skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this confirms that "Google Voice is not dead" as many people have suspected.
Talking to a comcast "agent" is like asking a Seaman about Naval tactics.
You don't need it and if you are on a limited budget you can get a good hard tail much cheaper than a good full suspension but if you have it you can stay in the saddle much more of the the time for efficient pedalling. It doesn't lose much of the pedalling power certainly if you spin the pedals rather than stand on the pedals in a higher gear.
Ask HN: What to do with unused AWS credits?
I was given some AWS credits through an incubator for my startup but I've since moved almost everything over to Digital Ocean and have around $5k of credits remaining. They expire in a few months so I'm looking for worthwhile causes I can donate server time to. Something like Folding@Home or perhaps an open source project that could use more CPU time for a few months.
Well, I asked for those as that's what I've been accused of not doing myself earlier. So, if I'm the one not providing any, do better! I'm sure you all can use Google, but, I guess, there are way many here who are too lazy to do their own search and research and just come here to click arrows, hyperlinks, and scroll!
We used Video Brewery (http://www.videobrewery.com) to find an independent animator for our startup (https://www.konduto.com). We found an excellent animator and contracted the voice-overs from Voices.com. The result was great and much cheaper than the companies we quoted.
Have you never seen a software development project which ran into unanticipated problems?

What about "knowledge work" is not a highly dynamic environment?
That is a good summary. Some radars use phase shifters, and some true time delay elements. They are equivalent for narrow bandwidths, but the true time delay is needed for wide bandwidths.
Two glasses of red wine is a harmful amount of alcohol.

This "wine is beneficial" is nonsense. Feel free to provide some cites. You'll find, once you read the papers that i: you don't need the alcohol for some of the benefits, you'd get the same from grape juice and ii: the amount of alcohol needed for benefits is about one glass per week.

By recommending "two glasses" per day (a glass should be 125 ml but most people pour much more than that. Try it yourself and see. And wine varies in strength. Currently wine is getting a bit weaker than it has been, but it's still pretty strong. Most wines are going to be around 12% ABV to 15% ABV. Two glasses of that a day is harmful.)
Why speculate? It's not like no one researches this stuff.
lucky me I read the HN comments first :-p (moving to the next article).
That's giving far too little credit to the average Seaman.
It's going to get so expensive and aggravating that killing people with extreme Alzheimer's will be allowed, or even encouraged.

Don't say never until you have had to take care of one.
The article mentions that even people who agree that texting is a bad idea find that they have trouble stopping themselves from doing it.

These folks could limit distraction from incoming texts and calls by turning on "Do Not Disturb" mode.

I'd actually appreciate a mobile OS feature which lets through incoming text messages and auto-replies saying "I'm driving right now, I'll get back to you when I safely can."

Is this problem largely going to go away as voice control of phones (and car integration) get better?
The Typewriter Artist (2004) [video]
Physics class in college. I agree with the comment. The author has very little idea of the concepts behind radiation and attached phenomena.
There's a recent paper comparing subjective performance between HEVC and VP9.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/238049197/HEVC-H-265-VP9-AVC-subje...
> One of the problems is that whatever you happen to be focusing on, you also have to be able to react quickly to potential hazards.

True. From my anecdotal observation the reason why talking over mobile phone is dangerous (while talking to a passenger is not) seems to be social norms—immediately cutting off the conversation to focus on the road doesn't seem like an acceptable thing to do, and we avoid doing this unless absolutely necessary. For a more responsible driver, this ‘absolutely necessary’ threshold is pretty low—as it should be—but such people seem to be rare.
MPT is not about "minimizing the risk". It's about minimizing risk for a desired reward. In an abstract way of speaking, selecting team members is very similar.
Shelley, Poe, and Verne had the jump on Wells. Their works also had an element of social criticism. It's hard for any adult writing not to.

As I said, it's part of literature. Sci Fi filled that role as it came into existence, in part a result of science emerging as a thing in the 19th century, distinct from natural philosophy.
I think the methods are crude but the motives are quite clear (if the story is true); Comcast doesn't like Tor for the same reason the NSA doesn't like Tor. Comcast doesn't have a good track record for handling traffic ethically, for instance attempting to monetize NXDOMAIN errors [1], throttling protocols they don't like [2], etc.

I don't think its beyond the pail to suggest they want to spy on their customers and sell their data to advertisers. They may even be under contractual obligation from RIAA/MPAA to disallow Tor as a part of Six Strikes, and are doing this either before or in lieu of a technical solution.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/08/comcasts-dns-redi...
[2] http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic...
“Everything we've been taught about the origins of civilization may be wrong.”
Most people I know in 'big law' here in NZ (in quotes because NZ) are using Lync or similar for IM.

