skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in South Philadelphia (7th and Oregon), and while I have neither Comcast nor Verizon service, it seems like I can get either. They both mail me at least once a week, and occasionally come to my door, asking me to sign up. I investigated signing up for FIOS, but the cost was $90/month, and it just isn't worth that much to me. I have FIOS at work and it's fantastic, but my employer only pays $25/month for it.

From what I understand, Verizon is not expanding their FIOS service area anymore, because so many people are like me, and don't want to pay much for it.
I run the current Firefox 38 Nightly 64-bit Windows version with "Enable E10S (multi-process)" turned on (default setting). There are only two processes.
A single exchange brings all traders together reducing search and monitoring costs and thereby reducing trading costs. The single exchange as a monopoly can extract rents from members and has little incentive to improve stuff, e.g. infrastructure. So the tension is between the monopoly power and the liquidity externality arrising from bringing traders together to the same place. The market makers do not necessarily have a monopoly, they can compete against each other, but face monopoly level fees, potentially. (This is my amateur economic analysis, but I think basically this is what economists think.) A fragmented market increases competition on fees and infrastructure, but traders face search, monitoring costs and the cost of dealing with HFTs.
Read a book called The Google Resume. I think it'll help you position yourself better in the market.
The New York area barely builds new housing
I'm one of the developers on the video player used on that page. Great work guys!

Edit: I should add in, the player is primarily Javascript with a small rendering engine for Flash fallback. Even in the Flash case, everything is controlled via JS through a flash bridge. We prioritize HTML5 video when possible across browsers and devices.
it's time to upgrade, boss! download 12.17 please
Simple: pursuit of the status quo ante.

HFT ate the lunch of the people who benefited most from the old system: giant broker-dealers (investment banks) who made grotesque fees for the simple service of shopping large blocks on behalf of pension and mutual funds. Those funds now get better service without special fee-collecting agents.

_Flash Boys_ was not just panned by HFT people. Where are you sourcing that objection from?
Interesting info you gave.

I found Vyvanse recently became legal in Brazil, but it has two problems: First, still requires a prescription, and medics are not free, I cannot randomly visit doctors until one that knows about it (seemly it is still obscure here) heard of it and agrees to try to diagnose me. The other, it is ABSURDLY EXPENSIVE (28 pills is about half of a monthly mininum wage)

As for Strattera, Brazil officially ignore it, like if it don't existed, so you can import it without much consequences. Still expensive though :( (less than Vyvanse, but expensive)

EDIT: I feel sad that as a 27 year old that hates meds I will end taking meds like a 70 year old take (I already have to chronically use 2 meds... this will add another one)
Another useful OpenGL macro, at least for me, is this one:

#define GLSL(str) (char*)"#version 330\n" #str

It basically enables you to embed quick snippets of GLSL inside your C code, instead of using concatenated strings. Example:

char* fragShader = GLSL(
in vec3 uv;
out vec4 color;
uniform sampler2DArray tex;
void main()
{
// Comments work too
color = texture(tex, uv);
}
);

In Sublime Text you even get code completion and color highlighting, since GLSL and C look so alike.

I believe it might work for OpenCL Kernels too.

The only downside is that it doesn't add line breaks by itself (hence the "#version 330\n", which requires a line break), so GLSL Compilation errors aren't as useful.

(Source: https://open.gl/geometry )
cured my 2 pump chump-itis
Of course a 90 minute commute is a horrible idea. So why would they have to drive? Why couldn't they work from home? If code is checked into GitHub and deployed to cloud servers, why are we requiring new hires to work in the SF office every day? (That was my point.)
This is really about the tech equivalent of fashion. You're not still using last year's cool browser, are you?

I doubt there is enough difference between the browsers to make a meaningful productivity impact for most end users (the population at HN might probably has more exceptions to that statement). The only significant difference is confidentiality, where I trust Mozilla far more than Google.

Here is what is really going on:

1) IE defined the web for most people, with 95% market share.

2) Firefox became the new, cool alternative, with some social/political appeal (free-as-in-speech, non-profit mission, openness, anti-corporate), and the appeal of being the cutting-edge and the shiny-new thing.

3) 'New' and 'cool' have shelf lives, slowing your subjective experience of browsers and skinny blue jeans. Also, Mozilla lacked a marketing budget and department to manage and refresh their image, as other vendors might have done: 'In limited release beta preview: Firefox XE! Be the first person you know to get it! It's burning up the 'net!'

4) Google was an uber-cool company, and they put out a browser, which became the new uber-cool thing. 'You're not still using Firefox, are you?' (Actually said to an end-user I was helping by a technorati wannabe.)

5) Chrome might have performed better for a time, but the browsers were neck and neck in performance tests for many years while people rationalized their love of cool. As I said, I doubt there was much real difference, except in some specialized circumstances.

