skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misleading headline. AT&T and Verizon say 10mbps is too fast to be the baseline for what is considered broadband, and that the current 4Mbps baseline is enough.
Ask Mt. Gox... Typically an exchange will keep most of its BTC in actual bank vaults. Similar to how you'd store a large amount of gold.
Yup, that's the source, thanks :).

I also highly recommend those lectures to everyone who haven't seen them. There's a lot of insight there (and even more in SICP book).
Yeah good idea.. unfortunately it has now just become awash with recruiters trying to connect/job spam.
I would and I do judge on this single episode. In my opinion, this type of behavior is abusive.

I can understand why a recruiter might take the company's side.
Let me know how you go! I use ownCloud/Ampache too.
How  to Screw Up Your SEO – PPC Fish
Click on the annotation and then click "Authors" under the text.
>> A package management system that you don't have to invoke lucifer to use would also help (leiningen for CL)

> What do you think are the biggest problems with ASDF?

Especially when backed up by QuickLisp? Together they seem to be extremely good and quite easy to use.
I'm of the opposite opinion. I loved it! The concept seems similar to Hypertext [0] (or what it was supposed to be). Would love to see how they handle first-hand commentary from multiple conflicting voices!

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
Ask HN: What is a good way to track movement indoors?
I'm looking to track the movement of people in an indoor office building (with their permission) over an extended period of time. I would like to know who is meeting whom, at what times, how often etc -- the basic idea is to visualize physical interaction.

My thought was to use cellphone signatures, mac addresses etc to make this happen. Can anyone think of a good solution? Do I have to build something myself or is there something out there?
Ask HN: I need help with Amazon SES as I'm stuck building my software. (URGENT)
I'm building an emailer software (similar to mail chimp, but rather basic) using Amazon SES. My challenge is how to allow other users to send emails using my service through their domains? SES does not allow sending from other domains unless they're verified.

Can you please help, this is urgent!
That seems like a lot of assumptions. I don't think I'd be OK with generally advocating based on all those assumptions. For example, you never touched on what would happen if you allocated enough in native and managed that you start to get significant memory pressure -- collecting with paging is almost impossible, so the CLR goes into panic mode in an attempt to prevent paging and a large portion of the heap would be untouchable/immovable.
Network effects at work. VCs will probably not find it amusing if - and of course when - they realize that they have been disrupted. But it is a funny kind of poetic justice.

Everything, even capital markets can be disrupted (or at a minimum greatly shaken up) by a dedicated player with a technological advantage.

And once the network effects kick in you're going to have a very hard time gaining back lost ground.

I predicted YC moving in on capital providers a while ago and I expect that trend to continue once YC has cashed out on their first batch of major hits. They'll be so flush with money that the only reasonable way to use it will be to do their own series 'A'.

Right now that's not in the cards and they should probably deny such a possibility as strongly as they could. But once the money is in they're going to be very much tempted to broaden the scope and become a two stage rocket even though there are obvious drawbacks to that strategy as well.
Yes, the top .01% elite of Scotland had bankrupted themselves and it was they who accepted this deal in return for a bail-out of there PERSONAL assets, it was never put to the Scottish people.

You are buying into the propaganda that is all about Alex Salmond, a politician nearing the end of his career and, indeed, his time on Earth.

The question you have to ask yourself is whether any independent country on the planet, regardless of its currency, would voluntarily had its governance to a neighboring country.

The point is that, today, 100% of the Scottish people are partially disenfranchised. I am entirely aware that no representative "democracy" is fully democratic, but the connection between a people and their government is undoubtedly healthier when that government is in the same country.
The point of this annotation was for someone who disagrees with the author to offer a point by point take down in the context of the original article.

You could understand the article (at least the view the author wants to promote) just fine without the annotation--the annotation provides a counterpoint that systematically undermines the premise of the article. [edit spelling]
I can't speak to specific companies.

On aggregate, H1B workers are being paid less than non-H1B workers. It doesn't take long to see this in action: http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#s... -- click around and ask yourself if those average wages look right. My state's average wage was what you'd pay a person coming straight out of college.

I'd definitely wager that if you compared all Microsoft H1B software engineers to all non-H1B MS SE's, you'd see a drop in wages. But I don't have a reliable indication of non-H1B salaries at MS, so I can't say for sure.
Worst user interface on the planet.
All the computers for the paint mixing machines in every Home Depot were screwed up today, which brought up the topic of the hack and he got excited when I suggested it was probably outdated software on the point of sales machines that was to blame.

The interesting part to me was it sounded like the managers explained to them that it was all the bank's fault. Not that Home Depot was too cheap and lazy to update their software. And ya got to talk about something while the paint's shakin
Try stackexchange.com for this sort of question.
Of course, thanks so much for documenting your first experience so well. If a UI causes a confusing state for the user, there's work to be done to improve it.

