skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada via Teksavvy

86mbps (Fast.com)

99mbps (Speedtest.net)

The ~10mbps difference holds through after multiple tests. Maybe Rogers doesn't like Netflix?
I'm 32 and I don't drink alcohol nor coffee. I did try when I turned 18 just so I know what it's like.

It's definitely weird in a social setting when most of it involves drinking. To say it's a tech industry or startup thing is incorrect. From my view so much of the society revolves around alcohol and coffee. It's like people don't know how to have a good time without it.
Heh, but I wonder what the default per account limits are on launching these... prolly (1) per account.
What would stop a municipality from making zoning laws that are impossible to meet, and then just issuing waivers to those that play the political game well enough?
I think AI are already creative. See this for neural networks creating psychedelic images: http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-incredible-day-dreams-of-ar....

Perhaps you mean the initial spark of an invention, the idea which strikes like a lightning, and so on? But many inventions happen by accident (like the post-it note invention, http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/post-it-note...). And then you could argument that only human are crazy enough to find novel usage for useless things.

I don't know.
Shame it doesn't seem to test upload
Think this is a great rebuff to those that say renewable can only work when there is traditional generation to meet daytime or nighttime needs. Obviously this is just four days, but does to show what is possible with just a few more years investment.
I have constant connection problems between the Docker CLI and the Docker VM running Docker for OSX :/
In the US, rail freight is king. Passenger rail only has priority to the extent that the trains can run on schedule. And they do not run on schedule.

Express service between Philly and Chicago would probably require new, dedicated, above-grade track, and would not be competitive with any of airline, automobile, or bus travel for decades. Existing passenger trains in the US (other than the Acela) just can't get from A to B fast enough--or even just arriving at a predictable time!--to be worth the fare.

It is definitely easier to build a self-driving car than fix passenger rail in the US, probably by two orders of magnitude.
You can tell by the name that Allo is going to be a disaster.
Agendakar.com releases its Android app
Sneaking out for your Job Interview
Europe didn't (doesn't?) have the 2 person rule like the US does.
> I don't see any logical impossibilities for one
> language to solve all problems

There are no logical impossibilities in constructing a vehicle that can serve as a passenger vehicle, dump truck, submarine, and airplane, but tensions in design will very likely result in a compromise that is more complicated, more expensive, and less capable than a dedicated solution. Not only that, but your vehicle will be just as inadequate as every other once the landscape changes and someone now needs a space shuttle.

All-in-one compromise solutions only excel when a market is both small (so that niche solutions that serve only a percentage of the market don't pass the absolute mindshare threshold for viability) and uncompetitive (so that there's no competitive advantage to ditching generality in favor of efficiency in a specific space). As long as the software market keeps growing and remains competitive, specialization and fragmentation will only increase (in the long run, anyway; we'll still be subject to the same bust-and-boom cycles, so it will still be possible for fragmentation to decrease in the short-term).
My take on this is sharing a drink is one of the major (if not THE major) ways of socializing in our culture. So I can totally understand the INITIAL knee-jerk reaction when someone refuses to drink with 'the team' as this might be seen as a refusal to socialize.

Although if someone politely refuses to drink, it's really none of my business why. I for example wouldn't drink [much lol] before a heavy squat day but I totally don't want to start explaining/justifying this to someone who never lifted anything heavier than a pint.
OK, so I get 48 on fast.com and decided to use the link to compare on speedtest.net. There I get 101 down, 112 up.

So while 48 seems very fast to me (I get 19 at work) it's a lot less than 101. Is Verizon throttling the connection or is NetFlix not giving me more the ~50? At what point is the cap on NetFlix's side and not the client connection?
It's not even a good enough scam to be on Kickstarter.
would you rather die with privacy or live without
Interesting, I saw some mention of that via Billboard I think. Agreed that MixCloud has its hiccups and drawbacks but at least trying to be in the space 'n nice 'n tidy 'n legal. Plus me like free.
This is mainly a problem among the very young and very idealistic. As you pointed out you had this experience in your dorm. I also had similar experiences with zelots in college, much less so later in life.
Let's hope they allow you to msg people you've had gmail correspondence with. Could be in a separate inbox until you accept them.
I frustratingly pay the same amount while other ISPs in southern California offer 300 Mb/s for the same price. My apartment isn't wired for anything else though which is a bummer.
Yeah, Comcast used to advertise this as "powerboost". http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/what-is-powerboo... I'm not sure if Xfinity still does that but it wouldn't surprise me.
Not using the out of the box solutions. But while I haven't done this personally my understanding is Azul Zing will allow you to efficiently use multi TB heaps in Java.
For EEE to work the Extend needs to be proprietary so that the third E can take place with regard to competing products. The GCC exists under an open license so it can't be used that way.

