skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would an 'alternative DNS provider' (also known as a 'DNS provider') cause streaming video to buffer?
A project I'm working on, Gridmaster, hit the frontpage of HN back in November. The traffic and mailing list signups were nice, but the product feedback we got was way more valuable.

It helped us realize that a web-based version of our "CodeAcademy for Excel" product wasn't going to cut it. We built an integrated version that actually lives inside of Excel and won a contest with Microsoft.

I talk a little more about what happened here:

https://medium.com/gridmaster/what-weve-been-up-to-since-hit...
At least the hospital in Newport took back their coding/billing into their own hands.
it was missing one keyword that was the parity bug not in the 2228 lines, and the DAO hack had a line that was place 3 lines too early, a monetary system created 3 years ago and is highly demanded might have some growing pains
Playful title, but not to be taken literally
Yeah the only other news sources I could find were zdnet and cnet.
Typical "RIP older tech, long live new trendy tech" blog posts designed to get beginner experts hyped about something they'll probably never use.
I posted this a few moments ago, but adding to this in case it rises to the top (and especially as it's not very visible on the page) --

Donate link: https://www.gofundme.com/savesnopes
Too sick.
What's a few kilobytes. Just keep the program. Worry about the important stuff. Like everything else wrong with Windows 10. This is the least of it.
Yes, it's a commodity market of forks at that point - a bushel of wheat, a hog carcass, etc. is more or less the same at some level, regardless of where it's grown...save for King Arthur flour, but that's another story.

There are subsidy/government controls in place for this - if you price control it or otherwise force production without a market benefit, you drive folks out of the industry. This is a bad thing with food staples because then you get starvation, so you need the market to exist so people can enjoy profits but you need a floor/baked in demand to ensure minimum level of production to meet your populations needs.

Now, for this market, we need to ask "Do we care that the supply of gig-sector services is volatile?" and the answer is muddled - people want their reliable Just-in-Time(JIT) services but not enough to advocate for price floors to ensure labor supply exists and stays stable(low turnover). In our minds, that's the job of the contracting companies to do and we don't really care about the labor impacts associated with it. I guess the question is "Are we ok burning this now and hoping we have it in the future?"
Is this the same thing? https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/01/new-ma...

It looks like this has been updated by Apple already?
Anyone got experience transitioning a large production site from REST to GraphQL? I'm aware Yelp did this recently, wondering about any pain points.

In particular, I have some FUD about how to go about rate limiting, when in theory a single request could grab every resource that the client is authorized to retrieve, and thrash the database.

Looks like Github counts/restricts the number of total nodes returned: https://developer.github.com/v4/guides/resource-limitations/

Also is there any protection against pathological requests? (e.g. if there are loops in the object graph, can I build an arbitrarily deep GraphQL query that will take an arbitrarily long time to complete?)
Submitted my Show HN 1075 days ago (https://photoeditor.polarr.co/), for a WebGL photo editing tool, now has turned into a startup with more than 10M users.
It's called a social welfare system.
I actually just subscribe to Netflix' DVD service. I get films in much higher quality delivered every other day, and I use MakeMKV to copy them onto my computer for when I want to watch them.

Films I can't get there, I just pirate. I'm not interested in installing DRM platforms on my computer to be able to watch very heavily compressed videos if they haven't been yanked offline yet.
I tried to build a GraphQL server, but found it impractical since I didn't want to use Relay or Apollo on the front end. Formatting the query strings just made a mess and was a lot of trouble considering the simple resources I needed. Dealing with authentication and authorization looked like it was going to be a headache as well. I ended up going back to REST.

Should I give it another look? Was I too quick to dismiss it?
If you've gone through so many image editors on Linux, why would you choose GIMP to compare it to? That's the prime example of an image editor that aims to be like Photoshop. Just about any other image editor on Linux is easier to use.
So your response is, all those other things are irrelevant because you perceive that the US is unethical. You are confusing my objection to CORPORATIONS to your objections to NATIONS. I don't believe anyone claimed the US, or Germany (for instance) has a clean record of not oppressing people in horrific ways. That doesn't change my point at all though. These companies have repeatedly done horrific things and regularly continue to collude to price fix, harm air and generally disregard the laws and people across the world. The US's military conquests are pretty outrageous, no doubt about it, and if you asked me I have the same objections to most of the military industrial complex of which Tesla is not (as far as I know) and the german auto makers are historically a major part of.
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haha, yeah. It's petty but I'm well into adulthood, have what I would have considered an excellent income (had you asked me as a teen) and rent what I would have considered (had you shown me as a teen) kind of dump because my job is here. So yeah I have a bit less sympathy for the people who complain about their income while ignoring the fact that they have a large financial asset which is only ridiculously valuable because of the same things that make it too expensive to live around here.
Reposting/editing my deeper comment. But if you want to specifically do screenshots, try Greenshot:

http://getgreenshot.org/
https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/

