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Remember TimesSelect? [1]

Search Engine Land has an excellent write-up on the debate so far.[2]

There are no clear answers but I for one just hate the notion of a single individual businessman - American or otherwise - owning a sizable interest in America's preeminent newspaper.[3] It isn't healthy to the voice of the publication, in the long run.

[1] TimesSelect

http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/ts/
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/lettertoreaders.html

[2] The Leaky New York Times Paywall & How “Google Limits” Led To “Search Engine Limits”

http://searchengineland.com/leaky-new-york-times-paywall-goo...

[3] Carlos Slim Becomes Largest Individual New York Times Shareholder

http://www.wsj.com/articles/carlos-slim-exercises-new-york-t...
Touché. When clicking outside of the popup didn't work and I couldn't find a close button I thought maybe it's a new freemium-ish way to get subscribers. Vimium also highlighted the missing link.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/wpengine/hgv
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Adafruit, Sparkfun, et al are also working out of cheap locations, Not malls and other high rent retail locations. I ordered from Adafruit once and it shipped from an apartment in Brooklyn.

Radio Shack is a retail store with many locations. There are not many people that have an immediate need for Rasberry pi components, they order online. So that model is dead. Radio Shack despite this does indeed still devote a small area of the store to things like this.
That article completely ignores NDP exhaustion attacks. As autoconfiguration has no place in a server environment anyway, which is the protocol that breaks, there's absolutely no need to assign a /64. The more important goal is to avoid fragmentation; it makes more sense to allocate a single larger subnet than multiple smaller ones so as not to fill up routing tables. Externally to your network, you'd aggregate anyway, but it helps to keep routing tables lean on layer 3 switches which aren't capable of as many routes. Also, some vendors' IPv6 implementations have FIBs that use /64's, and may need buckets for multiple subnets within, which can be inefficient. A good compromise is to reserve a /64, but only assign something more reasonable like a /121, with 123-125 usable IPv6 addresses being more than enough in most cases.
You can check the references here in the lifecycle section: http://telekomlabs.github.io/docs/
Depends upon thheir agreement, and who winds up with the RS assets. Franchisees might have to replace the signage.
Ask HN: Can the 80/20 rule be applied to learn programming?
I'm just wondering. I've been doing classes on CodeSchool and some other free resources. After reading a lot about how 80/20 Rule can be applied to other areas of my life, I started to wonder if it applied to software engineering too.

I understand that syntax is obviously a prereq, also that 20% of your code will be what users need 80% of the time, 20% of your users produce 80% of the content, etc.

What I'm specifically wondering is how to master Ruby or Python for backend and HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript Libraries for frontend, with 80/20 principles.

Thanks for any input or resources.
#awk on irc Freenode great is a great place for general or advanced help
The day before Christmas I found myself at a Radio Shack looking for jumper wires to go with an Arduino/breadboard kit I bought my daughter for Christmas. (A mix up with my wife's Amazon order left us suddenly without jumpers. Desperate times, desperate measures.) What a sad place. I ended up with some crappy jumpers that cost 2x more than the good ones we wanted from Amazon. The component section of RS is a joke. They used to be my go to in college (early 90s) when I needed components for a project. Now they are just trash. I left there Christmas Eve thankful I had some jumpers but they have now joined Walmart on my list of places I will only go if I am truly desperate and have exhausted all other options.
I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam.

Latin gave me the ability to form a third brain and be able to dissect the English language and multiple other languages quite mathematically and systematically. I think it might be the key to unlocking the comprehension part of artificial intelligence.

I also think that because Latin has become so distant now from mainstream academia has in an essence made our language too simple and rough, lacking poetry and love, and even intelligence. The dialogues from old movies seem alien to us.

If we were to reintroduce Latin, I think society's language skills would improve and thereby communication would improve.
Or, you know, we just don't want to have to deal with bad ads cluttering up our content, or ads that spy on and track us, or ads that start playing sound for no apparent reason, or ads that break our browsers.

Yeah, no, on second thought--it's probably that we're actually pirates. That's a much more obvious answer.
Don't be afraid to give out your email and keep focus. Less email, More time.
As a Geezer Geek, this breaks my heart. When I was eight years old, my mom dragged me along to the Tandy Leather Company so my sister could buy some leather for some stupid project. In the corner of that huge store was a section with all kinds of electronic parts. I was fascinated. My mom bought me a crystal radio kit, some books and a CK722 germanium transistor, and later, an Ocean Hopper shortwave receiver (all of which I still have).
For another generation, it will be the TRS-80 that was their first love, electronically speaking.
Before they lost their way, Radio Shack started a lot of engineers down their career path and it is very sad to see this outcome.
Tool like screen/tmux for Windows/DOS console?
Is there anything like screen or tmux (that exist on Linux), but for Windows, for the DOS console? I work on Windows at times and would like to have such a tool to avoid having to open multiple DOS consoles so I don't have to Alt-Tab between them. Don't want to install Cygwin.
Thanks.
The areas right next to parking lots in National Parks are very busy, but usually once you get a mile down a trail, even in a very popular park, it's very nearly empty.
Complete aside, but I just did a google search for "site:news.ycombinator.com lwn.net" and filtered to "this past week" to make a comment similar to yours, and Google found your comment, which is 24 minutes old right now. I'm pretty jaded with internet search, but frankly I'm astounded (Although I might have just gotten lucky with the spider).
But programming isn't necessarily synonymous with technology, it's only one relatively minor subset.

