skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As to your last question, it's actually pretty much always running, listening or not. At least in my installation, clicking the X to close the window actually (by default) just minimizes it; to really close the application, you have to use a context menu or something. That alone is enough of a hurdle that I rarely bother to close it...on the assumption that it's not hogging too many resources. I'm wondering how safe that assumption really was now.
A month worth of Spotify premium usage will result in this amount of traffic : http://imgur.com/wVdmS (screenshot from my network traffic monitor)

I completely agree with the poster who said that this is an acceptable price to pay for the awesome UX we're getting.
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> "help the little guy" "control the evil corporations"

I think the current frame of thinking in America is exactly the opposite.

> I think it would be much easier on everybody if Darth Vader showed up.

I guess Cheney's more of an Emperor figure, though I don't know how many times you can shoot someone in the face before people catch on.
Considering how in a surprising number of places there is only one broadband ISP available, it's not exactly unreasonable - though I'll agree it's hyperbolic - to say that the value of his current service is 'infinite', since internet access - at least in the developed world - is fairly important. Have you used dial-up internet lately? It's not really a fun experience. (n.b. I've not used dial-up in a while, but my mother has a bad DSL line that tests at around 0.2Mbps, and I was not amused by it the last time I was there. This is my basis of comparison.)

If spotify is silently operating a P2P client, even when it's not being directly used, then that's an issue for people with bandwidth restrictions. It's trivial to get distracted by something, forget an application is running when you leave the house, and end up using much more bandwidth than you intended. It's worse still that as bandwidth increases, usage limits don't stay proportional. You suddenly have the ability to share faster, reaching your limit sooner.

As I said, I agree that the statement is hyperbolic, but I don't consider the issue trivial.
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How invasive the pat-down is depends entirely on how invasive the administering agent wants it to be. Some agents are actually rational logical humans who have already figured out that the screenee is not a terrorist, and pat lightly and send them on their way. Some agents are in the job for the power trip and will roughly squeeze every body part they can reach. And of course there's a spectrum between the extremes. It's impossible to know ahead of time what agents you will run into, and unsuitable to generalize from one or a few personal experiences to TSA agents as a whole. It's a crapshoot.

And of course the system is designed to be impervious to feedback. We can count on one hand, possibly one fist, the number of agents who have been disciplined for aggressive behavior. The only chance is to somehow raise enough of a stink to catch media attention. Any complaints officially made to the agency summarily disappear down the TSA memory hole.
I used a spiritually similar system at a sushi shop (try saying that five times fast) last week. It's fifteen flavors of wonderful.

About a year ago, I think I said something to the effect of "A/B tested restaurant menus would print cash." (Edit: here we go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046426 ) If they're getting +12% sales just on superior interaction design (versus actually talking to a human -- and I have no difficulty believing that the average interaction with a device measurably beats the average interaction with a human for at least some restaurants on axes both customer and owner care about) I predict very, very, very nice things in their future when they decide to take an engineer or three aside and become a data company in addition to being a devices company.

Sprinkle a little code on a techphobic multi-billion dollar industry, watch wonderful stuff happen.
I made 'an app for that': http://etcet.net/thehumancounter/

My count is at 6.57% but it also estimates us at 30M over the 7B mark.
Very possibly... this article mentions that it has 1024-level pressure sensitivity, which really makes a big difference for artistic work:
http://recombu.com/news/wacom-inkling-digital-pen-launches_M...

It also mentions the UK launch date and price: October 2011, at £149.99.
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That was my thought too. I moved to Git recently, but it wasn't that long ago that I was rejoicing over how awesome SVN was, simply because I could rename things (files! directories!) easily and still reasonably track history.

Hmm, was it SCCS or RCS that allowed you to "lock" files and then go away for the weekend, effectively shutting out the rest of your team?
I don't think you are in control of how much bandwidth is being used when you invite someone else's software to use your machine as a server. The streaming service could change at any time and run your connection full speed for an indefinite period.
This option isn't enabled for Akamai. There is no way it can make Akamai slower.

Title isn't misleading, but your comment is.
Some six years ago I bought a boat that I now live on. This means that I'm in daily contact with other people around the harbour that also live on boats. These people are outside a lot, get a lot of exercise (if you've ever owned a boat you'll know how much physical work must be endured to keep it ship-shape), and generally don't sit much behind copmuterscreens.

I've noticed that there are quite a few people that live on boats that are 70+ years old. One of my neighbours, age 69, has just come back from a 2 year solotrip from Denmark to the mediterranean and back. He sailed alone. These people are much more fit than the average 30 year old, and they're having a blast while most other people their age are sitting in a nursinghome.

