skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The direct increase of revenue comes from more customers arriving now that you're combining a robust network with unlimited data. Both of those things even in isolation are pretty significant attractions; having both of them is even better.

Barring that, however (as I mentioned elsewhere in this topic), congestion issues are already resolved in the wired broadband realm by selling speed rather than data quantity. There's little reason why the wireless world can't do the same by selling access to 2G/3G/4G separately, then making every plan unlimited (or, at the very least, have way bigger caps for everyone, as is the case currently with some of the not-so-great broadband ISPs).

Basically, you'd have T-Mobile's approach, but with a lot more flexibility. In combination with a no-contract carrier (like T-Mobile) or reseller (like Google Fi), a customer could, say, subscribe to a 2G or 3G plan for normal usage, but then subscribe to the 4G plan for a day or so if he/she wants to binge-watch Game of Thrones or somesuch. This way, the congestion issues are addressed (there's a direct monetary incentive for carriers to build more robust networks, since the faster data subscriptions would cost more and generate more revenue) while not imposing arbitrary caps on the quantity of data "used" by a customer. Win-win.

This could be even further extended by providing the 2G and 3G plans with an optional scheme of "we'll give you $X days of 4G per month" (similar to T-Mobile's "we'll give you $X gigabytes of 4G per month"). That way, our Game of Thrones bingewatcher doesn't have to deal with changing the subscription; he'd instead have a week's worth of 4G per month that he could activate on a per-day basis (for example). An even sweeter deal would be for these unused days of 4G to roll over to the next month up to a year (or some other suitably-reasonable length of time), like what T-Mobile already does for its non-unlimited plans.

There's more than one way to do it :)
Kubuntu 15.04 with KDE5 was released
The historical trajectory is for energy to get cleaner and cheaper/more available.

I beg to differ. At least for heating, which is necessary for a lot of climates, and also often for cooking, wood is actually arguably the cleanest, easiest to establish, most universally available and most sustainable.[1] The historical trajectory is that it has been becoming impossible to obtain for most people because they are being progressively squeezed in to some sort of megacity of apartment boxes designed for worker drones, cars and mass-consumption. Some of them have never even seen a forest.

[1] http://woodheat.org/why-heat-with-wood.html
Steam Workshop Now Supporting Paid Creations
I love this. it reminds me of the "Postmodernism Generator" [1]. More info on wiki [2].

[1]: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator
i wonder if it's intentional that the review was written by someone with a beard
Surprised there is a cost, most of the edx courses are free.

I know the school is backing this as a big initiative, so likely the quality level is pretty high.

Might also look at coursera.
"allow the developer community to rally around Kubernetes as an open standard, independent of any provider or corporate agenda"

I look forward to Kubernetes becoming an independent project outside of Google then :)
Sorry, I'm not from around here I guess. What do you mean? Have you seen etcd https://github.com/coreos/etcd or sync.pool?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425561
So I guess we have different needs.

For us it is important to work on the same files. To make them available to our co-workers, to have the same versions, etc.

Syncing is a mechanism. If it would help us to achieve our goals, we could use it. If some other mechanism achieves our goals more efficiently, we would use it instead. Syncing in itself does not have value to us.
I think its entirely possible for a product to depend single handedly on WalMart for distribution in order to get economics of scale benefits to even be profitable in the first place.
I'm the opposite. As I've aged making true "friends" has become tiring and unrewarding, more and more so as the years go by.
Economics does work that. The amount of resources are limited by:
a. Quantity of raw materials available for use
b. Skill (labor and/or machines) to convert those raw materials into something useful.

So while America had a lot of a and b, the rest of the world is having that now too. So America has lesser of a and b as a proportion of total a an b
Love the comment in video:

This clip has never been publicly shown before -- until, of course, it was publicly shown.
I certainly agree with you.
About time.

I say this because it's a long held suspicion of mine that any gender ratio inequality is a thing that exists, not at the pay negotiation, not at the application, not even at the education, but far before that.

I'm not even completely sure that it can be defined as a result of anything other than "different people like different things".
The Indonesian Students Bikini Party Invitations and Say “Goodbye UN” [video]
It seems like he's maybe miscounting some errors here.

Several of his examples involve duplicate lines or blocks, but he considers the error to occur in the last duplicate, rather than the first.

It seems equally valid to consider that an error on the previous lines, and more valid to consider it an error equally shared among all duplicated blocks.

