skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're conflating instrumentation and alerting.

A bit, because I'm hesitant to cram into a time series database data that I consider boolean. I'd move past this for consistency if the checks were easy to create, though.

> Prometheus has many instrumentation options. For your example I'd suggest a cronjob that outputs a file to the textfile node_exporter module (echo old_libc_process $COUNT > /configured/path/oldlibc.prom).

Interesting. That architecture or configuration of this exporter isn't documented yet, but if just magically sent numbers upstream from text files that I keep up to date, that might be worth a migration by itself. Nagios SSH checks are ridiculous to manage.

Thanks for indulging my conversation in any case. I'll put this on my radar and watch where it goes.
Don't see how this is different from ajax conceptually. It is mentioned that a single page application framework is required. While an SPA framework is preferred, everything seems pretty doable with JQuery, just not as nicely prescribed.

The item individualized custom placeholders I haven't seen as a standard pattern, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
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I think it's a case of 'one thing at a time'.

There's a lot of change packed into this, and I'm sure Wheeler's plan will be to keep the changes and shakeups rolling.
> You seem completely unwilling to discuss or take any stance on this issue.

No, the question was, should we accept surveillance as acceptable way to prevent unlawful content. And my answer was that this question is invalid - surveillance is already here, whether you want to accept it or not. If that didn't imply surveillance, what other caution are you talking about then?
A IRS special agent apparently found Ross "first" using Google:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/the-incredibly-si...
Really good discussion of what falls apart when these "anyone can learn to code!" tutorials leave you high and dry, and how to get past that next huge hurdle of self-sufficiency.
When internet ( both wired and wireless ) switch to being Title II, which of the following become reality?

1. FIOS can/cannot continue to block incoming port 80/443 on "residential" internet plans?

2. FIOS can/cannot prohibit commerical services on "residential" plans?

3. Phone carriers can/cannot prohibit unlocked phone tethering without paying additional fees

4. Carriers can/cannot charge per amount of data per month? It is said they will not be able to slow down your internet, but can they simple block you entirely? Does this mean all connections are effectively unmetered? ( eg: 10mbps is 10mbps continuously )

5. If cable/fios is delivering data at X rate ( their own TV content ), does that mean you can demand to get arbitrary data at the same rate?
How many times can the same dollar of infrastructure costs be used to justify maintaining a monopoly where service is bad and never gets upgraded?

It is in the company's interest to flog that dollar for all it is worth, forever, as a justification to never upgrade and maintain a monopoly so that nobody can force them to reinvest in infrastructure and they can just sit around in maintenance mode, collecting the checks with the minimum possible outlay.

If the government owned the infrastructure outright, we could at least have the discussion about why service is shit, but with this reasoning, "it was expensive to build these cables" permanently shuts down any ability to get upgrades or break local monopolies.
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I think that of all people who could be automated away, musk is probably not one of them. He probably would be happy to get rid of BS jobs. The problem is that once an AI gets to the tipping point of being able to improve itself, it will a) get super-intelligent, and b) start optimizing everything for it's programmed purpose. There was a great discussion with Nick an the Partially Examined Life podcast. The point of the investment is that we don't know what will happen when AI hits that point, or when it will be. So it makes sense to think about it..
Darn it if this isn't correct. It is very true to say we don't really know what the market forces would've done, because it was all already mucked with. I'm not sure I agree though that the last mile is a natural monopoly. A market could create more distributed solutions, we're seeing that with solar grid power contribution. The early Edison systems were sometimes a single location for DC power. The early net benefited from something a little more peer-to-peer than it is today.

Also all of these things will never exist independently of each other. If we had an anarcho-syndicalist system, we'd be complaining about the inability to use omnidirectional antennas effectively because of all of the interference of the airwaves, possibly...
The unspoken next step will be the dozen lawsuits from Verizon, AT&T, etc. Comcast's actions actually seem to be on the right side, here, though maybe that's simply a side-effect of their NBC merger terms.
Doesnt matter. They're reasons to use it. (I'd argue being in JS is a big feature for many, but since it doesn't matter, nothing to discuss :)
Percentage of Americans who know what the Federalist Papers are: <20%
How does the delivery get from the moped on the street to my front door on the 5th floor? Maybe a Segway type thing would work better, it just needs to be able to press the lift buttons.
I understand that there may be some "hidden costs" that current consumers of broadband in the US don't see. I can also imagine the possibility that un-bundled broadband may be more expensive than current rates (though I can imagine other possibilities as well).