It's open-source. The built-in image editor is optimized for the things that you need to do with screenshots - it is comparable, but almost in the wrong direction: Things are easier and quicker with Greenshot than Paint! Here's a quick guide I threw together:

https://i.imgur.com/tcpZjG0.png

Yes, it runs on Windows, but so does Paint. They have a Mac version (never tried it, apparently it was a near-complete rewrite), but not a Linux version: http://getgreenshot.org/faq/will-there-ever-be-a-greenshot-v...
> But when she needs to turn it back into fiat

The whole idea is to create a new financial ecosystem that doesn't rely on old fiat currencies.
I've hope projects like Halium, UBports, Plasma Mobile, etc end up bringing an open hardware project.
Yeah, Android put the effort into software and let manufacturers deal with the hardware.

It's sad that their approach failed though, I'd really like a modern device with something like OsmocomBB available right about now...
Just because they created the content doesn't mean they have ownership of all IP involved. Music especially can be a PITA, see the videogame Alan Wake being unsellable because the licensing for the music used in the game ran out.
But that's not special. Vehicle brakes all the time and they/we don't optimize for a tailgater. That's an optimization to be deferred to the tailgater.
The problem is you can't know how healing somebody will turn out. The time and resource require to heal somebody are not fixed.
Price transparency is pretty meaningless for ER care. Anything that is serious enough for an ER visit probably distracts you from making good economic choices, plus it's likely impractical to change ER (plus you'll pay for that ambulance ride!)

Further, it shouldn't be necessary for people to be making financial decisions in the middle of medical emergencies, even if it was easy.
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What if there was a group or coop or company somewhere, where people could get together and collectively fund their health care. Then this entity could make deals with providers like EmCare to ensure that the care provided was as efficient as possible.

Sarcasm aside: this problem is solved, and it's called insurance. Private entities sell it. The government does it too. It works. We just need to make sure everyone actually has it.
I wasn't aware of Fox Sports' pivot to video until I tried to go read some Ken Rosenthal articles while killing time at the airport last week. Now everything is repurposed content from their shows. While I understand the move I don't think I'll be visiting their site anymore.
Because those in the middle and upper class have employer-paid health insurance which protects from the worst of bills. You only go bankrupt if you're uninsured and usually only those in the lower-middle or lower class are uninsured.

And those in the lower echelon of society economically are those least able to have the time or money to march or lobby for change.
The range for most things is somewhere between $0 and $100000, sometimes higher. Is that good enough :-) ?
Yeah, this seems like terrible API design that, while it may be constructed to make a point, sort of obscures whether I should actually care.

GraphQL seems a lot more complicated to consume/explore than REST, and it looks like I need to know a good bit about how the data is shaped before I write a line of code - something that can change, and something that the current REST endpoint system (happily) doesn't need.
that title is noxious
Yeah, it's a frequent pain in my behind. I always lose the stupid little dongle things.
My (somewhat strong, sorry about that) response was mainly a reaction to the larger trend I've seen in the free software community as of late -- that companies that work on free software are somehow a net negative.

I don't know where this view comes from, it was Stallman's goal from day one that it should be possible to have companies built around free software. The fact that my first job out of high school was working at a free software company should be celebrated as a huge accomplishment by the wider community. But it's not seen that way. I find it quite disheartening, because I've always been an advocate for free software and my job title doesn't suddenly change that.

I realise that you're not saying that (and so I'm sorry for the strong response), and of course we must question the motives of companies. But it's become a popular game these days to pretend as though everything that a free software developer does as part of a job must be part of a conspiracy to create a monopoly -- it's ludicrous and is quite grating.
Quite a bit of that had to do with storage management.

Back when 1.x shipped, all internal storage (emmc?) was dedicated to the firmware/os and apps.

user data like images and music were expected to be stored on an SD card.

But later OEMs started partitioning the emmc in two, with the smaller partition housing the firmware and apps, and the larger being mounted as if it was an SD card.

Come 2.x this got official blessing, with the introduction of "move to SD" (more like "copy some static data to SD").

But people found this to be constrained, so they would root and use tools like LinkToSD to basically set up a EXT partition on an SD card and move whole apps there, using symlinks or something to make them appear to still be in the firmware partition.