Also, a simple hypothesis for why errors show up at the end: We tend to add new cases at the end of a block of similar code, and bugs are more likely to exist in more-recently added code because it's had less time to be discovered and fixed.
Can you comment a little bit more on where you see the steady state economics of public cloud going? From where we are today, what factors (other than the dynamic provisioning you mentioned) will lead to better economics?

Thanks for commenting on this thread!
Safari / OS X.
x = if ... {
Foo + frob()
} else {
Baz
}
Do you think that was having considered the consequences and judged his family and livelihood worth it or because he had the "I'm invincible" mindset?
Did you read the paper? You start by saying it's useless; then you repeat what it says.
It won't work. First they will be "its all about equality, I assure you" but then it just become about power and who can get privilege over someone else.

The sad truth is, people only want equality when it benefits themselves in some way. The same person who self-identify as pro-equality will fight tooth-over-nail to keep national laws that generate benefits for their gender.
A fun read in a similar vein: the mosh (https://mosh.mit.edu/) issue regarding adding support for SSH agent forwarding: https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/120
The site operator never told me to use plain http either. I just "randomly" ended up there by clicking on a link on HN that has no relation at all with the site.

If you expect http->https redirection to be the only valid path to a https site, then a MITM attacker would obviously disable that redirection because it's still done on the unsecure channel. This is the whole reason extensions like https everywhere exists.
I have been waiting on this service to launch since they pre-launched last year. The mobile Ecomerce experience has not had an app that really makes it seamless. I think Operator could be the app that wins as it focuses on use case first and fills exact request instead of having the user search and scroll to find the product that meets their needs.
QUANTUM is NSA's own name for its man-on-the-side attacks, so the infelicitous naming started elsewhere, not with the author of this article.
Bill Gates's Bio
i live in a hot market (cambridge, ma) and recently sold my condo and simultaneously bought a single family home. i used a realtor, who took 4% of the purchase price. In the end, it seemed like a pittance for the amount of work she did and value she added. the stakes are high, the time is tight, and sophisticated buyers and sellers have many tricks they can use to alter the price by tens of thousands of dollars - my realtor guided me past all of that.

but more fundamentally, she marketed my home. That's really what they do. The Redfin listing is just the beginning. She told me what work I had to do on the place, how to "stage" the unit to make it look bigger, and when to sell (very important).

when i started getting offers in, she helped me filter out the ones who were just going to dick with me on price post-offer, when my leverage had plummeted.

All while she was making me a savvy buyer of another place at the same time. Wow! I thought she was underpaid.
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I always hear that the choice you present is what allows anti-competitive behavior.

But does that hold true even when the costs of switching is enormously high?

With Target/WalMart you don't have to re-buy a $650 phone to switch. You don't need to (maybe) switch carriers depending on needs or offers with all the hassle and fees that might entail.

You might have to re-learn an entirely new OS. How much time does that cost someone in lost productivity or just time in life?
Oftentimes when "previously" links are posted, what is linked actually has discussion on it. That page is rather empty.
I figured this out myself two years ago when I tried the Paleo Diet. I'm 6 foot tall, and I went from 340 pounds to 214 pounds in one year, and then 214 to 184 the following six months through diet modifications alone: no grains (which includes no corn, soy, rice, cereals, bread, pasta), no refined sugars, no legumes, no seed oils. The only thing in my diet is meat, vegetables, and fruit.

The "whole grain diet" the FDA recommends to reduce weight and help with heart health does neither, and is extremely bad advice.
Atom Shell is now Electron
An important example from that timeframe publicly documenting the risk you're referring to:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
F# allows you to break up the tuple immediately, this tremendously aids readability as it avoids introducing confusing names.

let (a, b) = Foo()

Compared to

var tuple = Foo();
var a = tuple.Item1;
var b = tuple.Item2;

You could consider them equivalent, but conceptually it is faster to understand that a is the first result IMO.
I like the parallel that the author draws in the article to the idea of mountain climbers falling. As we draw near the finish line, our elation rises. We can see it, taste it, feel it, and in our hurry to cross it, we lose it, cause we aren't paying attention to what we are doing.
For Python users looking for a very slim framework to build your API on, I'd highly recommend falcon https://falcon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

It's built by the folks at Rackspace and it's super fast because you can build it using Cython and because it's just a very thin layer over wsgi. We switched over to it from Django and saw a 10x improvement in response time.
Fully agree with this. I've responded and disagreed with a number of active discussions, all backed up with data or sound reasoning & eloquently written only to find that my responses were downvoted.

