrical engineers...
I think your third point is the most overlooked one. Mobile gamers are incredibly tight-fisted, and if you want to make money, you have to build that into the app somehow.
I'm not actively working on it, mainly because Mjolnir has taken up most of my time. But I'd like to find more time to eventually work on it. Although I'm betting that future incarnations of it may actually be Mjolnir extensions ;)
Super work! Now you need to scale it, if you can't find any good reasons why you can't do $500K per year then that should be your next target.
> I agree with his conclusion, too. People who play serious games want more graphics power, a keyboard (or at least a game controller), and decent sound. Mobile game users are looking for the 21st century version of solitaire, and they're not willing to pay much for it. Maybe nothing at all.

Couldn't disagree more.

I was a serious gamer. These days I only play some Warsow frag fest every now and then. And yet I am willing to pay for outdated graphics, or mobile graphics level, if the game is story-driven with solid characters.

I am thinking of The Dig, Gemini Rue and Super Sword and Sworcery or even Knytt.

I am not thinking of David Cage egomaniac pile of manure that was Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy or the disappointment I felt playing Dreamfall (let just make a short and enjoyable novel of your ideas instead of a painful game to play)[0].

[0] And I'll put Grey matter in the footnote because it's where it belongs.
This is also kind of scary. Imagine what kind of havoc the government could cause if it was actually efficient at what it does.
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I am acutely aware of that, and I prefer the distinction. My point is that language trends change over time, and it seems like this trend is changing.
Chef 12 drops support for Ruby 1.8, 1.9.1, and 1.9.2
That is not sure. Overall management would not magically get better if the project would be done by small in-house team of developers. The same management that allowed contractor failure would allow in-house failure and the same management that hired incapable contractor would put together incapable in-house team.

Basically, the same bad decision makers would made the same bad decisions. You can blame the team for bad code, but you can not blame them for such a huge failure of the whole project.
Help Taplytics (YC W14) change the way mobile apps are monetized
I sold $800k US of bitcoin on bitstamp market earlier this year - i did it over 30 minutes and it dropped the spot price about $6
I still think one of the causes of the federal over-expansion was to make Senators popularly elected rather than appointed by state legislatures.

The point of the Senate was to create a check by the states on federal power. Now it's just an incentive for lower population states to expand the federal government since they have disproportionate representation in directing who the expansion benefits.
some rules specify you cannot charge the government more than you charged someone else. Not sure if that would apply here, may just be on large contracts for products and services.
Indeed, I understand that fully. My point is that the English language is not prescriptive in practice. In fact, even if you're a prescriptivist, you could easily argue that "its" is a special case, since most English possessives are formed with apostrophe s.
> We have seen time and time again that when the government steps in they create ineffective and ridiculous boundaries that do little in practice.

Right now, there's no cost for having weak security. What you're talking about is the technocratic approach, which is often what industry lobbies heavily for – get the government to bless whatever you were going to do anyway and make it complicated to increase the barrier to entry for new companies. This is what we have in many cases coupled with laws which shield companies from the consequences of their mistakes (e.g. try suing a credit agency for spreading incorrect data about you).

It's not a given that it has to work this way – the other approach which many people in the security industry have called for is changing the laws to shift liability to the companies. That mandates the desirable outcome but allows companies to pick a level of risk which they (and their insurers) are comfortable with – which provides nice incentives to do things like not collect sensitive data if possible – and use whatever technology is appropriate to meet those needs.

> Problems like these need to be solved with technology, user friendly and default encryption

This is a common misunderstanding. Solving these problems – and ensuring that they stay solved in the future – ultimately costs money. Companies will not spend that unless they have both a requirement and a reasonable expectation that there will be noticeable consequences for not meeting it. Without enforcement, you'll get things like those meaningless Verisign / McAfee banners on webpages which signals that they consider security as a marketing exercise.

Since the average person is utterly unable to compare different products in this manner and it's a difficult, ongoing job even for the skilled security practitioner, there has to be some outside pressure to make information available. Once you have that, the technology will follow.
A quote from the article: "We have evolved for it, to the extent that those surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends who regularly gather to eat—and, crucially, gossip—live an average of 15 years longer than loners."

A = alive 15 years longer than the average.

B = meets friends and gossips.

The claim, made by a psychologist (of course), fails to take into account the fact that correlation doesn't equal causation. It may be that some unexamined factor C causes people to (B) meet and gossip, and (A) live longer as well. Meaning before we change our lifestyle with the expectation of a longer life, we should first do some actual science.
Japanese are very egocentric and insular.

