skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opera has (had?) one built in. The difficulty is the necessity of hashing the entire file. Torrents are great for snapshots of large files.

I think one of the reasons the torrent protocol is not built-in is that it's simply more complicated and the user experience is not as good.

Or perhaps it is because there is a certain stigma attached to using a technology that enables distribution of data, even when it is against the wishes of the creator of the data.
Haha :) I keep going back to X over SSH.

Out of VNC, RDP and NX, VNC is the lame duck.

Out of RDP & NX, both require extra software but RDP is more widely re-usable (virtual box, windows etc).

The bandwidth requirements aren't the problem with X these days - a 3G connection at under 1Mbps real world is fine for reasonable display sizes, it's the round trip latency is the killer. It's such a chatty protocol, but on a LAN / WiFi it's fine and works out of the box with... scratch that, you need to install XQuartz separately since Mountain Lion. I almost forgot about that.
Usenet is under attack.

A lot of TV/Movie companies are starting to send DMCA requests to usenet providers.

The other day SabMini a iOS client for sabnzbd had to remove support for sickbeard(a PVR for usenet)

I think we are seeing the systematic destruction of Usenet.

Usenet won't go away but just become harder. Releases won't be named correctly to avoid getting DMCA notices.

Looks like someone broke the first rule of Usenet...
The D programming language takes the (so far as I know) unique approach that the implementation is allowed to evaluate expressions in the highest precision it wants to - the different floating point data types only represent storage formats.

The idea is that algorithms should be designed with a minimum required precision, but no maximum, and should not fail if higher precision is used.

I think this rule serves very well.
The darkness and the lightness evens out though.
Facetime and Skype and Hangouts are mostly for 1-1 communication or small group communication. I think the aim for this is to enable anyone to a live broadcast to as large an audience as they wish. Like justin.tv, or ustream
Actually in this year it is the middle tier of teams that have been responsible for most of the race-affecting accidents. In particular Maldonardo (Williams) and Grosjean (Lotus).

I've found the bottom tier of teams to mostly be harmless. Usually they don't end up finishing races but are a great breeding ground for upcoming talent.
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I don't think anyone ever planned in the long term for the system to evolve into ignorance. I don't remember any hard evidence, but I would figure earlier on in Americas history congressmen might consult intellectuals and experts on issues they were debating in congress, or maybe a judge might pull in an expert. I think practices like that fell out when law became such a profound convoluted discipline unto itself that anyone without a law degree was disqualified from engaging a court at an intellectual level.
Clickable: http://summonthewarrior.com/mongol-warrior/
I imagined that I won. why is there a thumb down?
> it's the round trip latency is the killer

Yeah, my understanding is that NX mimicks the remote end locally and then translates the result and transmits that. There's an Android app called BVNC that uses X forwarding with a local X server to do the same thing. No extra software and it's more responsive than X-forwarding.

I should've just mentioned it before, it may be of use to you.
I'd like to add another possibility into the mix, I think it might be based on some moving walkway concepts that have been considered for quite a few years but have never caught on or progressed passed the prototype stage.

The idea is that rather than being a straight line with a sort of conveyor belt, the walkway is made of plates like an escalator, and the ends of the walkway curve off from the main body of it. This means that a user steps on to a slow moving plate, immediately goes around a corner on it, and in doing so accelerates to a much faster speed, with the opposite happening at the destination.

As soon as I heard the word 'Hyperloop', this is what I thought of. It's a looped system, but with an extra dimension in a way as different sections operate at different speeds. I think this could be scaled up to be perhaps a track system that 'cars' are put onto with passengers inside, but I don't know.

Is this a reasonable possibility? Maybe.

✓ Ground based

✓ Weather independent

✓ Like a railgun (if propelled with magnets)

✓ Is not a pressurised tube

✓ Leaves when you arrive

? Could hold solar panels

? Cheap

? Revolutionise the transport industry

✗ No rails - depends on your interpretation of this, one could argue that a pressurised tube is a kind of track or rail for a carriage.
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Common problem, problematic solution.

Humans, no matter how altruistic, have inherent bias that will influence their selection of news to summarize, as well as the nature of their summarization.

Circa is another prime example of right idea, problematic solution. It gives me news and photos with no attribution... not even bylines of whomever created their shortened bits of things that they claim could be news. (intentional sarcasm) There's no mechanism whereby I can learn to trust them, or toolong-didntread.com.
Yeah I was working with a friend (industrial designer) on that for the S2 (as I want that as well), but let's work on this instead :)
should we really consider 220 square feet as acceptable?

