skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: WebRTC in the wild
I am looking into WebRTC and would be interested in a multi participant video implementation, but one thing that still puzzles me is how such a setup would work network-wise.

I can either have a true mesh network where all clients connect to each other or a centralised solution where a user's video stream is routed through a central server and the distributed to all clients. For the sake of simplicity I'll leave out any mixed forms for now.

In the former case I'd take a lot of bandwidth and traffic burden from the central server but would force each client to have [clients-1] connections and send the same stream to each of them. Encoding itself shouldnt be the big problem here but it would consume a lot more of bandwidth (and subsequently traffic) than when routed via the server.

In the latter case I'd avoid aforementioned drawbacks but not only would it increase the server's own traffic bill dramatically but it would also increase latency as everything would get sent to the server and then back to the clients.

Is there any commonly accepted approach or best practice for such a setup?
Sorry, no. It's plain old goose rounds in novelty packaging.
Thanks for the advice. It's just the company that would be affected, I don't have any debts personally. Cheers!
Of course, in most right-to-work (right-to-fire) states this is legal. Its only immoral.

Where I used to contract, they did layoffs the week before Christmas. Year after year. That actually rose to the level of 'evil'.
If you know for sure that they don't do background checks, then don't include any information that may hurt your chances. After all, you are a human resource, not a friend of a company.
11 Unserious Photos of Albert Einstein
Safety is necessary but not sufficient.
Your Game 2 is poorly defined. What does it mean to "guess correctly" when you're asked to guess twice? If you systematically take the first (or the last) answer, then it's equivalent to being awaken only once on Tails. If you take the logical OR of the correctness of two guesses, then the sleeping beauty can win 5/8 of the time by answering randomly, which is better than 1/2 by guessing a fixed answer (the only strategy you analyzed).
http://josephwalla.com/attrition-is-a-group-statistic-it-don...
Show HN: Creators selling files from their own host, Dropbox etc.
The Mobile CPU Core-Count Debate: Analyzing the Real World
...and there was a browser on the Apple Newton (and, I'm sure, others) a decade before that and Steve Jobs (and, I'm sure, others) talking about developing smartphones a decade before that. It took >23 years of iteration, not 3 years of iteration, to finally reach a hw+sw+service combination compelling enough to actually revolutionize the industry.
I'm kind of surprised that Demolition Ranch hasn't attempted to find the best drone-stopping ammo for shotguns.

https://youtube.com/user/DemolitionRanch
Interesting. I think about recursion both in terms of linguistic/symbolic rules that are associated with it, but I also associate it visually with call tree diagrams, nested structures and loops. I can't think about dogs, flowers and sunsets just in terms of language though, there are always images, smells, sounds, movements etc. associated with it.

Perhaps take an empty piece of paper and imagine drawing a big letter on it. I've read before that non-visual thinkers can experience visual thinking that way.
wow - really? Negative points for pointing out that the government has no financial incentive to root out fraud? Must be government shills.
Convert everything to precious metals and gems and emigrate with it to somewhere warm and free from US bs.

Being wealthy doesn't mean you need to live ostentatiously or even need share any of your financial information with your neighbourhood.
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OpsDash: self-hosted server and service monitoring at $1/server/month
Neighborhoods and municipalities would be another good target. You could use it to implement [libertarian municipalism][0] (which has nothing to do with US-style right-libertarianism).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_municipalism
Soul-Searching in TV Land Over the Challenges of a New Golden Age
no safari 9 support makes dan a sad boy.
What us worry? Ashley Madison says it added over 100K users last week
Entrepreneurial Businesses Creating JOBS (EB-JOBS) Act of 2015 [pdf]
Joining a large number of tables is a sweet spot for PGStrom where in which there are a lot of parallelizable computations. For a lot of queries it can actually be slower.
ISTM that when they balance the chemical equations they'll know if relatively-large masses of "output" chemicals were in some way affected by trace amounts of foreign "input" chemicals, whether the source of those was biological or something else.
The article's assertion is simply that people with a safety net have a reduced risk. Marginal reduction in risk increases entrepreneurship.

There's probably also a marginal reduction in reward, as the reward of entrepreneurial success for the poverty-stricken would include safe housing, food, education for children, etc., which the wealthy already have, but it seems we have no problems desiring to spend more than we currently have.
Aren't all the HBO shows that Sky has available on NowTV? I've not found it lacking any I've been wanting to watch.
This is still a bit of the wild-west. Now you understand why Skype originally had super-nodes. Most WebRTC chat implementations just limit the number of participants in a group. I think https://meet.jit.si/ is the exception but that just moves the limitations to the server. The good news is that if you just do audio, the bandwidth burden is pretty low.
DOE's mandate is pretty large and covers many basic science projects. DOE funded the human genome project back when NIH thought it was a waste of money. I don't think it's related to any DOD projects.
I thought Hulu still had ads even if you pay. That's a non-starter.
So to oppose evil you have to kill as much innocents as the evil itself? I don't see how it can be ethical.
A Psychiatrist Who Survived the Holocaust Explains Why Meaningfulness Matters
Iosevka, a monospace font generated by code
Do talk to a lawyer though. In some countries, under certain circumstances, there can be a shareholder liability for certain tax debts. Especially when you're using a personal service company.