There was a story on Hackaday about Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet. Those are Hackers hacking on something in a Hackerspace, people on the forefront of open minded thinking.
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I agree with coldtea. Our consumerison is why it we get isolated. What is intresting, tendencys in DE show that people go back in the cities for shopping (it's more socializing).
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/8664/2804458/innenstadt-bleibt...
Maybe when our kids getting in adolescence find that this is the way to be diffrent than us.
Good Practise:
Start greeting people when you are in your neighbourhood. That's what I did. I got very fast in contact with above-, below my floor and people around in that block. We had big times (even with the very old folks!). Friendliness and courage (to do so) is the key to start a relationship. The cause of the problem is our missing culture (even neighbourhood parties) to get connectd.
g start flash-mobs!
You can do that with the Mindwave Mobile for around $150, and there are cheaper and more expensive versions available...
Several months ago: visit https://news.ycombinator.com/news , read list of titles, and don't click on any since none seem interesting. Defer to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest because I regularly would find at least a few titles that interested me.

Now: visit https://news.ycombinator.com/news , and find several titles interesting, so I click on them and read them. Rarely do I find it necessary to visit https://news.ycombinator.com/newest to get to titles I find interesting.

There is nothing specific about the experience that I can pinpoint other than that my interest in front-page articles is significantly higher now. My default go-to hacker news page is now /news and not /newest
I made no claim about what style guides suggest. I merely claimed that deliberately using "it's" for both forms is increasingly common in written English.
No, you just had a bad point that you'll come to realize if you ever have to manage a team or company.

More often than not, you outsource items that are not the highest value projects your resources could be spent on. Or, you simply cannot afford to hire a specialist for a specific need. Try to find me experts for some of the pattern recognition algorithms offered who will work at your shitty startup, your shitty big-co with minimal tech wing, or your random mid-sized in the middle of nowhere. I just described 95% of companies on the planet.

And to second relix's point, try to justify implementing something that may have taken years to optimize, even if you think you can do it better. Also, do you want to maintain it? What happens if/when the company loses you? Would they rather have some poorly documented, poorly optimized in house version with nobody around who knows how it works or have a contract with another party they can count on for maintenance and support?

Is this always the case? No. Sometimes it's a core function you want to develop in house. But, it's usually considered.

As a developer, a big step in growth is realizing how to best spend your time and resources, and realizing that contracting implementation of X to further speed up building Y is a choice you'll often have to make.
HFCS is metabolized primarily by the liver, unlike sugar.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/895.full
It does make more sense as instructions from the US CIO to Departmental and Agency CIOs, because those are the people preventing anyone from operating on anything as modern as they describe. My agency's Washington Office fixers have us on IE8 for the foreseeable and I'm not allowed to use ssl without a tech approval.

"Be sure and have a Budget Officer at your meeting!"
I don't see it as a technical problem so I don't see technical chops, as impressive as they are, as a solution.

The problem is one of governance. Unless this new group can cancel contracts and ban organizations from participating in future projects I see very little reason to think they will succeed.

They can suggest all they want but if they can't cold stone stop an agency from entering an agreement then they can't change existing behaviors.
There was a talk at dotScale about the healthcare.gov website and what went bad on a technical level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo
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See for example:
http://newswire.telecomramblings.com/2013/01/telstra-global-...

So you have to separate the "wet" plant from the terminal gear. The speed of the terminal gear is completely disconnected from the wet plant these days. Nobody replaces wet plant to upgrade capacity. They run Ciena, Infinera, Alcatel gear over Tyco's old line system.

Essentially the issue with upgrading over the wet plant is basically the presence of nonlinearities on the fiber. The links are not noise limited. Some of these fibers are still running 10G OOK in half the band and that on NZ-DSF that's used for submarine cables basically causes huge nonlinear penalties. The new subsea fiber is 22ps/nm-km and essentially larger effective diameter for reducing nonlinear penalty.

http://www.corning.com/opticalfiber/products/vascade_fibers....

