skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

first, the costs cited above are for handoffs at major peering points, private or public. Pulling 10Gb/s across to your apartment complex is going to add a lot to the cost, if it can even be done (right of way issues).

second, the expertise needed to realize that you can do this and then provide support for it is neither common nor cheap.

If you had a tower on a nice highly-visible location (say, the giant Jesus statue in Rio) and could do line-of-sight laser links, that would be an extremely cost-effective solution. Sadly, that sort of opportunity is rare.
I agree there's something to that.

But I've also seen first hand that actually, yes, a whole fuck of a lot of people just want something for nothing and will happily tell you how great your thing is but only when they don't have to pay anything for it. And even once you do go free and open "to save it from the filing cabinet," any option you leave open to contributing to the maintenance of it long term even will be largely ignored.

Even Mozilla continues to exist more because of the search engine licensing money than actual contributions to the effort.
Ten Signs You've Been on Wall Street Too Long
No disagreement that wireless ISP pricing is even more outrageous, but it's a bit ironic to me that the complaint is regarding $50 in the context of "at my vacation home".
12-year-old’s online life brings an abductor to her doorstep
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Outsourced SEO 'expert' failure.
I read him as leveling his complaints against the entire field of software development, and if he was being more specific than that, it was at least as big as the subset who develop Linux.
While Android's sound APIs before Lollipop did have a very high latency, you could hack around it by doing your audio processing in native code and feeding the APIs PCM. It just sucked.

That said, definitely excited for the new sound APIs. It's been far too long.
There are some slight discrepancies, but the majority of the shortcuts work the same in zsh!
AccelerEyes recently did the same with their product arrayfire(github.com/arrayfire), though I cannot tell if they are successful or not.
Yes. Just like the argument for democracy is that peasants will benefit (at possible cost to nobles). Just like the arument for racial desegregation is that black people will benefit (while possibly inconveniencing white people).

No one said freedom and equality were easy. The privalaged lose their advantages.
Everyone thinks in terms of pixel count.

That's why going to a high-pixel-count display for the same physical dimensions screws everything up.
Subjecting oneself to OS X is even worse =p
Maniac Mansion gave me nightmares about nuclear meltdowns when I was about eight. It's still a bit creepy as an adult, but the humor elements are a lot more obvious.
Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight.

Bit of feedback:

* I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app.

* How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place and are able to figure out the core interface, the better.
This is better... how?
TrueConf Provides New Video Conferencing Features to OS X Users
What you've just mentioned here is what scares me most about systemd. Not its tight coupling, not its bugs, not its philosophy - all of these things are arguable and in most cases fixable.

The project being run by people who hold unreasonable and downright odious views who act like, frankly, utter asshats, is a much more serious problem.

The Kay/Linus debacle is something you can expect to see more of from these fine folks going forward. Mark my words. Ask yourself if you want software developed this way running your OS.
I would write a method to check if you have internet connection. And whenever you make a POST request to push some data to your server, check if there is internet access. If there is not, save the data locally. You can do your local save with a few lines of code using Snapit.
You have a 200dpi screen. Using a scalling factor of 2, you'd still have a higher than average dpi.
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An evidence based blog of useful or not so useful apps would be very interesting to me.
I use ~100-150G per month as a -single person-, and I wouldn't consider my usage as nonstandard.

For families the numbers seem sillier.
I haven't used numba or benchmarked it, so I'm not really qualified to comment. I do however vastly prefer the MATLAB-like syntax of julia to that of python.
Its ironic that a lot of developers feel the opposite of what the OP is describing. Developers think wall street pays more and wall street (OP) thinks developers make "way more".

Like others have already pointed out, OP you seem to be underpaid in NYC in your position, but I wouldn't rush to switch fields. Stay with what you are doing and try to identify your value and skillset which you can then use to negotiate a higher salary.
Yup, it brings all kinds of sub-pixel positioning issues as well.
And if Linux weren't available, Lennart would most likely be working on systemd for BSD. Whether or not he would be successful in getting it adopted there is unknowable, but it would be possible.

This is why choice is good, and lock-in is so bad.
I think you Kennedy and Roberts are all on the same page in thinking Aereo quacked like a retransmission company.

The problem is Aereo got greedy and screwed up the marketing. Had their homepage always said, rent a streaming DVR for $10 a month, it wouldn't be a problem. Capturing content and streaming it over the internet is perfectly legal. TiVo does it. Cablevision does it. Slingbox does it.

Aereo should have acted like a hardware rental company until after the supreme court ruling.
My part of work in Debian Jessie
Renting books is perfectly legal in the US.
Electricity stored as temperature difference
There is a threads branch and we expect to have support in 0.4.
I'm not sure I'd call this a Core Data alternative, as it seems closer to a few convenience methods around SQLite.

