skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube uses RTMP on port 80.

RTMPT is RTMP over HTTP, but Youtube doesn't use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol
This is a video taken by some random person in the crowd... what did you expect?
Devcheck
check it out
The "Your" battery talk happens because Tesla charges extra for cars with larger batteries. I agree, though, that this will likely not be the case one or two generations down the line.
India has a PRISM-like Centralized Monitoring System
This is what I popped in to say. He say's it himself.

> Yes, we both use the “zen” moniker as part of our names, yes both are SaaS. But we’re not targeting the same customers or solving the same problem.

> On the contrary: Both I and many of my customers use zendesk alongside zenbilling.

There is an overlap between what they do and both using 'zen' can easily be interpreted as affiliation between the 2 companies.
UK Streaming providers datablog - (with graphs)
Battery Swap [video]
looking forward to this event
WikiLeaks: Hastings Said He Was Being Investigated By FBI
This is why I love https://github.com/circa75/dropplets

Simple, minimalist, publish through markdown. I stripped the Twitter button out of my fork because I thought even that was too much clutter (example: http://notes.darkfunction.com). Now I have just a list of articles, with a link to each article, and I can't think why I would need any more. I always found article history navigation on traditional bogs tedious (how am I supposed to know which month/year you wrote what I am looking for?) and as for social media buttons, if I want to put your post on my Facebook page I don't need a button to do it.
I'd like that kind of interview. When I get asked to solve a problem that's totally artificial, the type of question that's designed for interviews and programming competitions, it throws me off track. I feel like I'm trying to read the interviewer's mind to know what criteria I'm being evaluated on. With real-world problems, there's no mind-reading necessary. It's easy to imagine what type of solution would get the job done. Plus, hearing a real problem would actually be interesting, and perhaps break some of the tension from being scrutinized.
It looks like Mailvelope only supports RSA encryption (up to 4096bit), not any of the other types of algorithms for PGP. It lists RSA/RSA and RSA/ElGamal but doesn't allow me to select them. Can someone who knows their shit about encryption chime in as to whether that's sufficient?
I wonder if the economics will allow for an hacked battery market. Perhaps organized crime goes around with batteries lying about their age to make some $$$.
It looks like a great place for Tesla to find old batteries and remove them from circulation.

Leasing seems like a good idea (pay X per year and you can use these stations and you'll always end up with a battery of a certain acceptable quality), according to the video though it does cost money.
Is Facebook really out of idea?
Tunewiki is shutting down
Weird, it prompted me to log in.
Yeah, I find that attitude quite counterproductive in software development. I understand and agree with the argument that some “can’t you just”s are way more complicated than they are presented. But this kind of attitude, taken to its extreme (e.g., having that sort of half-joking sign on your door) is a roadblock to real progress, which often starts with a “hey, couldn’t we...”.
That sounds interesting, but have you got a link to that paper/explanation? With the mutations happening all the time it seems to me like the question "can you step twice into the same river?" is close to what applies in this case.
I have found that using a ubuntu base AMI and salt (http://saltstack.com/community.html) makes things much easier to manage. His suggestion of having node.js and nginx baked into the AMI is a big pain when you need to upgrade node.js or nginx (hello security update!). Using something like salt (or puppet or chef) would make this much easier.

But in general, I agree with the article.
I think there are probably more than just two types of programmers.
It says on engadget that the driver can either get paid or pay the difference, or simply pick up their own pack on the way back.
understand the core, and do things as simple as possible.
The article you would expect
Jews aren’t allowed to use telephones: Proper responses to evil
Been there, low performance :(
He pretty much gets that (I think) - this isn't a complaint against the fact that Zendesk are doing this, it's a complaint about the way they've gone about it.
Maybe, but I doubt it. Tesla owners and investors seem to be very excited about Tesla - more so than Apple "fanbois" are about Apple new launches, I would say. At the investors' meeting recently, a lot of people seemed very excited there.
The only difference is that the N.S.A. does it for intelligence, and Silicon Valley does it to make money.

Boy, I wish it were that simple.
SiliconChalet is now taking bookings
at a certain point, real hardware is called for, if you wish to scale. my experience: 1/3 the price, 2x the performance in softlayer vs a $97k/mo ec2 spend. Obviously specific to my workload, but you should at least benchmark on real hardware.
My god, it even uses tables for the layout, takes you back uh?
I can't wait to switch to XCode 5, so many goodies.
zedbill.com ?
That's certainly a zendesque way to look at it.
quick.. before I register that domain :]
"the last word on billing" lol
Lots of Telsa owners at the party, enjoying a free free drink or three before the event. No surprise that they were a bit enthusiastic at seeing a previously unannounced free feature launch.
The WordPress Community Needs an Attitude Adjustment
The video is now up: http://www.teslamotors.com/batteryswap
"I didn't need a Content Management System, a graphic designer, or a software developer."