Not sure the niche that people like us like to imagine is actually there and underserved by the big enterprise players.
You're looking at the wrong terms. These are the ones you want: https://developers.google.com/cloud/terms/
>> I would want to end my life while I'm able to

>> competently choose to do so.

At least with Alzheimer's, there is no bright line between competence and incompetence. It's a relatively slow slide into incompetence. And not an even progression, since in fuzzy area there may be periods of competence mixed with periods of incompetence. I think big part of problem for person with Alzheimer's to make decision of suicide is to have the resolve to do it early enough, while they're still clearly competent and would have much more time as a competent person, instead of waiting to try and milk out as much time as they can. Cause if you wait you're likely to forget your strong desire (I'm not joking here) or simply lack the resolve to do the deed.

>> I would want to do so with quick and painless drugs

>> instead of a gun. However, assisted suicide is only

>> legal in a handful of US states, and then only in

>> cases of terminal illness with less than six

>> months to live.

I'm not sure why, but you seem to think use of "quick and painless drugs" requires use of assisted suicide. Maybe one solution would be for someone to publish some "How To" information on how to assemble and use a quick and painless drug solution, all on your own. Then at least anyone worried enough about developing Alzheimer's would have a length of time measuring in years to get their solo-suicide plan in place.

I say this as a person who hopes he'd be able to take his own life before incompetence comes. My father and several members of my extended family had Alzheimer's. I think that people who lack experience with it are sometimes unaware of how Alzheimer's robs a person of their personhood. It's not pretty and nobody should ever have to go through it.
I believe that accidents caused by distracting devices are only a small % (really small) of this trend. The huge % of car accidents is because of alcohol abuse.
Windows Phone does this - when paired with a list of specified Bluetooth devices (such as a car GPS or stereo), it can switch to a DND mode automatically with an optional auto-reply.

Motorola seems to have recently rolled out a similar feature across it's entire Moto G/E/X product line - Drive Mode for their Moto Assist product.

But unless these kind of features become opt-out, I suspect it won't help that much. Right now you have to actively seek them out and turn them on, which many people aren't going to do.
Considering the entire blog is about 'deep web' you'd hope the author is aware of this difference and made an error. But clicking on his bio it seems to be this authors first post there, so who knows.
Does it make people type twice as fast?
Spy court renews NSA metadata program
Airware Partners with NASA to Develop a UAS Traffic Management System
Any time someone appeals to quantum physics to offer a handwaving explanation of something that classical physics covers just fine, watch out. Using path integrals to introduce interferometry is a waste of time, and in this case, just plain wrong.

For a better source, I'd start with the wikipedia articles on beamforming, phased arrays, and interferometry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry).
Even if money was the motivation its not like Tor is super popular. I doubt it's hurting any ISPs bottom line. My bet this is simply a political move, or one influenced by interested 3rd parties who do financially benefit from a destruction of privacy. Assuming it is real.
That number is less common than you think, but even if it were the median, you'd still have half of people below that.

Areas where that kind of salary is most common are extremely expensive. When you factor in all family expenses and commute (unless you get ridiculously lucky or are ok with really cramped quarters), you end up with bills a lot higher than a single person. For kids, there is healthcare, school related stuff, toys, the right good and so on. It's a lot tougher than you might think.

Psychology also kicks in here - when you've been busting your ass for 15 years to make a good living, you expect to be able to afford certain things. Unfortunately, prices of luxury goods have far outpaced consumer goods, so you end up feelings lot less "wealthy" than you think you should.
I live on the peninsula and it boggles the mind that, in sfbay, I effectively have one choice for wired internet access because dsl is so slow where I live.

As idlewords says:

San Francisco is an 8-mile square that aims to disrupt the world but can’t
wire itself for decent Internet. I guess it’s a hardware problem
Totally with you; this story sounds made-up.

>>Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren’t so-to-speak legal.

So what does Comcast think about people who use VPN? Maybe VPN also illegal now? Privacy is dead? Next up, curtains on the windows of your house are also illegal.
That's great. But it's not the norm.
I actually like the Soderbergh version on its own merits, although it may not have much more in common with the book than the title. The soundtrack is amazing.
It's more than that. If I demand to show you my vacation slides, I'm taking your time on my schedule. If I put pictures up on facebook, you can browse them at your own leisure, and there's no demand on my part involved.
I'm going to share my experience with HN here. It is a treasured experience, and something I hold near and dear to my heart. I was able to spend 3 months in Haiti as a volunteer. It was supposed to stay for a year. It was after the earthquake and I was stoked to go down.

