skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original BitTorrent wasn't aware of network topology at all, so it could randomly use a relatively expensive or congested link just as easily as a LAN connection. You could get better use of network resources overall if you usually preferred to get pieces from peers that are closer to you on the network.

I think the BitTorrent company and/or community were studying this issue at some point and so they may have come up with alternative algorithms that prefer at least AS-locality or something.

As an extreme case, imagine that there are two seeds, one being another computer on your LAN and another being a host in Timor-Leste (which at one point in the 2000s reportedly had a single T1 connection for the entire country). It will be nicer for you and for the Timorese if you can somehow arrange to simply download the file from your LAN seed.

Here's one example of someone trying to improve this property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopBT
It's also an attempt to force negotiation. "You want to negotiate a settlement with us, because if you lose..."
For me it was Richard Hamming’s You and Your Research.

(Tip: Any essay longer than 2 pages, I put on a Google docs, print out and read offline.)
Rather than focusing on poverty, I wonder if we should be focusing on wealth disparity/inequality instead. It seems like reduction of poverty is being used to distract from and even justify the increased wealth inequality. Reducing poverty is a noble goal but the scary systematic problem to me is the ever growing concentration of wealth amongst a tiny elite and the decline of the middle class.

And I don't see how AI/machine learning + big data can decrease wealth inequality when a small few control the data and the AI.
Plus copyright has statutory damages, so they don't even need to prove actual damages.
If your allegation is true, that would seem to be very illegal.
> Google is "using tax loopholes that obey the letter of the law, but not the spirit of it."

Absolute hogwash. So minimizing your taxes is somehow going against the "spirit" of tax law? What should the spirit of tax law be? Pay as much taxes as possible?

I would love to see what deductions this blogger takes and see if he complies with the "spirit" of tax law. Typical socialist/communist viewpoint that anything that a rich company does is somehow immoral.
Nope! You can totally pay for royalties and the entire right to perform on YouTube. It’s usually automatic.
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The biggest problem with JIRA is management. Workflow hell, death by a thousand fields, shiny addons, etc.

It’s probably inevitable but a policy requiring strong justification for and regular review of any “aftermarket” changes might slow down or reverse the descent. The closer it is to vanilla the easier it is for (almost) everyone. Managers and workflow czars (nice one btw) of course would be inconvenienced but they should be comfortable making really strong justifications for making the lives of developers harder just to make their reporting smoother.

I attended a talk by a Netflix employee where they talked about a sort of organizational immune system to aggressively prune bureaucracy and policy by forcing it’s existence to be regularly justified. It helped me connect the dots and realize that allowing heavy customization was as much a poison as it was a boon.
I seem to recall another popular science-fiction author who had a very strong answer. He called it the Butlerian Jihad. Whether or not it's a good answer is another question entirely.
What type of salary do you mean ? Example is 50K good (normal conditions) ?
In general, men and women face a different set of choices. It tends to be an apples to oranges comparison.

I do think this is an element:

Generally speaking, women have an option men lack. They can marry well. Given this easy out, when things get challenging at work, some will walk, especially since they have vastly less reason to believe they can achieve stellar success and they also face sexual harassment to a degree that far exceeds what men face. So, with poorer odds of reward, a typically worse set of working conditions due to the element of harassment and another option on the table, this will lead a lot of women to give up where men have fewer disincentives to persist and no easy out.

Women need to "want" it a helluva lot worse for wanting it to have any hope of getting them as far as a man is likely to get. So it is a rather unfair question and it really comes across like it has a very polite facade, but dark agenda.

I will add that I have already previously indicated women make choices as well when they choose to put up with crappy situations to avoid being raped on the street. So I don't plan to engage you further.
These guys can dump their shares whenever they want, secretly, via private contracts. Pointless trying to read anything into public data.
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<<<< old
blah
>>>> new
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<<<<

of all the diff notations, for some reason FreeBSD updater and git merge chose the worst (for me at least)
Anecdotally I'd say that's true. The majority of the most active climbers and alpinists that I've been around don't seem to be overly goal oriented about it, though there definitely is a subset who are.
Siri team in Ottawa? I find that hard to believe. Why would such an important team not be on the main campus?
Bloomberg likes to write about how "tech companies do this" whenever it's something bad.