BTW, I also worked at BBN
Australia has 20 million people and is at the 'end of the line'. Japan has 100 million people, and just behind it (from the US side) are the twin internet powerhouses of South Korea and China.
There are some really interesting ethical implications for sex robots and pedophilia - the argument being "Pedohpiles are only human - don't they deserve to have healthy sexuality? What if there were a way for a pedophile to act on their urges without harming anyone?"
You're seriously wearing a head-mounted camera during interviews? That would creep me out. I'd probably cut the interview short.
Great product but even better support. I integrated storemapper in a meteor.js based website for my brewery http://twbrewing.com/where_beers. The meteor framework gave me some grief as it tends to do with embeddable js widgets but Tyler got back to me within a day or sooner everytime I had a question.
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oh no ... I am unable to change my (perfectly secure) password for ten minutes because an attacker is attempting to brute force my password reset. I'd regard that as a feature, not a bug.

you don't need to lock out the entire account.
WP 8 was native Linux/Unix. It used Motif, and was very stable - a superb word processor. This version was bundled with Corel's Linux OS deluxe edition. With a bit of effort, it even runs comfortably on modern systems.

(The included docs mention a terminal version of WP 8, but, sadly, it doesn't exist...)

Version 9 onwards used WINE.
> Why not start getting to know them today, before you "need" them?

Maybe they're completely boring. Maybe the person under discussion prefers being alone unless and until the entire neighborhood is going up in smoke. It's not as though large groups of people are what nature has in mind, regardless of environmental and biological changes -- evolution doesn't work that way.

About 1/2 of Americans are now single. Is this a disease, or a result of personal preferences, by people who tried the alternatives and then made the least objectionable choice?
The government has two different kinds of workers. Actual employees they pay directly and contract employees they pay through a private company. Actual employees of the US government are generally paid a mediocre salary at best compared to what they could get in private industry. Government contract employees on the other hand are generally paid very very well. In excess of what a typical private sector non-government contract company would pay. It's common knowledge among government employees that you can double your salary by getting a job with a private government contracting company.

The essential problem of the US government is there is no accountability. Poor performing employees are never fired and poor performing contractors are never penalized. If a project is a massive failure there are never any consequences for the people or companies involved. Over time anyone with any sort of skill whatsoever tends to leave and what's left are the poor and mediocre employees.

I'd like to say creating the US digital service is a positive step but unless the basic problem of accountability is solved it too will be just as bad at IT as every existing organization in a few years time.

In the real world this problem of organizational calcification would be solved when the incompetent company goes out of business because they are over taken by competitors. In the government since there is no competition there is no natural accountability mechanism.
I saw GoPro offering a "music" edition of their cameras making me assume they would deliver some decent quality in low light, indoor, close-up situations. The concept is absolutely genius but it seems the market is all going for the same action/sports segment.
The author of this post made some terrible business choices. The constant multi-platform time and money sink is what tanked his company. But who paid the price? The lowly worker, who had little to no say in those choices. How is the author surprised he is upset with him? When you work for a single employer you put all of your eggs in a single basket. You place an enormous amount of trust that your employer will make the right decisions that ultimate decide your future. And by reading this article it appears that those choices were awful.

If he had any honor he would have given him 2 months severance and let him go, only to try an make up for the incompetence he showed running the new company into the ground.
It's pretty typical - and accepted - to care about one's own self, family, and friends more than random strangers simply because you have more information about what will make your self, family, and friends happy than what will make random strangers happy. If you want to make the greatest positive impact possible on the world, focus your efforts on where you have the most information, so that you don't accidentally make things worse out of ignorance.

That's not to say that you can't also care about the world. But it's both illogical and immoral to ignore the good you can do right in front of you, for the abstract notion of good that you might do for the world.
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What plants are you working with? Are they pet and kid safe? Even at your current brightness levels it could make a cool nightlight for kids, as long as it doesn't kill them or the cat.
Garmin has been competing with GoPro with the Virb action camera for a while, which in my experience has been really fun to use and produced really nice quality videos.

(I work for Garmin, but not on anything related to this.)
The evidence so far suggests that no, we can't recognise particularly debasing forms of "voluntary" labour. For example, prostitution gets almost all the criticism, despite being one of the few jobs that lets workers can seize control of their own working conditions and avoid the kind of capitalist abuses this article talks about. Imagine what it would take for someone to gain control of almost all prostitution in the United States, as the WWE did with pro wrestling.

(In fact, I can even remember someone arguing in a previous HN discussion that because minimum-wage work was so bad, anyone who chose prostitution as an alternative to it was coerced and therefore we should outlaw prostitution - rather than the abusive minimum-wage work.)
I don't drink. I've had a life-long bi-weekly reminder to resist peer pressure and that probably makes me particularly immune to that kind of nonsense. Each to his own.