skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See the math here: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/a-bear-speaks-why-v....

It costs you $1,000 just to pass a house, even if they don't subscribe, and you have to maintain that infrastructure too. If 40% of passed houses subscribe (Verizon has been struggling to hit that number for years), you pay $2,500 per house that does subscribe. This is the "uptake ratio" and a fiber provider lives and dies by that number.

Build-out requirements tank your uptake ratio, because you spend a bunch of money passing houses where people can't afford to subscribe. It increases how much you need to make on all the other houses to recoup your costs.

But your other subscribers don't give a shit about your costs. They're willing to pay, e.g., $100/month for triple play, and they don't care if your per-house cost is $2,000 or $4,000. If you raise your prices to recoup your costs, they'll just stick with the incumbent, again tanking your uptake ratio.

A small ISP may be willing to ask for a $10 million bank loan to wire up a yuppie neighborhood like Fells Point, with the prospect of seeing how it goes and building out from there. Nobody will ask for a $250 million bank loan to wire up the whole city of Baltimore.
Show HN: Verbe du jour. Learn a new French verb every day
sounds sorta interesting, I signed up
If you succeed in estimating something, it is not a risk anymore. The whole notion of risk (as he defines) is uncertainty about the future (something that you don't know and can't know).

Is the universe of things that are unknown bigger or smaller than the things that are known. Good philosophical question.
I've done what you're attempting to do, and your instincts are right: there are much more interesting and worthwhile things outside of the game industry, including kids. It might be arrogant to say, but game developers are ninjas compared to the rest of the dev world. Doing complex AI/graphics/networking at 60fps is a hell of a lot harder than a typical CRUD app.

I'm glad for my time in the game industry because it sharpened my skills and made the rest of my life a cake walk. But, I wouldn't want to go back due to the exploitation I see in it.
We did hide the caps for the thermoses. You didn't read that in my post because my post is not an instruction manual. I opted instead to keep it vague, saying instead that sealing LN into a container would kill you.

The point of the thermos is to keep a relatively small amount of LN in your workspace, so that the bulk of it can be kept out of the house entirely. The thermos is itself a safety measure.
holds device to self

... Yep, you're right.
Computing Pioneers: who has anecdotes to share about these trail-blazers?
distributing ≠ reading
Someone depressed is not going to exercise, it's just not going to happen.
You again. Maybe you should actually read the article instead of your usual knee jerk reaction, which is always wrong.

The article is about Verizon making false and misleading statements to the FCC about its use of “Title II”, where it has told the FCC, the courts and the public that if the companies are ‘reclassified’ as title II in the net neutrality proceeding it would harm investment. And we nailed them, showing that their entire fiber to the premises networks are already Title II, and we are using Verizon’s own documents, which directly contradict what they told the FCC. -- And it's not legal to lie to the FCC.

Then you rant about something-- “any price increase beyond that rate is a "subsidy" from the public to the carrier.”

One day you should actually read what I wrote. Starting in the 1990’s, Verizon got regulators to change the laws to charge customers to fund fiber optic deployments – and instead now-Verizon pocketed the money and didn’t build the networks. But you don’t mind being ripped off or that from 1993-2005 there were no build outs of networks which we paid for. And this continued with FiOS.

Going back to the article, not only are Verizon’s networks Title II but they did this to charge customers for these networks-- as Verizon claimed it was building out FiOS as part of the state utility telecommunications networks. As we showed, using Title II, Verizon got the State to charge regular phone customers rate increases – well, it ain’t legal to charge phone customers for say, the roll out of a cable service. Worse, Verizon stopped the FiOS deployments so in NY state, 80% of the state municipalities, and their customers, paid for network upgrades that they’ll never get – including low income families, seniors—people who weren’t supposed to be charged.

Then you claim that somehow we should investigate Apple "if they subsidized iPhone development by increasing Mac prices?"

Wha? Verizon controls essentially facilities and is still a utility network and gets the ‘rights of way’ based on a franchise. Apple is a free market company that doesn’t control any wired or wireless facilities and I can go and get any phone I want.

But you can’t tell the difference nor did you even bother to read the story.
I like this. You could only allow a user to upvote one of the posts on each day's feed, which increases that post's author's probability of being put on a feed.
It's been years since I last saw a Monarch here in Brazil. It was a common sight when I was a kid in the 90's, even in the middle of the city (São Paulo).
Anyonymity generally scales terribly.
gandi.net has 2FA.
What I want to know is, by what method is it stimulating my brain? Is it just a vibrator?
It's getting harder and harder to find actual BL-5Js, not just cheap knockoffs that won't hold a charge. I've been through at least three already, still have about 4 left. But I'm with you on the "nothing better" front. The org-mode app on Android is a joke compared to having an actual full-blown emacs with org-mode on N900, not to mention how straightforward the FS layout is and the fact that git works nicely.
All Twitter share buttons broken for 45 minutes
How the heck did you get caught?
"Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) only affects honey bees in managed hives. The cause of this disease is still unknown, and there may be a number of contributing of factors, including pesticides, stress, and malnutrition. "
- http://www.helpabee.org/urban-bee-legends.html

This is also interesting: http://www.takepart.com/feature/2014/06/20/what-is-killing-b...

and I heard this a while back:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/12/wally_thurman_o.htm...