The fact is all companies do this... it's well-known every industry is doing the same. Walmart, Exxon and Pfizer are just a few companies that tax-dodge just as much as Google. It's estimated $700 billion in taxes are dodged so singling out Google's $19 billion seems strange.

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/corporate-tax-chartbook-...
Hi Rich, I notice you mention Marko. That was my first thought when checking out Svelte today - Marko uses somewhat similar approach, and thus brings somewhat similar benefits. But Marko has couple of other advantages - beautiful "concise" syntax option, and easy debugging at dev time as the Lasso bundler turns JS modules into equivalent files in the browser, complete with same line numbering. (It only works with CommonJS modules, but that's what I prefer to use anyway as it allows unit testing in Node without transpilation.) What advantages would you say Svelte has that would make me consider using it over Marko? Thanks.
I'm surprised you waited more than 2 years to move on.
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Well, doesn't your answer of "it's improving for many" admit to the reality that it sucks right now, answering your own question? Besides, even if we have more bandwidth, it doesn't change the fact that p2p would require more of it.

Also, if you asked the average person if they want Spotify to be peer-to-peer + use more bandwidth vs centralized + use less bandwidth, do you think they are in a position to care much beyond the bandwidth difference? Especially on mobile devices?

I certainly would choose the latter. What do I care about making Spotify's operations cheaper at my own expense?
What would it take to enable iOS builds in an open source project like drone? It is true that drone is primarily focused on container runtimes (linux amd64/armhf/aarch64 and windows) but perhaps we could have a separate yaml and agent that executes a pipeline on the host machine, perhaps using sandbox-exec for isolation.
Yes, that’s a common arrangement.
We put off an Android version of our app for nearly two years to concentrate development on the iOS version, and the numbers we get from our Android version - less than 10% of the market and 1% of the subscriptions - prove that was the right thing to do. We'd drop Android completely as the wasteland it is if not for the PR optics of having it.
> The whole system upon which Equifax was built

You mean "which the credit industry was built"...not Equifax. Equifax is just one of the big 3 CRAs. Singling out Equifax in this context is taking a very narrow view.
Exactly. Conway’s Law doesn’t just apply to software you produce but also how you configure things like JIRA. If JIRA sucks chances are you’re probably looking at a reflection of your organization’s dysfunction.
> And while I am convinced online article won't inspire anyone to study a field as arcane and useless to most people as math

An individual seeking more information about physics will likely understand that complex math will be deeply involved.

The problem tackled by a pop-sci article shouldn't be to inspire the individual to develop a thorough background in math but to inspire a different way of thinking or to introduce new concepts.
I don't know the details of Title II law, so can anyone say whether the "telemedicine over cat videos" concern was legitimate for it? My impression is that title II would still allow for Comcast to charge more for low latency, high reliability, high bandwidth service. It would just have to charge the same amount to everyone and not care about whether someone really just wanted to get their cat videos fast. But this is basically speculation on my part.
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In the scenario I'm describing, the attacker profits when the value of bitcoin tanks.

Two new developments:

- Vast investment in mining hardware due to the bubble.

- Liquid BTC markets, including futures and shorting.

Say that the world's miners accumulate so much hardware that it costs $1m / hour in electricity to run it all. At current prices, they'd still be making a profit! But if that changes, datacenters in China will go dark, BTC difficulty will go down, lots of hardware will sit unused.

So if one group ever finds itself sitting on a ton of no-longer-profitable mining hardware, they could take a large short position and then attack the network.
> When it was apparent our court case was going south, the major music publishers sued us as well (lead by Harry Fox Agency).

From the OP:

> Wixen also alleged that Spotify outsourced its work to a third party, licensing and royalty services provider the Harry Fox Agency, which was “ill-equipped to obtain all the necessary mechanical licenses”.

If there's any justice, if they lose at all in court Spotify will be suing Harry Fox for damages too.
You can define the field as GENERATED ALWAYS, though, in which case specifying the value explicitly in INSERT won't work (there's an escape hatch, but it has to be explicitly and very verbosely invoked).
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Turbolinks are not good for usability.

They appear to make the pages painfully slow on slower connections.

They add a loading bar across the top which can have different meanings depending on the site and browser:

- some browsers add a bar across the top to indicate page loading progress (example: Firefox for Android)

- some websites add a bar across the top to indicate how far you've read in an article

- turbolinks adds yet another bar across the top to also indicate page loading progress

I'm sure that using turbolinks is fine for people with fast Internet connections and certain types of websites/browsers, but it's terrible for usability in some scenarios.

