skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apache is using concurrent threads and nginx is just doing monothreaded asyncio. Is has consequences if you have many users, and depending of the average length of connexions. For a few users and short connexions, you probably won't see much difference.

My guess would be that apache is a tad faster (if you choose the proper mpm) and nginx uses a bit less memory (if you tell it to spaw only one worker), but that's just a hunch and is probably barely noticeable with 4/5 users at the same time.
People have differing objectives when they go to university
Houston, we have a problem – What can the weirdest project failures teach us?
Why failed? Aren't those companies still thriving well?
That's probably if you're actually insured. If not, it will be in thousands.
> I was referring to who did a large _volume of traffic_ in this type of distributed node first on a _global scale_ - not who did it / patented it first.

I am too.

For example, even back then we did live streaming events of millions of simultaneous viewers and billions of on-demand streams a month, from petabytes of content in 14 datacenters globally (including Southeast Asia). All before Netflix, Google, Facebook. Akamai and most of the top CDNs were clients.

> Outside NA/EU echo chamber Netflix is a blip...

Netflix is very much playing outside ‘the echo chamber’: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20138/netflix-in...

And growing: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-250-million-hou...

If you have stats that show they are ‘a blip’ in traffic volume globally, please share.

> I was trying to make a point on some info in the blog

By continuing to insist Netflix is “a blip”, and offering no definition of what you mean by large scale, or why you’re so sure Google is doing video delivery networking better, I’m finding it difficult to have a substantive discussion.

PS. You started an ISP in Southeast Asia, and looks like you had Google/Akamai footprint for your ISP. So maybe your ‘blip’ assertion is your ISP data? From the provider point of view, different ISPs (even in US) had very different viewing patterns. Without looking into individual ISPs, we guessed this related to median connection speeds, peering headroom, and localized content/viewing preferences.
Assuming the article is to be trusted, I see two insights here. First, even today only 30% of users use adblockers. Helping educate people is still the best way we can fight against this parasite of an industry. Every time a friend asks me to help set up their computer, every time I see a browser without an adblocker, I do what I can to fix it. Even on purely security grounds, there's no excuse to run a browser without at least uBlock Origin.

Secondly, it seems click fraud still has some growth potential. I've used AdNauseam before, but perhaps there are more efficient ways out there?
Whatever your views on this, it has to be seen through the lens of the Conservative government in the UK hiking tuition fees and overseeing the biggest rise in university executive pay in a generation.
It's nothing more than misdirection to take attention away from the things that real students _actually_ care about.
The majority of undergraduate students in the UK probably don't even care one way or the other.
ROP has problems with ALSR on 64 bit machine.

Security is not a binary on off thing. The harder you make it for the attacker, the better.

(however ALSR makes it difficult to deal with core dumps, ouch)
Yes, I understand. That's why I wanted to take a look at components of the long term cost, not just one ride. And I'm really curious what's the cause for the difference.
Not sure why you got downvoted, what you say is true.

People sat similar things as GP about A&E - "the problem is all the people who use it who shouldn't". No. Those people are easily triaged and sent away. The problems with A&E are all the people who need a hospital bed who spend hours on a trolley in a corridor.
I really like the positive vibe of this article.
You'll be hard-pressed to find the sort of systematic racism found in the US (especially by institutions) anywhere in Europe. Sure, you might get the occasional glance if you are black especially in Eastern Europe and it's mostly because out of curiosity since there are not many African immigrants in ex-Communist countries as there are in, say, France. But other than that you'll be fine.

I should say though that Eastern European countries do have issues with Islamophobia in general, so if you are muslim I would not recommend those countries.
Why is this fellow being downvoted? I'm not seeing anybody else coming up with a better idea.
> We will have a big Bitcoin crash, there will be a drastic correction on the price of crypto, specially when you look at what might be driving the current raise in value for Bitcoin.

What do you think is driving the uptrend?
I assume you're an another Chinese.

If you are, I recommend you to provide more information in your comment before posting.

For example, why it's unfair to compare India with China? You need to provide a reasonable ... will ... reason.

Not everyone here knows what is it like to actually live in China, so it's fairly reasonable for people to be ignorance about it. Don't be offended or attack other people because of that.

For curious people, you may watch this guy's video (China vs. India by serpentza): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLbGCHHT3F4&index=4&list=PLn...
> if you want to run the country on wind or solar then you need to be able to handle several overcast or calm days in a row.

