skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the additional cost goes to flipping the closed captioning upside-down :-)

In fairness, I feel your pain. The situation in Canada is similar with all digital content, to the extent that I keep my Kindle linked to my amazon.com account because about half the books I read aren't available on amazon.ca. I've even on occasion twiddled things so I appear to be living in France so I can buy content from amazon.fr. Which is insane: I could fly to France, buy the physical book there, read it there, and come back. Or I could bring it back and pay a trivial duty/GST on it. But make it digital and suddenly it's magically impossible to sell it to me?

And the Daily Show etc frequently have next-day availability in the US but show up weeks or months later in Canada. Frustrating.

There is a fundamental disconnect between what we have come to expect of the 'Net (worldwide seamless connectivity) and what corporations and governments are increasingly dedicated to delivering (nationalist walled gardens.)

Personally, I'm betting on the 'Net to win this particular fight, although if governments and corporations behaved with economic rationality the technological solution to cross-border accessibility--including duties--would be pretty trivial. Anyone who has worked in internationalization will tell you that simply implementing a few well-defined zone-specific additional charges is trivial compared to the wacky linguistic nonsense that has to be dealt with.
Will it bend? iPhone 6 takes a turn for the worse – CNET
India's first Mars satellite 'Mangalyaan' enters orbit
I don't think nthj was being ungrateful. Referral fees are a service to both parties, and companies often pay referral fees as a thank-you. nthj was merely pointing out that he takes his referral fee in the form of free hosting for tiny projects, so he doesn't need to feel any guilt.

You are probably being downvoted for being unnecessarily caustic. Your point wasn't a bad one, even if I think you're wrong; consider rephrasing with an edit?
I agree that there are regulations that shouldn't exist. But I like sales taxes as a mechanism for paying for public services. I don't dislike anti-subletting regulations (I really don't want to live next to a hotel).

Sometimes regulations are there because of an experiment we already tried, and no amount of iPhone app magic will change human nature on certain points.
I remember when in 2012, the then PM of India had declared this project. The entire internet community came together to deride this, saying it's not possible in a couple of years and that India had better feed its hungry etc.

I am a very proud Indian today. This achievement, like other by humanity (LHC in particular), will encourage me to push myself towards greatness.
I would like to swap "people" in your sentence for "americans". It's a cultural thing, not a human thing.
I really want that people around the world should stop saying that this is a cheap mission. Instead you can say that this one is economical mission.

Saying it cheap is derogatory remark. ISRO was thrifty while spending funds on this mission.
If this is the case, then it sounds like a business opportunity. Someone needs to make it easy for these people to sell and stream their content legally. Not being a film producer, I thought that Amazon Instant Video and iTunes did this already, but if not, someone needs to make a simple way to get distribution via those services. I know that there are services that can get music on iTunes for like $30....I'd be quite surprised if a similar service doesn't exist for video.

If it's too hard to buy, digital content will be stolen these days. Film producers either need to embrace this and adapt, or find a new line of work.
Given the number of websites that rely on jQuery and other hosted JavaScript libraries, I can't believe there isn't yet a well-publicized way of verifying external scripts before loading them. If someone managed to compromise a jQuery CDN, we're looking at a Heartbleed-level vulnerability in terms of scale and impact.

I've never seen the hash attr before. Is this an experimental feature that is already available on live browsers, or only a proposal?
Get a reasonably paying technical job at large firm and switch jobs every two or three years. Invest most of your disposable income: some in real estate, some in a broad equity fund, and some in a handful of technology stocks in fields you know something about.

For the majority of people who go this route instead of starting their own company, they will be better off economically in ten years time.
The SI units absolutely include newtons and millinewtons. The derived units (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html) and prefixes (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html) are both part of the SI.

Also, remember, people are representing these numbers on computers. Derived units are very useful—in fact they are often critical to achieving necessary accuracies using compact representations. Further, representing quantities in terms of other unique, problem-specific units is often extremely helpful for ensuring good numerical behavior.
This was kind of hard to read, but I think you've missed the point.

You seem to be talking about developing new technologies. Sam is talking about commercialising them. There's a big difference. In almost every of the cases you listed the technology was built in response to customer demand.
It's a proposal.

I made this thing: https://github.com/ryancdotorg/VerifyJS

but it requires CORS headers from the CDN and isn't well tested.
Looks like it was committed to Chromium today https://codereview.chromium.org/566083003/ as per this spec http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
Why does this take so long to match? Is it a bug?
You are correct on the bottom line, I was just pointing out that mainstream media's definition of valuation = number of all stocks * the price per share of the latest transaction, no matter what preferred dividends, liquidation preferences or special side deals are thrown in to close that deal.
Of course not, as the project isn't geared for people with existing infrastructure that allow them to access the Internet without any problem. Rather it is for the community that may have a mobile device but cannot access the Internet as easily. Of course not all people in such developing countries would have a mobile device but if we take the scope a little big bigger and say, a village, then there is a higher chance of a mobile device within such a community. Through this, we hope that information may be much more accessible to such audiences. It was my bad about that link, wasn't the most appropriate one.
I've actually been playing around with a local network consisting of a single wifi router attached to an old netbook as a server. Have you considered attaching an off the self wifi router attached to an external battery pack?