I'd imagine that using this for presenting data in any kind of table view (a typical use for a local data store) could be extremely frustrating as it wouldn't do any of the progressive loading, caching or change notification that Core Data gives you.

Core Data can be a pain to work with, but when you do it right, it has some extremely nice features - stuff that you absolutely need in a performant, stable app that handles data at a scale of anything more than a few dozen records.

Also, looks like we've got some cat references (from the demo) in the library's own code, so I'm not sure whether the demo was created to demonstrate the library, or the library was a rushed abstraction of the cat project :)

Edit: https://github.com/zniazi/SnapIt/blob/86f1ec45e6493c3fc9fd4d...

I would absolutely not recommend this for use in any kind of real-world app. From what I can tell, there is no attempt whatsoever to sanitize or parameterize SQL statements.
The State of Mozilla: 2013 Annual Report
I'm sorry to see you got downvoted. That was a beautiful reference.

(Dr. Who for anyone who didn't get it)
This is an early (beta) version of Gmelius for Google Inbox, currently available as a Chrome extension. Feel free to share your suggestions and feedback. Thanks in advance!
Especially given the "checkered employment history" he worked at CIA with security clearance.
We should have static compilation in 0.4.
Yes, but then it wouldn't be River Song sending a message to the last surviving Time Lord now would it?
Ask HN: What is so special about Lua?
I've heard about Lua in a couple of places but I'd like to hear from people who actually do real stuff in the language. What is is better in than other languages? For what purposes?
Not everybody wants to be an ISP. Not enough profit in it to make it worth it for the manager. Lack of backhaul and/or cost/difficulty of connecting to backhaul. Existing long term contracts of tennants. High turnover of tennants. Lack of scale.
Not a terrible idea at all, IMHO. Isn't the core idea of OSS to enable those who use the software to modify it and keep maintaining it? It doesn't mean you have to give it to everyone else as well for free.

One reasonable choice would be to give or sell your former paying customers just a raw code dump, with a notification and a disclaimer of all the included license problems and other embarrassement. Giving it for free would of course be an easy way to avoid unnecessary liabilities.

Who knows, maybe next they want to buy your services to make fixes and new features? Perhaps they might even be willing to sponsor you in making it a proper open source project.

Talk to your customers. They are your most valuable asset.

EDIT: continued the natural train of thought
A race to the bottom means a race towards efficiency. This is a net benefit to society. Sure, selfish people might stand in its way, and if you sympathize with them, that's your choice, but don't pretend it's something admirable.
This is so useful for developers with such poor Photoshop skills like me.

I love that you can just use a badge with a piece of XML instead of having to import the different resolution files manually.

Do they have onClicked/onPressed effects? That would be awesome. (If it is the case, I think you should highlight that fact, it's quite a killer feature IMO.)
Okay, so not an NSL. Incorrect terminology pointing at the same awful effect, an unaccountable court issuing unchallengeable rulings that cannot be discussed.

No substantial difference from the concept I'm complaining about.
No. But our eyeballs watching those paid ads on free broadcast TV are enabling payments + profit for the production of that content. The numbers may vary by broadcaster and program, but the business model is clear, or atleast was.
Dave Winer on Uber: Stuck in the Middle
This is great news! How do I get this branch from github?
And a big thank you for the tremendous work you guys are putting in.
I've read OF Dulles, but this one escaped me. thanks for the share.

For more of the nuts and bolts of modern operations, I suggest 'Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy' by Mark Lowenthal.

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Secrets-Policy-Mark-Lowen...

I also appreciate the foundations and history, but this is a great introduction to the tasking, training, mindset, and goals of modern intelligence operations. He's updated for post-9/11 and post DHS splintering of the IC as well.
Show HN: KNear – JavaScript implementation of k nearest neighbors algorithm
It already is a GP language, it just happens to be specialized, by design, to serve a particular niche.
Clickbait headlines come to Wired?
Bummer to hear that, especially as one of the mentors and funders of your Techstars Boston 2010 pool. I only wish that the folks in your pool communicated often and early to the mentors and funders of your Techstars cohort -- we most likely could have helped earlier.

Indeed, I think this is the biggest failure I see of startups, regardless of the quality. The seeming inability to reach out for help, guidance, and provide feedback and communicate with others outside their company... especially (and surprisingly) their investors and mentors.

Startups - communicate often and early with others.
> Why else would nearly every distribution be on board?

This informal fallacy is based on the idea that everything in the world can be distilled to a single answer. The real answer is more complicated. For example:

Red Hat is on board because they pay its creator's salary. So they rely on an individual bias.