Good luck - hope you can fix this situation.
Considering the recent troubles with Listeria Blue Bell had I would be very worried if all the food was automatically prepared. I don't think we're there yet food-safety-wise; can a machine detect and clean foreign object contamination, yet? Probably not.
Sorry if the upshot line wasn't clear. What I meant was, given the size differences it makes sense for a New Yorker to translate "there would be no apartments in SF under $3k" to roughly "there would be no apartments in Manhattan under $3k" rather than "there would no apartments in New York City under $3k".

The latter would be dire, but the former not a particularly big deal. No needs to live in the trendy part of town.
Full storage at multiple locations. This is only a few petabytes a year, so it's not a lot of data.
It's seemingly done quite a lot. I have no interest in that content but have seen tons of YouTube recommendations for it.
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The Six Steps to Messaging Epiphany
Montreal has rent control. The result is that its financially inadvisable to renovate. Part of the rent control is you can raise the rent $31/year per $1,000 of renovation. That's a 30 YEAR payback. You can be replacing a roof the second time before you've recovered the costs for the first time, even forgetting about inflation and opportunity costs.

Other provisions of the rent controls are just as restrictive.

The result is rental buildings here are in poor shape, as owners let their buildings degrade and then sell them. Few are being built.

Well ... there are more rental voters than landlord voters.
It's just you. Form follows function.
It takes me 100x less effort to shoot, edit, & upload a photo or video using an iPhone compared to the first $8000 Adobe Premiere PC rig I used to learn video editing, let alone comparing to the nearly useless PDAs (in this regard) of their day (and I loved my Palm Pilots & Visors). Voice-to-text transcription today is immensely easier & more accurate than writing with Graffiti input.

Instagram alone is evidence that there are immense numbers of people creating massive amounts of content on their touchscreen smartphones. Spreadsheets are super-niche content. Text, photos, & video are mainstream content.

Compared to email on the desktop during the PDA era, I'd bet people communicate with other people much much more now via their smartphones, whether that's through email, social networks, instant messaging, or video chat.
I looked at Hulu and Hulu plus. Hulu plus is a paid subscription that does have lots of content and would probably be acceptable ... except ... IT HAS F*ING ADS! I want NO ADS. I'm so sick to death of all the ads being shoved at me everywhere I turn these days.
Thinking about this lately... I guess I'm not really a procrastinator.

What I am is always laser-focused on a project, and not at all impressed by all the other things that the world is trying do demand of me.

I'm certainly not averse to hard work. I often choose it. (And somehow the reward is intrinsic.) I'm averse to any work that doesn't seem to directly factor into the success of whatever it is I'm presently obsessed with creating.
SpaceX to Debut Upgraded Falcon 9 on Return to Flight Mission
Tips on Making an Offer for First Time Home Buyers
Sorry to say, but if the source is not available for a crypto tool, it's probably not worth looking at.

Best of luck though.
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You can always lose your own life, pretty much. If you can go back to your old room at your parent's room while you find a job and start earning again, sure, it's easy to take risks (I've done it this way).

On the other hand, if you come from a rather poor background and have no one to fall back on, finding yourself with a failed company, in debt, maybe kicked out of your place because you can't pay rent, I'd say that rather terrifying.

I'm all for entrepreneurship, but if failing means living in the street, then let's just not start a company for now.
Liquid democracy is just computer-assisted delegate democracy. And delegate democracy has been around since the Paris Commune.
I was under the impression that to get the speed benefits of CUDA you had to coalesce memory access. Does anyone know how nested loop joins can use indexes without messing up the memory access coalescing?
"But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images."

Actually this was discovered by Sir Francis Galton more than 200 years ago: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm

Nor is it particularly rare.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect is not the experience itself, but the fact that people are so surprised when they discover that other people's mental experience can be so different to their own.
It's worth noting that Netflix has a deal with Disney that states all new Disney, Marvel and Pixar films from 2016 are licensed to Netflix. This deal also gives them the back catalogue to Disney films.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/4/3727688/netflix-streaming-...
Just fucking do the work. If you spend as much time working as you trying to "hack your brain to be more productive", you would have been more productive.