On a country scale yes, but not on a continental scale. Although in the case of solar, you probably just want to have peak output twice the size you’d expect for naive insolation, and it looks like it’ll be cheap enough soon enough for that to be economical.
fascinating article.
These 2 were mentioned in the comments give additional insight:

- Article on brideprice: https://today.tamu.edu/2017/08/08/what-is-brideprice-and-how-is-it-linked-to-terrorism/

- Paper: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ISEC_a_00289
Unless the goal is to pay for public transit by making car travel more expensive/painful. Then it is unfair to force all the carpenters to cover the costs for the office workers.
I wish there was a mini prediction market built-in to HN—I’d make a fortune betting against such shortsighted viewpoints.
This title is misleading - can it be corrected to the actual title of the article?

Because at issue isn't any ban on free speech, it's whether it's OK to ban invited speakers expected e.g. to incite harassment, bigotry, or violence. And obviously there's a grey area there, but it's certainly no restrain on the message at all - merely the platform (not that that's irrelevant, but the distinction isn't irrelevant either), and I kind of doubt you'd want to provide a platform to everything regardless of what kind of hate speech they're spouting. There's a fine line between a constructive diversity of opinions, including ones you don't agree with, and giving a microphone to those saying nothing new, where the primary draw isn't the message itself, but the drama and tribalism surrounding it.
Some stats for this series:

mean: 9.9475

std: 0.0826

stderror: 0.0584
But that's the difference between buying insurance, which is an actuarial product you buy to guard against unfortunate events, and buying a service or subscription, which is available for your use when you desire to use it.

Let's ask a simple question to determine which is which in the US: because attending your annual checkups reduces your risk of needing expensive treatment, somebody who attends their annual checkups are cheaper to insure. Are there any American insurance plans that effectively pay patients for attending their checkups? Are there any American insurance plans which say, well, your premiums are $1000/month, but if you go to your annual checkup, not only will your checkup be completely covered with no co-pay, but we'll reduce your next 12 monthly premiums to $950/month each?

After all, if it reduces costs for the insurer, then the insurer is motivated to incentivize patients to go, right?
This is an interesting take on making javascript do animations.
It's not so much "no platforming" as "my platforming" now, purely territorial aggression from self-proclaimed moral guardians that will cut out anyone who disagrees, marginally offends or even ignores them. It's the very definition of a "toxic" person: every community they touch is divided and destroyed from the inside.
Also UK, and the problem is basically that there aren't enough ambulances, so they're triaged. It's the same as when you go to A&E and you have to wait hours if they don't think you're an urgent case. Unless you're going to die if they don't get you to the hospital now, they'll put you down the queue (which is fair enough).

As you point out above, the decision to dispatch an ambulance is ultimately the emergency operator's. Typically you tell them what's wrong, and they send out what they think is necessary (which might also be police and fire).
Show HN: Convert your Google Slides to high-quality animated GIFs and tweet
The foremost responsibility of Universities is actually the education of the students.
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> I am concerned — very, very concerned — that costs of ads will go up and up and up from this unethical obstruction

"unethical obstruction"? UNETHICAL OBSTRUCTION?!?!?!?! You have got to be ____ing kidding me!

First of all, that is like saying switching to a different channel during a commercial break is unethical. It's like saying the use a spam filter is unethical.

Secondly, and most importantly, in an age where ad networks are used to spread malware, it takes a lot of nerve (or ignorance) to call an act of legitimate self-defense "unethical".

Not to speak of the negative impact ads have on website performance, battery usage and waste of bandwidth.

Unethical? Un-____ing-believable!

[Just to be clear, it seems the article itself is trying to make a different point, but that quote just blew a fuse for me.]
Drawing is an art.
Some do bother, because even some hearing people can tell the mouth movements are off. This adds to the authenticity of a movie.
How to Watch YouTube Red
I was at Yahoo from 2010-201X. It was really bad. Tons of remote employees you couldn't count on to give you the time of day, let alone do anything meaningful.

Was the problem remote jobs? No, probably not. The problem was complacency: Complacent employees who didn't want to work and used remote jobs as an excuse not to do anything. Complacent managers who didn't know how to manage remote employees and didn't want to learn.

Did we have remote employees who were amazing? Hell yeah. Did lazy employees overwhelmingly choose to become remote because it was the easiest way not to do any work? Hell yeah. There were more than a few stories (not from management, even) about employees who hadn't even logged in in a couple months. It was beyond the typical "bad employee gets no work done," it was just "bad employee doesn't work one iota."

My takeaway was that managing remote employees is a skill that many managers don't possess, and bad employees knew that and capitalized on it very effectively.

So you're correct that it was a move to facilitate a rapid mass layoff, but the part that's unsaid there is that the people being laid off were overwhelmingly the worst employees anyway. Their managers should've been given the boot as well.
>The facts are sobering: 86% of consumers suffer from banner blindness and only 14% of users are able to recall the last display ad they saw.