The guy is arguing that we don't need software then, since it is possible to create every page by hand.
Browsers leak information. Profusely.

We have looked at various ways to solve this, but generally the easiest thing breaks a bunch of other "stuff". We'd like to not break stuff, but still be private. We have a couple strategies but haven't deployed them yet.
I was just thinking zedbilling - it sounds close enough (to my american pronounciation) that most people won't even think you've changed your name. Then you can have a tagline like "all your billing solutions, from a to zed" :)
I assume you would rent your battery instead, and you pay more for renting a battery in prime condition vs renting a battery in moderate condition.
Great writeup and I appreciate the shoutout to GWT, with all the Java hate many people miss what an amazing piece of technology that is.
Ask HN: After PRISM will you use social networks differently?
Are you going to: reduce your posts, change your type of publications? Less personal informations?

You don't care and nothing is going to change...
Well, Google bought On2, which had been developing video codecs for a long time prior to Google's purchase, and VP8/VP9 is what has resulted from continued development of On2's codec technology.

Very much looking forward to what Daala can bring, hopefully the different approach it goes for can bring competitive quality.
I cry with you.
The software industry is odd. Things change so fast, and new things comes out so often, but at the same time bad ideas masquerading as universally applicable best practices get adopted and linger forever. Google and Microsoft favoring this style of interview has given it incredible weight. I fully expect some interviewers will be giving this kind of interview in 10-20 years, still thinking they are doing the right/safe thing.
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to the Wayback Machine?
I've found the Wayback Machine to be very useful. However, I'm looking for a past version of a website and the Wayback Machine doesn't seem to have it.

Are there any good alternatives to the Wayback Machine that also archive a large part of the web?
Discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911017 (submitted 23 hours ago, 265 comments)
My survey compiler compiles surveys to c++. Using emscripten I was able to compile and run the survey in a browser. You can include a web framework - I used Dojo and got it to work quite easily. I then used Dojo mobile - and was able to get that to work to (but may need some tweaking as Im neither a JavaScript nor Dojo Expert).

I am able to easily access the DOM and I am able to pass data back to my c++ functions too (responses to the survey to be stored). However it's not ASM.js that is the novelty for me, but being able to target the browser with almost the same c++ runtime code.
I'm in Mountain View and will be driving to SF. You can track down my email using info in my profile if you need a ride.
That's not very devilish, there is clear room for confusion here, the OP should seek another name.

anecdotally, I don't use either, but i 've heard of zendesk, and would naturally associate zenbilling with them.
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Except that when Apple themselves were the 7% their view on whether you should support that % of the total audience was that, unequivocally, you should.
We enable auto applying security updates in the AMI, and the first thing the provisioning script does is update packages. That said, I would definitely want to explore alternatives - not needing to update while provisioning will take a few seconds off the provisioning time.
The beauty of this is that with battery technology rapidly improving, and performance for new batteries much better than older ones, Tesla's cars can retain or even increase their expected mileage per charge over the life of the car.

The expected lifespan of their batteries right now are about 7 years, but as anyone with a smartphone or laptop knows, battery life decreases rapidly over the life of the product. Tesla's cars were no exception to this and although most of the cars on the road are new and have not faced these issues yet, they were bound to crop up in the future. With battery swapping they've nipped this problem in the bud. Of course they'll charge you the difference for a newer battery but the benefits far outweigh the costs, and breeds stronger brand loyalty.
Print your face on a latte
Scalable performance counters for multi-threaded Java apps
Here's how it works in Australia: if you are looking to move to a different employer, you weigh up the perks of one job versus the cash of the other (perk-less) job.

Here's how it works in Canada: if you are looking to move to a different employer, you weigh up the perks of one job versus the cash of the other (perk-less) job.

Here's how it works in the USA: if you are looking to move to a different employer, compare the health care first, then start worrying about salary and perks.

The corporations in Canada don't offer you anything that you can't get yourself, the healthcare isn't more expensive than the rest of the world for no good reason (looking at you, USA), and the only difference comes down to whether you end up with 10 years of history with one health insurer or not.
I'd really like to hear more about what this means, from the article:

Frenzied drivers will still have to do some work though —
they’ll have to drop off the battery on the return leg of
their journey and pay an unspecified “transport fee”, ...