Anecdotally it seems like a lot of this can be traced back to the hands-on hard outdoor life that keeps you in shape all year round.

So I'd say that getting out is much more important than people think. Especially if you're getting older.
I had no idea it was p2p. I have been of course marveling at how instant everything is, from playing a new song to skipping ahead inside of a song, but never really put much thought into it.
> I have not read Walden. Will put it on my Kindle.

I recently did the same, and my fiancée won't let me live down the irony.
There is one thing that I find even more useful about git than those "real" branches: commit messages...

https://github.com/cool-RR/GarlicSim/commits/master
ipfw :o)
But you guys, UNDERWATER CITIES!
Canadian ISPs are pretty bad as well. Mine is decent - seems the East coast isn't as bad as the rest of the country - but this seems to be the exception, not the rule.
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I don't know whether to take this course or the machine learning one. The both seem very interesting, but I only have time for one. I don't care much about robots, and was partly sold by Ng's separating music from background. OTOH I want to learn Bayes networks and natural language processing. I'd appreciate any advice.
Ask HN: How do you feel about the way we use the Internet these days?
Most of us here were probably introduced to the Internet as a tool for finding information. These days, however, the first thing( and sometimes the only thing) people use on the Internet is Facebook. How do you feel about this change?

Do you think social media sites hinders the intellectual growth of the Internet? Or do, you think it actually helps create more information?
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There is a good reason why this feature is not part of the official DNS spec, as it breaks DNS caching: Once you cache results those three octets are pretty useless.
That may be true, but that's what programming is for the most part. Pretend like it will just work and then optimize later when it is proven to be too slow through profiling. In this case, you need performance data from the database. Use that data to improve anything that needs it.
Correct, I don't believe in commit messages. Yes, I know this is an unpopular opinion. I might blog about it in the future, making the case for it.
This struck a chord with me. I tend follow up long days at work with lifting sessions in the gym. Helps me get a grip on the world outside the computer sometimes.
Sounds like he is yet to be shocked to discover why Skype is free :)

On a more serious note, Adobe Flash Player 10 comes equipped with P2P streaming meshwork, which is enabled by default and which will cause the exact same bandwidth bleed as described in article. Being behind NAT or a firewall is not enough to prevent one from being a relay node as it includes fairly sophisticated NAT traversal logic and NAT-to-NAT connectivity stuff. The only way to NOT donate bandwidth with FP10 is to disable "peer assisted networking" in Flash Settings, which in itself is done by loading a Flash applet from Adobe's site. This also makes using FlashBlock in a browser pretty much a must have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Media_Flow_Protocol
This looks very promising. If you get your upcoming features right you could have something like Dropbox + proofHQ.
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Yes I'm in the same boat as you. My AI wasn't taught by Norvig in college( though he was a pretty good professor) so it might be interesting to see a different opinion on what "intro to AI" should consist of. I'm also interested in what the delivery system is going to be like. This might be the way courses are offered in the future.
> "the kind where people get equal choice to do with themselves as they wish?"

But where you draw the line of "equal choices"? And WHO will be drawing that line?

I'm perfectly aware that there are people living in miserable situation on this planet. But you cannot artificially fix it by making all people instantly "equal". Until we all live "boring cloned existences" each one of us has slightly different priorities and values different things differently. You can maybe improve material life of hard-working child in coal mines but how would you fix a life of a blind person? Those are extremes again, but there is continuum of subtle cases in-between. You simply have to draw the line somewhere and some people will think it is unequal, because according to their values you helped more others which will lead to inequality in their eyes. Is is better to give everybody house or cure for cancer?
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On the Kindle every book is Twilight.

Supposedly you can read pdf's and HTML on a Kindle so in a roundabout way you can read Hugo, Coetzee, Kernighan, &c with extra effort for success in that area. I don't have a Kindle I'm just telling you what I looked up on amazon. http://askville.amazon.com/read-PDF-files-Amazon-Kindle/Answ...

Machines don't decompose or smell the same way books do but they acquire knicks and marks and eventually disintegrate in one way or another. My first laptop had a small field of worn-out coating on the case from where I rested my palm and thinking of it makes me smile a lil. This won't be a relevant point when data someday somehow no longer need a solid physical form but when that time comes we will find other things to be cool about them.

Sex: what happens when pornography becomes the default means of getting sexual pleasure.