Ah, yeah, we suffer from banner blindness. It's such a bad thing for those consumers, they don't care about our useless ads anymore!
Im in the military. Its a pile of cloathing, tent and other junk for survival training. A few days at a base in the woods learning to start fires. But it is 0430 now. My alarm just woke me up. I need to be at my office in an hour, where ill take over responsabilities from someone who started thier day before midnight. It's before dawn on december 26th. It's cold. The busses arent running. The uber drivers are all asleep. Some of us still have to get to work.
Australia is also very large and very low population. Less than 2/3rds the population of California but about 18 times the area.
That's very good :)
Thank you for taking such an enthusiastic interest!

When you do follow up by email, perhaps you'll substantiate the equivocation here of education and discipline, and of humiliating someone in front of essentially the entirety of her social group. I see nothing indispensable of the latter in the former, and it surprises me to see a defense of such behavior in those terms. I'd like to know your reasoning there, if that's a point you still care to espouse by then. In the same vein, I'm not sure I see where the experience of schooling is uniquely corrosive to tribalism, either.

As far as the million bucks goes - well, it'd make student loans obsolete, don't you think? Formal public schooling isn't the only way to gain an education - one of Gatto's major themes is that it never has been, and one of his minor themes is that, if you believe formal public schooling is the only way to gain an education, that may not be by coincidence. And a high SAT score, honestly earned, is a high SAT score, no matter how one happens to come by the knowledge that enables it. We might see a magnified version of the same effect that's driven up tuitions in response to the availability of easy college credit - or we might not, if the award isn't a flat million but rather scaled against local tax receipts or whatever basket of factors goes into pricing schooling per student as we do it now. But even if we did, I think a lot of people would agree that paying more up front, in exchange for not having to spend the first decade or more of their working lives servicing a gigantic load of debt, would be a trade worth making.

And for people like me, who don't pursue postsecondary education in the first place? Well, even a pro-rata fraction of a million bucks buys a lot of house, everywhere in the country that isn't the Bay Area, NYC, or a handful of other metropolitan outliers on the far right-hand side of the median home price chart. Not "puts a down payment on a mortgage for", though the option would still exist - buys, cash on the nail for a deed in fee simple. You want to talk about mitigating or preventing the 2008 financial crisis? What better way to do that than to have engineered the shady ARM market out of existence before it ever had a chance to get going?

In any case, thanks again! I'm really looking forward to your email.
Tim Cook Discusses Apple's Future in China
True, but also a safe statement. Most high-risk revolutions / startups / ventures fail. It is vanishingly unlikely that any of these projects will see widespread adoption and success. So you can just say “that will never work” to everything and be right most of the time.

Of course, VCs make their money by occasionally finding the one that breaks the mold. Picking winners is hard.
That assumes there is a revenue model - which there probably isn't; ads can't be that business because it biases the news[fn:1], when I read a newspaper I read it through some aggregator[fn:2], which means I am not going to pay for any particular newspaper (because I would need twenty such subscriptions) and I can't buy a bundle (because it does not exist and probably doesn't contain the particular newspaper the link is to).

Ultimately I think the next newspaper will probably come from Google, and be AI.

[fn:1] Old newspapers may be excepted, as they have a long time to deal with this. I assume that buying ads in NYT can't change their editorial stances, but they are an exception.

[fn:2] HN, reddit, facebook, twitter, etc.
That's why I am bad at lipreading in English. People have mouth shapes all over the place. I'm sure I could learn lipreading a friend I meet often well, however this doesn't help lipreading a stranger. When traveling in the US I always have a notebook ready.
The benefits of chatbots in customer service roles
It's a classic problem with markdown: it's a minimal markup language, which is ok for comments and super simple documents, but requires extensions for pretty much anything else.

This is why every week you see a new markdown implementation which is just ever-so-slightly different than the other, with every service and tool implementing it's own. I dread markdown, because I know there will be extensions. And the extension syntax doesn't look nice/simple. Syntactically, asciidoc or rst is much more thought-of than any markdown-like syntax I've seen.

This is also the main reason I really discourage markdown for anything but a comment system. Just start with something more complete if you plan on documentation.

I was strongly against md on the documentation for julia for exactly these reasons. Not even one year later, md in julia is already contains extensions which are oh-just-very-similar-to-but-not-quite the others.
Wow, quite an elaborate scam to buy such a domain. Just curious, can anyone give a price estimation for ub.com?
Slightly over a year ago there was an interesting post up on HN where lenders used nude pictures as IOU¹. Wonder if this trend progressed with the companies they write about in this piece.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13003838
Is the British National Party an actual political party? If so, it does not seem reasonable to me that they are banned, unless they ban all political parties.

