skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I dislike Comcast, I pay $80/month for 105/10 Mbps and that's with no promotional pricing in a local monopoly.

I strongly dislike Comcast but their pricing isn't incredibly unfair.

Plus according to this article, they're about to bump my speeds by 50% without making me pay anything.
In my experience, it has always worked like the old proverb: when you are ready, the right mentor will appear. Actions you might take, whether at work, with friends or counselors, may turn into a mentor you didn't expect.
No, they don't have caps at all in the Bay Area. I live here and I've confirmed it both theoretically (talking to Comcast reps) and practically (downloading over 1TB each month since I signed up).

That said, I remember hearing somewhere that they were waiting for the TWC merger to be resolved before moving ahead. Not sure how true that is.
>This is such a slippery slope

Is all regulation a slippery slope? Did breaking up AT&T create a chain of events that led to a breakdown of corporate America?

>If Khan Academy is found to be ubiquitous with homeschooling and providing an immense benefit to students, should we strip the leadership of powers lest they teach something we don't think is correct?

If Khan Academy became so popular that nearly all schools closed down and 90% of students were educated solely through Khan Academy, then yes I think Khan Academy should be subject to some pretty tough regulation.

Let's say Disney becomes so popular that they take over every TV channel, every movie studio, and every newspaper. Are you OK with letting them have that kind of power because we are afraid of infringing on the rights of the owners?
Yes. I witnessed a user who uses Chrome for Google and IE for everything else. She thought she had to use Google browser to use Google, because Google told her so -- with upgrade to Chrome campaign.
Reagan has been acknowledged as the inspiration for Prexy, as remember, but cannot find the source for that at the moment.
The fact that so many of these people seem like they are alcoholics is a bit disconcerting. I like booze and am a loner myself, but all things in moderation. Maybe a propensity towards substance abuse is something they should be screening for-unless someone can convince me that booze is essential to surviving the Antarctic.
Actually that appears to be yet another wrapper around this: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536326/ibm-tests-mobile...
> Are you talking about physical attacks or mere vigorous disagreement?

There is a distinction to be drawn between vigorous disagreement and intentionally causing harm to the other party. Trying to get someone fired or similar is not a "physical" attack but it is certainly an attack.

> I also think that for topics of social justice, your standard is one-sided. Historically oppressed groups are attacked, and not just verbally. Look at America's long history of lynching, for example. Or gay bashing, both physical and verbal. A standard that requires people pursuing social justice to be forever meek but doesn't as vigorously require that of those sustaining injustice is in effect a standard that helps maintain injustice.

It isn't a double standard. Neither side should be engaged in any such thing and anyone who does is wrong regardless of which side they're on.

> The article is about general patterns, so perhaps our best compromise is that we are talking about general patterns of individuals. If you want to talk about an individual case, we could certainly do that. But that would be a change of topic.

It's not about a specific individual case, it's about the concept of applying generalizations to individuals. "There is more variation within a race than between races."
Judging by the fibre I've witnessed AT&T laying in the area, I think the coverage is going to be more extensive than you suggest.

They may be trying to compete with AT&T rather than Google Fiber.
A similar story about Polaroid film is covered in the doco "Time Zero" http://timezeromovie.com/
I'm very skeptical that any group capable of a violent revolution would be effective leaders. The founders were a rare group of brilliant men. The Constitution can be amended, that should be enough.
San Jose is on their larger list 30 or so of cities.
On the same topic, I was really impressed interviewing over at FitBit the other day. Everyone was super nice, they invited you to help yourself to the kitchen, brought water, offered to bring other things, ended it with a free Charge HR FitBit bracelet saying they know it takes a lot of time and energy to come interview for half a day, etc..

Super nice people taking the pain out of interviewing. They offered to expense air fare and accommodations beforehand too, called the day before with tips on how to do your best during the interviews, etc.. Office is right next to the BART and easy to get to compared to many other companies. Seems like really top notch treatment.
No app just takes off like that. Even so, you have to deal with the challenges associated with it.

I'm a huge cynic when it comes to Snapchat and in no way agree with it's valuation, but they've made some pretty big moves and Evan has shown to be more than competent.
I'm unsure how this comment is relevant to the post.
It depends on the user. I tried Bing/Google blind test and Bing won Google 6 to 4.
I wouldn't expect an individual to dedicate their time to mentoring you unless you have something to offer the relationship. Why not start with some community feedback for example try out http://exercism.io
Among the very finest classes I ever took was Caltech's Physics X, taught by Richard Feynmen. No grades, no credit, no homework, you could ask him any question you liked provided it was purely conceptual - that is it didn't require him to work out any math.
I thought I had heard of Numenta. I looked it up and was reminded that it is a project of Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the PalmPilot.
I spent 3/4 of my Undergraduate life on MTS, and Forum was basic the social hub of a large chunk of nerdy students (myself included). The fact that that MTS VT100 and IBM terminals were all over the place (Literally Terminals - great, big 20 pound CRT monstrosities that had been in place for 10+ years) - meant you could login for just a few minutes anywhere on campus - kind of a precursor to todays mobility (as long as you were on campus).

