skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it kind of is a lot of the time, just not in the way the other commenter was thinking. The majority of DDoS traffic I have seen is from Russian, Turkish, Ukraine and Chinese IP address spaces. Basically I think a lot of 'eastern' countries have a lot of people on the internet but not a lot of security. I imagine high rates of pirated windows (and thus lesser counts of security updates) contributes in some of the places.
And replace it with what? If everyone has to fight over a global namespace we just wind up with a different sort of problem.
Would you rather see something that looks like these? Because this is what you would get instead:
http://www.gnu.org/
http://gcc.gnu.org/
http://clang.llvm.org/
They very likely DID do something to bring up servers quickly. I bet they can spin up stuff like NA East 3 rather fast. Just because there is a DB somewhere who can't handle 2304982309482 people trying to slam cheetah mode while 230492340 are editing trade deopots, which is just a test they didn't happen to simulate well enough in load testing, doesn't mean they're utterly incompetent.

Server outside EA are pretty new to EA from what I understand

The weirdest crap melts sometimes when you apply real numbers of real non-tester peoples to things. Weird crap you cannot test for. Often has little to do with raw power, but instead is small architectural inefficiencies you cannot easily fix.
I used to set-up, deliver, & train blind users on Windows machines. Windows is the most popular since it has the most user-friendly accessibility solutions. My dad started the business I worked for, & he's been totally blind since birth. If you want, I'd be more than happy to put you in touch with him, feel free to contact me at dave [at] sweetmansystems [dot] com.

The favorite screen-reader for Windows is Jaws, but Window-Eyes is also good. OSX is great because it comes with a full-featured built-in screen-reader for free, whereas Jaws can run you $900 -- but the OSX screen-reader (called VoiceOver) is generally much more difficult to get started with, as they key combinations are complicated and difficult to remember. If you have enough useful vision, you could also use a program like ZoomText (on Windows), which combines screen magnification with voice output.

I've been looking into screen-readers for Linux & especially the command line, but haven't had enough experience with anything to make a recommendation -- though my dad knows a guy who uses linux & runs servers, if you end up talking to him ask for contact info for a guy named louis, if you can get a hold of him he'd be able to steer you in the right direction.

If you're in the US and in California (I think other countries and states have similar programs), you may want to get in touch with the Department of Rehabilitation, as they can provide a lot of help and information & will also purchase training, accessibility equipment, computers & software in order to get people with visual impairments proficient enough to compete in the classroom & in the job market.

The thing to be prepared for is that it's a major life adjustment. It's a totally different way of interacting with the computer, and it will usually come with a pretty steep learning curve, but it's definitely doable, especially I think with the hacker mindset.

All of these programs have demo versions from their websites:
Jaws for Windows: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-pa...
Window-Eyes: http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/
ZoomText: http://www.aisquared.com/zoomtext/

Info about Apple's VoiceOver:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/
(oh, the other good news is that VoiceOver is also included on all iPhones & iPads!)
I have the luck of going through one of those analytical history courses right now - but they do one thing differently: they don't even want to stoop down to prescribe on that level. Instead they give a higher-level question: "to what extent would you consider Mao's contribution to the development of modern China over-rated?" - and ask for a good argument. That inevitably that means considering counterpoints, placing them in context (and you can't go far with that if you don't understand a mite of historiography and how that in turn arises from "mainline" history), shooting them down. It's done wonders to my writing.

In fact, it's been the only opportunity in my high school program to consider and create arguments of such depth - so there's your intrinsic value.
Really neat idea, but if there's any type of CAPTCHA that a computer could solve... wouldn't it be this?

I mean, they've been kicking our ass in Chess since Deep Blue.
From the list http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/arm-socs I would say some devices on the market should already support hw vp8 decoding.
Well, it's actually fairly complicated. Banks underwrite the sale of equity in an IPO, meaning that in one way or another they are providing a guarantee to the issuer - i.e., in the price of the sale, in the amount sold at a certain price, etc. So when it comes to the price of the guarantee (implicit in the terms of the arrangement), the issuer and the bank are sitting at opposite sides of the table.
Exactly. Technology is like water. It's neutral. You could supply water to thirsty people or destroy the environment through hydraulic strip mining. You could build a dam and flood a village of people you don't like. I'm sure diabolic minds could come up with a way to do evil with antibiotics if that was all they had to work with.
Here's the most comprehensive list of changes I've found. The pull request for Bootstrap 3 on github:

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342
It's arguably a victory within the existing rules of the game. Taking it to an extreme - if Google paid a single cent in order to remove the threat of MPEG-LA related patent suits and in return massively increased adoption of VP8 and following specs, would that have been a victory? A dollar? Ten dollars? A million dollars? It's a victory for Google if the cost to them is less than the expected benefits of removing a barrier to adoption.

