skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is the logical conclusion of the death of the 56K baud modem. There was a prophetic (if early) contest at Sun to 'imagine the future' and the winner got a SPARCStation. As a networking guy I tried to imagine what was going to change when the 'big yellow hose' (which is what 10MB Ethernet looked like at the time) came right into your living room. And one of the things that changed was that you could work at 'home' like you did at work, which at the time was most of the stuff on a beefy server with lots of CPU + storage and just the X windows on the local machine. (this worked fine with a lot less than 10MB of bandwidth of course, but it was conceptually a 'return to mainframes' pitch)

The economics are pretty sweet, given the marginal cost of one additional subscriber to a cloud 'hosted' environment. Google Drive / Drop box gets the storage requirement out of the way. Company X, acquires/operates a small server farm connected with a generic 10G pipe to the 'web' (this is an off the self config at places like Switch in Las Vegas). Sign up a bunch of subscribers where you have a 'free' tier to sop up excess compute and a paid tier for folks who care enough about response times to pay for them.

The dependency on the network has always been troubling, but once the network is like house 'power'. so many things one does depend on the house having power available, making it a requirement becomes less and less onerous. Combined with things that make traveling with data annoying (like cross border inspections) and I can see this as the future of application level computing for a lot of things.

Interesting that terminals are the future once again.
A new, documented AngularJS boilerplate using Gulp and Browserify
Yup. However, that's hard when you've spent 99% of your budget on overpriced Rackspace servers. Great brand ("nobody got fired for choosing IBM"), but horrible bang for your buck. But hey, if it's not your money, can't blame them for choosing them.
Right, there is currently no upside for individual developers to unionize because there is massive demand and low barriers to entry.

What unionizing would do is create a quality floor for development, which would be good for businesses but less immediately beneficial for individual developers.

Until barriers rise or the market is completely flooded with good developers, thus causing wages to plummet, unionization won't happen.
Very cool tool. Does anyone know of a similar one for Facebook?
Well here's the essential bits in Python. I leave turning this into an actual CLI as an exercise for the interested reader.

from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session
import json

keys = json.loads(open(keyfile).read())
# {"TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY": "blah_blah_blah",
# "TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET": "blah_blah_blah",
# "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN": "blah_blah_blah",
# "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET": "blah_blah_blah",}

def twitter():
return OAuth1Session(keys['TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'],
client_secret=keys['TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET'],
resource_owner_key=keys['TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN'],
resource_owner_secret=keys['TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET'])

def tweet(status, reply_to=None):
endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json'
data = {'status': status}
r = twitter().post(endpoint, data=data)
return r.status_code

def tweet_with_image(status, imgfile, reply_to=None):
endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update_with_media.json'
data = {'status': status}
if reply_to is not None:
data.update({'in_reply_to_status_id': reply_to})
r = twitter().post(endpoint, data=data, files={'media[]': open(imgfile, 'rb').read()})
return r.status_code
How much time did it take you (and team) to build moo.do? Also, what's in the feature pipeline?
The article mentions "hundreds of millions of new users". That would be great news for privacy on The Internet.

But it would surely slow the Tor network to a halt. Users trying out privacy-enhancing technology would be disappointed guaranteed with 30+ seconds page load times.

Tor has roughly 1000 exit nodes, all traffic flows through them. It needs to have much more capacity to handle that kind of load. Who is going to pay for 100x or 1000x server capacity?
Angular-pwned: Add Have I Been Pwned lookups to any AngularJS input field
The article reports, "There are some however, who regard the pioneering scientist [Aubrey de Grey] to be something of a maverick." That's an understatement. After an earlier discussion about Aubrey de Grey here on Hacker News, I spent an afternoon at a university library looking up publications by him, about him, and about his hypotheses about human aging. Basically, there are a lot of people who think his mitochondrial free-radical hypothesis about aging has already been demonstrated to be wrong.[1] His biography article page on Wikipedia is an interesting example of a page about a living person that is mostly edited by fans, as it has been full of statements over the years that cannot be verified by any published source, contrary to Wikipedia policy for articles about living persons. I would not count on de Grey's program, which is hardly ever published about in any journal except the journal he owns and edits, to produce the big gains in longevity that he predicts.

On the other hand, incremental progress by thousands of more careful researchers has already led to major gains in healthy lifespan. Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100 (not 1,000, as de Grey is mentioned as saying in the article submitted here), with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,[2] originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. His striking finding is "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."[3]

An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why"[4] Provides some of the background.

Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.[5] Steady, incremental progress like this is likely to matter for more improvements in healthy lifespan in our lifetimes than hypotheses (not really "theories") not as tightly tied to empirical experience.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-free-radical-th...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20021368

http://news.discovery.com/human/aging-free-radicals-antioxid...

[2] http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[3] http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

[4] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[5] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
No need to use git, since you can just use diff(1) to find the unfollowers between any two dates. I've been doing this for a while with a Go program I created[0].

Unfortunately, people who change their Twitter handles (which I found surprisingly common) show up as false positives - you either need to filter these out manually or match against the user id[1].

[0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/twitter-follower-logger

[1] Adding that as a separate field and then calling `cut -f2` would be a quick hack, now that I think about it.
I can't agree more with this piece. Having recently (5 years ago) been at NYU, I can tell you the NYU the author remembers nostalgically is completely gone. It's a shell of a school, massive and well funded, yet intellectually just going through the motions. If you are not going to Stern you are absolutely wasting your money.
Trends in the Silk Road 2.0
Indeed. If you look at the advances in technology, HFT industry is one of very few that can afford to engage in long-payoff expensive projects. For example, things that we've worked on (balloons) are similar to what military has been trying to do for 20+ years, and what Google is doing with Project Loon. see our PR: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/innovator-windy-appl...

Anything related to wireless modulation/demodulation also has implications for 5G networks and satellite broadcasting (most of 'delay' of satellite video signal actually is from encoding/decoding buffering, and is reducible).
I don't think there are many people suggesting that a poor man's dollar has 9.7438393 times more utility to him than does a rich person's. The question is one of more or less not how much more or less. Trying to frame it that way is a distraction, if not a straw man.

So, to clarify your position: absent some specific ratio, is a single dollar worth more to a person of modest means than it is to someone wealthy? Or is even that degree of comparison meaningless in your estimation?
"When I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide; everyone was too unhappy." - Woody Allen
The problem with WinRT is that it's designed to compete with iOS and not be a replacement for full desktop OS API. It's practically defined by its limitations rather than its features.
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The importance of ignoring your boss
Why would it not be more profitable for them to just mine the bitcoins for themselves?
"alternative to the "free" culture" ( for both software and hardware)

- Reasonable price tags on products.

- Companies standing behind their products instead of letting it being bought by 3 biggies. (this is hard)

- Learning how to make beautiful and useful user experiences from Google, Apple. You need to be passionate about what you are doing. If your people do not buy it, then you can not sell it to others.

There are already some companies doing these and getting pretty good results. I keep my faith in them.

As long as we do not improve ourselves, we are kind of helping these big companies to rule the environment i am guessing.
Bravo. I would imagine this would be as an alternate and not in the default mainline. Whomever takes this step first will probably find it being used as a catalyst for much more than just anonymity. First users whom hit copyright walls on youtube and other sites have a quick route around: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore. But beyond this the services that could be built on mostly hidden end points are immense. Personal mail servers, instant access to files at home, selective public vs private sharing groups, etc.
This seems like a nice article series on the subject http://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/type-erasure-part-i...

Just getting started on it, it seems that the theme is that you can't have the same binary code work on different types without having a run-time indirection in there somewhere. But, you can use templates to keep that indirection convenient and type safe. And, you can structure your templates to only specialize a minimal amount of code necessary to interface your type into a non-specialized algorithm.
I understand that this sucks and their approach is terrible; However, if you don't have redundancy you should expect downtime. Things fail. Maintenance is a fact of life. Single points of failure are bad.
While I agree with you I think there are two factors here (1) only a small fraction of the hundreds of millions would actually try out a Tor-private-browsing-mode and (2) tor won't grow until it is further strained (yes I know it is strained now). This would be great and would push innovation to solve the traffic problems.
It would be so great if Mozilla integrated Tor. Beyond the curse of success mentioned in the article, it would really lower the burden on the Tor developers, who have had to support a lot of patches from Firefox that Mozilla have been slow to merge.

My main concern is that this will be hidden behind an option or an "extreme private" mode -- Tor seems too high-latency for the typical use-case of private browsing (image viewing and video streaming).

If you run a web service and would like to provide high-security anonymous access, consider running an Exit Enclave -- a Tor exit configured to exit only to your site. If Tor detects that your exit and your site share an IP address, it will automatically extend the normally 3-hop circuit to your node, and the traffic will exit the Tor network on your machine rather than an arbitrary node (which could be malicious).