Yes. If you don't make much money but want to work in SF/NYC/Boston/etc, your only option is to spend a lot of time driving/commuting from somewhere with cheaper housing. For some people, the choice to waste three hours of their life driving in traffic every day is worthwhile because they get a big house with a yard. But others would be happy to sacrifice lots of living space if it meant that they didn't have to blow 3 hours of stressful commuting.

When cities declare "you can't sell a 220 sq ft apartment", they force that choice on everyone, even people who wouldn't choose it for themselves.

Minimum area standards basically impose a floor on the cost of living. In some American suburbs, this is often explicitly used to keep out the undesirables; you require that each house have at least an acre of land and that the structure take up less than X% of the lot so that prices rise to the point that low income folk or recent immigrants can't afford to live in your town.
Ebook, please!
I'm actually a little worried about this trend to make things shorter and more dense. When does it stop? Twitter's character limit was ludicrous at first, but now people applaud its length. I even notice in myself how short of an attention span I have nowadays. If a comment is too long, I'll read half of it and skip the rest. I don't delve anymore, I just skim. I'm wondering how this is affecting us on a larger, longer scale.
Seems to me that what you need more than the standards are the reasons behind the standards - because yeah, the person coding that particular problem knows more than you about that problem, and should /teach you what they know/, particularly when it's easy.
Thanks for the info, you confirmed my suspicions. I wonder what they'll come up with, it's an interesting problem.
Name me 10 hackers who have had a bigger impact on society than Stallman and the GNU Public License. We live in a world with so much free and open source software all around us, it's easy to forget the role Stallman's unwavering advocacy has played in creating this reality.
AFAIK, the centralized server is not a strict necessity in terms of the functionality of the core protocol. It is more of a business decision to require the central server to authorize the stream (I believe each stream has a key that must be signed by the central server). This way, DMCA can be respected and liability issues are less of a concern.
Personally I think one of the hardest things to wrap your head around is how it's power-of-two fractions that can be represented exactly, not power-of-10 fractions. In other words, 0.5 can be represented exactly as IEEE floating point, but 0.1 cannot.

This is not inherent to floating point; a floating point representation that was based on decimal digits instead of binary ones would not have this issue.

It's not too hard to understand limited precision and rounding; we deal with both all the time. The part that's hard to understand is that you have to perform rounding simply to put a number like "0.1" into a floating-point value.

Specifically, in 0.1 as an IEEE float is represented as:

val = 0x3dcccccd
sign = 0
significand = 4ccccd (1.6000000)
exponent = 0x7b (-4)

So 0.1 is internally represented as 1.6000000 * 2^-4, while 0.5 has the much more understandable representation 1 * 2^-1.

This is made even more confusing by the fact that rounding performed on output will make it appear that 0.1 has been exactly represented in many cases.

So take a data type that can't exactly represent some numbers that look very simple in decimal, but that appears to represent them exactly when you print them out, but then compares not equal when you try to actually compare them. No wonder people get confused!
"Silicon Alley" specifically refers to the thin stretch of Broadway between the Flatiron and SoHo, which were home to a large number of startups. NYC's startup scene is now substantially more spread out but the name stuck.

The "alley" refers specifically to the original thin corridor, not any literal alleys.
https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/94166175247908864

Ouch.
Your website is excellent, I've helped five people so far.

Just two suggestions:

1. Please give me a way to view who I have helped. A followup story would be great too.

2. Please give me a way to find out about new people
clearly, this person has never had to write code within a many-hundred thousand line perl library.

There are certain parts of the spec I dislike, but I thank god everyday I have to look at a new file, because it allows me to focus on what and how the code accomplishes its goal as opposed to minutia like how are arguments passed between functions/methods, what is the naming convention for variables, how are return values returned, or even just do i need to tab indent or space indent in this file?
RMS hasn't changed tactics after failure despite being told -- and shown -- that his tactics are ineffective by fellow traveler Eric Raymond.

That's where Stallman's stubbornness bites him in the ass.
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This is a fabulous technology, but we shouldn't get carried away. Firstly, this is another disruption of the world's water cycle, which we have already managed to a considerable degree, and if we manage atmospheric water extraction on a massive scale, we will wreak havoc with the climate (again).