There are economies of scale on external battery packs that run 12v(common wifi router DC voltage) and marine batteries also can run 12v. You could create a new power cable that never does the dc to ac conversion and use that battery pack for the wifi. Then you could run the raspberry pi or other system as the server itself.

Nice idea and don't worry about the Africa haters. Plenty of stuff is originally made for mid 20s SF techies that ends up being useful for a whole lot of other people.
the question arises - Why didnt BMC sue service now few years back?

Is It the fact that they are getting their a$$ kicked by Servicenow who are number 2 in the market?

If yes - this is true corporate evil
To some extent, the US government does merely reflect the paranoia and action-at-any-cost attitude of its citizens, as it, and they, go about their daily business of paying mere lip service to freedom and little else. They're also complicit in seeing to it that the culture they govern continues to promote this social trait.

Even so, a democracy which has voted away all its freedom, still can no longer be described as 'free'.

Also, re-reading your previous post, for part #1, parallel construction means there are numerous, in fact literally uncountable (without top secret clearance, anyway), examples of that. Which, to my mind, is a solid start on #2.
I appreciate your critique (seriously), but keep in mind this project was built in 36 hours by four college and high school students. We clearly haven't thought through all the details and would appreciate constructive feedback. There are several projects similar to this that seem to be useful so I don't think we're completely off base (http://www.raspberrypi.org/the-kingdom-of-bhutans-first-pi-a...).

But if you really think this project is a 'useless gimmick' then there's not much more to talk about.
Well that is what everyone says. The thing is that more money does not equal more value.

In "IT" I find that it is actually more common for the best product to be the ones that are in the mid price ranges. Not counting open source stuff ofc.
> every single person here had the ability to purchase Facebook shares on terms just as favorable if not more favorable than many Facebook employees

But RSUs are not purchased, they are gifted. So having an opportunity to purchase 10,000 shares of FB at low-low 2012 prices is still expensive compared to a gift of 10,000 shares vesting over 4 years.

I pulled the 10,000 number out of a hat, but I'm not too far off - here's a question from 2011 http://www.quora.com/Is-110-000-and-15000-RSUs-a-good-starti... numbers were probably more attractive at earlier years.
Thanks for the tip! Exactly the info we were looking for when we posted on HN :)
It's actually the opposite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargaining#Regional_differences
The existence of a hash attribute wouldn't do anything at all for the supposed compromise in question, so I don't understand how a possibly nonexistent breach is supposed to highlight a feature that wouldn't help to prevent this or similar breaches in the future.
That's all I can think of - Bitpay/Coinbase/Gocoin partnered with PayPal because PayPal offered to acquire one or all of them.

Bitpay and Coinbase* offer only two advantages over PayPal - slightly cheaper transactions, and the ability to transact in Bitcoin. Due to the merchant account requirements of each you lose anonymous transactions, so for example Silk Road could never use one of these services. So it strikes me as extremely odd that these guys would be partnering with Paypal, basically giving away their advantage, if there wasn't something bigger in it for them down the road.

* not sure about Gocoin as I haven't looked at its merchant account offering.
Citation needed, or I call BS on this.
Google ends participation in ALEC
La mielina y sus efectos en la electrosensibilidad
India triumphs in maiden Mars mission
I agree that it's not a good idea to defrag an SSD. But I'd like to nitpick your assertion that there is no reason. Even on excellent drives, 4k random reads/writes are not as fast as sequential.

For example, the SSD in my machine, a 120gb Intel 330 series, can do ~88 MB/s of random 4k reads, but 500 MB/s of sequential, a multiple of ~6x.

Now, a Seagate 5 TB drive will do 146 MB/s of sequential reads and ~470 kB/s of random access, a difference of ~310x, so SSDs are punished for poor access patterns significantly less.

But it's probably possible to manufacture a situation where defrag would indeed give significant benefits. Whether it's ever seen in the real world is another story.

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/67287/Intel-SSD-330-Series-120...

[2] http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/desktop-h...
You're missing the key fact in the piracy debate, which is that _the market value of a recorded film/music/whatever is ~zero._ It follows from the laws of supply and demand.