Being able to print your big 500 page print job on the Central Laser Printer, and having it wait for you in your output box (I was XGEC), was also pretty awesome - and it provided 24x7 jobs for the people working in the Computing Center.

It's kind of a shame that I never really used/learned the system the same way I did with Unix - I really treated it like a large BBS environment, that I could also do some programming homework on.

But, time moved on, and by 1992/1993, MTS was starting to show it's age, and our researchers and faculty were becoming increasingly annoyed at the "IT Managers" who literally refused to take direction - as though the system was run for their* benefit, instead of the campus benefit.

So, in a day remembered as Bloody Tuesday at SFU - the entire Sr. Management team was publicly terminated, and the remaining employees were told they had exactly one year to replace all of the MTS (and IBM 3090 (3081?) system with Unix systems and NFS file storage.

One year later, we entered the brave world of Unix - which, while I have fond memories of MTS, was a far, far better system to prepare undergraduates for the world that awaited them.
That's not really correct actually. A better way to look at it is that each neuron in the HTM is itself effectively a deep neural network. The HTM is a temporally aware hierarchy of these neurons.
This is a valid point. Those in law enforcement want to rise up the ranks. Closing cases quickly and getting promoted does come with a nice raise.
Review the decision not to prosecute greville janner
> described in the book On Intelligence

Said book spends a good deal of time on criticizing neural networks, FYI.
The severity of the penalties is totally irrelevant if there is no enforcement and the existing penalties are quite sufficient if there is.
Good lookout on Airpair. Did not even know it existed.
>Ghostery prevented a redirect from
justforward.co to click.linksynergy.com,
which is part of LinkShare.

If I allow trackers once until destination, I'm taken to a $99 Udemy course - https://www.udemy.com/learn-angularjs
Reactor-grade plutonium in the headwaters of the Ganges, which supplies millions of people. Probably better if it was stolen than lost.
doomed is a strong word, and the article makes no attempt to argue that makerbot is doomed, but rather assumes it without any argument or demonstration at all.

i have no stake in it myself, but if you're gonna make a strong statement like "doomed" you should back it up. layoffs != doomed
Perhaps an open source model might have mitigated the atrocious quality of the 5th generation Makerbot. I must have replaced our extruder 5 times already, and the entire machine had to also be replaced once. This is all on a maker care warranty, so no matter what they charge, there is no profit left.

If I could have replaced the extruder with an open source clone that functioned better, I would have.
I pay $80 for gigabit, I might drop down to 100Mbit for $60 though.
How is Comcast doing it? And is it in a particularly non-Google way?
"All I can say is that I am moving everything I can to cloud object storage from my Netapp because of 2 cents vs. $2 for GB of storage."

Where are you getting 2 cents ?

S3 is ~3 cents, glacier and nearline are 1 cents ... what are you buying that costs 2 cents ? (genuinely curious)
As someone with a common name, I don't really see how real names help. Is it me, or the guy who lives about 15 houses away with the same name (seriously, although I don't know him, he shows up on the people sites), or the famous author.

I could be an asshole online with my real name and have no problems. I learned early however that if you cause the right amount of trouble, the internet connection is turned off.
They started the process 35 years ago.

When broadband internet became a thing, their cables were already in the ground, and they already had long-established underground and pole rights-of-way.
gcc and clang can output before/after output for all their passes. Try '-fdump-ipa-all -fdump-tree-all -fdump-rtl-all-slim' on gcc, I forget the llvm options.

It's not especially readable, though.

Also, for ghc you can use '-v5' and the option that writes out C output. Prepare to be impressed(?) at how much it doesn't look like a fast C program.
Chicago Comcast subscriber. 250GB cap. Here's a screenshot of the Comcast site showing my usage:

https://i.imgur.com/oOEQMTt.png

It does say "Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended" on the page.
I would have to concur with this. Find people you respect and reach out to them with something real. But respect that they are probably quite busy and such help is often in demand in a lot of directions. Often times, people will develop notions about who is ready to listen and who isn't, things like taking the idea as far as they can before reaching out, and actively listening to the feedback. A good mentor won't be rude but they will be honest. And if you haven't yet reached the point where you can be honest with yourself and others, it will be hard for you to learn from others. When people aren't ready it is pretty easy to spot.
I would have preferred you said something like "hey nice try, but the overhead of compiling a c file every time you query will quickly make the database unusable" or "this design limits the database to very small data sets" or anything, really, that could help me understand what is so bad about the design. It was an experiment, it seemed to work well, so I posted it here for feedback. I wouldn't mind if someone told be it was terrible as long they did it respectfully and gave me some clue as to why they thought so.
I wrote a blogpost on this topic once http://pindancing.blogspot.in/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-men... (Indian , living in India fwiw)
"Python 3 is happening, and that's the reality. "

Unfortunately, I think what this means is definitely up for debate. Python3, "happening" may be nothing more than a permanent split, not the obsolescence of 2.
In fact, that's what it looks more and more like everyday.