It's not a phrase for winning by doing a better job.
How long until ISPs catch on and make sure fast.com is given a high priority?

I don't see how this will accomplish anything for Netflix.
Oh my mistake -- were you referring to a manual for teachers? You know what I speak of?

Tolerance and gentleness are not absent in my message. However, it's bound to be misunderstood if it comes across as if I am tacitly attacking religions and promoting my own unique one (the connotation I would say proselytizing has behind it). I'm not because there's no point in this kind of behavior. Truth will always be true, and the journey toward it is going to be unique for each individual but the destination will always remain the same.

If you do know what I speak of, you will also have learned that ideas only increase by sharing and that learning necessarily involves teaching. You are potentially misrepresenting tolerance as acceptance; the two are not one in the same. There is only one truth, but that does not mean you accept falsehoods out of tolerance. It means you tolerate them in your perfect forgiveness, which does not judge. I have no idea how my message could be construed as not gentle, but tip-toeing around what it is you truly believe out of fear of offending others is not the definition of gentleness. God has ordained my mission and that was just something that came to me to write -- it probably took me 5m because I didn't have to do much thinking. I only wish the best for everyone and the +8 upvotes meant it clearly resonated with a few people. This is enough for now and certainly does not backfire on my purpose here.
>ISPs can't prioritize it without prioritizing netflix as well

There are all kinds of tricks they could use to game this. If they applied their throttles over a 5 min window for instance. I'm really curious what Netflix is doing to guard against that, if anything.
Allo, Google's new messaging app
When I was younger, I dreamed of something like this. Voice control for my home! A Star Trek computer that I can interact with conversationally! I just say what I want and it happens!

Now, I just see an internet-connected microphone in a software black box which I can only interpret as a giant frickin' security liability. I want this, but unless it's open source top-to-bottom, I won't ever actually put one in my home. We know too much about how these things can be abused for me to ever seriously consider it without being able to verify for myself what it's doing and why.
for residential customers traffic shaping in US is very aggressive for majority of ISPs
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11699122/google-allo-messa...

> "It's really liberating to start from scratch sometimes," says Erik Kay

Yeah, developers hate maintenance and improving existing products, but for users having 12 chat apps is really annoying.
I assume you didn't take Amtrak? My last straw with them was arriving at my destination nearly 24 hours late, after two separate breakdowns, and an accident involving a car at a crossing.
Google and Amazon are huge companies and would face serious liability for falsely advertising that their devices only listened upon hearing the wake word. Moreover, I'm sure someone out there would analyze the network traffic and figure out it did not work as claimed. They have nothing to gain by secretly transmitting data, and everything to lose.

State adversaries are a different story. I don't doubt the NSA might somehow break into Snowden's Echo, but most people don't have such adversaries.
Since that one was posted later and doesn't add much info, I think we'll treat it as a dupe of this.
This is so DOA, bots can do most if this already in existing messaging app. Not putting this in hangout is a death blow. I'm not installing another chat app.
Quintupling Optimizely’s Security Bug Bounty
I had it crash a couple times when it printed lots of text from the container to the terminal. I haven't had that happen since the update from today, though.
You're right, uplink is pretty much useless if you're only consuming Netflix. I guess I'm still infected by 90s-era ideals about the internet being a place for the free exchange of information, where any tech-savvy person should be able to run their own server, etc, etc. I'd at least like to be able to upload photos of my son without my connection slowing to a crawl.
SpaceKit – ngrok altertive using Node.js, open source, still in beta
My ISP runs speedtest.net in my local area. For that reason alone I don't believe it. My speeds displayed on speedtest.net are significantly higher than other speed test websites.
Google concern about anonymity, cool
How uncomfortable with their decision to drink must be the people who downvoted you. They cant argue beacuse they know they are wrong. Intellectual cowardice, plain and simple.
Humblebrag.
Air travel should be the same as motor vehicle travel. The only reason there aren't small air taxi companies that offer regional trips for affordable prices is because government has been involved in airplanes since day 1, and it is illegal for private pilots to charge.
I'm dying for an Echo / Home that is fully api friendly and allows custom keywords. I want to buy an interface to my own home assistant. I want a hackers friend.

Sure, offline-capable would be great too, but for now just give me the damn api hooks. :s

edit: Note that i believe Echo has a pretty good API. I just don't want to talk to echo haha. I want to talk to my system.
That sounds like how things already are, esp with the "neighborhood character" restriction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723035
> It's arguably a bigger savings for smaller people who can't afford the upfront costs

Well first let me say that I have been doing all of this (as a business person who knows tech and Unix) for quite some time. And what you wrote above spins my head because I don't know much about AWS (but I can easily turn up a server if needed). My point is what you are describing for a small business person requires a tech person knowledgeable with AWS to implement (and keep on top of) which is the "cost" as opposed to perhaps saving money in this particular example for this particular customer. I am no doubting that AWS (which I see you work for in your profile) is good for certain types of uses (such as perhaps the example you are giving). But you still need a knowledgeable tech guy to keep it all working it is not like using webmail vs. running your own email server (imap, smtp etc.)