By moving sections up/down, do you mean reordering the "employment" section above the "education" section? Were you able to reorder schools or employment positions?

Lastly, what browser/OS are you using? I've noticed drag and drop act funky in some browser/OS combinations.
How do these businesses work? How are they financed and run?
If SES doesn't allow you, then take a look at Mandrill.
Ask HN: Help identifying a domain intelligence/research API?
A few weeks ago, there was a blog post on HN about renaming your company or startup. It was written by a company that provides an API for looking up information about the company behind a domain. Ironically, their new name proved so unmemorable that I can't recall it.

It's similar to StackLead and FullContact, but I can't for the life of me find it anywhere in HN search or my personal web history.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Request production access
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/request...
I'm not sure it works that way. If they have a selling price target of x, and the processor costs y, then they have x-y left to spend on other stuff.
Since no aliasing is applied (at least on Firefox), these transforms endup looking terrible and illegible.
Who is selling systems with them today? or soon?
Ah, that's the first use of the annotations for this that I've seen. The only other "news" I've seen on Genius before was statements from Genius or a16z, and the annotations only provided more in-depth explanations of the text.
If you like simulators like this you might be interested in this game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/72200/
Agree! I was going to reply to some of Sam's comments, but stopped because this is not at all what Genius was designed for and my reply to his comments wouldn't fit the UX.
Oops, instead of "reality" I meant "experimental observations". Good catch.

> You arbitrarily claim to be able to make accurate assertions of reality

Nope.

> while at the same time agreeing that the essence of reality is unknowable.

Yep. I guess? All I think is that it's okay if we don't know the true essence; science is still useful[0].

> Stop using the word good without making your case for righteousness.

Stop hijacking common words.

> You can't substitute it with practical or useful either, both infer benefit at the personal degree.

I don't know what that means.

> Just because an expectation proved to be useful once, remember that the past does not predict the future.

Depends what you mean by predict the future. Absolute truth? No. Useful[0] forecasts? Yes.

----

[0] dictionary.reference.com:

> useful: being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect
Yes, it was an ad hominem attack, I accept that, but, regardless of prizes he may have been awarded (and, remember, Barack Obama was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize), I am reasonably confident that most people familiar with his work will concur that he has a tendency for buffoonish show-boating on controversial topics. Joseph Stiglitz, on the other hand, is widely respected for the clarity of his thought.
Why not find a startup cofounder and apply to an incubator ( like YC) ?
Thanks, I'm hoping to make a big push on DOCX exporting this month. This bit of information will help with that goal. It works only some of the time, but I hope it's enough to help some people who must export to DOCX even in its early stages.
Navisens does this with a software-only solution, check them out http://www.navisens.com/
Google Is Target of European Backlash on U.S. Tech Dominance
Chase also supports this via SMS, email, or push notification.
ViennaCL, open-source linalg library that leverages gpu and multicore cpu
Borders were not fluid and influenced by outside powers for real nations. Nobody moved China's or Rome's or Assyria's borders until they lost battles. Or Prussia's for that matter. Westphalia was an agreement within a closely related ethnic and cultural zone (the crusader pals) for superpowers to not to push around the weaker nations quite so much. It's a temporal european footnote that attached some semantics to the specifically european concept of "the state" (not "nation"). In the broader reality of human history, a nation is a related group of people who can drive people off their land and keep them out, or at least subjugate others to dhimmitude. If you can't do that you will inevitably be conquered. Consider texas for a recent example. No magical international bureaucracy can prevent that in the long run.
Open Data China
Ask HN: Minimum viable product webpage. Feedback?
Hi HN, we are launching our MVP product soon.
Link: www.woolalaa.com
Could you please review it? Are there parts that are not clear, not grammatically correct, or parts that should be explained better? Thanks
The problem is the contract is not signed by the witness and before I'd go to court and burn the cash I'd like to threaten that my legal and "PR" actions will cause 10x damage.
It does matter when Lisp is not given due credit.
Call a solicitor! If you don't know who to call then call your local bar association and explain that you have an employment problem. Typically a first consultation will be free.

- I have the access to the server so I'm going to take down the website (I can do other suff as well)

...and stop posting nonsense stuff like this, even though you may be justifiably angry. That sort of thing is a good way to end up being the defendant in a lawsuit, instead of the plaintiff.