6) Now repeat #3, except this time for Chrome. The subtext and whole point of this article is, 'is Chrome no longer cool?' It's as if the author is throwing some red meat in the waters, to see if the piranha are ready to swarm.

Perhaps Mozilla and Google should pump in fake engine noise.
if you can't tell me who, don't tell me at all! it's a waste of time, effort and bad experience.
Build a U.S. Transcontinental Aqueduct (2009)
I thought the topic of the thread was government espionage, not the private interests that are partnering with the government.
I suspect the other party gave LinkedIn their address book, and they're trying to maximize the odds of a connection.
'the moron behind it didn't think more than one step ahead'

I think many and possibly most of these are based on regulatory capture where elected officials / regulators are ‘given incentives’ to look the other way.

Lots of seemingly stupid decisions are completely reasonable from the person who made them. All it takes is for someone to be judged just on their little piece of what happens (how much do we spend on paper) and not judged based on how much their changes hurt the corporation/overall economy etc. And before you know it, we saved 1million in ink last year at the cost of 50 million in manpower.
It is also interesting that there have been published pieces showing that most of those gains have been correlated to income. People in the top 50% of income makers are living significantly longer than those in the bottom.

So I would caution against viewing this whole population study as a complete indicator that long-term unemployment is now an insignificant problem.
If it's easy, why use it as a filter?
> In a meta sense I'm curious why you had to create a new account just to post this

Events led me to conclude that using the same account consistently was a bad idea from an employment standpoint. It has nothing to do with this. It is just what I do now. Hell, the password for this account should be easy to guess if you start with the letter a and work your way to the right.

> You cannot see a tree grow, but it does. And many people cannot see that our system of governing is working, but it does. As long as you take the long view, it will. Believe that you are a helpless pawn and all is lost, and it won't.

It is my belief that wealthy people can (usually) get away with passing whatever crap they want through Congress.

The only tool I have at my disposal is point out when this happens and hope people get outraged enough to do something. I'm confused why you view that with a belief that I'm helpless?

P.s. Given that I basically gave away the password, this is the last time I'll use the account.
Profiles have always existed but I distinctly remember in the past getting "there's already an instance of Firefox running" when trying to have multiple open at the same time. proflist does make it easier to switch but there is no visible way to know which profile an open window is using.
A Brief History of the Congolese Space Program
I think there's a middle ground though. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphics were around but not understood until the rosetta stone was found. Without a "digital rosetta stone" those terabytes would be similarly useless.

There's also some historical value in journals of every day folks, e.g. soldier's notes from major battles or those present at historical events.
I'd like to switch back to Firefox, but they do not support inverted colors like Chrome does.

Hacker Vision on Chrome is sooooo good. The closest I've found for Firefox is Color Toggle, but it fails in a lot of places, enough that FF+CT is not usable as my main browser.

(This difference might be laid at the feet of the plugin writers, but I have the idea that there is inversion support available in the browser in Chrome but not in FF.)

Unfortunately, after getting used to Hacker Vision, good color inversion is a must-have feature for me.
USDA Just Approved Apples That Don’t Turn Brown
Freelancers – Are You Speaking Your Clients Language?
Tabagismul+TRATAMENTE+NATURISTE
What if you manually go to the GApps URL? (https://mail.google.com/a/your.school.mail.domain.here)
I assume that's what your school's website is probably linking to, but it's worth a shot.
Yes, huu.la is smooth.
hahahaha! Great response. Yes, mass digital surveillance or mass collection of data if you like. This is arguably Google's hidden agenda and perhaps the most compelling reason to dump Chrome aside from performance issues.
So far as I know Japan has a category for deaths by overwork in their statistics, but US, conveniently, does not.
> Remember when we all switched from Firefox to Chrome?

Nope. Vertical tabs are the future and Chrome never had that.
Surely an organization with as much resources and revenue as Google can have their cake and eat it too?
> lawyer weaselwords

I like it
That's what I have to do (over and over and over and over again) to make it work. I wish it would stay connected, but at least it works.
It's obvious that they see the issue, since the examples in their slide deck are about correlation between different securities and between the same security trading on different exchanges. What I don't see is how batch auctions get around the distributed systems problem; we're still talking about an eventually-consistent system, right? There still must be opportunities for sniping, right?

(I'm not smart enough to know the answer, which is why I'm asking).
One of the best scenes from Page One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmkec_4Rfo

Carr talks to the Vice guys about their deal with CNN: "Just because you put on a fucking safari helmet and looked at some poop, doesn't give you the right to insult what we do."
> But do you really believe random-guy calling the FBI should warrant as much attention as multi-national financial institution reporting a potential crime?