Additionally once you are on AWS you are pretty much locked into AWS by the way (as you describe) things are setup. I am not convinced that at a time in the future AWS will not change their pricing to take advantage of the lock that they have (even though now they continually drop prices). Or add extra fees or whatever. Being in business so many years I have seen this happen and changing from AWS will be near impossible. (In other words for people on AWS such as you describe there is no easy alternative competition for a system once designed and specific to AWS in the way you detail).
The girl I mentioned was an outlier, but hardly the only vegetarian/vegan I've known who always broached the subject of "meat ethics" at every opportunity.

People like that might make up a small portion of the vegetarian/vegan population, but they are a very vocal minority, which skews perspectives.
You probably have on in your pocket already, is the thing.

(I agree though, I don't want this in my house, and I turned off the "Ok Google" functionality on my phone)
Looks like a way to join everything
Also this is a direct competitor of whatsapp/telegram
It downloads over https, so anyone watching the traffic can't really get much more than the domain. The download for me comes from ipv6_1-cxl0-c144.1.sea001.ix.nflxvideo.net which is, i assume, one of the Netflix servers in Seattle over IPv6
It also learns users that time investing into their apps doesn't last, which is basically company suicide.
It's an amazing book, but I agree regarding the last third of the book.

I'm hoping it's a springboard for sequels.

I want to hear more about the Pingers and the Diggers.
Why I decided to create my own digital products
Interesting looking at Chrome developer tools, lots of magic and interesting payloads.

The http header Via is interesting as it lists the AWS instance that served the request and region. i-654a87b8 (us-west-2)
Tor developer dodges FBI, leaves US
I never read that thread, so consider this another voice in favor of the opinion it expresses.
It's gaming the violation of net neutrality that already exists because of the ISPs.
You forgot to add having all the personal data and fingerprints that you provide for PreCheck being divulged in a data exposure incident.
a large part of the purpose of airport security is to protect uninvolved people on the ground

This was solved when they locked the cockpit doors. Every other airport security restriction has been an overreaction in my opinion.
I get reactions too, it's usually "meh".

Then again, I live in an area where you're more likely to catch flak for drinking then not.
That's the whole point of the test - there is something between your provider and NetFlix that is limiting the connection
But 2000 year old oral epic poetry isn't irrelevant for daily use, it's lost. That's an important distinction. (That said, we do have epic poems like the Odyssey and the Iliad that are far from irrelevant if not exactly in daily use)

I have no expectation that 2016-Wikipedia will play any role what so ever in 12026 daily life, what with 3D hologram beamed straight into peoples brains and flying cars and all -- but I'm almost certain it will be readily available to academics that are interested for whatever reason, and the "1780-2017 The Democracy Experiment" chapter in history books of the time will largely be accurate, because of this.
They are introducing another video app, duo? Why not integrate that into the original messaging app.
Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals.

Griping about formatting is mostly off-topic bikeshedding as well.
A fake bomb is a real explosive with safe, inert detonators. You need the real stuff, or the bomb-sniffer dogs and gas chromatographs won't be able to help.
160Mbps / The Hague, NL / Ziggo
For us uninitiated, what is this "social language of cars" you're referring to?
Actionable Health and Fitness App – Corevity
> But these devices only listen when they hear the wake word

They always listen but only execute when they hear the triggering phrase.

Otherwise they'd never hear the trigger...

Whether they locally store what they hear prior to the trigger is the concern. I doubt they do but technically it's not challenging.
Can it ramble incomprehensible about accomplishments of others as its own?
What? They can't wait to send it over later when you actually do use it?
I was the author of a 2002 quality assurance software written to receive images from a microscopic camera attached to a robotic arm and turn them into 3D models as part of a friend's doctorate thesis that was later sold to mercedes as a prototype.

One German engineer later noticed that it contained my copyright, located my address and subsidized me every time the system was commercially sold up until 2008. Not sure if it is still in use, but I am thankful for his sense of justice.
So basically an alternative universe is where these claims are decided?

I did a patent a few years ago, and that's how it felt. The patent lawyer would call me to get my version and when the application was done, it would look like it came from another plane of existence.

Phrasing like "cause a calculating machine to..." were repeated a lot. Totally unreadable, probably only makes sense if you're a lawyer.

