skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a domestic WiFi connection is likely to be in the 200 ms range

My wifi connection gives me ~18ms roundtrip to Google, and about 8ms extra to work, and ~50ms roundtrip from my moms house in Norway where I am currently, via her wifi, to my home server in the UK (and ~18ms roundtrip to Google from here too).

These are nothing special for developed countries - just regular consumer connections. When I've been on business fibre subscriptions we've consistently gotten better results.

EDIT: I initially wrote "maybe 5 years ago", without thinking. Some additional observations: While ~200ms roundtrips to a site was a thing going back long enough, first hop latencies even on dialup was rarely even 100ms. I know: I ran an ISP, and had to deal with irate customer if latency from them to their nearest games servers got to that kind of level, even in the mid 90's.

SSH connection roundtrips start becoming painful in the ~120ms roundtrip range, and it's been a decade plus since that's been a problem other than when managing a slow system on the US west coast or Asia for me (connecting from Europe). Beijing or New Zealand has been in the 200ms+ range for me. If anything closer is in that range, it's a sign something is wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iM26OGIH1o

Though I'm a fan of video game music and remixes, I'm very picky about them. Especially when it's reinstrumented. (I'm yet to find a remix of Kraid's Hideout from Metroid 1 that's anywhere near as good as the original.) But this remix from Metroid 2 works pretty well.
Mind boggling - the guy has nice working animations going back to 2009

http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/p/about-project.html?m=1

Incredible perseverance to ship it after close to a decade of work!
Having access to the entire internet sounds a whole lot more useful than access to a subset.
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Hebrew has a similar story in Israel. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language
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[Quite an oldie]
Seems like a stretch to compare the choice of connecting 2 million people a month by offering wifi at 24 train stations to providing users that pass through the station with phones. More to the point, having a phone is not the issue, having a free way to connect to the net is.
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They're useful in cases like this, where the set of entries is much smaller than the total set size (e.g., all URLs). Once you approach sets with 50% membership, a bitset becomes more efficient (accuracy per space) than a bloom filter or any other probabilistic structure.
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This is pretty well known in the UK. See, for example, the "Rothamsted Broadbalk and Geescroft Wilderness Experiment" [1] which was started in 1880.

I suspect that the critical difference here is that the landscape was blighted by a century or more of open cast mining and heavy industry

[1] http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/Wilderness
The elements of criminal libel in Louisiana are clearly enumerated at http://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/2006/146/78544.html. If the written article constitutes facts sufficient to allege a violation, then a warrant can issue.
Uber is well aware of the "problem" (from its point of view) and has been aggressively using its TOS to shut down attempts to create aggregators. Uber is all about using information to create a more efficient market just so long as it controls the information.
IMHO: Predictability is more important than the difference between 2/3 days: if it says "delivery in 2 days", it has to be there in 2 days. If it says 3 days and I need it in 2, then I'll have to find an alternative, but that's better than ordering it, thinking it's going to be there and then it isn't.

1 (next) day is a really nice difference if you need it: e.g. something broke and you want a replacement now, having it the next day is great and saves a trip to the local electronics store.
But Rust is still a controlled language in that there's a language committee updating it. It's just that the committee actually listens to its community.

A true bottoms-up-controlled programming language would have to allow users to redefine keywords and grammar, then allow users to drift the language over time. Eventually you'll have multiple subgroups (accents) and one person's compiler might choke on the line `if x ain't 3`
The point is that it would have been more interesting either not to find it (because there were theoretical limits on how massive it could be) or to find it along with something new, that we couldn't predict. This really was the worst-case scenario.
It looks really good on my phone (android with chrome)
You are probably not far of in that assessment. The Amiga 1200 and 4000 had been discontinued just the year before.

Windows NT 4.0 had been out for just a year (it was the version that introduced the 9x UI to NT).

On the hardware side we had Pentium and Pro/II shipping, and also the first AMD cpu without any Intel microcode involved (K5).
I'm wondering what people are using to _build_ custom deb packages. We currently have a set of simple shell scripts which first install the dependencies, then compile some source code and finally use checkinstall to build a Debian package from that. It works, but I'd much rather have a config file with all the required steps instead of a buggy shell script.
Is there any better way?
There's a Steam overlay in Gentoo, and it mostly works, but lately I've had a lot of issues with ATI's open source drivers and Steam, to the point where I just setup a windows machine for games.

This looks really promising though, and shows a practical use case for docker.
Why can't it be both? Frankly, the outrage seems disproportioned. Unlike Facebook with its Internet.org site, Google didn't even paint it as charity, they only said it's a problem that they (along with others) are addressing, which is what every companies does. "General upliftment" and "benefit of mankind at large" are your words.
Cuckoo. :)
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This is only if it's Markovian - but it almost certainly is not.

