skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of us agree that there is no level of groping that's acceptable; whereas I _think_ that, even among those of us who would like a web with no ads, the position that there is no level of advertising that's acceptable is extreme.

Holy shit, could you not come up with a more loaded and ambiguous way of trying to justify ads?

> Nonetheless, since some people do use it, surely this divestiture from a conflict of interest is a good thing, even if it's not perfect.

What are you talking about? Google literally pays ABP to not block some of their ads.
I'm willing to bet the real catalyst to ISP competition will be LEO satellite constellations like the one SpaceX has mentioned they're working on. Much better ping, cheaper/faster than wiring up entire cities and having to dig through streets. This could actually become a huge source of revenue for them to fund their mars initiative. Imagine once several companies do that, you could pick whichever ISP you want and just have them mail you a receiver to put outside your window.
Of course, either it does, or it doesn't.
No cash is needed to sell the assets or LLC to the C Corp.

Most likely, you would sell the assets of the LLC to the C Corp in exchange for some number of shares (valued at the pre-money valuation of the company) and then issue additional shares equal to the VC money such that the total value of the new C Corp is the post-money valuation.

Afterwards, the founders can distribute the shares and wind up the LLC.

The alternative is for the founders to sell the LLC to the C Corp for shares and then the C Corp can wind up the LLC.
No on will disagree with that answer.

Lots of people will argue vehemently about what it takes to be certain that there are no side effects.
They've always had the functionality to run software like Transmission inside a Jail. I guess they just moved that functionality to docker to be more "hip".
Yeah. :)

I interviewed at Genius and started following her because of "Blondes make better engineers" tagline, it cracked me up.
I'll couch it more, every single VC I've ever taken money from, talked to about taking money, or read about their criteria for taking money requires a C-Corp. After a short search, I've found precisely one company who remained a LLC while taking VC money (Seedinvest who raised from a number of small seed-stage VCs). Are there others I'm missing?
Basing it on entropy makes certain assumptions on topological properties of time and space though.
Thanks for spotting that... it should read Rs.20 for 1GB. Someday we'll hit that low of a rate :)
By bad, I thought it was longer then that.

That said, I'm pretty sure the "RoundUp Ready 2 Yield trait" has nothing to do with the application of RoundUp. It is the same gene that gave resistance to RoundUp but when inserted into a different location it caused the soybeans to add another bean per pod, increasing yield. I don't believe any RoundUp application is required although it usually is since it is normally paired with the original trait.
Rapscallion is a React VirtualDOM renderer for server side rendering
Test Dynamics, 0.2.4 released
be nice this is my first comment in Hacker News :D

Interestingly issues gets noticed here!, there was a posting yesterday about FB hiring issue.
What was your mailing list size before the campaign?
I think you've got your categories wrong and very selectively chosen.

* Water / Sewer: Regulated OR 'off grid' (EG: well + septic field)
* Roads: Local roads always regulated (taxpayer provided)
* Hospital: Many areas only have one, denser areas may have a small handful; in an emergency you don't choose.
* Electricity: Regulated (Possibly a choice of generation providers, usually never a choice of 'line transmission' providers.)
* Natural Gas: Regulated, one provider.
* Schools: Regulated, there's a basic default option.
* Police: Regulated, there's a basic default option.
* Fire: Regulated, there's a basic default option.
* 'Emergency': Your 911 call goes to one place* (for a source area)
* Data: Many municipalities have //regulated// a monopoly (sometimes a duopoly)
Yet they don't regulate the performance of that monopoly sufficiently.
http://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/outdoors/2016/03/04/r...

>Since 2011, 21 people have died in Rocky Mountain National Park, eight of those fatalities coming in 2014 alone. While grim, Rocky Mountain's annual death toll pales in comparison to that of Grand Canyon National Park, which averages 12 fatalities each year... About 150 people die in national parks each year, according to the latest federal data, tracked between 2007 and 2013.

