skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah see here for example for 1TB/month traffic VPS: http://iwstack.com/, or unmetered traffic with dedicated box: http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedicated-server-o...

The cost effectiveness really depends on whether your data would fit into that 1TB or it'd require much more.
Well, he was clearly fine with using WMD's.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_progra...

I suppose if someone has a weapon, isn't afraid to use it, and actually has used it and many occasions, you'd be a bit foolish to argue that point, "well, he hasn't used them in 20 years..."
I'm sure he does, his games have been ported to a good number of platforms! That said he tends to be very PC-centric and in pushing that platform makes decisions that make for difficult ports (eg megetextures).

For programmers who have not been through the process of evolving game design and engine requirements getting the balance of flexibility and productivity is tricky. Hoping the fact JC uses singletons does encourage them to be sprinkled more liberally than they already are!
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING," said Death. "JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
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Thanks for the feedback! I've had a few prototypes along the years but this was actually something that I figured someone would be interested in. I'll continue to develop this and add customizable user settings etc when I have time
You are missing that when Google is fetching given image it means the email was most likely not labeled as spam.
Why wouldn't it just be trading existing battery time - which is getting to be a lot of hours - for more power?
> He could start using VMs like the rest of the world

High-accuracy/high-precision NTP servers are extraordinarily timing-sensitive, never mind the fact that they must be connected to some kind of external time standard. None of the currently available hypervisors support the kind of precision required by a stratum-1 NTP server. Even low-precision applications---such as Active Directory, which can handle clock skew of up to 5 minutes by default---recommend against running time servers in virtual machines.

To get an idea of the engineering tolerances involved, please refer to "Clock Quality" in the NTP FAQ:

http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-sw-clocks-quality.htm
I disagree. Myself as well as many people I know like the experience on Southwest. To me the best thing about them is their no-fee cancellation/change policy, right up to 15 minutes before take-off. To change a non-refundable flight on most other airlines carries a default $250+ fee. Being able to check bags at no additional charge is pretty awesome too.
> All I really find missing these days is good line-editing

Probably familiar enough for bash people:

https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine

> and a half-decent terminal emulator in which to run the shell.

Not a terminal emulator (although I think it can do Terminal escape sequences if needed):

https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu
Whitespace is downright inefficient. If I bought a screen with over 2 million pixels in it, any one of those not serving information or functional elements is wasted electricity.

If I wanted whitespace, I'd get a 800x600 screen from the 90s, and create a border around it with white paper. Lot more power efficient, same effect.
Wasn't the "Wizards' Staff" more of Ankh-Morpork song? Nanny was known more for her Hedgehog song.

Although I wouldn't put it past her to hear Wizards' Staff at some point of her long life, and of course she would like it too. :)
"between high-frequency traders, who trade with computer algorithms at nearly light speed"

Seriously, why the do we have to put up with this shit? "Google, which returns the results of your search queries over a network at nearly light speed". "Your remote control, which changes the channel on your television at nearly light speed". It is too stupid for words. Old school luddism.
Flying a drone through Crossrail tunnels [video]
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Do customers that integrate with Zapier have lower churn?
I still rather use a Cloud Service provider like Zoolz as it would be more efficient to benefit from other plans. Amazing idea though!
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> 30. But this Order does not apply the open Internet rules to interconnection.

TLDR: Relax, Comcast. You can still intentionally let all your transit ports saturate every evening so Netflix will blow unless they pay you to peer. Which is what you really wanted to do.
Countries vary a good deal on how much they tax you. And as the article says, St Kitts has no capital gains tax which is by far the most important tax rate for the wealthy.
Trusting Trust which triggered this thread is Thompson's Turing Award Lecture.
"Shook to its core" is more than a bit overstated.
I'm much more comfortable in my used Subaru. My fear of buying a new car comes from knowing that I don't want to spill coffee in it (and I definitely would).
You might enjoy wisp:
https://github.com/Gozala/wisp
This is great. It'd be very powerful if it existed for major industries or functions within a business (eg business intelligence, it, etc). People would pay to listen in. Almost like https://www.doximity.com/ for other businesses.
yes, US is less bad than ISIS. Still far from being good guys though
I figured out someone could get in trouble for an overzealous proxy monitoring policy.
Wondering how well fork() works?
Here's the portion about unlawful content I was waiting for (page 132m para. 304), with the parts I found especially interesting italicized:

"In the NPRM, we tentatively concluded that we should retain the definition of reasonable network management we previously adopted, which does not include preventing transfer of unlawful content or the unlawful transfer of content as a reasonable practice.782 We affirm this tentative conclusion and re-state that open Internet rules do not prohibit broadband providers from making reasonable efforts to address the transfer of unlawful content or unlawful transfers of content to ensure that open Internet rules are not used as a shield to enable unlawful activity or to deter prompt action against such activity.