If you need X requests served for a full page-load (or whichever for the primary functionality of the page), you should be totaling those request times into a single entry for your histogram, otherwise you are calculating the distribution of something potentially useless (e.g. 50% of page_is_broken_without_it.js might actually be in p99 even if that file is 1% of your requests and the generic histogram might look deceptively good).
RSS can be considered a federated protocol, maybe...if you stretch the definition.

With RSS, you can subscribe to feeds with any standard reader. Interestingly enough, YouTube channels all have RSS feeds, so you can subscribe to them without needing to do so via a Google account.
More this. The cars dominance of our roads needs to end. We need to take back our streets, and the safety of those who use them.

I know there are car drivers who get annoyed by this, but I ask you to try and gain some perspective and objectivity by riding a bike in a city some time. You will understand why cyclists need protection, and why anything less than this is just putting lipstick on a pig.

Look at the number of recent deaths of cyclists in San Francisco, CA. It's horrendous, and needs to change. Cars have for too long been given too much.
> The backlash was the argument that Zuckerberg was only giving access to a few websites (mostly Facebook) in order to get more control of the internet without following net neutrality. To me this seems to be an oversimplified and overly pessimistic view of what happened

I'm Indian – and if you are someone here who ordinarily can't afford any sort of Internet access, Facebook and the other e-commerce websites that were on the Free Basics platform weren't exactly the first things you'd want to access. They made zero effort to make things like government websites, local newspapers, utility websites etc. accessible through this platform. If they had done so, I bet they would have had a lot more support from the intended target audience of this platform.

Please note that they also were MITMing people's traffic using a dual-certificate model. [1] "When people use the Free Basics mobile website, information is temporarily decrypted on our secure servers to ensure proper functionality of the services and to avoid unexpected charges to people." This was part of the reason people were more pessimistic about it and viewed it as a way for Facebook to cheaply acquire a lot more users and a ton of free user data about them.

Google on the other hand seems to be basically giving unrestricted access, albeit at specific spots to whatever people want to access, which is (in my opinion) way better than the sort of AOL-style walled garden Facebook was trying to create in India.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/platform-t...
If you care about your time, PackageCloud is a hosted solution for managing dpkg and rpm repositories. It supports repository signing out of the box. I'm a happy customer.

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In the UK, Acorn Computers were just hanging on (and working on one last RISC OS machine -- which sadly never saw the light of day). At least their CPU architecture lives on, which is more than can be said for many of their competitors.
$0.02: I honestly feel that Google's CEO being Indian hastened the adoption. In India, Sundar Pichai is a celebrity. There are billboards, advertisements, and the whole country is cheering for him, a "local".

There is more to it than this (of course), but I think that the community view Google through the friendly face that is their CEO, while viewing Facebook as the big blue tech conglomerate which that have become.
Thanks @fasterthanlime !

Is there something that the firejail does better than the Docker?

I can see the firejail also uses the namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
classic exit scam
If you don't make enough money when every single one of your portfolio companies exits for $50M, then you're doing it wrong.
>The economists wants us to produce and consume more "stuff" because that is good for jobs and the economy.

Isn't this just the Broken Window Fallacy? All the effort spent making ten shitty products instead of one good one could have been better spent improving our lives elsewhere. If economists want this, they're bad economists.

I do see a problem in that the efficiency of manufacturing has far outstripped the efficiency of repair. If you have a fully automated assembly line and you've already put in the capital outlay, it's way cheaper to tell the machines to make another one than it is to pay someone to spend time diagnosing and fixing a faulty unit. This must surely lead to massive materials waste if nothing else.

But then you have to ask yourself, is that bad? And if it really is, why isn't that reflected in the price of the materials? Are there unaccounted externalities? If so, then we need to impose those through tax and regulation.
> If one is in essence immortal the only purpose that can endure forever is the pursuit of new knowledge.

That's making a lot of assumptions about alien psychology, believing they're going to have the same goals as us. Why not

1. Propagation of your species, forever

2. Expansion of your territory until the entire Universe is yours

3. Endless pursuit of pleasure

4. Propagating religious beliefs, or something we'd recognize as such.

5. Escaping this Universe, which will eventually end.
Thanks for that - quick service even on a Sunday!

I'd be the last to denigrate the value of the occasional developer cage-match at the white board, the technical dive-down lunch or water cooler chat, but I've never worked on a project that didn't leave coders well over half their time to work as they see fit. Or that did pair-coding[1] beyond the several weeks of on-boarding.

