skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from your source:

>Verizon had a total of 4.8 million FiOS Internet and 4.2 million FiOS Video connections at year-end.

Its nearly a 50-50 split, not primarily internet as you suggest.

heres comcasts:
>As of December 31, 2011, our cable systems served 22.3 million video customers, 18.1 million high-speed Internet customers and 9.3 million voice customers and passed more than 52 million homes and businesses in 39 states and the District of Columbia.

and further:

>43% of the homes in the areas we serve subscribed to our video services ... 35% of the homes in the areas we serve subscribed to our high-speed Internet services

4.2:4.8::22.3:18.1

That doesnt seem, to me, to be an outrageous comparison.

Also as far as lucrative:

>Programming expenses, our largest operating expense, are the fees we pay to license the programming we distribute to our video customers.

Programming for cable, and not infrastructure or buildouts is their largest expense.

I hope i dont come across as combative here, to be honest talking with you on HN has taught me a lot about this very complex issue, and given me a lot to think about - i appreciate your civility
This doesn't really answer your question but you might be interested in this book

http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope

http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Under-Microscope-Illustrated-Inte...
It seems like it's obvious that it should be able to remove the allocation of the block, however as with everything in Ruby there are edge cases.

What happens if you're halfway through executing this method, you've not allocated the block, and somebody wants to start a debugger? Then you have you go back and somehow recreate the Proc as if it was always there. Same thing if someone uses ObjectSpace to look for all live Procs.
Are we reaching peak clickbait ?
Once this strategy's ROI goes down, I'm sure another morally void strategy will take its place.
And so the cycle of business churns endlessly.

I like the PT Barnum reference by aresant. Just more evidence to suggest history simply repeats.
Would you check both? :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9120364
Different audiences. The Economist costs on Amazon $127/year, and $6.99 for a single issue when I pick up one at the airport.

Most sites using crap attention grabbing headlines need to do so to attract clicks when their user base are ones who scoff at paying anything at all to consume their content.
If an unfunded team can grab 9TB of Reader data, and the Internet Archive can host it forever, Google really has no excuse here. https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_greader
Beautiful tool!

Something seems unfinished with the column-to-position associations. Maybe they need some more style to communicate the purpose a bit clearer? (e.g. representing the columns-to-positions in a table style, or more vertical padding separation, or referencing positions by letter (A, B, C, etc.) instead of by #).
Wow, nice! Never used ircII but used BitchX (famous spin-off)! Today I use "weechat", an enhanced version of 'irssi' while usually lagging on Freenode :-)
Some fonts like the Alegreya Sans have numbers with varying heights, it is just a matter of style.
The NASA Photo Collection Worth Over $1M
"My point is that non-elected officials are shielded from many aspects that lead to corruption in elected officials"

My point is that the non-elected officials are not shielded and have a different corruption path going. In a lot of ways, a rich elected official is probably better insulated than a high level bureaucrat.

We elect people to make the laws. Regulations are the laws and they should be the responsibility of the people we elect. I cannot vote out of office a bureaucrat. If you believe your congress person is corrupt then vote them out. This whole rule-making process is a corruption of the system.
And of course my buddy finally finds it after I post a (now that I look twice, horribly formatted) hackernews question

thanks all https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-othe...
Hm, not on Freenode. Small channels are that active but if you go on #linux, #javascript, even #ruby is considerably active...
I've used RamNode and had a great experience using them.
Karojisatsu – Leaving the DevOps Community
I gave my email address to someone last night who misheard it as Beaver Signal. Pretty sure I like yours better.
You're using a single line of the comment out of context to disagree with the spirit of the comment.
Obama's thank you note to net neutrality supporters
It may have shipped, but the issue was that there was very little interoperability. Two independent implementations probably could not communicate, which seriously hindered adoption of the OSI model.

The TCP/IP community had Connectathons, where interoperability was verified between vendors.
Honest question, how does prop 13 increase the cost of living?
Option 4. Remote work. That would solve for packed offices, packed parking lots, overpriced real estate, long commutes, and more.
I added the backtracking effect in this article without stacking a new transformer. In a way somewhat similar in which a new interpreter can add a new effect to a free monad.
"IPSec and IPv6 mobility were great ideas that are poorly executed. In reality they should be closely bound -- you cannot securely or reliably implement endpoint mobility without authentication."

I have been told -- take this at unsubstantiated rumor level only -- that the NSA opposed the idea that all IPv6 stacks would use opportunistic encryption by default, and exerted influence to make sure that did not happen.
In theory, Sailfish could sandbox/isolate native app data from the compatibility layer which runs Android apps. Whether they will expose a sufficiently granular policy/management API is an open question.
Isn't the military looking into nootropics ?
I'm not really sure how legitimate this link is but . . .
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/03/12/the-coming-revolution-in...