Yet we don't go shutting down the National Parks or accuse the Federal government of bad karma.
Canadians are up to their eyeballs in debt
> All our source code is publicly viewable

Not all of it. version.gitlab.com is one of GitLab's closed source IPs.
Not sure what you point is. Fargo says "This is a true story".

It adds that apart from the name changes "the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."

A blatant lie, not at all in the manner of "based on a true story".
Latency: Average 888 ms

Pass!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access
> Single-stream throughput is directly proportional to latency and jitter.

What? No it's not. This calculator is ridiculously wrong.
I'm also going to have to mention this. I have zero interest in such a simple tray app that uses nodejs+Electron. It's like the worst of both worlds.

All of this could be done with standard C++ MFC and use literally no ram.
> some of these video players are buried in about 6 layers of HTML components that appear to have no real value other than to make it harder to find the element that actually makes the video go away.

My impression is that this is just an unintended effect of the proliferation of JavaScript frameworks and the evolving web "best practices". Makes it no less annoying, though.
Yes, Let Your Kids Talk to Strangers
Due to this belief you get some interesting Jewish thoughts. Such as Atheist Jews who do not believe a supernatural being exists. But that G-d is the spirit / will / empathy of the people in aggregate. For example a Jewish Atheist would say it was not some super natural being's doing that saved the Jews from the holocaust, but the good nature of people in aggregate. And it was that good nature that represents G-d.

Finally as the joke goes in Judaism. You've got 2 Jews in a room and 5 conflicting opinions.
For a contemporary example, Christmas trees do not feature in English or American Christmas traditions before the 19th century, but were long established by the 20th century. Ditto white wedding dresses.

(The rise of of both traditions dates back to Queen Victoria.)
can't wait to learn more
The case for compulsory public service
2017 Honda Ridgeline Pricing
"... rural stories of telcos cutting off even crappy DSL service any time anyone stops a subscription; realtors are tearing their hair out trying to ensure that some narrow drip of data will be available to a new buyer of a home..."

I've seen this with my own eyes. When my wife's grandmother sold her house on 10 acres in west Georgia just outside of Carrollton (which is a biggish small town), she had to transfer her AT&T account along with her phone number of 30+ years to the buyer just so that they could keep internet service running. This is the kind of place where your cell phone signal drops to nothing as you turn onto the dirt road a mile from the house.
If it got astronomically better, we could download have even bigger JavaScript frameworks to render magazine articles even slower than is done now.
It was bittersweet to see Lester haines' name on that Register link. Lester passed away last summer -- he was an inspired writer and a jewel of the 21st century incarnation of The Register. The link must have been one of his early pieces and not up to his eventual standards.
"So far, no one has cracked the nut of getting extremely high-capacity wireless signals reliably through walls and doors"

Yes, they have. Maybe not fiber speeds.

The problem here is that people value freedom at zero but value entertainment (or even just big numbers on an advertisement) at non-zero.

That's the thing that bothers me about monopoly talk. It's no longer that some company owns all the critical infrastrucutre or all the production of critical goods. We are talking about a monopoly on exyraordinarily high speed internet which is really only used for entertainment.
I have to say that you seem to be uninformed about their practices. You do realize the implications of this very article that you are commenting on, right? Monsanto is no uber, is a misomer. Uber IS a Monsanto is a better characterization. Monsanto is obviously a very evil company. Look at this headline! They did the exaxt same thing with rGBH growth hormone.
The point is there probably won't be much problem in disclosing this info and they will likely have to do so after they IPO anyway.
Browsers have notification APIs now, from what I've seen. No need to run a full background tab just to handle the occasional notification.
I wouldn't propose any single company pay that cost out of pocket up front. The point is that $140 in private infrastructure isn't as big of a number as people think. What's holding it back is NOT raising capital.

Verizon spends upwards of 10 billion a year on infrastructure. They might spend over a 100 billion in the next 10 years all by themselves. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint combined will spend god knows how much.