(`rails new app --skip-turbolinks`)
If you're only that far how do you "earn a good living"?
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The mediocre kind sure. But they'd get sacked at a tech company easily.
I listened to the audio book. Didn't seem like the worst book ever, seemed like a book made to guarantee a bunch of royalties. Wasn't the worst thing I've heard/read. I've read Ayn Rand which was definitely worse, but is still beloved by many. And here we are. Different people enjoy different things.
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Are you sure that wasn't Experian? I can't find anything from Equifax advertising that service.
Hilariously enough, that's the job I started with in 2014.

I apologise for subtly blaming you for it. I get defensive easily, it's one of my more charming qualities, representing most of the times that I wind up looking like an idiot.

But you've done us a favour here, I'm grateful. If you're in NYC I'll buy you a beer or coffee.
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Hah! That was really interesting, thanks for sharing. I never considered that people from the south would have idiosyncratic facial and behavioral tics.

Being from the suburbs of the sf bay area, now I’m wondering is there anything similar that’s characteristic of people from the west coast?
That's interesting. I am admittedly using my recollection of data I saw a year or so back. Has the fraction of iOS users who pay gone down or the fraction of Android payers gone up?
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Ta. I'd note that it turned out to be quite useful feedback.
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Recent non-aggregator examples for the "cloud" gold-rush: Docker and Hashicorp (Terraform especially).

I reckon there's plently of money left on the table for cloud-shovels (though the market is getting fuller by the second).

Though of course, as pointed out in a different comment - you'll need some experience with the problem-space in order to figure out what problem to tackle.
As another post said, only jitter (and only minorly).

Bandwidth would be unaffected. Or more exactly, on WiFi (but not Ethernet): as affected as if your close neighbor used that amount (since WiFi itself has limited bandwidth). The connection from the router to the cable modem has lots of headroom, so that would be unaffected, as would wired connections.
It is in public. And if you sneakily take a photo of someone, how would they know to react? On top of that, there are cameras everywhere in public taking covert photos of everyone, I haven't seen anyone react to it.
Amazon goal is to out compete other retail not to kill offline retail. If it will sell through physical stores if it needs to compete.
It sounds like you and your spouse really resent each-other and don’t get along very well, with each one constantly unsatisfied by the other’s methods and bitter about the differences, and neither of you making much effort to understand or empathize with the other person’s experience and priorities.

I recommend against projecting that on other families you don’t know. And maybe talk to a therapist?
Drawing inferences based on other technologies isn't really evidence.

WebAssembly is open and it's intended to be a general purpose compilation target, the technologies you listed are proprietary or only intended for a single language. Also, WebAssembly's own docs state non-web embeddings as an explicit design goal[0].

As there is no commercial need for a particular corporation to prevent it, and there is no design limitation preventing it, there's no reason to assume some sort of native WASM runtime won't be available in the future. That would make it no different than Python or Ruby or any of the multitude of C++ runtimes I have to download with games on Steam.

My point being that there's no reason to assume WASM has to run as remote code connected to a server over which the user has no control or meaningful access, as opposed to a binary you can run on your desktop. There's nothing in the WASM spec that forces such a distinction to exist, that's an architectural decision made at the application level, and one that could be made in any language.

[0]http://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
That’s like claiming that you there’s no such thing as hacking someone. The exploit just follows the rules of the code.
And code has pretty clear-cut semantics, while law is up to interpretation to a certain point.

Laws are buggy like code and using loopholes is just hacking the law.
Well I disagree on all the above points, and there is a lot of evidence the Earth is having a really tough time dealing with our massive destruction of habitat, production of CO2, toxins, pollution--especially pesticides--overfishing, overpopulation, and overconsumption of every type of food. Ecosystems are in freefall, insects are disappearing, ecosystems are unraveling, the ice caps and Greenland and nearly all global glaciers are melting, the ocean is full of trash, and parts of the planet are likely to be uninhabitable in a century or two. This is not normal. Thousands of years of human history and it's come down to less than a century of industrialized fuckery to create a situation where a very ugly collapse increasingly looks inevitable.