Stop with the revenge fantasies and call a professional. Right now you are angry because you have been shafted by this employer, who has basically put one over on you. If you start making angry threats you are likely to end up in even worse trouble and your employer will end up looking like the victim while you will look like the villain. I promise you that getting a letter from a solicitor will rattle your employer a hell of a lot more than any threatening behavior you could possibly engage in.
Likely worst case scenario is the UK coffers get fat on Scottish registrations. Unless you opt to become a republic, you'll still be a British subject regardless.

https://www.gov.uk/register-british-citizen
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "simpler" ? Drop me a mail if you like.
The 20 slot limit being mentioned is just in regards to the demo connecting to freenode. The demo connects to freenode from a single IP address and freenode has limits on how many connections you can have from one IP. It's not something you need to worry about in a normal use-case.
Awesome. Glad you liked it. I used to live north of Chicago and actually put that one in myself. I agree that it's kind of hard as a stand alone service. I haven't even decided which direction to go with it. Initially, I was looking at giving people the option of booking directly on the site and providing much more detail about each area. It may still go that way, but it's off and on the back burner these days.
Satoshi mined more than 1 million bitcoins...
If that is the case, maintaining both research tracks in parallel seems perfectly rational to me.

Agree completely, which is part of the whole transhumanist thing. I was simply stating it as a condition for exploration - one that few explorers acknowledge.
If Satoshi can't configure Tor correctly how is Joe Blow supposed to figure it out?
The problem is, Dawkins preaches to the converted. Only atheists and creationists listen to him, and neither are likely to change their minds.
> I'd definitely wager that if you compared all Microsoft H1B software engineers to all non-H1B MS SE's, you'd see a drop in wages.

Why would you think this?

That information is publicly available; e.g. http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Microsoft/356252_Sala...

I'm not sure what the "average salaries" for non-immigrants are, but you can get an idea here:

http://www.salarylist.com/company/Microsoft-Salary.htm

It doesn't look that different.
The documentation for writing add-ons is really bad.

I challenge anyone to locate a one-page official documentation which walks you through a "hello world" add-on creation process? Right now there are a thousand pages talking about add-on, but each one of them also has a thousand links in it to make you jump to other places, then again to jump to more places.

If someone with knowledge of the latest development can put a _complete_ walk-through for a basic "hello world" add-on in ___ONE___ page, it will be greatly appreciated. If there is a date stamp on the page (so readers know if it's still compatible with newer version of Firefox), that would be the greatest thing in the world.

Had the documentation been better, I could have turned maybe a dozen ideas into add-ons which might be useful not just to myself but other users as well. More useful add-ons are definitely helpful to the Firefox movement.

I am a strong believer of Mozilla's mission ("open web"), will continue to use Firefox exclusively for web browsing. Plus, Vimperator/Pentadactyl are indispensable. Writing more add-ons is another way for me to support the mission.
EMV tag 57 [1] generally contains the "Track 2 Equivalent Data", and 5A the account number (PAN) [2]

[1] http://www.emvlab.org/emvtags/show/t57/
[2] http://www.emvlab.org/emvtags/show/t5a/
Rapping and Twerking Your Way into Your Kid's Heart
So is life. Its great to see that you fixed the plugin and it works very well now. Congrats!

I'm just glad to be out of it. The Scala community really was becoming toxic, sleeping was hard. Hopefully you guys have all resolved your differences now and things are more harmonious.
>Yes, the top .01% elite of Scotland had bankrupted themselves and it was they who accepted this deal in return for a bail-out of there PERSONAL assets, it was never put to the Scottish people.

Please. If you think this election is about "The Scottish People" you are deluded. It's always been about the elites.

>You are buying into the propaganda that is all about Alex Salmond, a politician nearing the end of his career and, indeed, his time on Earth.

He's 59. I know Scottish men die early, but he could easily live another 20 years, and possibly longer. There is nothing to say he won't be politically active until his death. He is a divisive figure who has capitalized on anti-English sentiment, greed and envy to increase his own standing.

>The question you have to ask yourself is whether any independent country on the planet, regardless of its currency, would voluntarily had its governance to a neighboring country.

But that's not the question, is it? The question is actually, "will the proposed system be better?" The distance doesn't matter. Ask the people of the Falkland Islands if they'd like to become Argentinian.

Right now the polls indicate that 50% of the people don't think Independence will improve their situation. Even if YES scrape a win, that's hardly a mandate. Your enthusiasm blinds you to the real fears of half of the population.

>I am entirely aware that no representative "democracy" is fully democratic, but the connection between a people and their government is undoubtedly healthier when that government is in the same country.

It already is in the same country. It's you that propose to change it to another.
Sure, we can't rule out those possibilities ... but to me it just sounds like wild speculation.
Teleport’s Experiment in Nomadic Work Starts with a Tool for the SF Bay Area
> A people who gain the chance to govern themselves, who become the masters of their own destiny, they grow.