There are many roadblocks to widespread fiber. Capital and profit are not among them.
They way I remember it, it was 10 conflicting opinions...
In Telegram case, the bug is really a minor severity. Unpopular client, hard to phish scenario. It's only in checkmark's interest to overhype the issue.
Exactly. There are always willing lenders when the borrower has the sovereign power to tax so it can repay the debt. But apparently there are fewer willing investors who are willing to sink money into something that apparently is of little use and that, therefore, puts their capital at substantial risk.

What the FTTH proponents really want is a huge subsidy for an investment whose payoff is questionable, especially in an era when 4G LTE blankets the countryside and wireless operators are yet again selling "unlimited" data. Yeah, "unlimited" has limits...but wireless is improving, yet despite that, people want government to plow billions into laying wires to people's houses. Google tried it and it's apparently not profitable, so let's have government toss money into this sinkhole.
3. The parts of the DragonFlyBSD’s net-work stack that can really enjoy help hands.
...
- The IPv6 stack; though I am making progress, the progress is slow.

Ouch. I'm guessing this means IPv6 is just slow and not that it doesn't work at all, but it seems like something that's going to be a problem in a couple of years.
Ask HN: Web Development – Recommended Courses / Materials
I've been working on desktop software for the past few years and would like to start spending some of my spare time learning about web development and hopefully create something useful.

I covered the very basics of HTML/JS/CSS a while ago at university and should be able to pick those up again fairly easily. But I find the huge amount of frameworks and libraries currently available to be a little overwhelming.

Could HN recommend any resources or courses that cover enough material to provide a strong enough foundation to see a project through from start to finish?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Build Android apps with Debian: apt install android-sdk
Not exactly. At least not until the browser has APIs to interact with more parts of the operating systems.

The only times I've considered writing an Electron app vs a web app (which is my day job) is when it would have benefitted from an offline-first and/or needed system resources like tray icons, interacting with other desktop apps, reading system-level stats, executing native code, etc.
That's fantastic.

I'm considering self-publishing a fiction work that I'm working on as a hobby.

It would be nice to turn my passion into a source of income.
No evidence to back idea of learning styles
What kind of 4k streaming are you doing? BT could definitely saturate your link, but 4k Netflix streams are surprisingly only around 25 mbps.
The docs are now public...so you can.

We have a blog post by Daniel Abadi coming as well about the consistency model.
Benchling is hiring experienced product engineers to build a platform for R&D
Here's a 'mostly wireless' open/neutral network that seems to be scaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
The subscription cost isn't for the incorporation and formation. Being a Delaware C-Corp is just a prerequisite for users, so we include it as the first step.
..and despite the Readme implying it may not be stable yet and it being prerelease I've found it flawless for the 2 or 3 weeks I've been happily running it!
Yep, I was. My mistake. On the React stuff, yeah that's been debated to a virtual stalemate. At least until the actual patents are issued. Whatever's in there is stuff you won't be able to do in software without the license from Facebook. Even if you're not actually using React. I'm not actually worried about using React, I'm worried about using the concepts that React teaches in other contexts. I'm worried that an open source library gets very popular before we know which pieces are locked down for the next 20 years.

Let's just see what the patents cover.
> The fact is that advertising pays for much of the internet content you consume for free.

I've never had free internet... which ISP do you use?

> It's because of perverse incentives and a lack of regulation in the entire industry that force bad formats, fraudsters, malware, and the pursuit of data and volume to win over quality and user experience.

The whole point of advertising is to trick people into buying shit they don't need.

> As much as I don't care for the ABP approach, it's something that can be used to actually make progress and that's what this is, progress.

This is a step backwards, not progress.

> It's finally some outside pressure on the industry to change from the segment of the advertising mechanism that matters most - the people themselves.