After reading about these and other related articles I had assumed CCD was mostly a non-issue. Maybe I'm wrong?
"Open links immediately. Without leaving the page.". Well there is also:

Open link in a new tab and switch that tab: CMD key + shift + click

Close tab: CMD key+W
Opportunity for a text anonymization API here. Insert subtle stylistic changes for the pendants with more obvious 'foreign-isms' for those seeking a greater degree of misdirection and anonymity.
I had a whole joke I just had to erase because it was based on there being no way all the things in that list having facebook pages. I thought it was nonsense. But I was wrong:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-hate-it-when-people-lie-to-...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Uncontrollable-swearing-after...

The list makes much more sense now
The keywords thetruthofthematter, notwithstanding, and depiteallobjections are kind of hilarious though.
What if you just dont care about the project? You won't expect anything out of it and you don't care if they confiscate it.
So, I guess the hint here is "Run this on your own organization before someone else does."
if you find a post on weworkremotely and they say they are looking for someone to work out of their office or to relocate, please report it! Their posts should be removed.
Was he a contractor?
But, have we (the US)? We're a good solid decade or two into the age of free-flowing information, and we are trending the other direction in a frighteningly fast pace. The middle class is gone. More wealth is getting concentrated to the top than ever before in our country's history. And all the while, we have the least productive congress in history whose re-election is entirely dependent on the handouts given by those corporations that Abraham Lincoln warned us about. The few bills that are being passed are often written by those very corporations. We've lost the representation in our government. The Republic is no longer for the people by the people. The Republic is lost.
I had one of these in 2001. It was called the Sharp Zaurus.
You are describing bad management. You don't need skills to be a bad anything. There are plenty of bad programmers going around who don't actually have any useful skills either.

There is a particular set of skills involved in not getting fired even though you don't actually have any skills. However, this skillset will not save you if the company institutes blanket layoffs or goes out of business, nor if you ever need to look for a job with no skills. And if you're getting by without any tangible skills or output, chances are everyone else around you is doing the same. This makes the chance of the company going out of business and you needing to find another job quite a bit higher.

YMMV, but I've found it's a significantly less risky strategy to just go learn the skills, practice them, and refuse to work with people who are obviously faking.
Is the name Google (or Microsoft or Apple) much more appealing than NameCheap? Seems when companies get huge their weird names are no longer weird.

I don't care for the name NameCheap either. On the other hand it's been easy to remember.
Xen was originally implemented in NetBSD! NetBSD was the first dom0
“Configuring It All Out” or “12-Factor App-Style Configuration with Spring”
They do, or some of them at least. Mine does.

Edit: it has an FM transmitter too.
> What about Starcraft Arcade, which makes use of Blizzard-provided tools to heavily mod the game?

Starcraft 2 is not recent anymore. Out of WoW, Diablo 3, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, and Overwatch, it is the only one.

> Valve announced workshop tools that would allow users "to create, play, and share custom maps and game modes for Dota 2."

Announced about half a year ago with no apparent progress? And the game has already been out since 2013 with a hefty 1 year "beta" where anyone that wanted an invite could easily get one?
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b...

More of a locale bug :)
"We only tackle the hardest networking problems, mostly on the backend."
Which means you left the page...
There are many more areas where you simply cannot abort the process on any error that has been triggered. Erlang, being in the niche of network software, can get away with this because you can have mechanism that monitor the process and it's not the end of the world if one process goes down.

Imagine if your Browser crashed every time it hit an error, like a network connection issue, writing to a file, etc...! That just wouldn't be tolerated by consumers of the software.
[PHP] Template based random text generator
why don't you just call it 'predictable' vs 'unknown'
Ask HN: How does it normally go when one Founder invests the initial money?
Hey HN, thinking about starting my first company. The business co-founder is going to be putting up the initial money for server costs etc. until we get financing.

How do you normally write a contract around this? We've all agreed to split the equity evenly. Should we handle the money he puts up as a loan to the business? Is there something else we can do?

Tried googling for stuff, but had a tough time finding any resources.
They can if they want to, but it seems that is would stifle startups. I guess that is why Google is insisting that cities NOT have that premise with Google Fiber.
http://www.marketpavilion.com/nitrotini.cfm

I've bought nitrotini's at Market Pavilion a few times and they're a neat novelty.
I believe most of them still require sizable amounts of work. For example, this individual comment might be able to narrow me down to native U.S. English speaker with higher education, but not much beyond that.