What I have a hard time understanding is your implied argument here: that by forcing a bundle on consumers that includes a high-margin product (cable TV) as well as a low-margin one (broadband), we're doing those consumers a favor. How do I benefit from a subsidized broadband service if I also have to participate in the over-priced and unwanted service that is allowing the subsidy?
True, but this:

> If testosterone is the culprit for increased risk of coronary artery disease, prostate cancer and sleep apnea, then doing things that naturally increase testosterone will increase risk also.

states that the result of higher T through natural processes is increased risk. It discounts the possibility that there is a net decreased risk due to the processes themselves decreasing risk to the point that it offsets the increased risk due to increased T.
Trello does the same
Unfortunately the problem is that they work too well. Every time they are legalized in a limited capacity they are abused in professional sports.

The effect is massively amplified if you give women drugs because they don't have testosterone levels like men do. Those records that were set in the 70's pre-testing will likely never be broken.

The issue is that if it is legal, there is a huge incentive to take it to an abusive point especially in a celebrity economy like what exists is professional sports.

In some sports, professional athletes are almost constantly injured. Off the top of my head I can give you MMA (UFC) and american football as examples but I'm sure there are many others.

Healthy sports end where competitive sport begins.[1]

Right now we have an arms race that barely keeps it at bay. It's not an ideal solution but I think its better than athletes fully abusing their bodies with massive amounts of drugs like they did back in the East German Olympic days.

For non-professional athletes, I agree with you. It should not be demonized to the extent it is.

1. Quote from Brecht, referenced many times, e.g here http://gladwell.com/drugstore-athlete/
You can use math.stackexchange.com for this today. It's frowned upon to just ask an exercise from a book w/o even trying to solve it, but if you show that you made an effort but got stumped, or if you show your solution and ask if it's correct, people will gladly help you out.
Chinese regulations are often very strict. And often also very, very poorly-enforced, unless there's sufficient public unhappiness about them.
I'll try to find the ones I was referring to. In general absorption rate on the skin is poor. From experience weekly shots are much better for me.
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Investments, not just subsidies
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This is the real reason. You can go to any article that is linked on drudge and you will see the exact same kind of comments.
No, the question was, verbatim,

"What obligation does law enforcement have to regulate content that you and I, as open-Internet believers, agree is unlawful? Shall we allow illegal content in order to err on the side of caution?"

That question wasn't about surveillance. You keep changing the subject to surveillance, because you're unwilling to address the issue of whether we should allow illegal content.

What obligation does law enforcement have to regulate content? Not surveillance. Not NSA. Law enforcement. obligation.To regulate content.

Show we allow illegal content in order to err on the side of caution? Not should we allow surveillance. Should we allow illegal content. Content. Not surveillance. Stop changing the subject.
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I don't think the complexity would be that great. It's not like different tax rules apply, it's just a different numeraire. Now, remember, people reporting their taxes are not forced to change anything, they are just given the opportunity.

I guess the basic reason I promote currency competition is that I think people have the right no use whichever money they prefer. And in order to not give preference to the national currency, produced by the central bank, it must be possible to report ones taxes in another currency/money.
Snatching would probably not be an issue. (Delivery guy would also give the "cargo" to anyone who claims he ordered it).
They also don't have to throw it though the window. You know to the second when the drone arrives and it can just hover until you open the window and take it. And it's your window, not someone elses. After 2 minutes, your lunch goes back and you got a bad point on your profile.
You would need to order to the right window and stuff, but you can build a window map of the city with drones. I think the hard part is regulation and licensing the airspace, not the technology.
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I would say the example with different kinds of fritters is more a demonstration different implementations on an interface than of cooking patterns
>> This is only part of the infrastructure anyway. You've still got all the routing, switching, media conversion, etc. to make that cable do something useful.

Media conversion? Like taking HD signals, converting them to "standard definition" and putting those on the line too? So you can then charge more for higher quality "HD" signals which are still transcoded to lower bitrates? Yeah, we can do without that stuff.
Math aside, it's an amusing misuse of vocabulary.
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What? The Netflix/Verizon paid peering agreement was a fast/slow lane issue, was it not?
I always thought the "Desert of Despair" was the point at which you should find a mentor with professional experience, instead of waiting for the "Upswing of Awesome".
Open source? Can I edit it and publish my changes?
The FBI agents grabbed his hands and pulled them away from the computer before he knew what was happening. Even with a BRB he wouldn't have been able to secure his computer.
If there was one thing you could tell your 21 year old self, what would it be?
the hilarious thing is that it is TOTALLY unconstitutional.

Article 1 section 10 provides that "No State shall... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts."

