skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Q: How does MassiveMesh work?

> A: We use fiber optic connections that form the backbone of our network. Our internet data centers use cutting edge wireless radio transmitters to transmit high speed signals to repeater sites throughout the city. These sites act as the go-between and deliver the internet directly to homes and businesses. Homes and businesses connect to those repeater sites through a small radio modem, which we provide, that creates your personal high speed network.

So, basically this is a standard WISP, not some special mesh network.
These are all UI complaints and all fixable by anyone with a better idea and JS chops whether Ward likes the particular changes or not.
Good point, I was mostly assuming the 'Detroiter' in the headline was accurate. Rochester Hills (and Oakland County) is a much more affluent area than Detroit -- Plows shouldn't be in short supply.

For the unaware, the 'Somerset Collection' they mention in the article is a mall with Cartier / Burberry / Salvatore Ferragamo stores inside. There's a certain amount of symbolism that the Detroiter has to commute past vast affluence that was once local to Detroit to chase a factory job.
Ah, thank you. Still wrapping my head around the new architecture.
Most engaging web art I've seen in memory...
I think reddit has outgrown its ability to innovate in this way and suggest it will likely be a competitor not bound by the constraints of being an established player that will allow them to create a more compelling offering.
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Good to hear that someone else is interested!

Could you explain a bit more about the issues with tracking paragraphs? It sounds like an interesting idea.

From perusing the GitHub documents briefly, it seems like the architecture is such that other UIs should be possible. Do you have a hunch about the possibility of making, say, an Emacs client?
Interesting for Wikileaks type content - where mirroring across thousands or millions of browsers is of value.
I don't know... Ubuntu's UI is pretty consistant and I think simpler to use than Windows. I wouldn't say it sucks... at all.
Can you expand upon some of the known unknowns on the legal and technology side?

I assume that the lead time for creating redditnotes is substantial. Therefore, getting started (even with a lot of uncertainty) is probably worthwhile unless those unknowns are foundational (e.g., does the SEC allow this at all rather than what specific regulation best applies).
Please explain networked...
Oh yes, using buffers without zeroing them is a terrible idea, and sharing those buffers among different types of things is a terrible idea.

I was specifically commenting on the fact that what the parent comment described as "terribly unlikely" is in fact what happened.
Didn't you read the part about the sites being owned by the biggest telecom companies? They sue people for €10 debts (or they used to while they were allowed) because they have an army of lawyers receiving paychecks, needing to work to justify those paychecks... At most, we, a small indie record label, would be a welcome distraction to those guys.
Just because you like somebody who works for you doesn't mean it makes financial sense for the company to pay them more.
I know this is a risk, but we have done our best not to make it a store. We'll know soon if that works.
That's usually because Congress doesn't object. You may as well say Congress is unaccountable because of public apathy.
Most Americans can't dump their cable company.
> According to that page you need to lower saturated fat to 5%-6% of calories. I'm suggesting that current science does not support the connection between saturated fat and heart disease.

Studies, including recent ones, show that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat reduces cardiovascular disease risk (IIRC, in both sexes, but moreso in men than women.) Mostly, what's changed is that we now also have evidence that replacing saturated fat with trans fat or carbohydrates is, at best, no better than just staying with saturated fat.
You are restating exactly what you already said. Maybe you didn't understand.

Taxation implies increased tracking and auditing of the good being taxed, in this context surveillance could be justifiable.

Perhaps you're unable to imagine these consequences, but your claim that they have nothing to do with one another is just ignorant.
this is a ridiculous comparison. You can't compare water, gas, and electrics to the likes of providing Internet. Gas, electric, water are either on or off. Internet connections come with tons of setup pitfalls. A bad DNS can make it appear your Internet is out in one way, while a broken cable inside the house can make it look broken another way and a virus on a computer is another.

It's just not a simple check and you're not going to find people to fix your internet with a proverbial wrench. When is the last time your water pipe had a virus? It will often taken digging into the problem with a fair bit of domain knowledge. And if Obama care (healthcare.gov) is any indication of the US Government's ability to manage or enact such things, I'd be worried too.

Every time this topic comes up, people like to try and compare it to the utilities services and you just can't.
Would you work for USD $25 an hour?
Comcast is not a monopoly. This is the sort of misunderstanding that I'm talking about. AT&T was a monopoly and the USPO is still a first class mail monopoly.

I suspect Comcast is just the best option in your location and you're dissatisfied with it. Bummer for you, and I sincerely mean that.