I've definitely heard of some military folks looking into nootropics pretty heavily in the specific context of training drone pilots. Since those drones cost 1.3 million usd.

It seems strange, they wouldn't have some ivy league scientists on the experiments as well.
Fourthed. He was a great inspiration to me.
I really agree with the essentials of what you write:

- "surprised that this whole thing is confusing and dividing so many people"

- "the dress could be either and the photo doesn't really give enough context to say anything definitive"

I have used the same two arguments to explain why this hype appeared in the first place, and why the "scientific" analysis many people try to follow is conceptually wrong. Blog post and corresponding discussion can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9120940
Maybe news sites can have multiple headlines?
Sane/sensible when you are already on the site and
click bait to get people to the site.
I was only confused for a second then I got it from the context of his comment.
Oh, i just saw that you require people uploading their photos and stuff....
VLC is no longer available on the US App store. It was pulled, probably either by Apple for no longer being in compliance with App Store guidelines, or by VLC because a last-minute bug was found. I do not know which is true, and neither Apple nor VLC is talking about it.
yes, obviously, & i'm surprised they haven't
This is awesome. I've been searching for things like this for a long time (recently I've found Point and Branch), but hey, links! Links are web things, not phone things.
Why Natural Selection Hasn’t Trashed Mental Illness
Castro is nice enough but there are enough people to support another urban center. I'm with you on being skeptical of dome life.
That was one of the biggest culture-shocks for me when I arrived in the Bay Area. Everyone was like "So you'll be working in MTV?", a bunch of the local mailing lists were prefixed "mtv-", all the conference rooms were labeled "MTV-43-2-...", and I was like "What's this MTV....ohhhh, Mountain View". It's sorta like "The City" clearly means San Francisco to anyone living in the Bay Area, while it means New York City to anyone living in the Northeast.

Well, if enough people say it, it'll catch on. I'd bet that Google is rapidly becoming more important to most people than Music Television anyway.
Another thing that really gets me, given responsive design, is the lack of responsive ads... ad sizes that can go from leaderboard, to tranditional, to micro (phone) sized... as you stretch/reduce your screen size...

As it is, my plan is to render whatever original size, and resizes just won't see/render ads (flux/react)... it's too much of a pain to do more than that, and don't want to show multiples of ads for a single view.

I don't think things need to be plain text.. but if limited to HTML+CSS only, that would be a pretty great start.
This series of concerns is close to my heart. Some time ago, I built a toy site that lets people make Gifs out of YouTube videos[0]. I put no limits on the service since I'm lazy and limits would have required extra work.

This means there's no limit on the size of gifs created, nor any limit on their length. Additionally, a user can make as many gifs as they like. I think one can imagine where this is going.

Since it's inception, people have made tens of thousands of gifs, and now I have hundreds of gigabytes of gifs I have to host. Recently, to save space I had to go through and delete pretty much all the gifs that had been created before a particular time. I downloaded them to my personal computer to ensure that some record of them remains, but still, I potentially broke tens of thousands of links.

In the future, I'll be putting all sorts of limits on user creations, but I'm curious how bad action like this is?

[0] - http://gifmachine.xwl.me/
Which is sort of the point I was trying to get across.
Media is bifurcated. If people are sick of free click bait, they're welcome to pay cash, or with attention to ads. If companies can't make money on click bait after a time, they'll stop.