I have played with gender-identification software[1], which has such a limit. Frankly, the identification seems to be more topically sensitive than it is gender sensitive. For example, if I put in my writing about robots it will id me as male, but if I put in my writing about cooking it will id me as female.

Combining the 'author identification' software with known identities (such as we have here on HN) will certainly make them more accurate. Hence, my desire for a system that limits such computations.

[1] http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php
This sounds like a really great way of doing things.
No. What I call 'tax' perk has multiple layers. First, around the original fiber optic deployment time, Verizon et al took one-time tax deductions under something called FASB71 -- of-$25 billion dollars, which was 2-3 billion per bell company (like Bell Atlantic or Ameritech)

Second, they were able to 'accelerate' depreciation, meaning write off the networks faster, regardless of the life of the network product, such as the copper or fiber wires.

Depreciation, in this case, lowers the taxes paid as it is an expense, but in the old days, it was part of the calculations of the costs to offer service, so more expenses would mean -- oh, we're losing money, give us more rate increases.

I don't have problems with accelerated depreciation -- if they actually were doing what they said which was replacing the aging copper utility wires with fiber optics -- but in most of these cases, they didn't replace it but took the deductions and got the benefits.

Go into an audit with the IRS and tell them you wrote off equipment that you didn't buy or that you didn't replace-- see how that works for you.
That's an awesome graphic! I found this post on ways to get a flyer can get refund for a flight if they cancel it within 24 hours. Thanks for sharing.

http://maphappy.org/2014/10/the-cheat-sheet-to-every-airline...
I can estimate the probability of getting a head on a coin toss. Still, I don't know the outcome.
Similarly, risk in finance means variance. Average people value 1 dollar over 2 dollars with 50% probability. That's where VCs come in. Obviously they also try to be better than the market and win more than the normal cost of pooling the risk.
Noting that if you google "domains" they now come up as the 2nd organic link.

They come up as the 2nd for you. Google Search results are personalized. It's 6th in mine, behind Hostgator.
The board is just a bunch of old white dudes with money. The fuck do they know?

EDIT:

balls187 suggests they know how to make money--which is perhaps true, but not necessarily in your field of endeavor or business, unless you've picked them.

kelnos is closer to it, which is that the board tells you what to do because they're the board and that's the power you've granted them.

Again, in neither case, do we actually need to assume they are making the best or even informed decisions. There are some great stories of boards I've known locally suggesting really dumb things that hurt and even killed companies.
No. The whole site screams "And on the next Dr. Oz ..."
> The device delivers mild electrical stimulation to the brain through sponge electrodes placed above the sideburns. When used on the head, the device has been shown in medical studies to stimulate the production of neurochemicals, such as serotonin, GABA and endorphins, which are responsible for improving mood and sleep and suppressing chronic pain.
The techcruch article points out that there is no option yet to buy a domain and do a one-click connect to Google Apps, but it does, in fact, connect to Google Apps (though the process has about 25 more steps than would be ideal):

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6069226?hl=en

I'd expect that the integrations with things like Google Apps will improve before it goes GA rather than open beta -- one of the key reasons to have this service has to be to support one-stop shopping for Google Apps and/or Google Cloud setups.
I have had to teach my SO exactly these habits. This is what worked for us:

Pick one small area to start with. We chose the kitchen because it is used several times per day so keeping it clean pays the biggest dividend.

Think about how your storage should be organised. Most frequently used items in the most accessible cupboards. How should people move through the space? Where are the bottlenecks/sharp corners? This is a UX problem.

Throw away all the useless, broken stuff and the stuff that you haven't used in a year. Be ruthless.

Clean your area properly for the first time - every surface, every item. Use powerful cleaning products NOT hippy, earth-friendly coloured water. Wear rubber gloves. Break into a sweat. This first clean is hard work.

Next time you do anything in your area, ensure that it is clean before you start. Throw away rubbish, wipe up dirt, wash up, dry, put away. This should not take long.

Clean up whilst using your area. Clean up after using your area. You are not a teenager, pick up after yourself.

Schedule a time for cleaning. I find Wednesday evenings good because work/TV/social-life is usually empty on Wednesday evenings. It is possible to clean a (tidy) two bedroom apartment top-to-bottom in two hours, but don't expect to be this efficient when you start. Two-three hours once or twice per week is plenty unless you have pets/kids/coalminers living with you.

Take the time to notice that using your area is massively more efficient when it is tidy and give yourself a mental pat on the back. When you mess up (we all do), the motivation to get back to the tidy state should be there. You are now a grown-up.
The (Blockchain) Crypto-Tech Platforms Landscape
> So drop the support of high end 3D features

You're really suggesting people in a field that is constantly pushing the boundaries of graphics to drop one of the things they do best?