Bullshit. This is a way of lifting the pressure on the industry, and this initiative is mostly supported by players in the industry. Not the people.
everything and nothing. I ran such a site with a few friends in the late 90s/early 00s. Embarrassing proof: http://web.archive.org/web/20000521031551/http://www.thedayt... .. they were basically a genre of pre-blog sites where mostly (but not entirely) 15-25 year old males posted total trash like pictures of celebs they liked, offensive jokes, and, well, total trash :)

e/n had a variety of celebs itself. "Stile" was in the scene and took clickbaiting to the extreme (though it wasn't called that at the time) by essentially turning into a site packed with "extreme" images and porn. A perennially down on his luck Rush Limbaugh fan called Jon Bence was also pretty famous for describing his mundane life in excruciating detail.

The scene fizzled out within a few years, particularly once "blogging" became its own actual thing.
CoreOS's rkt and Docker's containerd jointly donated to CNCF
Yeah definitely do not have deep pockets.

Hmm, that is too bad. I understand what you're saying with forcing people to use stuff and slowing down their productivity.

One concern is if some media is embedded all over and suddenly I have to pull it because there is a complaint that it is copyrighted or whatever. I guess I'd inform users. Yeah even this idea seems flawed, saturated market.

I wonder too regarding that 'non familiar software/dev environment) I was trying to use Cloud9 on a Chromebook I wonder how many people do that vs. just using a regular laptop or Macbook.

Thanks for your input.
I am not sure I would publicly claim to be the only person who knows where there is an untraceable million-dollar stash, whether it is true or not.
I'm opposed to all advertising and marketing on ethical grounds. In my book human attention isn't for sale, and all attempts to sell my attention will be dealt with by technical means with extreme prejudice. It's true that content producers need to get paid; it's not true that human attention is an acceptable currency for which this payment must be exchanged.

Find some other way. Show some fucking adaptability.
I suppose someone could make a system tray framework in Electron where each widget is a plugin. But yea, even 10 system tray widgets taking hundreds of megs of RAM seems a bit overkill.
MX Master Wireless + Das Keyboard Pro (Work)
Razer Death Adder + HHKB Pro 2 (Home)
How are (say) the 100-200 Mbps connections provided through regular cable not sufficient for this? And is all this fight really over being able to stream 3+ different 4k video streams? It seems like such a niche and low priority first world problem that if these are really the concerns I'm almost glad they're not being addressed. Is there really no other better use case people are fighting for here?
In this case it's just behind a use flag, but regardless it seems to me like this could be fixed with a relatively simple wrapping library.

SDL for example supports outputting to OSS, ALSA, PulseAudio, ESD and with a patch, JACK. What you want to output to can be easily configured at runtime. You as a developer write the least code possible and only have to do the job once, your users get the benefit of picking any output system they please.

I believe Gstreamer offers a similar system too which Mozilla already uses for video decoding on Linux.

Additionally the same code can be used across other platforms entirely, not just Linux.
Only a few datapoints, but that's a good area to explore next. My hunch is that the findings will be quite different because there's a wider range of video formats for games. In particular much longer intros to set the stage.
One such roadblock apparently being that VZ is getting good return on its wireless spend, but putting that money into fiber would not generate the returns.

The private market is working as it should: not plowing money into things that don't have the ROI. The roadblock to fiber is that it is a boondoggle only government would like.
When I had MonkeyBrains I had about 2ms ping to Google.
> What if the solution is ads blocked for a fee?

The day I have to pay to not have manipulative bullshit spammed at me is the day I say goodbye to the internet. Fuck right off.
I feel what other people feel. And I conclude that if they would do this_and_this, this would obviously solve their problem.
Ok. So then why isn't Google doing it?
I'm not aware of any such rule. If you notice all the illustrators mentioned in the article were Christian (at least they seemed that way to me from the names).

What's prohibited is a 3 dimensional form (i.e. like a sculpture, not just thickness as from the layers of paint and the like). A 2D image is fine unless there is intent to worship it.