What IS happening, is that libraries are not, will not, and cannot drop 2.7 support. The opposite isn't true and may never be.
HTMs are biologically accurate -- they do the same thing as the neurons in our neocortex! The most exciting aspect of Numenta's research is that they are building algorithms which think the way we do (albeit in early stages right now).
Personally, I'm wondering how many on HN actually owned an Osborne machine.
By who? The core developer team? Or by PyPy and Pyston? The people that matter (the users) aren't phasing out 2.x in 5 years. That much is clear.
This seems like a normal result of post buyout restructuring by Stratasys. Does anyone have sales numbers to know if they are actually having issues?
This is gold to my inner terminal nerd.

I made a simple terminal ANSI art viewer just for this: https://github.com/chjj/blessed/tree/master/example/ansi-vie...
pacman already takes place on one of these tori
They really oughta have a "blind" approach to testing forensic evidence where samples are prepared by other forensic professionals to be sufficiently similar but not matches and real matches, neither of which are from a real trial. The forensic examiners should never know when they have evidence from a real trial.
Show HN: Child's Play Games:Tic-Tac-Toe,9-Puzzle,Concentration,Rock-Paper-Scissor
Only because the core dev team is making it their priority to move distros over to 3. It won't make any difference, the strength of Python is in the library support, not the distro support. 2.x support by libraries will last a very long time, nothing worth its salt will be dropping it.
By the time they do, Python3 and wherever it is by that point will be unrecognizable to the original release of Python 3.0.
I pay $65/mo for gigabit.
I never owned one. But touched one when they were sold in shops.
To sum up:

* "we have competition and that's hard"

* "writing code is hard"

* "no srsly, it's really hard yo"
How does a visually impaired computer programmer do programming
Ask HN: Are there any NLP projects that use context?
I was thinking about natural language processing today. I am by no means educated on the subject, but it seems like an interesting field. Most NLP libraries can parse text into its parts-of-speech, but often times it can be wrong because it's a word like "project" where the verb form is a completely different word than the noun form, etc.

In all the libaries I looked at, "project" was interpreted as a noun despite the sentence being "We will project our earnings".

Could we not provide context to the parsing process? For instance: a database could store the frequency of parts of speech for a given word's N nearest neighbours (ie. the n-1 neighbour of "project" is a definite article 90% of the time), as well as the frequency for each part-of-speech for the given word. So if the n-1 neighbouring word of "project" was not a definite article, it may indicate with a certain weight that "project" is not being used in its typical form either. Then you could do the reverse lookup (the n+1 neighbour of "will") and see that that neighbour is a verb 50% of the time. Putting those two pieces of information together gives you pretty good confidence that "project" probably isn't a noun like it usually is.

So is this just too computationally expensive or is there something else that I'm missing?
That's my question. This has to be 10GbaseT.
Mods change bad titles even when they're the same as the article; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399457 for example.
$80 for that speed is awful compared to many places in the world.
Brings back old memories of TheDraw in the DOS days. Made some ANSI art back for some pirate boards in the early 90s. Someone archived it and I was able to find one of the ones I did.

http://imgur.com/tscJzzs

If your interested in looking at amazing ones, look for Jed from the ACID group (or others?) His stuff was amazing. I wonder what he is doing now.
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399841
I think the reason why this "fundamental problem" is existing on one social network and white not on other lies on how these two apps are structured.

On facebook, there are two modes of creating your presence - personal page and business page. You have choice to approve or reject new friend request or kick an existing friend if s\he is causing any trouble. I don't have official data about trolls on business pages but I am sure it exists there.

Contrary to this, on twitter anyone can start following you and wage a war against you. You can unfollow your followers but how many you will do?

To avoid any harassment on twitter either users can share their tweets only with their particular lists or have a moderation on who is following them.
This is what the business press is reporting, and it makes sense. The author of the article obviously has a grudge against MakerBot and decided to go postal against them when he read the layoff headlines without doing due diligence first. (Wait until he finds out they closed their retail stores!)
One-note pushes 100% CPU utilization and fans at full speed while idling on OSX, draining my normally 8-hour battery in ~45 minutes. Not enough to get through class. It's been a known issue for many months.

Emacs, on the other hand, is a text editor.
Born and lived most of my life in the Bay Area.