A legitimate worry is that you'll end up with someone else's lemon battery. Is the article referring to a Tesla mandate that you come back for your "original" battery, and how long do you have before you forfeit your battery?
So every Twitter client that uses "twit" "tweet" etc. in their name, is owned by Twitter? I don't think so.
We Already Cyborgs?
Facebook Announces That It’s Out Of Ideas
Only the executive branch is entitled to this data, right?
As the article points out, the traditional codec development is based on video codec developments going back 25 years (and fundamental maths going back much further) so it's not the basics that are patented. Instead it's fairly idiosyncratic design choices because that's the MVP (minimum viable patent) that you need to insert into the spec to get a share of the royalties.

In short, the patent stuff has always been mostly threats from the incumbents, which are not empty but don't actually rely on any of the underlying patents being sound. Google gets a lot of abuse from the peanut gallery for not nuking H.264 support in Chrome but they seem to be doing amazing work behind the scenes to get the incumbents on board with free codecs. Not ever going to earn you as much geek cred as rebooting video codec development down a different (and quite possibly better) path, but still a worthy endeavour in my mind.
> pretty sure the article has the timing wrong

I think they mean "been around for 4 years before taking funding last July" which would equate to 5 years.
The text size issues is a bug in Chrome. Firefox for Android has a similar bug as well. For this reason alone I switched to Opera; it has its own bugs, but at least the text size is right.
Did Seth Godin help to save Google Maps?
It makes sense that they built the battery to be swappable but its pretty incredible that they managed to keep this as a post-launch surprise. Everyone last month was like 'well I dont see how that can be possible, the battery makes up most of the car frame etc'. But they'd planned it this way all along.

Its as if the new iPhone came with a swappable battery but Apple kept it quiet till six months after launch.
Looks like turning down $300k was the right move.. a blog post from Tom Preston-Werner almost 5 years ago: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-3...
Are you claiming that women think differently than men? Sources, please.

In practice, the kinds of people that can discuss ideas that push the state of the art forward are so rare that you should be grateful that your society gets any, and not worry so much about their genitalia.
I know! I remember you well! I misinterpreted your original comment. My mistake.
I know the title's a little incendiary, but the interaction captured really did feel rather prophetic.

That said, I do think it's important not to oversimply, and to avoid making a narrative fallacy.

I'd like to hear your criticisms, as well as your thoughts on the evolution of Google Maps, and about general ideas of building things that solve problems vs. building things that are interesting.

Specifically- we know that what's interesting might not necessarily be useful. But is it possible that something useful NOT be interesting, and die because nobody chose to talk about it? Can anybody think of any examples?
If your workload is totally standard then renting dedicated servers can make sense, it's certainly flexible if you expect to scale on a monthly basis. However, if you need something "premium" like an SSD or lots of RAM then you can end up paying $300/month. Buying a used server off eBay for $400, putting a new HDD in it, and getting a colocation for $100/month will be the most cost-efficient for those on a tight budget. The provider will usually do basic maintainance like replacing HDDs for a small fee.

That said, if money is not a problem then go with whatever lets you get stuff done with the least pain.
It might be on a case to case basis, but for me C++ and Emscripten was an almost drop in replacement. My survey compiler uses ncurses, wxWidget/gtk and web toolkit for native screen display.

I read the emscripten documentation that you could call pure javascript and pass data back from javascript too. I wondered if you could use Dojo as a widget library replacement for native toolkits like wxWidgets etc. I tried it out and was able to get things working in 2-3 days. And I'm not good at Javascript and have not really tried Dojo before either. I was able to get Sencha to work, but not Sencha Touch. Dojo mobile is working fine as well (but I have to tweak it).

The novelty is not asm.js but using the browser as a Windowing System and a JavaScript library as your UI library. The survey compiler is open source and if you are interested in getting started I and point you to the relevant sources.

What Emscripten enables me is open up the tablet space for surveys with hardly any effort using toolkits like Phonegap.
> But where Is my 15" 1920x1200 Thinkpad?

... and where is my 27" 270+ DPI desktop display?
Not that simple.
Having only one cloud provider allow you to make the most of it.

Once you have two providers, you are forced to only use the features offered by each of them and use an abstract layer (API agnostic dev).

Plus, AWS offers a wide range of strategies to ensure the availability of its infrastructure (Availability Zone, Regions, CDN etc.)
I really like this article!
It sucks, but he can't win this fight.

Register trademarks early. They trump domain names.
OK we disagree, but let's hope the English language survives (though it seems the UK gov. isn't going to champion it).
Yes, though regression to the mean might suggest that they won't be so lucky in future.
If I was Zendesk, I would do exactly that, fight your trademark. Not that their objections will necessarily hold up. You could arguably defend it, but why bother?