I was always of the understanding that down voting was to discourage things that were against HN policy, comments that lacked content, etc.
If I said it was sarcasm I'd lose karma because I'd be sexist and I'd be criticizing one of the most strongest groups in America today. So essentially I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being 1000000% percent serious.
"Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because:

the editing interface isn’t sufficiently user-friendly"

Wow. Such sexism.
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Show HN: How a constellation is made
Thank you for offering your perspective, and it's awesome of you that you're donating to patients. I actually found the article refreshing and hope-inspiring. I think there's a considerable amount of variation between each person's interpretation of the 'basic message'. IMO the basic message of this work in particular is that organizations like Watsi and Wuqu’ Kawoq are bringing healthcare to natives in Guatemala who need it but have been restricted from it. The new hope Watsi and its partners provide in areas like this is shown through the happiness of those in the photographs.

Also, I hadn't known specific details about the troubles natives were suffering in Guatemala. This article gave me some clear events and dates to start researching to learn more. So I'm glad I was able to read it.
Note that be average score for comments has been trending downward though 2014, up to Oct 2014: http://minimaxir.com/img/hn-comments/monthly_average_points.... (via http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/ )

Unfortunately, I can't get more up-to-date data on comment scores because HN closed the loophole I used to get comment scores immediately after that post, which is disappointing.
* upvote whenever I see a response or article that is really relevant or well thought out

*20 points away from downvoting, but I will probably only downvote when I see comments that are 2 words or really silly / unbecoming of the community.

on another note sociology related: isn't it funny how 1 person used asterisk style bullets (markdown) and several of us followed?
When my friends need new dealers there's only one word I tell them, Dealr.

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Amazing day and night video of volcano erupting in Chile
I barely remember... ;-)

The idea is that you need to quickly identify ("tag") interesting reactions out of the millions happening, so there are a set of increasingly stringent but slower filters that select events. Muons are good because they are easy to identify, then you look back at where they came from and see what other things were created. Typically mesons (and other hadrons) create a "shower" of particles and by adding upp all their energies you can estimate what particle they came from.

But all that stuff is mostly repressed from my memory. I decided that particle physics wasn't for me after that summer... ;-)
Can we predict happiness?
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372481 (141 comments)
I'd consider investing in Refusey!
Is it not possible that its not actually poverty that "shrinks the brain" but genetics.
tl;dr vague feel good lessons, no data just anecdotes.
It's a bad headline it should be "The value of writing code and instigating change." It's disrespectful to libv if it stays this way!
Indeed. I've been looking for an HTTP library that will let me get curl representations of requests for debugging/collaboration. Something like:

req = require('library').request(url, handler);
console.log(req.toCurl());

Haven't found one yet.
Well, it the rebind attacks depends on multiple weak points. Our DNS cache does not allow for external DNS servers to return IP addresses from our internal range. But I guess not everyone's router does that.

But your point is valid.
More discussion on it here, from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858612

I was thinking about this article recently after I realized I had made this mistake and was wondering if there'd be any consistent way to check for this, like some kind of clippy: "so it looks like you're copy-pasting a pattern incorrectly..."
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Interesting, I take the opposite approach: As your project starts to grow, you end up ripping out the "batteries" of django and implementing other modules. The most notable one would be SQLAlchemy.
Dealr is a supply-chain solution for Weedly.
New Browser Hack Can Spy on Eight Out of Ten PCs
Direct and simple HTML include solution; no iframes, no HTML imports
Easy, switch to Templatizer, the startup for people with only one template.
When talking about Rails, you can't take Ruby out of the equation. To me, the joy of coding Ruby is unmatched by any other language. And it does have a very mature ecosystem.

Ruby and Go are both awesome, I could write you a love letter about both of them. But in my mind they have way too different use cases and coding styles to be brought up in the same sentence.
All Windows Help files ultimately are are a loose wrapper around Trident's HTML rendering engine.

So why not avoid the needless complexity and simply just open up the default browser and point it at a file:// location on the hard drive which corresponds to the index page which then uses relative URLs (and relative images) to open up sub-pages? Essentially a web server-less help system.

Doing it this way has the following advantages:

- The entire help system remains "offline."

- You can however link to "online" articles/content/etc.

- You can host exactly the same help files using a web-server, and they will work perfectly (because they use relative URLs).

- You can give the user the option of the offline one shipped with the software, or one you host which is updated.

Windows' Help system has a bunch of downsides. Using a subset of HTML (i.e. stuff that works in IE7) has few to no downsides, and at this point there is a real expectation that an end user will have a web-browser installed.