I hope this finally kills the "only criminals use Tor" narrative the NSA and periodically, the media push. Everyone deserves strong anonymity.
This is similar to how I learned javascript in almost REPL manner. Started with poking around in chrome developer console with quick copy pasting of code examples from stackoverflow / w3schools. Repeating and customizing until console logged what I wanted. With occasional diversions to understand compilerish.

And once it was working saving the code to the actual file.

My only regret was I discovered breakpoints a bit late. It was fascinating to pause code and just hover over different bits of code variables / parameters and see the data being transformed.
Firefox + self-signed certs forces you to add an exception for the site, which makes the cert work and shouts at you again if that cert ever changes, so fulfilling the above. :)
That is partially true. A metric should continue to "work" when people know they are being measured on it. A good metric is one which makes the measured person more effective when they explicitly try to optimize it.

So for example, pro basketball player knows they are measured by their accuracy. However, when a player optimizes his accuracy, that does not compromise the effectiveness of that metric.
Courant is getting better, but when I was there the faculty was lackluster and was so heavily based on mathematical theory that it was getting smoked by more modern programs like CMU's or Stanford's. I would not recommend Courant to anyone looking to study CS, but it may have changed. Evan Korth was doing a lot to make moves, but a lot of the faculty was antiquated and it looked like he was fighting an uphill battle. During one of my lectures I literally had a TA stand behind a professor as he lectured and wave his hands frantically as the professor taught us incorrect things. The TA would stay behind for a few minutes and explain what the professor, in his senility, had gotten wrong. Another class I had a teacher cancel literally 2 weeks in a row of class, as well as probably 4 or 5 other individual classes throughout the semester (nearly half the semester was canceled because he was "sick"). Of course the tested material remained the same...

All that for the bargain price of just $55,000 a year. I dropped out 6 months later and have never looked back.
How does one prove that they are of Jewish descent?
hey this is cool!
All of what you mention can be true and I still find it comical to say "NYU eats world." The British Empire "ate the world." Many people have wrote "Google eats the world." Grand real estate ambitions in NYC and a giant satellite campus in Abu Dhabi is not eating the world.
ItemId vs. sameAs vs. additionalType: how to distinguish and use correctly
See the part of the article starting: "There are several key challenges that Tor’s developers face when it comes to growing network capacity."
In a world where any programmer is free to quit and start their own company, and many successfully do, what's the benefit of unionizing?
I encountered that same issue; in order to use Metro I have to convert my regular account to an online live account and then use those credentials for local login. I don't want to do that. So I don't use Metro at all.

But frankly, I don't see Microsoft changing course on that.
Well, if this whining is what you get when a language seems to have some industry appeal, I think I need to work a lot harder to get rid of these people.

You have plenty of language design disasters to choose from if you want to have a language which cares about "industry concerns".

Even in Scala, the most painful warts and horrible "features" exist because of "industry requirements".

I could live without all those crazy conversions from Strings and numbers for instance.

Or all that crazy stuff necessary to support Java's idea of Generics.

Listening to the industry is exactly the reason why criminals can own machines by sending a web request with a bash function embedded in a bash variable to a remote server somewhere. In. 2014.

Until "industry" gets their shit together, their opinions are more than worthless.
And who says this is limited to China.
Is there a paywall-free version that can be shared?
Yahoo finance shows internal Yahoo bugreport/portal links
Not surprising. I use Rackspace at work. I've been called a "stupid asshole" by a support technician (he thought he put me on hold to transfer me. He was wrong). I've had security issues due to my "fully managed server" not being "fully managed" and an array of other small inconveniences.

I've put up with it because it's a PITA to transfer servers. I think it's time to start shopping around.
Major, major chaos- especially for their business clients. Microsoft goes out of their way to make sure there is still support for business LOB apps running Delphi and MFC. Just look at their long term support. Windows XP had like 15 years of support. "From the ground up" might be a good idea, but tons of existing software is actually built around former bugs in the OS-- so writing a new OS "the right way" would actually break the apps of their target demographic (business clients.)
New Intel Doc: Do Not Be ‘Led Astray’ by ‘Commonly Understood Definitions’
On the topic of professor salaries, so what?

The debate isn't so much about professor salaries across the board; but rather the discrepancy between senior-level salaries, and those of so-called adjunct professors (who are paid so poorly that the "professor" title hardly seems to apply).