As a thought experiment, imagine this this: tomorrow, I invent a machine that can make unlimited free copies of soybeans, and distribute those beans instantly to almost any point on the globe, also for free. And also, for the sake of argument, imagine that nearly everyone on earth has access to my soybean copier.

In this case we could fairly say that the supply of soybeans is ~infinite, and you only need to read the first page of the Econ textbook to learn that the price must necessarily fall to zero, no matter what. It's a mathematical certainty for any finite demand.

You can pass whatever laws you want, but so long as they're practically unenforceable, you won't change the boots-on-the-ground spot prices in the market, which will hover very close to zero. (If you doubt me, ask the Argentine currency bureau if legislating prices works well.) Obviously the price will never be exactly zero, because my machine still needs electricity to run, and the market will perhaps price in a little law-enforcement risk. But in general these costs are probably going to be negligible.

And of course this has nothing to do with soybeans---the same thing will happen for corn and light sweet Saudi Crude #2 and intelligence reports about the location of Assad's WMD or any commodity you'd care to name. And digitally copyable goods are the very definition of a commodity, for while not all soybeans come off the vine created equal, a torrented .avi is a provably interchangeable item with the original. Thanks checksums. (If a film ain't on the Pirate Bay, then obviously supply != infinity, so my argument doesn't apply).

This sucks for the business models of the entertainment stakeholders, but capitalism doesn't care that you disagree with the market about the price of your product. Those stakeholders took profits for a long time, playing (approximately) by the rules of the game, and now they're pissed that those same rules have invalidated their business. Well, tough luck, MPAA. The market's invisible hand is slapping you and you'll have to adapt.
IMO the real issue is that a competent logging framework doesn't block app code to sync the log to disk. The buffer should be swapped out under lock, and then synced in a separate thread. Yuck.
He doesn't have much to do with Flynn either these days...

http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/01/beyond-flynn-or-flynn-as...
While I really like the article and its analysis, I think there is a more general point here - scale is tricky.

Most programming abstractions and tools (such as Logging / UI design / persistence) across instances are all "easy" when it comes to one machine (or a few machines) in a closed, deterministic environment.

All of these become extremely tricky when you have to deal with many instances across many different possibly indeterministic environments. For UI, it quickly becomes what's the viewport? What's the real estate? How is interaction (touch? mouse? keyboard? numpad?). For persistence, one has to worry about number of simultaneous connections, character encoding and normalization, read / writes per second, synchronisation, etc..

So, also for logging - Are we logging client side or over the network? what's the memory on the client? What else is running on the client? What's the permissions through which we log? Do we care about a system call on this client given any user interaction? etc..

Logging, UI, Persistence, Network protocols, heck even just choosing an intermediate data structure are all tricky .. at scale across devices and indeterministic environments.
Seriously? Bargaining, or discounts, in this example is very, very common all over the world. I have found Americans do less of it than in most parts of the world, such as China, Turkey, Thailand, Morocco, etc.
While we can lament the lack of legal streaming options, it's probably worth remembering that there are other perfectly legal subscription by mail DVD services in the US besides Netflix. Below are two that I know of. Are there others?

Greencine are good people. As you can tell from their about page, they are significantly less 'glitzy' than Netflix. They also pride themselves on having DVD's that Netflix doesn't, including this one.

http://www.greencine.com/static/about.jsp

http://www.greencine.com/webCatalog?id=24395

Facets Multimedia is a nonprofit based in Chicago that offers DVD by mail memberships, and lots of people seem to love them. The also have this movie:

http://www.facetsmovies.com/user/aboutHistory.php

http://www.facetsmovies.com/user/movieDisplay.php?movie_id=8...
Yeah.. And not very well.

I'd much prefer incoherent rambling, than this robot presentation. Put the script on a blog somewhere.
if its not on paid streaming i use torrents + vpn. which happens more often than it should.
“Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.” -- Karl von Clausewitz
I think I might need to raise prices after reading this.
To temper some of the nit picks, just wanted to say this lecture felt insightful and fun to watch. I hope YC continues this trend of investing effort in shareable advice content in the spirit of pg's essays.

This is the first time a lot of the YC flavor of startup how-to material has been presented in a lecture video format[1]. I suspect much of the long-term audience of these lectures wouldn't have come across pg's essays, Blake Masters' Peter Thiel startup notes or Dustin Moskovitz's excellent Medium posts before. Maybe some lecture watchers were allergic to long-form articles, or maybe some would rather receive a weekly email with videos. Myself, I consume this sort of material on my walk to work, either text-to-speeching essays or listening to lectures. The video lecture format was especially fun, I watched it full screen on the TV while eating an enchilada and poking my fiancee about points she might find relevant to her side project. How often do you get to consume this sort of content like that?