Note, I said: if we do this on a massive scale.
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IP multicast is turned off on the Internet.
It will be wonderful until the first time a plunger smashes a car with a family to smithereens because the railgun timing was slightly off due to a voltage irregularity.
This book is an expansion of his excellent D3 tutorials available here http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3/ (though now the free chapters from the book may be a better resource)
If the OP doesn't already know someone in that situation, how does he find them?
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Including the coconut for those who live in a temperate zone and don't have a large swallow population to rely on would definitely have been a nice touch.
Wouldn't the same be true for the term Viable?
Heck, I'd even settle for a much less than good coding style, as long as it's consistent throughout a project.
60Hz also synchronizes with the 60Hz flicker of fluorescent lights, which is especially bothersome.
I have been using Debian since 1996, and became a package maintainer in 1997, a position I held for nearly a decade until I began to not have enough time for it. While continuing to think that Debian is a first-rate effort, I got tired of certain aspects of it, and moved to Ubuntu, lock stock and barrel. I actually like to have my desktop system marching in sync with my server, so that the packages are pretty much exactly the same. And you know what? Ubuntu works pretty well on the server, and comes out with nice regular releases, allowing me to decide, and gauge, time-wise, when to upgrade. Certainly, like everything else, it has its defects, but by and large, I've had good luck with it, as both a desktop and server distribution.
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Sure it is. Without air or water the cost of shipping would be almost nil.

POWER to overcome drag is proportional to the CUBE of the velocity. This is the main reason container ships have been slowing down from about 30 miles per hour to 20 in direct response to the cost of fuel.

The power to overcome drag is also directly proportional to the density of the fluid.

Air density: 1.2041 kg/m^3
Water density: 1,000.00 kg/m^3 (pure water)

Sea water is roughly 830 times denser than air. Therefore, you need 830 times more POWER to move the same object through water at the same speed when compared with air.

Here's a practical example: Let's move a Toyota Camry through air and water at 20 miles per hour and compare. We'll ignore friction.

http://www.toyota.com/camry/specs.html

Frontal area: 57.9in x 71.7in = 2.68 m^2
Coefficient of drag: 0.28

Power = 1/2 * density * velocity ^ 3 * area * coefficient of drag

Power in air =
1/2 * 1.2041 Kg/m^3 * (8.9 m/s ^ 3) * 2.68 m^2 * 0.28
= 0.43 horsepower

Power in water =
1/2 * 1,000 Kg/m^3 * (8.9 m/s ^ 3) * 2.68 m^2 * 0.28
= 353.02 horsepower

In other words, you need 830 times more power.

How about now moving up to 40 miles per hour?

Power in air = 3.4 HP
Power in water = 2,824.14

The same 830 to 1 power ratio. However, moving the same object through water at double the speed just became EIGHT TIMES more expensive.

If we moved the Toyota Camry through air at 188 miles per hour we would need nearly exactly the same power required to move the same car through water at 20 miles per hour.

Bottom line, moving anything on water is very expensive if you have to burn fuel to do it. Unless I am missing something very fundamental there simply is no comparison.
The credit for one's labor

I guess if you get to define the value and credit of one's labor, you can still maintain that there is a difference where one doesn't really exist.

The credit for one's labor, on the other hand, is an inherently rivalrous "good".

But encouraging content creators with financial incentives for creating things that consumers desire is not an inherently rivalrous good?

It's the difference between re-printing "Alice in Wonderland" and reprinting "Alice in Wonderland, Written by <Not Lewis Carroll>".

So you're okay with taking all financial rewards from the creators of content, but leave them the scraps of naming credit as though your framework is logical?

Meh... if you're going to steal from people, you might as go all the way.

Stallman is a hypocrite for demanding control of anything he creates while seeking to "free" everything everyone else creates.
"Follow-up post when you sell your company to Facebook, Google or Twitter"

I lol'ed.
I suppose loud cars, motorbikes, garbage trucks, and screaming children are okay?

I'm all for quiet spaces but it seems the world is rife with noise.

For a novelty product I think it is quite clever and hilarious.
I think this is coming from the (big name) ad network we're using.

Disabled the ads for now and will probably switch to Paypal donations... Oh wait...
Yeah, the mobile internet here is bad, but not to that point. Most services still work fine. On a bad day, you would need to wait a few seconds for each request.
Enterprise ending:

The Big 5 auditors refuse to certify the suspension bridge because in their opinion, it doesn't satisfy GAAP & SOX.

$10 million is paid to the Big 5 auditors for a program of education and documentation to convince everyone to use the "best of breed" bridge.

The suspension bridge is sunsetted.

It's so difficult to use the enterprise bridge that people don't bother. Eventually they move to another valley.

The town dies and its assets are sold for 10 cents on the dollar. Management blames "market conditions".
The video made me giggle a lot but whyyyyyy is there not any sound of the device working in it? I mean really. We should have been hearing it after the device was assembled.