This has been a major sleeper scandal evolving over the past 20 years -- hardly unique to NYU; and hardly a trivial matter, if you are concerned about the long-term health of the academic system, that is.
I commonly hear the Chinese, Japanese or X nationality are buying up the housing in the United States with the emphasis of it being bad. Now, if we assume this to be true, is this necessarily a bad thing? The United States has been importing many things from China for a long time now. Wouldn't it be good to welcome the wealthy Chinese or Japanese to spend some of that money back into the US economy? I'm sure the scale of Chinese/Japanense buying american homes barely makes a dent in the amount we spend abroad for cheap labor but just a thought I had. Can anyone shed some light on my thoughts?
But does McDonalds cause prisons, or do prisons cause McDonalds?
Please, please, PLEASE support KiCad with this! I use octopart pretty extensively and have loved it so far. I would be fanatical if you guys had KiCad footprints and symbols as it is the only decent EDA tool that is on all three major OSes.
Lack of multitasking or virtual memory makes it not that interesting, IMHO.
Navy wants to post trucks with electromagnetic radiation equipment on West End
Hey this is awesome! I love it. I have one serious bug tho. I'm a german user with a german keyboard and I'm not able to add a ":" (for example to add a time). I have to copy and paste it manually. When I try to enter a ":", a ">" appears instead. I am using Chromium 37 under Arch Linux (everything german).
always bet on ellison
True, but git comes with many tools (e.g. gitk) that make it really easy to the diffs-over-time of a repo.
If the added use case bring too much strain on the network and cannot be solved through interest and need than Tor could simply split it off or itself into an alternate network.

I wish someone would integrate crypto currencies into the layers of the Tor onion. I could imagine paying a few cents for each unlayering. Basically you just include a private key for a wallet holding 0.0000n cents in each layer with perhaps 0.000n for the exit. But I guess this will take some time for intuition to adapt to it.

I would assume that the organisation supposedly integrating Tor would have to fund tor exit and bridge nodes in mass. Or just force users using this alternate private mode to also share bandwidth in a p2p/skype like manner.
I know this is a pretty open/flexble tool — but from looking at the examples and trying out the web/app I have a few questions:

- What is the intended delineation between a document and a top-level header?

- How are notifications in the app (ios) incorporated. Do they notify based on "@date time" of item?

- How might this be used as a notepad. It seems like a big aspect of it is the crossing-off of items?

- Does @tomorrow turn into @today in the document when a day has passed. Same w/ @today to @yesterday etc?

Otherwise, this app has really captured my interest.

I'm a bit overwhelmed by the interface though — coming from a simple list / to-do app where there aren't hierarchal levels displayed inline... I think the search/filter will definitely help with this but I may have to get used to it.

Edit: one more thought — i would like to be able to use the +person tagging but do not want to use Google Contacts (or device contacts for that matter, which isnt possible). I know I can use #name but would prefer the look of the +person as designed. (along the same lines, I wouldn't minde decoupling the app from Google at some point...)
You've conveniently ignored the main thrust of the author's argument and gone for something she spent almost no time on at all. The faculty salaries are not nearly as concerning as NYU handing out cash outside of compensation packages, and allegations of nepotism.

She specifically cites one individual who was given use of a university-owned apartment despite not being affiliated with the university except familial connections - he was neither staff nor student. She also cites other individuals who were given loans by the university to purchase personal property, which were never repaid and in fact written off very soon after. She goes on to cite other examples of school administrators using NYU's funds as their private bank account.

Extreme compensation packages is one thing (and arguably necessary), but corruption and nepotism is a whole 'nother ball game.

In any case, the main thrust of the author's argument aside, her complaint about the professor salaries isn't the salaries, but rather the intent of the institution. Why does NYU have to compete with MIT and Harvard? The author laments the loss of an institution whose primary mission was the education of its citizenry, not competing for the wealthiest students from around the world.

The author argues that NYU was not, and did not need to become, a "world class" institution, and that despite attracting world-class faculty talent from around the world it is failing at the mission of educating New Yorkers, both in its focus on international prestige at the expense of quality education, and in its poor finances compared to other high-end institutions that passes the financial cost of this glory-seeking directly onto students in ever-increasing sums.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F#Judaism_test

Edit: More specific link
This is disclosed in https://www.uber.com/cities/new-york: "$20 surcharge on all trips between NYC and New Jersey." It doesn't have anything to do with where the driver is from. It also appears to be included in the fare calculator there. (I can't be 100% sure because it doesn't break down the bill.)

The fee shouldn't be dependent on where the driver happens to be from, or you'd be rolling the dice on which driver you happened to get: it's fairer to have a consistent price.
Just type the title into google and the link that comes back will bypass the paywall.