Having read pg's essays[2], I still had a number of "aha!" moments from Sam's slides and hearing his presentation. And hearing Dustin describe in his low-key tone why you should be employee 1,000 at an obviously successful startup rather than start your own, and backing it up with charts and photo-jokes about the elephant in the room was just entertaining. Seeing "this is how we'll teach you to do this thing. Here's an expert on why not to do this thing." is not always the type of juxtaposition you get with standalone online essays.

Looking forward to the next lecture. I'd say it's well worth the time and opportunity cost of putting this all together, so thanks all involved.

[1]: Yes, some Lean Startup™ and Principles of Entrepreneurship™ flavored material has been presented in lecture format before, but not YC™ lensed AFAIK.

[2]: Okay, I skipped the early seemingly pure-Lisp-focused ones. Though like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance isn't about a long motorcycle trip, and maybe pg's Lisp essays are not really all about writing Lisp?
Is there a download link for the video to make offline viewing possible?
"Our goal here is to be able to distinguish between the good type and bad type of scraping and give webmasters full transparency. Obviously this is a hard problem. If you have any feedback on any of this we'd love to hear it."

Yes as said before plus:

- Obey robots.txt to the full extend

- Name your access, i.e. label your bot

- Don't use shady tactics such as IP rotation

- Provide web site owners the option to fully block access
of your bots (yes, communicate your full IP ranges)

Again - this is from a content owner who paid for his content.
Funny, I've been binge watching all seasons recently. It's entertaining and pretty well executed.

And it's so obvious and effective propaganda material (and they made 9(!) seasons of it to keep these brains washed) - produced following "Fox News" guidelines, one would conclude.

The central and repeated message is:

1. Terrorists are everywhere

2. Total surveillance is therefor necessary and must be reinforced, not cut back

3. Torture is not nice, but it mostly works and must therefor be maintained

4. Leaking of classified information is in any case a serious crime that can never be justified

And then, we wonder why approximately 50% of the US population think Snowden is a traitor.
the documentation directory of the kernel source is actually pretty nice.
theres a bunch of utilities for things like cgroups, namespaces, etc. they're not well known but they work perfectly fine.

I suspect its not well known because there was no commercial, marketing drive behind them. Nowadays at least one of these seems to be needed to even gain visibility.
People don't go search what's cool/good where it is. They wait for HN or some other news website to tell them

Just like the regular news really. Turns out it doesn't work all that great.
Brainy replacement for Smarty templating language by box
Great to hear. I haven't looked into the project fully, so I'll apologize in advance if you already have a solution for what I describe below.

I used a catch all DNS wildcard with a dnsmasq rule which I set up on a DD-WRT flashed router.

address=/#/192.168.11.2

That IP was the IP of my server. The nice part of that rule is that many people will type in google.com or something similar when they find your open wifi spot assuming they are connected to the web. The wildcard will resolve that the the IP of the local server and send them there automatically. That can be the landing page of the network that introduces things, provides links etc.
You mean like Tribler? [http://www.tribler.org/] Its a decentralized torrent client with built in video player.
Form what their site says they are planning to have proxying freenet like system where no one other than you can know both what you are downloading and where you are or who is seeding what where. If that works it could be a netflix/thepiratebay killer.
Is not about money it is about ROI setting up a backup system would be some work and doing backups verifying that they work everything takes time (time to remake system - the time it would take to do backups)/(the risk of failure) I think it is to low
yes, anything that goes through their peering which is what they throttle. and the cdn servers go through the peering for some reason.
Are you seriously claiming that a policy of labeling and
testing units caused MCO to be lost?

Have you actually studied the mishap? If labeling and verifying the units was done carefully it would have prevented the accident.

A millinewton/newton mix-up could easily occur in a case like this one, too. The particular numbers which were misinterpreted in MCO's case were often small, and I can easily believe no one noticing similar ones being a few orders of magnitude off. (I do have a hard time imagining it with MCO's particular numbers, though.) Similarly, you can be bitten by a meters/centimeters switch or accidentally using different representations of the same quantity, such as specific impulse and its corresponding characteristic exhaust velocity, which only differ by a factor of about 10 when both are expressed in SI units.

I maintain that the key lesson is to always label your units, and to test them carefully and routinely, including at interfaces. I believe that claiming that using English units (as gross as they often are) caused the failure misses the more fundamental root problem.

(Also, I'm not claiming that labeling and verifying units is easy. I emphasize it partly because it's hard. Little of our current software ecosystem includes any concept of dimensionful numbers.)
Thank you! At this point, we're going to work on the code base and experiment with different hardware setups before deploying. It'd be great if others would contribute on github and build their own. Other than that, helping us connect with organizations that might benefit from this type of technology would be great.
california also has some of these laws, enacted early this year though
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This recent successful Kickstarter may have covered some of the bases you're trying to cover. http://www.brck.com/#thebrck