For example, the no-blocking rule should not be invoked to protect copyright infringement, which has adverse consequences for the economy, nor should it protect child pornography. We reiterate that our rules do not alter the copyright laws and are not intended to prohibit or discourage voluntary practices undertaken to address or mitigate the occurrence of copyright infringement.783 After consideration of the record, we retain this rule, which is applicable to both fixed and mobile broadband providers engaged in broadband Internet access service and reads as follows:
Nothing in this part prohibits reasonable efforts by a provider of broadband Internet access service to address copyright infringement or other unlawful activity.

305. Some commenters contend that this rule promotes the widespread use of intrusive packet inspection technologies by broadband providers to filter objectionable content and that such monitoring poses a threat to customers’ privacy rights.784
Certainly, many broadband providers have the technical tools to conduct deep packet inspection of unencrypted traffic on their networks,785 and consumer privacy is a paramount concern in the Internet age. Nevertheless, we believe that broadband monitoring concerns are adequately addressed by the rules we adopt today, so we decline to alter this provision. This rule is limited to protecting “reasonable efforts . . . to address copyright infringement or other unlawful activity.”786

We retain the discretion to evaluate the reasonableness of broadband providers’ practices under this rule on a case-by-case basis. Consumers also have many tools at their disposal to protect their privacy against deep packet inspection—including SSL encryption, virtual private networks, and routing methods like TOR.787
Further, the complaint processes we adopt today add to these technical methods and advance consumer interests in this area.788"
I sent this comment to HackerNews at nearly light speed! I am a god!
I'll sound like a broken record for saying this, but unless you are under contract you can leave at any time. Two weeks is a courtesy YOU extend and nothing more. If you were to be laid off or fired you wouldn't get two weeks notice, would you? You'd be out within the hour.

If this place is as dysfunctional as it seems, staying two weeks after giving notice will be a nightmare.

So clean your house now as you search for a new job. Take the time to get your work documented and tidied up. Do it quietly. Don't give any signals you're looking. Business as usual.

Once that's all set and you give notice, if your employer gives ANY friction at all then just walk out the door. If they need you for two more weeks of help they can hire you as a contractor at a nicely inflated rate.

And like chrisbennet says, schedule some downtime between jobs to decompress, unpack, and mentally prepare for the next gig (unless you really need the income).
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I got the same with a "URL Category: Extreme, Pornography".

@dang - wasn't there a "possibly NSFW" tag on this earlier?
> You can end up hanging out privately with your superiors or subordinates and this can eventually lead to various personal and romantic entanglements.

That's typically a bad idea anyway. I know that we in the hip, cool developer world like to pretend that an organisation can be flat and rankless—but it really can't.

I think it's completely appropriate for superiors and subordinates to socialise in groups (and kudos to the tech world for keeping that tradition alive when so many organisational cultures are stomping it out), but private socialisation should be limited to those who are on the same level.

As for specifically sex-related issues, the only thing I can think makes sense is to scrupulously treat every team member the same, and don't date within the organisation—and if, despite one's best intentions, one does form a relationship, then one or both parties should leave.
I really like the idea. Testing on ios is beyond a major pain. When I read the title to the post, I thought you found some way to install on a real device without having to go through the testflight process (and submit the app to apple for beta review) via a simple install link. But it seems that the tester needs to have Xcode (i.e. be a developer caliber installer). This doesn't take away from the idea, though. Any improvement in ease of testing is huge.

I previously used testflight before Apple acquired it. They recently shut down the standalone website. I found that process way easier than the current process. All I had to do was send an email to a non-technical user and the app was installed. Now it's more hoops to jump through and ladders to climb.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
Episode Zero: A (brief) Specification for SE-Radio in Audio Format (2006)
Pretty sure we can't say much other than stay tuned at this point :)
Interesting. I've never seen anyone using it with the figure-8 cord. My intuition was that having the adapter stuck to the wall tends to often bend the thin cord on the DC side. As you say, that's what usually fails.
Exactly, but that nuance is lost on many people. I've lost count of how many people have quoted "don't restart from scratch!" and cited that Spolsky article as some sort of irrefutable wisdom of the ages.

Is it the boy scouts that promote "leave the campground cleaner than you found it"? That's the attitude I try to bring to projects, but there are limits, both time and effort. I can leave you (client, employer) a much better system (by whatever metrics you want to establish) by rebuilding from scratch when what I'm starting with is a broken, unstable mess. not always, but the idea shouldn't be dismissed out of hand because of something Joel Spolsky wrote about Netscape in 2000.
agreed, their roadmap aims for a windows port by May/June.

I'd rather keep my Powershell + Hyper-V instead of nodejs + VirtualBox
Looks really nice.