My Dad got us @Home cable Internet, which is the same infrastructure Comcast currently uses, in around 1997 when it first became available. It eventually became AT&T broadband Internet (attbi), and then Comcast bought it (IIRC, might be missing something).

My older brother heard about Napster right when it came out and I remember getting very impressive download speeds (I think I saw it get to 600 KB/s or 1 MB/s at some point). We were also part of the batch of people that got banned for uploading Metallica mp3s. After that I found GNUtella (although I had no clue what GNU was at the time, just heard about it as an alternative service) and Kazaa. I also moved on to mIRC to get mainly anime and music videos. All in the late 90s, early 2000s. The infrastructure has served us very well!

I don't really know about the laws, but I assume the issue in municipalities is laying down new infrastructure, even though you'd think Comcast monopoly is more of an issue.
White males being raped in prison does not figure very high in the liberal agenda. The prison rape elimination act was a result of lobbying by conservative and Christian groups.
Me. (Well, my Dad...)

I learnt _huge_ amount pretty much accidentally from that machine and the user manual that came with it. Nobody told me at 12 or 14 years old that kids weren't supposed to solder together a handful of parts to add a joystick to the parallel port and write Z80 assembler routines to speed up the inner loops of games written in basic.
Oh I know it can be better, I'm just disagreeing with the hyperbole in the comment I was replying to. I also come from Australia where it's much worse so I'm not used to complaining this much.
Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence
As far as I can tell, what they don't want is to have to deal with randoms who act entitled to other people's time. There are an awful lot of people who appear to think they have the right to be listened to.
Google to support Chrome for Windows XP until the end of 2015
There is a line from a post apocalyptic TV show: "Ain’t nothing sadder than an outdoor cat that thinks he’s an indoor cat". Why is it considered "misbehaving" when men don't act like women? We have advanced to a rather cushy society that allows for this stance to seem reasonable, and when considered only in this setting, perhaps it is. But the world is not all roses. Sometimes violence is not only an acceptable way of dealing with a situation, sometimes it is the only way of dealing with it and achieving a successful outcome. The bully comes in many forms, and when it's you, or your family, or your society that peaks the bully's prolonged interest, you only have one question: Fight, or flight? This decision boils down to whether or not you stand any chance against the bully. If your child is being stalked by a street gang, you should probably get in the car, drive 30 hours and relocate. If your child gets beat up by the school bully every week, then by all means, get him training on how to throw a punch, and the next time the bully chooses to bully, your child should break his nose. This sounds harsh, I'm sure, but my opinion comes from the experience of being in such situations (mostly as an adult, with non-violent bullies). The bully and I were lucky, as the bully got bored and moved on. But that experience made it crystal clear that one of the most horrible crimes anyone can commit is abusing one's power over another who is not capable of defending themself. We all agree rape is among the worst crimes a human can commit. It's an extreme case of abuse of power. Bullying, in whatever form, is abuse of power. I am in full agreement with Sun Tzu that it's better to avoid a battle if possible, because there is always a cost. But once you determine a battle is unavoidable, the right thing to do becomes clear, and in some cases the right thing includes violence. Luckily, most of us live in good enough circumstances that resorting to violence is rarely the right choice, but it's foolish to think violence is never an acceptable way of dealing with problems. Anyone who thinks that should count themselves lucky that their life experience so far has not brought them face to face with a real bully who won't go away.
I know that SCO was involved with many food franchises in the following way: each location would run a PC with SCO Unix installed and a POS and reporting app. Each nite the reports would be transmitted via satellite dish to HQ.

Very futuristic!

Somebody else will have to confirm if the online pizza orders were emailed to each location automatically, sent via a Unix application, or faxed.
What is 1e100.net? – Google Help
So, what happens if Facebook decides it doesn't want to allow Teespring ads anymore? From what I can tell it is very heavy skewed towards FB ads. This seems very risky to depend on one channel for sales.
First, I would hope that they would introduce me to things I don't know about, and eventually teach me things. And give me feedback on how I can improve. Mentoring relationships need to be bidirectional in my opinion.
It was awesome that this machine has been preserved. It is an amazing example of analog computers. A long time ago I built a lunar module simulator using op-amps where the inputs were thrust and angle. And you "won" if you got the system to 0, 0, 0 (0 vertical speed, 0 horizontal speed, 0 altitude). It was a science project in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. Then I lusted after the Heathkit Analog computer[1] but could never afford it.

[1] http://www.heathkit-museum.com/computers/hvmec-1.shtml
Justice for all...unless you are dealing with the FBI.
Interesting timing for me, I just stumbled across Clortex[0] which is an implementation of Hawkins' HTM in Clojure today after watching How To Make a Brain in Python[1] which may be interesting to anyone that likes this stuff.

[0] http://fergalbyrne.github.io/

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-make-a-human-brain-i...
My account page has a note stating that "Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended". I am a Bay Area customer.