In Visual Studio 2013, when I click "View Help" it just opens up a web-page. I cannot see why anyone would do anything else at this stage, offline help doesn't even really change that, I'd still use HTML and a browser.
WE ARE STRIPSTR.
You like to strip. Stripstr does too.
I mean that is pretty much what happened. of course the tribes fought against each other and everything wasn't amazing, but the arrival of the europeans absolutely destroyed the native peoples of the americas. that can't be in question. Disease and forced labor took a serious toll on the native populations, not to mention the loss of land. If you are interested in a first hand account of these atrocities I recommend reading Bartolome de las Casas (he was a near contemporary of Columbus and has secondhand accounts of 1492, plus his 1st hand accounts of the new world from the early 16th century).

Is it overly simplistic to say those atrocities directly lead to where Guatemala is today? of course, but discounting those factors is also a disservice.
Different people conflate languages and frameworks to their detriment.
Django/Rails/etc are kitchen sinks. they are not optimized for "building an API", or speed for that matter. it's kind of silly to expect them to perform as well.
Really enjoy going to this meetup. Often it's too easy to get sheltered off into your own little Ruby/Node/Python/whatever community and not talk to other people. The HN meetup here has a good cross-section of technologists in San Diego, so I get to get out of my bubble and make new friends.
Interesting. My experience is that Java jobs outnumber C# by almost 3:1. Not only that, but the type of job is also vastly different.

C# seems to be used in (mostly) slow-paced, slow-moving, conservative environments based fully on an MS stack top-to-bottom.

Java jobs seem to be all of those above, plus a lot of start-ups and places like Amazon/Google. Not many C# jobs at Amazon/Google besides some public facing client API; there's no MS tech in their actual back-ends, that I'm sure of.

And C# could have absolutely destroyed Java. It was already better when it was introduced and the Java eco-system hadn't acquired enough steam. But MS "wisely" decided to keep it Windows-only as if somehow C# was so awesome that it would make companies switch from Linux server farms and back-ends to Windows servers just to be able to experience the joy and glory that is C#.

Nope.
And if that is an interesting topic for a technologist than the work of Bernard Stiegler is fairly essential to seeing where continental thinking seems to be headed.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Critique-Political-Economy/dp/0745...
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Ok I'll stop now. Some of these are pretty amusing though.
Built by the same people who built OSv. They achieve twice the throughput of standard memcache with their own memcache implementation (built on SeaStar), as well as nearly perfect scaling to multiple CPUs while still using a multithreaded model.
you should definitely check out http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev I've been hanging out there a lot lately and there are some excellent discussions.
Wood has some carbon cycle advantages, but it absolutely isn't clean (especially in the stoves available historically, modern stoves do better), and it obviously isn't sustainable for human civilization as we know it (prior to the widespread use of coal, forests were shrinking).

(I say as we know it because some civilization that hasn't existed might tend to slow growth prior to achieving a high standard of living)
I think it's time to think about sending companies to "jail". If you are in medical devices the FDA can suspend all your sales for a while. Obviously shutting down a bank for half a year will be pretty complicated to do without hurting their customers but I think it's something to think about.
You should definitely add a link to your examples in your README.

For anyone else looking, they are located here: https://github.com/r-cyr/PHPunctional/tree/master/P/Examples
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Because they dominate search with their PageRank algorithm, they are a huge email provider, online calendar provider, among other services.
Reminds me of Tufte: "There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design."
Poe's Law to the rescue(?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Perhaps the utter discounting of the things that keep the labs going, the grad students funded, and generally anything other than "I did the grunt work" as not real science.

And this speaking as someone who is one of the people doing most of the coding/writing for our projects. Senior faculty enabling me to do my job is a contribution.
Word of mouth is the best way to start, and how I started. Honestly, Facebook Groups and local pages are awesome for this. Just post a casual ad with your email address. That should bringing you in enough jobs to easily make that amount of money.

Just out of curiosity, where are you located?
100% agree, but since they're so ubiquitous, I'm sure quite a few people out there do so without thinking twice.
I opened a dozen hackernews tabs and then went to go do something else. When I came back to this I found myself looking at the home page of "MEMERABLE", a progressive member monetization service, and I spent a good few minutes trying to figure out what in the hell they actually did...

A+
I feel like this is why undergraduate research is absolutely key.

I had the opportunity to work in a lab while an undergrad and to do a couple industry research internships, and it set my expectations on what the Ph.D really is (and why I didn't go for it).

The problem is that many do not know what to expect or have expectations that differ from the reality.