Hence the confusion about why we're encouraging interest in programming rather than an overall interest in STEM fields.
It's not a philosophical question and the AI we are talking about is not defined philosophically either.
> In principle, everything is possible

There are some things which I think it's reasonable to consider impossible in principle: e.g., FTL travel, time-travel into the past. (That's not to say it would be necessarily unreasonable to hold the opposite view).
Missed your reply.

Actually it is pretty irrelevant how many non-programmers are capable of compiling or meaningfully editing the C program. The point is that a programmer cannot (reasonably) edit to restrict you freedom.

However, after rethinking what I wrote, I should clarify that while the underlying principles are the same regarding what RMS is trying to do here (limit programmers to protect users), the GPL has nothing really to with this particular fiasco.
I love the tagline. It's short, sweet, and immediately gets the point across. Great job!
> Go would have a reasonable compile-time type system, except that without
> generics you end up having to cast a lot, which renders your compile-time
> type system almost irrelevant.

In my experience of Go, this is not actually true.
For example, in the latest project I've been working on, there
are 8487 lines of non-test code. In that code, there are
a total of 16 dynamic casts, more than half of which are checked
(mostly checking for particular error types). There are
a total of 4 occurrences which might possibly be amenable to generics.

The type system is totally relevant, and checks 99.9% of our code.
Don't be afraid to give out your email
I didn't think I was going to like Jupiter Artland - I wouldn't describe myself as a fan of most modern art but I absolutely loved it.

Little Sparta is on another level though - the whole place is a work of art.

I'm also keen to go to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation - but it's not open very often:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Cosmic_Speculation
Your employees had the choice between drab isolating cubicles bathed in depressing internal lighting and something else, which they eventually chose. I think maybe you should reconsider what that means. Perhaps your engineers weren't as interested as other parries in pretending cubicles--no matter how fancy--are the same thing as offices.

Anecdotally, at my current job I prefer working in a room where there are from three to five other engineers and lots of electronics around over working in the cube I'm assigned, but if I had a genuinely private office with a window, even overlooking a parking lot, I'd take it and work there 99% of the time, and be more productive if past experience is any indication.
Perhaps the incentive here is to educate coders as to what patterns to avoid which will have an inclination toward "evil" AI. This won't stop others for whom this is the goal.
AI is a buzzword that is coming more and more in car. Creating a mental association between AI and safety is a very smart PR idea.
The use of phones to control devices like this is kind of old news .. what I'd be interested in more is a kit you can use that will turn your average iPhone into a flying drone itself .. bolt on some wings/rotors, charge up the batteries, and let it loose. Seems to me that is an accessory whose time has come .. perhaps its out there on the horizon somewhere already, who knows?

EDIT: It IS! This is what I want in the iPhone/drone department, next:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhv7qmo63D4

(EDIT2: D'oh, looks like its CGI .. still, a man can dream..)
I am not sure if the author visited any of the offices in question, but they do have plenty of rooms/floors/isolated areas where people do work.
A lot of Asimov's work deals with loopholes and inadequacies in these laws, though: for instance, what is a human being? Does surgery violate the first law? If a human is going to injure another human, can the first law be overridden? If a robot believes that some entity is not human, do they have the responsibility to check before injuring them?

I mean, realistically, AI safety is not going to be achieved with a list of written laws. Heck, the way it's going, we wouldn't know how to enforce such a list at all: first we would need the AI to understand human languages, and then we would need the AI to care, that is to say, robots would need to know and follow the second law before you can tell them about it.
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An interesting perspective on A6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boQHYBhlOcs
30,000 requests per second is 2,592,000,000 per day... That's quite a lot. Obviously we're not talking page views (because that'd be crazy successful and well beyond 'startup' territory), so we're presumably in the domain of data logging, analytics, social networking etc. Sure, AWS might not be appropriate for those. But then, the level of traffic you're talking about represents maybe 0.1% of startups. People doing "a CRUD app for a niche", which is most SaaS startups TBH, could run their software on 1 AWS medium instance for the first year or two quite happily.
It's staggering to think, if you are right, how much more profitable Facebook or Twitter or Dropbox would be if they had productive office space, don't you think?
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13 miles, about 20 minutes or so depending on city traffic.
I think that's just what they call "business casual"?