And then you talk about living sustainable. Well buckle up, your lifestyle, and mine--I dunno for sure, since you mention Netflix and traveling I assume you are a relatively normal middle-class or upper-middle class westerner--are going bye bye. It simply does not scale to 7.5 billion people, so we are all are either going to have check out early without having kids or find a way to maintain our lifestyles using less energy, less food, less travel, and overall fewer goods, and then explain to our kids how they are going to have make do with even less than that.

The fantasy of a tech utopia run by machines on sustainable energy and the environment being all rosy like in the movies is just not going to happen. Unless we invent the Matrix--in which case, we'll all probably gladly enter it.
Mapnificent [0] seems to do something similar and I had some fun playing around with it for my city. It doesn't seem to go into as much detail as Mapzen and doesn't have an API, but it's open source.

[0] https://www.mapnificent.net
I'm a bit biased since I'm an american software developer, but how is the h1b program any good for americans?

If the government/companies' complaint is that we don't have enough home grown talent, then what incentive is there for government/companies to invest in americans? Why not get rid of the h1b program so that the government and american companies are forced to train/invest in americans and american children?

It's absurd to claim that a nation of 350 million people can't produce enough "homegrown talent".

H1B visa just seems like a program that wealthy companies can used to exploit cheap foreign workers and screw over american workers.

And from the other angle, if these h1b workers are so valuable, isn't it wrong to take them from a third world nation like india? Should we let them have their tech workers to develop the indian industry/economy?

It seems like an evil and exploitive institution from every angle and yet, both political parties seem to love it.
Even with Keurig people in Silicon Valley sometimes need someone else to make their coffee. There are good arguments for having a range of affordability in housing so the people working these service jobs don't have to commute 4 hours on a bus every day.
For the vast majority of history, musicians were not some of the wealthiest members of society, far from it. Music has traditionally been “near free” and only ceased to be during a brief period necessitated by tech. That period has long since ended.

I don’t see that an artificial value placed on music, rather than the previous real value set on its distribution, is necessarily a good thing.
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"The number 73% is my dazed estimate based on informal observation and analysis conducted in doctors’ examination rooms."

from the footnote
> This is why hardware abstraction is a thing.

This is the mistake in your argument. Motherboards, CPUs, RAM chips, GPUs are analog and physical objects. For AWS to switch a DC from one mobo to another just to find out that this one draws 5% more power and their standard backup generator can't handle it, which now starts a chain reaction of upgrades is going to incur real world costs. Costs that can't be amortized by writing some code to make the motherboards look the same.

This is basically the A/B testing/one-armed bandit problem. How much do you spend time exploring alternatives vs how much time to you reap the benefits of the fact that all your hardware is exactly the same and best of breed, as based on your testing?

> When there is a bug that affects 20% of your systems, you can continue operating at 80% capacity, which at a reasonable level of reserve/redundancy means you're still entirely up. With a monoculture the bug affects everything and you're entirely down.

These situations simply don't lose enough money to make up for the gains of a monoculture.

Think about it this way. You probably run or at least know someone who runs SaaS products. Do you/they use five different cloud providers in equal measure to make sure you have diversity if one has an issue? Do you/they use five different software stacks in case there is a remote exploit for RoR and PHP holds things up? Do you/they buy groceries at five different grocery stores in case one of them has an e. coli outbreak that the other four don't? The answer to all that is now, because no matter how you try to abstract these things, there is a meaningful difference between PHP vs Django vs RoR vs Express vs .NET and between AWS and GC and Azure, that it would cost you a lot more, not just in billing but in engineering effort to support.

Another example: chances are you've at some point built a RAID array. Did you put different size and performance drives from different manufacturers into it or did you buy N of the same drive type to ensure even performance? If so, why?

Put another way, how much more are you willing to pay on your AWS bill to ensure they are running a mix of ARM, AMD, PowerPC, and Intel chips? Because my guess is that it won't be in the range of 1-2%.
Looks like it also extends to how he makes the decision to invest in someone: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-10-11/why-masayos...
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If you want to see if a particular browser is compatible with a particular version of intercooler + (jquery || zepto), the unit tests are linked off the release page:

http://intercoolerjs.org/download.html

And you can simply open the the unit test page in question:

http://intercoolerjs.org/release/unit-tests-1.2.1.html?hidep...

This will run all tests for intercooler 1.2.1 using jQuery3 as the underlying library. Be sure to let the window retain focus or a few tests will fail.