If you say you are friendly with Zendesk, why did you name your product Zen-something if there is no strict affiliation between the companies, it doesn't make any sense, it should be lesson for others. The thing is that "being friendly" is not really tangible in legal terms. In fact it's the "being friendly" part that probably brought this on because if Zendesk hadn't heard of you and their customers weren't using Zenbilling then your application would probably have done through without hassle.

I know, and probably Zendesk do too, that what they are doing isn't strictly "nice" to you. But there wasn't any official partnership or other deal or agreement in place and that ultimately means there is no relationship between the companies.

What you are doing is right, find a new name and move on. But don't let it spoil your "friendship", and although probably there's no room for "favours" anymore, keep your mind open for mutually beneficial agreements instead.
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight
I hope they will soon see the difference between Software Engineer and Algorist (TopCoder(tm) sportsmen)
Yes, Mr. Loopt, good question, what happened to innovation?
PyHTML: Simple HTML generation library for Python
> Add login by Facebook

God no, anything but facebook. Github or google would be better.
Xcode 4.6.3 is just a bug fix release and it came out just a week ago.

At the time this page was updated, 4.6.2 must have been the latest version.
This is one of the more reasonable trademark defenses by one of the "big guys" that I've seen - one they are required to defend in order to keep. So, though it hurts, you pick a new name and move on. Very possibly the lawyers told the CEO to not respond to those emails until a decision was made.

As an aside, the post starts by saying "it's not something to get worked up about" -- and then proceeds to do nearly exactly that, detailing even his email "exchange" with the CEO.
It's highly likely that it's all over the planet, averaged.

It makes more sense that way.
Zen has been around since the 6th century, I understand from a legal perspective but it's a terrible position to be in.

Its a pity for innovation that this can be done through financial means rather then hashed out between the parties.
Can't wait to see Tesla grow and change the way we think about automobiles, at a species level.
His extreme positions sure sounded crazy to me. Like "I refuse to have a cell phone because they are tracking and surveillance devices... many can be remotely converted into listening devices."

After this NSA scandal broke, I feel I was a little quick to judge him. I'm not going to give up my cellphone, but I've already quit using FB and have started using more digital privacy tools like OTR in pidgin.
Apparently they think they own zen and desk.

See http://www.ripoffornot.org/
I love this system. Halifax, NS had an amazing culture of that when I was in my late teens early twenties I furnished all my apartments with street finds/repairs. Sadly the city is going through gentrification and they're starting to crack down on this.
> Are you claiming that women think differently than men? Sources, please.

Effect of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone on cognition.
Well the usual "iOS makes more money per app than Android" is misleading because from what I've seen it keeps referring to paid apps.

So for example if a dev has both a free app and a paid "pro" version on Android, most will get the free one and make him money on ads (which isn't counted in these charts), while on iOS he will only release one paid version, so then it turns out on iOS he makes "more" from the paid version, than on Android - for the paid version. But I don't think I've seen a report yet that combines the total revenue per user or per app.
I've been pushing this idea for the past couple of years with clients, and when I give talks at conferences. The fact of the matter is that unless an organization knows what the carrying cost is for their features, and the effect in terms of complexity, they are flying blind.

In essence, it is Joel's Law of Leaky Abstractions at work. You can't manage a software project just in terms of a set of features you agree upon with business. The codebase is a key constraint that underlies all of those discussions and unless the effects of feature choice are on the table, you end up incurring radically different costs.

This isn't just about paying attention to technical debt. It's about having the discussion about whether it is worth targeting some features or not, taking the code into account - using it as a factor in business decisions.

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/717-rockymtnruby2011-opening...

http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/201...
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Definitely would be a "good" thing for the tor network if a virus started infecting machines as relays.
How about backend of Firebase? Can you guys tell something about it ? (Just Curious :)))
Are you referring to the episode 1, episode 2 stuff? It's just a bunch of different games, that were released seperately.
There isn't any equivalent usage share data for OS X provided by Apple (AFAIK).

The presented statistics for market share is based on App Store downloads from iOS devices and similar criterion used to judge OS X install base might not be highly reliable as there are other ways to get apps(applications) installed on OS X.
I still have a copy of "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog" published by O'Reilly in 1992. It has a whole section devoted to lists of addresses of sites grouped by subject. Many of the sites didn't have urls because they were operating over ftp or telnet or WAIS or Gopher.

I just checked and the terms "google", "altavista", and "search engine" do not appear anywhere in the index. Also, no weird web2.0-style domain names.

Different times.
Monty's ability to explain convoluted technical topics is astounding. He explains everything in plain words yet it remains technical and scientific enough.