See also http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/lets-all-ju... (though it looks like the chap there forgot the unicorn head)
One of my favorite writers covered his tenure at RadioShack back in the early/mid augts

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulogy...

It's one of the funniest/most heartbreaking articles I have ever read, but also explains a lot about RadioShack's slow spiraling collapse.
I worked at a place that had a kind of combination -- actual offices, but with 2-4 people in them. I actually loved it, but I also got along with who I was paired with. We could talk all day, play loud music we liked, and still have "privacy".
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I have been very happy in using awk, have used it to generate real results. It is fast, a little clunky at first, but since it is a smaller language it is quick to get up to speed on.
Ask HN: How to specialize in data visualizations front end developer?
I have been working as a software engineer developing with js during the last 3 years. I would like to work doing data visualizations (using js-svg libraries such d3 or canvas as well). I was thinking in study a Master Degree in data scientist/big-data but seems to be focused all in the data and not in the front-end development of the visualizations (that is what I really like). Do I really need this "data science" skills?

What would you recommend me to do?
AWS is not cheap. It's a rather expensive way to rent hardware. It's only "cheap" if you are using some aspect of elastic computing to use 100 machines for a couple hours.

I've worked with several startups who are paying 6 figure a month AWS bills. At that point it's really not a bad idea to take all those python or ruby data processing jobs and convert them to go. I have seen costs reduced by an order of magnitude this way.

The key point here is that some startups need a pretty decent scale before they have a MVP. How many useful search results could google have provided if they weren't crawling most of the web from day 1? Some social media or analytics startups need to process twitter's firehose feed, even when they don't have many customers.
I've got a list of articles that say the same thing and refute it again. Happy to share, but I think it's only going make this discussion go in more circles. The Leed study you reference in particular has so many biases in it's approach, that I don't know where to start in refuting it.

> Here's a meta-study that reviewed hundreds of specific studies [1] and the conclusion is inescapable.

If the conclusion is inescapable, then what's the explanation for why so many companies chose to implement it? Especially ones with highly disposable cash flows (a la Facebook/Twitter) where money and desk efficiency isn't a problem.

The only real conclusion I can draw at this point is that this topic is a merry-go-round of anecdotes, imperfect studies, and agendas.
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haha yeah :) I actually almost used frames because medium had a frame buster (breaking out of the iframe). but I found another way to get it done.
Right I posted a conjecture that RS might be able to grow the maker market.

>The maker market isn't nearly large enough to sustain a company of that size.

Well, neither are any of the other markets RS targeted, obviously. I wasn't proposing that RS go all-in on Raspberry pis.

>The only chance they had to stay relevant was to challenge the Best Buy's of the world, but they failed to do that.

Best Buy is not exactly killing it, but RS could have probably done something interesting there, I agree.
RootBSD is insanely awesome and is the one I'd recommend whole heartedly.

Compile your own kernels, your own world, and they are always on hand for assistance for things that you need help with.

I've been a happy customer for a number of years.
because of Luxottica's monopoly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
They snatched the PC first. Sounds like there's a need for a kind of 'dead man's switch' to protect PCs from being snatched like this by anyone.
I guess then we are at the fact that climbing terms mean different things to different climbers. Around my area, rope-soloing is solo top roping, basically a fixed rope with an ascender on the climber. I've got a great device for this that can grip two ropes in the same cam.

It's like how in my parts (west coast canada) we speak of top-roping when the brits would use the term "bottom-roping". We don't make a distinction between having the belay above or below. Free soloing here just means free climbing without a partner. We don't have a term for no-gear soloing, other than idiot. It doesn't come up much.
> and me for French
> The French guy actually translated "Garbage day" to something like "Shitty day"

So you translated it to "jour de merde"?
I find most of your comment to be spot-on, but I personally believe a bit of "feeling like a frathouse of some sort" is conductive to creative work.
I remember going to RS stores to buy a 99 cent part and the clerk having to write, in long hand, on a triplicate form, my name and address and the item, before entering the amount on a cash register. I refused to give my info, and he said he could not sell me the part without it, so I said: "OK, my name is John Doe at 123 Main Street". He looked at me quizically and then wrote it down on the form without a word.

For a long time I avoided Radio Shack stores because I did not want to go through this charade. Only when desperate ("I need this connector right now"). The desperate-user scenario is not one for business success, especially when selling 99 cent parts.
https://m.timeline.com/bower_components/angular-facebook/lib... Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
app.js:4 Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module timeline due to:
Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module facebook due to:
Error: [$injector:nomod] Module 'facebook' is not available! You either misspelled the module name or forgot to load it. If registering a module ensure that you specify the dependencies as the second argument.