Debian is on board because they rely upon 'collective wisdom' and committees to make decisions. So they rely on the bias of group thinking.

Ubuntu is on board because Debian is on board. So they rely on the bias of the other.

Other distributions are using it because 'every other distribution is using it', or they're small enough that it doesn't cause conflicts for its use base, or because it's a GNOME dependency, or because it's just new technology.

--

To make someone think something is a good idea, show them someone else thinks it's a good idea. This is a fact of all human beings' thought processes. Decisions are not based on merit, or logic, or even a quorum; it is based on fallacies created by heuristics. There exists a heuristic in which the more an idea is adopted, the more other people think it is a good idea.

We imagine our thoughts are logical, and that other people also think logically, and that their decisions must be made for a good reason. But in fact, the great majority of all decisions we make are based on guesses; this is how our brains are able to carry out complex calculations and come to decisions in split-seconds.

For example, you might look at systemd and say, "it fixes so many problems! it provides so many features! it standardizes Linux! CLEARLY this is superior. we must adopt it."

For people who care about the purity of the highest technical ideals, this makes sense. For people who care about being able to use their computer, these things don't matter, and in the systemd implementation, actually makes things worse for them. The changes systemd purports to make are not bad things. It's really just the way in which they did it that is bad.

--

It's like wanting to upgrade your bicycle to four wheels, but requiring the rider now operate it lying flat down and using mirrors to navigate. The four wheels was a great idea. Using mirrors to navigate? Maybe not so great.

Of course, its creators will turn this inconvenience into a feature, saying "you get to lay down! it's therefore more efficient and easier to use!", completely ignoring how other people want to ride a 4-wheeler.
Which is why they have a Bookshelf page.
Or, I can just use Adblock and get the ads blocked.
There's a great Ruby on Rails gem called acts_as_sane_tree (after the non-recursive acts_as_tree) that uses postgresql's recursive queries. I'm using it on a project and have found it useful with good performance:
https://github.com/chrisroberts/acts_as_sane_tree
The one group that I feel is somewhat entitled to the code is the customer base. Not open sourcing it is one thing, but I'd highly encourage the author to release the code as shared source with only his former customers. They're the ones that tried to help make his startup a success. They're not the freeloaders. If they end up giving the code to someone else, then so be it...he's not making any more money off it anyways.

Moreover, I think the shared source model is one that more companies should pursue from the beginning. For one, having light on the code from day 1 helps keep developers honest. Secondly, it establishes a trust relationship with customers that can be very powerful. And lastly, it eliminates one element of fear in the purchasing decision...potential customers don't have to worry about being left in the lurch if the business goes under.
Right; I think part of the confusion is that the author talks a lot about 'balance' in Smash but never actually defines what he means by it.

I got the impression from the article that when he talks about "balance", he means "constant and ongoing change to reduce options which players feel are overpowered, and enhance options which players feel are underpowered". He talks about Smash being "unbalanced", and then immediately explains that it's a console game which has never been patched. He then follows up by contrasting it with LoL, and the constant state of patching that LoL exists in. Treating "balance" as a verb, rather than an adjective. That's a very different interpretation of the concept than what I'm used to thinking, and so I think you're right that we ended up talking past each other a bit and ended up at the same place anyways.

Guilty Gear is a lot of fun, and if you're interested in checking it out, you're in luck! A brand new game in the series is coming out in just a few weeks (Guilty Gear Xrd, pronounced "Ecksard"), for ps3/ps4. A bunch of people are really looking forward to it and it seems like it'll be a lot of fun. It's a very different style of game from Smash, but if you like one, you may well like the other.
He responds to that here as well: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/21/a-few-things/
What If I Had Never Left Goldman Sachs?
Yes, the content is what's valuable. And it's already paid for by the ads, which are part of the content stream. As far as I know, Aereo wasn't interfering with those ads in any way. The providers are getting exactly the same deal that they always have - your eyeballs on their ads in exchange for content.

I don't see how they can legitimately claim that they are entitled to more money because it's all happening over the internet instead of in your living room, especially when they aren't lifting a finger to distribute over the internet themselves.
> We could have retrieved all the appropriate data with a single query, but that means reconstructing the tree from a flat set of rows we got back from PostgreSQL. Doing that sort of thing in the view would be hienous.

Implement a view helper to take the flat data and return a hierarchical structure that you can render.
They also have lower costs so their lower wages go further. They might be slightly worse off on the balance, but it's outweighed by the benefits those lower costs bring to everyone else. It also frees them up for other pursuits. It's really no different from any other technological advancement that put people out of work.
I wonder if they could have got away with it, had they not included the DVR feature and just strictly rebroadcast in real-time. As it was, they were too akin to something like The Pirate Bay to not get some sort of legal bruising.
Personally I really like Julia's module system. It's certainly not dogmatic, which (as in any flexible system) means it's easy to write bad code, but there's nothing stopping you from being as organised as you want to be.