> do you really need that shader

Yes!

> I don't think any small developer who wants to release on linux can really compete with AAA

You'd be surprised with what a small developer can do, See tomorrow children. Sadly sometimes it sometimes seems that if you want to push graphics features, you cannot release on Linux.

> Having basic 3D rendering is already awesome in itself

No, not really. I'd prefer 2D rendering to basic 3D rendering.

> don't try to compete with what other games have already done, and focus on things that are doable and have been done well for a long time

Did you really just contradict yourself in the same sentence?

Though, more to the point, the problem isn't that getting something running Linux would be difficult. The problem is that in order for Linux to have proper and first-rate support, or in some cases, any support at all, you need to start getting developers working on it as a primary development platform. And if I can't do the things that I, as a graphics programmer, need to do, I'll go elsewhere. Working on Linux is nice, but if I have to choose between developing the game I want to, or having Linux support, that's a trivial decision.
Thoughts on mobile navigation for big phones
No entrepreneur or VC models market risk like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
THIS so much.

One of the more 'interesting' gaming communities is the PAYDAY 2 community. It's a fiercely competitive multiplayer game with lots of levelling up (why does EVERY game want to be an RPG these days.... I digress) yet all the play has been sucked out of the competitive part. There's this massive conflation between 'modding' and 'griefing' where the attitude to people experimenting with the game is openly hostile.

Now admittedly yes, in a multiplayer competitive game it sucks when a cheater enters your game server and griefs your game. Yet I couldn't imagine the kind of open hostility existing in the Doom or Duke Nukem 3D communities of old, where modding was encouraged and celebrated as experimentation and where the games weren't taken so damn seriously.
We really need a specific term for "thing that gets you well enough to be able to follow the regular advice people give."

This is technically the meaning of "crutch", but somehow that has acquired a negative connotation. Maybe something like "bootstrapping treatment"—something that allows you to pull yourself up to the regular treatments.
Create vitamins, not painkillers? I'm not sure I would call that a great piece of advice. I've found entrepreneurs have a knack for one or the other, but I'd err on the side of painkiller if I couldn't pick either one.
My company did this. I fronted most of the money as a loan to the company (in total I want to say it was <$10k) and the company paid the loan back interest free when we had the money in the bank. I was okay with it, and my 2 cofounders put in what they could (also as a loan). Haven't looked back. Never caused an issue.
It's 99% the BBB seal, I think, which is basically a membership of people who pay to get that certificate. It's entirely meaningless. It's right up there with the "NORTON SECURE" certificates you see all over the place on sites that have no idea what they're doing.

Frankly, though, this is a medical device, and I want all the resources I can find on how effective it is. It'd be far more worrying not to have "FDA cleared" on it, for example.
"What can you do to avoid this problem? Use UTF-8. Always."

I disagree. I think that the solution to the problem is using English comments. This has many reasons, it blends better into the programming code that usually has English keywords, variable names are usually in English and ASCII only (no, JavaScript, you're special, as always) and the most important reason, it allows the most people on this planet to understand it (okay, there's also Chinese but it's pretty much limited to a country).
I worked on a Korean piece of code. All the variable names were in English but the comments were in Korean. Why, just why? Talk about unnecessary complexity, at the end of the day you need to understand two languages in addition to the programming language. That just means I literally don't understand any comments. (And I'm not saying that because I'm lazy and don't want to learn languages; English isn't my native language)
AngelList. That's how I got my job.

If you can afford the travel, come and mingle at some startup events. Berlin is obviously the best city to do that, although Cologne (where I'm located) and, I imagine, Munich/Dusseldorf/Hamburg are pretty good too.
Given that it's a YouTube link I'm going to go with not peer-reviewed.
Seems like a bug for the compiler to treat a single-line comment as multiline; definitely not expected behavior.
If you're depressed, you have to start with getting out of bed. Exercise is not likely to be adopted by depressed people who have sought help.
Why are Californians chiller than others? I wonder if it's actually true
While the website is down, I think it forgets to mention the "Never add comments to any code unless it's explicitly part of the public API."

It's also possible he prepossesses the comments out.
> I'm remote, I can do my thing, write code, and generally be left alone while getting paid regularly. So being cut out of the loop does have some advantages, especially if you're remote.

There is the opposite end too. I joined a 100 person company, and some early founding employees were clearly resting and vesting, while I was working nights and weekends to iterate and replace prototype software written by early team members. I was grateful for the company they built, but was curious why they had an entitled approach to their positions.

Software is meritocracy based, not loyalty and tenure.

As employee #1, in what ways do you think you should be treated differently than the other employees?