I've probably been missing out, but what you describe sounds like a recipe for working hard (read: putting in the hours) without getting code written or having strict accountability.

Is this the new thing? Diffusion of accountability?

I'm probably taking what you are saying to a ridiculous limit/extreme, but that sounds like a disaster for introverts. I mean, it's work, not a social club -- how do the introverts get on in such an environment?

[1] The projects I've been involved with have usually embedded test developers to work in tango with the functional code developers, but I suspect that this isn't what you are referring to as "pair programming".
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Maybe they are taking the long about route on purpose to let us know about their arrival!
My 4¢:

1. I wouldn't call it a game unless it has a gaming element. Then, I wouldn't value it for its simulation capabilities as much as for its gaming properties (entertaining, addictive, not too easy, not too hard? etc.)

The reasoning is that if you need a logic gate schematic capture & simulator there are tons of professional ones that can be had for free, both open source and commercial.

2. Also, I wouldn't call it an educational game unless it actually teaches the concepts of EE, but judging from the website it doesn't seem to do so. Even the video example has no audio (unless it's a problem on my part) so you either know all the concepts already, in which case this game has no use for you, or you are left scratching your head more often than not. (Why does that rising edge detector thing have 3 NOT gates in series? Why not 1 or 5? and so on.)

3. Manually drawing wires gets tedious very fast. There are many reasons why professionals use HDLs almost exclusively nowadays, but as a hobbyist I can already tell that not having to draw wires (and keeping them ordered after every change) is certainly one of them.

4. The graphics are fine for an educational circuit simulator, but completely miss the mark if this is intended as a game. Look at SpaceChem for an example of a circuit-like game done right. I would love to see a game like that, except based on logic ports instead of automatons.

Hope this is taken as constructive criticism, from someone who is potentially interested in this kind game. Keep up the good work!
No, but every additional copy is cheaper than the first, and asymptotically approaches 0.
This isn't altogether uncommon in free software, and is sometimes referred to as 'beggarware'.

I've been guilted into donating by some of these, but if it's too annoying it can have the opposite effect and cause you to drop the software.

One that comes to mind is a download site that tracked your download count and put a rainbow-colored '(maybe you should donate)' link next to it. Not very detrimental to the UX, but gets the message across.
I've never met anyone in the corporate world who can do that; all of the important systems I've seen require the new password to be "different enough" from the old. Appending or changing a couple of digits isn't accepted.
Still several zeros apart. Moving a small ship vs moving a mountain
All those Docker commands usually run as root or something equivalent to root. So a container breakout could lead to root on the host system.

I think kordless is claiming that using Docker here could increase the severity of an attack; otherwise it doesn't seem like putting up another barrier could hurt security, even if it is later broken.
Funny thing about the UK micros is that just about the only one i am familiar with in the Amstrad CPC, because several of my classmates got one in the second hand market.
I saw a nice performance boost on my webapp and it was basically "free".
Why did Apple stop making new computers? Is there an underlying business rationale or is it component supply challenges?
An example is "Slaughterhouse" (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929539 and http://bholley.net/blog/2016/the-right-fix.html). This is not the only incident where Mozilla people have suggested hiding bugs until an old ESR goes end of life BTW.
I tried it, the GUI is veeery slow for slightly bigger text files. Also it is missing word wrapping. Good luck in diffing some latex files with it...
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The power savings from including a newer Intel processor seem pretty massive in and of themselves. It doesn't seem like they'd have to do a massive overhaul to make an update worthwhile.
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Unfortunately there's an unworkable middle phase where cars are suppressed but not a lot of folks are cycling yet. Result: many complaints. Have to get over that hump to reach utopian bicycle state. Probably not going to happen.
That was the point precisely
I suspect it's more a problem of focus. Yes, Intel has slowed in the release of new processor architectures, but there are lines Apple has ignored and many other components (e.g., graphics cards) have continued advancing. I feel they're consciously choosing to allocate their hardware engineering resources to mobile instead.
In USA small claims cannot be used for a person suing a company. Its why there are not 1000s of small claims against Comcast
Yes, you need access to all 1.3 trillion rows (plus more) for the use case I worked on.

Ideally, you'd actually use more than that, however diminishing returns leaves you with that as what we were going with.
What language the Russians spoke at that time then?
Supposedly the Cuban Crisis was averted by the leadership deviating from the (supposedly rational) RAND script.
Government website access sounds like one of those things that's nice in theory, but in practice something people don't really use that often and don't care about that much.