What he's saying is that without a Scottish currency, they won't be the masters of their own destiny. Using the pound is OK for a while, but there are advantages to not following London's monetary policy.
Not at all, you can freely walk into most exchange offices. Theoretically an armed robbery of exchanges and payment processors would be the perfect crime. Commit private address to memory or tattoo it on yourself in code, after the robbery forcing them to transfer to your public address and waiting out confirmations turn yourself in to the police and do the 5 yrs. Walk out with millions worth of bitcoins on your arm. (Penalty here is 5yrs, unsure anywhere else). Blockchain.info would prob nickname that address "Hans Grueber"
Insanely laggy in chrome on an S5. Really no excuse for that when I'm only on the page to read a few paragraphs of text...
OT but I really hate how these sorts of slide decks break the back button.

emscripten is pretty cool technology, the paper presenting the tech (http://davideglintine-new.googlecode.com/hg/docs/paper.pdf) is actually a really easy read. Cool stuff.

I hope it doesn't become a norm to try and write "normal" websites in C++, though things like games do seem to be easier
From what I remember, you can charge a single flat fee for using a credit card, but no percentages. At the time, I thought that 'sliding scale' flat fees (e.g. < $100 is $0.15, > $100 is $1.50) were too close to percentages per the agreement.
A scheme as old as the hills. Avoid.
It was more complicated, I believe. The marked and advertised price had to be what credit card users would pay, but they could have a cash discount at the register or checkout.

Starting in early 2013, as a result of a settlement of a class action by merchants, they no longer have to charge credit card users the advertised and marked price. They can advertise and mark the cash price, and charge a credit card surcharge of up 4% or the processing fees for that transaction (whichever is smaller).

Some states have laws that limit surcharging. There is a list in this Visa article about the post settlement rules: http://usa.visa.com/personal/get-help/checkout-fees.jsp
This is what happens when (as an industry) you don't treat people well, when you feel have the power to do as you please. Let me explain: pre-Ycombinator a lot of VCs would routinely either abuse or just simply ignore a lot of entrepreneurs. Someone can correct me but YC was a response to that. One reason everyone flocks to YC is because everyone knows that YC is fair and trustworthy. That's not the case anywhere else (at least back then).
I also found it strange how they worded things around the identity protection, "from April on", rather than something like, "From April XX, 2014 until September XX, 2014". Perhaps they just simplified the wording to make it clear that they're providing protection, and I'm reading too far into things :)
Everyone: Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo (still separate), Supermicro, etc.
What would you use as a proxy to get extract as much revenue as possible? Server memory size? Max database size mabe. Or get silly and the amount of datatypes you can use. (For $10k more you can use floats in your columns) and so on.

Core licensing is purely a price differentiator to get as much money as possible. The idea is that those willing to shell out money for 64 cores for their servers will be willing to shell out 20x or similar than those with 2 cores.
Kill occupants of building, move 1.3 cubic meters of gold in 30 trips with transport van. Now you have a few other problems, such as making sure that you're not going to end up in the same way. Besides surveillance cam footage recording your whereabout during part of your trip and the distance being fairly easily estimated if you do two trips in quick succession leading to a possible ID and or location of the stash.

But getting it out of there is fairly easy if you lack a conscience and have a van. If you had access to a slightly larger truck it would be easier still.
SHOULD_I_BUILD HN?: Can't ever seem to figure out where to go for dinner?
SHOULD_I_BUILD is a new term I'm starting for micro-validation of ideas. Prelaunch, pre MVP, pre- leancanvas...pre anything! Is it worth pursuing, I ask?

My first one:

An app that I click a button, it tells me where to go get food. Remove the paradox of choice like you get with Yelp. It could pull data in from my credit card transactions to suggest "favorites", or "newbies", based on my purchase history.

Should I build?
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right role.

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Coffeescript, Backbone.js, Marionette.js, RSpec/MiniTest/Capybara, PostgreSQL, MySQL and friends. I've dabbled and am very interested in Go and Polymer.

Resume: I am a full stack web developer with a passion for writing clean code and an insatiable appetite for honing my craft and learning about new technologies. You can see my full resume at http://joshhuckabee.com/resume.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshhuckabee/

Email: joshhuckabee [at] gmail [dot] com
Nobody knew how to land on the moon or control nuclear fission either...

We have already thrown money at these problems

Not even close. There is no "Manhattan Project" for any of those like there was for the space race/nuclear bomb.

If the same amount of resources were put toward AGI ($<100M* since 1956) or Fusion ($29B* since 1954) as was put toward just the apollo program alone ($~110B* from 1961-1972). We would likely have achieved the goals.

*All figures inflation adjusted
Intel is traditionally conservative on their server chips. I am not surprised by the 22 nm process.