Then there's the pattern of having a few large modules as opposed to many small ones; I can see how that would seem strange if you're used to a more object-oriented style, but it's pretty common in more functional languages.
Uber and the Temptation to Misuse Personal Data
Honestly, I'm not quite sure how I feel about this.

I have people that ask me to open-source my current side-project all the time (one that is paid), and I find it insanely disrespectful.

"Yes, let me just hand over the source code for my commercial product. How about not."

I'm not trying to sound greedy, but money speaks. If these companies want the software open sourced, they should be pitching in for the cost. If you don't think something is worth money, you don't value it at all.

EDIT: Perhaps this is a good place to drop the "challenge" I gave myself and invited other developers to join me a few months ago.

DEVELOPERS - I challenge you to spend some money TODAY:

https://mattkremer.com/developers-you-need-to-stop-being-so-...
PlayStation Vue: a cloud-powered broadcast TV service
Chris gave a great talk about Hy at ChiPy (Chicago Python) last year: http://pyvideo.org/video/1869/hy-a-lisp-that-transforms-itse...

You should also check out his work on MediaGoblin. "MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc." http://mediagoblin.org/
Ask HN: Modern “adventure game” worth playing?
Are all intelligence officers college graduates?
Anyone know of a dataset of people, like front facing photos of people's upper bodies with no clothes on. I've been meaning to work on a cv method for bodyfat % estimation, given a series of progression photos of a person. I have a rough idea of how to do it, but I need a training set.
Kaggle => http://www.kaggle.com/

List of data sets => http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-...

Another list of data sets => http://blog.mortardata.com/post/67652898761/6-dataset-lists-...

List of data sets on Quora => http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to...

Sub-reddit for data sets => http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
Lua is a fun language with okay performance. My understanding is it's a lot like scripting C, as it's implemented directly atop C.

Data structures in Lua are based off hash tables, basically everything is a hash table.

Lua has first class functions, garbage collection, closures, and a bunch of other neat stuff.

It's certainly worth looking at if you've got spare time.
The code is written in Objective C. I will make a Swift implementation soon. In the meantime, if you write your application in Swift you can still use it by bridging the Objective C code inside your Swift application.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/swift/...
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Global "efficiency" is a net negative for every single person reading this.

Why are you standing in the way of it?
Per my other comment on the page, you should also ask here => Sub-reddit for data sets => http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
> No, Android does not have standard dialog that requests do make security updates.

OTA updates are in all modern Android devices and it does ask you to update when new versions come out. They aren't security patches necessarily or communicated that way though, they are OS updates, that reflash your phone.
Are there any location based communities for programmers?
For example I'm planning to move to a new city and I want to be able to find answers to my questions, learn what is going on there by browsing on regular basis, get a feed of what software engineers are talking about in that city. Is there such a website?

Basically, I'm looking a site to learn what's software engineers in [San Francisco] talking about. Significant news, tips, advice, discussions on anything.
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Fantastic write up! I have long wondered why failed companies and products just don't throw their code into github. Like google reader which bit me big time.
Non-Apple-Land.
Most people have a several-hundred-watt backup generator at home: their car. You can idle most cars for at least 2 hours per gallons of gas. That means with a 20 gallon tank, you have 40 hours of charging time for electronics. If you need to charge for an hour every six hours, for example, you'd have 10 days of phone usage.

I've had uninterrupted internet through many multi-day power outages with just my car and a $20 inverter to recharge my phone and laptop. I always fill up the car before a dangerous storm.

No car? You can buy pocket-sized power banks that recharge a phone to full multiple times for $5 a piece. Keep one per phone around for power outages and enjoy your movies.

P.S. If you have Verizon FiOS, you can keep your wired internet on too. The ONT uses almost no power; with a little hacking you can hook that up to a backup battery or your car too. Unlike cable, which needs powered repeaters on the phone poles every mile or so, your fiber's probably still connected in a power outage so long as the line hasn't physically been broken.
If you've got a remote with a good quality IR LED you can point it just about anywhere.
Ask HN: Any inexpensive service for technical research?
I'm interested in an inexpensive service who'd be able to do some research on things like:

- Best sources of X data
- Cheapest sources of Y data
- How many companies could be using product Z
- Is there a way to automate A

Anyone with a success story?
Google started out as a California corporation, and remained one through its A round. It only became a Delaware corporation when it started to lay the groundwork for the IPO.