Chrome/Linux Version 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit)
Elon's stakes in his various companies:

- Tesla - 28M shares @ $193 = $5.4B

- Solar City - 20M shares @ $51 - $1.0B

- SpaceX - Still private, but some wild assumptions that Elon owns ~33% at a valuation of 4x total funding - $350M

So his net worth is somewhere near (and probably north of) $7 Billion. If his wife takes half, he'll still be able to donate plenty to AI research.
Cyph – Privacy starts here
I've written some articles regarding bootable USBs and I've put them online: http://BootableUSB.net

With more than 330 comments, this is the most popular post:
http://bootableusb.net/install-windows-7-usb-drive-easy-way/

The site brings about $700 per month from AdSense
When you are dealing with a city of millions does it really seem right to fish one wire at a time? That means terminating the wire at the home too. With multiple ISP's how many of them would need access to the "Main St" section at a time? The cost of booking a time, sending a worker out to fish and terminate possibly kilometers of wire per customer as each customer signs up would be a logistical nightmare. Then what happens when the customer leaves you for the other guy? Never mind the cost differential of running one wire vs bundle of wire.
Now, I don't know the state of the gettext utilities in 1999, but the arguments don't seem to hold up anymore (as others commented).

It just surprises me how many times gettext is discarded as "not solving the problem" while it gets many things right.

It feels like the lack of knowledge about the complexity of i18n/l10n and about gettext are often the real issues.
On UFS soft-updates have a lower overhead than soft-updates with metadata journaling. The downside of soft-updates without journaling is that it requires a background fsck to recover leaked space after unclean shutdowns. I prefer UFS2 SU (not SU+J) on FreeBSD for small systems, because SU+J is incompatible with UFS snapshots.
clearly the author does not understand how important both vanity and greed are to most people - especially decision makers. XD
Show HN: Remarq.io – Beautiful documents for consultants
Introverts prefer a quiet place to be able to focus and work, a lot.
May I ask why is it that Walmart (for you) belongs in the same bin as Radioshack, in terms of the variety of offerings and availability?

Do you prefer Target or some other store for a greater selection or does your household mostly shop at Amazon?

I've heard Walmart was making a shift to smaller, approachable and more centrally located stores and was curious to see if this was the reason why.
A talk by Eric Fossum, the inventor of CMOS sensor
I am a SWE for Google and my area is super noisy. Construction, dogs barking (on our floor), phone calls, etc. My job requires me to work with a lot of PCBs, so I have to stay at my desk; I can't exactly curl up somewhere quiet.

I hate the noise level here. I haven't yet worked up the courage to expense a good pair of noise canceling headphones, but it may come to that.
> It is interesting to interpret not using adblock as capitalist duty. I see it more as a way to respect the terms of the content producer.

The author has no lordship over my computer or my mailbox. I can toss out junk mail. I can even more easily program my computer to toss out ads. Programmability is a very natural feature of a computer, so why not use it? My home, my computer, my rules.

If you make it more difficult for me to remove ads, then yes, I will eventually stop getting anything from you at all. I'm fine with this arms race. If you want to make your ads so obnoxious as to make them very difficult to ignore, then I'm fine with ignoring all of you.

I will never be fine with having consumerism forcibly shoved down my throat. As long as I can program my computer to ignore ads, we can enjoy an uneasy armistice. If you give me a donation or subscription button for your website or service, we can both be much happier.
Ask HN: Goldman Sachs vs. Microsoft/Google for a fresher
As a fresher who will be graduating out of college this summer, I have no idea which sector will be best for me.

I am very good at CS fundamentals and would love in the field.

Coming to the point, GS gives a very good salary as compared to Google/Microsoft in India ( Almost twice)

I would like to hear the opinions of people who have worked in both financial sector and tech sector and can help me in choosing in between these.
From my time at consulting firms and experience with law firms, this isn't true any more.

I was at the offices of a large law firm in the City of London yesterday and only very senior partners had offices. They had a lot of very nice meeting rooms on separate client facing floors and 'working floors' with open plan offices where lawyers and paralegals did their work.
Ask HN: Are any of you blind programmers and what tools do you use?
The commenter wasn't the translator, they were the proof-reader:

> When I was in Japan I did proof reading for a Japanese feature phone.
That color scheme hurts my life.
No, in the comments on the original basilisk post, Roko said he was in fact going through with the quantum gambling scheme that the post outlines. http://basilisk.neocities.org/ ctrl-F to "23 July 2010 06:52:40PM"
Yep it's called micro volunteering :-)