The websites in Free Basics are websites that many people use all of the time. Though including utility type sites may have been the right call from a marketing perspective.

Not sure what the reasons were behind the MiTM - possible it was to prevent people using Free Basics to access everything by spoofing the domains and encrypting the traffic? Not everything is a conspiracy.

Definitely agree that access to everything is better, but wifi hotspots are nothing new and require you to actually go to them. Plus if you had Free Basics you could still use the wifi hotspots anyway - now those people have nothing.
Despite Metroid being my favorite game series, I never played Metroid 2 on the GB. So I'm excited to play a nice modernized version (a la Zero Mission). Also, yes, it runs well in wine :)
> Merlin Sheldrake

Nominative determinism.
Nowhere with sane management.
We used SAP's HANA for a portion of the data, and then used an option on it called Dynamic Tiering which is essentially connecting Sybase IQ to HANA for a disk data store as well.

Keeping 1.3 trillion in memory is pretty expensive, so we were trying to cut some costs by using that to funnel data in and out.

Not a bad solution overall.
> No. That time has already passed. If we see signs that the star will go nova "in one year", we have one year, not 1481.

He specifically referred to something traveling at half of the speed of light, in which case it would arrive in >=1480 years not one.
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With majority using Android devices, if Google were to MITM the traffic, you would never know about it.

If Chrome can include unique identifiers, what could one say of Android?
Apple would certainly pause the production of new computers (or at least the announcement of such) if doing otherwise meant triggering the Osborne effect. Maybe they're waiting until the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3.1 accessory market stabilizes, and then moving everything over to being more MacBook-like (where the rMB is the only thing they were confident enough in their continued support of to continue releasing it in the interim.)
They are simply exploiting the fact that their brand identity plus retail presence generates plenty of sales....plus most consumers don't care what is under the hood.
Processor speed isn't a limiting factor for me, but the 16 GB max RAM really is and it's definitely becoming a problem for daily work as a programmer working with compilers and VMs. I just wish they'd fix that.
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That's actually a middle dot, not a regular dot.
"...that doesn’t mean it isn’t unconscionable for Apple to continue to sell outdated products to people who may not know any better"

I may suffer from a lack of nannying instincts that make these sort of hyperbolic assertions hard to swallow. Is it a common impulse to want to save all those poor people from themselves for no particular reason? If they "don't know any better", it's pretty clear they don't have a personal reason to care, and this entire sentiment becomes rather condescending in that light.
I am not sure why everyone feels like they need to do a comparison with a pre-existing product. How about "Find your Car"
Why should Apple stop selling anything that people want to buy?

For most people, buying a new computer is something you do when your old one breaks. I know Apple cultivates itself as a "professional's brand" but that's not really the case anymore. Every 18 year old with a pocket full of graduation money next to her iPhone grabs a new Mac, and any Mac she grabs will perform a vast majority of the tasks she needs.

The real question is not "why does Apple still sell.." It's "why do people still buy ...?"

Answer: because it works.
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This seems to be wishful thinking reporting a change of opinion by some urban planning folks. Missing is any information about their motivation in the absence of reasonable public transit with short (under five minute) heading times.
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Not if you have to go ten miles and stand by the router in order to get it. Then it's really a comparison between no internet or a subset.
Background: This is about the last MacBook Pro without things like soldered RAM I think.
I would say, using a Docker would move the vector of attack to a Docker engine and a Linux kernel implementation of cgroups, naming spaces.

But it would still help in preventing such bugs as https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186
It doesn't make money. Even though they have a crap ton of cash because of their mobile business, they don't seem willing to invest in their desktop os or their PC business.

Its surprising because the mac + ios system is such a powerful combination. With MS at least trying lately with their pen enabled devices, bash on windows, and general lack of complete disdain for customers, they may be getting ready to eat Apple's lunch.

Compare that with 4 year old laptops, little real innovation in mac os (the latest I can recall is implementing Windows 8's window system for full screen and making dev's lives harder with all the security changes in el cap) and it starts to make you wonder.

Not saying Windows is better than Mac, just wish Apple would stop pulling an MS and actually try with their OS.
As backwards as this comment sounds, it's the truth. You need to be attracted to someone first, and then you maybe share a sense of humour or shared interests (if that). End of the day, you just need someone you can easily spend time with, without ripping each others heads off.
That is a horribly naive analysis. Did you even read the article? $50M can be a great outcome or a terrible one depending on the circumstances. What valuation did you buy in at? If you bought in at $100M, a $50M exit means a 50% loss. How much time did it take to exit? A 50% return after 1 year is a very different outcome from a 50% return after 10 years.