Well, yeah, if corporations are people with equal rights, that means that the law should treat them equally to other people.
Your use of "rights" is a little unclear. We all stand on the shoulders of giants in all things. Yet I most certainly have the right to prevent people from standing on my shoulders. I write proprietary code for video game entertainment so I regularly take advantage of that right.

The GPL license has the right to limit what freedoms I have as a developer if I choose to use code it covers. It limits the freedom of some people (developers) to protect the freedom of other people (consumers). I similarly have the right to choose a different license that prioritizes my freedoms of a developer over the freedoms of consumers.

And all of these things are possible due to the restriction of freedom over all of us as governed by copyright law.
This makes me think of the launch of Google Domains[1]. One of the top comments was "What happens when Google sunsets this product?" which is a great question we should all be asking before investing resources (money or time) into a new Google product. Maybe even more so the ones that are labeled as beta. We should also be skeptical of their customer service, because as many of the comments show[2] users are wary of this too.

I made the choice to use Google Domains last week for a pet project because:
1) Google has been good at letting users get their data out of their system, and they give a long notice of impending sunsets and opportunities to migrate away.
2) Google specifically called out email, phone, and chat support for this new product.

So far I've been very happy and they addressed a few of my particular needs. But I do worry about lock-in or wasted time.

Maybe one of the questions I'd ask upset Helpout users is how much time was spent "wasted" or if any of it was useful. Perhaps Google was trying to help out everyone (make them more skeptical of Google products, learn from their mistakes, etc.) by sunsetting Helpouts! ;)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7934146
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933870
IMO, including home chargers is fine (if it were common practice for people to have gas pumps in their garages those would be fair to count as well), but to be a fair comparison, I think you need to count the actual number of gas pumps in total, and factor in the difference in "charging" time between the two technologies. So if there are an average of 6 pumps at each station, and if it takes two minutes to gas up an empty tank versus 30 minutes to fully recharge an electric car, then you really need 75 times as many charging points to claim you have something resembling equality.
Always finally wound up with Firefox, as it has the best mouse gestures support (with add-ons ofc).
I do the same thing; it's incredibly easy to do with the Tree View Tabs extension.

For example, while browsing HN, I'll frequently just middle-click a bunch of article links and (occasionally) their comments, then read them once I have a sizable queue. Same goes for trying to look up documentation to fix some bug in my code; I'll start with a DuckDuckGo search and, suddenly, I have at least a dozen (sometimes multiple dozens) tabs open with Stack Overflow questions and blog posts and official online docs and such with clues pointing me in the right direction.
100% agree. Really any kind of knee-jerk rationalizing away of deaths, like that by the OP, should probably be taken cautiously.
Oh I don't know... how about keeping track of former co-workers, people you meet at networking events, and other professional connections? How about finding useful interesting industry or topic specific news and discussion via groups? Or if you are job-hunting, for finding a path to somebody who works at the company you're targeting, so you can try to get an inside testimonial? Or getting a warm intro when trying to contact VC's or Angel investors? Or perhaps for looking up an individual before meeting them in a professional setting, so you have some background on their experience / interests / etc? I mean, really, there are a million ways that LinkedIn is useful. The fact that they suck in so many other ways is pretty much orthogonal.

Yeah, I think we'd all prefer a site like LinkedIn that somehow manages to avoid "recruiter spam" and all that, but for me personally, I can tolerate a little recruiter spam... and hell, every once in a while I get something like that, that is actually interesting enough to pursue.
Oh, you're not litigating HFT, you're litigating capitalism. Yes: if you think capitalism is bad, it's easy to get to an argument against HFT.
I had to stop and say "wait, what?"

To be fair, much of the huffing and puffing "I'm leaving Firefox...Chrome is so much better!" was based upon the same sort of rhetoric. Early on Chrome didn't even have extensions, much less bloated monstrosities like Ad Block Plus and Firebug (don't get me wrong -- they both are fantastic, but most don't realize how incredibly onerous they are). So those people kicked Firefox to the curb and talked about how grand everything was with Chrome. Now that Chrome has an ecosystem, they put themselves in the same situation again.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/4/facebook-at-13-mil...
Hmm. Interesting if this decision was ultimately responsible for Twitter's declining traffic. Perhaps the same will happen to Linkedin? Of course even if it does we won't have evidence of causation, but it's something to keep in the back of our minds.
In terms of design, it is a project that victordg can be proud of, but I notice a lack of domain knowledge [1] with respect to what charts portray and how they portray them; in very few situations could one infer bezier curves (or splines, or anything) from a set of data points. The result is more an "artist's conception of a chart" than a chart than an actual useful chart.

I do quite like the mouseover data points, I realize these are pretty standard on online charts, but I think he did a good job on them.

However, his chart's constraint on the time series -- really only a logistic progression is supported -- means that it essentially can only produce bar charts. I notice that it simply fails when data is missing from any table cell, which is probably an issue for any potential user; how does one then represent the absence of data?