Out of curiosity, why did you use Angular? For a simple, non-interactive page Angular seems like overkill.
Apple is touting a 50 ms accuracy on their new Apple Watch. That sounds suspiciously like the accuracy of NTP. If Apple is relying on NTP for the watch, they would be crazy to not help out financially for its support.
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2) The servers are currently hosted and maintained for free. Hosting them nearer to him would add an additional $1400, according to the article.

3) We are talking about accurate time here. Using VMs is not so conducive to that.

4) You would need someone as knowledgeable as him, and preferably as passionate about accurate time. And he's also doing a bunch of other things.
I only have an issue where it's not displaying the temperature. I set the place to Kostolac in the controller and the view, and language to en, and it's just not displaying the temperature. I'm not familiar with Angular so I don't know how to fix it.
Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months
Hi HN! I and a friend of mine made this in our spare time just for fun and because we need it.

The whole website is powered by WordPress that seemed to us the easiest solution to do things quickly and ship this MVP in less time. Right now we only cover London (we live there) but we plan to unlock new cities soon with the help of local editors that are already getting in contact with us, such as Los Angeles, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Milan (feel free to drop us a line if you would like to help us! :) ). If you know cool spots in your own city, please let us know using the link on the top right corner of Deskzero. Much appreciated!

Our core future at the moment is that you can invite someone to meet you in a place right from Deskzero. You type the name and email of your guest, pick up a time and we send an email invitation for you with all the info (time, venue name and address and eventually your message).

We have couple of ideas to monetise this, among which creating beautiful city maps of the spots we cover and offering a subscription to nomads for perks in these venues (what benefits would you like the most?).

We’d really like to have your feedback from a technical, business and user perspective (we’re not sensitive but be gentle, this is still a side project so it does have bugs!! :)). Thanks!
Dangit [.WebGLRenderingContext]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_OPERATION : glDrawElements: Source and destination textures of the draw are the same.
index.html:1 WebGL: too many errors, no more errors will be reported to the console for this context.
As an aside, I get really confused and disheartened when I hear that someone's first exposure to proof was in college in a linear algebra class.

I had a somewhat old-fashioned education for an American, and learned proof via Euclid when I was 12. And again, but poorly, when I was 16, but that's another story. Proof is supposed to be learned a) thoroughly b) early and c) as a part of geometry. What's the point in even studying Euclid if you don't learn the method of proof?
An issue I've found is that the URL stays in the address bar. This seems to be caused by Angular adding "#/" to the page URL after it is loaded - any idea how to fix this?
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you." — Terry Pratchett
I've been playing around with Algorithmia in beta for awhile and recently integrated a specific use-case into our production platform. I was skeptical at first but it's turned out to be an awesome way to offload certain types of code development. It's an awesome tool for certain projects and I'm excited to have it as an option. Congrats team!
The phrase "lawful content" occurs 32 times.

"No-Blocking. First, we adopt a bright-line rule prohibiting broadband providers from
blocking lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices."

So I guess that means they can block thepiratebay.com, wikileaks or any content congress deems unlawful.

Couldn't these new rules be applied to the Chinese internet and nothing would change? The great firewall only filters what is not lawful.
I like to say that Cygwin gives me the best of both worlds because Linux desktop environments simply lack the polish that the Windows desktop has.
There's also LINE and coLinux.
Sure, I'll compare the Smith/Petty thing with 12 bar blues because I can play 12 bar blues in my sleep and have covered about a dozen Petty songs to date.

12 bar blues is, essentially, a musical metronome. 12 bar blues inherently does not have a melody. It's an assembled grouping of public domain chords set in a public domain tempo. The point of the musical metronome of 12 bar blues is for the melody line to be added. That's what differentiates "Stormy Monday" from "Cold Shot" from "Steel Mill" from "Who Do You Love."

By comparison, using a melody on top of a chord progression is what is called a "musical composition." In the case of the Smith/Petty situation, there was a noteworthy musical composition overlap. Do I think it was very strong? Not especially, but was it there? Yeah, it was.

That's what makes the Blurred Lines case so easy for me to understand - it wasn't about the song taking a "feel" or "sound" - which it most certainly did - it was about the song taking the structural components in the form of progression and melody and trying to lift them under the guise of doing something new. That's not legally protected, and I think the jury got it right.

I totally see how music can thrive - now, if I come up with a cool new pop song, some sticky fingered producer can't simply come along and song-jack me. I can be inspired by Jimi Hendrix, just like Stevie Ray Vaughan. I can be inspired by Dimebag Darrell, but there's no way that I'd go out and try to re-work "Floods" or "Cowboys From Hell" and pass it off as my own work. Music has been around longer than the internet, longer than even the written word.