Of course, striking down the act by virtue of its violation of this provision would also expose the fact that dollars are no longer gold and silver, either, and thus are also unconstitutional as legal tender for the states.
I am working with a fertility clinic but it's a standard lab test. You do your thing in a cup and they run it through some tests for count, motility, shape, etc. They want more than 15m sperm per ml. I had initial tests on 0, 2m, 5m. After treatment with 25mg of clomid for a few months I had 65m. My wife is also on letrozole and we tried IUI and still haven't got pregnant. It's more difficult than I thought it would be.
> desktop and android dev comes free.

As long as you stick to Java 6 and APIs common to both platforms.
It was about surveillance. If you don't understand that, think again. To make it easier:

> What obligation does law enforcement have to regulate content that you and I, as open-Internet believers, agree is unlawful?

Translation: what obligation does law enforcement has to police Internet with surveillance in order to catch content that we agree is unlawful? Same can be asked about ISPs.

> Shall we allow illegal content in order to err on the side of caution?"

Translation: should we oppose massive surveillance to prevent power abuse even if it will prevent catching unlawful content?

To that I answered, that current surveillance is already abusive, so the question doesn't really start.
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If a federal/state/local government declares something illegal, they can shut it down within their jurisdiction. There is no "I'm on the internet so you can't enforce laws" get out of jail free card.
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MDI is no longer operational. It operated from 1996-2010. So your query for 2015 comes up empty.

The successor instrument is called HMI, which returns 4096^2 images on a pretty fast cadence (45s or 720s depending on your purposes). It is much superior to MDI. The HMI instrument team is at Stanford University, so I'd point you there for data rather than to the NASA site, which offers a lot of sources and seems to suffer from a least-common-denominator effect.

Recent HMI quick look products are here: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/

There is a back-catalog of JPEG images for browsing: http://hmi.stanford.edu/data/hmiimage.html

For science purposes, you can get FITS data from http://jsoc.stanford.edu . There are a lot of data products -- intensity, magnetic field (line-of-sight and vector), velocity, tracked regions, etc., as well as near-real-time analogs of much of this data (not as well-calibrated, but arrives within a couple hours of being taken).

There is no embargo on this data. They just expect acknowledgement (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/rules.php).
> Most likely I would have failed fizz buzz, given that if it wasn't for HN I would have never heard of it.

If you required prior knowledge of Fizz Buzz to solve it successfully, you should absolutely never be hired to program anything.
1) Be smarter with your money
2) Corporations are not your friends, don't kill yourself for low pay expecting them to "get you back"
3) You don't really need that 11th beer.
In the filing introducing the two witnesses, the defense failed to concretely specify what they'd be testifying about. A late-game strategic switch to using their own experts is one thing; being coy about what those witnesses would testify is another.
Or because they couldn't be bothered, and the "discourage" part is just the excuse...
I love HN, but the echo chamber here about how Wheeler was some crony of the NACTA was impossible to drown out.

If you look at the bottom of many of the previous Net Neutrality threads, there will be heavily downvoted posts (some of mine included) that Wheeler was previously an entrepreneur who was trying to disrupt traditional service providers, he was a VC who backed truly disruptive companies, and he had already been blocked from implementing very consumer-friendly rules at the FCC -- so he might be not be some mustache-twirling villain.

The ignorant fervor was pretty intense.
This is still better than no ban on lawful or unlawful content
They do actually capture everything, but there's no way they're renting this to the RIAA.
Depends on how it's worded. If blocking lawful traffic is banned, then blocking a whole protocol that you don't know the contents of is unlawful. There might have to be some clarification around intent, but there are certainly many laws for which "I didn't think I was breaking the law" is an invalid defense.
"For example, there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling."

No last-mile unbundling means instead of fostering better service through competition, we're attempting to foster better service through regulation.
Make a deal with the Devil and you'll only get burned. The FCC regulating the internet, what could go wrong?
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> 1) The problem this fixes is largely non-existent today. The threat of fast and slow-lanes is one I've yet to experience.

Verizon is already throttling Youtube and Netflix traffic because the content providers refuse to pay extra for normal delivery.

> 2) Opening the door for more internet regulation seems like a bad idea. At first, things may go swimmingly, but I suspect regulatory capture will creep up on this industry, just as it has so many others. You may trust Obama, but if and when the next Nixon comes to power, will you be as comfortable with the executive's increased authority over the internet via the FCC?

The FCC already has the authority to regulate the internet. It's trying to establish rules within the authority granted to it by the US Congress.

> 3) The language "lawful content and services" to me seems concerning. Could this be the death of bit torrent?