When industries get regulated by the government they get "protected". Protected from upstarts with new and better technology, protected from cheaper alternatives, protected from dissatisfied customers, and generally protected from all market forces.
America's Infrastructure Is Slowly Falling Apart
I live in Washington state where it rains constantly, buy my water bill is about $200/month. Likewise, my power bill for a family of 5 is $400 per month. My power company still uses power poles to transmit electricity, like they have done is the 1800s. Meanwhile, we lost electricity for days during the last storm.

I argue that with competition, electric companies could innovate their distribution, ie bury the power lines, and the price of water would be cheaper.
I like that. Thanks!
Thoughts on peer review
I think the problem is there even if you're focusing on the One Thing. Look at Github. They have issues, wiki, gist, pull requests, search, repo browser, keyboard shortcuts, private repos and so much more. That's still within the One Thing.

And of course, Github built those things over time. But the question that still remains, especially on the early days, with limited resources:

What new feature should we add next to this one thing?

from a list of dozens of features that customers are screaming for... Shall we add a native app? or should we add Facebook integration? Should we add some gamification elements or redo the homepage to increase conversions? and the list goes on.
Science has more and less reliable disciplines. In particular, in any field in which meaningful experiments are difficult or impossible to perform, causality will be hard to pin down. It just so happens that many of the topics the public is most interested in - health and nutrition, psychology, economics and, yes, climate - fall into that category.
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Going back to the days before cable, when high speed was whatever the regulated its a utility phone company decided I was allowed to have

What did you get, and what did you want instead?
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I had a Wallet Ninja several months ago and it could be useful every once in awhile. I'd go the airport though and I would be stopped every time, and I'd have to talk to the agent and insist it's TSA compliant. After a handful of times, I decided it was nowhere near worth the hassle.
If you ask the question, "Is <food item> good or bad for us," you're going to have a bad time. The answer is almost always going to be "bad" as we define it. Even the most basic things that we need are bad for us when consumed in excessive quantities.

A better question would be, "How bad are eggs for me, given my specific genetics?" We can't really answer that question yet. Perhaps in the future.
>but as comparison is anyone 100% happy with their utility (power, water, etc)?

Yes. Do you remember what happened in California when power was deregulated and Enron was causing brownouts?

Compared to my private utilities (phone and home internet) I freaking love my public utilities.
Asking science to refute marketing claims is a huge distraction for science.
You should look into Odesk.
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There are so many companies out there and I'd really like to look at different provider. Right now I'm at Bluehost using their shared hosting plan Plus which is somewhere around 12 usd/months. I just renewed my account and it was $140. I guess it's a standard price but I'd like it to be lower and I was wondering if there's anything cheaper out there.

I want these features:
- possibly unlimited storage or up to 50GBs
- unlimited domain hosting or at least 5
- decent bandwith (my account now says "unlimited" but who know what that means)
- standard cPanel - something that allows me to have MySQL databases, phpmyadmin, ability to launch CGI scripts etc

I was wondering if there's anything out there for less than $100/yearly.
Very little of what you said was true.

1) A corporation spends money on tax specialists to benefit itself. Any benefit to the shareholders is usually incidental, and the corporation would eliminate these benefits if it increased the benefit to the corporation.

2) Corporate income taxes are profit taxes. The type of shenanigans you have suggested as a means of increasing expenses are what tax practitioners call "tax evasion schemes" that (a) would not work and (b) would result in heft fines and/or prison sentences for the executives, board members, and accountants involved. The US corporate tax code has the highest compliance costs because it has the most deductions and credits of any code in the world, but every dollar spent on compliance usually results in multiple dollars saved with respect to tax liabilities.

If you want corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, you tax them on their profits. If the tax is levied only on distributions to shareholders, that will simply move the compliance games to the shareholder level. And this plays into enforcement as well--there are thousands of companies, but there are millions of shareholders, and it is magnitudes easier to enforce tax at the corporate level than the shareholder level.
No, but part of the idea is that you will get small local providers again (like you did fifteen to twenty years ago), and five-man companies don't usually outsource tech support to India.
I don't have any first hand experience, but it seems like grok [might not be that performant](http://ghost.frodux.in/logstash-grok-speeds/)?
If I had the dump of the hashed password table (even salted), I'd start by trying all lowercase passwords to match the hashes.
Thanks for the great feedback, I appreciate it!
Still work in progress, we'll make it better.
They appear to offer PNGs of everything in addition to SVG so importing should be easy. Although you may lose some of the benefits of SVG.
His solutions is threads? Really? Has he read no history? There are problems with threads. That's why async I/O is hot right now. Threads is a limited resource. Threads are expensive to create and dispose. Context switches are espensive. Threads must be synchronized. Threads can have race conditions.