Of course, the flipside to this is that it's also a victory for the existing patent system. It's usually cheaper for people to settle than it is for them to fight a patent suit, even if they win. At the end you maybe get most of your costs back, and it's cost you several years of your competitors telling your potential customers that you're a patent infringer and if they implement the spec they could be next.

So yes, a real victory would require certainty over the patent status of VP8 without Google having had to pay anyone anything, but also without having to spend years in litigation to prove that. But that's not an option at the moment, and the fact that Google were able to negotiate a relatively wide-ranging and liberal license (without any admission of infringement) is arguably the best that's possible without significant changes in the law.
Clicking on http://cpuville.com/cpu_design.pdf gives me:

Forbidden
Remote Host: [<redacted>]

You do not have permission to access this
page or file

Data files must be stored on the same site
they are linked from.

To see the PDF you need to visit the main page and then click through. Fortunately, if you first try the forbidden page, the link you want will already be purple for you.
Having read just to that point in the book, it seems this information is a bit old. Modern x86 processors have microcode ROMs on die, so the performance penalty is near zero.
Yes, Azure is both PaaS (Windows machines that require no configuration) and IaaS (you can install whatever you want, including Linux).
>So while this blog post makes a great point, it feels like it's trying to convince the sun not to rise tomorrow - nothing we do will stop platforms such as Facebook rising if they offer what people want/need. We would need to make a better version, and that isn't always feasible.

Well that's the thing with democracy and freedom in general.

It's not enough to vote. You have to be vigilant, and you have to be a political (as opposed to private) person.

That a platform like Facebook can swallow the internet if it "offers people what the want/need", means that people are not democratic (in the meaning of vigilant citizenry) enough. They are content with conveniences instead of asking for more control and freedom for them.

(I'm not talking about FSF style freedom either. I would be content with EFF style freedom).
It's really not new at all. Pretty clear demonstration that Python as a language is not incompatible with sandboxing
It's on a chess website, so yes, it's for chess players.
State of Tech #96
Eddie Huang describes TED as a 'Scientology summer camp'. He's not quite as eloquent as Morozov but entertaining nonetheless with interesting details about what TED fellows get up to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwLMBdnbXk
You misunderstand the nature of the agreement.

Please point to a case where MPEG-LA has given a completely sublicensable royalty-free right to someone for H.264, for any amount of money.

Can you get all the H.264 rights MPEG-LA offers from microsoft or apple, without going through MPEG-LA?
Does it cover all use cases?
Have trouble multitasking? First person shooters can help
Clayton Christensen was profiled in Wired recently and came to a similar conclusion:

"We’ve encouraged managers to measure profitability based on a return on net assets, or return on capital employed. That encourages companies to liberate their capital, so they invest in efficiency innovations, which means they can make more money with fewer resources. But what the economy ultimately needs are empowering innovations—like the Model T, the transistor radio. Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently the world is awash in capital but the innovations we need to advance aren’t there."

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/mf-clayton-christensen...
I love vinyl too but I don't like spending $20 on a record any more.

It's entirely possible to build a decent collection from "crate digging" and bargian hunting. But most good albums have increased in price.

You can find 192kHz/24-bit rips of vinyl records on torrent sites or convert them using a USB record player.

Then use a proper audio DAC and it's a perfect audio replication without the additional drag of having to switch records every 15 minutes, lug around heavy vinyl or deal with temperamental needles on record players.
You can get access to the usual builtins using a lambda function's func_globals.
SF Poker League (hosted at Kongregate HQ)
While there was a ton of amazing stuff going on inside Bell Labs, it really seems like progress in telecom didn't accelerate until after the ATT breakup. If you think the cell phone situation now is bad, you used to have to rent your home phone, like a cable box, from the phone company.
Excellent stuff.

BTW the New Republic has a beautifully clean reading UI - the site has the same feel of Instapaper or ReadItLater - seems like they decided 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.'
Azure does have a Linux VM option. Do correct me if I am wrong.
> Artists are not forced to work with major record labels.

And what were/are their alternatives? Things are theoretically different with the internet now, though I'm not sure how well well-paying outlets for artists have advanced as of yet.

> the scarcity at the early stage is the set of people that can make the system work (promotion, marketing, producers)...

I doubt there's a scarcity of these people. Nor do I imagine they reap a huge profit from their work anyway. And surely the whole point is the quality of the artists' work, not how well crap can be pushed to preadolescent girls a la Justin Bieber?

> Once artists prove themselves not to be a commodity (i.e be stars) they reap great profits and have much more negotiating leverage over labels. I don't understand this rant.

If you read TFA you'll find that this is often not the case, even the stars get screwed out of vast sums of money.
Comparing VSTs and Ableton are a great example of how too much of either can be a bad thing.