This does seem concerning, but there's some discussion up the thread about what this likely means. We won't know for sure though until the actual proposed rules are announced. This is more of "announcing an announcement" than anything else.
Over streets is one of the least safe place to fly - imagine a 10km brick falling at 40km/h into incoming traffic or a group of pedestrians. As for the final contact, your average quadcopter will have like 10-20 minutes of flight time tops; it can't just wait for you to signal it - being even a minute late could mean the drone won't make it back to a charging station.
Everything is relative. If the salaries are 1/4 what they are in the US (as an example), then the cost of pizza will be relatively the same too. The percentage of that pizza that goes towards paying for the delivery is pretty much the same.
In related news, prince Al-Waleed bin Talal just sold his stake in Fox News.
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So what happens when there is a massive fluctuation in price and that third-party payment processor declares bankruptcy? It's not like this is being backed by a major financial institution.

We're talking about a currency that could lose half it's value in a matter of hours. And when their total tax revenue is $3.2 BILLION, what third party processor is going to be able to soak up the potential losses?
* I've managed to move my blog from Wordpress to my GitHub pages powered domain: http://r3bl.github.io/

* I've managed to read five books in the first ten days of January! My goal is to read at least one book a month in 2015.

* I've managed to lower my cigarette addiction. Now I am fully able to control myself. If I smoke more cigarettes in a day than I think I should, I can pause a couple of days without smoking a single cigarette without any problems. I feel great managing to control just how much I smoke considering that I don't have the desire needed to quit smoking completely.

* I've found my passion once again. Not a day has passed without me learning something new. I'm actually trying to build my habit: http://r3bl.github.io/en/learn-something-every-day/

* I've completely open sourced everything I do on my GitHub. My notes, my portfolio, my journal, my blog... Everything is up on GitHub and I'm currently in a 14 days streak. I will try to continue at least to 50.

* I've managed to write an article worthy of being published on Opensource.com. It is going to be published by the end of February.
Ah yes, that explains why radio stations and OTA TV channels don't exist anymore... Oh wait
They explicitly forbid "selling" the data, so it's not open source in any usual sense of the phrase.
As someone who is currently learning how to code, the author gets it mostly right.

For me, the hardest parts of programming as a beginner - understanding OOP, data structures, etc. - didn't really 'click' until I stopped reading tutorials about them and start writing my own programs. The idea of 'objects' and 'instance variables' was mind boggingly confusing at first, but once I stopped worrying about how to make sense of them, the concepts somehow just fell into place.

I've also been trying to learn French simultaneously. The process was somewhat similar - taking a few Duolingo lessons and thinking that 'hey, I can do this!'. Then I read some actual French prose and everything seemed impossibly difficult. Things didn't 'click' until I started living and breathing French.

It's the same thing with coding.
Torrent traffic is lawful on a basic level. There are works being distributed via torrent that are intended to be there.
If you are at that level you could become an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Basically at IBM you don't have to move to business to make it to a very high level. You can remain an engineer and keep doing the work you like and are best at. We were acquired. Founders earned millions. One of them still works for IBM as a DE.
This is probably true for a lot of other things. Learning an instrument, learning karate, etc.
basically its easy to get started than to keep going.
The vast majority of the Chinese population with meaningful consumption power live in hire rise apartment buildings in the cities. So if you can't drop the package in a yard, how do you deliver by drone?
Great article. I've recently been self-teaching myself machine learning the same way. I found that it started to get difficult in the middle of the course staying on track.

I decided to "scratch an itch" in open source parlance and start a study group I call colearning. Colearning provides a place for people doing remote education (or working on their own projects or writing) to have structured time to study and move forward towards their goals. It helps provide the positive pressure that a real physical class provides.

Our colearning group currently meets at Borderlands Books in San Francisco on Sunday's from 11 am to 4 pm. Message me and you can come join!

I've done this to help provide the structure I need to keep learning; its already helped me advance greatly in my own studies as I make forward progress every week.

Years ago I also identified a need for community while being self employed and started the coworking movement.
But the recipe is the solution, the finely crafted source code, that we have to deploy. Cooking may be more similar to DevOps than software engineering.
When he was killed, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed in the company of several high-level AQAP fighters. What's your best source for al-Awlaki's attempt to extract his son from Yemen?
you know you have to
He means illegal alien.
We do this in Sandglaz. On page load the skeleton of the app is there without content, and once data is ready we render the rest.
Why the ex-cable lobbyist running the FCC turned against his old clients
I really like Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Series for this. It has a ton of recipes, but there is also a decent amount of discussion of the concepts behind recipes and multiple ways to alter most recipes, as well as tables that make this sort of concept explicit (e.g. There is a table for soups that has a list of well known soups with a column for the liquid base, protein and vegetable). I rarely pull recipes directly out of this book, but it has completely changed the way I think about cooking.