Good rant, but I didn't expect him to serve such a shallow conclusion after a solid and insightful introduction.
And General Electric doesn't change you extra for your power when they detect it's being used in a non-GE toaster.
Thanks for letting me know. I hadn't realized that. Will have to figure out why.
Most municipalities grant monopolies to cable providers based on the theory that it's the only way to get someone to build and maintain the cable infrastructure.

Granted monopolies do not allow for market forces...
I think the blame is on the fact that the scientific community does not have much power in the media, and is instead the puppet of the news media. But then again, all facts are puppets of the news station, made to be framed in any way that fits into any kind of narrative.

The overwhelmingly dominant interface non-university people have with science is through news media. How else are you going to get your facts? By going out to different countries by yourself? By researching into all areas of interest? That's insane.

The top four salient science media personalities are probably Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, and Dr Phil. Though, I wouldn't say that any of these people hold a candle to Bill 'O Reilly or Rush Limbaugh in terms of influence over public attitudes and opinions on science, and that's the problem.

Science, in the eyes of the many, is just another fact in a news media report, and it can go any way the host or reporter wants it to.

Yes, science has been inconsistent. Yes, science media personalities have been belligerent or not diplomatic on camera. Yes, there has been corruption of metrics and statistics. But... it just doesn't hold a candle to Bill O' Reilly. Or Sarah Palin, for that matter.
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I did not realize Reddit Notes (crypto or not) are supposed to be "shares" of anything? Much less shares of Reddit as a company.
Thanks. I add that to things to do on the next UI session :)
and history is replete with examples of federal agencies declaring their own authority over things which were obviously not envisioned so

What about in this case? Would you argue the Title 2 declaration is within or not within the FCC's mandate? If you agree it is within the mandate, then bringing up unrelated assumptions of authority is not relevant.
> Cloud computing is, ironically, going to be the biggest beneficiary of DirectX 12. That sounds unintuitive but the fact is, there’s nothing stopping a DirectX 12 enabled machine from fully running VMs on these video cards. Ask your IT manager which they’d rather do? Pop in a new video card or replace the whole box.

Can someone please comment on that? Everything I know about GPUs suggests that even if it would be possible to run VMs on them, performance would be terrible. All those tiny GPU cores are not designed to do much branch prediction, all the fancy out-of-order execution, pre-fetching etc. and your average software will totally depend on that.
Why would a lack of service by an internet provider be comparable to a utility pumping sewage?

Shouldn't you be looking at water restrictions which the utilities blame on drought? This is the most similar type of event to the Comcast outage which you are describing. Both could have been prevented through better planning, capital expenditures, and forethought. If this is the comparison, both Comcast and many water providers fail, though the internet providers have gradually improving products, while the utilities do not (as far as I know). Most industries' products do not fall from the sky, yet they still manage to provide an adequate supply.
Are programmers in the Bay Area the new working class?
The "tech worker" label has become increasingly pejorative and amorphous in The Bay Area. For many it has come to mean a mass of young transplants who do something with computers and have the wealth to displace and destroy existing communities. I would like to interrogate that definition. Who, really, are the people working in the tech industry? How many are programmers, and how do they fit into the hierarchy of tech companies? What is the economic/cultural difference between a programmer at a company like Google or Facebook, a systems administrator at Oracle, and a start-up founder with VC funding?

I would like to get a better picture of what life is like for programmers, especially as they try to put down roots in The Bay Area. What is it like for those who make salaries but don't get big payouts from stock and IPOs? How many programmers strike it rich? Are they making enough to buy houses and send kids to school? Given the high cost of living in The Bay Area, are they really wealthy or just middle class? How are they any different than workers in other industries if they have bosses and don't own their companies? Will their high salaries last? And if they don't, what will programmers do?

I am looking into all of these questions for a series of public radio stories. I would love to get the input of the Hacker News community.
> ii. As nice and hardworking as the power company employees are, there's still only one main power run for the 1/8th of Oak Park that I live in, and any time a tree goes down in the alley along that run, or a squirrel detonates a transformer along it, I lose power for 6-8 hours. My block has a truly awful electric service uptime.