Although Ableton is generally a pleasure to work with, that is due to the way their interface works (especially the time/waveform navigation, I can't understand why nobody has copied that). The flatness of their UI has occasionally confused me (but not as bad as certain skeuoverdosed VSTs).

Cool, I usually kept quiet on these matters because I thought I hadn't really ever given a flat UI a good try. But Ableton definitely counts.

I think the main problem with Flat UIs is the lack of affordance: There is no shared visual language yet to signify the difference between an indicator and an input element. That could be either a switch-button vs a status indicator light (both coloured circles) or a text input box vs a info panel (both rectangles with text).

One way to maybe solve it would be the convention that things brighter than their environment are for input and darker things are for indicators/information. Or vice versa. Because there's no convention yet.
Is it really news to concoct exploits against obscure, antiquated practices which nobody uses because they have been known as insecure for years?
Water is that way, sure, but the specific example I gave isn't an evil use of water. What about antibiotics? Your only example of how to cause harm using them is by not giving them to people, which just shows that when they are used, they cause good.
dreamdu5t you are so wrong that you deserve to be onvoted, but I dont do that. The basic IP technology was all government funded and developed by BB&N. The original internet was ARPAnet, funded by the government to link the government, military, universities, and military contractors (.gov, .mil, .edu, and .com). The Internet itself was set up separate from DARPAnet by government legislation and funding. The whole domain registration mechanism was at one time under the ultimate control of the Commerce Department. The world wide web protocol was developed at CERN, funded by multiple governments. The browser that became Netscape was developed at the University of Illinois. It was only after the Internet was set by the government did we get the explosion of users and applications. The competitors to the the internet developed by private corporations, like MCI mail or Prodigy, are all dead now.
"if you can feel the string in your fretting hand vibrate on a fretted instrument, you're doing it wrong."

Generally the entire body of an acoustic guitar vibrates with the sound of a plucked string - the fretting hand (being the only hand currently attached to the guitar) would likely feel the vibration carrying from the body, through the neck of the guitar. It's faint, but nevertheless perceivable.
So just to spell it out for other readers:

* This item links to a blog post published 3 March 2013 and fictitiously dated "1998" at the top as a rhetorical point.

* The original title of the link as originally submitted was "The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL".

* The link was subsequently retitled to "The World Wide Web is Moving to AOL (1998)". I like to think that this was done as a covert act of subversion by a mischievous moderator quietly trying to draw attention to the capricious nature of news.ycombinator headline changes by following the rules to the letter.
In my experience, everyone in tech tends to think that their particular skill set is the only thing that matters and that everyone else is an idiot. This seems true for business, marketing, engineering, etc.
>The paradox is, platforms like Facebook never could arise without the free internet for people to rapidly prototype, evolve, pivot and merge ideas.

I think that's not really a paradox but orthogonal.

For one, successful platforms have risen in closed ecosystems too. E.g the TV networks of yore were very closed ecosystems, but several forms and platforms emerged in them.

Second, the creation destroying the environment that created it is not really a paradox. It's one way to assure no such new creation threatens it. And it's the essence of stories like Frankenstein etc.
You are right... my mistake. I was looking on a different page of the old bootstrap site.
10 things to tolerate if your boyfriend is an entrepreneur!
I disagree with the arguments as well - it doesn't write off history, though, just a narrow brand of prescriptive history: the value has rarely been in the content (like it is for nearly every other sufficiently abstract subject), it's been in the doing: considering sources, reacting to lines of argument made throughout history in their own contexts, knitting overarching themes together to come to a single, tortured conclusion; inevitably in some journal that's been locked up on JSTOR. It lends itself to the practice of arguing far better than any of the rest of the humanities does by asking you consider all the moving parts explicitly.

So I suppose there's a parallel - it's got as much value as sufficiently high-level mathematics.
I think that's a little unfair, can't 2 people talk about the same subject from different angles? Also Steve Albani, while a respected producer, is not a highly popular musician like Love, it's nice to see an opinion from somebody in a different position.
No New Life in Antarctic Lake, Russian Admits
I've been playing the game for the last few days with a handful of friends. What I've found is that without the region dynamics, my cities have comparatively stunted growth and seem to be deficient in a few areas. Even with regions that I try and manage myself, the time freezing mechanic in unmanned cities makes progress much slower.

When my friends are building cities around me, we move really fast and the supply chain and people sharing mechanics can create some truly startling results. It's a very different experience from SC4, and I'll say its only a bad thing if you play alone.
I'm sure Russia would at least have something like it.
Basically anything that doesn't have "raw text" as the underlying model and that actually understands that its dealing with HTML.

I am a big fan of embedded DSLs so I prefer when I libraries that let you freely mix HTML generation with code, but in a structured way so we don't generate invalid or unescaped markup (things like PHP fall in this unstructured category). An example of the embeded DSL approach is Haskell's Blaze[1]. Perl's Template::Declare[2] and Ruby's Markaby[3] seem to use similar approaches but I never worked with them myself.