And symptomatic of a broken system, in my view.
Why would I use this over FaceTime and iMessage?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722775.
And end to end encrypted one to one video calling chat.
I'm not so lazy that I can't hold my phone and google for something. Pass.
I would say video chat is the biggest upload bottleneck that I care about.
Yes, I agree and also thought of shell aliases when I read this. On top of that there's an argument forming somewhere in my mind that this also sets a bad security precedent in the long term... although I can't put my finger on it exactly. Any place where you unnecessarily widen the range of possible inputs (especially in a shell interface) seems to invite future abuse. For example, what if some future maintainer decides to make this a regex match?
Java can address 32GB heaps with compressedoops flag enabled. After that flag is off, you can address as much as 64 bits will allow.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2093679/max-memory-for-64...

Do a little research before implying that there's no way that Java can address gigantic heaps.
I feel like it's only getting worse with this Duo rollout. "We call it 'Knock knock' -- now you can not only see who's calling, but see _why_ they're calling"

Suddenly Gavin Belson curing cancer with compression seems like a better sell.
No I'm not. Honestly I'm astonished that people are calling for a lawsuit. What happened? Some nurses gave her a disapproving look? Someone made an appointment with cps that was later cancelled? So what? I'd be more sympathetic if CPS actually took the child away, but they didn't. The hospital clearly acted unprofessionally, but that is hardly grounds for a lawsuit.
> I wasn't thinking about shutting out baby cry to get some sleep (sleeping with headphones?)

This is not the intended use, but people will figure out on their own and do it anyways...

Then, one day, a baby will die horribly or something, a solicitor will contact the parents... and profit!!! (or in your case, bankrupcy)
There is definitely a personal profit motive for the people involved, i.e. promotions and raises, having more reports (huge in the government sector), not to mention to crony pork handed out to companies providing the xray/detection and other equipment.
"Flexible dyno hours" is some nice marketing spin. 550 hours a month works out to one application running 18 hours a day, whereas previously you could have an unlimited number of apps running up to 18 hours per day.
Looks more like a google android strategy.
Google knows that this is a developer conference right? I feel like I'm at CES. I don't care about any of their apps unless there is some really cool integrations I can do. Talk API's or this is just noise.
The value of equity depends on whether or not a person has the capital to exercise their options, the liquidity of the market for the stock after exercise, and the value of the stock at the time of exercise discounted by the time value of money and the risk of the options not being worth exercising and the risk of the options not being exercisable.

Oh, and the existing cap table and the financial roadmap for its evolution.

Guessing at the existing value is improved by consultation with one's lawyer (to examine the contract), one's accountant (to examine the capital structure) and one's financier to project the employee's future wherewithal to exercise options.

Good luck.
I think the most interesting thing in the echo and now google home narrative is that these are subsets of phones. Speakers, microphones and internet connections with only two substantial differences - they are powered 100% of the time and they have better speakers/acoustics. It will be interesting to see if those are substantial enough to overwhelm the obviousness of doing these through the phone in your pocket.
If only it were that easy...
TSA Precheck: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-sign-up-for-tsa-preche...
Well that's faint praise indeed. ;)
The amount of data you upload to NetFlix to watch a stream is negligible so really doesn't apply in this case. This site is strictly to see if your ISP is purposely slowing down your streaming specifically from NetFlix.
Being an expert FPGA programmer is easy, the problem is that small things take a really, really long time.
An open alternative seems to be https://mycroft.ai/

(I heard about it a while back, but I didn't back it so I haven't read the latest updates)
All very offtopic, but uploads on the Flickr site usually timeout on my home broadband these days. I fear they've been tweaking their servers for classier users than I am.
There is a big difference between work being a safe space where no one drinks, and one where your boss berates you harshly for not drinking. The article depicts the latter situation. I drink; I don't care if people don't drink. I would never, ever respond to someone asking for water the way this writer's boss did. The boss acts as though he has been personally insulted. That's garbage.
Stuff has caught fire at McMurdo multiple times - if it's not exterior, stuff inside the building is certainly flammable. McMurdo actually has their own 6-person fire department specifically because it's such a hazard.

At the South Pole station, all winter-overs take a weeklong firefighting training course with the Denver Fire Dept., since they don't have the luxury of a dedicated team.
Hopefully the local interests who also know how to play the political game well enough but recognize the "indications that businesses and residents are fleeing the state in part because of high housing costs and the state's Legislative Analyst Office blaming excessive restrictions on development for the affordability crisis".

Profiting from pulling out the rug to newcomers only works if there are enough newcomers still willing to pay the exorbitant rents for the artificially suppressed supply. If enough people start saying "eh, the bay area is nice and all but not worth it", the NIMBYism starts to get less profitable. Sort of a pendulum-swinging-the-other-way dynamic-equilibrium type of thing.
(older) Brits will be reminded of the series Allo Allo, set during the occupation of France.

Maybe there's room for a disposable message feature called 'I will say this only once...'
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Netflix has an unofficial test movie that shows streaming speed: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/netflix-streaming-test/
So, you're saying ISPs can't prioritize the traffic from/to fast.com while throttling Netflix.com?