Come 4.x the user data partition was replaced with a union mount. Thus writes to /sdcard ended up somewhere else in the FS. Later versions piggybacked on this to provide support for multiple users.

Note that 4.x was also the intro of MTP for wired data transfers. This because earlier the "SD card" had to be unmounted from Android to allow a PC to access it over USB.

And now we have the Storage Access Framework, that piggyback on the plumbing introduced with MTP to offer apps limited RW access to storage areas without the need for certain permissions.
The post you are responding to is by Adam, adamsmith, the CEO of Kite. We are different people and I have no relation to him at all. Just to be clear.
Then keep paying Netflix to stay in the lighter gray side of morality, and still torrent the shows of theirs you want to watch but can't.
Again, it's the lack of counterfactuals: the ability to intervene on a node and cut it off from its parents, then see what happens, and the ability to perform inferences over discrete spaces.
I take it you aren't old enough to have started sweating about retirement ;)
The people who need to march the most are the ones who can't, the ill. And when they do it's not exactly pretty:

http://time.com/4829103/mitch-mcconnell-protest-senate-healt...
I'm curious about this - why do you no longer listen to music or podcasts? The phone comes with headphones that plug directly into the lightning port, and an 1/8" adapter so you can still use your old headphones.

Personally I just keep the adapter permanently attached to my 1/8" headphones. Only downside for me is the inability to charge at the same time, but then the iPhone 7's battery life is pretty great, so that's not a huge deal.
According to the linked article, this coprocessor seems particularly focused on Deep Neural Networks (DNN), so it does sound like a updatable weight neural network evaluator.
How is that a contradiction? My point is that open software has large and immediate positive implications for end users but hardware does not.
FWIW, Facebook's head of open source, James Pearce, had an excellent interview with Changelog about FB's motivations and challenges for maintaining open source projects: https://changelog.com/podcast/211

According to Pearce, the amount of resources to manage open-source is non-trivial. For now, there's a decision process before deciding whether a project should go open source because of the maintenance cost and because they don't want dead projects under their banner (e.g. codebases that don't get used by the non-FB open-source community). One interesting point Pearce brought up was that React takes community contributions, but FB's policy is to have a single version of React, i.e. the React that's released to the public is exactly what runs on FB production, which requires a certain level of logistics.

The main benefit of OS, besides the free labor from the open source community, is public adoption of the software, which gives FB some kind of leverage in the software world. But it also means that job candidates can come in already experienced in React etc.
I work for a large company, and it frustrates me that they rely so heavily on contractors for campus support positions. At the same time, the incentives are pointed that way. It's easier to hire vendors to manage non-core services (food, massage, etc.) than to develop those processes in-house. At the same time, it's cheaper to not have to provide equal benefits to vendor employees.

The lack of access to on-site medical or to cultural events like Take Your Kid To Work Day is presumably to draw a clear line between Vendor and Employee. If a group of vendor workers file a class action suit to be reclassified as employees (with backpay/benefits), a company wants to be able to say "Nope, they were vendors. Look at all the ways we made the distinction clear." If they're treated as employees in every way except the payer of their checks, it's a lot harder to justify why they were classified as vendors and received lesser benefits because of it.

I was a temp at another large company before moving to a full-time role at my current one. My contract was capped at 1 year, because without the cap, there was a perceived risk that I could seek to be retroactively classified as an employee and entitled to the benefits I didn't receive as a vendor.
You can but you have to write all the allowed query combinations. Graphql is more flexible. It's also declarative, so you can provide a widget with the schema it needs.

Another benefit of graphql is that is a "lingua franka", you can use it internally, between microservices, etc.
That sounds like a lot of work just to plop my kid in front of Dora on the tablet so I can have an hour of sanity before dinner.
well maybe on the frontend it looks good, but on the backend? meh parsing such a query is not painless.
and maybe "simple" queries are looking good and simple, complex and bigger queries and big schema's are really really akward to implement.
Please stop misusing this word so we have a better chance of actually having a democracy somwhere at some point in the future.