There are some additional details, for example an image of a celestial being (sun, moon, angel, etc) is assumed to be for worship, unless known otherwise, while an earthy image is not assumed that way.
Simple Website Fixes – Part 1
There is a related technical blog post [1] and discussion [2]. Also I've got a companion blog post on the Serverless.com blog at [3]

[1] https://fauna.com/blog/escape-the-cloud-database-trap-with-s...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13877223

[3] https://serverless.com/blog/faunadb-serverless-authenticatio...
Relevant XKCD

Ponytail: We should go to the north beach. Someone said the south beach has a 20% higher risk of shark attacks.
Cueball: Yeah, but statistically, taking three beach trips instead of two increases our odds of getting shot by a swimming dog carrying a handgun in its mouth by 50%!
Beret Guy: Oh no! This is our third trip!

Reminder: A 50% increase in a tiny risk is still tiny.

[0]: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/increased_risk.png
If they use TCP then it's because they feel like it works over real-world networks.

If they need to use UDP, they will. 4K is eminently feasible, and can require a connection faster than 100mbps with a mere two streams.
:) I'll bite. "Seconds" is not nearly long enough for me to be confident there are no adverse effects. Deleterious effects from monkeying with genes can take years or decades to show up (via increased risk to certain cancers, etc.)
DC/OS and k8s have some overlaps, but I wouldn't characterize the two as direct competitors.

Majority of DC/OS users are running distributed data services like Spark, Kafka, Elastic, Cassandra, etc. And they're doing this for at least three reasons 1) Pooling these distributed systems instead of running them in separate clusters, 2) The automation for scaling and high availability that Mesos frameworks enable, and 3) Being able to run these data services in any cloud they choose - Google, Azure, AWS, or their own. The 2016 Mesos Survey (n=500) has more details.

If you are squarely focused on container orchestration, 62% of DC/OS and Mesos community runs containers in production. Average size of their environments is 200+ nodes. A similar survey of the K8s community showed rough average K8s environment is around 20 nodes.

Disclosure: I work at Mesosphere

https://mesosphere.com/blog/2016/11/02/apache-mesos-survey-2...

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/01/kubernetes-ux-survey-infog...
They're not even "its polyfills", the polyfills are a completely standalone project that Polymer depends on.
> We are talking about a monopoly on exyraordinarily high speed internet which is really only used for entertainment.

And online banking, and school, and working from home, and stock trading, and and and and....
What the heck is Gitter? A public chat service? Sounds like adding yet a new way for people to bug you about things that don't work, but without the controlled discussion of opening a proper Issue. As a developer or maintainer, what value does this bring to a project?
Yeah I believe Matt forked FreeBSD 4.x to start dragonfly.
> My guess is that the biggest thing preventing this kind of thing from happening more often is exactly the amount of red-tape and government regulation involved.

I was briefly and directly involved with the Google Fiber rollout here in Austin. Here's the thing: anyone with firsthand information is unlikely to drop in to set things straight in a way that gives away any amount of detail, purely because in the professional world it would be unbecoming to say the kinds of things that would necessarily come out.

I don't expect that local government intervention and red-tape could be called the major contributing factor here.

From someone involved at the end I was working from, dbg31415's comments are exactly what I would expect the other end to feel like.

The thing you have to understand is this: generally speaking, the people involved with the labor on this kind of project inhabit a completely different world than the one that you or I or the rest of a site like HN lives in. That applies to the boys in the field doing the work, to the boys in the office shuffling paperwork and signing off on their checks.

It's unsurprising to me to hear that the labor costs are out of control, and to hear that Google was halting expansion to other cities this past fall was like hearing someone say that they smashed their fingers in the door and it hurt.

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Remember, I did not ask for an implementation. Only a document with their thought process on implementing it. Also, they can use whatever means they like, if we hire them we will quickly find out if they are incompetent. No interview system is fool proof, of course.
tl;dr: physics is incomplete and weird therefore let's assume something else is responsible. Or the author has elsewhere defined materialism in such a way that they're asserting almost nothing.

Uncommon to see this kind of inane nonsense coming from a physicist, but unfortunately not unheard of.