Favoring some political parties over others should not be allowed.
The SEC has absolutely no say in this whatsoever, as the Red Foundation is being set up in France.
I was closely involved in this controversy at the time and I can attest to the "loudest voice" problem where a small number of people magnified the situation far beyond what it needed to be. Definitely surprised to see a comment referring to it on HN more than 2 years on though!
I assume you are a typical so-called westerner. I just expressed my own opinion here, and according to my knowledge and experience, his statement is definitely wrong. This is not an essay, I have no time to write too much. If you want to know more, you should explore it by yourself.

Serpentza? I watched most of his videos, and found he is just a hypocritical racist. You see, he never communicate with the locals, and just live in his own circles and make judgement based on his own kind of imagination. So I quit and never watched his videos again. I think People should explore the world by himself/herself.

For sure, you can keep your opinion, maybe seemed ignorant to me, but it has nothing to do with me. I just expressed my own opinion, that's it.
I have a long-term plan to start a pizza chain on Mars that delivers with rockets and capsules.
Right now Bitcoin value is purely based on speculation, and interestingly enough the more the price of Bitcoin increases the less usable it becomes as a payment method.

Also there is some concerns that the bitcoin price is being artificially inflated by the people behind Tether, here is some related reading:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-s...
- https://seekingalpha.com/article/4129543-bitcoin-one-way-go-...
Student unions aren't dictatorships

They're a great environment in which young folks can have these debates with minimal consequences
Cool, I got one no one else has thought of before: the poor can fix their money problems by making more money.

Ok, so that was sarcastic. Overly simple non-solutions are not going to move the discussion forward.
Ethereum Zero to Hero: Developing Our First Contract
I like seeing the "you're struggling toward reinventing JWT; consider just using JWT" discussion play out in the comments. (Spoiler: the dev ends up deciding to just use JWT.)
Three fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed from the official Google Play
>Throwing media attention at those who seek to push us gays back into the closet is counterproductive, akin to fanning a flame. Milo and his ilk love to be no platformed, as it makes for great PR when they can say "Blah college banned us, how dare they!".

Quite a few of the people involved already have a 'platform' writing for major national or international publications[1], or regularly featuring on TV. So yes it does give them something else to moan about in their regular newspaper column, but I'm not sure it makes all that much difference to how much attention they get. The media is already pretty much saturated with people like Germain Greer, and they are all very adept at generating controversy to promote themselves without outside help - that's how they got where they are today.

That's the irony of this really - it's a bunch of people with the biggest megaphone imaginable complaining that they have been silenced because people didn't want to come to/host their utterly insignificant student debate. The fact that such an insignificant thing has become a major story is evidence of just how loud their voices are, sadly.

[1] there are other people being 'no platformed' as well, but I'm not sure the government/Daily Mail is really suggesting they want to force universities to host Abu Hamza al-Masri or face fines
I see, didn't think of that :)
I think a major mistake Apple made was assuming that it's iPhone base would be willing to accept change so quickly coupled with the fact that they charge 1000 dollars for the phone. I think psychologically , that number bothers people.

It would be interesting to see what age most iPhone users are. I know plenty of elderly people in their 70s and early 80s in the U.S., who have an iPhone because it is super simple to use. The iPhone X, with it's gestures, not so much, but what do I know.
Actually that is not true in BC, Canada. According to BC Emergency Health Services [1], It charges a fee of $50 if transportation is not required. $80 if transportation is required.

[1] http://www.bcehs.ca/about/billing/fees
Measured how?

http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI
Forgive me, but:

1. Banner Blindness?
2. Ad Blockers?
3. Fraudulent Impressions?

Those are motivated entities attempting to achieve a goal?

I think the title is more like:

Three Arbitrary Sections in a Blog Article Regarding the Difficulties Faced by Digital Advertisers
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The BNP was nearly destroyed by their appearance on question time. The more publicity they get the less people like them.
>Any normal statistician would just report on the mean of all the scores they collected from respondents

What? No!!! Any self-respecting statistician would know that the mean of a quantity where addition is not well-defined is meaningless.
The lack of Linux GUI support is a dealbreaker for me.
The BNP is not a proscribed organisation.
DRM, you should be sorry for the users
> In October, the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology announced that it would embark on a study to determine the reliability of DNA testing, including the algorithmic methods used by companies like TrueAllele. This research, which NIST says is to establish “foundational validity,” has been condemned by Perlin specifically through a post on the Cybergenetics blog, which calls the study “wasteful, “unnecessary,” and “meaningless.” Perlin argues that True Allele’s validity has already been proven through scientific, peer-reviewed research studies. But these studies that Perlin relies on are internal validation studies that were paid for and run by Cybergenetics.

It is a bit unsettling that NIST wants to independently test “foundational validity” but the company founder is so dismissive of the idea.