Hopefully less syphillis less prostitution and less pretending to like someone so I can j my hilariously tiny w. Also, there have been pornos ever since computers were just the antikythera mechanism and we're here today so I think people still got laid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Hercu...
Pornos probably won't be the 'default' unless parents or sex ed programs put a big emphasis on 'when you meet someone you like, ignore them and find porn'. It'll still feel weird to want pornos.

Also:
The word 'real' when used in phrases like 'the real world' assumes a tacit and acceptable definition of 'reality'. I'm not trying to be irritating I just don't think there is one. This isn't because there are embedded devices and servers everywhere it's because of skepticism.

Something the post reminds me of:
When I see two people less than two meters apart from each other and nearly no one else nearby, speaking on cell phones but not with each other it bugs me a lot.
New record: 1,000,000 IOps from vSphere 5
Awesome! This will make the task much easier.
But the specialness of any book is precisely related to its contents, not its physical manifestation. The Bible is thousands of years old, and yet even the oldest physical copies begin to crumble after a few hundred years.

Teaching a reverence for physical objects is in a very real sense untruthful... the ideas they contain are what should (or ought) to matter.
I think that object oriented languages (e.g. java) is not well suited for business logic.

Putting all logic in DB also provides natural separation of concerns. UI in one place, business logic in another.
You also can't build redstone computers out of Lego bricks. Capability wasn't the author's point.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems almost identical to the versions feature in os x lion. Won't this be somewhat obsolete when adobe starts supporting versions on lion?
please edit this and put the person's name in the title.
Same here in Chrome 13.0.x
Looking like a great MVP.

I've just had a quick look at your demo video. 2 minor things struck me.

1) It's really blurry. Can I suggest you either re-encode it at a higher resolution, or perhaps record it on a smaller screen resolution (that way you can keep the file-size down, but can keep the bit-rate higher).

2) The timeline has no markers. It might be nice to add some little indicators to give the user a visual indication of where the versions lie on it.
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By asking for more detail.
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that's not quite correct.

They're still in Danish territorial waters when they launch. The reason they launch at sea is safety. It's hard to know exactly where the rocket will land, and there just aren't any good places in Denmark where there's a 50 mile radius where you can be certain that nobody will be hit by debris.

The part of the Baltic they launch from is actually a millitary training area that they borrow every year for launches.

Disclaimer: I'm involved with Copenhagen Suborbitals.
By “fine,” I mean, “Do it, but tell us and then be prepared to be judged in the next election.” I suspect we agree on how we would judge it if I were an American citizen entitled to vote on the Administration’s actions.
Personally, I find most of facebook and the rest of its ilk nothing more than noise. Nevertheless, I don't mind their existence: its users usually yell their noises within the boundaries of these sites, which in turn decreases noise elsewhere.

And THAT is a good thing: I can find information easier. And there always were, and always will be hubs for various topics, that are relatively low on noise, and as more people discover the internet, more will find it, even if they spend some time yapping about on pure-noise sites first.

And that is also a good thing.
I would ask you to consider that the nature of this problem is folks picking sides. Once you have picked your side, the restrictions in freedom your side proposes seem okay -- or at least tolerable -- while the other side is always draconian and worthy of disdain, protest, and rebellion.

That's what I mean by systemic. Everybody is ready to jump up and go fight for truth and justice -- as long as what they are really doing is sticking it to the other side. When it's their guys doing the same thing? Suddenly it's bad, but not that bad. Hey, maybe it's bad, but they mean well.

I'll never forget after our current president got elected. A reporter went to talk to some demonstrators outside the White House. These guys were very upset about the killing of civilians, the police state, scanning records, and all of that. But -- guess what? They were all packing up and going home.

The reporter asked "But aren't all these things continuing to happen?"

I'll never forget the guy. He said, "Yes, but we have a new president now, and I think we should give him a chance."

Here's a guy screaming about killing babies one day. The next day, we're still killing babies, but hey, gotta let the new guy get a feel for the job. No fewer people got killed -- he was no closer to the goals he himself identified -- but his protest wasn't worth it any more.

I can't say this enough: it's not one side or the other. Thinking in terms of good guys and bad guys is a critical part of this problem: it's the engine that allows the system itself to continue to ratchet down on freedoms. We have met the enemy, and he is us. A systemic problem is a problem where everybody is acting for a good cause, working as intelligently as they can, and yet the outcome is still poor. Many times a facet or an exacerbator of these problems is the creation of groups of people who blame other groups for being the "real" cause of the problem. [Insert long discussion about evolutionary nature of us-versus-them reasoning and clan formation]
Same here; it's still running after 2 minutes. Chrome 15 on Ubuntu 11. I'm on a symmetric 10 Mbps link, so I don't think that's the problem.