Overthinking about thinking can lead to neuroticism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10142283

http://www.amazon.com/Do-Work-Overcome-Resistance-Your/dp/19...
I wouldn't, because Hulu has commercials, and after years of Netflix, I find them extremely irritating.

Netflix still has enough programming to be worth $8-9 a month. But as their movie offerings drop, their value proposition weakens.
Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding
I imagine the approval for posting this article went something like, "Sure you can do it, just uh, don't use any real numbers."
I have a very similar story, except I'm on part one. Recent graduate, very modest family, and drank all the Paul G koolaid which got me to jump into the whole scene just to realize I'm mostly surrounded by upper middle class types where there's still risk being taken just not nearly as much. This has taught me to always consider the source of advice more rigorously. I still think he's a great thinker, but some of the advice should come with a disclaimer.

I haven't been turned away from the tech startup world, but I'll be much more calculated if I'm ever to join another one. I also don't plan on staking my career purely in startups and am attracted to bootstrapped business now more than ever.
Thanks, I do realise that this is still a somewhat experimental area of technology but I wonder if there are approaches which can be ruled out straight away (for example: one argument, I could imagine, against the mesh network approach could be the duplicated stream burden on each client for the outgoing video; that might be too much especially for mobile clients).

In this particular use-case it "unfortunately" shouldnt be audio-only.
You can, but resorting to exceptions for what may not be an exceptional circumstance is a workaround for not being able to think of a way to communicate results correctly through the return value. Which illustrates the need here as effectively as the ambiguous use of null in the article.
Yeah, but on the other hand one might argue that there is no reason to believe Intel's hardware implementation of such features is more correct and less prone to errors than Xen's implementation in software.
I was being a bit facetious but I was making the point that the distortions introduced by photo manipulation may not truly allow one to make the extrapolations about height the author alludes too. But as I say, my intended tone was tongue in cheek.
Former Secret Service agent guilty of Bitcoin theft
Yet there's a fundamental difference between "Having just enough for rent" and "Having just enough to start a company". There's something impoverishing to the spirit when you spend your last $5 and its still 1 week to payday. Its often not a choice to feel that way; its disingenuous to say "You could just invest like I did!"
People who have money to spend will spend it on premium products, people who don't will sit for hours wasting their lives away watching cheap crap (soaps in the uk).

Best differentiating yourself and keeping it premium, price and content.
I'd be happy with Netflix doubling my monthly fee if it meant access to more, better and newer movies.
So go out and make another $5. How you expect to make a 1MM if you can't even make $5. Thank you for reading it, and also stop making excuses. Everyone one else commenting please refer to this comment, thanks.
> Sure, there're exceptions when someone with little money and hard work managed to grow their business, but they're that - exceptions.

My grandfather (and father) were that person.
Editing code in the browser may make limited sense if the code is going to run in that same browser. However, why I would want to edit “on the web”, losing all my local utilities and more, escapes me.

This “do EVERYTHING in your browser” fad has gone far enough. We have the most powerful desktop gear ever but every blinking of the cursor has to be done by a remote service?
Do you have any anecdotal success stories to share related to having read _Do_The_Work_?
Should they bow before asking nicely as well?

They were not asking in a pleasant manner, but they were also not being outright rude. Not every interaction has to be sunshine and lollipops.

Passive-agressive outrage at the apparent lack of concern for the disenfranchisement of a fairly large population group seems... ok in the grand scheme. No name calling, no yelling, and no 'please sir, will you answer me this' is required.
That is such a terrible comic. "Free speech" is a broader cultural concept than "legal first amendment rights", and conflating them like that is at best ignorant but more likely a deliberate tactic for those in favor of censorship.
Against Overwhelming Odds
It does fundamentally divide humanity into those that can imagine, and those that can't. Its not unreasonable to guess others experience the world similarly to oneself; not at all interesting that folks would be surprised by that.
In the US.

Go to some place like Germany and notice they are very anti-violence and more sexually open. You see nudity on German broadcast television but not graphic violence. I'd say their priorities are much better in that regard.
That might (or might not) be true materially; but I would not ignore the psychological effects of growing up financially secure vs. not, and what it tends to do to your capacity to take financial risks specifically. If you don't even hardly know what it feels like to have no safety net at all, if you know you do have a safety net in the form of family that will help you out if things get _really_ bad, at least to keep you off the streets.... it's easier to take risks "without anything to fall back on." If, on the other hand, you know exactly what it really looks like to be at the bottom with truly nothing to fall back on...
OP's description of waking imagination matches mine and I dream vividly. In fact, for a while I tried to lucid dream and as I watched myself call asleep there would be an instant of sudden clarity. Like a light switch had turned on and whatever I was thinking of would jump into view, fully colored and textured. The difference to the vagueness of my normal imagination was so striking I would jolt awake. Same with sounds; I will get beautiful, complex music pouring into my head as I drift off. While awake, I hear noises I imagine but instead as if I were making sounds with my throat. I can't hear Beethoven but I can hear myself hum the notes even without doing so.