[1] Disclosure/DK-filter: I do not work with charts or tables of figures, and I don't know a great deal about the topic: I mention it because my understanding is that that false implication of continuity is a serious flaw in chart design.
For my dashcam, there are precious few "compatible" brands of microsd cards. Others behave strangely or cause the auto-overwrite functionality to not work correctly. At first I thought it was just the cam firmware being crap, but I didn't realize there could be such variance in the quality of these cards.
MMM has an excellent guest post on how to get started with aquaponics here:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/10/20/aquaponics/

The author is selling his "Zero To Hero" design plans for a shockingly reasonable $10 here:
http://www.frostyfish.com/shop/aquaponics-plans-2/zero-hero-...

And if you want to buy a 4x8 kit, he also has that for about $400:
http://www.coldweatheraquaponics.com/shop/aeration-2/zero-he...

I've been wanting to try it, but have not as of yet.
Or just older.
This is only my perspective, but I had never heard of it before seeing this article. I'd like to consider myself pretty "in-the-know" when it comes to this sort of stuff, so how in the world is this supposed to work when there's been nearly no awareness? This search trend is pretty telling:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Google%20Helpouts&dat...
> It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs.

Exactly. Tree Style Tab being the biggest reason I've never switched to Chrome.
IRC is full of the "technically entitled"? While this may be true, I don't believe it is. To use IRC all you need is a 386dx, and a little time. No need for a new computer so you can run app that requires 1gb of ram, or a newest cellphone. You don't need broadband connection, 14k modem will suffice. You don't need to pay a dime to use it. You can create/join any chat room you want, you don't need to share who you are, what are your sexual preferences, what color is your skin.. It's how the Internet was meant to be.
I used to love Safari but they've lost me with the direction their UI has taken the last few years. There's something about not showing the full URL by default that bugs me.
LTE is spotty. Looking at coverage maps, it does some interesting things and covers half of our street but our house remains uncovered for the most part.

I don't know that I could get 100% uptake, but I could definitely get 50%. At one point I read that they have cutoffs of, say, a minimum of 10 houses to qualify for serviceability. I think this is an attainable number. There's actually another 20 or so homes at the beginning of the road that I believe to be unserviceable too.

Is there a way to contact the NTIA regarding their BTOP program? I'd personally be interested in seeing where they're investing their money given North Carolina took in a very large chunk ($150M). I'm all for trying to strong arm this until I get better service.
We do have support for quite a few chromatic adaptation transforms to cones space (https://github.com/colour-science/colour/blob/develop/colour...) some cones space transformation are directly tied to the various chromatic adaptation models (https://github.com/colour-science/colour/tree/develop/colour...) or colour appearance models (https://github.com/colour-science/colour/tree/develop/colour...) we have implemented.

We also have the Stockman & Sharpe Cone Fundamentals for 2 and 10 degree observers (https://github.com/colour-science/colour/blob/develop/colour...) and the code to convert those cone fundamentals cmfs to the corresponding XYZ cmfs (https://github.com/colour-science/colour/blob/develop/colour...) although it is more educational than anything else because often, the resulting cmfs are manually adjusted (I would have to check if it is the case with the XYZ cmfs resulting from the LMS cmfs).
Layoffs at Yahoo
Ask HN: Convince boss to open source
Hey everyone - Recently I have been doing a bit at work that if I was doing it at home I would open source it. Working for a corporation has its ups and downs but by far the biggest downer is not being able to give back to the community as much as I would like.

My question for HN is how do I convince my boss to open source things like wrappers around libs? I do not only have to convince my boss (a software developer) but the CEO (all business) as well.
At this exact moment, Avail can only evaluate expressions left-to-right, except of course for functions (block expressions, using [] notation resembling Smalltalk).

However, I'm close to completing the macro mechanism that will allow the same flexibility of syntax present in method names (keywords/operator tokens, argument positions, guillemet-enclosed repeated argument groups, etc), but for constructs that run at compile time with parse trees instead of values. The actual macro mechanisms have been working for some time, but were disabled until we were able to represent the ~dozen syntactic constructs of Avail purely as macros. Then any new syntax wouldn't be in conflict with existing syntax. When that's working we'll toss the existing compiler (the one that knows anything about Avail's current syntax, like statements and functions and variable declarations), and use the compiler that knows nothing about Avail – just how to parse methods and macros. Then we'll be able to support arbitrary evaluation orders, declaration syntax, treating some expressions as lazy, alternative scoping models, etc.

As for custom types, we're investigating ideas about carrying purity annotations through user-defined control structures. Kind of hard to describe in this forum, though.
Reddit comment thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2vrlzx/japan_has...
Because apparently some people can't get pass that filter.. FizzBuzz is also easy, yet it's being used as a filter.