Please stop promoting democracy as the be-all end-all of systems for organizing human society. As the old saw goes "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the outcome".
Madness indeed. For better or for worse, silly experiments in this industry often turn out to win. According to the "Worse is Better" theory, that's partly because they ship much faster than the projects that want to get everything right, and they're also easier for most people to understand. You could put a team of Ph.D's on inventing a really amazing smart contract formalism based on higher-order zygomorphic type theory, but if only five people in the universe understood it, we wouldn't be talking about it.
I think you've hit it on the head. 'AI' computations are a variety of mathematical and statistical techniques, which on their own are varied and interesting but it doesnt suggest a fundamental difference in hardware over general purpose computing. GPUs provide distinct advatages for some kinds of operations, but its not well defined that "AI" has its own set of computations for which hardware can be custom built for, and be distinguishable from existing kinds of CPU hardware.
Slavery built the pyramids. Smallpox existed hundreds of years ago. Nobody's in a hurry to get those back.
I love me some complex async/await chains!
There is a lot of propaganda how bad systems in other countries are. Plus, this is the only system most people ever have seen so they think this is just the way things are and have to be.
I do like the idea of GraphQL, but even with it's problems, REST can be much simpler to understand/use https://www.slideshare.net/landlessness/teach-a-dog-to-rest
> Especially since avoiding n+1 query situations involves hand optimizing a lot of stuff anyways.

Rarely. Assuming the GraphQL server is using REST endpoints behind the scenes, i'm yet to find a request waterfall that required manual rather than automatic optimizations. I'm assuming there are cases where a manual path is faster, but they're less common that you'd think.
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Yep. Took my wife to the ER last week for suspect appendicitis or diverticulitis. Last time this happened a CT scan alone was $3k ($11k prior to insurance reduction). My HDP is $4,500 OOP max per family member; $8,500 for family.

What really pisses me off is that the HSA max contribution has not kept up with family OOP max. I contribute the max every year and can't end up with $8,500 saved.

I had a decent insurance plan prior to Obamacare. Now it's 3x as much and a HDP. Don't even have dental insurance anymore; use the HSA for that. Work for a Fortune 100 Company too.
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Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux cover the NBA, and they seem to make decent money with podcast advertising. They recently started trying Patreon a few months ago and have 750 people donating monthly. I'm interested to see how much that grows. https://www.patreon.com/DuncanLeroux
Queue fundies freaking out about the Mark of the Beast.
Checked snopes to see if this is true: http://www.snopes.com/save-snopes/
well people do complain, but i think the point is that windows has one UI framework (win32/user32) and (most) everyone uses that. It provides all of the primitives and norms that people expect
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> capitalism and meritocracy

No, this is how the market works, but the market is hardly meritocratic. On which merit do you propose we judge workers in order to determine fair compensation for their work?
I had 3 of my "Show HN" hit the front page. I have stats about 2 of them. They had a huge spike at the start, but the current traffic is more correlated with SEO and backlinks rather than the initial influx of visitors.

My actual most visited website is one that has hit the front page, but not because of my "Show HN".

[1] http://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/

[2] http://cssreference.io/

[3] http://htmlreference.io/

[4] http://bulma.io/
> People streaming HD video from cell towers is simply crazy.

Most people aren't objecting to rationing, per say. (Though, misleading advertising of available bandwidth does lead to disappointed customers.)

What most are objecting to is unequal provisioning of bandwidth. This incentivizes users to use a VPN (doubling aggregate bandwidth consumption) or use steganography to make the traffic look like voice calls (at significant reduction in transfer efficiency).

Everyone would benefit if service providers rolled out provisioning that incentivized application programmers to truthfully mark traffic using QoS / ToS ... unlimited bandwidth at lowest priority, limited bandwidth if low latency is required.

Instead, they're doing the exact opposite... encouraging P2P developers to encrypt the traffic and then use the ciphertext bitstream to drive an Nth order Markov model that makes it look like compressed voice or HTTP traffic... sort of LZMA in reverse. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game where even the cat loses in the end.
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I find the why much more interesting than the actual ask here.

>We had previously contracted with an outside vendor to provide certain services for Snopes.com. That contractual relationship ended earlier this year, but the vendor will not acknowledge the change in contractual status and continues to essentially hold the Snopes.com web site hostage.

Does anyone know what this means in this case? It seems quite careless to me for the owners of a site as significant as Snopes to turn over control of their domain to someone they don't trust absolutely.
This is the fundamental problem of treating healthcare like any other market distributed good; you just don't have the ability to use consumer choice.

People using an emergency room are not in a position to negotiate price or seek an alternative service. An unconcious accident victim can't say, "That price is crazy I am going to the hospital across town."

Single payer is the only viable solution.
"You only go bankrupt if you're uninsured"

With copays and out of network stuff a lot of people will go bankrupt in case of a serious illness.
FWIW, your submission was listed as [dead] to me when I submitted this link. I'm assuming HN's blacklist includes gofundme.com, though someone has since vouched for your submission and made it un-[dead]
Thanks. I guess there's scope for a web service where people could make their own videos by uploading their music and artwork and although that would be a pretty huge job. If there are any programmers who would want to do something with this I might be open to putting aspects of it up on Github.