I prefer simple cash myself.
The render on the blog post shows huge amounts of sunlight, curved geodesic, and the indoor path curving over the 'entrance', increasing the distance for someone on the inside to get out.
Elderly Being Stripped of All Rights and Assets Seized Across USA
Each day elderly are deemed incapacitated by State probate courts (many falsely),stripped of their human rights,declared legally dead making them property of court appointed guardians,& their assets seized often w/out family members ever being notified of the sham court proceeding. Knowledge of these atrocities has existed for decades at the federal level yet nothing is being done. Victims of this unimaginable abuse of power/greed have been prevented from seeing their families/spouses for years, legal documents such as durable powers of attorney/living wills/healthcare directives are disregarded by state probate courts exercising "judicial discretion." Guardians are selling off wards' assets at discounted prices one day only to resell them days later at full market value. Oversight on how the elderly person's hard earned savings, pensions, social security & veteran's benefits are being spent is nonexistent. Often, families of kidnapped elderly have spent their life savings, mortgaged their homes/futures trying to free their loved ones, almost always unsuccessfully. All the money to pay the numerous attorneys/court proceedings is funded by the ward's estate against their families. It's mind-blowing & disgraceful. Elderly wards are often forcibly removed from their homes into the lowest cost state run nursing homes with a long list of violations. They are drugged into submission/living in utter hell. The process is essentially the same across the US: isolate, medicate & steal the estate! Federal legislation to end this are needed TODAY.It's time for each of us to take action. This is a burgeoning industry: new guardians/attorneys jump on the gravy train daily. Write your legislators, tell your friends/family, join the National Assoc. to Stop Guardianship Abuse. You are now aware of these evil doers & the unimaginable suffering tens of thousands of elderly/their families are suffering daily. If you choose not to act, let your inaction weigh on your conscience.
Anyone know if they fixed the broken dlna?
2 sides of crazy and Elon's on the good side of crazy of course
There's a signal processing joke here... except I can never remember if the punchline is Hamming or Hanning.
Mattermark is hiring their first DevOps Engineer to lead the charge
Pepyaka is a meme from the Russian Internet, meaning "a thing." I've made a similar Chrome extension for a private Russian web
community and the description partially migrated here. I’ll fix it.
Kanye West's “Never Let Me Down” Annotated by Michael Bolton on Genius
All it's doing is opening a file, connecting to other clients and appending the messages between clients to the file.

What you're missing is that K automatically sets up an environment with the necessary pieces in place. A server, the sockets, a type of reactive/eventloopy environment.

Everything else is just function call/index/assignment and some mappy/foldy stuff

In some ways its the same reason Mathematica seems so magic sometimes.
Sorry to disappoint! We didn't post this to HN, but I can see how the title here is misleading.
Sorry, fat finger accidentally down voted, meant to up vote! Great piece of information, fascinating that such information is still there to be teased out!
Google management must feel there is a benefit to having their employees clustered into a small number of campuses. Maybe mountain view isn't the optimal place for that, but uprooting the campus and distributing it among failed shopping malls throughout the world or building a giant googleplex in Montana is probably not a good strategy to keep the bulk of their employees.
The BI article [1] you linked to only shows a correlation between a handful of companies' failure and their new buildings. They failed because of other factors; new buildings only accelerated their downfall.

If this is the norm we wouldn't even have Google (and FB, Apple, Microsoft, Apple, etc) campuses today.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/poorly-timed-headquarters-200...
Here is the page I wrote in 2003, about the Soviet Exploration of Venus. You can find links to the images that I processed.
It's quite the hairball: http://fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/

:D
http://mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm
This may be strange to the author, but many of us experience Git completely outside of the realm of Github. Many of his complaints are fairly irrelevant then.
There is no mention of false-positive rates, one of the things about traditional antimalware software that tends to worry me a bit. Even "for low-level systems that follow a predictable and standard routine", things like spikes in load could look unusual.

Using "side channel" hints is actually what (some) humans do to suspect malware infection too - unusually large amounts of HDD or network activity while the system is idle, or CPU fans running much more than normal, tends to raise suspicion.
Thoughts at the Female Founders Conference 2015
Has Node.js adoption peaked? If so, what's next for server-side app development?
Stacked Ball Drop Physics Demonstration (YouTube)
Nice clean app design. What are you using to render PDFs?
The "scientific" conclusion taken by Wired is not correct. Nobody is "wrong". The phenomenon we observe is known, and it is the manipulative way the questions were asked that led to the weird hype. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9120940 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9118214
(Not OP) I just tried - it's top in an incognito search as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's geolocation-based.
> I guess Google could build apartments too but that's not ideal, I don't want to live at work.

The cool thing about Google building housing is, it benefits you even if you don't want to live at work. Plenty of people (myself likely included) would enjoy living close to work in a lively apartment building surrounded by like-minded people. But if you're not one of them, you still win, by virtue of not having to compete with these people for housing elsewhere.
Its a stretch to say natural selection put decay in the brain for a good reason. Not every trait was the result of positive or negative selection. Traits can occur as side effects of another trait (of another trait etc etc) that was positive or negatively selected.

If a new, sub optimal trait does not negatively affect the specimens ability to reproduce then there is no reason to try and select against it. Such a circumstance would not imply the trait was positively selected for.
Thank you for introducing me to this great show!
Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water.
It's not really for me but I'm not a big fan of this stuff. I went to a JS conference recently and a whole day of it was devoted to "LOL marquee tags and 3D text GIFs". Silly me, I thought we'd talk about writing code.
This won't happen in software engineering as the (culturally dominant) Silicon Valley world defines it.