Something is throwing a 504 back at me. I only know enough web dev to press "CTRL-Shift-I" to find this error, not enough to know how to fix it.
I'm on a 3G connection today, so relied on this thread for before/after images. Unfortunately, it seems that the original poster had labelled his photos the wrong way around...
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I think my record, at least so far, is walking for four days in the Highlands in winter without meeting anyone. Not bad for an island that people generally consider as rather densely populated.
Perhaps it is true that pilot's who fly commercially too long (i.e. > 10yrs?) "forget" some basic flying skills. But based on the examples mentioned in the msnbc article I personally think the problem lies more in the fact that pilot's forget how to communicate. Crew coordination is a big part in pilot training (which as most of you will know goes on forever); but nevertheless I've heard of many examples of communication gone wrong (the Turkish Airlines crash being the closest to home for me).
On the contrary, maybe my environment is such that the svn server is on the local network and I actually feel uncomfortable with people running around with their laptops and all of my VCS history on them. Git fails hard.

Um. git-svn and a usb key neatly sidestep that for anyone who wants to take your IP. If someone can read your IP, they can pretty much extract it. Sorry.

It's also worth noting that hg is better at the immutable history idea, so if that's a criteria for adopting, hg should be looked at.
Not at all. The things discovered are unessential to getting things done. It's usually just a nicer way or more of a "wow, I can't believe they thought of this crazy edge case".

A few examples: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/400/got-any-mac-os-...
> source?

"A hospital consultant at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in the UK was barred from boarding his flight at Manchester Airport earlier in the summer after he refused to use the scanner, claiming he could be exposed to X-rays."

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0830/break...
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Hi ollie,

The video is a bit blurry, yes. For the moment, might be best to head over to vimeo and watch it in HD. We'll likely take another pass at the demo and address the quality issue.

As for the timeline markers - if you hover over the timeline, you get a nice tooltip that indicates where you're scrubbing to in the file's history.

It's still a first iteration, so we're open to suggestions if you have some input on how we might do that better. Hope to get you into layervault soon — would love the feedback.

Thanks!
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I'm a network neophyte, so go slow, but can you explain how?

Is it this?

"Basically, when your browser makes a DNS request, the DNS server will now forward the first three octets (123.45.67) of your IP address to the target web service."

So say you search for something on google; google returns its search results page, your browser gets the page, looks at all the links, asks DNS for the IP's to all those links' addresses, and DNS auto-sends YOUR (truncated) IP to all those addresses' servers?

I guess I'm unclear on why it would do that. If the truncated IP coming to a CDN isn't coming with an actual request, how do they know that at some time later your actual request is from your truncated IP? (I also don't understand why a CDN would use some sort of DNS address as a geolocation strategy, but I guess that's another discussion.)
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jgc, some of your thoughts in this piece are worded badly, implying a (possibly subconcious) bias which I don't think you intended to be in there - though perhaps that was purposeful?

For example in paragraph three you have a list for virtual, and a list for real - "pleasure" appears in one of the lists only, and as it would be clearly incorrect to imply that virtual worlds cannot give pleasure, it was just left off that list, which is a subtle suggestion that pleasure is only found in the real world.

Books, I'm completely with you on that personally, I far prefer actual books to reading on an iPad or a Kindle, and I'm generally quite sentimental in most areas ("my dad's watch", etc.) But would losing that be a bad thing? It would for me personally, because that's how I think now, but if I was brought up not thinking of these things as sentimental for the object not just for the content, would I be worse off? Not sure.

Sex: A big leap to suggest that porn will become the default blah blah. And while I really have no idea what was in the heads of people 40, 100, 500 years ago, surely we have always been able to imagine pretty much any sexual scenario for pleasure anyway? And, porn is hardly new in the digital age (though much more easily accessible, certainly), and we haven't got there yet.

Making: My 9 year old nephew loves playing with his DS, his Xbox, he's always picked up technology (e.g. iphone use) fast, since he was young. But that doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy being read to. Or reading himself. Or playing with lego. Or playing on the swings at the park. Or playing with our train set. Sure, some kids might never leave the computer screen, but some kids will also spend all their spare time reading, that doesn't prompt blogs about books being bad.

Children: I saw your link somewhere here to the flying story, and while some people may think like that, certainly not everyone.

And ultimately, sitting in front of a screen doesn't have to be bad. Everything in moderation, etc. Playing video games with friends online is (less so now, but still to an extent) considered geeky and lacking social skills, but is it really different from playing football in the park? (Ignoring the excercise aspect). Does playing with PHP help you improve your thinking skills more or less than playing with lego? Etc.