[1] http://www.jaspervdj.be/blaze/tutorial.html
[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Declare/lib/Template/De...
[3] http://markaby.rubyforge.org/

There are also more "templaty" alternatives that don't let you use the full power of an embeded DSL but that sitll assume that you are generating a document (instead of raw text) there are things like Hamlet[4]. I am sure there are also other similar examples fore mainstream languages but as I said, I like the embeded DSL stuff better...

[4]http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hamlet
I see some of bootsnipp's ready made recipes are added in this version.
Amish view on Technology
Looks impressive, but I got to say this. I am horrible at chess and couldn't find the move to checkmate white. I would probably get frustrated with this and not even bother to finish the form.
It's OK to fell
I can see it by turning off my referer in Firefox.
> An over-reliance on a hover state leaves tablet users in the dust, though.

Not only that, it requires a mouse user also to hover over all possible elements to just know what's clickable. Kind of like some of the first graphical adventure games.

Or imagine a website where a link only turns blue and underlined as you mouseover it.

"Input" versus "Indicator" is a big problem in FlatUI that needs to be solved, there is no shared visual language yet to signify which is which, and it needs to be possible by just looking (and preferably other modalities as well)
Big innovations from those lists (which I call things that are - or are intended to be - life-changing for a reasonably large number of people):

airbnb, asana, box, facebook, github, meteor, picloud, pinterest, skype, stripe, twitter, uber, yourmechanic, discourse, fundersclub, hoteltonight, mint, onekingslane, simple, square, taskrabbit, coursera, groupon, nest, spotify,
Anyone building those companies - as of about 6 month ago - are going to be in trouble anyway.
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Super interesting. We could stretch the technical arguments though. The play/stream is broadcast exclusively for me, sure. But then again, see my point below about Spotify being peer to peer application. It is, from an interface perspective, provisioned for me. But really songs are broadcast by individuals to other individuals. In the long run, this line of thinking is fun, but not much else. What matters is what it feels like, not how it's accomplished. And you know what, it's a pretty cool optimization from a technical perspective - gets my respect.
If MPEG-LA was run the way it was actually required to be run by the DOJ (http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/busreview/215742.htm), we'd be better off.

They are supposed to be getting independent experts, etc.

The current "independent expert" has the following qualifications: "The expert helped form the MPEG-LA, helped in drafting the first MPEG-LA licensing agreements, answers questions from licensees on behalf of the MPEG-LA, has attended business settlement meetings on behalf of the MPEG-LA, and has testified before US congress on behalf of the MPEG-LA. Heck, he is listed on the MPEG-LA website as "MPEG-LA's US patent counsel"."
Um, aren't computers better than humans at Chess?
http://madronalabs.com/ makes something called the Soundplane - it feels like a present someone sent me from the future.

So nice to touch. A high resolution / super responsive controller.. of wood! Maybe I'm just not enough of a cyborg but the wood surface made the Haken Continuum (wetsuit material) far less compelling. I worry the same thing of the Seaboard.
I think the critique would be more pointed if he could highlight a backlog of great ideas that Silicon Valley refused to fund. The money is available if you have a big idea. There is plenty going on in Silicon Valley outside photo sharing from biotech to microfinance to clean energy.
Most people will not need to use pip --find-links on a regular basis. Hence, it is not "careless" to fail to do so.

If you are focused on "more nines" than this kind of paranoia is well justified. Network outages are not totally unknown, sometimes PyPI goes down. But these things really aren't all that regular as you seem to suggest. Usually the network is up and PyPI is up. And we haven't had an instance of 3. yet, assuming that you trust the authors of your dependencies.

Let's please not convey that it's just completely crazy to use pip in the normal, simple way. It really isn't.
That's probably true. It'd be okay if everyone thought their skills was most important and all the skills paid about the same, but business and investing think their skill is most important and their salaries actually support that idea.
I'm over vinyl too, but it makes a big difference that I started with vinyl as my reference point - so I knew how nice music could and should sound, and the necessary physical interaction with both vinyl and record player helped me develop an awareness of tone and timbre early on.
Keep down voting. Truth hurts.

Reply to all down voters. Are you scared to write a reply to what I said? Clicking is easier, and following herd is easier than asking questions with an open mind. Just because you're reading HN does not make you smarter.

Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T2_nedORjw
Vinyl sounds great for increasing one's hipster cred, but last time I heard a vinyl album it sounded like, well, crap.

The author seems to be comparing the sound of the record shop's nicest player to an MP3, of god knows what bit-rate, played through ear buds.

Maybe what he's really discovered is that a nice hi-fi system goes a long way and he should get more disk space for his audio files and go lossless.