Yes there's the little tiny video of a prototype way down on the bottom of the page. That's not enough. That main video needs to have the actual sound of the actual product in it; I want to see a close-up of it doing its thing while hearing sound that seems synchronized to the motion. I want to know that yes, this really does what it's advertised as doing, and claps the coconut halves together in a "horse trotting" pattern.
I love the idea, I'd like to stream but I have about 256kb/s of upload speed and using TwitchTV or so it's impossible.
I know all this. I've read his backstory, and his current story, and the court materials, and other materials, and remain convinced that he created a tool to circumvent AT&T access controls and downloaded private information, he violated every standard of responsible disclosure (actually, he didn't disclose it to AT&T at all, he went straight to the press, after doing much more than is necessary for vulnerability demonstration), that he fully knew this is not necessary for demonstrating the vulnerability and that he did it for reasons of personal enjoyment and popularity, if not monetary gain.
What I did not find is any evidence that shows the decision was wrong or biased, and so for the article. Since you were repeatedly unable to point to any evidence yourself, I conclude your statement about it was baseless and rooted in personal emotions, not facts. You are still welcome to provide contradicting evidence.
While that would be horrible, it's still probably a lot less likely than that same family being involved in a fatal car accident.
Not really. This volume of air has to make contact with the bottle, whatever the collecting area's shape. Imagine loosely fitting a tube around the neck of the collecting area. All the air has to pass through that tube.
My guess for the 8-week manufacturing time is "this is our side project, we run these things off on the CNC machine when we have some spare time, and we like being paid American wages for doing it."
That's pretty unconventional definition of OS.
> So that means the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be
> non-existent 100 years from now.

Not necessarily. Put $100 billion into a trust and you can spend billions of dollars a year from the interest generated without depleting any capital. Barring unforeseen economic catastrophes, this can be sustained indefinitely.
I wouldn't worry about it. They'll stop using it once they get beat up (which is probably inevitable).
Totally agreed, nice work man. Thanks for sharing! We'll be using this.
Nice article and interesting viewpoint, taking principles to the extreme for learning purposes seems very useful.

The thing that impressed me most isn't the article though, but the amazingly beautiful clean look of that blog. Really a pleasure to look at and read on the iPad :-)
Sure, but when can I fund this on kickstarter?
You again ignore the facts. He didn't just "look" at it. He wrote a script - a purposeful action - to generate specific sets of IDs based on his guesses about geographic distribution, etc. and used it to download more than 100K email addresses. You here sound like spammers saying "what you want from me, I just sent an email, now it's a crime?". That stopped working long ago. There's a difference between looking at one page and writing a tools that scans through millions of IDs (most of which would be rejected by the access controls) to bruteforce the protection and download 100K of emails. I don't believe anybody can be genuinely so obtuse as not to understand the difference between the two.
it was more tongue-in-cheek, but whatever...
That trip is long and expensive for me, so these videos will have to do: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=panama+canal+sup...

There's a webcam, but it's not a live stream.
EU students stand no chance, why :(?
Step one: be one of only two options on the marketplace.

Bonus Step 2: make everything you promise non-binding, so you never really have to follow through with anything your marketing said in order to make the sale.
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I'm pretty sure a lot of people are running Linux and the world's largest websites...

Just saying.
From my perspective, the fact that the US constitution was given an initial set of amendments, as well as making amendments unusually difficult for the 'will of the people' to change (and as well as all the other safeguards put in place) suggests that the drafters/signers of the original document were placing more trust in themselves than in the democratic process which would follow. The safeguards I think were viewed as necessary because 'the will of the people' wasn't viewed as something that would, by definition, be good. Basically I don't think they really trusted democracy.

That's just my, probably controversial, take on it though.
That doesn't work at all when it's religion.

Using spaces for indentation is a sin against humanity, but that doesn't mean that someone else isn't going to come along and believe otherwise and no argument you make will sway them.
So once you test those assumptions via elbow grease, do you build out the full product then?

No, Lean Startup focuses more on multiple iterations, aka MVPs. Test the next feature, the next function. This is what ThingShare has been doing all along, while still completing shares.

What people have assumed is that we didn't complete the process, where the website failed to complete the task we took over manually. It worked well, but users were still disappointed by the site (not by us).

Oh, and we have significantly more than 30 users, that was a point in time with a very early iteration.
This is such a brilliant idea, and looking at the site now everyone is fully funded. And major kudos for taking the risk of quitting your day job to head such a great non-profit. If you ever need any extra dev hands, I'll happily help any way I can.
This video of a hands on demonstration looks very confusing... http://youtu.be/_c_BqnR_vAM

Is there really room for yet another mobile operating system ?
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I've been using CloudFlare on a project and have been mostly very pleased with it.

The only persistant problem that I haven't been able to iron out is that some non-US users of my application can't get any of our javascript assets to load in Google Chrome correctly. VPNing into a US IP seems to fix the problem. Has anyone else had any issues like this?
What the heck does that have to do with the article?
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On Chrome OS, Google Docs is the go-to office application.

Once you install a different OS on it, you're probably going to be falling back on OpenOffice.
How often do you hash the static files? Each time you generate the URL sounds like too much overhead.
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