When I was there I didn't really have any real work to do. They wanted me to create some software but this was the beginning of my "Hacker" career and I was using Access (don't judge). But the thing I really did while I was down there was play with the kids.

That piece of my time down there was more treasured then anything else I have. I got to know the kids so well it was heartbreaking to leave. One of the parents asked me to take his son (who was my pal and Creole teacher) to the US with me.

Just take a moment to think about that. This man loved his son. He took him to work and he was proud of him. You could see it in his eyes. Ose was a GREAT kid, mischievous, but great. His father was willing to sacrifice his time with his son for me to take him. I honestly didn't want to say no.

I built similar relationships with some of the girls at the orphanage. I can still remember the sound of them singing one night. It was the saddest most beautiful song I'd ever heard. 50 orphan girls were singing while beating the rhythm on whatever they had at hand. I don't know the lyrics but that moment was sorrow and happiness.

I had to leave suddenly and wasn't able to make it back, due to riots that closed the airport and running out of savings. When I finally could go back, I decided to go to Bolivia instead, there is a more stable volunteer community there and I could afford it.

I've never regretted something more then not returning to Haiti, but given the choice I'd do it again. I know that in my short time there I was able to make friend and pick up peoples spirits. I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but it was.

I'm still looking for a way to go back and help again, but I just don't know how. I think this sponsorship program sounds like a GREAT idea. This is something so many of the kids down there need.
In a reddit discussion, the author indicates that, indeed, it is explicitly not Turing complete: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2g6wsx/haskell_for_....
This is genius. I rarely drive, and when I do it's seldom at night, but when I do I want exactly what's in the first picture on this website. I never understood why no GPS (app or hardware) comes with this feature, even though it provides clear advantages. In rally racing providing this info is basically the entire job of the person in the passenger seat.
Overstock Working on “Top Secret” Bitcoin Project
Or 3rd-party DNS.
Did apple claim to invent it? I think their claim to fame was that they were the first to popularize the PC. The first to build an empire based around the PC.
Nicely done. The gulpfile (with documentation!) is a nice bonus.
There are a lot of lo-tinfoil people who are appalled that we are on QE3, which followed immediately after QE2, which "ended on schedule." The problem is QE is the last ditch. In monetary policy our backs are against the wall. And too many people think "OK, we didn't have a total financial meltdown, things must be pretty OK." They're not "pretty OK" until lowering the CB interest rates becomes effective again, and the assets<cough>junk</cough> on the CB balance sheets is getting sold off.

The next thing that snaps is going to be very very ugly.
An "Oriental hotel room"? Hotel rooms look like hotel rooms.
I've been discussing the idea out-of-band earlier today and all your remarks are spot on.

Yet another option: re-design bitcoin in such a way that these problems can be addressed and then convince miners to adopt that since it will in the long run result in increased fees for them because of a larger number of 'riders' on the transactions. This could offset the loss of mined coins and will effectively allow bitcoin a smoother transition from the 'mining' to the 'transaction' stage, it adds sufficient value to the blockchain that it might even replace the mined coin reward completely or surpass it before that reward goes to '0'.
You need a control group to protect yourself from bias.

This is true even for people doing science who don't have an agenda.
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Yeah, it's always the other guy that needs strict parenting from the government right?
> but not determine the contents of the traffic.

Not even this much, actually. Tor doesn't do any sort of protection on the traffic; it just routes it cleverly. The packets themselves are still plaintext if you're not using an encrypted protocol (e.g. HTTPS) on top of Tor.

In practice, most people use Tor through the browser bundle, which includes an HTTPS-Only extension. But if you're routing random other protocols through Tor (e.g. XMPP, BitTorrent, etc.) be aware that Tor is not doing any protection of your plaintext; that's the responsibility of your client/protocol.
I often do this (and did in this case). I wonder how frequent a phenomenon this is becoming and how it affects media consumption / retention?
This is a perfect example of how badly comment quality has degraded on hacker news.
In conclusion: yes, they do it, and yes, it's a bad idea.
Not really the case. My karma here doesn't pay my bills or has any practical benefit to me or anyone. I don't really care about it as I never downvote, which is the only practical use of karma. So, I read something and because I've been following the new movements in health and nutrition in the past 10 years and investing a couple of hours a day to keep up, then I invest time in giving some seeds of thought for others and then downvotes start to pile up. I made clarifications and then I get even more downvotes on each of them usually having the same negative score on each post, which means that it's the same people downvoting every single one! This is not a dialog, this is a sort of punishment for thinking differently. Some people just can't help their aggressiveness, I guess. It's not the karma I care about, it's the lack of any appreciation of other people's efforts and their good intentions; it's the downhill movement of this community. It's just turning into a much less popular version of Reddit, unfortunately. Honestly, if there was no YCombinator brand behind it, it would have self-destructed itself long ago, but thanks to Paul Graham's halo and YCombinator brand, the agony will be forever. Recently, most of the top posts are copied from ProductHunt, which is very indicative of the decline. Learn from the biggest - Facebook and Twitter don't have downvote, dislike, distweet, and similar means of social punishment! The negative vibe would always destroy a community or, at least, make it unhealthy.
Peak Hacker News/Silicon Valley: I have no idea how this system works, in fact, I've never used it. But I'm going to speculate on how it can be improved anyway.
`hxnormalize` can't format the new HTML5 tags normally.
OK i see now but if it needs to read 12TB from all drives together then that's still far from 12.5TB per drive which is the limit. That's where I am confused.
Steve Perlman's take on MIMO:

http://www.rearden.com/DIDO/DIDO_White_Paper_110727.pdf

as cited also in this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QxrQnJCXKo
The point of asking you to provide references is to give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you're reading well-conducted scientific research but making errors. Or maybe you have nothing at all to support what you say.

You've said a bunch of stuff in this thread that makes me think your cites are goig to be low quality, but may e I'm wrong and you have links to randomised controlled studies.
You're right with respect to the exit node, but here the story is about the entry node. The entry node would not be able to see the traffic contents, because they're encrypted with the exit node's key.

I helped make this diagram to demonstrate these details:

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
> Which is a shame because behind that facade of angst and unqualified opinion is a kernel of relevant truth.

Wait what?
What $1,500 in Rent Gets You in 11 U.S. Cities
Well, simultaneous to that, it also describes Comcast asking the customer what it is exactly they were using Tor for.

Since then, it does appear that phrase has been redacted. It would be nice if they published a correction, though.
I agree with you in that navdy will not eliminate risk of attention loss. But at least it should reduce the attention loss. Sure, any kind of attention loss is not acceptable in theory. But if navdy is found to reduce attention only as much as say talking to a co-passenger, then may be it's not a bad trade-off. Like one of the other commenters said, we cannot ensure that drivers have 100% attention. Anything that at least reduces risk is still a good thing.
> I don't myself drive a car, but I often observe people driving.

Please, shut up.
well, it's possible for Comcast to inspect the hostname of a DNS query even if its destination is not Comcast's nameservers.
Not exactly.

Tor encrypts your traffic within the Tor network. Even if you don't encrypt, Tor does automatically so your ISP cannot see your content.

If you don't encrypt, your content will be visible to the exit node, but not to your ISP.

https://www.torproject.org/about/overview
You have confused the inability (and frankly unwillingness) in the Vim community to add new features as the virtue of simplicity, while in fact, its the tail wagging the dog. Vim's source is an abomination of global variables, copy paste, and decades of hill climbing. Vim still maintains support for e.g. Amiga and probably a dozen different language bindings. It is Vim's byzantine implementation and not some philosophical purity that guides its development (or really lack thereof). There is nothing simple about it. This mess is NeoVim's raison d'etre.
New Zealand is 3rd in the OECD in terms of obesity, not far behind the US and Mexico: http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Obesity-Update-2014.p...
So, if I'm a physician, and if somebody comes to me with signs of a peanut allergy, I need to first do a control group before I treat by asking them to eliminate peanuts from their diet and see if they will get the symptoms? You're not being serious! Gluten intolerance is often asymptomatic and does harm that's not so obvious and directly correlated. In fact, it's probably better to have Celiac's and completely eliminate gluten with no doubts than have the asymptomatic form and keep living in denial!
Microsoft to Buy Minecraft Company Majong for $2.5B
It is very easy to become a store manager (refrain from screwing up and take transfers when available for promotions), and those jobs pay exceptionally well. A Walmart or Winn-Dixie store manager is going to be making six figures, and at least in the case of Winn-Dixie, they actively avoid people with advanced degrees because district managers are afraid of getting passed over.
OK, while that seems like a valid tidbit if one has to implement this stuff, it doesn't seem like that's a helpful complication to introduce when trying to explain the basic concept.
And how often do you think comments are manipulated as part of marketing and damage control?

To be fair, this is a dumb error and I wish they would issue an honest correction rather than simply removing the incorrect part.
Back in college, one of my girlfriends broke up with me...the most heart breaking of all my breakups. It took a mental toll on me for weeks. At one point, my roommate gave me an advice.

Every time I think of her, picture her taking a crap on the toilet...yeah it worked and eventually I stopped thinking of her in a positive manner. I continue to pass on this advice!
Is it possible to control cancer without killing it?