Is that power run an overhead ComEd hasn't/won't bury?
Because they use it to circumvent restrictions on our network and devices. Our early years we had some students do this. They used proxy software, installed games, cheated on tests, etc. It was a giant mess and made staff question the effectiveness of our laptop program. I don't doubt that some students would use admin access responsibly, it's the other 90% of kids that won't that are the problem.
We're missing a lot of context. San Antonio is in Texas, which means these could have been rolling blackouts, one of the last-ditch efforts employed by power companies during record summer temperature spikes (which translate to monumental load spikes in the form of A/C)
What's with commenting on an interesting article with an irrelevant and baseless attack on my country?
Show HN: GOLO, a simple personal project management app
GOLO: http://getgolo.com

To be honest, its a personal itch project.

Reasoning behind the project is that I needed something extremely simple to do project management for very small teams (3-6).

Golo has only 2 entities in a project: task-name & priority (0-1000).
Use priority number to group tasks together and order them too.

There is no concept of logins. An access link is emailed to you every time you request it including sign ups. The app has persistent sessions. Its not super secure by any standards and hence DO NOT put sensitive data in there. Its only for management purposes.

I know its not even Show-HN quality yet but I would love to get as much feedback as possible while I am building it rather than later. So thank you guys in advance for checking it out.
From all I have heard, places with better-regulated ISPs or even municipal broadband (gasp!) tend to have better service. You seem to be grinding a political axe rather than considering what the evidence says about the real-world effect of this particular change.

The simple fact is, getting approval to put your network somewhere is not only really expensive, but already heavily regulated, and this grants a de facto regional monopoly to companies like Comcast and Time-Warner in places where they have done so, because the startup costs of competing with them are unreasonably expensive and they can lobby to prevent competition. The market does not work efficiently in this particular area and no amount of idolizing market forces can change that.
I would argue that the shift to "Cogs in a giant automated dispatching machine" already happened with living in an industrialized society, except it's software instead of bureaucracy.

In either case, the organizational "middleware" is under the control of its owners.
Out of curiosity, how many of people on the Trello team work remotely? How many are outside the USA?
The statement was more in the direction that when it's a utility local people / municipality are responsible for the maintenance of that system, local people means that there is a far greater chance of getting local, mostly because there is someone local with _responsibility_ for keeping it working.
http://getgolo.com
He has some odd ideas about science.

The end of his book "The Dilbert Future" calls for "new ways of looking at existing things." And then claims that all of science is just "looking at things" which, he points out, is pretty unreliable, and that we need to improve our ability to perceive the universe in order to move forward in science. Of note is that he doesn't consider technologies which enhance our perception to be actually doing that (microscopes, telescopes, and other types of sensors are just more forms of "seeing" to him, and are lacking).

He then rather poorly explains double slit experiment and suggests that the arrow of time might just be a figment of your imagination, as well as the motion of objects in general, and gravity.

He skirts around the idea that looking at existing ideas in new ways can be important (who would deny that?) but then devolves into useless examples, claiming that instead of gravity "existing", everything in the universe could just be expanding at just the right rate to create the illusion of gravity. He questions causal relationships and posits something no better than leibniz's monads.

I've derailed a bit here, but man, that book irked me.
Excellent points.

I think what it really highlights is that, for most food items, there is no right or wrong answer as to how good/bad it is for you. There is some directional information, but even that should be taken with limited confidence.
If you are passing JSON around, then arrays may be better for streams of data than json, with key/value ... if you are passing tabular data from one service to another, then you may very well pass an array you then want to destructure into an object.

For that matter, maybe even messagepack, protocol buffers , etc over 0mq or direct sockets... although straight json + gzip is pretty effective.
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It's nothing new, but this mindset can sneak up on you if you are not diligent. It rarely is so simple as A, B & C. As your software is evolving and improving, you could get off track on features that seem reasonable. It's hard to know whether you are breaking new ground or simply veering off course.

My company has a niche software product and we have people contacting us all the time who love it, but find it missing just one feature to get their business. That feature may happen to be extremely difficult to write or have limited use to our core customers. But if this is a large company or a lucrative contract then it can be very difficult to resist. There may be times where, financially, you really need the income. It could even mean the difference between staying in business or not. So, it is not always so cut and dry when you're in the middle of it.
> As in, better be damn happy with the speed you have now because you ain't going to get faster anytime soon.

Yeah, well my internet speed has been stagnant in all the areas I spend decent amounts of time for basically the last 5 years anyway.

Except where Google Fiber threatens to come in.

So, we can revisit this question when Google Fiber is a choice for 80% of the US.

And, Google fiber might be exempt because it won't be a cable provider. That would be an interesting thing, now, wouldn't it?
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
I kind of like that they are unelected. At least that means they don't rely on political donations for their next election battle.