I think it's foolish to say "Oh music is in danger!" when the reality of the situation is actually "Oh the music business of making profits is in danger!" The former is certainly not true with the advent of new music technologies. The latter is fundamentally threatened by the former, and I'm perfectly fine with that.
"The fact that it's Google who are causing me to use up my budget with Google is annoying but not sinister..."

Actually it is, google should detect its own GoogleBot and not charge people for using up all the traffic. Because this can be used on purpose to have people pay more. Very interesting artcile. Thank You, Jenny.
Yes the current process is ridiculous.

That's true. We didn't get around having to install Xcode. Would be great if we could though. Suggestions would be great.
OpenNTPD, chrony, etc., do not have all of the functionality of ntpd.
I've heard this from drivers too. Lyft passengers are generally happier and more social, while Uber don't want to be bothered.
Be sure to link it to the #/ address if you're using the plugin. I had the same problem, this is because the router is redirecting all to the #/-address.
It's interesting to see the difference in branding effects in reference to price and "decisioning time". Take potato chips for example. We are probably willing to invest maybe 15 seconds into the decision about potato chips. We generally stick with whatever branding is freshest in our minds because the cost of choosing the wrong one is negligible. Meanwhile, we are willing to spend hours comparing airfare across the half dozen different portals/airlines.

I would suggest that branding is much more effective than pricing is for potato chips than it is for air travel.

Where do Uber/Lyft fall on that spectrum? My guess is that if prices are low enough there are plenty of brand based decisions. If the prices go up then people will open both apps and compare.
Thanks! We are excited to have you on board.
Better not ask than...
Calculus is indeed a required tool if you want to design new machine learning algorithm. But without linear algebra, good luck implementing an algorithm or even using a library to apply it on a concrete case.
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http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/... - this is still the book for bootstrappers, as far as I'm concerned.
Stratum 1 support doesn't require a lot of different hardware, arguably it requires less: you need only a PPS device; which has become increasingly generic due to the kernel support needed for precise timestamping. (okay sure, you also need to initially name the second, but you can have another NTP server do that).
Wow, it was only a few years ago I recall him joining our university as creative writing lecturer. He was very well received here in Dublin by both staff and students.

I thought he'd have another five or ten years lecturing before kicking the bucket. 66 seems a little young.
Ah, crap, I saw your reply only now :(.

The Plan 9 documentation is pretty good, but 9front's introductory documents ( https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa ) are probably a little better to get your feet wet with.

> Are Plan9 users mostly running on bare-metal or VMs? If the latter, would you recommend VMware, Xen or something else?

Both, I guess... VirtualBox is the only one I tried it on. Its distributed nature makes it fairly easy to run it on a server and connect to that from a system running Plan 9 from User Space (see http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ), so that you also get a... well, a functional desktop, I guess.
Let's not ignore the disgusting gun-ho attitude of these "pilots" who are looking for any excuse to pull that trigger and ignoring any possibility that these were civilians.

"I was hoping we could make a rifle out. Never mind."

"Yeah, review that shit . . . Why didn’t he say possible child, why are they so quick to call fucking kids but not to call shit a rifle."
If he died at home, it's unlikely to be as it is, unfortunately, still illegal in Britain. Switzerland is the key location where most British people go for assisted suicide.
Just finished the book, was not shaken to my core.

When 99% of trading became computerized,very few "trading desks" knew anything about the foundation of what they did. They were still trying to be an 80's guy.

Not surprising that learning deeply about the electronic system at the basis of trading was lucrative for the few who did,
Anyone know why it might not be working for me? All the other demos in this thread work.
Thanks! Yeah, you're right. I just love angular and was testing how I'll get it to work with RequireJs, which sort of ended up in this
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A class that happens to only ever be instantiated once is not automatically a singleton. It is only a singleton if it takes steps to ensure that it can never be instantiated more than once. I don't see any reason that a connection pool would have to make sure that there are no other connection pools in the application.
> So I guess that means they can block thepiratebay.com or any content congress deems unlawful.

Yes, but it's hardly surprising. The point of the FCC net neutrality rules is not to protect Americans from the censorship by US government -- FCC simply has no power to do that. These rules are there to protect Americans from the censorship by ISP companies.
Was there any expectation that this wouldn't be the case?
> Well, he was clearly fine with using WMD's

And? He didn't use them against us. To do so would have been suicide. From a strategic perspective, why was it necessary to our interests in the world to remove him from power in Iraq - as it was not during the Gulf War?
Thanks! The whole project is ver very early beta, we hope that one day the landing page will show data right away, similar to Google Maps. When it comes to the tone, it's not about the administration, I read that as a startup I should "take a stance, don't be neutral". [campfire?]
Unblocking via robots.txt is fine and won't cause problems.
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