So I can say with some confidence that both extremes exist in the literal sense and this is not at all just a matter of describing the same qualia differently.

Honestly the questions given in the test don't seem to well capture my abilities. I have no ability to recall my own mother's face, but I can is of reconstruct it from facts I know (length of her hair, shape of her jaw, anything I've noticed explicitly). I get sensations of colors in short bursts if at all, it is not a dimness. And motion, rotations, and spatial relations feel real to me even if I can't see them. When it tells me to imagine a rainbow I don't see color, but I feel it's arc in the sky, even trace it mentally with imaginary hands. That aspect is not dim and vague. Makes me wonder if the author of this test either did not have this condition or had it in a different way than I.
Investors are starting to worry that some big-name startups are overvalued
As am I, so will you be: in the future everything is leaked
also an interesting read: http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...
Funny, I would call it a 'natural consequence' when a person experiences backlash for being revealed for who they really are.
> Just fucking do the work.

If it was that simple, everyone would just do that.

"Just x" usually indicates someone doesn't understand why others have problems with x.
Also, and it depends on if there's a chance you might be personally liable, but if you intend to let the company go bankrupt, you might as well try and use that to negotiate the debt down (if that's at all possible).

For example, let's say your debt is £50,000. If you declare bankruptcy, they get £0. Offer to pay them £15-25,000 - if they don't agree, declare bankruptcy, and they get nothing.

Not sure if this will work with the tax authority, but I've heard this being used with private debt (bank loans) and it can work.
Streaming music is a different beast. People tend to listen to the same music multiple times. The same is not true of movies.
Fibonacci numbers are so appealing to our human propensity to see patterns that they have their own quarterly published continuously for more than 50 years.

http://www.fq.math.ca/

Fibonacci illustrated the sequence using the growth of a rabbit population, though one where rabbit immortality was assumed. As Knuth says:

Fibonacci numbers have often been observed in nature, probably for reasons similar to the original assumptions of the rabbit problem. [TAoCP: Volume 1, 2nd edition.p 79]
is the talk available?
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Maybe I'll procrastinate tomorrow.
This actually makes sense. I seem to be more efficient at getting things done when I have multiple things to do, but can never get something done if it's one and only thing left. I get easily distracted by other things that keep me away from accomplishing that one task or goal.
An entrepreneur at the end of their runway, facing the extinction of something they fought and struggled over, experiences depression, anxiety and regret. And gets sympathy for their plight.

A person who's life is made up of 'being at the end of their runway' is shamed for not just 'go out and make another $5'. Nothing disingenuous about this dichotomy?
It may be they're super efficient, but more likely in my experience is that they're often super busy because they're bad at saying no.
Exactly. Don't expect folks to sit idly by and let life happen.

If their behavior seems bizarre, perhaps addressing the root cause would help?
Off topic but how'd you @hienyimba get your "People in [my city]..." to work?
...and the craziness that is U.S. Laws created in direct violation of the constitution continues. Stories like this make me wonder how far down the road we are from it being completely torn up and a police state being officially imposed.

Some days I read the news and can scarcely believe what I'm reading. I wouldn't believe it at all if it weren't under the Washington Post banner...
What about people who complain about how a character looks in a movie adaptation of a book? I never see characters in a book so the movie can do whatever they want as far as I care. But other people get quite indignant over this. Can anyone here attest to what level of imagination one has to do that? I strongly suspect you're over generalizing from your own experiences, this might be a way to test it.
All this reading is why I procrastinate in the first place! It's like trying to find a solution to a problem that does not exist.
So for those of us on the east coast, this is what Wawa has been doing for years now. Except now you can't mill around watching them prepare your food.
Would that backlash include e.g. not being able to get a job?

Is it really a revelation if they openly admit it all along?

Are people not allowed to be who they really are?

You're saying all of this on the very eve of homosexual rights in America, you do realize that?
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During good times sure. In tight job markets, that resume gap is a killer.
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This is a great idea. Do you plan on keeping it free?
I'd recommend reading "Talent Is Overrated" [0]

While I agree that innate talent exists I disagree that it cannot be made up for.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-Separates-World-Class...
The Future in the Rear-View Mirror
Maybe This Global Slowdown Is Different
It tells me two things :

1) there a lot of people out there who use the internet and NOT read or tune into TV or any internet news.

2) RIP my future career in computer security. It seems users do not care about security as much as I though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A

This clearly states that there is a major biological difference and that it has a major impact on why black people are more aggressive.
The most base argument would be that they're black so they have a clear advantage when it comes absorbing large amounts of sunlight. Is that also a social construct?