Being a professional means that you have ethical obligations that supersede managerial authority. It's debatable how often things actually work that way, but that's the idea. On one hand, this increases your personal responsibility (you can't use "following orders" as an excuse) as a professional. On the other, the professional is protected by boards and certifications and limits on the labor supply that give him leverage, because even if he's fired, he's still certified as being worth a damn. If anyone can enter the labor market, then bosses become the sole source/record of credibility-- getting laid off is no big deal, but a bad reference can and a career-- and hold all the cards, which means that employees have no moral agency. On the other hand, if there's a minimum level of credibility to be part of the profession, then (at least in theory) each professional has sufficient credibility to work independently and therefore has no reason to fear management, and therefore can push back against unethical orders (and is required to do so).

I think it's obvious that the VCs and the wage-fixing tech barons of Silicon Valley would fight such a structure, should it emerge, with all that they've got. They hold all the cards now, and a union or professional guild would threaten that, and they're very good at convincing a surprising percentage of engineers (perhaps due to the age discrimination culture, which favors naivete over experience) that interests are aligned between the side of the tech barons and investors and serial founders and that of the engineers, never mind any evidence to the contrary.
We would agree. The UI itself is still evolving rapidly, the core functionality just finally came together and got useful. Ideally, we get feedback during this process that helps us nail down the most important workflows and give it a serious UX paint job.
Deepmind artificial intelligence at FDOT14
There are a few options how I can handle it.

* Chrome web store support page. It is a default option. The user can complain there if something doesn't work.

* Implement a complain button in the extension and if something broke and X users clicked the button, I will take action. IMHO It would be nice to have a central maintenance point which the extension will check and in case If you turned on 'maintenance mode' then just show a dialog to users like: The extension isn’t working properly right now. It will automatically be disabled. What to do? [Disable], [Keep it running]

* automatic way: try to build a heuristic system which will monitor changes in the layout and notify to the developer of any issues.

In any case, there will always be a time when the extension would not work if Twitter changes something globally.

I'll be very happy if this functionality will be implemented on the Twitter side.
Another ex-adware person here:

Building software nobody wants is pretty soul-crushing (I've since left the ad industry altogether), and I haven't heard a case of anyone actually wanting my previous employer's software.

Of course there's rationalizations ("That's just the way the internet works", "If we don't do it someone else will", and the insane "They agreed to the terms"), but I don't think anyone has the mental capacity to convince themselves people actually want malware.

People making adware generally aren't openly malevolent, but there seems to be the consensus that 'users' who install the software are idiots (sometimes with the implication that this makes it okay to scam them).

That said, it's still lucrative (and with very low risk of any repercussions), so most of the industry just wants money and doesn't really care.
Business Insider's content isn't journalism. It's just like Buzzfeed, it's a content farm,it's marketing. Let's look at other articles from that author :

http://uk.businessinsider.com/author/james-cook

Most of them are "10 things blah blah blah", or are as bad as the article in question. the guy worked for the Dailydot, what do people expect from him? real news? Granted writers don't always choose the title of their article, I'm not sure however if Business Insider even has editors.

At the same time most readers don't want to pay for news anymore.People can't have it both ways.The value here is in the internet traffic, not in the content or the quality of the news.
Strongly reminded of How Buildings Learn's first episode[1], about buildings as statements which turn out to neglect the people who occupy them.

[1] http://youtu.be/AvEqfg2sIH0
Similarly, I remember using (PJIRC? ParrotIRC? Something like that from ~2000) to get on trivia game channels when I was in elementary school. Then, years later when I was getting into programming, I found out that this thing I've been using all along is a great resource for connecting with like minded people! The internet has been a social playground to me for almost as long as I've been exposed to it.
So, that the function reifies the block is not part of its interface, though, it's part of its implementation. If anything it's a problem that this implementation detail leaks out through the interface.

Furthermore, if you pass it a block with & on the call-side, it's not really reifying a block anyways (even if there is still a performance penalty, which I've never checked), so it's not even true that's what it means in general.

The truth is all functions take a block in ruby. Only some of them do anything with it. Given that, indicating that you take a block with the &block argument seems entirely reasonable to me, if you don't mind the performance hit.
Why don't we instead write better security tools, encryption, and fight to get backdoors our of our existing systems? Unlike bridge-building, we actually create most the problems we face --- and have the tools to stop them.

This is the fundamental problem with licensure: you start with the premise of "there are bad and/or incompetent people", then try to solve it by... having those same people judge each other. Its a circular solution, only now you also get politics. Do you really think these state boards would apply the same scrutiny to NSA backdoors? Of course not, all of a sudden the seemingly clear cut ethical questions brought up in this post would through the magic of politics become "difficult subtleties".

I want to put my valuables in a safe, not make everyone take an oath to not steal.